1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show continues, Hey, it's Wednesday. This is 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: week one. We've gotten through week one of the new year. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: You know, yesterday I forgot it was January sixth, And 4 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: you know, Democrats and Trumpeters would like to make that 5 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: like a national thing every year, like you know, nine 6 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: to eleven, where the whole country stops to remember, or 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: they want to make it like a pearl harbor kind 8 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: of It's it's not going to work those of you 9 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 1: that don't remember January sixth, was that terrible trespassing incident 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: at the Capitol. I remember. But here's the Democrats are now. 11 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: You know all the universities have been corrupted, many of 12 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 1: our high schools. You got all these left wing teachers. 13 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,319 Speaker 1: You got all this left wing propaganda being taught in 14 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: schools now, and this is why you get people that younger, 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: people that will vote for Mom. DONI twenty thirty years 16 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: of being indoctrinated in these left classrooms. Well now they 17 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: want to add January sixth to the history books and 18 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: have that taught in every classroom. Now. Of course, they're 19 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: not going to teach the whole story, as democrats do 20 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: or fake news does. They'll just give you three or 21 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: four pieces of the puzzle and leave out ninety eight 22 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: percent of it, so they won't tell you that President 23 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 1: Trump offered ten thousand troops and urged them to take 24 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: the ten thousand troops to guard the capital that day. 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: It was just another demonstration like the other two hundred 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: and seventy five that had happened that whole summer in America. 27 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: But Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of DC decided not 28 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: to accept the offer of the ten thousand troops. They 29 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: were told four hundred thousand demonstrators would show up. They 30 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: turned down the ten thousand troops. And by the way, 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: demonstrations of that size were taking place all the time 32 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: in Washington when Trump was president, once a member at 33 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: the Lincoln Memorial and he surrounded it with troops with 34 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: machine gun and nobody got near the Lincoln Memorial. The 35 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: worst one was when Democratic protesters tried to take the 36 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: White House, tried to come over the fence. Remember Trump 37 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: put out those tweets, if you do come over the fence, 38 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: you're going to see the most vicious dogs you've ever seen. 39 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: But he surrounded the place with troops. There was still 40 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: a hell of a battle at the White House fence. 41 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: Over two hundred law enforcement ended up in the hospital 42 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: after that. But January sixth, it was just another one 43 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: of those, not as bad as the one at the 44 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 1: White House. But Nancy Pelosi made the decision that you 45 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: would try to guard the building with just the building 46 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: security guys the Capitol Hill Police, which that's basically go 47 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: it is the security guys at the building instead of 48 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: actual troops and Capitol police. They're nice, but they there's 49 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: only a couple of hundred of them, and they can't 50 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: control four hundred thousand demonstrators, so they'll leave that out 51 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,839 Speaker 1: of the discussion. In fact, Nancy Pelosi to this day 52 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: denies it, although there's video of her admitting to it 53 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: that night that she turned it down and this is 54 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: all her fault. But she'll de and I and they'll 55 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: teach the fake version of January sixth. They'll say, they'll 56 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: just keep using the word insurrection. It was an insurrection. Meantime, 57 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: they arrested twelve hundred of those demonstrators, not a single 58 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: one has been charged with insurrection. And remember they charged 59 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: these guys with everything they could hit him with. Each 60 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 1: one got hit with twelve charges, nineteen charges, twenty anything 61 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: they could charge him with, and nobody got charged with insurrection. 62 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: But we'll see see what happens if they can stop 63 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: that from going into the history books. Hey, TV ratings 64 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: for the year twenty twenty five, you know the New 65 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: Year's Eve show on ABC, which was Dick Clark's rock 66 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: in New Year's Eve for years now it's Ryan Seacrest 67 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: did pretty well. Got eighteen million viewers in today's broadcast 68 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: TV world. That is enormous. That's huge, huge, and got 69 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: seventeen million the year before. It was a definite increase. 70 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: It went up. Andy Cohen of course, looked ridiculous, getting 71 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: drunk out of his mind, going into a drunken rant 72 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: about Eric Adams, and then Adams was asked about it 73 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: the next day. What do you got to say to 74 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: Andy Cohen who called you all kinds of names, and 75 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: he said, I got My response is two letters, and 76 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: you thought it must be f you or something like 77 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: my response is two letters AA, which is a great response. 78 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: And now Adam's tweeting about Andy Cohen alcoholics anonymous. So 79 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: it is a problem. You know, people get drunk on 80 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, but if you're on live television, in 81 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: front of eighteen million people. You'd think you'd have a 82 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: little discipline not to get that drunk. But it was 83 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: a big night for ABC with the eighteen million viewers. 84 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: Fox News had one of the best years ever. Four 85 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: point one million viewers was the average. That's like way 86 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: beyond any other cable network. Four point one million viewers. 87 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: Biggest show of the year was The Five and Jesse 88 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: Waters and of course Hannity. Those are the three biggest shows. MSNBC, 89 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: CNN a bad year. Not a lot. The most watched 90 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: telecast of twenty twenty five number one, right the super Bowl? 91 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: Number two. Tracker The Hell is Tracker? I don't know. 92 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: It's one of those drama shows. I know, I do know. 93 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: It's about that whatever he is, a detective whatever is 94 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: who tracks down missing people? Nineteen episodes, but it did 95 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: really well. The NFL was the biggest thing on television 96 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,559 Speaker 1: all year. If you take the top one hundred things 97 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, forty five of them almost half 98 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: were NFL games. That's really the only thing keeping broadcast 99 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: TV alive. Ratings are down dramatically. Everything in broadcast TV 100 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: ratings are way down, but the NFL doing really well, 101 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: Tim Waltz, you know, he said he will not seek reelection, 102 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: and I don't blame him. If eighteen billion was stolen 103 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: right under your nose in your own state, you got 104 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,799 Speaker 1: no business seeking reelection. By the way, the attorney general 105 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: of Minnesota, that left wing kook, Keith Ellison, Why hasn't 106 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 1: he resigned? If you're the attorney general and eighteen billion 107 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 1: was stolen right under your nose and you didn't catch it, 108 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: why hasn't he resigned? Now people are calling for Waltz 109 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: to resign immediately. He won't seek reelection, but people are 110 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: saying this is so bad, this scandal so horrifying, that 111 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: he should resign immediately. He refuses to do that. 112 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 2: I'm not going anywhere, and you can make all your 113 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 2: requests for me to resign over my dead body will 114 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 2: that happen. I will fight this thing till the very 115 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 2: end to make this state better. And the question that 116 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 2: I think they need to decide is is when did 117 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 2: the guy in the White House resign? Anytime I get 118 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 2: drug into being next to Donald Trump? God help me, 119 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 2: I don't want to be judged against that guy. 120 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 1: Now, apparently in private, they told him you should resign 121 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: and he threw a temper tantrument and went nuts. And 122 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: then the rest of that speech was this whole thing 123 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: about every minute I spend on my own political interests 124 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: is a minute I can't spend defending the people in 125 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity. Well, 126 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: I think if eighteen billion went missing, we could agree 127 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: he's not very good at that. Anyway, he is suffering. 128 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, want to make fun of a 129 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: guy with medical problems. He is suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. 130 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: Game's over for him now. It was all me. I 131 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: was the bad guy or whatever. 132 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: Well, put up or shut up now and tell us 133 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: what you're going to do to make this state better. 134 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 2: Answer these tough questions, quit hiding behind this, and expect 135 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 2: for the next eleven months for me to ride you 136 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 2: like you've never been ridden. 137 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. But what's Trump going 138 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: to do about it? Well, right now they're going in 139 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: and arresting the criminals who stole the eighteen billion, not million, 140 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: eighteen billion. They're arresting them one by one. This is 141 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: like the Bernie Madoff cleanup. You know, they had to 142 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: go after everybody, but then they had to claw back 143 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: the money. Well, the feds are starting to do that. 144 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: You know a lot of these ring leaders of this fraud, 145 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: and it was just an out and out fraud scheme 146 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: by these Somalis in Minnesota. Many of them took the 147 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: money and bought mansions and Porsches and luxury goods and 148 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: all sorts of expensive real estate. Well here's one. One 149 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: woman was convicted. The court is now federal charges. The 150 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: court is now clawing back everything, making her sell the houses, 151 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: the Porsche, the cars, the Rolls Royces and getting the 152 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: money back. So it takes a while. You know, with 153 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: the Bernie Madoff stuff, that was like fifty billion, but 154 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: they got back like thirty billion of it. So they'll 155 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: get they'll probably get back nine billion of this money. 156 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 1: They'll claw it back slowly but surely. And that's what 157 00:08:54,720 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: you do about it. Oh, I forget George Conway. Now, 158 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: this guy is going to be great. We are so 159 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: lucky that he has come to New York and he's 160 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: going to run for the Gerald Nadler, a congressional seat 161 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: that's open. Now you might be saying, well, what if 162 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: he wins. He's a left wing crazy. Yeah, but so 163 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: its Nadler. So it's no change at all. And that 164 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: district in New York, you're always gonna get a left 165 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: wing cook, so you might as well get this guy 166 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: because he's so silly and such a clown. George Conway. 167 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 1: He was married at one time to Kelly and Conway, 168 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: who's great. And you might say, well, how could that be. Well, 169 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: back then, you know, he was one of the most 170 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: brilliant lawyers in New York, brilliant attorney, a very successful guy, 171 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: and then he was married to her. But we've seen 172 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: this happen before where somebody goes nuts. And Conway was 173 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: hanging around with all the big Conservatives and Republicans, George Conway, 174 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: and then at some point we've seen it with other people. 175 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: They they just snap, they just go nuts, and all 176 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: of a sudden they become a left wing kook with 177 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,439 Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome. But he's going to run for this 178 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: seat on the west side of Manhattan. Now, you might 179 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: be saying yourself, wait a minute, he lives in Maryland, 180 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: he doesn't even live here. Well, he's a Democrat. You 181 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: can do whatever the hell you want when you're a 182 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: Democrat and he's got raised money, and he's got his 183 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: first campaign ads, The George Conway campaign is underway. 184 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 3: As one of the ads, we have a corrupt president, 185 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 3: a mendacious president, a criminal president whose masked agents are 186 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 3: disappearing people from our streets, who's breaking international law, and 187 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 3: he's running our federal government like a mob protection racket. 188 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: This is why this guy's going to be great. This hysterical, 189 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: hyperbog nonsense. And he's mendacious, which I think is bad. 190 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what it is, but it's bad. 191 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: You don't want to be mendacious. He's disappearing people. It's 192 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: called arresting people. I love the and it's a violation 193 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: of international law. You're going to hear this a lot 194 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: from Democrats, especially with Venezuela. He's violated international law. Nobody 195 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: knows what the hell he's talking about. There's no such 196 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: thing as international law. Nobody knows what they're referring to. 197 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: Where's this international law you're talking about. There is no 198 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: international law. The only thing you could point to. I 199 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: asked Greg Jarrett, the great legal extorid, what the hell 200 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: are they talking about international law? He said, maybe they're 201 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: talking about the un charter United Nations. But they're not 202 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: a law enforcement agency. They have no law, they have 203 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: no authority, they have no standing at all. Dad, So 204 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,199 Speaker 1: there's no such thing as international law. But the commercial 205 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: goes on. 206 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 3: He doesn't like me. I don't like what he's done 207 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 3: to our great country, and now I'm running for Congress 208 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 3: to take the fight directly back to him. 209 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: On your behalf, you go. He does not like what 210 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: he's done to this country. But Joe Biden he alwa, 211 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: he was thrilled about that. Thrilled. But this guy's going 212 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: to be great. We're so lucky to get him here. 213 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: This is so good for us. We're going to have 214 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: nothing but amusement from this George. You remember, he's the 215 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,839 Speaker 1: guy that ran that crazy Lincoln project with the same thing. 216 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,319 Speaker 1: The ever, nothing he did work because it was all 217 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: too over the top hysterical. 218 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 4: I don't intend to be doing this when I'm sixty 219 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 4: six or sixty seven or sixty eight. You know, I'm 220 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 4: kind of like a special teams player. I want to 221 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 4: do this for one reason, and that is to help 222 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 4: get this our governmental system back on track with something 223 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 4: back to normal, at least back toward normal. 224 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: Here, you go. His idea normal was Joe Biden, you know, 225 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: the great stephen A. Smith. Let me see if I 226 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: can find that quote. It's a very important point because 227 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: a lot of these Democrats are going nuts and screaming 228 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: and yelling. Stephen A. Smith is a Democrat, but he 229 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: he's like Bill Maher occasional bouts of common sense. But 230 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: he stunned a Democratic audience by explaining to them because 231 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: they can't get how Donald Trump gets elected. But Stephen A. 232 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: Smith explained to him that for all the things they 233 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: hate about Donald Trump, to normal voters, to most normal voters, 234 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: they think Trump is a lot closer to normal than 235 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 1: today's Democrats are. And you could look at Trump and say, 236 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: why he's doing things that's not presidential? Why does he 237 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: behave like that way? Well, whatever he does, it's a 238 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:20,559 Speaker 1: lot more normal than Democrats are. Right now, Hey, there's 239 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: a new phenomenon. I don't like this at all. You know, 240 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: you know the restaurant Carbone. It opened I don't know 241 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: about ten years ago in the village Carbone, an Italian restaurant. 242 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: It's sort of it was just a gimmick actually for 243 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: younger you know, the whole new generation. It was like 244 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: old school red sauce Italian food. But to these younger people, 245 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: they've never seen that. I mean, you could go to 246 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: Patsy's and it's much better there, but they never saw 247 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: anything like Carbone and the checker tablecloths. I never saw 248 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: anything like that. So it took off. It became huge. 249 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: And when you become the hottest trendiest restaurant, then in 250 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: the old days, you were the hottest trendiest restaurant, and anybody 251 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,839 Speaker 1: would come to New York. I gotta go there. I 252 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: want to. Well, now they opened. When you're at the 253 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: trendiest place, you open everywhere. Then there was Carbone Miami, 254 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: then there was Carbone, Paris, Carbone, Los Angeles. Carbone. Now 255 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: it's just opening in the Bellagio. So the reason for this, 256 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: you get these big hedge fund guys, and whenever it's 257 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: the hottest restaurant in the world. You know, if you 258 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: want to always get a table, you bribe the matri dus. 259 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: But if you really want to get treated well, you 260 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: get friendly with the owner and you offer to put 261 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: up millions and millions and millions to open some more restaurants. 262 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: That's why you see like Ovre on sixtieth Street. That 263 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: became a big hotspot. Next thing you know, there's an 264 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: Ova on fiftieth Street. Next thing you know, there's an 265 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: Ovora over here. Next thing you know, there's one in 266 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills. There's one in Miami. But this phenomenon is 267 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: spreading everywhere, and it's not good. Everything is becoming a 268 00:14:53,280 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: chain now. For instance, Sally's Pizza New Haven. There's Frank Peppies, Sally's. 269 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: These were like the two. You'd drive to New Haven 270 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: just to have these pizzas that everybody's saying are the 271 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: best in the world. Well, next thing you know, Frank 272 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: Peppy's opening everywhere everywhere. There's one in Fairfield, there's one 273 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: in Stanford. There's one here, there's one in Yonkers, there's one. 274 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: They're all over the place. There's a couple of them 275 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: in Florida, they're in Nashville there. Now the other one 276 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: is Sally's. Sally's just announced they're opening two one hundred 277 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: and fifty of them, two one hundred and fifty of them. Now, 278 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: the problem is everybody would go to New Haven because 279 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: it was such phenomenal pizza. When you open two hundred 280 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: and fifty of them, You're not gonna have the same 281 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: pizza everywhere. It's not possible. It doesn't work. And they're 282 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: all doing this. You know, in Queens and Utopia Boulevard. 283 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: For a million years, Utopia Bagels they were always the 284 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: best bagels in yours. People would drive out there just 285 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: to go to Utopia Begels. They were so amazing. Then 286 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: they opened one in Manhattan and it's always the same story. 287 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: It's not as good as the original. Now there's four 288 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: in New York City. Now they're opening all over. Now 289 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: there's gonna be one in London, they're opening here, they're opening. 290 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: They've got to stop this stuff. These are like our 291 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: finest food things, and they're all becoming franchises. Now. McDonald's 292 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: can figure out how to do it, but these people can't. 293 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: It doesn't work. It's diluting the whole thing. Even the 294 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: top restaurants of the world that John, George, Danielle, all 295 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: these guys. Now instead of one restaurant, they got seventy five, 296 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: and they're not the same quality. You can't. You can't 297 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: have seventy five be the same quality. It's gotta stop. Hey, 298 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next eight hundred three to two 299 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: one zero seven ten. Is the number eight hundred three 300 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: two one zero seven ten