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John from Florida called Mark to suggest that any oil the United States can acquire should be added to the national oil reserve. Kay from Manhattan called Mark to warn voters that electing Democrats could once again harm the economy.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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w R. Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to
John in Florida. John, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm morning Mark and Holidays. They should take that oil
and fill up the always at that.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
They'll take the what.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
You know from that the oil.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, that's a good idea. Throw it in the oil reserves.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
And also about Martha Gradish strike news stations, these advertisements
and you cut these please people and start advertising with them,
and they will change their tune. You hit them in
the popabook. No they gotta change tool.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
No they won't. They won't all they won't.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Okay, you know better, boy.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
No they won't. For a second. They actually don't make
any money on the news or the Sunday shows. It's uh,
I mean, they sell commercials, but it's not a big
part of their revenue. It's just on principle they do it.
The Sunday show makes no money, it has no viewers,
but it's fake news and they love it. Let's go
to Kay in Manhattan, k how you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
High Mark?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I'd like what I'd like to say These voters who
are who are thinking about voting for Democrats because of
the economy. But they remind me of a woman who
has a boyfriend who batters her and abuses her, and
then she meets a really nice guy and he forgets
her birthday, so she goes back to the first guy.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well, I can't even believe these people would think about
voting for Democrats after what this country has been through.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, it happens, It happens. Hey, they voted for mom Donnie.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
By the way, remember I was mentioned before. Nobody reads
the print edition of a newspaper. Nobody. It's tiny, the
circulation of a print edition. It's all subscriptions now, so
if you're the New York Times, all your money is
off subscriptions, twelve million subscribers.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, one thing that did is and they found, you know,
in the print edition is you turn the page as
a full page ad. Wow, you'd see this ad. What
they found with the people that read the paper online
is they don't pay any attention to the ads. They
don't even look at them, and they don't The only
way they make money is if you click on the ad. Well,
nobody clicks on the ads. Online on a newspaper. So

(02:27):
all the revenue is from the subscriptions now and not
from advertising. And that's one reason the New York Times
and other publications have been able to go crazy left wing,
totally slanted partisans, because they're no longer depending on advertising revenue.
So the New York Times, Washington Posts, they can go
totally nuts. All the money is subscriptions, no longer advertising.

(02:49):
You don't have to worry about advertiser backlash anymore if
you're a newspaper. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Good morning, Mark, I'm doing very well. Thank you. Mark.
A question about the autopen during the Biden administration, what
exactly will President and Trump do or has he done
regarding pardons?

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, good question. He has said if it's an autopen pardon,
they're going to probably cancel it because it wasn't actually
signed by Biden and the technically the president has to
sign it. Apparently there is some way you can tell
if it was the autopen or a real signature. Let's
go to Joe in New York City. Joe, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Those crazy sig Democrats saying jingle bells is racist? That's nonsense, Mark,
he went the Three Stooges did jingle Bells.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
There you go. Well, I told you we have the
most incredible high end audience in the world. There are
some exceptions, there's a few. Now, what he's talking about
is this crazy Joy Reed, who got fired from MSNBC
yelling and screaming yesterday that jingle Bells is racist. Jingle
Bells is racist. I don't know what the hell she's

(04:06):
talking about. She claims it was written by a Confederate
soldier who wrote jingle Bells and he was making fun
of black people, and that it has its origins in
bigoted minstrel shows that were popular at the time. Well,
that doesn't make any sense. It was a song. But
Joy Reid claiming jingle Bells is racist. However, this makes
her look pretty hy critical. I found out she made

(04:29):
a recording of the song years ago. I found this
is Joy Reid singing jingle Bells. Pretty good, it's not bad. Actually,
let's go to Jeffrey and Queen's Jeffrey. How you doing, Yeah, Mark,
good morning? Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Listen to the single Affordability as well. I'll pay you
the truth. You go to like ten twenty different supermarkets
and you fished them up the pis, especially the ones
one by cats from the dds, thestids and the other ones.
The prices are through the roof.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well. I always find the Gristitis prices are pretty good.
There's different supermarkets, but you got to remember you can't
compare like a Manhattan supermarket. If you really want to
test affordability, you got to get out of New York City.
Things cost a whole lot more in Manhattan because there's
all kinds of costs to a supermarket. They don't have

(05:28):
your things. You don't think about. You know, if you
run a supermarket, a million trucks have to show up
every day and deliver your food. So if you got
a supermarket in Long Island or in Westchester, you got
a big parking lot and the trucks come in and
deliver your food. If it's in Manhattan, the trucks have
to double park. They get ticketed like crazy. So if
you're a supermarket, you're paying like half a million a

(05:50):
year in parking tickets things like that, you're paying congestion
pricing to you're paying all kinds of taxes. So the
supermarket that brings up the price is paying millions in
expenses they wouldn't be paying if they were in the suburbs.
So again, something with gas, don't you know. Don't look
at a gas pump in New York City and think
that's the price around the country. It's not. Hey, when

(06:11):
we come back, one of the greatest economists in the world, Now,
what is the real story with affordability. We'll get to
that next Steve More, we hope coming up next on
seven to ten WR