1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: If you're listening to Mark on the iHeartRadio app, save 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: time and tap the preset button. Now. 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 2: Now back to the Mark Simone Show on woor Hey. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,319 Speaker 1: Let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one zero 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: seven ten is the number. Let's go to Tony in Westchester. Tony, 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: how you doing, Hey. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 3: Mark, I'm doing well and I love listening to you, 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 3: and there's so many things I'd love to talk to 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 3: you about. It's just, you know, Rudy Giuliani. This thing 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 3: with Savannah Guthrie. There's something on the internet that's saying, 11 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 3: you know, she interviewed some people connected with the ebscene 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 3: case and they're trying to teach her. 13 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: No, no, no, hopefully. 14 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 3: Okay, So here's the one yesterday when you're talking about 15 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 3: Elon being probably the next trillionaire, Why does it he 16 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 3: with all his brilliant attack homelessness because he's got enough 17 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 3: money to solve it on his own. 18 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: No, you gotta remember he could do that in a second. 19 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: Guys like this could figure out everything. But he tried 20 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: it with the government waste and fraud, the DOGE program, 21 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: and all he did was get attacked day in night, NonStop, 22 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: and he had to back off. So that's the problem. 23 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: You could. You know, guys like that can come in 24 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: and fix everything in government, but the swamp, the deep 25 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: state will fight you like crazy and chase you out 26 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: of Washington. And that's what happened. Let's go to Barbara 27 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: and Woodside. Barbara, how you doing? 28 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 4: How you do? And I'm doing great. Listen. I worked 29 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 4: at the city council and all these people are political appointees. 30 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 4: They're favors to the political parties. And I stayed there 31 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 4: only four months because it's the environment was too political 32 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 4: and very hard to stay there. 33 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: So when they want to increase the budget hire another 34 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: ninety people, it's like this is like Polly Walnuts. Polly Walnuts, 35 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: no medical Paully Walnuts, no show jobs, that kind of 36 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: stuff that makes sense. Let's go to Bob and Mottvale. Bob, 37 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: how you doing. 38 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: I'm hanging in there, Mark, thanks to taking their call. 39 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: You know that the reason why they're closing out homeless 40 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 2: shelter for men is that it's decrepit. It's like any 41 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 2: other New York City landlord owned property. Let to go 42 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 2: to shame. And now they're gonna spend billions on a hotel. 43 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: I know, But my point was that Chelsea Market was 44 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: the most decrepit thing in New York, and Irwin Cohen 45 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: buys it and says, let's transform it. All of a sudden, 46 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: it's the most beautiful building in New York on a hotspot. 47 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: And it didn't cost two billion. At these hotel rooms, 48 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: it costs like twenty million. And that was it. To 49 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: fix it up it again, to fix up that. If 50 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: you give that shelter to Donald Trump and said turn 51 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,399 Speaker 1: this into a ballroom, it'd be the most gleaming, beautiful 52 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: ballroom in New York in two months. So you can 53 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: fix up the shelter. You don't have to spend billions 54 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: and billions in hotel rooms. But as we pointed out, 55 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: it's a contract to the Hotel Association, which can do 56 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: you a lot of good. If you're a politician, Let's 57 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: go to Tony and White Plains. Tony, how you doing. 58 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 5: Morning, Mark? I also met Ernie Masters. I live in 59 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 5: White Plains, West Sheffield. 60 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: If you call that living, But okay, no, I love 61 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: white Planes. It's a beautiful place. You got a Trump 62 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: Tower in white planes, you got a rich Garlton and 63 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: white plans. 64 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, but the reason why I called is I 65 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 5: met Ernie actually in the Poconos. Pocono downs at the racetrack. 66 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 5: My friend George Anthony, he calls the races there, and 67 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 5: I'm also the horse business. And I was with my 68 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 5: wife and some friends. And then we went up to 69 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 5: the booth. Uh, my friend George was calling the races, 70 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 5: and and and there was George Anthony. 71 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 1: I mean we got to speak the story up a little. 72 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: Let's get to part. 73 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 5: Ernie anstis, I'm sorry and and uh he introduced us 74 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 5: and he was a perfect gentleman. But we used to 75 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 5: watch them all the time. He didn't hit you, no, no, no, 76 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 5: he doesn't. He actually even off off to buy a 77 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 5: hot dog, but we already have one because they were having. 78 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: Thet all right now. It's a good, good point. Yeah, 79 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: Ernie was the nicest guy in the world. If you 80 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: go on Instagram, you'll see millions of people putting up 81 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: pictures with Ernie. That's because anybody who wanted to stop 82 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: and take a picture, he would be happy to do it. 83 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: Nicest guy. Check out my Instagram. There's some pictures of 84 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: Ernie there. Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. Let's go to 85 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: George in Long Island. George, how you doing? 86 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 6: Yeah? Hi, Poort Jefferson, Port, Jefferson. Yeah. I told next 87 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 6: time you come out go to Pie. It's on Main Street. 88 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 6: It's a nice place that makes Colon Pie is good. 89 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: But you got that Prohibition restaurant that's very good. 90 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 91 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 6: I haven't been there yet anyway, Lisa. 92 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: Harris, the great baker, and you got that. 93 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 6: Hotel to go there? Yeah, I try to lose weight, 94 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 6: which is impossible. But anyway, and if. 95 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: You're in are you near Smithtown? Uh? 96 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 6: Yeah, I am. 97 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: Big spectacular new restaurant just open there, the Chaz It's 98 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 1: the sister restaurant of Rothman's, just opening in Smithtown this week. 99 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 6: I'll have to try it. Anyway, Listen, we're in trouble 100 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 6: when mcdonnie in the city. My kids live in the 101 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 6: city and they voted for him because they're crazy left wing, 102 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 6: is what can I say. They grew up in Garden City, 103 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 6: which where there was a Democratic vote in the ballot, 104 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 6: they'd have an investigation. But that'sn't either here or there 105 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 6: with mcdonnie, with Mandanie, we're in trouble because even if 106 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 6: Bruce Blakeman should win, we will win. 107 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman is no. 108 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 6: I hope he will. I hope he will win, but 109 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 6: he would if he wins, and he can remove when Donnie, 110 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 6: under the city Charter, you have the you have the 111 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 6: public Advocate. Joannie Williams. 112 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: He's just well, he's no great bargain either. But else, remember, 113 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, when he gets elected governor can remove the 114 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: district attorneys, he can get rid of Alvin Bragging, put 115 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: in a real DA. Things can happen, Mark Listing, I'm 116 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: not first of all, this whole thing is your fault. 117 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: You're crazy left wing kids voted for him. 118 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 6: Let me tell you. I'll tell you what I told him. 119 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 6: I finally told my daughter, who went to a fancy 120 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 6: school and I paid for it, I said, I should 121 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 6: have sent you to the University of Havana. It would 122 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 6: have been cheaper and same results. 123 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: Goodbye, great call. Hey when we come back to the 124 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: brilliant columnist, the great columnist Miranda Devine will be with 125 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: us next on seven to ten w O R.