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Marc Simone
This is the Clay and Buck Show. While Clay Travis and Buck Sexton are out, New York City's own Marc Simone is in.
Mark Simone
Ah, that's me. You can normally hear me on our big flagship here In New York, 7, 10, W O R. Or on iHeart, the iHeart app. Jeff Bezos, is he the richest? No, Elon Musk would be the richest man in the world, but Jeff Bezos up there in the top five, you know, what's he worth? 150 billion. 160 billion. He's getting married to that girlfriend of his. Word is he's going to spend 600 million on the wedding. Now, Bezos has just put out a report absolutely denying that he's not going to spend 600 million on the wedding. He said it's absolutely not true. He will spend that much on the divorce. Actually, probably more than that. You know, if you got 150 billion. He's marrying her in Colorado. He probably checked the laws. Aspen, Colorado, California's like community property. She'd be entitled to like 75 billion, you know, Isn't he. He's already divorced once. Didn't he give away like 20, 30 billion in the first divorce? So he's getting married now. If you're that wealthy, if you're worth 150 billion, how do you handle a wedding? He's got 800 people going on a. Oh, no, that's another wedding. Wait, he's got hundreds of people coming to Aspen, Colorado. The wedding will take place at Kevin Costner's ranch. And it's going to be expensive because one of the things he wants to do. What do you do with your guests when they come to Aspen to come to your wedding? You get them a hotel room? Do you get them a suite? He's renting mansions, private mansions for each person. So this is why it's going to cost a lot of money. Believe it or not, this is not the most expensive wedding in the world. Most expensive wedding in the world was. I'm not even going to try to pronounce this guy's name. Russian oligarch and Russian heiress. The wedding reportedly cost a billion dollars. A billion dollars. Now, how do you do that? Well, they had 800 people. Ceremony was in all these different places. Part of it was they took all 800 on a cruise. You have to have a cruise ship for 800 people. The wedding took three days. Now, a lot of the expense, they brought in a lot of stars to perform, like Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry. Now, when they do these private events and they really don't want to have to go all the way to Russia or wherever. So what they do is they charge triple the normal price. If normally they get a million, 2 million a night, it's 6 million, it's 8 million, it's 10 million, literally. So you hire three of those and then apparently brought in a lot of international stars that we wouldn't know all of this to get married. And it's nothing compared to what the divorce, again will, will cost this guy. So the terrible shooting of the healthcare CEO. What's the name of the company? UnitedHealthcare. And the guy was the CEO. And the nutty assassin, Luigi Mangione, apparently got all fired up about the healthcare industry and didn't know this guy and didn't know he had never used the company, but he just decided to target him since it was the biggest healthcare company of all and he was the CEO. And we all know what happened. The assassination, and it took place right outside our window. Right over there. Right over there. In fact, he escaped on an electric bike that he had in a bike rack right in front of our doorway here at, at iheart. In fact, somebody that worked here actually went out, having to walk out then and saw him that moment. So it's a frightening situation. Now. I don't understand why. Well, I guess I do. The crazy woke Democrats have made this guy into some kind of folk hero. If you were watching Saturday Night Live, when they do that fake newscast, they were doing a all the different stories and when they said Luigi Mangione, the audience applauded. Applauded him on Saturday Night Live. They're actually worried here in New York if they try him with a crazy New York jury, that they could acquit this guy. Crazy woke left wing New York jury. You never know what'll happen. Now there's a comedian, Tim Dillon, who's on a Netflix roast, and he's already doing a routine about the CEO that was assassinated, Brian Thompson. He comes out pretending to be him, playing him, making fun of him, making fun of him. And again, it's a, you know, a left wing roast. Netflix. And the audience is laughing at this. Never seen this before. An assassin becomes some sort of folk hero. Yeah, comedians can make jokes. I mean, I've seen it happen where, as they say, too soon. But, you know, 20 years later, you could make a joke about Lee Harvey Oswald, but two weeks later, I've never seen anything like that ever. Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-282-2882 is the number you Know the economists that you see in the left wing, the crazy Democratic economist, the most famous is Paul Krugman, the New York Times, they're all wrong. They're all nuts. They're left wing kooks. That's why when they wanted to go after Trump, they could quickly come up with a list. We have 12 Nobel Prize economists who say that the Trump plan will make inflation go crazy. Well, if you look at these 12 Nobel Prize winners, they're all nuts and they're all wrong all the time. Remember, the Nobel Prize is the most corrupt award of all. It's always given to some left wing kook. Remember, the Nobel Peace Prize is as corrupt as you can get. Remember Obama got it before he even took office. Just getting elected, they gave him the Nobel Peace Prize, hadn't even taken office yet. So if you're George Bush and you end the Cold War, nothing, you don't get a Nobel Prize. If you're Ronald Reagan and you end the Cold War, nothing, You know, no peace prize. But left wing Democrat, before you even take office, you get it. So Krugman is the nuttiest of them all. He's been wrong about everything. When Trump got elected, he wrote these massive pieces saying in 2016, Trump was going to cause the biggest inflation ever. Of course, inflation went down to 1.6% and it was a great economy. Biden comes in inflation, what did it hit at the top, like 8, 9%? Just a disastrous economy. Krugman, by the way, is retiring. Thank God he's leaving. He's just written a huge piece in the New York Times about how great the Biden economy was, how it was a very, very successful economy. Of course, even Democrats don't fall for this stuff anymore. They're starting to realize they've been lied to and conned by their own news media, by cnn, by msnbc, by the New York Times. They hate Trump, but when they watch hate Trump media, they want it to at least be honest with them. Tell us the real reasons against Trump. Don't make up stuff like all these fake 2025 project and the national abortion ban. All these things that never even really existed to Donald Trump. So Krugman just lying through his teeth and it's a good way for him to go out. Lying, lying, lying. Hey, a lot of people are worried there's a secret plot in the Washington D.C. swamp, deep state democratic world. There's all sorts of rumors of a plot on how to stop Trump from taking office. Now you remember January 6th, the idea there was to disrupt the proceeding where they were going to certify the election. And that happens a lot in Congress. Remember the Kavanaugh hearings got stopped. The protesters just burst into the hearing room and, you know, complete chaos. They had to stop the proceedings. It's happened a number of times. It's not that unusual. Now, in the case of January 6, there was no insurrection. That's official now from Merrick Garland's Justice Department. They arrested anybody and everybody that came in there and they charged him with everything. Every single person that was in the Capitol. They hit him with every charge they could hit him with. And nobody was charged with insurrection. Nobody that day was charged with insurrection. So that means there was no insurrection. But they're going to try to come up with some little plot that Trump was involved in an insurrection, and they're going to use that to avoid the certification on January 6. Now the other thing you got to watch out for, you know, when it comes to rioting, protesters getting out of control, rioting, trespassing. Democrats do it all the time. Remember 2016, 2020, 275, massive riots all over America. Republicans, when they do it, they're not very good at it. They do it once in a zillion years and it's like January 6th, it wasn't much of anything. They just walked around the Capitol, got chased out in a couple of hours by the police, and that was the end of it. It's not like the Democratic riots where thousands of cops ended up in the hospital or cities burned down, or courthouses or police stations were burned the ground. Nothing like that on January 6th. But this time around, this January 6th, it's going to be the certification of Donald Trump. Who knows? Besides a plot to try to legally stop it, who knows what Democratic protesters are going to be up to? Hey, Donald Trump wants to get rid of daylight saving time. I mean, make it permanent. Not get rid of it, make it permanent. I agree with him. It's crazy right now. Like if you're in New York, it gets dark like 4:30. It's insane. Daylight saving time year round. Originally, it was created for the farmers. It had something to do with the crops. But most farming is in China now. There's not that much farming left in America and it doesn't make any sense anymore. Keep daylight savings time. Get rid of standard time. We don't. In fact, you know what? Set the clock two hours ahead and it might be, might be better. He wants to buy Greenland. Now. If you watch the fake news, all you're gonna hear is, this is Insane. Where did he come up with a crazy idea? What is he talking about, buying Greenland? It's actually a Democratic idea. Democrats have been pushing it for years. The first guy to push it was Harry Truman. Jimmy Carter tried like crazy. Just wasn't a good enough negotiator. The reason you want to buy Greenland, it's just filled with two things. Doesn't have. It's almost empty. There's no population, not much of a population, 56,000 people. It's a massive, massive piece of land. It would be the biggest amount of land we've ever purchased. And again, almost no population. Tiny, tiny population. All it is, the whole island. Oil and minerals. It's got billions and billions and billions and billions of gallons of oil. It's got a ton of minerals. It's just filled with minerals that we need. And oil we need be the greatest source of energy. Also, it's crucial as a military base for our defense. That's why China is trying to move in on Greenland. It's a crucial, crucial piece of real estate militarily, defense wise. That's why we want it. Denmark owns it. We could buy it from them. The price people have said would be, the price would be like 120 billion, which is nothing. The oil, the minerals would pay for that in a second. And if you paid 120 billion, it would retire the entire debt of Denmark. So the problem is no president has been much of a negotiator. Trump, best negotiator on earth. He's the guy that could pull this off. This will be fascinating. Now, Greenland says absolutely not for sale. Well, that's negotiating. They want to get the price up. They want to get it to 300 billion. But I think Trump will pull it off. It'll be a major accomplishment. Anyway, we'll take some calls in a minute. 800-282-2882. Mark Simone here for Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton.
Marc Simone
News and politics, but also a little comic relief. Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Mark Simone
Hey, welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton. The number 800-282-2882. Let's take some calls. Whatever you want to talk about. Let me see here. Let's go to Chuck in the Virgin Islands.
Chuck
Hey, Mark, how are you?
Mark Simone
What do you got on the beach? I hear music in the background. I hear wind music.
Chuck
I'm on the beach. Yep.
Mark Simone
Really? What's going on on that Beach, a.
Chuck
Lot of people swimming, airplanes landing. But I called you because I had a question about accountability for Alvin Bragg and these malicious prose.
Mark Simone
Alvin Bragg is this crazy left wing district attorney here in Manhattan funded by George Soros and he's the guy that lets all the nobody goes to jail, no bail, no jail. What do you want to say about him?
Chuck
I'm just curious what's going to happen after all these malicious prosecutions of Trump? What are going to happen to the people that did these things and caused these prosecutions?
Mark Simone
Yeah, it's a very good question. Trump takes office and this Alvin Bragg was the guy that they wanted to get Trump and they said that thing about this Alvin Bragg, I don't think he's that good a district attorney. So from the Biden administration, they sent the top guy in the Justice Department, what's his name? Colangelo. They sent this guy Colangelo, he's like the number two to Merrick Garland in the Justice Department in Washington. That's a huge job. That's a big job. He left that, came to New York to join this Alvin Bragg office as a little assistant. But he's the guy that ran the case against Trump. He's the guy that did the opening argument. He's the guy that questioned the witnesses. He was the guy running it for Joe Biden and Merrick Garland. And they, you know, they went after Trump here in New York and they convicted him. Now he's not really convicted until he's sentenced. That hasn't happened yet. But our greatest legal scholars, Alan Dershowitz and others have actually said they've read the case, they've read the case a hundred times and they cannot figure out what the crime is. They can't figure out what he's charged with. It's a completely preposterous, ridiculous case. Nobody's ever been charged with this in history. Now what he did, I'm trying to even remember what was it? It was Stormy Daniels and he paid her hush money and had her sign a non disclosure. Now, but the problem is that's the most normal thing in the world, business wise. Every business does it. 30 million of those are signed every year by companies, corporations, and in almost every case, it's a woman who says she was sexually harassed or something like that. NBC News has signed a lot of non disclosure agreements. Remember the Matt Lauer case where they had to clean that up with all the women. They had to sign a lot of non disclosures, pay hush money. CNN has done it, cbs, Hey, I had to pay A ton of hush money and sign a non, a lot of non disclosures over Les Moonvest, over Charlie Rose, over all the stuff that was. The DA's office has done it. They've had to sign non disclosures and pay hush money. So it's never, ever been criminal. It was a completely fraudulent case. How do you do that? You get a crazy DA here in New York. You send a guy from the Biden administration to run it. You, you get a crazy left wing, Trump hating judge, same thing on the jury. And that's how they did. Now, can Trump overdo that? Well, I don't know. That's tough. That's very tough. The other thing, guys like Trump, billionaires, one thing I've noticed, that's about all of them, they never look backwards. Trump's not a retribution guy. He wouldn't prosecute Hillary. He's just, they don't look in the rearview mirror and everything important is in front of them. They always tell you that they always look forward. Never, never look backwards. So I think he'll probably let it go. But I hear music playing. That means we're gonna take a little break. It's Marc Simone here for Buck and Clay. Hey, make sure you follow me on Instagram, Mark simonenyc at Instagram and Mark Simoneny at Twitter. And of course you can listen to my show on the Iheart app. We got a lot to talk about. Don't go away. It's Mark Simone here for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Marc Simone
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth. We now return to Mark Simone from AM710WOR in New York, sitting in for Clay and Buck.
Mark Simone
Well, actually, I'm standing right now. Once while I sit down. Everything's built high here. You can stand up here. You sound better when you stand up. You see, you can walk around like this and you're not that close to the microphone. But now, what is this tweet all about? Donald Trump tweeting about Bill Gates visiting Mar A Lago. He says something like, when are you coming to the center of the universe, Mar A Lago? You know, the, the left wing media, the fake news, they're all trying to convince you that there's going to be a big blow up between Trump and Elon Musk, that he can't stand Elon Musk. So they're speculating. This is what this is all about. He's talking about Bill Gates coming to Mar A Lago to get Elon Musk jealous. Yeah, I don't Think so. I think it's just saying knowing. And I know Donald Trump well. I've known him for 30 years. I know him really well. I'm doing. I know, I mean, he's operating up on a much different level, but I kind of know how he operates a little. So the reason for that, he's letting Bill Gates know, you're late. Everybody in Silicon Valley, the entire tech industry, has come to Mar a Lago to make peace with me, and includes Zuckerberg, Tim Cook of Apple, all these people. He's kind of letting Gates know, where are you? You're a little late. Let's get on the bandwagon. So don't be surprised if Gates shows up there. You know, Bill Gates looked like this harmless sort of a guy, obviously a, you know, big tech guy and a zillionaire at one point, the richest man in the world. But with the rumpled sweater, the glasses always fogged up, you know, look like a harmless little bookworm of a guy. Then you find out he's at Jeffrey Epstein's house for hours on end. Jeffrey Epstein's house, You know, here in Manhattan, he had this big house where you would go, and it wasn't just young girls, it was whatever you liked with Bill Clinton. You know, he liked those 40 year old floozies. Epstein could come up with that. Bill Gates likes these mousy librarian types. Epstein would come up with that. But you see these visits that Gates made to Epstein's house. One was six, seven, eight hours. When asked, Gates said, oh, I was there to discuss my charity with him. First of all, when you're the richest man and when you got 150 billion, you really don't need this guy with his 20 million for a donation. And also, I've been in a lot of meetings where I'm on the board of a lot of charities, where you're discussing charities, you have big board meetings. I never saw one take six, seven hours. They're all done in an hour or less. Oh, maybe, maybe it could go to an hour and a half. In the crisis, they're never six, seven hours. So what the hell was he doing at Jeffrey Epstein's house? And then his character witness is Warren Buffett. And Buffett, who's beloved, everybody respects his judgment. For years he said that Bill Gates is my close friend. In fact, Buffett is very old now. He's 94, 95. And he's going to leave $150 billion fortune. And he always said, I'll put it into the Gates Foundation. Bill Gates foundation, he said, always pick the best to do whatever you need done. And he said, that's the foundation. I trust them to distribute my money wisely to the right charity. Well, in the last few months, he's not doing that anymore. He's decided against the Gates Foundation. Instead, he's giving it to his, his own family's foundation. So he's kind of lost faith in Bill Gates. So if you're listening, Bill Gates, I would get to Mar a Lago. I would go make nice with Donald Trump. Hey, by the way, when you keep left wing media, when you keep trying to make it sound like the ego of Trump, he's going to turn on musk. He's going to hate. No, no, no. It never happens. Trump, all his life has had the biggest business guys in the world. In the real estate business. He had the biggest real estate guys around him, friends, and I've never seen any of those relationships ever blow up. Now, he's had feuds with big guys, but it's always from the beginning. That's one thing about Trump, he meets you and within a minute, he's got radar, sonar. He figures you out in one minute. If he's gonna ever have a problem with you, he has it in the first minute. He can read people really well. So anybody's become a good friend, stays a good friend. I've never ever seen an exception to that. Let's take some calls. Let's go to Mike in Tennessee. Mike, how you doing?
Mike
Hey, Mark. Happy New Year.
Mark Simone
You too.
Mike
Hey, thank you. Hey, you know, I have continued thinking about that first press conference Trump had. And you know what it appears to me is that Trump is helping the press corps become better journalists, whether they like it or not, whether they're, for whatever reason. That was the most coherent press conference. I got answers to questions I had that I wanted to ask. And I think he's dragging them into being better journalists.
Mark Simone
You know, I hate to say most of them are great journalists. If they wanted to be, they were before they went totally nuts and corrupt. But if they wanted to really investigate, they have the skills to do it. It's just deliberate. Even those crazy MSNBC people, you know, if they, if, if they really tried and stop the corruption and stop the emotional hatred of Donald Trump, they'd be great journalists. You know, they'd investigate everything and get to the bottom of it, but they just don't want to do it. I got it. I got a cough. Wait a minute. Allergies driving me crazy, so. Oh, by the way, Here's a good example. The other thing is, if they wanted to cover stuff, they could. If they don't want to cover stuff, they don't. They absolutely don't. You remember how Biden said, I never met with my son's business partners, don't know a thing about it. Never met with him. And then the pictures came out. Here you are having dinner with him at Cafe Milano. Here you are in the golf course playing golf with them. That's like 4 hours, 12 hours, the way Biden plays. Well, now, a new batch of photos just came out, just discovered. It's when Biden went to China with Hunter. You remember back when he was vice president, he had a big trip to China to meet the President Xi and the top Chinese officials and he took Hunter with him. And apparently Hunter did a lot of business over there with some Chinese chicom business people. Well, photos have now emerged. We hadn't seen them before. It's pictures of Biden in talks with the business partners and Hunter. Have you seen this story all over the news? No. Now maybe on Fox News or maybe a Newsmax or somewhere. No, I don't want to report it. But further proof that Biden just out and out lied. Remember that trip he took Hunter? He's vice president, United States. His son Hunter comes with him on the plane, Air Force Two, has meetings over there and does all this business. And then they come back on the plane and they ask Biden about Hunter doing business over there, getting massive Chinese communists to invest billions in his hedge fund, even though he's not a hedge fund guy and has never had a hedge fund before. And Biden says, I don't know anything about. I don't know why. I don't. I have no idea what he was doing on the trip. I don't know. Now, can you imagine you're on a 17 hour plane ride and your son is there. 17 hours. You ever tried to talk to somebody for 17 hours? At some point you would say, what are you going to do while we're in China? What are you doing on the trip? What do you plan while you're there? Or you got to fly back. That's another 17 hour plane ride. You wouldn't say to your own son, what'd you do on the trip? What were you up to? Nobody believes these lies, but photo proof just came out and that's it. Hey, remember that little dirty worm, Anthony Fauci? That little awful, sleazy Fauci who covered up the lab leak, who got everything wrong even when he Wasn't being sleazy, he was just dumb. You remember how many millions and millions he spent contact tracing? You know, if you had the virus, they would try it. He set up a massive operation to contact trace, find out everybody had come into contact with. And then later they had to explain to him, you don't do that with an airborne virus. They did that during aids because obviously if you had it and you had sex with somebody, then they most likely have it. You do it then. Airborne. Just because somebody went to supermarket, you don't try to find everybody in the supermarket. It was crazy. So besides the corrupt part of Foushee, he got everything wrong but swamp hero, deep state hero when he left. And he was the highest paid employee in the entire federal government when he left. He got a big job, distinguished professor role at Georgetown University. They put him on the faculty. Anthony Fauci. You know, these professors get a lot of money. Even just those regular professors, Many of them get 100, 200,000, and they're allowed to work two, three colleges at once. But he got a huge, huge salary to be a professor at Georgetown University. Oh, not just a professor, a distinguished university professor. Well, they've looked at the records. It turns out Fauci has not taught a single course. A new report says he has not done a single course for all that money. When asked about it, the college made up some whole. This whole big explanation. Well, he. He participates in medical and graduate engagement. With what? He never taught a single class anywhere. Hey, Apple about to become the first $4 trillion company ever. Sales of Apple, the new phones, everything, the watch, everything has just been on fire. The stock is up 40%. 4,0. 40% this year. 40% in one year. So it's about to become the first company worth $4 trillion. Unbelievable. Now there's a lot of companies having nothing but trouble going out of business. Party City closing all their stores. The Container Store now filing bankruptcy. The Container Store. It's a great idea. Have you ever gone to the Container Store and tried to buy something? You try, but I don't know. I can go on Amazon and get any box, any size. I need any little plastic container. See a lot of this stuff, you don't need to go to a store. You remember the idea at Costco. As you go in there and you could buy 20 rolls of toilet paper, 20 paper towels all together, and then you'd have to put it in your trunk and bring. Well, now you go onto Amazon, it'll come right to your door the next day. So a lot of this stuff, you don't need to buy it in a retail store. If it's shoes or something, you got to try it on. You want to feel it or clothes or something. You got to see it. But a lot of this stuff. So the Container Store closing down, same thing with Party City. Most of that stuff, you don't need to actually see it in person. Hey, we're talking about Trump and McDonald's. Do you know what Donald Trump's order? McDonald's is standard order. Whenever he goes somewhere, the staff knows what he wants. His regular order, and they get it and they bring it to him on the plane. His standard order. You got to admire this guy. Standard order, two Big Macs and two filet o fish sandwiches and a large chocolate milkshake. Now, I love the Big Mac. I always feel a little guilty eating it. I love the filet of guilty eating it. You know, you just shouldn't mean all the two of each. That's four. Plus a large chocolate milkshake. That's a President Joe's a regular order. Like, he's never even been to a McDonald's Joe. It's just like a little Gerber baby food with a bib around him. Anyway, we'll take a break and then we'll take some calls. 802-82-8882 is the number. 800-282. Hey, make sure you follow me on Instagram. It's Mark Simonenycstagram and follow me on Twitter. It's Mark Simoneny at Twitter and you can listen to me on the iHeart app or anywhere you get podcasts. You'll find my podcast, Mark Simone here for Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton saving.
Marc Simone
America one thought at a time. Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free I hard radio app or wherever you get your podcast.
Mark Simone
Hey, welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. So Donald Trump. Besides fixing the economy, besides fixing the outbreak of war all over the world, besides getting rid of the crime, besides fixing the border, he's got to do a lot of other stuff. He's got to put things back the way they were. You know, all that little woke stuff. You remember that Obama changed the name of Mount McKinley. Mount McKinley named in 1917 for a great American president, William McKinley. Obama changed the name to Denali. Mount Denali. It's Denali National Park. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Now, McKinley did a lot as president. So Trump, as he said he was a great president. We're going to put it back. We're going to rename it Mount McKinley. There's a lot of Air Force bases going to have to put the name back to what it was and undo all the woke nonsense from the left bit by bit by bit. Let's take some calls. Let's go to Joe in California. Joe, how you doing?
Joe
Doing great, thank you. Your program is great. I mean, I'm a new listener. Just call. This is my first time calling in, too.
Mark Simone
Well, you're doing pretty good for the first time now. What were you listening to before? Why, how come you just found us now?
Joe
I mean, I tune in every now and then, but I'm, you know, I'm not a Die Hard, so I, I listen. I mean, I watch Fox. I listen, you know, watch all of that.
Mark Simone
All right, let's pick up at the pace. Let's be a Die Hard. We want you every day listening.
Joe
Okay. All right, well, let's see what happens with this call.
Mark Simone
All right, go ahead. Let's see.
Joe
So my concern is this, listening to the narrative that's coming down regarding the.
Mark Simone
CEO, the healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.
Joe
Yes, yes. And my concern is this. There's a lot of gray areas here in terms of how people are feeling. And my concern is that you. The right side of the media now is painting it black and white. It's not black and white. People are the right. All of us who support Trump and everything. Yes. We do not want this guy to be murdered. We feel for his family this time. You know, it's very sad that that happened.
Mark Simone
Yeah. It's black and white. We don't want anybody murdered.
Joe
The corporate, the corporate elites.
Mark Simone
Yeah.
Joe
Have done the same thing. They've been responsible for a lot of people been rejected there. This guy's making money off of the misery of the people.
Mark Simone
Okay, but. Absolutely correct. But that's when you.
Joe
To what the people are saying.
Mark Simone
Okay, but that's when you use your voice. That's when you go public. That's when you protest. You protest in front of the company. That's when you go to court. That's when you sue.
Joe
I understand you can't murder people, but you. We understand that, but you guys are not real. You're not, you're not listening to what the majority of the small people are saying. You're listening. That's a corporate narrative right there. And it is a law and order.
Mark Simone
No matter how bad the business is, you can't justify murder.
Joe
Compassion has to be there from you guys. You guys have to understand that there's a lot of people hurting, a lot of people have been hurt by these guys.
Mark Simone
You're preaching to the choir. We all agree. But you can't murder people. You can't murder people otherwise. Well, you can imagine. You can't go around murdering people anyway. Well, we've got another hour to go and. Hey, we'll take a look at the next hour. Who was president for the last four years? Certainly wasn't Biden. We know that now. Even the New York Times admits it. Even the Wall Street Journal. See that massive piece? He was completely a vegetable. Just so. Who ran the country for those four years? We'll take a look at that and more coming up. It's Marc Simone for Clay and Buck.
Summary of "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show" Episode: "Hour 2 - There Was No Insurrection"
Release Date: December 27, 2024
Host: Mark Simone (Interim Host for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton)
Produced by Premiere Networks
In this episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, interim host Mark Simone delves into a variety of pressing topics, blending current events with political commentary. The discussion ranges from high-profile weddings and political assassinations to critiques of left-wing economists and speculative policy proposals by Donald Trump. Simone's perspective is distinctly conservative, offering a counter-narrative to mainstream media portrayals.
Mark Simone opens the discussion by examining Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' upcoming wedding, highlighting the astronomical costs associated with it.
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Notable Quote:
"He's renting mansions, private mansions for each person. So this is why it's going to cost a lot of money." [00:55]
Simone underscores the lavishness of such events, suggesting that Bezos' spending sets a new standard for high-net-worth individuals.
The episode shifts focus to the alarming assassination of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, orchestrated by Luigi Mangione.
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Notable Quote:
"Nobody was charged with insurrection. So that means there was no insurrection." [11:40]
Simone criticizes the justice system's handling of the event, suggesting a bias that could lead to an acquittal in a New York jury influenced by progressive ideologies.
Simone offers a scathing critique of left-leaning economists, particularly focusing on Paul Krugman.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
"Krugman just lying through his teeth and it's a good way for him to go out. Lying, lying, lying." [09:50]
Simone asserts that these economists undermine sound economic policies with their flawed analyses and political biases.
A substantial portion of the discussion is dedicated to dissecting the events of January 6th, challenging the narrative of an insurrection.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
"But they hit him with every charge they could hit him with. And nobody was charged with insurrection." [11:40]
Simone emphasizes skepticism towards mainstream accounts, advocating for alternative interpretations of the events.
Simone explores potential policy moves by Donald Trump, including making daylight saving time permanent and the controversial idea of purchasing Greenland.
Key Points:
Permanent Daylight Saving Time:
Purchase of Greenland:
Notable Quote:
"So the problem is no president has been much of a negotiator. Trump, best negotiator on earth. He's the guy that could pull this off." [14:15]
Simone portrays these proposals as forward-thinking strategies aimed at bolstering national security and economic strength.
Simone engages with callers, addressing concerns about District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutions of Donald Trump.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
"It's a completely preposterous, ridiculous case. Nobody's ever been charged with this in history." [13:25]
Simone defends Trump against what he views as politically motivated legal actions, calling for accountability and fairness in prosecutions.
The discussion turns to examining the personal and professional relationships between Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Anthony Fauci.
Key Points:
Bill Gates:
Anthony Fauci:
Notable Quote:
"When you got 150 billion, you really don't need this guy with his 20 million for a donation." [17:45]
Simone presents these figures as embodiments of corruption and misplaced trust within elite circles.
Simone contrasts Apple’s remarkable growth with the decline of retailers like Party City and The Container Store.
Key Points:
Apple Inc.:
Retail Failures:
Notable Quote:
"Apple is standard order, two Big Macs and two filet o fish sandwiches and a large chocolate milkshake. Now, I love the Big Mac." [25:30]
Simone underscores the shift towards digital commerce and the decline of traditional retail establishments unable to compete.
In the concluding segment, Simone discusses Trump's intentions to reverse what he terms "woke" cultural shifts.
Key Points:
Renaming Mount Denali:
Defense and Military Bases:
Notable Quote:
"We're going to put it back. We're going to rename it Mount McKinley. There's a lot of Air Force bases going to have to put the name back to what it was and undo all the woke nonsense from the left." [30:00]
Simone portrays these actions as essential steps in reclaiming American identity and countering liberal rebranding efforts.
Mark Simone's interim hosting of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show offers a fervent conservative perspective, critiquing Democratic figures, mainstream media narratives, and advocating for policies aligned with Donald Trump's vision. The episode intertwines discussions on high-profile personal events, political controversies, and economic analyses, emphasizing themes of corruption, bias, and the need for traditional values.
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