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the gadgets. I mean, you know, if you go back and read the Bond books, There were no gadgets in any book, none, zero. That was invented for the movies. But it's 2026. By the time the movie's out, it's 2027. I don't know. Today's audiences, younger people, they want to see a guy in a tuxedo playing Bachrat in a casino. They don't know what the hell that is. I mean, it's foreign to them. And, you know, the way he would talk, you know, he'd go into the bar or the restaurant and say, Martini, shaken. not stirred. You know, nowadays, you're lucky if the waiter even comes back. You think he's going to get that order right? It makes no sense at all. And he was supposed to be secret agent, secret agent. Meantime, you watch the movie. Every time he goes into the hotel, Mr. Bond, whenever he comes into the casino, Mr. Bond, so good to see you. What kind of secret is it? Everybody seems to know who he is. And that license to kill. Who exactly issues a license to kill? Where do you get one of those? It does. Again, you didn't question it in 1964, but 2026, younger audience, they're not going to buy any of this. So I don't know what the point is. Hey, Mamdani promised free buses when he ran. Of course, that was absolutely ridiculous. First of all, the mayor has no power or control of the buses. He has nothing to do with the buses. He can't make them free. But he and Hochul have come up with an $ 800 million plan to To speed up the buses. You know, they have these studies where the average bus speed is 11.2 miles an hour. So watch when they do this plan. It'll become 11.6 miles an hour. It's going to mean absolutely nothing. But what they're going to do, they're going to make the buses faster by adding special lanes. They already got a bus lane. This means they're going to put another bus lane, which means it's going to be harder for cars, which means cars will be gridlocked even more. Absolutely ridiculous. They're going to do Big Brother-style traffic cameras to squeeze drivers, automated camera enforcement program, 200 new cameras added to 50 more routes by next year. Now, the reason for this, it's contracts to hand out. Hochul loves to hand out contracts to donors. Also, it means they'll collect more tickets this way. First of all, why don't you start giving tickets to buses that go through red lights or make bad turns? Only about 20 supervisors are assigned to keep 6,000 city buses running on schedule. That's the problem. There's only 20 supervisors for 6,000 buses. The plan does nothing to fix that. Absolutely nothing. Hey, it's Halloween next weekend. What is the number one favorite Halloween candy? No, it's not candy corn. That's what it was for years, candy corn. Come on, what's the favorite Halloween candy, the number one candy? Nope. It's Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I don't know how they did that. I mean, they're very, very good, but they became the nation's favorite Halloween candy. Number two, Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars. Well, I mean, there's a lot of better stuff than a Hershey, plain Hershey chocolate bar, although they're very good. M & M' s is number three. Number three. Hey, speaking of Mamdani, boy, he made a speech this week where he's talking about socialism. I never saw the guy get so passionate talking about socialism. How wonderful it was. He was claiming that it ensures the masses whatever you need. He said, socialism to me, it means you have whatever you need to have a dignified life. And that is the government's job to deliver on that. Well, you ever go to a socialist country? You ever go to Cuba, the old Soviet Union? Go to a socialist country. Everybody's living in poverty. They got the worst house, the worst life. They got the worst crap in their grocery stores. Everything stinks. I guess they go to these colleges where the left-wing kook professors indoctrinate them into this dreamy, glorified vision of socialism. But I don't know. I mean, if you go visit any of these countries, you'll see it's just the opposite. The leaders in the socialism are living in palaces. Everybody else is living in disgusting places and poverty. But even if you don't go to those countries, who's going to go to Cuba? But you'd think these guys could go online or study the history of it. Socialism always ends up in mass murder and everything. But he says you should be able to have that power the rest of your life. People talk about it as the extension of democracy. Well, first of all, obviously it's totally insane what he's saying, but This lunatic believes that stuff. So what are you going to do about it? If you're worried about fighting income inequality, you should go to Chicago and go to the Obama Presidential Museum. It seems that's the capital of income inequality problems. The people running the museum, you know, these museums are like a charity. It's a foundation. It's a charity. It's listed as a charity. And normally when you're a charity, You can't overpay the top executives. You know, if it's a corporation, you can pay the president, the CEO. You can pay them whatever you want, $ 2 million, $ 10 million. You can pay them anything. It's a business. But when it's a charity, you're not supposed to really go above $ 400, 000, $ 500, 000 at the most. It's a charity. Well, in the Obama Foundation, he put his buddies in there, Valerie Jarrett. She's getting $ 800, 000 a year. That's a little high for a foundation. The executive vice president's getting $ 700, 000. It's very high for a foundation. But while they're overpaying the executives, apparently the workers are getting stiffed really badly. They're underpaid, overworked. The staffers now are pushing to unionize. They're demanding relief. So this is the new home of income inequality, the Obama Presidential Museum. Hey, Steve Wozniak, he's one of the founders of Apple. He created, he was there, actually at the time, I don't think Jobs was there. It was Wozniak who created the very first Apple computer. It

was the Apple One, the first computer they made. It's like that big clunky white thing that's on Jerry Seinfeld's desk in the TV show, that kind of a computer. Well, they got the very first one, the one that Wozniak had, the first one he made. And apparently he even signed it at some point, the motherboard, he signed it. So it's up for auction. They expect it to go for a lot of money. The bidding is going to start at $ 1. 2 million, and they think there'll be a massive bidding war, and it should sell for a lot of money. Actually, he created it in 1976. Yeah, this is pretty amazing. 1976. Now, think back to 1976. We were all watching Happy Days, and I don't think anybody had a computer back then. It was unheard of at the time. Uh, speaking of television, John Goodman, of course, was the husband in, uh, Roseanne Goodman, a great actor, great guy, but he's now doing interviews. Have you seen him lately? He's like a toothpick. You remember he's a big, fat, heavy guy. Now he's unbelievably thin. He's on that, uh, Ozempic type stuff. Got really, really thin. I guess he did it for medical reasons, but it doesn't look, it looked better the other way. But, uh, been talking about how when he was on, when he was on Roseanne, uh, it's not something he really wanted to do. He was thinking of more serious kind of acting, but, uh, he needed the money, went on Roseanne and he made a fortune, but he said it was frightening. The level of fame. Remember at the time that took off, it became the biggest sitcom just like that. It became a huge, huge sitcom. And he was suddenly one of the most famous people in America. He I wish I could have taken to it better, but I was frightened. It terrified me. Well, it can be frightening because the phone never stops ringing. Think about it. All of a sudden, you can't go out in public. It's really brutal. Your whole life changes. I mean, you'd think it'd be the ideal life. It is in some ways, but it's overwhelming, that kind of thing. Our friend Tony Danza once said, there's only two times you want to be famous, in a hospital or in a restaurant. Outside of that, it can be... Quite annoying. Hey, potato chips, pretzels, good snack, potato chips, pretzels, forget it. Not good for you. Today's pretzels, potato chips, the ones you get in the store. There's too many chemicals and junk in them. All kinds of studies. You want a good snack, nuts. Pistachio nuts, almonds, or walnuts. Healthy as can be. They do all kinds of things for you. They'll help with your blood pressure. They help you sleep better. Pistachio nuts, you know, gives you natural melatonin. very good for you so instead of potato chips pretzels or those kind of snacks pistachio nuts almonds walnuts supposed to have just a handful you can have more than that but the healthiest snacks switch to that it's the best thing you can do hey we're out of time this has been the bonus segment and we do it every weekend you get an extra show just for you podcast listeners we really appreciate you listening to the podcast So I'll be back. I'm on the air live Monday through Friday, 9 to noon. Otherwise, the podcast. Mark Simone here. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend.