January 7, 2026 • 16 mins
Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of January 6th. Mark explains why he believes Democrats are wrong to be angry about that day, arguing that the violence could not have been prevented and questioning its characterization as an insurrection. Meanwhile,18 million people tuned in to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve last week! Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is not planning to leave his job, despite reports that he would not seek reelection.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mark Simone Show continues, Hey, it's Wednesday. This is
week one. We've gotten through week one of the new year.
You know, yesterday I forgot it was January sixth, And
you know, Democrats and Trumpeters would like to make that
(00:22):
like a national thing every year, like you know, nine
to eleven, where the whole country stops to remember, or
they want to make it like a pearl harbor kind
of It's it's not going to work those of you
that don't remember January sixth, was that terrible trespassing incident
at the Capitol. I remember. But here's the Democrats are now.
(00:43):
You know all the universities have been corrupted, many of
our high schools. You got all these left wing teachers.
You got all this left wing propaganda being taught in
schools now, and this is why you get people that younger,
people that will vote for Mom. DONI twenty thirty years
of being indoctrinated in these left classrooms. Well now they
want to add January sixth to the history books and
(01:05):
have that taught in every classroom. Now. Of course, they're
not going to teach the whole story, as democrats do
or fake news does. They'll just give you three or
four pieces of the puzzle and leave out ninety eight
percent of it, so they won't tell you that President
Trump offered ten thousand troops and urged them to take
the ten thousand troops to guard the capital that day.
(01:28):
It was just another demonstration like the other two hundred
and seventy five that had happened that whole summer in America.
But Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of DC decided not
to accept the offer of the ten thousand troops. They
were told four hundred thousand demonstrators would show up. They
turned down the ten thousand troops. And by the way,
(01:51):
demonstrations of that size were taking place all the time
in Washington when Trump was president, once a member at
the Lincoln Memorial and he surrounded it with troops with
machine gun and nobody got near the Lincoln Memorial. The
worst one was when Democratic protesters tried to take the
White House, tried to come over the fence. Remember Trump
put out those tweets, if you do come over the fence,
(02:12):
you're going to see the most vicious dogs you've ever seen.
But he surrounded the place with troops. There was still
a hell of a battle at the White House fence.
Over two hundred law enforcement ended up in the hospital
after that. But January sixth, it was just another one
of those, not as bad as the one at the
White House. But Nancy Pelosi made the decision that you
(02:33):
would try to guard the building with just the building
security guys the Capitol Hill Police, which that's basically go
it is the security guys at the building instead of
actual troops and Capitol police. They're nice, but they there's
only a couple of hundred of them, and they can't
control four hundred thousand demonstrators, so they'll leave that out
(02:55):
of the discussion. In fact, Nancy Pelosi to this day
denies it, although there's video of her admitting to it
that night that she turned it down and this is
all her fault. But she'll de and I and they'll
teach the fake version of January sixth. They'll say, they'll
just keep using the word insurrection. It was an insurrection. Meantime,
they arrested twelve hundred of those demonstrators, not a single
(03:16):
one has been charged with insurrection. And remember they charged
these guys with everything they could hit him with. Each
one got hit with twelve charges, nineteen charges, twenty anything
they could charge him with, and nobody got charged with insurrection.
But we'll see see what happens if they can stop
that from going into the history books. Hey, TV ratings
(03:37):
for the year twenty twenty five, you know the New
Year's Eve show on ABC, which was Dick Clark's rock
in New Year's Eve for years now it's Ryan Seacrest
did pretty well. Got eighteen million viewers in today's broadcast
TV world. That is enormous. That's huge, huge, and got
(03:58):
seventeen million the year before. It was a definite increase.
It went up. Andy Cohen of course, looked ridiculous, getting
drunk out of his mind, going into a drunken rant
about Eric Adams, and then Adams was asked about it
the next day. What do you got to say to
Andy Cohen who called you all kinds of names, and
he said, I got My response is two letters, and
(04:22):
you thought it must be f you or something like
my response is two letters AA, which is a great response.
And now Adam's tweeting about Andy Cohen alcoholics anonymous. So
it is a problem. You know, people get drunk on
New Year's Eve, but if you're on live television, in
(04:43):
front of eighteen million people. You'd think you'd have a
little discipline not to get that drunk. But it was
a big night for ABC with the eighteen million viewers.
Fox News had one of the best years ever. Four
point one million viewers was the average. That's like way
beyond any other cable network. Four point one million viewers.
(05:05):
Biggest show of the year was The Five and Jesse
Waters and of course Hannity. Those are the three biggest shows. MSNBC,
CNN a bad year. Not a lot. The most watched
telecast of twenty twenty five number one, right the super Bowl?
Number two. Tracker The Hell is Tracker? I don't know.
(05:28):
It's one of those drama shows. I know, I do know.
It's about that whatever he is, a detective whatever is
who tracks down missing people? Nineteen episodes, but it did
really well. The NFL was the biggest thing on television
all year. If you take the top one hundred things
of twenty twenty five, forty five of them almost half
were NFL games. That's really the only thing keeping broadcast
(05:52):
TV alive. Ratings are down dramatically. Everything in broadcast TV
ratings are way down, but the NFL doing really well,
Tim Waltz, you know, he said he will not seek reelection,
and I don't blame him. If eighteen billion was stolen
right under your nose in your own state, you got
no business seeking reelection. By the way, the attorney general
(06:15):
of Minnesota, that left wing kook, Keith Ellison, Why hasn't
he resigned? If you're the attorney general and eighteen billion
was stolen right under your nose and you didn't catch it,
why hasn't he resigned? Now people are calling for Waltz
to resign immediately. He won't seek reelection, but people are
saying this is so bad, this scandal so horrifying, that
(06:36):
he should resign immediately. He refuses to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm not going anywhere, and you can make all your
requests for me to resign over my dead body will
that happen. I will fight this thing till the very
end to make this state better. And the question that
I think they need to decide is is when did
the guy in the White House resign? Anytime I get
drug into being next to Donald Trump? God help me,
I don't want to be judged against that guy.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now, apparently in private, they told him you should resign
and he threw a temper tantrument and went nuts. And
then the rest of that speech was this whole thing
about every minute I spend on my own political interests
is a minute I can't spend defending the people in
Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity. Well,
I think if eighteen billion went missing, we could agree
(07:22):
he's not very good at that. Anyway, he is suffering.
I mean, you know, want to make fun of a
guy with medical problems. He is suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.
Game's over for him now. It was all me. I
was the bad guy or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, put up or shut up now and tell us
what you're going to do to make this state better.
Answer these tough questions, quit hiding behind this, and expect
for the next eleven months for me to ride you
like you've never been ridden.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I don't know what that means. But what's Trump going
to do about it? Well, right now they're going in
and arresting the criminals who stole the eighteen billion, not million,
eighteen billion. They're arresting them one by one. This is
like the Bernie Madoff cleanup. You know, they had to
go after everybody, but then they had to claw back
the money. Well, the feds are starting to do that.
(08:13):
You know a lot of these ring leaders of this fraud,
and it was just an out and out fraud scheme
by these Somalis in Minnesota. Many of them took the
money and bought mansions and Porsches and luxury goods and
all sorts of expensive real estate. Well here's one. One
woman was convicted. The court is now federal charges. The
(08:34):
court is now clawing back everything, making her sell the houses,
the Porsche, the cars, the Rolls Royces and getting the
money back. So it takes a while. You know, with
the Bernie Madoff stuff, that was like fifty billion, but
they got back like thirty billion of it. So they'll
get they'll probably get back nine billion of this money.
They'll claw it back slowly but surely. And that's what
(08:54):
you do about it. Oh, I forget George Conway. Now,
this guy is going to be great. We are so
lucky that he has come to New York and he's
going to run for the Gerald Nadler, a congressional seat
that's open. Now you might be saying, well, what if
he wins. He's a left wing crazy. Yeah, but so
its Nadler. So it's no change at all. And that
(09:16):
district in New York, you're always gonna get a left
wing cook, so you might as well get this guy
because he's so silly and such a clown. George Conway.
He was married at one time to Kelly and Conway,
who's great. And you might say, well, how could that be. Well,
back then, you know, he was one of the most
brilliant lawyers in New York, brilliant attorney, a very successful guy,
(09:37):
and then he was married to her. But we've seen
this happen before where somebody goes nuts. And Conway was
hanging around with all the big Conservatives and Republicans, George Conway,
and then at some point we've seen it with other people.
They they just snap, they just go nuts, and all
of a sudden they become a left wing kook with
Trump derangement syndrome. But he's going to run for this
(10:00):
seat on the west side of Manhattan. Now, you might
be saying yourself, wait a minute, he lives in Maryland,
he doesn't even live here. Well, he's a Democrat. You
can do whatever the hell you want when you're a
Democrat and he's got raised money, and he's got his
first campaign ads, The George Conway campaign is underway.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
As one of the ads, we have a corrupt president,
a mendacious president, a criminal president whose masked agents are
disappearing people from our streets, who's breaking international law, and
he's running our federal government like a mob protection racket.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
This is why this guy's going to be great. This hysterical,
hyperbog nonsense. And he's mendacious, which I think is bad.
I don't know exactly what it is, but it's bad.
You don't want to be mendacious. He's disappearing people. It's
called arresting people. I love the and it's a violation
of international law. You're going to hear this a lot
(10:57):
from Democrats, especially with Venezuela. He's violated international law. Nobody
knows what the hell he's talking about. There's no such
thing as international law. Nobody knows what they're referring to.
Where's this international law you're talking about. There is no
international law. The only thing you could point to. I
asked Greg Jarrett, the great legal extorid, what the hell
(11:18):
are they talking about international law? He said, maybe they're
talking about the un charter United Nations. But they're not
a law enforcement agency. They have no law, they have
no authority, they have no standing at all. Dad, So
there's no such thing as international law. But the commercial
goes on.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
He doesn't like me. I don't like what he's done
to our great country, and now I'm running for Congress
to take the fight directly back to him.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
On your behalf, you go. He does not like what
he's done to this country. But Joe Biden he alwa,
he was thrilled about that. Thrilled. But this guy's going
to be great. We're so lucky to get him here.
This is so good for us. We're going to have
nothing but amusement from this George. You remember, he's the
guy that ran that crazy Lincoln project with the same thing.
(12:04):
The ever, nothing he did work because it was all
too over the top hysterical.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I don't intend to be doing this when I'm sixty
six or sixty seven or sixty eight. You know, I'm
kind of like a special teams player. I want to
do this for one reason, and that is to help
get this our governmental system back on track with something
back to normal, at least back toward normal.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Here, you go. His idea normal was Joe Biden, you know,
the great stephen A. Smith. Let me see if I
can find that quote. It's a very important point because
a lot of these Democrats are going nuts and screaming
and yelling. Stephen A. Smith is a Democrat, but he
he's like Bill Maher occasional bouts of common sense. But
(12:50):
he stunned a Democratic audience by explaining to them because
they can't get how Donald Trump gets elected. But Stephen A.
Smith explained to him that for all the things they
hate about Donald Trump, to normal voters, to most normal voters,
they think Trump is a lot closer to normal than
today's Democrats are. And you could look at Trump and say,
(13:11):
why he's doing things that's not presidential? Why does he
behave like that way? Well, whatever he does, it's a
lot more normal than Democrats are. Right now, Hey, there's
a new phenomenon. I don't like this at all. You know,
you know the restaurant Carbone. It opened I don't know
about ten years ago in the village Carbone, an Italian restaurant.
It's sort of it was just a gimmick actually for
(13:35):
younger you know, the whole new generation. It was like
old school red sauce Italian food. But to these younger people,
they've never seen that. I mean, you could go to
Patsy's and it's much better there, but they never saw
anything like Carbone and the checker tablecloths. I never saw
anything like that. So it took off. It became huge.
(13:55):
And when you become the hottest trendiest restaurant, then in
the old days, you were the hottest trendiest restaurant, and anybody
would come to New York. I gotta go there. I
want to. Well, now they opened. When you're at the
trendiest place, you open everywhere. Then there was Carbone Miami,
then there was Carbone, Paris, Carbone, Los Angeles. Carbone. Now
it's just opening in the Bellagio. So the reason for this,
(14:18):
you get these big hedge fund guys, and whenever it's
the hottest restaurant in the world. You know, if you
want to always get a table, you bribe the matri dus.
But if you really want to get treated well, you
get friendly with the owner and you offer to put
up millions and millions and millions to open some more restaurants.
That's why you see like Ovre on sixtieth Street. That
became a big hotspot. Next thing you know, there's an
(14:41):
Ova on fiftieth Street. Next thing you know, there's an
Ovora over here. Next thing you know, there's one in
Beverly Hills. There's one in Miami. But this phenomenon is
spreading everywhere, and it's not good. Everything is becoming a
chain now. For instance, Sally's Pizza New Haven. There's Frank Peppies, Sally's.
(15:02):
These were like the two. You'd drive to New Haven
just to have these pizzas that everybody's saying are the
best in the world. Well, next thing you know, Frank
Peppy's opening everywhere everywhere. There's one in Fairfield, there's one
in Stanford. There's one here, there's one in Yonkers, there's one.
They're all over the place. There's a couple of them
in Florida, they're in Nashville there. Now the other one
(15:22):
is Sally's. Sally's just announced they're opening two one hundred
and fifty of them, two one hundred and fifty of them. Now,
the problem is everybody would go to New Haven because
it was such phenomenal pizza. When you open two hundred
and fifty of them, You're not gonna have the same
pizza everywhere. It's not possible. It doesn't work. And they're
(15:42):
all doing this. You know, in Queens and Utopia Boulevard.
For a million years, Utopia Bagels they were always the
best bagels in yours. People would drive out there just
to go to Utopia Begels. They were so amazing. Then
they opened one in Manhattan and it's always the same story.
It's not as good as the original. Now there's four
in New York City. Now they're opening all over. Now
(16:04):
there's gonna be one in London, they're opening here, they're opening.
They've got to stop this stuff. These are like our
finest food things, and they're all becoming franchises. Now. McDonald's
can figure out how to do it, but these people can't.
It doesn't work. It's diluting the whole thing. Even the
top restaurants of the world that John, George, Danielle, all
(16:24):
these guys. Now instead of one restaurant, they got seventy five,
and they're not the same quality. You can't. You can't
have seventy five be the same quality. It's gotta stop. Hey,
we'll take some calls next eight hundred three to two
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The Mark Simone Show continues, Hey, it's Wednesday. This is
week one. We've gotten through week one of the new year.
You know, yesterday I forgot it was January sixth, And
you know, Democrats and Trumpeters would like to make that
(00:22):
like a national thing every year, like you know, nine
to eleven, where the whole country stops to remember, or
they want to make it like a pearl harbor kind
of It's it's not going to work those of you
that don't remember January sixth, was that terrible trespassing incident
at the Capitol. I remember. But here's the Democrats are now.
(00:43):
You know all the universities have been corrupted, many of
our high schools. You got all these left wing teachers.
You got all this left wing propaganda being taught in
schools now, and this is why you get people that younger,
people that will vote for Mom. DONI twenty thirty years
of being indoctrinated in these left classrooms. Well now they
want to add January sixth to the history books and
(01:05):
have that taught in every classroom. Now. Of course, they're
not going to teach the whole story, as democrats do
or fake news does. They'll just give you three or
four pieces of the puzzle and leave out ninety eight
percent of it, so they won't tell you that President
Trump offered ten thousand troops and urged them to take
the ten thousand troops to guard the capital that day.
(01:28):
It was just another demonstration like the other two hundred
and seventy five that had happened that whole summer in America.
But Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of DC decided not
to accept the offer of the ten thousand troops. They
were told four hundred thousand demonstrators would show up. They
turned down the ten thousand troops. And by the way,
(01:51):
demonstrations of that size were taking place all the time
in Washington when Trump was president, once a member at
the Lincoln Memorial and he surrounded it with troops with
machine gun and nobody got near the Lincoln Memorial. The
worst one was when Democratic protesters tried to take the
White House, tried to come over the fence. Remember Trump
put out those tweets, if you do come over the fence,
(02:12):
you're going to see the most vicious dogs you've ever seen.
But he surrounded the place with troops. There was still
a hell of a battle at the White House fence.
Over two hundred law enforcement ended up in the hospital
after that. But January sixth, it was just another one
of those, not as bad as the one at the
White House. But Nancy Pelosi made the decision that you
(02:33):
would try to guard the building with just the building
security guys the Capitol Hill Police, which that's basically go
it is the security guys at the building instead of
actual troops and Capitol police. They're nice, but they there's
only a couple of hundred of them, and they can't
control four hundred thousand demonstrators, so they'll leave that out
(02:55):
of the discussion. In fact, Nancy Pelosi to this day
denies it, although there's video of her admitting to it
that night that she turned it down and this is
all her fault. But she'll de and I and they'll
teach the fake version of January sixth. They'll say, they'll
just keep using the word insurrection. It was an insurrection. Meantime,
they arrested twelve hundred of those demonstrators, not a single
(03:16):
one has been charged with insurrection. And remember they charged
these guys with everything they could hit him with. Each
one got hit with twelve charges, nineteen charges, twenty anything
they could charge him with, and nobody got charged with insurrection.
But we'll see see what happens if they can stop
that from going into the history books. Hey, TV ratings
(03:37):
for the year twenty twenty five, you know the New
Year's Eve show on ABC, which was Dick Clark's rock
in New Year's Eve for years now it's Ryan Seacrest
did pretty well. Got eighteen million viewers in today's broadcast
TV world. That is enormous. That's huge, huge, and got
(03:58):
seventeen million the year before. It was a definite increase.
It went up. Andy Cohen of course, looked ridiculous, getting
drunk out of his mind, going into a drunken rant
about Eric Adams, and then Adams was asked about it
the next day. What do you got to say to
Andy Cohen who called you all kinds of names, and
he said, I got My response is two letters, and
(04:22):
you thought it must be f you or something like
my response is two letters AA, which is a great response.
And now Adam's tweeting about Andy Cohen alcoholics anonymous. So
it is a problem. You know, people get drunk on
New Year's Eve, but if you're on live television, in
(04:43):
front of eighteen million people. You'd think you'd have a
little discipline not to get that drunk. But it was
a big night for ABC with the eighteen million viewers.
Fox News had one of the best years ever. Four
point one million viewers was the average. That's like way
beyond any other cable network. Four point one million viewers.
(05:05):
Biggest show of the year was The Five and Jesse
Waters and of course Hannity. Those are the three biggest shows. MSNBC,
CNN a bad year. Not a lot. The most watched
telecast of twenty twenty five number one, right the super Bowl?
Number two. Tracker The Hell is Tracker? I don't know.
(05:28):
It's one of those drama shows. I know, I do know.
It's about that whatever he is, a detective whatever is
who tracks down missing people? Nineteen episodes, but it did
really well. The NFL was the biggest thing on television
all year. If you take the top one hundred things
of twenty twenty five, forty five of them almost half
were NFL games. That's really the only thing keeping broadcast
(05:52):
TV alive. Ratings are down dramatically. Everything in broadcast TV
ratings are way down, but the NFL doing really well,
Tim Waltz, you know, he said he will not seek reelection,
and I don't blame him. If eighteen billion was stolen
right under your nose in your own state, you got
no business seeking reelection. By the way, the attorney general
(06:15):
of Minnesota, that left wing kook, Keith Ellison, Why hasn't
he resigned? If you're the attorney general and eighteen billion
was stolen right under your nose and you didn't catch it,
why hasn't he resigned? Now people are calling for Waltz
to resign immediately. He won't seek reelection, but people are
saying this is so bad, this scandal so horrifying, that
(06:36):
he should resign immediately. He refuses to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm not going anywhere, and you can make all your
requests for me to resign over my dead body will
that happen. I will fight this thing till the very
end to make this state better. And the question that
I think they need to decide is is when did
the guy in the White House resign? Anytime I get
drug into being next to Donald Trump? God help me,
I don't want to be judged against that guy.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now, apparently in private, they told him you should resign
and he threw a temper tantrument and went nuts. And
then the rest of that speech was this whole thing
about every minute I spend on my own political interests
is a minute I can't spend defending the people in
Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity. Well,
I think if eighteen billion went missing, we could agree
(07:22):
he's not very good at that. Anyway, he is suffering.
I mean, you know, want to make fun of a
guy with medical problems. He is suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.
Game's over for him now. It was all me. I
was the bad guy or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, put up or shut up now and tell us
what you're going to do to make this state better.
Answer these tough questions, quit hiding behind this, and expect
for the next eleven months for me to ride you
like you've never been ridden.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I don't know what that means. But what's Trump going
to do about it? Well, right now they're going in
and arresting the criminals who stole the eighteen billion, not million,
eighteen billion. They're arresting them one by one. This is
like the Bernie Madoff cleanup. You know, they had to
go after everybody, but then they had to claw back
the money. Well, the feds are starting to do that.
(08:13):
You know a lot of these ring leaders of this fraud,
and it was just an out and out fraud scheme
by these Somalis in Minnesota. Many of them took the
money and bought mansions and Porsches and luxury goods and
all sorts of expensive real estate. Well here's one. One
woman was convicted. The court is now federal charges. The
(08:34):
court is now clawing back everything, making her sell the houses,
the Porsche, the cars, the Rolls Royces and getting the
money back. So it takes a while. You know, with
the Bernie Madoff stuff, that was like fifty billion, but
they got back like thirty billion of it. So they'll
get they'll probably get back nine billion of this money.
They'll claw it back slowly but surely. And that's what
(08:54):
you do about it. Oh, I forget George Conway. Now,
this guy is going to be great. We are so
lucky that he has come to New York and he's
going to run for the Gerald Nadler, a congressional seat
that's open. Now you might be saying, well, what if
he wins. He's a left wing crazy. Yeah, but so
its Nadler. So it's no change at all. And that
(09:16):
district in New York, you're always gonna get a left
wing cook, so you might as well get this guy
because he's so silly and such a clown. George Conway.
He was married at one time to Kelly and Conway,
who's great. And you might say, well, how could that be. Well,
back then, you know, he was one of the most
brilliant lawyers in New York, brilliant attorney, a very successful guy,
(09:37):
and then he was married to her. But we've seen
this happen before where somebody goes nuts. And Conway was
hanging around with all the big Conservatives and Republicans, George Conway,
and then at some point we've seen it with other people.
They they just snap, they just go nuts, and all
of a sudden they become a left wing kook with
Trump derangement syndrome. But he's going to run for this
(10:00):
seat on the west side of Manhattan. Now, you might
be saying yourself, wait a minute, he lives in Maryland,
he doesn't even live here. Well, he's a Democrat. You
can do whatever the hell you want when you're a
Democrat and he's got raised money, and he's got his
first campaign ads, The George Conway campaign is underway.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
As one of the ads, we have a corrupt president,
a mendacious president, a criminal president whose masked agents are
disappearing people from our streets, who's breaking international law, and
he's running our federal government like a mob protection racket.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
This is why this guy's going to be great. This hysterical,
hyperbog nonsense. And he's mendacious, which I think is bad.
I don't know exactly what it is, but it's bad.
You don't want to be mendacious. He's disappearing people. It's
called arresting people. I love the and it's a violation
of international law. You're going to hear this a lot
(10:57):
from Democrats, especially with Venezuela. He's violated international law. Nobody
knows what the hell he's talking about. There's no such
thing as international law. Nobody knows what they're referring to.
Where's this international law you're talking about. There is no
international law. The only thing you could point to. I
asked Greg Jarrett, the great legal extorid, what the hell
(11:18):
are they talking about international law? He said, maybe they're
talking about the un charter United Nations. But they're not
a law enforcement agency. They have no law, they have
no authority, they have no standing at all. Dad, So
there's no such thing as international law. But the commercial
goes on.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
He doesn't like me. I don't like what he's done
to our great country, and now I'm running for Congress
to take the fight directly back to him.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
On your behalf, you go. He does not like what
he's done to this country. But Joe Biden he alwa,
he was thrilled about that. Thrilled. But this guy's going
to be great. We're so lucky to get him here.
This is so good for us. We're going to have
nothing but amusement from this George. You remember, he's the
guy that ran that crazy Lincoln project with the same thing.
(12:04):
The ever, nothing he did work because it was all
too over the top hysterical.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I don't intend to be doing this when I'm sixty
six or sixty seven or sixty eight. You know, I'm
kind of like a special teams player. I want to
do this for one reason, and that is to help
get this our governmental system back on track with something
back to normal, at least back toward normal.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Here, you go. His idea normal was Joe Biden, you know,
the great stephen A. Smith. Let me see if I
can find that quote. It's a very important point because
a lot of these Democrats are going nuts and screaming
and yelling. Stephen A. Smith is a Democrat, but he
he's like Bill Maher occasional bouts of common sense. But
(12:50):
he stunned a Democratic audience by explaining to them because
they can't get how Donald Trump gets elected. But Stephen A.
Smith explained to him that for all the things they
hate about Donald Trump, to normal voters, to most normal voters,
they think Trump is a lot closer to normal than
today's Democrats are. And you could look at Trump and say,
(13:11):
why he's doing things that's not presidential? Why does he
behave like that way? Well, whatever he does, it's a
lot more normal than Democrats are. Right now, Hey, there's
a new phenomenon. I don't like this at all. You know,
you know the restaurant Carbone. It opened I don't know
about ten years ago in the village Carbone, an Italian restaurant.
It's sort of it was just a gimmick actually for
(13:35):
younger you know, the whole new generation. It was like
old school red sauce Italian food. But to these younger people,
they've never seen that. I mean, you could go to
Patsy's and it's much better there, but they never saw
anything like Carbone and the checker tablecloths. I never saw
anything like that. So it took off. It became huge.
(13:55):
And when you become the hottest trendiest restaurant, then in
the old days, you were the hottest trendiest restaurant, and anybody
would come to New York. I gotta go there. I
want to. Well, now they opened. When you're at the
trendiest place, you open everywhere. Then there was Carbone Miami,
then there was Carbone, Paris, Carbone, Los Angeles. Carbone. Now
it's just opening in the Bellagio. So the reason for this,
(14:18):
you get these big hedge fund guys, and whenever it's
the hottest restaurant in the world. You know, if you
want to always get a table, you bribe the matri dus.
But if you really want to get treated well, you
get friendly with the owner and you offer to put
up millions and millions and millions to open some more restaurants.
That's why you see like Ovre on sixtieth Street. That
became a big hotspot. Next thing you know, there's an
(14:41):
Ova on fiftieth Street. Next thing you know, there's an
Ovora over here. Next thing you know, there's one in
Beverly Hills. There's one in Miami. But this phenomenon is
spreading everywhere, and it's not good. Everything is becoming a
chain now. For instance, Sally's Pizza New Haven. There's Frank Peppies, Sally's.
(15:02):
These were like the two. You'd drive to New Haven
just to have these pizzas that everybody's saying are the
best in the world. Well, next thing you know, Frank
Peppy's opening everywhere everywhere. There's one in Fairfield, there's one
in Stanford. There's one here, there's one in Yonkers, there's one.
They're all over the place. There's a couple of them
in Florida, they're in Nashville there. Now the other one
(15:22):
is Sally's. Sally's just announced they're opening two one hundred
and fifty of them, two one hundred and fifty of them. Now,
the problem is everybody would go to New Haven because
it was such phenomenal pizza. When you open two hundred
and fifty of them, You're not gonna have the same
pizza everywhere. It's not possible. It doesn't work. And they're
(15:42):
all doing this. You know, in Queens and Utopia Boulevard.
For a million years, Utopia Bagels they were always the
best bagels in yours. People would drive out there just
to go to Utopia Begels. They were so amazing. Then
they opened one in Manhattan and it's always the same story.
It's not as good as the original. Now there's four
in New York City. Now they're opening all over. Now
(16:04):
there's gonna be one in London, they're opening here, they're opening.
They've got to stop this stuff. These are like our
finest food things, and they're all becoming franchises. Now. McDonald's
can figure out how to do it, but these people can't.
It doesn't work. It's diluting the whole thing. Even the
top restaurants of the world that John, George, Danielle, all
(16:24):
these guys. Now instead of one restaurant, they got seventy five,
and they're not the same quality. You can't. You can't
have seventy five be the same quality. It's gotta stop. Hey,
we'll take some calls next eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten. Is the number eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten
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