November 17, 2025 • 15 mins
Over 50,000 candidates have applied to join the Mamdani administration, highlighting the intense competition for these positions. Meanwhile, questions remain about the feasibility of Zohran’s proposed free bus plan, as financial constraints could undermine its success. Additionally, Zohran’s tendency for double-talk may lead to misunderstandings among the public.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get back to the Mark Simone Show. I'm w R.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello. We'll get to Johnny Carson a little later this hour.
We'll get to Bill Ackman. Mom, Donnie, Well, he spoke
with Jessica Tish again over the weekend. I guess that's
a good sign that they're talking. Hopefully she stays right now.
(00:26):
Eric Adams is away, he's been in Israel. He had
this terrible shooting, a police officer shot in Brooklyn. Little
crisis occurring. And the good news is you got Randy
Mastro as the first deputy mayor. He was Rudy Giuliani's
first deputy mayor. If you like the way that Giuliani
administration ran, then you like Randy Mastro. And about a
year ago, Eric Adams put him in charge of city Hall.
(00:50):
He's the first deputy mayor. So even with Adams away,
Randy Mastro ran to the hospital to be with the
officer and handle the situation. Police Commissioner j. Tsh is there.
But when you got Mastro, things are under control. That's
why things have been so good for the past year. Now,
what happens when Mom Donnie comes in, Well, that first
(01:12):
deputy mayor will be Dean Fulahan, who comes from the
Deblasio administration. He was Deblasio's chief of staff, first deputy mayor,
in other words, first deputy mayor. So it's going to
look a lot like a Deblasio administration, which was bad,
but we got through it. We got through it. We
got through eight years of Deblasio. We probably won't have
(01:34):
to get through that much of Mom Donnie. It probably is.
I mean, it's four years, but it might. It could
just be one year. You might get a governor next
year who removes him if things aren't going well. Now.
Donald Trump said he'll meet with Mom. Donnie said, New
York is important. He'll meet with him, He'll talk to him. Mom.
Donnie was asked about meeting with Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I look forward to having a conversation with President Trump
because it's one where I'll make clear if he wants
to work together to deliver on his campaign promises of
cheaper groceries or a lower cost of living, I am
there and I am ready to go. But if he
wants to talk about pursuing a campaign agenda that comes
to the expense of New Yorkers, that is something that
I will fight.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, well, so what will Trump do when he meets
with him. Well, maybe he'll get through to him on
a couple of things. First, the most important thing is crime.
If you convince him, he's got to get a real
police commissioner and he's got to really take care of crime.
Mom Donnie said, he doesn't want to hire five thousand
more cops. And the problem is will he with you know,
(02:35):
withdraw cops from a lot of situations not enforce certain things.
Then that's what t Blasio basically did. Things start to
get out of control. So that's a problem. But hopefully
Trump gets through to him on that kind of stuff. Now, personally, well,
they got some things in common. Mom Donnie was a
(02:56):
little trump like in his campaign and that he was
the total outsider up against these big political machines. And
Trump's case, he was up against the Clinton machine. Mamdani
was up against the Cuomo machine, and he defeated him.
So they got that, and they've got something in common. Now.
(03:16):
Trump is good at winning people over in private. People
are always surprised in private what a nice man he is. Well,
how he relates to people. He's an incredibly good listener.
It's beyond listening. He looks at you like with radar
and sonar. He knows exactly what you're saying, and he's
really good at handling people. But generally the people he
(03:37):
handles are like him. They're big, successful business people. They're
CEOs or bank presidents, or they're substantial people. That's where
he does best. But he's also been good with the weirdo,
odd ball kookie types you know, Kim Jong un and others.
He was able to win him over and calm him down.
(03:57):
Zelenski got off to a bad start but eventually developed
a good relationship. So we'll see what he can do
with Mom Donnie if he can get through to him.
Mom Donnie is talking to Tish. He did a Sunday
show where he was asked about keeping her.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Will she stay in that office?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I continue to be confident in my decision, but as
soon as there's a public announcement to be made, we'll
be sure.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
To show does she say? I got to think about this.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
More of the conversation, frankly, had to do with what
it looks like to deliver that public.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Safety right now. He is a genius at double talk.
You know. Kamala would do this word salad and was
pretty obvious, you know what the hell she was talking about?
Just like a babbling yo yo. But mom, Donnie, the
double talk is very good. Now what did he just say?
It was asked her, are you going to keep her?
Did he give a yes or no?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Will she stay in that office?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I continue to be confident in my decision.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
But okay, think of it. I continue to be confident
in my decision. What does that mean? I continue? You
could just say, well, my decision is to keep her.
But he says, I'm confident in my decision. That adds
an element to it. Then he adds a third layer.
I continue to be confident in my decision. Now he
(05:11):
just said three things without saying anything.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Will she stay in that office?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I continue to be confident in my decision.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
But as soon as there's a public announcement to be made,
we'll be sure of show.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Does she say, as soon as there's a public announcement
to be made, we'll be sure to share it. Well, obviously,
if it's a public announcement, you'll share it.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
He was asked about Putin. I don't know what Putin said.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Do anything.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I believe this is a city of international law and
being a city of international law means looking to uphold
international law, and that means upholding the warrants from the
International Criminal Court, whether they're for Benjamin Ninia or Vladimir Putin.
I think that that's critically important to showcase our values.
And unlike Donald Trump, I'm someone who looks to exist
within the confines of the laws that we have, So
I will look to exhaust every legal possibility, not to
(05:53):
create my own laws.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Now, I guess they're talking about arresting Putin if he
comes to town, or arresting that yah who No, he
said again, this is all bubble talk.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I believe this is a city of international law first,
So it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's not a city of international law. We don't use
international law here. We don't even recognize it here in
New York City. And if he ever tries us, he'll
be taken to court and lose immediately. It's a city
of city and state and US law. We don't acknowledge
international law. And by the way, that court that put
out the indictment against Natana is not recognized as any
(06:23):
sort of a legitimate court. It's the World Court of whatever,
but we don't even recognize it. So he's absolutely wrong.
He's threatened Netya, who's supposed to come here next year
for that annual UN summit. He'll speak at that as
he always does. Will Mamdani a tempt to arrest him.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We are a global city, But I also think what
New Yorkers are looking for is consistency in the way
in which we talk about our values and follow through
on them. And that's why I think these warrants from
the International Criminal Court, they are worth fully exploring every
legal possibility to actually follow through on.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Again, the World Criminal Court not recognized by anybody. It's
just a joke. If he does come to New York,
President Trump has said he will have him escorted by
milit terry federal troops FBI. He will protect him from
being arrested. Alan Dershwitz said he will stand by his
side the entire visit to New York and be his lawyer.
What about Trump sending in the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And so we will have a unified front myself the
Governor of the Attorney General in showcasing that any attempts
to deploy the National Guard here in New York City,
it's not an attack on an individual politician like myself.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's an attack on the city.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Now a unified front.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Think of this army, so we will have a unified front. Myself.
The governor of the Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
All right now, myself, he's like a dumb kid, a
thirty four year old kid. The governor is a total
coward who runs and hides it the sign of any trouble.
The Attorney General is a slee's ball who's under indictment,
who may be in jail by the time this even
comes up. Let me see about arrest.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I've said time and again this is a city of.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
International same thing. Oh here, he's on k hulk.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I've also said that if there are additional or alternate
revenue sources that would pay for the same things.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, he wants to do these free buses. He has
no power to make the buses free. The Mayor of
New York has no control over the buses. It's all state.
It's the MTA that runs them. And Hochel has said,
you can't make the buses free, can't take it be
a massive loss of revenue, so you'd have to come
up with some other revenue.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I've also said that if there are additional or alternate
revenue sources that would pay for the same things, we
would embrace them by all means, because the most important
thing is funding these things. And I think with the
governor there's a clear alignment of the importance of delivering
on universal childcare and on affordability agenda. And now the
work begins even before we've been sworn in on lining
(08:36):
out when, how, But we always know it's for who,
which is New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
See, if you're not saying anything, if you're not going
to answer, if you're going to double talk, the secret
is to do it fast. If you said, well, I
you know, it sounds like you're not answering. But if
you talk very quickly and you're not really answering, and
you said, well, it's a matter of how, when and
HW and if you talk it a mile a minute,
your salad, you know what you're talking about, even if
you don't. But we'll see. This is not going to
(09:03):
be easy getting through Mom Donnie. But but we got
through Deblasio. It was pretty much the same thing. Deblasio
thought socialism was better. De Blasio same thing with the affordability.
But remember Deblasio's whole campaign was about two New York's.
There's two New York's, one for the rich, one for
so Now. The only difference is de Plasio didn't really
(09:25):
hate all those rich people. In fact, he did them
favor after whatever they needed, he did it for him.
So I don't know about Mom Donnie. I don't know
if he's that bribeable or that persuadable. But we'll see.
He's got a team in place. He's got a bunch
of people that are on the transition team. He has
one guy on the transition team just got caught with
(09:47):
the most horrible antisemitic remarks. But listen, that's no shock.
This is what you expect from these Mom Donnie people.
You got a little of that from the Deblasio team
as well. Now, another thing is this transition team of
Mom Donnie's has been raising money and apparently they're up
to about a million dollars already. They've raised about one
(10:09):
million dollars. Now. They say it's a smaller donations. Average
donation is seventy five dollars, But that's a lot of money.
What do they do with the transition money? Who knows?
They pay for themselves. They just spend it on themselves.
It's kind of ridiculous, but good for mom. Donnie. Yeah,
the donation came. The money came from seven thousand donors,
(10:32):
averaging seventy three dollars per donor. So the other people
on he got Elena Leopold, she's the director. The whole
transition team is female. I don't know what that means,
but she's she's pretty bad. They got Lena Kahan, who's
(10:53):
co chair of the transition team. She was a longtime
Obama Biden persons now for her tough anti trust stance,
in other words, harassing businesses. She has a history of
going after major companies and trying to bust them up,
anti trust, so that's not good. The transition team says
(11:14):
more than fifty thousand people five zero fifty thousand candidates
have applied to work for his administration. They have one
of those resume portals. They've gotten fifty thousand applications. They'll
be going through fifty thousand. Well, it's say they got
like six weeks to get to get through this. And
we'll see Bill Maher on Friday Night begging, begging Democrats
(11:38):
to get away from this socialism, this nonsense. Mars said,
did you watch his victory speech. Well, if you didn't
see it, he said, don't worry, You're going to see
it in every attack ad for the next two years.
Republicans will be using that Mamdani speech in every campaign
ad against the Democrats. He said, Democratic socialism is like
(11:58):
a dating profile. Looks great until you actually meet up
in the real world. You know, Bernie Sanders, his single
pair healthcare sounded great, but it totally collapsed when you
try it. He did it in Vermont. It totally collapsed.
Bernie aoc Mamdannie. They're not Democrats. They'll be the first
to tell you. They're democratic socialists. It's a different thing,
(12:19):
and Democrats should stay the hell away from it. Hunter
Biden goes nuts on this podcast, ranting and raving and
yelling and screaming. It's really met me. Know, Miranda Devine
wrote the definitive book about the laptop and about the
Big Guy and the Biden corruptions. He really went after her.
He called her ugly, hideous, looking, a whore. This is
(12:43):
Hunter Biden's worse. Obviously, she's a very fine person then
very attractive. You know, you can call people ugly, but
when they're making a living on television, people looking at
close ups of their face. I don't think they nobody's
going to buy that they're so ugly. But it's a
good to compliment to Miranda that he couldn't find anything
wrong in the book, to point out he couldn't be
(13:05):
specific about anything she got wrong, and he couldn't find
any legitimate attack on her, so he had to just
go nuts. He also said Democrats need to turn the
temperature up. Turn the temperature up. How could they get
any angrier than they already are? How could they get
any matter? How could they yell and scream about Trump anymore?
(13:25):
How could they have more Trump arrangement syndrome than they
have now? So, yeah, socialism, listen, it's failed everywhere. Trying
socialism to be like betting on the New York Jets
to win. It's not a good idea. It's never going
to happen. Hey, Bill Ackman, the hedge fund Billionaire's a
nice guy, Bill Ackman. So he posted something. He's a
(13:47):
little too busy on Twitter and all that stuff, But
he said, I hear from many young men they find
it difficult to meet young women in a public setting.
You know, younger, younger people are so busy on online meeting,
you know, to online dating apps, and that's how they
meet that. They have no idea how you could meet
somebody in person, So he said, young men are always
asking me. They have so much trouble meeting in person.
(14:09):
I thought I would share a few words that I
used in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling.
So Ackman goes on to say if he wanted to
meet somebody, he would walk up to her and say
may I meet you before engaging further in conversation. He says,
I almost never got to know it inevitably worked, He said,
(14:31):
I think the combination of proper grammar and politeness was
the key to its effectiveness. Give it a try, May
I meet you? Well, the way this turned out, Ackman
has been ridiculed all weekend online. He's getting just tarred
and feathered online. In fact, all you see are may
I meet you memes, just ridiculing poor Bill Ackman. It's
(14:56):
actually he's got a good point there, may I meet you? Yeah,
I kind of get it. I mean he's got a
point there. But politeness, most guys aren't very polite or gentlemanly,
just be very polite, proper grammar that can be very
I don't know if i'd go and would you say
that to somebody?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
He says.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's not just dating. He uses it in business situations.
I don't know. Let me go out in the hall
and try this to somebody. May I meet you? I
don't know. It sounds pretty lame to me. It sounds
very lame. But Akman getting trashed all over the place
for it. Hey, well take some calls in a minute.
We'll get to Johnny Carson coming up, but we'll get
(15:37):
to the phones next. Eight hundred three to two one
zero seven ten is the number, eight hundred three to
two one zero seven ten.
Let's get back to the Mark Simone Show. I'm w R.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello. We'll get to Johnny Carson a little later this hour.
We'll get to Bill Ackman. Mom, Donnie, Well, he spoke
with Jessica Tish again over the weekend. I guess that's
a good sign that they're talking. Hopefully she stays right now.
(00:26):
Eric Adams is away, he's been in Israel. He had
this terrible shooting, a police officer shot in Brooklyn. Little
crisis occurring. And the good news is you got Randy
Mastro as the first deputy mayor. He was Rudy Giuliani's
first deputy mayor. If you like the way that Giuliani
administration ran, then you like Randy Mastro. And about a
year ago, Eric Adams put him in charge of city Hall.
(00:50):
He's the first deputy mayor. So even with Adams away,
Randy Mastro ran to the hospital to be with the
officer and handle the situation. Police Commissioner j. Tsh is there.
But when you got Mastro, things are under control. That's
why things have been so good for the past year. Now,
what happens when Mom Donnie comes in, Well, that first
(01:12):
deputy mayor will be Dean Fulahan, who comes from the
Deblasio administration. He was Deblasio's chief of staff, first deputy mayor,
in other words, first deputy mayor. So it's going to
look a lot like a Deblasio administration, which was bad,
but we got through it. We got through it. We
got through eight years of Deblasio. We probably won't have
(01:34):
to get through that much of Mom Donnie. It probably is.
I mean, it's four years, but it might. It could
just be one year. You might get a governor next
year who removes him if things aren't going well. Now.
Donald Trump said he'll meet with Mom. Donnie said, New
York is important. He'll meet with him, He'll talk to him. Mom.
Donnie was asked about meeting with Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I look forward to having a conversation with President Trump
because it's one where I'll make clear if he wants
to work together to deliver on his campaign promises of
cheaper groceries or a lower cost of living, I am
there and I am ready to go. But if he
wants to talk about pursuing a campaign agenda that comes
to the expense of New Yorkers, that is something that
I will fight.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, well, so what will Trump do when he meets
with him. Well, maybe he'll get through to him on
a couple of things. First, the most important thing is crime.
If you convince him, he's got to get a real
police commissioner and he's got to really take care of crime.
Mom Donnie said, he doesn't want to hire five thousand
more cops. And the problem is will he with you know,
(02:35):
withdraw cops from a lot of situations not enforce certain things.
Then that's what t Blasio basically did. Things start to
get out of control. So that's a problem. But hopefully
Trump gets through to him on that kind of stuff. Now, personally, well,
they got some things in common. Mom Donnie was a
(02:56):
little trump like in his campaign and that he was
the total outsider up against these big political machines. And
Trump's case, he was up against the Clinton machine. Mamdani
was up against the Cuomo machine, and he defeated him.
So they got that, and they've got something in common. Now.
(03:16):
Trump is good at winning people over in private. People
are always surprised in private what a nice man he is. Well,
how he relates to people. He's an incredibly good listener.
It's beyond listening. He looks at you like with radar
and sonar. He knows exactly what you're saying, and he's
really good at handling people. But generally the people he
(03:37):
handles are like him. They're big, successful business people. They're
CEOs or bank presidents, or they're substantial people. That's where
he does best. But he's also been good with the weirdo,
odd ball kookie types you know, Kim Jong un and others.
He was able to win him over and calm him down.
(03:57):
Zelenski got off to a bad start but eventually developed
a good relationship. So we'll see what he can do
with Mom Donnie if he can get through to him.
Mom Donnie is talking to Tish. He did a Sunday
show where he was asked about keeping her.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Will she stay in that office?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I continue to be confident in my decision, but as
soon as there's a public announcement to be made, we'll
be sure.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
To show does she say? I got to think about this.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
More of the conversation, frankly, had to do with what
it looks like to deliver that public.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Safety right now. He is a genius at double talk.
You know. Kamala would do this word salad and was
pretty obvious, you know what the hell she was talking about?
Just like a babbling yo yo. But mom, Donnie, the
double talk is very good. Now what did he just say?
It was asked her, are you going to keep her?
Did he give a yes or no?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Will she stay in that office?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I continue to be confident in my decision.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
But okay, think of it. I continue to be confident
in my decision. What does that mean? I continue? You
could just say, well, my decision is to keep her.
But he says, I'm confident in my decision. That adds
an element to it. Then he adds a third layer.
I continue to be confident in my decision. Now he
(05:11):
just said three things without saying anything.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Will she stay in that office?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I continue to be confident in my decision.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
But as soon as there's a public announcement to be made,
we'll be sure of show.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Does she say, as soon as there's a public announcement
to be made, we'll be sure to share it. Well, obviously,
if it's a public announcement, you'll share it.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
He was asked about Putin. I don't know what Putin said.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Do anything.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I believe this is a city of international law and
being a city of international law means looking to uphold
international law, and that means upholding the warrants from the
International Criminal Court, whether they're for Benjamin Ninia or Vladimir Putin.
I think that that's critically important to showcase our values.
And unlike Donald Trump, I'm someone who looks to exist
within the confines of the laws that we have, So
I will look to exhaust every legal possibility, not to
(05:53):
create my own laws.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Now, I guess they're talking about arresting Putin if he
comes to town, or arresting that yah who No, he
said again, this is all bubble talk.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I believe this is a city of international law first,
So it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's not a city of international law. We don't use
international law here. We don't even recognize it here in
New York City. And if he ever tries us, he'll
be taken to court and lose immediately. It's a city
of city and state and US law. We don't acknowledge
international law. And by the way, that court that put
out the indictment against Natana is not recognized as any
(06:23):
sort of a legitimate court. It's the World Court of whatever,
but we don't even recognize it. So he's absolutely wrong.
He's threatened Netya, who's supposed to come here next year
for that annual UN summit. He'll speak at that as
he always does. Will Mamdani a tempt to arrest him.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We are a global city, But I also think what
New Yorkers are looking for is consistency in the way
in which we talk about our values and follow through
on them. And that's why I think these warrants from
the International Criminal Court, they are worth fully exploring every
legal possibility to actually follow through on.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Again, the World Criminal Court not recognized by anybody. It's
just a joke. If he does come to New York,
President Trump has said he will have him escorted by
milit terry federal troops FBI. He will protect him from
being arrested. Alan Dershwitz said he will stand by his
side the entire visit to New York and be his lawyer.
What about Trump sending in the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And so we will have a unified front myself the
Governor of the Attorney General in showcasing that any attempts
to deploy the National Guard here in New York City,
it's not an attack on an individual politician like myself.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's an attack on the city.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Now a unified front.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Think of this army, so we will have a unified front. Myself.
The governor of the Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
All right now, myself, he's like a dumb kid, a
thirty four year old kid. The governor is a total
coward who runs and hides it the sign of any trouble.
The Attorney General is a slee's ball who's under indictment,
who may be in jail by the time this even
comes up. Let me see about arrest.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I've said time and again this is a city of.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
International same thing. Oh here, he's on k hulk.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I've also said that if there are additional or alternate
revenue sources that would pay for the same things.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, he wants to do these free buses. He has
no power to make the buses free. The Mayor of
New York has no control over the buses. It's all state.
It's the MTA that runs them. And Hochel has said,
you can't make the buses free, can't take it be
a massive loss of revenue, so you'd have to come
up with some other revenue.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I've also said that if there are additional or alternate
revenue sources that would pay for the same things, we
would embrace them by all means, because the most important
thing is funding these things. And I think with the
governor there's a clear alignment of the importance of delivering
on universal childcare and on affordability agenda. And now the
work begins even before we've been sworn in on lining
(08:36):
out when, how, But we always know it's for who,
which is New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
See, if you're not saying anything, if you're not going
to answer, if you're going to double talk, the secret
is to do it fast. If you said, well, I
you know, it sounds like you're not answering. But if
you talk very quickly and you're not really answering, and
you said, well, it's a matter of how, when and
HW and if you talk it a mile a minute,
your salad, you know what you're talking about, even if
you don't. But we'll see. This is not going to
(09:03):
be easy getting through Mom Donnie. But but we got
through Deblasio. It was pretty much the same thing. Deblasio
thought socialism was better. De Blasio same thing with the affordability.
But remember Deblasio's whole campaign was about two New York's.
There's two New York's, one for the rich, one for
so Now. The only difference is de Plasio didn't really
(09:25):
hate all those rich people. In fact, he did them
favor after whatever they needed, he did it for him.
So I don't know about Mom Donnie. I don't know
if he's that bribeable or that persuadable. But we'll see.
He's got a team in place. He's got a bunch
of people that are on the transition team. He has
one guy on the transition team just got caught with
(09:47):
the most horrible antisemitic remarks. But listen, that's no shock.
This is what you expect from these Mom Donnie people.
You got a little of that from the Deblasio team
as well. Now, another thing is this transition team of
Mom Donnie's has been raising money and apparently they're up
to about a million dollars already. They've raised about one
(10:09):
million dollars. Now. They say it's a smaller donations. Average
donation is seventy five dollars, But that's a lot of money.
What do they do with the transition money? Who knows?
They pay for themselves. They just spend it on themselves.
It's kind of ridiculous, but good for mom. Donnie. Yeah,
the donation came. The money came from seven thousand donors,
(10:32):
averaging seventy three dollars per donor. So the other people
on he got Elena Leopold, she's the director. The whole
transition team is female. I don't know what that means,
but she's she's pretty bad. They got Lena Kahan, who's
(10:53):
co chair of the transition team. She was a longtime
Obama Biden persons now for her tough anti trust stance,
in other words, harassing businesses. She has a history of
going after major companies and trying to bust them up,
anti trust, so that's not good. The transition team says
(11:14):
more than fifty thousand people five zero fifty thousand candidates
have applied to work for his administration. They have one
of those resume portals. They've gotten fifty thousand applications. They'll
be going through fifty thousand. Well, it's say they got
like six weeks to get to get through this. And
we'll see Bill Maher on Friday Night begging, begging Democrats
(11:38):
to get away from this socialism, this nonsense. Mars said,
did you watch his victory speech. Well, if you didn't
see it, he said, don't worry, You're going to see
it in every attack ad for the next two years.
Republicans will be using that Mamdani speech in every campaign
ad against the Democrats. He said, Democratic socialism is like
(11:58):
a dating profile. Looks great until you actually meet up
in the real world. You know, Bernie Sanders, his single
pair healthcare sounded great, but it totally collapsed when you
try it. He did it in Vermont. It totally collapsed.
Bernie aoc Mamdannie. They're not Democrats. They'll be the first
to tell you. They're democratic socialists. It's a different thing,
(12:19):
and Democrats should stay the hell away from it. Hunter
Biden goes nuts on this podcast, ranting and raving and
yelling and screaming. It's really met me. Know, Miranda Devine
wrote the definitive book about the laptop and about the
Big Guy and the Biden corruptions. He really went after her.
He called her ugly, hideous, looking, a whore. This is
(12:43):
Hunter Biden's worse. Obviously, she's a very fine person then
very attractive. You know, you can call people ugly, but
when they're making a living on television, people looking at
close ups of their face. I don't think they nobody's
going to buy that they're so ugly. But it's a
good to compliment to Miranda that he couldn't find anything
wrong in the book, to point out he couldn't be
(13:05):
specific about anything she got wrong, and he couldn't find
any legitimate attack on her, so he had to just
go nuts. He also said Democrats need to turn the
temperature up. Turn the temperature up. How could they get
any angrier than they already are? How could they get
any matter? How could they yell and scream about Trump anymore?
(13:25):
How could they have more Trump arrangement syndrome than they
have now? So, yeah, socialism, listen, it's failed everywhere. Trying
socialism to be like betting on the New York Jets
to win. It's not a good idea. It's never going
to happen. Hey, Bill Ackman, the hedge fund Billionaire's a
nice guy, Bill Ackman. So he posted something. He's a
(13:47):
little too busy on Twitter and all that stuff, But
he said, I hear from many young men they find
it difficult to meet young women in a public setting.
You know, younger, younger people are so busy on online meeting,
you know, to online dating apps, and that's how they
meet that. They have no idea how you could meet
somebody in person, So he said, young men are always
asking me. They have so much trouble meeting in person.
(14:09):
I thought I would share a few words that I
used in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling.
So Ackman goes on to say if he wanted to
meet somebody, he would walk up to her and say
may I meet you before engaging further in conversation. He says,
I almost never got to know it inevitably worked, He said,
(14:31):
I think the combination of proper grammar and politeness was
the key to its effectiveness. Give it a try, May
I meet you? Well, the way this turned out, Ackman
has been ridiculed all weekend online. He's getting just tarred
and feathered online. In fact, all you see are may
I meet you memes, just ridiculing poor Bill Ackman. It's
(14:56):
actually he's got a good point there, may I meet you? Yeah,
I kind of get it. I mean he's got a
point there. But politeness, most guys aren't very polite or gentlemanly,
just be very polite, proper grammar that can be very
I don't know if i'd go and would you say
that to somebody?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
He says.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's not just dating. He uses it in business situations.
I don't know. Let me go out in the hall
and try this to somebody. May I meet you? I
don't know. It sounds pretty lame to me. It sounds
very lame. But Akman getting trashed all over the place
for it. Hey, well take some calls in a minute.
We'll get to Johnny Carson coming up, but we'll get
(15:37):
to the phones next. Eight hundred three to two one
zero seven ten is the number, eight hundred three to
two one zero seven ten.
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