December 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Dennis from Bound Brook, NJ, called Mark to discuss a New York Times article that may have published misleading information about the U.S. unemployment rate. Tony in White Plains, NY, also called Mark to express his frustration over the constant stream of new investigations, stating that he wants to see people held accountable and sent to jail for attacking Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister New York piece, Mark Simone on woe.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, We'll take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. You know you're gonna
miss Sir Eric Adams. You get mom, Donny. I know
Adams wasn't so hot, but the last year is pretty good,
and he's been speaking out a lot about the tear.
We just talked about this horrible antisemitica attack, but he
said when he leaves, he'll still be a voice, and
(00:27):
that's one of the causes he'll fight for it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is time for you to ask your friends that
you have been there for. Where are they now? Where
are they now? You can't be neutral in this conversation.
You cannot be a detect spectator watching these horrific actions
take place every day.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
You're talking about these anti Semitic attacks, and.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So we are days away from the conclusion of this administration.
But the end of the mail t means the beginning
of what we're going to do together. I think this community.
I thank the people of the city of New York,
(01:11):
thank you, and I thank all of us for standing
up for what is right.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
God bless us all again. You're gonna miss him. He
had a pretty good year this past year. If you
could have started being good the first year, it might
have made a big difference. He might have been re elected. Anyway,
Let's go to Adam in New Jersey. Adam, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You got a little bit of a mistakes going on
there because mister Heckset is no longer the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
He's the Secretary of War.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know what I mean? All Right, thanks for clearing
it up. Let's go to Dennis in Boundbrook, New Jersey. Dennis,
how you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Good morning, Mark. Today, the New York Times ran a headline,
white House spins a rise in the unemployment rate. It
went from four point four to four point six. Mark,
those numbers are such a hoax. Thousands of people and
I was one of them, all across the country. They
make estimates on these things. They're probably, you know, within
the twenty percent of terms of being accuracy. But it's
(02:12):
a big deal of they's spinning at four point four to.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
The New York Times spinning something. Oh that's not the
New York Times. I know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I can't believe they would just story anything, Oh New
York Times.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
No, they're so objective.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I can't imagine them spinning, not kidding the most corrupt,
awful newspaper in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's part of what I think you might hear in
the President's speech tonight at nine o'clock. You will address
the nation. Hopefully everybody carries it, we will. But I
think he's going to try to correct a lot of
these myths about this fake affordability crisis. There is, to
a certain extent of crisis, some affordability problems. You can't
(02:52):
say it's a crisis because it was much worse last year,
far worse the year before. So if it's gotten a
lot better, I think that takes the crisis label off it.
And one of the things they'll point out is the
job creation under Trump is private sector jobs. Whenever it
was job creation or job numbers went up under Biden,
it was government jobs, just bloating up the government. But
(03:16):
this is all private sector jobs, which is what you want.
Let's go to Tony in White Plains.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Tony, how you doing ta good morning?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
When I was a kid, it's a long time ago,
on a weekends, i'd go with my mother and father
to visit my aunts and uncles. You know, their brothers
and sisters, and my father would get there and he
knock on the door and say who was it, And
my father say, FBI, let me in, and would go
in and everybody would laugh. Was like a big joke.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, I got to be honest. It not the funniest
thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
No, I mean every every day, every day is a
new investigation, a new probe, this and that, and it
goes nowhere. These sps get away with murder. I want
to see people go to jail.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, all right, you might, you just might. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's you know, the problem is wherever these things seem
to come up, Letitia James, it's always in a jurisdiction
where it's heavily democratic. They hate Trump. Trump derangement syndrome
takes over. But you got to keep at it. You know,
Trump is not a vindictive guy. He's not a guy
who generally looks for revenge or anything. You saw that
(04:20):
in the first term he had vowed he would go
after Hillary Clinton appoint a special prosecutor. And then the
first term he gets elected, they say, what happened to the
special prosecutor? He said, Nah, I don't want to hurt them.
It just wasn't his nature. But in between that first
and second term, they used lawful fair against him. They
put him on trial in four different cities. You know
(04:42):
what it's like to be on criminal trial in a courtroom.
Imagine that. Imagine if he had four of them going
at once in four different cities, what that would do
to you. So when he came back, it was a
whole different Trump. He will go after these guys, and
it's not just revenge, and it's also you got to
put a stop to this. If any administration ever is
(05:04):
going to engage in law fair, if they don't think
they're gonna face consequences, they're getting end up tried themselves,
they'll keep doing it. So the only way to deter
it is to go after them and hopefully try to
put somebody. You're right, somebody's got to go to jail
for this. You know, Komy was so disgusting with his
(05:25):
surveillance on Trump, with his Russia hoax, with all the
it's got to be consequences for this, so hopefully he'll
keep at it. Now it turns out that Jack Smith
raid was totally corrupt. Hopefully, hopefully they go after Merrick
Garland on this one. Let's go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim,
how you doing this is?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Jeff? Oh, it's not. We've changed your name to Jim.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Okay, I take that.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's gonna cost you a few bucks getting stationary and
everything changed, but.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
You can do it. It's great that you know the
you know, the guy's relatives say, hey, FBI line. You know,
you're right. It's not a funny joke. But let me
tell you, Cash Betell's the biggest disappointment in his supire administration.
All Right, we all look so fuald for this guy
to take over the FBI and do what we all,
what MAGA people really wanted to see done, was to
(06:12):
try to take the people who wanted to lock Trump
up for doing nothing, for committing no crist.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
All right, all right, but it's not going to happen
in the first year. It takes a while to get
this stuff done.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I know he's got three years left, so but you know,
when he gets off of his hands, right.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
A right, give that guy. Give the guy a chance. Hey,
Speaking of which, a word everywhere. Dan Bongino, who's the
assistant FBI director, word everywhere he's leaving. The story is,
according to sources New York Time sources. But again, who
the hell would trust the New York Times. According to
New York Times sources, Bongino has already cleaned out his office.
(06:46):
It's empty, it's been cleared out.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Wow. But again, New.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
York Time sources, I wouldn't trust them. When we come
back and Culture will be with us next on seven
to ten, wor
Mister New York piece, Mark Simone on woe.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, We'll take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. You know you're gonna
miss Sir Eric Adams. You get mom, Donny. I know
Adams wasn't so hot, but the last year is pretty good,
and he's been speaking out a lot about the tear.
We just talked about this horrible antisemitica attack, but he
said when he leaves, he'll still be a voice, and
(00:27):
that's one of the causes he'll fight for it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is time for you to ask your friends that
you have been there for. Where are they now? Where
are they now? You can't be neutral in this conversation.
You cannot be a detect spectator watching these horrific actions
take place every day.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
You're talking about these anti Semitic attacks, and.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So we are days away from the conclusion of this administration.
But the end of the mail t means the beginning
of what we're going to do together. I think this community.
I thank the people of the city of New York,
(01:11):
thank you, and I thank all of us for standing
up for what is right.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
God bless us all again. You're gonna miss him. He
had a pretty good year this past year. If you
could have started being good the first year, it might
have made a big difference. He might have been re elected. Anyway,
Let's go to Adam in New Jersey. Adam, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You got a little bit of a mistakes going on
there because mister Heckset is no longer the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
He's the Secretary of War.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know what I mean? All Right, thanks for clearing
it up. Let's go to Dennis in Boundbrook, New Jersey. Dennis,
how you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Good morning, Mark. Today, the New York Times ran a headline,
white House spins a rise in the unemployment rate. It
went from four point four to four point six. Mark,
those numbers are such a hoax. Thousands of people and
I was one of them, all across the country. They
make estimates on these things. They're probably, you know, within
the twenty percent of terms of being accuracy. But it's
(02:12):
a big deal of they's spinning at four point four to.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
The New York Times spinning something. Oh that's not the
New York Times. I know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I can't believe they would just story anything, Oh New
York Times.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
No, they're so objective.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I can't imagine them spinning, not kidding the most corrupt,
awful newspaper in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's part of what I think you might hear in
the President's speech tonight at nine o'clock. You will address
the nation. Hopefully everybody carries it, we will. But I
think he's going to try to correct a lot of
these myths about this fake affordability crisis. There is, to
a certain extent of crisis, some affordability problems. You can't
(02:52):
say it's a crisis because it was much worse last year,
far worse the year before. So if it's gotten a
lot better, I think that takes the crisis label off it.
And one of the things they'll point out is the
job creation under Trump is private sector jobs. Whenever it
was job creation or job numbers went up under Biden,
it was government jobs, just bloating up the government. But
(03:16):
this is all private sector jobs, which is what you want.
Let's go to Tony in White Plains.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Tony, how you doing ta good morning?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
When I was a kid, it's a long time ago,
on a weekends, i'd go with my mother and father
to visit my aunts and uncles. You know, their brothers
and sisters, and my father would get there and he
knock on the door and say who was it, And
my father say, FBI, let me in, and would go
in and everybody would laugh. Was like a big joke.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, I got to be honest. It not the funniest
thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
No, I mean every every day, every day is a
new investigation, a new probe, this and that, and it
goes nowhere. These sps get away with murder. I want
to see people go to jail.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, all right, you might, you just might. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's you know, the problem is wherever these things seem
to come up, Letitia James, it's always in a jurisdiction
where it's heavily democratic. They hate Trump. Trump derangement syndrome
takes over. But you got to keep at it. You know,
Trump is not a vindictive guy. He's not a guy
who generally looks for revenge or anything. You saw that
(04:20):
in the first term he had vowed he would go
after Hillary Clinton appoint a special prosecutor. And then the
first term he gets elected, they say, what happened to the
special prosecutor? He said, Nah, I don't want to hurt them.
It just wasn't his nature. But in between that first
and second term, they used lawful fair against him. They
put him on trial in four different cities. You know
(04:42):
what it's like to be on criminal trial in a courtroom.
Imagine that. Imagine if he had four of them going
at once in four different cities, what that would do
to you. So when he came back, it was a
whole different Trump. He will go after these guys, and
it's not just revenge, and it's also you got to
put a stop to this. If any administration ever is
(05:04):
going to engage in law fair, if they don't think
they're gonna face consequences, they're getting end up tried themselves,
they'll keep doing it. So the only way to deter
it is to go after them and hopefully try to
put somebody. You're right, somebody's got to go to jail
for this. You know, Komy was so disgusting with his
(05:25):
surveillance on Trump, with his Russia hoax, with all the
it's got to be consequences for this, so hopefully he'll
keep at it. Now it turns out that Jack Smith
raid was totally corrupt. Hopefully, hopefully they go after Merrick
Garland on this one. Let's go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim,
how you doing this is?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Jeff? Oh, it's not. We've changed your name to Jim.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Okay, I take that.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's gonna cost you a few bucks getting stationary and
everything changed, but.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
You can do it. It's great that you know the
you know, the guy's relatives say, hey, FBI line. You know,
you're right. It's not a funny joke. But let me
tell you, Cash Betell's the biggest disappointment in his supire administration.
All Right, we all look so fuald for this guy
to take over the FBI and do what we all,
what MAGA people really wanted to see done, was to
(06:12):
try to take the people who wanted to lock Trump
up for doing nothing, for committing no crist.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
All right, all right, but it's not going to happen
in the first year. It takes a while to get
this stuff done.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I know he's got three years left, so but you know,
when he gets off of his hands, right.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
A right, give that guy. Give the guy a chance. Hey,
Speaking of which, a word everywhere. Dan Bongino, who's the
assistant FBI director, word everywhere he's leaving. The story is,
according to sources New York Time sources. But again, who
the hell would trust the New York Times. According to
New York Times sources, Bongino has already cleaned out his office.
(06:46):
It's empty, it's been cleared out.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Wow. But again, New.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
York Time sources, I wouldn't trust them. When we come
back and Culture will be with us next on seven
to ten, wor
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