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Speaker 1: Mr. New York, Mark Simone, 710WOR. Well, it's hour number two. That's right. If you still don't know, we now start at nine o'clock. This show's now three hours, nine to noon, every day on 710WOR. If you're a Democrat, cover your ears for a minute. Price of oil dropping again. It's down to $ 89 a barrel. Eighty-nine. It's coming down. And we'll keep coming down because apparently we're getting more oil than we even thought coming through the Strait of Hormuz. We're up to about average about 10 million barrels a day. One day we hit 17 million barrels. That's a lot of oil coming through every day. So the pied-a-terre tax, this ridiculous Mamdani tax, this pied-a-terre tax. So a bunch of people got Randy Mastro, Randy Mastro, a former deputy mayor and a great lawyer. And he put together this big lawsuit against Mamdani and the city to block the pied-a-terre tax. And they filed in Staten Island, which is smart because that's the Manhattan. You've got a crazy left-wing kook of a judge who loves Mamdani. And the judge ruled they were right, that the rollout had been done improperly, that they can't send out 17,000 letters when there's not that many pied-a-terre taxes. They can't just send a letter demanding that people prove that they're innocent on this. You know, in America, you're guilty until proven innocent. It's up to the city to prove they owe it, not up to the homeowner to prove they don't. So on that basis, Mastro won, but all the judge ruled is that the rollout was done incorrectly, that you'll have to roll out this thing differently. But the idea is you got to stop this tax. Well, Wilbur Ross... Good old Wilbur Ross, former Commerce Secretary. Wilbur Ross has filed a lawsuit. And Steve Wynn, you know Steve Wynn, Las Vegas, the casinos, all that stuff. These two billionaires. So now they've jumped into this fight. But the Wilbur Ross lawsuit is brilliant. They're filing this lawsuit. And they're filing in Southampton. They both live there. And they both have, well they don't live there, they live in Florida. But they both have pied-a-terre is there, Southampton. Now, this lawsuit is the one that could overturn and completely destroy the pied-a-terre tax. A pied-a-terre tax means you live in another state, you live somewhere else, and this is just a part-time home you keep in New York. I don't know why they don't say that. They have to call it a pied-a-terre. But Wilbur Ross, this is brilliant. He's suing based on violation of the Constitution. First rule of America is no taxation without representation. That's what the Revolutionary War was about. No taxation without representation. Well, I don't know why we didn't think of this before, but that's exactly what's happening in this case. You're being taxed without representation. You live in Florida. You can't vote in New York. You have no say in New York. You can't vote. You can't vote for any of these laws or any of these politicians. But you're getting taxed. So you have no representation, but you're getting taxed. Now, just on that, he's probably going to win. So it's a great argument. You may have a hard time with some left-wing judges in New York, but this will end up going to the Supreme Court, and they're going to pretty much have to rule that it is taxation without representation. You can't do it. Now, the other part of the lawsuit is that it violates the Commerce Clause. And remember, this is the former Commerce Secretary suing. It violates the Commerce Clause because states can't tax people who live in other states. It's a very good point. How could you tax somebody that lives in another state? If that were allowed, a lot of states, California is in desperate trouble financially. They could just tax everybody in Nevada to collect money. You can't do it. You're saying, yeah, but they own property. It doesn't matter. Some people come into this state all the time. Sometimes they drive in from New Jersey and go to stores and restaurants and spend a lot of money, and they buy a lot of stuff here. You can put a sales tax on it, but that's it. And, you know, if they buy... an apartment, you can put a sales tax on it, you can put a property tax on it, but you can't just tax them personally with a pied-a-terre tax. I don't see how Wilbur Ross could lose this lawsuit. He might lose it with a left-wing judge in New York, but it will get appealed, it will end up in the Supreme Court, and it sounds like an absolute no-brainer. So I think he ends up winning this. Now, that's pretty interesting. Hey, you were talking before about Bruce Blakeman Hochul has seen the real polls, not the public polls, but the real polls show them tied. And Hochul is in panic. She is running millions and millions and millions, and she's spending a ton of money on attack ads. But as I pointed out last time, they can't find anything to attack the guy on. They've done the opposition research over and over. They can't find anything bad about Blakeman, so they're just attacking him for being friends with Trump. But a lot of political consultants are pointing out, they've noticed with her millions and millions and millions in ad buys, there's no positive ads. There's no ads where she runs on her record. That's a pretty interesting point. She cannot run on her record. She's got nothing to point to. That's going to be a problem. Their debate is coming up. I think it's next week. She's turned down all the major debates, Channel 2, 4, 7, 5. She will not do any of these debates. She's refused to debate. She's agreed to one debate on little New York One, which has 12 viewers. So she's agreed because very few people see New York One. And the other reason she's agreed, it's a very biased, very left-wing place. A very biased left-wing guy, Errol Lewis, will be the moderator of the debate. So all of this favors Hochul. That's why she's agreed to that one debate. One debate. Pretty sad. But, hey, the city council, big hearings coming up. on AI. Now there's a
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congressional hearings. There's the AI panel. Everybody's looking into AI. The city council wants in on this act. They know it's a hot political issue. They are not going to do anything about it. They don't have the power to do anything about it. They don't know anything about it, but it looks good for them to be having AI hearings. So they will pretend to be doing something about AI. You see these people on the city council, none of them can figure out anything about AI. They don't know. And you're not going to get anybody of any importance to come testify, but they'll pretend that they're doing something about AI. You know, they like to make fun of President Trump. Look at him. He fell asleep. He's falling asleep. First of all, the guy works like 19 hours a day, like most billionaires, never sleeps at night. He's working all night. And I've seen it in a lot of billionaires. You're having dinner and they'll doze off for two minutes. They'll close their eyes. They all do that. It's just because they don't sleep at night. They work around the clock. But President Trump, working harder than any president ever worked, traveling more than any other president. You know, every day for the last few days, middle of the day, he flies to some state, does a big, massive rally, and flies home. Today, it's Nebraska. Every day, he's going to a different state. But you know what's amazing is President Xi of China, who's only 73... He came in for the big summit with President Trump. Apparently, President Xi's got a real problem. He really has to rest. And it's come out now that for the visit, you know, they schedule a whole series of events. This is a big two days, these two leaders together. It's a big summit. So all day long, they schedule all these things they're going to do. They're going to have a meeting with this. They're going to go to this luncheon. They're going to have another meeting. They're going to go to this. Apparently, Xi's people told the White House that he has to have breaks during the day. He not only has to have breaks for an hour, two hours. At one point, he needed a five-hour break, but they also have to set up a private room somewhere for this break where he can go into this private room and be alone, just him and his wife, and rest. Why would you need a private room, a special private room for you and your wife? Have you seen her? I don't think they're fooling around or anything. I think this is This is a nap. I don't think anything's going on with these two. But apparently he needs to take lots of naps. And can you imagine if he had a meeting with Biden? Boy, the whole day would be snoring. It'd be all naps with like a five-minute period to work, but that'd be about it. Justice Alito, Samuel Alito, probably the most conservative justice, confirms he is considering retirement. He's only 76. That's very young for a Supreme Court justice. He's talking about next year, but he said he is thinking about retirement. Now, that would mean President Trump gets a fourth Supreme Court pick. A fourth pick. Now, things will be different because the Democrats will go absolutely nuts. They don't like anybody he's picked, although many of his picks have turned out to be a lot less conservative than anybody thought. And that's often the case with these Supreme Court justices. But he'll get a fourth pick. Democrats will go nuts trying to stop it, block it, all that stuff. They put out that list of the most powerful women in Washington. Melania's on it. Usha Vance is on it. Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff. But you know who's on it? Natalie Harp who's an executive assistant to the president. Because they say she's always by his side. Well, that's what an executive assistant is. It's like your secretary. They're always there if you're the president. And she's not the only one. There's Margo Martin. There's three of them. There's Chamberlain, Harris. There's three of them. But for some reason, they just want to go. They pick a target, and then they go crazy trying to smear them. Here's a big article. Where to go pumpkin picking on Long Island? Oh, my gosh. Stop with the pumpkin picking. You know, just stop it. Hey, you go to Long Island, go to any great supermarket. Right in front, there's a whole rack of pumpkins. They got a million pumpkins in front. Any suburb, Connecticut, go to Balducci's. Right in front, there's 500 pumpkins there. That's where you pick a pumpkin. You don't have to drive. You drive to a pumpkin patch, you have to pick it off the What are they growing? A tree? Out of the ground? I have no idea. Pumpkin patch. Pumpkin picking. You really have to re-examine your life if this is your weekend high point. We're going pumpkin picking. Just go anywhere. Go any place. Walk into anything. They got pumpkin latte. Go over there. There's pumpkin frozen yogurt. Go over here. There's pumpkin this. Everything is pumpkin. The other thing is this apple picking. that people actually drive two hours out to some orchard to pick at, go to any supermarket, go to Whole Foods, go to Wegmans, go to any place. Right in the front, there's an apple section where they have 42 different kinds of apples. You can pick your apples there. That's apple picking. Because when you get to, used to be just going to buy an apple. They had red apples, they got green apples. Now you go, you can't figure out what you want. They got the gala, gala pink apples. They got Fuji apples. They have, uh, crisp this apples honey crisp it's impossible and when did this happen with this 47 kinds of apples so forget all this forget all this Michael Douglas confirms that when he was making the movie romancing the stone he did have an affair with Kathleen Turner he said she was smart funny sexy the deep sultry voice they did have an affair Now, why is he confessing this in his new memoir? I have no idea. They went to Kathleen Turner and asked her about this, and she said, good heavens, what a fuss about something 40 years ago. I love Michael. I look forward to seeing the book. That's a yes. But, you know, what he doesn't mention is, Just about every movie ever made, the leading man was sleeping with the co-star or somebody in the cast. I could name names. I could go down the list. It happens all the time. All the time. And very often, they're making the movie. It's at a studio in Hollywood. But then there's the month where they go on location somewhere and you got nothing else to do. It happens all the time. This goes on in every movie set. Not to mention that, you know, the big stars all have a big trailer, a trailer that They decorate it like a beautiful living room. And when you're making a movie, you got to shoot scenes for an hour. Then you got like a two hour wait while they set up for another scene and do all this stuff. So you got to go sit in your trailer for two hours. It's very common on most movie sets that if you're the big star, they'll say, what do you want? You want a massage? You want a, I can't say the words. It's a certain sexual act you want. And if you want it, they'll send somebody in to do it. Uh, this goes on all the time. You're not supposed to know this, but it goes on all the time on every movie step. You could go back to those movies from the forties, you know, like, uh, any movie Humphrey Bogart, Clark, any, whoever it was, they were sleeping with the co-star. We could go into great detail here, but we won't. It happened all the time. Constantly. Classic example, Spencer Tracy ends up sleeping with Catherine Hepburn. It becomes like the love of his life, but, uh, Michael Douglas, I guess the reason he did this is to sell the memoir because he's a great actor, great guy, Michael Douglas. But right now, if somebody said, ooh, there's a book about Michael Douglas, who the hell's going to read it? But you got to put stuff like this in and leak it out to get people to buy the book. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. Give me a call. 800-321-0710.