January 7, 2026 • 5 mins
Mike in Florida called Mark to highlight how Democrats often change their language when political issues get tough. Vincent in Brooklyn, NY, expressed strong concerns about NYC's proposed COPA law, which would give nonprofits priority over individuals in acquiring buildings.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
His job, make it all make sense. He's Mark Simone
on sevent ten double R. Hey, let's take some calls.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Let's go
to Adam in New Jersey. Adam, how you doing? Adam?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah? We did wake you did?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
No? No, no, no no, no, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Let me check? Not bad any time? Just jump in
whenever you feel like it.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Okay, Am, I I'm the air ready or.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It sounds like you around something.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
But all right, so this is Mark.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Eh let me see Mark.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Listen. I'm glad, I'm glad you're there. But I heard
that China and Russia have already paid Venezuelan oil right
for the fields for oil rights in the fields of Venezuela.
Do they get their money back or what's your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, I don't think it's like Amazon where you can
just send it back and get the refined.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But there's another reason we went into Venezuela. You have
all sorts of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, everybody in there
doing God knows what it was like the Axis of
Evil all over again. That's another reason to break all
that up. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how
you doing, Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
The Democrats are very good at controlling the language. So
there's always the equal such and such, you know, the
act and the fair so and so law. And affordability
is the current one. And the funny thing is, you
know what's not as affordable as it once was? Everything?
I mean, you know, you watched Andy Grifford Show, and
you know, a haircut was fifty cents. Last time I
(01:46):
went to get a haircut down here far, it was
seventeen dollars and it's a number two once around the head.
You know, it's like, you know, not even any.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Haircutt Yeah, I know that's true of old TV. You know,
you watch the TV show from nineteen sixty and the
guy says, I'll give you a five hundred dollars. You know,
you don't realize that's like ten thousand today. So but no,
that's a good point. Yeah, this affordability is an interesting thing. Obviously,
it's always about the economy. You remember when Bill Clinton
ran and Carvill famously said, it's the economy, stupid. It's
(02:15):
always the economy. But Democrats last year did extensive testing
with focus groups seriously, and they came on the word
affordability in the focus groups and it tested.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Through the roof.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So they zero it in on that word affordability, affordability.
And it's not that they're so good at messaging, it's
just the corruption where the every inch of media, anchors, newspaper,
they're all in cahoots with them. And if they drill
it into your head over and over and over and
over again, you start to believe it. Affordability crisis. If
(02:50):
that's all you see day and night, everywhere you turn,
affordability crisis, you'll start to think there's an affordability crisis.
You know, they did that with Curtis in the race.
You know, Curtis had as good a chance as Mam
Donnie in the beginning. I mean, if you look at
these two guys on paper, Mam Donnie never had a
job twelve years old. I mean, on paper, this guy
(03:11):
has no chance. But they kept doing that over and over.
Twenty four to seven, all you heard was Curtis can't win.
CURTI Yeah, well Curtis is great, but he can't win.
He can't win. He can't win. Well, after a while
people start to believe this. Let's go to let's go
to Vincent and Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Vincent, how you doing I'm doing good, Mark, Mark. Every
time I hear his word affordability, I'm going to say
the government is the first, the first person that causes
unaffordability in the City of New York. Like this latest
bonehead idea that got the city Council a couple of
(03:46):
months ago passed this law. It wasn't veto proof. They
passed this law that if you're going to sell ya,
if you have a private building and you're going to
sell it, you have to offer it to one of
sixteen nonprofit agencies that the city's gonna tell you. You have
to offer it to them first and if den if
(04:08):
they don't want it, you could sell it privately. And
even then if you're in before you go into contract,
you have to offer it to these sixteen probably not
nonprofit communist agencies. Well, I spoke actually to a lawyer
about this, and this is totally unconstitutional. The problem is
(04:29):
is the New York City courts are all rigged with
these left wing nut jobs, so it's gonna that's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
What happened to Donald Trump. And let me ask you
a question. You're a smart guy. You could be in
any business you want. Why would anybody be an owner
of an apartment building or a landlord? It's got to
be the most difficult, troubled kind of way, just NonStop problems,
isn't it mark these days?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It is? Especially Mandami the other day appointed this so
called tenants rights advocate. Her name is Cea Weaver, and
she actually went on the air in an interview and says,
we have to rethink private property rights.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh yeah, no, I'll give me a better one. Let
me see, here's an actual quote for her. Home ownership
is a weapon of white supremacy exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And then she goes on to say that we're going
to attack white neighborhoods more than minority neighbors, so forth
and so on. I actually spoke to a lawyer about
this and he did tell me this is totally unconscious.
It is.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It is, but you know, it's New York. But we
got to go for the news. But great call. We'll
get back to that woman and some of her crazy
mom Donnie just put her in charge of housing. We'll
get to her in the next hour. But you know
we bring you the smartest people on earth will do that.
In the moment Steve Forbes will be with us. He
can explain a lot of this stuff in a very
rational lay with the Steve Forbes next on seven to
(05:56):
ten wor
His job, make it all make sense. He's Mark Simone
on sevent ten double R. Hey, let's take some calls.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Let's go
to Adam in New Jersey. Adam, how you doing? Adam?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah? We did wake you did?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
No? No, no, no no, no, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Let me check? Not bad any time? Just jump in
whenever you feel like it.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Okay, Am, I I'm the air ready or.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It sounds like you around something.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
But all right, so this is Mark.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Eh let me see Mark.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Listen. I'm glad, I'm glad you're there. But I heard
that China and Russia have already paid Venezuelan oil right
for the fields for oil rights in the fields of Venezuela.
Do they get their money back or what's your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, I don't think it's like Amazon where you can
just send it back and get the refined.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But there's another reason we went into Venezuela. You have
all sorts of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, everybody in there
doing God knows what it was like the Axis of
Evil all over again. That's another reason to break all
that up. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how
you doing, Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
The Democrats are very good at controlling the language. So
there's always the equal such and such, you know, the
act and the fair so and so law. And affordability
is the current one. And the funny thing is, you
know what's not as affordable as it once was? Everything?
I mean, you know, you watched Andy Grifford Show, and
you know, a haircut was fifty cents. Last time I
(01:46):
went to get a haircut down here far, it was
seventeen dollars and it's a number two once around the head.
You know, it's like, you know, not even any.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Haircutt Yeah, I know that's true of old TV. You know,
you watch the TV show from nineteen sixty and the
guy says, I'll give you a five hundred dollars. You know,
you don't realize that's like ten thousand today. So but no,
that's a good point. Yeah, this affordability is an interesting thing. Obviously,
it's always about the economy. You remember when Bill Clinton
ran and Carvill famously said, it's the economy, stupid. It's
(02:15):
always the economy. But Democrats last year did extensive testing
with focus groups seriously, and they came on the word
affordability in the focus groups and it tested.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Through the roof.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So they zero it in on that word affordability, affordability.
And it's not that they're so good at messaging, it's
just the corruption where the every inch of media, anchors, newspaper,
they're all in cahoots with them. And if they drill
it into your head over and over and over and
over again, you start to believe it. Affordability crisis. If
(02:50):
that's all you see day and night, everywhere you turn,
affordability crisis, you'll start to think there's an affordability crisis.
You know, they did that with Curtis in the race.
You know, Curtis had as good a chance as Mam
Donnie in the beginning. I mean, if you look at
these two guys on paper, Mam Donnie never had a
job twelve years old. I mean, on paper, this guy
(03:11):
has no chance. But they kept doing that over and over.
Twenty four to seven, all you heard was Curtis can't win.
CURTI Yeah, well Curtis is great, but he can't win.
He can't win. He can't win. Well, after a while
people start to believe this. Let's go to let's go
to Vincent and Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Vincent, how you doing I'm doing good, Mark, Mark. Every
time I hear his word affordability, I'm going to say
the government is the first, the first person that causes
unaffordability in the City of New York. Like this latest
bonehead idea that got the city Council a couple of
(03:46):
months ago passed this law. It wasn't veto proof. They
passed this law that if you're going to sell ya,
if you have a private building and you're going to
sell it, you have to offer it to one of
sixteen nonprofit agencies that the city's gonna tell you. You have
to offer it to them first and if den if
(04:08):
they don't want it, you could sell it privately. And
even then if you're in before you go into contract,
you have to offer it to these sixteen probably not
nonprofit communist agencies. Well, I spoke actually to a lawyer
about this, and this is totally unconstitutional. The problem is
(04:29):
is the New York City courts are all rigged with
these left wing nut jobs, so it's gonna that's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
What happened to Donald Trump. And let me ask you
a question. You're a smart guy. You could be in
any business you want. Why would anybody be an owner
of an apartment building or a landlord? It's got to
be the most difficult, troubled kind of way, just NonStop problems,
isn't it mark these days?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It is? Especially Mandami the other day appointed this so
called tenants rights advocate. Her name is Cea Weaver, and
she actually went on the air in an interview and says,
we have to rethink private property rights.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh yeah, no, I'll give me a better one. Let
me see, here's an actual quote for her. Home ownership
is a weapon of white supremacy exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And then she goes on to say that we're going
to attack white neighborhoods more than minority neighbors, so forth
and so on. I actually spoke to a lawyer about
this and he did tell me this is totally unconscious.
It is.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It is, but you know, it's New York. But we
got to go for the news. But great call. We'll
get back to that woman and some of her crazy
mom Donnie just put her in charge of housing. We'll
get to her in the next hour. But you know
we bring you the smartest people on earth will do that.
In the moment Steve Forbes will be with us. He
can explain a lot of this stuff in a very
rational lay with the Steve Forbes next on seven to
(05:56):
ten wor
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