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Speaker 1: Now this is the Mark Simon Show on seventoor.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well it's Thursday. Lots to get to today. We'll get to the mayoral race, a lot going on there. We'll get to President Trump and the shutdown. We'll get to the Yankees. In the news. You got a horrific anti Semitic terrorist attack in Manchester, England on a synagogue. Got a crash last night, a fender bender on a runway at La Guardia Airport. Two planes that one of the tail hits the nose of the other. Lots of damage. Not good, not good at all. It's Yom Kapoor today, although a little less traffic today. Restaurants packed last night. I don't understand that they're supposed to be empty last night, but I was a lot of restaurants in the world jammed last night. So the shutdown nothing will happen today. I don't know if it's part well, in part the holiday, but also just nothing. Is today. The next vote on the shutdown on fixing this is tomorrow, Friday, eleven am. It's not going well for the Democrats. There's a lot of pressure on Schumer to just turn around and get out of this ridiculous position he's put himself in. The problem is, well, you got two problems. One, we've had a lot of shutdowns, they happen all the time, but this is the first time we've had when we got two real ridiculous figures running the Democratic side. You got Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies. Now, the problem is they're both from New York, they're both from Brooklyn. They both come from a liberal, far left echo chamber, and that's all they know. These two have no contact with actual America, normal, regular, normal Americans. They just know left wing Brooklyn, that's all they know. Left wing Manhattan, that's all they know. So that they exist in that bubble, and they look at it with that perspective, which is not helping them. Schumer's problem is he's old, tired, desperate, frightened. He's at the end of the line. His political career is over. He realizes it. He's going to get wiped out if he ever tries to run again. So he's catering to the left right now, or he thinks he is, in an awkward, klutzy sort of way the way he does everything. And the other problem is you got Hakeem Jeffries who's a total humorless stiff, just a ridiculous guy who's not an effective leader, just speaks in these stiff proclamations. He doesn't look good on camera, he doesn't seem real. He just looks like a mannequin. Trump has gone after him and Schumer with the sombrero memes, which are hysterical. If you haven't been watching, he's check my Twitter. Most of them are up on my Twitter. It's Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries with the sombrero and the mustache and the Mexican music. They're miracle and very funny. Everybody's laughing at them. And Hakeem Jeffries made a huge mistake the first day or two. He just got pompous and so serious. And it's a disgusting video.
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Speaker 3: And we're going to continue to make Claire biggotree will get you nowhere.
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Speaker 2: It's a meme, it's funny, they're hysterically. Nobody can watch them and not laugh. And then the fake news tried to play it up, you know, with Civan, I'm not s JD Vans JD Vans and so what about you, you're biggot memes.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's funny. The president's joking and we're having a good time. You can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the Democrats positions, and even you know, poking some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves. I mean, I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make this solemn promise to you that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.
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Speaker 2: But they're very funny. Take a look at it. They're up on my Twitter. You can see them. Somebody must have gotten a Hikim Jeffries or a bunch of somebodies and said, will you lighten up? Will you stop with this pompous act you're doing? You look ridiculous. So now he's trying to fight back with his own memes against Trump. Maybe it was Gavin Newsom. Newsom has become very good at that. He's become the king of fighting Trump fire with Trump fire. Whatever tactics Trump uses, he'll use him right back. Now. I guess you know, you could say, you know you're not supposed to be if you're the president of the United States, you're not supposed to be like a kid putting funny memes up on TikTok. Well, yeah, maybe that's the nineteen ninety nine rule or even the two thousand and six rule, but it's twenty twenty five. The game is being reinvented. And Trump, for all his great stuff he can do as president, he is and you can argue whether it's right or wrong, but he is like a big kid. He's like a kid having fun. He's still a private sector guy. He's not a you know, reformal, you know, government politician, Washington formal, none of that false Formality's just himself. And this is what business guys do. You know, This is what Wall Street guys are famous for. It passing jokes around, memes around, laughing. You know. So Trump has brought that sensibility to the White House, and that's that might be the problem. He you know, Trump is a cutting edge guy, leading the way ahead of the curve. The problem with Schumer is he still looks like it's nineteen ninety three. Even when he makes those videos it's him on the Capitol steps with the Capitol behind. It looks so old and how dated and stiff. The whole fight now is Republicans have reduced it to Democrats want health care for illegals, And they'll argue and argue and argue, it's not true.
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump and Republicans have shut the government down because they don't want to provide healthcare to working class Americans.
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Speaker 2: Now, of course that's not true. So you got lives, you know, going all over the place, those two lies, they'll tell. Trump wants to get it to working Americans, and the way one way you do that is get the illegals off off the rolls there because they're draining money. And then the other big Democrat lie they always do is he wants to throw them off and use the money to hand the money to his billionaire. If nobody's handing any money to any billionaires, the last thing the billionaires need is government handing them any money. But does it provide health care for illegals? Yes, absolutely, absolutely, Even Jake Tapper, you can't get more fake news, biased left wing than Jake Tapper. Even he last night had to admit on the air that he's carefully read it all. It does give health care to illegals. Now it doesn't. Trump is exaggerating when he says it hands them a Cadillac plan that there doesn't do that. It doesn't do that at all. But if they do get health care, if they do go to the hospital, they will the hospitals everybody does get reimbursed, and that would be paying for illegals health care. So the fight will I don't know. Friday eleven am is the next vote. It might be over then there. I don't know who's going to be bugging Schumer all day and night to get off this position. He's in a weird, weird position. Everybody thinks he's totally frightened, scared that AOC is going to wipe him out in the next election, and he's terrified of AOC, and that's why he's catering to them. And here's what she had to say. There is one reason and one reason. Well here's Mike Johnson.
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Speaker 5: There is one reason and one reason alone that Chuck Schumer is leading the Democrats off this cliff. He is trying to get political cover from the far left corner of his base. He's afraid of a challenge for his Senate seat by AOC.
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Speaker 4: He's worried he's going to get a primary challenge from AOC.
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Speaker 5: He is afraid of AOC over a clean sard.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer is afraid of his own shadow.
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Speaker 6: And I actually think that shadow's name is AOC.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, one at AOC. What did she say about it?
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Speaker 7: This is so not about me in this moment. If those senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me, they're free to enter my office and negotiate, because what we're not going to do is allow all of millions of people in this country to not be able to afford their insulin, their chemotherapy. So come strike a deal with me, if that's what they really think.
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Speaker 8: Is going on.
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Speaker 2: The real answer, yes, he's afraid of AOC. The problem is he's at the end of his ropes, end of the line. He can't get re elected. He's finished. He's another Jerry Nadler. He's done. The Democrats hate him, they don't want him. He's out. If AOC decides to run for Senate, be easy as can be. She'll be able to fund. The one secret of Schumer is his fundraising. Nobody is bigger with taking care of billionaires and donors than Schumer. That's all he does. Donors service, and that means billionaires special interests unions. He takes care of them, as they'll all the billionaires will tell you, even the Republicans one that Backschumer. They'll say, I could wake this guy up at two in the morning. He'll do anything I want. They all have his cell number to get anything. Now they have to give massive donations in exchange. So he's always been the king of fundraising. That's why he was never scared of an opponent. But AOC could be a fundraising machine. She could raise a ton of money very very fast. So he's terrified to her. If now it's a way off, it's a year and a month from now. By early next year, Schumer may realize there's nothing he can do. It's over. He would announce, then he's not gonna seek reelection, and then he'd be free to go back to the old Chuck Schumer from forty years ago. Just act on principle, but don't count on it. Don't count on it. Hey, the mayoral race, here's the problem. The election is thirty three days away. Only thirty three days till the election. Here's a bigger problem. It's only twenty three days till early voting begins. Three days the debate is two weeks from tonight, two weeks till the debate. That could change things. Mom Donnie's very good in debates. He ducks questions. It's not like he gives you solid answers, but his manner. You know, he talks very quickly anytimes, like he really knows what he's talking about. And if you talk a little quicker, you can sound very smart. And he's got a wonderful tone that makes him sound like he's trying to help you. And Curtis is an excellent debater. He's the only professional debater in the race. He's been doing it for thirty five years. Cuomo talks so slow. He's a bad debater, and he's a horrible debater. That's why we have Mon Donni. If it hadn't been for Cuomo, you would not have Mom Donnie. Cuomo gave you Mom Donnie democratic debate, both of them, two of them. Cuomo was so weak and old and tired and talks so slow, and Mom Donnie was able to easily wipe him out, and that's how he got the nomination. So this could be in two weeks a bad, bad night for Cuomo. Mam Donnie's great in debates. Curtis's great in debates. Cuomo will talk so slow that he'll look so Cuomo could wipe himself out in two weeks. Now you're gonna say, well, he's going to prepare and prepare and train, and they'll give him right, all kinds of lines for him to you. Well, when he got wiped out in the first debate, they did that for him in the second debate. And no matter what he hit when Mom Donnie with Mom Donnie just pounded him into the ground. So uh, now, hey, the commercials are running. Mom Donnie's got very sharp looking commercials, very sharp, very well done. Mom Donnie is heavily financed. You know, he keeps talking about these billionaires. Meantime he's got billionaires all over the place back in him, big money commercials. Cuomo has a new commercial which looks a little silly. It looks like a very expensive commercial. It's about the commercial says, I don't know how to do a lot. There's a lot of jobs I might be good, And then it shows him working at a car wash. Then it shows him hanging off a skyscraper as a window washer, and then it shows him driving the subway train all these different looks very expensive, all these things. Well, it turns out it was Ai and it's very well done with Ai. Looks very real, but it shows him in all these different sort of jobs. And then it comes to but there's only one thing I know how to do, and that's run government. But it's kind of a silly commercial. I don't know. Now there's one that Curtis has a lot of good commercials. They're not attacking Mamdanni so much. They're more pro Curtis and the latest one half the commercially he's got the Bereton. Half the commercial. He doesn't have the Bereton. But they're very good commercials. Mam Donnie and Curtis definitely the best commercials. Cuomo's look a little silly, hey, by the way, You know how they always say Omo never apologize. You know, he killed ten thousand seniors, He killed people's grandparents and nursing homes, and a lot of the critics say that's his main problem. He's never been able to apologize. He can't admit to it, he can't apologize, and that's been the case. But he made a video apologizing to the Jewish community, the Orthodox Jewish community. He made this video and distributed it just within the private Orthodox community. You could find it online if you're looking for it. But he apologizes to them. He said, I sincerely apologize. He apologizes for the lockdown and what he did and how he locked everything down, and he said, I didn't realize how he was interfering with some religious practices of yours and some important cultural traditions of yours. And I sincerely apology was very, very sincere apology, but just for this one group. And the problem is is that starts to leak out the seniors that were killed, all the people that had people killed, robbed, raped, or became crime victims as a result of Cuomo's no bail, no jail. They're all gonna say, where's our apology, where's our apology video? How come we didn't get it? Hey, speaking of which, great speech by Ray Kelly yesterday for our Police Athletic League lunch and Ray Kelly the greatest police commissioner ever. But you know, Mamdani, everything he proposes is a complete hoax. I'm gonna make free, the buses will be free. He has no power to make the buses free. It's the MTA or whatever he's proposing, he has no power to do it. Now, one of the big proposals, I'm gonna have social workers answer domestic violence calls. Now, you know, any copp will tell you the most dangerous thing you can respond to is these domestic violence calls. That's where there's a gun and knife, a bat. It's really dangerous. So he keeps talking about that we don't need to send the cops and will send in social workers. So Ray Kelly points out, now, nobody knows policing and law enforcement better than Ray Kelly, and he's been doing it for years and years and years. Points out, and I didn't realize this. The police department, the NYPD has tried that dozens of times over thirty years. They've tried it a number of times. They've tried it over and over and over again. A doesn't work and b ends up in a total disaster for these healthcare workers. Also, one of the reasons they have a problem with it, the social workers won't do it. They don't want to go into it. One of these the most dangerous police call there is without police with them, they don't want to do it. So he also pointed out Memphis just tried it and it ended in total disaster. It never ever ever works. But that's a Mamdani theme. Socialism, whatever doesn't work everywhere it's tried. That's what I'm proposing. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two one zero seven. Ten is the number, eight hundred three to two one zero seven.
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Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Victor in Pennsylvania. Victor, how you doing?
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Speaker 9: I'm doing great. First thing is I just heard this morning that Leticia the idiot James is suing Trump again. When is she being brought up on.
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Speaker 2: Her yess getting closer. It's getting closer. She will be charged with mortgage fraud in Virginia. You got a new US attorney who's in there working on it. She will be charged. And look for Adam Schiff to be on the list. Look for John Bolton to be indicted. He's in real trouble. Let's go to Joe in New York City. Joe, how you doing?
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Speaker 8: Good morning, Mark, Mark some people do not want to vote because they think their names we put on your jury duty listen, they don't want to do jury.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, let's just point out that's a total myth. Maybe that was true fifty years ago. They get the list from drivers' licenses, from rent rolls, from taxpayer rolls. It has nothing to do with them, nothing to do with voting, nothing to do with no connection. They use every list imaginable now, so that that's an old myth. Let's go to Richard and Bayshore. Richard, how you doing. I'm doing well, Mark, good morning.
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Speaker 10: You know right now, forty five percent or so of MTA bus passengers are not paying their fares anyway, it's through law enforcement, nullification of the law, let's say, by the mayor if it's made public.
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Speaker 2: That true. Excellent point. You know this crazy MTA Jano, liber and Hockel. They've decided to raise the fare on the subways and buses, and there is an actual, formal, actual study that's come out showing that half the people are not paying the fare. They're just not paying and nobody's enforcing it. And the what they claim they need with the fare increase, could you could easily get much more if you just started enforcing the fares so and it's easy to do, you can stop turnstile jumping in two weeks. Ray Kelly did it, Bratton did it, Giuliani did. It's easy to do. You just start enforcing it where it gets around real fast and nobody jumps the turnstile anymore. So, no need for that increase that they're they're going to push on us. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
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Speaker 11: Good morning, Mark, Mark. I'm okay. Mark. You forgot to mention the fact that also yesterday, with these fare increases, they're raising the easy passed holes in everything.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you're right now, all the bridges, tunnels, everything exactly.
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Speaker 11: So Gee, I thought the congestion pricing was supposed to take care of all of this. I guess it's not so. Mark AOC was crowing about if Trump doesn't sign this Hakeem Jeffreys healthcare bill, this budget bill, people are gonna go without their cancer tree. People are gonna be dropping that in the streets. Well, hello, I hope the Supreme Court revisits the case about people showing up at the er with no health insurance and making the state and the city have to pick up the tab because when and you'll remember this, when Bill Deblasia was running for math, there was a hospital of my neighborhood and he actually got arrested. He went in front of the hospital and said, there's no way you're going to close this hospital, this, that and the other. Right, Okay, Bill de Blasio got elected. The hospital was losing twenty five million dollars a month because when you would go into er and I knew a god that was working in the ear, it looked like the Bowery in there. It looked like bum's row. Right, So it was losing twenty five million dollars a month, and a lot of the hospitals in New York City, downstate Beth Israel, a lot of the same things. Instance, they closed exactly because all these bums shown up at the.
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Speaker 2: Now, that's what that's what that's what really is in the fight that you want to Democrats say it's not going to cover health careful. It absolutely does. Absolutely these fact checkers, all these fake fact checkers, it absolutely does. That's where it covers it. It reimburses the hospital for all those costs.
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Speaker 11: And exactly, but there is a lot of costs. Like for example, yesterday I had to go and see a new orthopedic surgeon. I wasn't in the system, so I had to So when they when I made the appointment, the secretary told me you got to bring your insurance god, and you got to bring positive ID. You got to bring a driver's license or a passport unless you're not going through the front door, because they want to know that if you don't pay, if some something is not paid out on, they want to know where to bill you.
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Speaker 2: Vincent, great call, thanks for calling. Always great.
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Speaker 12: Uh.
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Speaker 2: By the way, oh, we have to have a driver's license. Well they've come out with a new driver's license now with no name on it. It's a it'll actually say where the name is. It'll say no name given. You can have a blank driver's license with no name. This is not a joke. Remind me. We'll get to it in the next hour. But when we come back, Steve Moore will be with us. The brilliant economist coming up next on seven to ten wor.
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Speaker 1: Mark Simon.
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Speaker 2: We're looking for Steve Moore. What a shot, hun Now he'll turn up. I'll bet you we find him. You know, then I don't want to predict, but I bet you we'll find him. So, hey, if you want a luxury home, how much you have to spend a luxury home? What's considered a luxury home? How much? A million dollars? No, that won't do it anymore. It used to, but according to realtor dot Com, millillion dollars will no longer buy a luxury home in America anymore. A new analysis shows one point three million, at least one point three million starting point for a luxury home, and that they could what they call luxury home is if it's in the top ten percent of the home listings. But to get in the top ten percent, you now need to spend one point three million. Just ten years ago, it was eight hundred thousand. Now if you want to get in the top one percent, got to be five and a half million. And obviously geography is a factor. It's different in different areas, so prices, and you know, prices keep going up here in New York. I know, the birthing small. Everybody's gonna flee if Mom Donnie comes in, and it's going to cause a real estate crash. Prices are going up every day, for rentals, for sales everywhere. Well, we got Steve Moore, the great economist. Get his book, The Trump Economic Miracle. Check out. He runs the committee Unleashed Prosperity. Go to the website sign up for the daily briefing, best news and analysis. Just go to Unleashed Prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, how you doing well?
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Speaker 13: Hey? Mark, good to be with you. And are terrible because you know the I just can't sleep at night because the Labor Department and Education Department are closed down.
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Speaker 2: I mean, how am I going to go forward? Yeah?
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Speaker 13: Hey, don't you know we've got thousands, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of these quote non essential you know that's their term, non essential government employees, and we've got we've got an enterprise year that's losing two trillion dollars a year. Hmm. Maybe Russell Bob is right. Maybe we just do away with all these non essential people and we can move to a balanced budget.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, people forget we have a government shutdown every week, five o'clock Friday night, they shut down for.
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Speaker 13: Two days exactly. Well, you know the funny thing is, I guess it's funny, but you know, every I think, as you know, Mark, every Friday morning, the first Friday of every month, at eight three in the morning, I'm with Maria about roma who does the jobs report? You know when the big jobs number comes out. They're not going to do it tomorrow. Did you know that? It's I've been told that there will not be a jobs report because they can't I guess count when the government to shut down. So well, we will see about that. But look, if this is this is the Schumer shutdown. You're there in New York, so you've got a lot of New Yorker voters there. Schumer wanted the shutdown. I said this a couple of weeks ago, that Schumer was going to shut the government down. That's exactly what he has done. But it's not working for the Democrats. I don't think Mark. I mean, I'm talking to his normal people all the time. They're like, why are the Democrats doing this? Is it really because they just want to provide free healthcare the legal immigrants.
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Speaker 2: Now they'll say that's a lie, it's a Republican lie, but tell us the truth. It does.
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Speaker 13: But it's not a lie. I mean, is I read the text of their version, and it repeals the provision in the Republican budget that says you are not permitted that Medicaid dollars can only go to people who are either legal citizens or legal immigrants in the country. So that pretty much leaves illegal immigrants out.
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Speaker 2: But I was watching Morning Joe, and according to him, you guys, you're just all to give money to billionaires.
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Speaker 13: That's only right, like though he doesn't say the billionaires are playing more of the taxes than ever before in American history. The top one percent pay a larger share of the tax of income tax than anytime ever since we invented the income tax and back in nineteen thirteen. So those are those are just talking points from the Democrats. But I just don't get it. I mean, I think Schumer's kind of thing is is back learning. He lost, as you know, he lost three Democratic Senators in the vote that happened before that, and I think if you had another vote, he'd probably lose another three or four. And again I want to make sure people understand this mark because you know, we have Byzantine rules in Washington, so people say, well, look, the Republics don't call the House the Senate and the White House. Why is the government shut down? It's because it takes sixty votes in the Senate, sixty out of one hundred to pass the budget. And all the Republicans and three Democrats voted for that, but that only brought us to what fifty five or fifty six, So that's why there's still five votes are short. But I bet if they had a vote tomorrow, I think you've been getting close to sixty because the Democrats are getting hammered on this. Nobody understands what it is that they're after here. It's just show voting and trying to embarrass Trump and trying to get more money. And by the way, I'm very pro immigration. I think immigrants are great, but no, you can't let all these people come into the country and then go to the go and use our healthcare services and you and I pay for it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, we love immigration. We just don't like illegals. I mean, I love far exactly, I love pharmacists, but I don't like you illegal drug dealers, I mean legal exactly. Apparently there is a vote tomorrow eleven am. That's when they may vote again tomorrow, Okay.
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Speaker 13: And I'll bet you I don't know if they'll get to sixty, but they're going to get close because the Democrats are feeling the anger of the American people. And by the way, this does cost money. That's the other thing that rush Bott is saying is like, well, you know, when we have these non essential people not go to the office, did you know.
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Speaker 2: They get paid? Yeah, everybody, they.
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Speaker 13: Still get paid. Showing on for not having to work costs. I wish my boss had said that you can I show up for the office tomorrow, but I'm still going to pay you. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Steve Moore, let me ask you something. You're a brilliant economist. We've got great economists, you, Art Laugher, Larry Cudlow, Steve Forbes. Then you got forty thousand other economists. They never know what the hell they're talking about, and they're always wrong. Why is that?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, well, we had something in our hotline this morning about that, and if you want to get that for free focus go down leash prospirty dot com and sign up for free. But we looked at the forecast of all the blue chip economists, all the smartest economists at all the big you know, banks and investment firms and so on the ones that are paid a million dollars a year to come up with these forecasts, and they are the blue chip. All the blue chip forecasts, there was almost no exceptions. They all basically, Oh, we're gonna have one and a half percent economic growth this year, blah blah blah.
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Speaker 2: Guess what.
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Speaker 13: Both in the second and third quarter we had a closer four percent growth. How could they be more wrong? I mean, I would take it's almost like playing pin the tail on the donkey with the blindfolded person and you know, trying to put I mean their their projections have been completely wrong, and the economy's done much better this year than almost all of the economy. Remember Paul Kruman over that one, he said, oh my god, we're gonna have a second great depression of Trump goes back into office. Well, I don't know. I looked at the stock markets doing pretty well well.
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Speaker 2: You know, I could understand the New York Times hiring a total sleazy, biased economist. But if you're a big Wall Street from you got to get it right.
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Speaker 13: How can we got it all wrong? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Don't you have to fire the economists to get I mean, baseball manager gets fired if you losees too many games.
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Speaker 13: Exactly.
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Speaker 11: No.
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Speaker 13: But that's the thing about you know, the the economics and power it takes it. It doesn't matter how much many times you're wrong, you know. I mean people have written whole books about Paul Krupman about almost every prediction he ever made. You know, he remembers he said Internet. That's just a passing fab remember that one.
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Speaker 2: The dumbest guy ever. Doesn't he have a Nobel prize.
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Speaker 13: He does, he has a Nobel Prize in the economic So that's you know who deserves. By the way, since this is Nobel time, you know the guy who really does deserve the Nobel Prize, who's probably the most influential living economy. I mean I don't think probably, I think certainly is the most impactful economists over the last you know, twenty five years all over the world is out there laugher and he still doesn't have a he doesn't have a Nobel prize yet.
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Speaker 2: Well, he's got to be Trump bashing and he's got to be much.
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Speaker 13: He did that, he'd get that Nobel Prize in five minutes.
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Speaker 2: Well, Steve Moore, great work. Now he runs the Committee to Unleashed Prosperity. Go to Unleashed prosperity dot com. You guys have the best daily briefing and analysis of the news every day. It's free. Come right to your email Unleash prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 13: Okay, Mark, you have a great weekend.
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Speaker 2: Oh, we got a lot to get through this hour. Now let's start with Wheel of Fortune. So there's a woman from Connecticut who's the contestant on Wheel of Fortune. Her name is Christina d John drender Jet but whatever it is. But she's from Stamford, very nice looking, beautiful, energetic, great personality. She's thirty four years old, she's engaged, and last night she won a million dollars. You know, they have this secret. You open the envelopes, see how much you want if you get at this puzzle. And Ryan Seacrest courses the host to Wheel of Fortune.
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Speaker 8: What happens if you win a million dollars?
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Speaker 14: I may be putting in my two weeks, but we won't tell her that yet.
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Speaker 2: Well, I thought it was a pretty easy puzzle. You know, even I could have solved it. But there was a not too tough a puzzle, and she got it right, and she won a million dollars. Living things.
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Speaker 1: That is the category.
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Speaker 14: You'll have ten seconds to try and solve it.
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Speaker 7: Christina staring at me, good luck, pack of coyotes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so she won a million dollars. Now she is engaged, and apparently she never told her her bo that she won a million dollars. She kept it from him. Now you see these headlines, it sounds like something's wrong with this relationship. Y didn't she tell them? Well, you know they do film They record these Wheel of Fortune episodes way way at months in advance, and you're sworn to secrecy. You have to sign a document and you might not get the million dollars if you tell anybody. You have to sign this agreement to keep it secret. And she did. Now they again, they do these Wheel of Fortunes months in advance. So she signed the agreement and she didn't want to risk losing the million dollars, so she didn't tell him. He just found out she's one million dollars. So that's great. She lives. Doesn't say we're in Stanford single thirty four could be Harbord point. She got that look about her. But that's great news. Now let's get two business news. Business news. All right, I'm not exactly a Liz claiming here, but a couple of things going on. Starbucks is having real trouble. You know, they were having real trouble. Anyway. They got rid of the CEO and they brought in the CEO from Chipotle, which has been booming. No fast food chain has gotten bigger, faster, done better than Chipotle, so they got the Chipotle CEO to come over. He thinks Starbucks needed a lot of change. So if you notice every time you look at the Starbucks, they've closed it down for two weeks to rebuild it, and they all got this different look now instead of all these different cases where they sell mugs and they sell coffee makers and they sold again, it's just a long counter and it's just coffee. He also streamlined the menu. Instead of seventy five things, it's just the twenty most popular, even the food that condensed it. So he's been doing that. But apparently they're going to close lots of Starbucks, and they start doing it without any warning. They're closing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, four hundred stores around the country. They're closing dozens right here in New York. Yeah, fifty four coffees shops Starbucks. Fifty four are closing in New York, and some in what you would think would be prime locations. Upper east Side, Upper West Side, Financial District, Midtown Manhattan. One right over there, fifty second near sixth between six and seven. That one's closing. They were underperforming, but they just closed them just like that. You remember how Starbucks would always tell you what a wonderful company they are, how they take care of everybody, their employees are like family. Well, these are closing these stores no notice. People show up, stores closed, You're fired. That's it, you're going. They'll just literally put signs in the windows overnight. Didn't tell landlords, didn't tell building managers. Newmark Retail vice chairman said there was no warning, no heads up, and he explains, you know, retail tennis will always let you know, well in advance, they'll reach out to the landlord and to negotiate concessions. But this was quick, this was instant. It says, underperforming stores. I mean, this guy, I guess you gotta do that. If you see it always kind of cold about it. Underperforming stores got to go that's it. Now speaking to coffee, Maxwell House, you know the name Maxwell House coffee. It's like one of the oldest. It's very good coffee, but one of the oldest. You know, even if you're eighty years old, you remember those commercials as a kid. Maxwell House. They're changing their name. This doesn't sound good at all. They must have hired the marketing team from a cracker barrel. Maxwellhouse changing the name to Maxwell Apartment. No, I'm not kidding. They're actually changing the name of the It's going to be called Maxwell Apartment. This is the it's been one hundred and thirty three years. One hundred and thirty three years they were in Maxwell House. Now it's going to be Maxwell Apartment. They say, we'll have the same taste, aroma, quality, and ingredients. The rebring end is to represent the reality of today's consumers. Why nearly a third of Americans are now renting smaller places. They're not purchasing full size homes. The coffee giant wants to reflect that with a rebrand. Two thirds of American adults drink coffee every day two thirds, yeah, seventy percent, seventy five percent, and head of Coffee Marketing said they tend to be younger, tend to live in apartments. So Maxwell Apartment. That is the dumbest name I get. All right, let's just predict right now, this is the next Cracker Barrel. They're going to have to change it back. They're going to have to go back to the old logo, the old name, and it's supposed to imply that if you're drinking Maxwell Apartment, it will help you save more to buy a house more quickly. What again, just will predict right now, it's October two, by December, by the end of the year, by January first, the name will have to go back and again this is the new Cracker Barrel. It's amazing. You know, people, before you go out and hire these marketing companies, they are the dumbest people we've ever seen. You know. Here at iHeart, not just or, but we got Power one O five over, they got Z one hundred, you got Light FM, you got the biggest radio stations in the world. Upstairs is the network where you got Sean Hannity and Buck and Cley. The biggest advertising operation there is iHeart. If you're an advertiser, if you want to advertise, come here because you can reach everybody. Just on this floor, all these stations, I think we reach like twenty two million people every day. Upstairs at the network, I think they reach twenty eight million people every day. But so we do advertising all the time, and I can't tell you how many times. Now, if you come here to advertise, we'll help you. We'll show you how to word the commercial, how to fix it up, what to say. And we do that all the time because these companies come here, even the big companies with the worst marketing, and you look at the copy. Who told you to say this? What's our new marketing company? Watch out for these marketing companies. They're not always there's a couple of good ones, but there are a lot that are not so hot. Let's say Zora and Mam Donnie. Uh, every you know, he's been very careful last couple of weeks, Mam Donnie has been extremely cautious answering questions. He dances around these answers. Hey, by the way, Mam Donnie is a Starbucks. Mam Donnie's out there fighting for the Starbucks baristas. He's doing some kind of protest or something.
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Speaker 14: This is a city, and this is a movement that deserves a mayor who isn't staying at home and calling billionaires for donations. This is a city, and this is a movement that deserves a mayor who knows exactly what a picket line looks like as well as a practice picket looks like.
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Speaker 2: What mayors who's staying home calling billionaires? Not Curtis, it's not really Adams, now Adams, Oh, he's talking about Cuomo. Cuomo actually does that. If you're one of those billionaires. That's the whole secret of Cuomo. Everybody hates him. The public hates him. He's creepy, he's weird, public can't stand and he has the highest unfavorabilities. But as soon as he got run out of office and he fled in disgraced from Albany, he descended on Southampton and the Upper east Side and Palm Beach and he wooed those billionaires who are the most starstruck people ever, and he went to all their dinners and their dinner parties, and uh, that's how that's where the donations came from. They're all backing him. And remember that crowd, whoever they back always loses. They're always wrong about everything. But that's who he's talking about, then, Mom, Donnie's talking about picket lines.
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Speaker 15: And absolutely the point of this position is to stand up for the people of the city, and this city would not be what it is without organized labor, without unions, ensuring that workers have a dignified life and they deserve a Mayoro's going to stand with them on the picket line.
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Speaker 2: Gota admit, he's a good talker. He talks real fast. You know, if you talk fast, you sound very smart. When you talk that fast, people think you must know what you're talking about. How else could you talk that fast? Then you get Cuomo, who talks like deuce. Now, also, besides being very careful dancing around questions, he's trying to he's got a big problem with the anti Semitism. I mean, let's be honest, this guy is anti Israel, anti Semitic. He's horrible. But he's trying to be a little more cautious with him.
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Speaker 16: And so to be very very clear, of course I condemn hamas of course I have called October seventh what it was, which is a horrific war crime. And of course my belief in a universality and international law is also the same set of beliefs that have led me to describe what's happening in Gaza as a genocide.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you see, he puts on that very sincere voice. He talks fast in that sincere voice. He lowers his tone, and he throws in that of course I would never, of course I would never. Of course I would never. He was probably cheering on October seventh. Now here he is on Trump.
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Speaker 16: This is a moment where we have to address the administration for what it is, which is authoritarian. It's going to require us to do everything in our power to fight back, not to coordinate like Andrew Cuomo's done being on the phone with Donald Trump, or collaborate like Eric Adams is done by welcoming ice into the city.
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Speaker 2: Authoritarian. They love this. He's a fascist, He's authoritarian. Now, what Donnie is proposing is socialism, which is authoritarian. As you can get. He has come out with some dangerous positions. I mean in the past obviously, but even recently. Now here's another one. A lot of police officials have talked about this mom Donnie. He's now proposing that he take power away from the NYPD commissioner and give it to him. And one place he wants to do. That is on discipline. You know, when an officer has to be disciplined, Mom, Donnie wants that to no longer be the power of the police commissioner. It will be the power of the mayor. This is very dangerous. You want it to be the police commissioner. The NYPD's largest union is warning. Police Benevolent Association is warning this is dangerous. Now, what he wants to do is have the Civilian Complaint Review Board have the final authority on discipline. Now, the problem there is that's a board where everybody would be appointed by Mamdani. So on his Civilian Review Board, it'll all be a cop hating, crazy left wing kook who hate the cops. You know, no bail, no jail, crust, so they will go after every cop. Now, what happens if Mamdani gets in and he does that, he's the final say on the discipline. His review board is the final say. Well, the damage will be unbelievable. Police officials have said privately, it'll be unbelievable what this will do to crime because what will happen is the policeman or woman will be afraid to intervene in most situations because they could end up discipline fired by this Mam Donnie review. And if Mom Donni has the final decision. The one thing about the police commissioner, at least you know, you'll try to stand up for you. If you watch Blue Bloods, you remember how many Blue Bloods episodes or the mayor for political reasons says you got to fire that cop right now, you got to indict that in the police commissioner says that he was just doing his job. And if this happens, no cop will want to approach any situation that's questionable in the street. They'll have to just let it go. You know, one thing Cuomo did he took away the qualified immunity the cops have, which is protection, legal protection. He took it away from them. That's why a lot of cops had to stop approaching certain situations because the person could then sue them, and they weren't covered for lawsuits by the department. He could sue them personally. This is what Cuomo did to them. It's just awful, so a horrible proposal. Hey, Forbes magazine, you know they do the rich Who's the Richest Person list? Bloomberg does it. A lot of people do. The best one is Forbes. That's the most accurate, that's the best one of all. Forbes now saying Elon Musk will be the first person to hit five hundred billion dollars, he'll be worth half a trillion dollars. That means he'll be a trillionaire. He'll be the world's first trillionaire probably within ten years. Musk hits five hundred billion. Second place Larry Ellison three hundred and fifty billion, which means Musk can look at this guy with three hundred and fifty billion and say three hundred and fifty billion, that's nothing. Zuckerberg in third place two hundred and fifty billion. Jeff Bezos found it falls to fourth place two hundred and thirty three billion. You know, if you see a guy with two three billion dollars, you go, wow, he's a billion or two three billion. These guys now look at him like they're a welfare cases. At five hundred billion, can you imagine that? Could you imagine that? You couldn't spend this if you tried, if you just put it in the in the right in the right fund, it would generate forty billion a year in interest, forty billion a year. You could just live off that. You didn't never have to work again. Just invest this, collect forty billion a year in interest. You couldn't spend that if you tried, you could not. It's impossible. You couldn't spend it if you tried. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: Get instant access to Mark by setting a pre set in the iHeartRadio app for his live show.
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Speaker 11: And his podcast.
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Speaker 1: Now back to the Mark Simone show on worn.
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Speaker 2: Let's take some calls. Let's go to Katie in Chappaquaw Katie, how you doing?
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Speaker 12: Hi?
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Speaker 11: Mark?
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Speaker 6: Oh, thank you for taking my call, and also for explaining what happened to our Chapa Claw neighborhood Starbucks.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's gone, it's gone.
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Speaker 6: I went away for a few weeks. A few days I came back and the store was closed, And my neighbor told me that nobody knew she had spoke. She had seen a sign. It was basically almost overnight. It was a sign in the window, and then the next day they were they were closed, and even the employees couldn't explain what happened.
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Speaker 2: Did you ever run into Yeah, did you ever run into Bill c? Bill Clinton? Did you ever see him in that?
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Speaker 13: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I used to be there a lot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure he was there a lot. Hey, how are you? You know who I am?
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Speaker 8: That's pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I apparently like to walk around Chapka.
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Speaker 8: Hello, how are you he did?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we haven't. I haven't seen him lately.
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Speaker 2: Well, don't chinx it?
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Speaker 10: Uh?
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Speaker 2: What do you do there in Chappaqua?
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Speaker 15: Uh?
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Speaker 6: You know, it's funny because Starbucks is one of the few places we could hang out. It's mostly nail salons and realtors, just like three nail salons the Korean you know, spas and and then realatuors okay, and you know, and Chappaquaw was it was a chain and we have everything else is individually owned except for there's a Walgreens.
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Speaker 13: And a Talbot.
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Speaker 6: But I mean there's really hardly anything there.
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Speaker 2: You're right next to Armand, aren't you. Yeah? Yeah? Armand you got the Modern Barn. That's a great restaurant. I love that place.
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Speaker 13: It's great, it is, it's excellent.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, thanks for calling, Katie. Let's go to Nick and Mount Vernon. Nick how you doing, Hey, Mark, great show. Thanks, two quick questions.
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Speaker 11: President trumpet said he wanted to eliminate daylights time.
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Speaker 8: Is that going to happen?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like back burner issue. It'll be great if they do that, because look, it's terrible now. It's already dark at six thirty. Uh yeah, well hopefully. Well that'll be a that's the next year thing. That's a next year thing.
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Speaker 9: We have a second question for you, please, Yeah, what are the best professional headphones?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Depends what you want. If you want to listen, uh, just listen, nothing else. The new AirPod, the brand new AirPod Pro three, it just came out. Those are really really good. Beats are really good now. But you're talking about big headphones, like studio headphones you'd wear in the studio. Yes, yes, Oh well, it depends what you want. You want real crispy. A lot of people like those Sony ones. Wait, hang on, I got to take off my headphones. Oh audio Technica. I love these. They're not so they're not so tiny and crisp. Audio Technica go check. That's all right, Thanks for Colin. Let's go to Neil in Brooklyn. Neil, how you doing.
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Speaker 13: All right, Yeah, you know, Maxwell Apartments works very good from Manhattan, but maybe northern California they just have Maxwell.
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Speaker 2: Tent or.
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Speaker 13: That's a very good idea, and they could do it by different areas, you know.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for calling. What we're talking about is it's the stupidest thing since Cracker Barrel, Maxwell House changing the name of the car. It's going to be Maxwell Apartment. That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But I like that. I actually make it Maxwell Condo, Maxwell coll. It doesn't make any sense at all. It's like Cracker Barrel. You know, the problem is these marketing companies. They all think you got to change the name, change the logo, change. It's all about the product. Let's go to Marlow in New Jersey. Marlow, how you doing.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, Hi, it's Mario here in New Jersey.
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Speaker 2: Mark.
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Speaker 12: Hey, listen regarding that Maxwell House saying, do you know that Missus Dash that's been around for the longest time is changed in name. It's now just Dash. Can you imagine?
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Speaker 2: Okay, you can't say missus anymore?
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Speaker 12: No, I guess I went to buy some at the local Supermark a couple of months ago looking for Missus Dash, and I did see and I was confused. Then I saw Dash and I thought, well, this is the same, must be the same. Part up, they.
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Speaker 2: Changed it, So what is the deal? Miss Remember that.
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Speaker 12: Dash was actually a detergent years back.
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Speaker 2: That's right. Well maybe miss missus Dash went trans or something. She's not a missus anymore. Maybe maybe maybe it's day now call all right, thanks for calling. Yeah, stop changing the names of everything. Just make it you know what, you can hire a marketing company, hire like the greatest chefs or whatever. Make the product taste better, make it delicious. If it's delicious, if it's unbelievable, nobody cares what it's called. Hey, when we come back, Jimmy Fayla will be with us. Let's talk to him about everything going on in the world. Next on seven to ten WR.
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Speaker 15: Mister New York Marksimon on seven ten WR.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Jimmy Fayla, the great hosts. You got to listen to him every night. He's on w R every weeknight now nine to midnight, excellent show, Interesting, funny, nine to midnight every night, and he does the best late night show on television every Saturday night ten pm on the Fox News Channel. Jimmy Fayla, how you doing?
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Speaker 13: It's better? Now?
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Speaker 17: I was watching Mom Donnie on the View this morning.
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Speaker 2: Now I didn't see it.
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Speaker 17: So the best part is like during the during the View itself, he's in one of the commercials for the Golden Bachelor, you know, the show The Golden Bachelor, and those actually, oddly enough, those marriages actually work out the best because on the Golden Bachelor, till death doest part isn't his law.
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Speaker 11: You know.
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Speaker 13: It's like when they two year olds get married on TV.
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Speaker 2: You know they got they gotta make it a long time.
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Speaker 13: But I'm watching Mom Donnie and he's given his speech.
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Speaker 17: About the Golden Bachelor and giving people the Rose, and I'm like, wait, this is the guy that supports legalized prostitutions.
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Speaker 13: Why are you wasting your time on a gating show?
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Speaker 2: Well, uh, is that a bad thing? Legalized prostitution?
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Speaker 13: Well, well not if he wants to get Bill Clinton's endorsement.
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Speaker 2: But hey, how are you coping with the government shutdown? How is it affecting your life?
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Speaker 11: Well, it's not.
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Speaker 17: It's not me I worry about it's you know, there's a lot of drag shows in Latvias that.
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Speaker 13: Aren't being funded right now.
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Speaker 17: I mean, think think of the poor kids in Iraq that wanted to get out of bed this morning and watch a transgender sesame Street, but our government had to shut down, so now they're not paying for it, you know, Yeah, to think about the other people.
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Speaker 13: Mark, But the whole thing is ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when they say non essential, don't you say, wait a minute, you have non essential workers. Why why are we paying for that?
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Speaker 13: It's such a good such a good point.
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Speaker 17: It's like, you know what, every once in a while you go over the credit card statement and go like, oh, we paid twelve ninety nine for this, why are we doing that? But in the government, it's like, we pay twelve billions for this, why are we doing that? Hey, somebody else has to look at their master card statement? Yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, you say, as a great comedian, could you give Hakeem Jeffries some advice on how to take a joke. This guy's the biggest stiff I've ever seen.
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Speaker 17: Oh, I know, And it's funny because he's obviously like a karaoke Obama. You know, he's an Obama pumper band.
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Speaker 13: That's totally what he is.
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Speaker 17: And you know, to Obama's credit, like the media never gave him a hard time, but he at least had a bit of a personality.
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Speaker 13: Hakeem Jeffries.
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Speaker 17: It's weird. He almost reminds me more of Hillary, and that the octaves in his voice never change, you know, like if Hillary was the lead singer a Kiss, you'd be like, I want to rock and roll all night and the party every day.
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Speaker 13: And you're like, woll you don't sound that enthusiastic about it, Hill, And that's kind of Jefferies. There's no passion. So he wants to be Obama.
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Speaker 17: But to Obama's credit, he could at least get out there and sell you the bs that he was pedaling.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, nobody buys a king. Like if I was a king, Jeffreys, I would want.
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Speaker 17: Trump to be accenting all of my videos with mariachi's and hats and mustaches.
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Speaker 8: Because it gives them some life, you know.
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Speaker 2: And what about Schumer, he's like from nineteen eighty two, He's just so a relic updated sort of guy.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 17: The problem with Schumer is and they Democrats always give us that speech about how we're the Party of the youth and they're like we're the Party of the youth. This you know, this country needs new blood. From looking at Schumer, I assume they actually mean new blood like transfusions.
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Speaker 8: You know, he looks like a.
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Speaker 2: Villain on the Simpsons.
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Speaker 17: And I don't ever know what to make of him, because there's the problem with being in Washington, Keith. Seriously, Schumer has been in Washington since Washington, you know what I'm saying. And it's like, there's not going to be a position you don't contradict yourself on. So we've all heard the clips of him in the nineties in the early aughts being like a legal immigration it's all a scam for Medicare benefits. There's all these illegals.
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Speaker 13: That's where we can't let him in.
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Speaker 17: And now we could obviously on the complete opposite side of himself that every Democrat could just debate themselves.
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Speaker 13: You can get like a hologram of like here's you a.
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Speaker 17: Year ago, and you can just have that debate.
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Speaker 2: And who told Schumer these classes look good on you, those big clunky glass k classes.
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Speaker 17: Listen, I'm not going to have you insult Schumer's stylist or his seeing idols.
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Speaker 2: That's not nice. That's what he looks like. Yeah, he looks like he needs a dog with those glasses. So uh good. Hey, I'm sure you're thrilled that un week is over. That was pretty bad, wasn't it. That un General a man.
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Speaker 17: Wasn't the best part though, that macrone had to get out and walk across town because they had the one street blocked off. And I was saying on my show, you know, it's a real slap in the face to a world leader when you got to get out and walk. But luckily mccron's used to getting slapped in the face by his wife.
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Speaker 13: Do you remember that plane video?
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Speaker 17: She beat him up on the plane and he had to get off like it was cool, dude.
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Speaker 2: We all thought, man, yeah, I remember the day had that video Trump and Millennia in the fight on the helicopter and they were trying to go after But then the lip reader said it was Trump yelling at her. So he wasn't getting slapped around apparently.
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Speaker 13: No, no, no, they're not going to beat him up.
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Speaker 17: No, McCrone looks like he's into it.
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Speaker 13: Let's be honest.
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Speaker 17: He looks like one of those people I would drive around in my taxi because That's thing about New York tells you is the traffic's the worst on earth. But it's also the most lucrative week of the year if you're a cab driver, because there's a lot of people that have to get around street closures and get to embassies and York they kind of will hire you for that knowledge. And you know a lot of these people I'm talking about get paid in singles and wear very high stiletto heels.
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Speaker 2: You're taking up what I'm putting down.
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Speaker 13: Yes, And that's the part of you.
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Speaker 17: One week I miss as a driver is you know, you're driving some some guy in a dress named Cinnabuns over to some embassy because there's a weirdo diplomat waiting.
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Speaker 2: That was the part I enjoyed. Well, you haven't driven in a while. I don't think it's singles anymore, is it. No, No, you're right, you're right about that. It's it's all kind of hunter. Biden changed the game.
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Speaker 17: That was wire transfers coming in from multiple entities, whole New World.
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Speaker 2: Hey, uh, you were a cab driver. He's not kidding, he was a cab driver. Tell us the truth. Does the driver want to be stuck in traffic and run up the meter or does he want to get the ride over fast so you can get a new fare.
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Speaker 17: Turnover, you want to r you want a faster ride. I'll tell you the reason why. Every fair that gets in you're getting the search charge. And maybe it's at night you're getting that differential. So if you ran the meter for an hour right now, it might generate eighty two bucks, but if you turned over four fares, you're going to be around forty before you even take the rider get tipped. So unequivocally, you'd rather have four mid length fairs, five mid length fairs in an hour, turnover as your friend, and every fourth or fifth person uses you as an affordable therapist if you're outgoing, and tips you extra money. So that happens, And that was definitely my strategy too. The reason guys want the long Fair like the airport Fair, is at JFK and the taxi lot there is a massive gambling ring like for real, for real, what where they play this pie gal poker game and they like to play this Middle Eastern domino game.
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Speaker 13: I'm not making it up.
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Speaker 17: And a lot of guys because when you go to JFK, you wait like an hour and a half for your next fair, and a lot of guys gamble. It's like a card game basically. It's you know, it's almost like a recreational card game. But there's a lot of money at stake. And anytime you're driving to Central Taxi at JFK, if you see that massive lot of cabs, the reason nobody's in them is half the guys are exercising, the other half are gambling. Okay, that's like a thing, and it's a funny, you know, it's a recreational thing, but it's pretty funny. It's like the new OTB. Instead of off track gambling, we have off road gambling.
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Speaker 2: That's actually fascinating. But why would why would as a driver, why would you ever want to sit and do nothing for an hour and a half when you could be doing twelve fares?
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Speaker 17: Well, okay, because the thing is that JFK fair that you take that you take back is usually pretty lucrative, and it's for some guys drive. They exclusively do hotels and airports. What I mean is they have a guy at a hotel, They have a guy to hotel that they give twenty bucks to at the beginning of the shift, who's going to give them the first airport fair? Then they're gonna wait and come back to that same hotel when they drop off. And the reason they do that is it actually minimizes the amount of driving in a shift and the money is comparable, meaning they might not always make as much some day as they'll make more depending on who they're dropping off with the hotel. But the big thing is it's just highway back and forth as opposed to the you know, vehicle or combat that I'm engaging in across town for twelve hours a day.
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Speaker 2: This is actually fascinating stuff. There's a book in here or a Netflix documentary or something in this somewhere this.
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Speaker 17: Wee, well, it won't be Netflix because I'm not trans but if I decide to make a move, well but great.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Jimmy Faylor, what's on the tonight show at nine o'clock? Here?
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Speaker 13: It's all coming up.
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Speaker 17: We got Steve Hilton, he's gonna be the next governor of California. And my wife, Jenny Fayala making a rare in studio appearance. She's trying to have an intervention with me based on some things that have happened on the.
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Speaker 2: TV show in the last week and a half.
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Speaker 17: I don't know what that means. She just said she's showing up as standards and practices, so I don't know what that means. I might be single this time tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Lee's I think she's great. You've got like your own joy Philman there, it's great.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, she's is, she's got she's got real chops and she does, thankfully. She does have a sense of humor. And everybody's always like, oh, how did you get her? And I'm like, what do you mean? Women don't want to marry an overwhe cab driver who has no health insurance.
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Speaker 2: That was a buckie forty grand. Come on, man, well, be listening tonight nine to midnight, every weeknight nine to midnight on WOR. It's a great show, and make sure you watch them Saturday nights at ten. I think it's the best late night show on television Saturday nights ten o'clock Fox News Channel. I love that show. Jimmy Fayla, thanks for being with us. You're the man. Marcos you soon all right, take care, hey, and don't forget buck Sexton, Clay Travis. Right after this show, they'll be here right after the news at noon on seven to ten wor.
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Speaker 1: Now more Mark Simone on sement ten wr.
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Speaker 2: Hey, so it's the day today, October second, it's the second day of October. Now it's actually where in autumn it's fall. Doesn't feel like it's beautiful and sunny out, and it's gonna be a really nice weekend. Remember last week I said this will be like the last summer weekend. I take that back. This will be like the last summer weekend. It's gonna be near eighty and bright sunshine Saturday and Sunday. It's going to be a beautiful weekend. Daylight Saving Time is not that far away evan as far as ending, like going back to standard time, that's gonna be well, not good, not good. But now tomorrow eleven am looks like that might be the next vote on the shutdown. Government is shut down. I keep mentioning that because nobody would notice. Otherwise who would notice? But it looks like tomorrow eleven am something could happen. Even Democrats, I think they've come to realize. Schumer Hakeem Jeffreys, the two biggest stiffs, the worst faces you could put on this, the worst representatives, the messaging from them is just absolutely awful. It's not working. Republicans have got their act together as far as messaging solidarity, so they may cave in tomorrow on the shutdown. If not, it'll probably end over the weekend. That should be the end of it. Hey, Yankees tonight, right, Yeah, somehow the Yankees won last night. The series now tied. Tonight is the deciding game, six o'clock. Everybody should be watching that Yankees tonight at six. Anyway, we're out of time. I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon. Tomorrow's Friday. That's the good news too. I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon. And remember you can also listen to the show and get the podcast here at anytime you want. But I'll talk to you tomorrow on seven to ten. Woir