1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 2: Seven. 3 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Jen WOI. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 2: Well, the best selling author and culter with us every 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: week at this time. You know you can follow her 6 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 2: on Twitter, great tweets and culture at Twitter, but even 7 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: better at substack is you can watch your videos and 8 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 2: her interviews and her podcasts and get her column Just 9 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 2: go to and culture dot substack dot com and culture. 10 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: How you doing fantastic? How are you, Mark Simone? 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: I'm good. We're just getting breaking news now that there's 12 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 2: been a shake up at MSNBC, the lineup changing. 13 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: Goodness. I hope you're bringing Joyanne Read back. 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, but Morning Shoe apparently is being 15 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 2: cut by an hour. It'll only be three hours instead 16 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: of four. 17 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: Uh. 18 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: I assume that comes with a pay cut as well. 19 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: Oh, I think they're doing fine. It's always been amazing 20 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: to me. Why I'm sorry is they're more breaking news 21 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: up about MSNBC. 22 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: Uh, Stephanie Rule will get an hour at nine am. 23 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 2: Uh nope, no, Joy Read she's not coming back. 24 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, it doesn't interest me that I always found 25 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,559 Speaker 1: it weird. No, Mika and Joe, I'm sure are doing fine. 26 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: I don't have to look up their salaries. But the 27 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: strange thing is these cable and regular TV they pay 28 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 1: hosts just astronomical salaries while sort of chinching chintzing on 29 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: everybody else. The producers, the bookers, the writers that make 30 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: up people know that they're they're they're minimum wage workers. 31 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: When most most every single host on TV would pay 32 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: to have that job. You don't have to pay them 33 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: at all. The millions of dollars make them pay. 34 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: Well, that's true, Like you want to see real income 35 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 2: inequality a TV show, Colbert twelve million a year, everybody 36 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 2: else a dollar fifty. I mean, it's just ridiculous, right. 37 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: And I mean there are so many You get so 38 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: much money from being the host of these shows for 39 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: speeches and crascos, written books, and most of them don't 40 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: care what they're saying and they just want to be 41 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: on TV. 42 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, but can you call it ms now? I still 43 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: call it MSNBC. I can't get that out of my mouth. 44 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: Ms now. It just doesn't come out. 45 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: No, I know MSNBC is a much better laugh line. 46 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: I think. 47 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 2: So, Hey, the Save America Act for Chuck Schumer and Blumenthal, 48 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 2: these guys to say it's suppression minority voters they don't 49 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 2: have they can't get a photo idea. Is that the 50 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: most racist thing any Democrats ever said? 51 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, well, yes it is one of my friends. 52 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: His name eludes me right now, but you used to 53 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: see his videos all over as this argument, this is 54 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: a consistent argument of the left. If we stop voter fraud, 55 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: we won't be able. Minorities can't can't vote. So anyway, 56 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: my friend went up to you know, various black neighborhoods, 57 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: and who's just stopping interviewing black people on the street, 58 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: asking them, hey, do you have an id? Yes, I 59 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: pull it out. If you didn't have an idea, I 60 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: d would you know where to get one? Right over there? 61 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: And he asked them, do you think it's a racist 62 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: to say this? Yes? Yes, as a matter of fact, 63 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: they did, Mark simone, But this is this is such 64 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it seems just to a normal person forget 65 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: forget partisanship. Isn't it strange that that the Democrats are 66 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: so committed to giving felons the right to vote. That's 67 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: a part of to vote in this country since you know, 68 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: colonial days for obvious reasons, do we need to explain 69 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: that Democrat? And moreover, I was noticing recently. I don't 70 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: know why Republicans are defensive about this, this hysteria from 71 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: the Democrats on a rumor. Who knows if it's true. 72 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: I hope it's true that they were going to be 73 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: sending immigration agents to polling places. Yeah, why not? Why 74 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: is that a bad thing? So you want to ensure 75 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: that your illegals can can vote illegally without without being questioned. 76 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would put a picture of Tom Holman right 77 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 2: at the entrance of every polling place. 78 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: And I know, I mean, I'm serious. I mean I 79 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: hope they do it. 80 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, But aren't they kind of admitting there is 81 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 2: some voter fraud if they won't pass the Save Act? 82 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, s yes, speaking of it's not going to 83 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: be that hard to They act like it's just I mean, 84 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: I think it is true, and I think I have 85 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: a birth certificate, But okay, you don't have. Everybody has 86 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: some form of bodies. 87 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 2: Do you have a driver's license? Don't you? 88 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: I do? 89 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 2: Well, that's all you should need a driver's license, a 90 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 2: real one. 91 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: And there you also all these states allow allow all 92 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: kinds of But there are some people who don't drive. 93 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: But there are other ways to identify yourself. It's not 94 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: it's really not that hard. 95 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 2: And you can't get into any office Billy in Manhattan. 96 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 2: You can't go to MSNBC without a photo ID. So uh, obviously, to. 97 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: Say nothing of flying where it's actually quite absurd that 98 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: this is what I you know, most resent and terrorists 99 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: for destroying destroying commercial airflight in America where t s 100 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: A and test after test, half test. Now they're refusing 101 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: to release their tests. Eighty percent of fake weapons get 102 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: through TSA. Asians really but yeah, ye, they've been doing 103 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: this for years. Eighty is ridiculous. They stop nothing. And 104 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 1: the other I think crucial fact about why we don't 105 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: need the TSA. This is just stealing multiple tens of 106 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: millions of man hours where Americans could be working. You know, 107 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: we used to be a country on the go. Now 108 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: it's it's just bureaucrats slowing everything down, allowing nothing to 109 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: move forward. That's why some of my friends from Silicon 110 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: Valley have said that Silicon Valley was so productive that 111 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,119 Speaker 1: Congress didn't understand what they were doing, so they didn't 112 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: put any regulation in. But the other reason we don't 113 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: we want of the many reasons we don't need TSA 114 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,559 Speaker 1: at all. Is I could be off by a point 115 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: or two, but something like eighty eight percent of flyers 116 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: on a daily basis belong to some frequent flyer program. Yeah, 117 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: so the airlines know who they are. They've been flying 118 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: with them for years. Let the airlines do it. They 119 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: don't want their planes going down, and there hasn't you 120 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: can only pull okay. Third reason is nine to eleven 121 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: was a sucker punch. You could you only fall for 122 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: that once. I mean they couldn't even get the fourth 123 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: plane to accomplish its objective because once people know that's 124 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: what the trick is, and you're not going to say 125 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: fly us to Cuba or you know, demand money and 126 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: a getaway car. Nothing like that had ever happened before. 127 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: Now that we know what can happen, you would have 128 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: to have a majority the plane be terrorists, and I 129 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: think people would notice absolutely. 130 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's just crazy. Hey, would you agree this 131 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 2: is the most useless Congress we have ever seen, both 132 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 2: sides of the aisle, just one useless character after another. 133 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes. The one thing I will say in 134 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: defense of Republicans is not John food. But it is 135 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: hard to get to get things through when you have 136 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: such a narrow majority on the month. My motto is 137 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: there are a lot of a lot of bad Republicans, 138 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: there are no good Democrats, so you know you're always 139 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: going to have that narrow majority. Just means it's very 140 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: hard to get to get anything through, which is why 141 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: we really, I mean, the entire Republican Party should be 142 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: focused like a laser beam, not only on the Save Act. 143 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: I mean that's only part of it. Something I've mentioned 144 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: to you before and I will mention again. Red states 145 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: are owed at least a dozen extra in in red 146 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: areas congressional seats because of mistakes in the census that 147 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: were discovered during the Biden administration. Every year after the 148 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: or every census year after the census is taked, the 149 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: census then goes through and checks to see, you know, 150 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: how accurate it was. Well, the twenty twenty census was 151 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: highly inaccurate, and all these Blue states were given congressional 152 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: seats that they should not have based on the Senate 153 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: and Red states were deprived of how seats they should 154 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: have based on the faulty census. I don't know why 155 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: why the governors of Red states aren't suing to demand 156 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: their extra congressional seats. 157 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 2: Very good point. You got to do. That should be 158 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 2: a column that should be pushed by everybody. 159 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: I know I keep prattling about it but never going 160 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: down and writing about it. But I mean, whatever the 161 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: law is for correcting this, boy, talk about talk about democracy, 162 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: caring about democracy. This is how democracy is supposed to work. 163 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: You're the number of House seats is based on population 164 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: of the state. And if the populations of the state 165 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: or left. There were I think about eight states on 166 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: each side either got too many seat seats in the 167 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: House or got too few seats in the House. And 168 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: of the I don't know eight or ten on the 169 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: ones who were deprived of seats all but one were 170 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: red stacks. 171 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 2: Wow. 172 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: And the states they got extra seats all but one 173 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: were Democrats states. 174 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's get on this and take care 175 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 2: of the and Culter great stuff. Make sure you follow 176 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 2: on Twitter and culture Twitter, and make sure you follow 177 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 2: on substack and Culter dot substack dot com. A lot 178 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 2: of good videos and podcasts and all sorts of stuff 179 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 2: at and culture dot substack dot com and get her 180 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: best selling books. And Culter thanks for being with us. 181 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: Good to talk to you, Mark, Bye. 182 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 2: Bye, take care. Hey, you know Curtis is back. Curtis leiwa. 183 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 2: He's here every morning with Larry Minty six to ten 184 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 2: on seven ten WO r