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November 10, 2025 • 14 mins
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allegedly made millions of dollars through insider trading while serving in government. Mark recaps special moments from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2025 inductee ceremony, which took place this past Saturday.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to. Well, hey, we'll get to the governor's race.
We'll get to mom, Donnie. And the shutdown looks like
it's ending. It's coming to an end. The first big
vote last night. They'll have it wrapped up, probably by Wednesday.
Schumer getting a lot of flak from Democrats. The leading

(00:23):
Democrat right now probably Gavin Newsom. He's the leader of
the twenty twenty eight bunch, and he tweets out just
one word pathetic. Pathetic. So they'll be coming after Schumer,
which is good. He deserves it. And it's gonna get settled.
And then like every other shutdown we've had, how many

(00:45):
of you have been through, You've been through fourteen of them.
You know, we'll just forget about it. Everything, we'll get
back to normal. It's just good for the Democrats have
a playbook. They all get their assignment. If you're watching
the Sunday shows yesterday, you may have to notice that
they're not only saying the same thing, they're using these
same exact phrases. It's all coordinated. They do a conference

(01:07):
call and it comes from K Street in Washington, DC.
All the Democrats are given their assignment what to say,
on the shows the phrases to use one of them,
which you saw every Democrat use on the Sunday shows.
Somewhere in the middle area said, if Donald Trump didn't
spend all his time on the golf course. You saw
that like a fourteen times on those Sunday shows. You

(01:29):
heard Adam Shift sit, you heard Hakim Jeffrey said, every
Democrat used that phrase. Well, he didn't spend all his
time on the golf course. Now, obviously coordinated, but also
what does it mean does he spend all his time
on the golf course. No, obviously not. You know, he
plays golf on Saturday and Sunday, and I've played golf
with him a lot of times. He plays fast. It's

(01:51):
not four hours, it's two hours. Maybe it's quick. He
plays quick. So you're entitled on Saturday and Sunday to
take the day off. You know, Obama liked to play basketball.
He didn't like golf. He liked to play basketball. He
even had a basketball court, put it in the White
House so we could play basketball, and Saturday and Sunday

(02:12):
he would go on that basketball court and play basketball.
I never heard anybody say, well, he didn't spend all
this time playing basketball. Every president does something on the weekends.
Every president has a hobby of some kind. Nixon liked
to read Saturday and Sunday, sit around and read. They
didn't say, well, he didn't spend all his time reading.
You're entitled on Saturday and Sunday to take a couple

(02:33):
of hours on Saturday and Sunday to do whatever your
hobby is so a crazy talking point they were using.
Nancy Pelosi is leaving. That's the good news. The fascinating
part is her amazing career in the stock market. She
is up over the last few years. Warren Buffett, I

(02:55):
think it's up like four hundred percent or something. Is
port her portfolio. This is not a joke. Her portfolio
is up seventeen thousand percent. Seventeen thousand percent. That's the
greatest ever trading record in the history of the stock exchange.
Nobody has ever been up like that, No hedge fund,

(03:15):
no anybody. Now, obviously she did it with insider trading.
When you are in Congress, you get access to all
kinds of information before anybody else. You know what company's
going to get a ruling against them, what company's going
to get a ruling for them, and you can trade
based on that. It's legal. I don't know how this
ever happened, but it's legal for people in Congress to

(03:38):
engage in insider trading. It's got to be outlawed. But
the only people can outlawd the congressmen themselves. So Pelosi
was the king, the queen of insider trading. Her portfolio
is up seventeen thousand percent. She's made hundreds of millions
of dollars. In Congress, she was asked about it.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh, first, your career, has her husband ever maybe stock
purchase of SALB some information you received from you?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
No, absolutely not no, No, you're up seventeen thousand percent.
Did you use your insider notes? Well no, no, no,
just sheare brilliance on her part, but it's done all
the time, not on a smaller scale. You got this
new Jersey governor elect, Mikey Cheryl, who's brand new, just started.

(04:23):
But in her brief little time in Congress, she somehow
made seven million trading stock, just like that seven million,
And our friend down the hall there, Charlemagne, asked her,
but did you make seven million trading stocks?

Speaker 3 (04:37):
There is no individual stock trading. It's not as if
I go sit on the House Arm Service Committee and
suddenly I'm trading Boeing or something. There's none of that.
I'm totally out of individual stocks. And I, like I said,
I think every member of Congress should be well, did you.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Make seven million in stock trees at all?

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I haven't.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't believe I did, but I'd have to go
see what that was alluding to it.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now, you know how much money you got to have
to not notice if you've made seven million to not
notice seven million showing up in your bank account or
your your stock account. If you didn't notice seven million,
you got to be worth hundreds of millions not to
notice seven million. I mean, if you're Elon Musk and
an extra seven million showed up in your stock portfolio,

(05:25):
you might not note. Who's going to notice you got
five hundred billion? Who's gonna know a seven million? But
she didn't notice the seven million anyway?

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, the good news is there's some indictments coming. The
Grand Jury approved subpoenas for John Brennan, the dirty former
CIA director. But it looks like they're going after Strack
and Page all the people that did that disgusting Russia
witch hunt hoax. One by one, they'll be going after
all of them. So that's that's good news. Expect that

(05:55):
pretty soon. So the race for governor, you got Hocel
in trouble. Obviously, people can't stand Hokel and she's embracing
Mam Donnie. You know, they had that big Democrat conference
in Puerto Rico. They called the somos, whatever that stands for,
but it's basically they say it's to relax in a conference.

(06:17):
It's a conference when they're all to talk to each other.
But as Curtis would say, it's whining, dining, and pocket
lining kind of a deal. And they had to do
a couple of joint appearances and Hokel was all over
Mam Donnie, introducing them, praising them, holding hands with him.
So you'll see Stephanic, at least Stephonic running against Nancy

(06:42):
Hochel Kathy Hochel for governor. This could be an interesting race.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
This is a toxic governor who has a record of
delivering the highest taxes in the nation, of hurting hard
working New Yorkers, of turning her back on law enforcement
officers and small businesses. New York is in catastrophe because
of Kathy Hochel's lead nastaphonic.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
She's Ferosias going after Hokel and she's going to time
the Mom Donnie, this was not.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
A mandate, even though Mom Domi is claiming such. He
barely got over fifty percent, So that is really a
historically low performance for someone who won the Democrat primary.
That means nearly half of New York City voters, which
is traditionally a Democrat city, voted against Mom Dommi because
they know he is so radical, he's out of touch
with hard working families, with small businesses who are already

(07:27):
crushed by the highest taxes in the nation.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, she's right, Mom Donnie. He did get a majority
fifty point four percent, but remember he was up against
the biggest loser in the world, Andrew Cuomo. Curtis is
a good candidate, but remember everybody on earth, every major figure,
was telling you not to vote for Curtis, so nobody
could have I mean, there's nobody in the history of

(07:51):
an election they ever had to shoot greased for them
more than Cuomo. I mean, the runway was cleared for
him and he still couldn't pull it off. So that's
how Mam Donnie won. Stephanic will be a big, big,
tough challenger to Hochell.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
She's an accidental governor. She's only in this position because
she was Cuomo's lieutenant governor and when New Yorkers were
looking for strong leadership from a governor. Not to bend
the knee to Zorn Mamdami, Kathy Hochel, Benthany, Why did
she do that? Because she is hemorrhaging support even in
her own party among Democrats.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, now she's going to have a lot of people
going after But who's going to go after her? Aoc Well,
a lot of people don't take her seriously. Schumer is
an old, dried up fossil Hakeem Jefferies. He talks like
a robut he talks as he's such a robotic guy.
He's already going after Stephanic.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
You know, at least Stephonic is nothing more than a
handmaiden for Donald Trump's extreme policy. She's a sickophant who
has been a repeated rubber stamp for Donald Trump's extreme agenda.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yes, he's he's one of those guys on the conference call.
He repeats whatever he's told to. If the President didn't
spend all his time on a golf course. Blah blah blah.
And she's supposed to use the word extreme. President Trump's
extreme agenda with his extreme policies is extreme. Maga extreme magit.
What is so extreme? What extreme policies? What's the most

(09:11):
extreme thing? What ice simply enforcing the law? Following the law?
That's extreme? Since when there'll be ads against Hochel.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
Now Elise Stephonic is running for governor of New York.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
To do what he's This is a this is a
hocal ad. This is hokal's actually used against Tephonic.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
Now Elise Stevonic is running for governor of New York
to do what she's always done. Put Trump first.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
She is phenomenal, She is a friend of.

Speaker 6 (09:38):
Mine, phenomenal at putting Trump ahead of you.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh my god, she knows Trump. That's going to be
their whole campaign. So here's the problem for Republicans. You're
going to have possibly a big primary because Bruce Blakeman,
the brilliant county executive, best county executive in America Nassau County.
I hear he wants to run. So if he runs
against Stephonic, that is one tough choice. Stephonic everybody loves

(10:04):
she's a pit bull. She's great, But it's Blakeman who's
the actual executive, who has actual management experience running a county,
which is like being the governor of Nassau County. So
he's the guy with more experience. He's the best county executive.
He'd be a great governor. That's a tough choice. That's
a very very tough primary. Now a Stephanic would probably

(10:25):
do better upstate because she's got that kind of an
upstate kind of a sound, and she talks kind of fashions.
She's very upstate. Bruce Blakeman is more of a sophisticated
city slicker type of guy. But half the votes for
governor are right here in New York City. You got
to do really well in New York City. I would
imagine Blakeman does much better in New York City than Stefanic.

(10:47):
He'd have to go upstate in campaign, but got a
hell of a hell of a resume. But this is
a really tough one for Republicans, a really tough primary
coming up next year. Hey, Rocket Roll Hall of Fame,
you know it gets tough. They've cleaned it up. It's
a much better Rock and Roll Hall of Fame now
than it was a few years ago. But it's tough

(11:09):
with you like in the year, you know, the first
year rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Elvis Beatles. You know,
you put everybody in, but when you get the year
forty five, you know, you're starting to run out of people.
So it was it was a bad company. I mean
they were okay, bad company, but rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. But then you got to perform the hits

(11:30):
of bad company. It's okay. I mean they're not the Beatles,
the bad Company, They're not the Rolling Stones. You know,
year thirty seven you run out of pa Hey, we
love Cyndi Lauper. Who could not like Cyndi Lauper. She
got in.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
I know that I stand on the shoulders of the
women in the industry that came before me, and my
shoulders are broad enough to have the women that come
after me stand online. And and yeah, it's that I
thought was really important, which is why I really came

(12:03):
here tonight, is to tell you that the little kid
and me still believes that rock and roll can save
the world. So I just want to say, now, of
all times, let's come together again and do good in
the world because he needs us.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, we'll get right on that, but we love her.
Then they got a lot of great performances on the
show Toll Be, you know, tightened up, edited down be,
a great TV special. Elton John performed, Elton John did
the Beach Boys hit. Elton John still sounds good. He
lost a lot of rains in his voice, but still
sounds good. David Letterman there, Santa Claus himself. Warren Zevon

(12:49):
gave Letteriman his guitar. I guess he knew he was
didn't have much longer to go and told Letterman to
take care of it. He brought it to the ceremony.
It was used and one of the suns, Well, here's
let him in on that show.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
And then the thing about enjoy every sandwich. You know
that that's easy, but it's deeply meaningful.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
And there's not a person in this room who hasn't
considered that.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
But nobody can hang on to that on a daily basis.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
But by God, isn't that true of life around the planet.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, I don't know what he's talking about, but it
sounds good. But the beard, the beard, I don't know.
He said he has that Beard because he doesn't want
you to ever confuse him with the old David Letterman.
He's like a new, different guy. All right, Hey, Mom
Donnie is putting together his team. The five or six
names we've seen already are all ex de Blasio administration.

(13:39):
One is from the Adams administration. So it's gonna be bad.
But again, if it's all these Deblasio people picking de
Blasio administration people, we got through eight years at the Blasia.
We'll get through this. Now here's the interesting part. Brad Lander,
who's a really awful, awful guy. You saw him in
the primaries, really kooky, left wing, disgusting. He's Jewish, but

(14:01):
he embraced every anti Semitic, stupid, anti Israel thing in
the world. So people really just came to really dislike
brad Lander. But he was a big help to Mom
Donnie in the primary. But they've made it clear no
brad Lander in the administration. He's out. They have kicked
him to the curb. So there's one good thing Mom

(14:23):
Donnie has done. Why would he do that? Is he
just so? Does he not have any gratitude? Is he
not loyal? Well, people said that behind the scenes brad
Lander who's an obnoxious guy, really obnoxious guy, they say.
Behind the scenes. He was running around telling everybody he'll
be running city hall. He'll be running things in a

(14:44):
Mam Donnie. Well it got back to Mam Donnie. Brad
Lander is out, so that's good. Hey, we'll take some
calls in a minute. Eight hundred three to two one
zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten
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