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Clay Travis
This is the Clay and Buck Show. While Clay Travis and Buck Sexton are out, New York City's own Marc Simone is in.
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Marc Simone
Hey, welcome back. Marc Simone here for Buck and Clay. Normally, I'm on our big flagship station in New York, 7, 10 W O R or you can hear me on iHeart on the iHeart app. So lots to talk about this hour. 24 days. 24 days till Donald Trump takes over, till the national nightmare is over. It's 24 days away now. A lot can happen in 24 days, and you're talking about a dirty, sleazy Joe Biden. If you thought those were bad pardons, wait till the final week. He's been signing, furiously signing all kinds of laws into effect. He's been ramping up the delivery of arms to Ukraine, its defense contracts. Democrats love to hand those out now, Republicans, too. But everybody's worried about the final week or two because whatever the dirtiest stuff you're gonna do is, that's when you do it. Hey, it's the end of the year. You look back at 2024. It's been an amazing year. If you go back to January and February, the talk was that Donald Trump had no chance. That should be Ron DeSantis. It should be dirty Nikki Haley. It should be whether. We had a couple other choices, but Trump was thought to be way in the past. That's it. We can't keep. Let him be the candidate again, and I'll take credit, among others, I was the one saying he is the king of comebacks. He wrote a book once called the Art of the Comeback. He knows how to make the biggest comeback in the world. And he just made the biggest comeback in political history to not only take the nomination, first Republican to win the popular vote, win all the swing states, it was an incredible, incredible victory. But looking back on 2024, the biggest moments of the year, obviously. Butler, Pennsylvania. It's still the most unbelievable, astonishing thing in the world. They have these slides that Trump uses, and he points to these charts and graphs and the one about illegal immigration they use at the end. It's always at the end of the speech. Somehow, for some reason, the graphics person put it up early, way too early. But Trump turned to look at it at just the second the bullet was coming. It would have hit him right in the head, right in the middle of the head. But he turned to look at that chart that just went up and as a result, it just clipped his ear, just the top of his ear. He says now that that chart saved his life. And that he loves that chart. He had it framed. It's in his office in a frame. He loves that chart. But it was the most amazing moment of 2024. That shot right in the middle of his head, just in a miracle, in a split second, just happened to turn his head and the bullet missed, took off the top of his ear. Now, how many people could go through what he went through? A bullet grazes your head, takes off part of your ear, and then about four big huge guys that are like linebackers just throw you to the ground and jump on you as if you're getting tackled in the middle of a football game. How many 78 year olds could have that bullet hit their ear? Those guys tackle them and then pop up and just pump their fist a few times. It was the most incredible moment ever in the history of any campaign. Unbelievable. That picture of him pumping his fist became the most iconic picture of the year. Then the other big moments, obviously that debate with Joe Biden, I don't know, I mean, you look back on it now, obviously was ever running things decided, time to push Biden out. They let him do that debate. They knew he was a vegetable. They knew it was a disaster coming. Biden has even said, single biggest regret doing that debate. He, Biden himself makes up a whole fake explanation of that. He had a cold and he should have delayed the debate and postponed. There's no cold known to man where suddenly you don't know your name or where you are. But that was one of the great moments. Obviously. Election night was amazing. What else? I mean, there were the Madison Square Garden rally. The crazy Democrats tried to call it a Nazi rally because somewhere 97 years ago, there was a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden. There's been a Nazi rally in a lot of places. Yankee Stadium once had a Nazi rally. I mean, it was ridiculous, that argument that it was a Nazi rally. Hillary Clinton has had rallies. The Democrats held their convention twice in Madison Square Garden. There's nothing Nazi like about Madison Square Garden. So 24 days from now, Donald Trump takes over. Hey, here's a word you haven't heard in a week. Drones. This is all you heard about all day, all day. Drones. This is all everybody was talking about, Drones. What's today? It's Friday, right? The whole week I haven't heard about drones. Nothing. Nothing. Everybody forgot about it. Nobody's showing pictures. You go on online here. Used to be Instagram. Everybody had videos of drones, pictures of drones. Haven't seen it at all. Hey, the phone number is 8002-8228-8280-0282-2882. Hey, we were talking about crazy California. One county, Orange county wants to crack down on shoplifting finally. But they're still just as crazy in California, especially when you get to San Francisco. So here's a big, very popular California restaurant. It's about to close. The reason it's closing, they were destroyed financially by lawsuits. They were sued and sued and sued in woke California because they had ladies night. Every Thursday was ladies night. Now, this was a custom all over the place in a million bars and restaurants and clubs. Ladies night, Wednesday, Thursday, some night is ladies night. And that means the ladies drink half price. Now why would you do that? Because how do you get men to show up at a certain bar? You have women there, a lot of women there, men show up. So that's, that's how you do it. Obviously, Ladies night drinks half price. A lot of women are going to go here and they say, oh, wait a minute, it's half price, let's go there. And it becomes very popular. And the more crowded it gets, the more people want to go there. So been done for a million years all over America. Ladies night. Well, this place, because it's in California, got sued and sued and sued and sued. It's gender discrimination. It's just, they were just trying to harass this place. Well, it worked. And they spent so much money on lawsuits that they're basically finished. They're going to have to close. And now we can't discourage other places from having ladies night. It does bring in a lot of women. It's not a bad idea. So hopefully, hopefully Donald Trump comes in and ends this woke nonsense. Hopefully it's a new era. As we go non woke, let's take some calls. 8002-8228-8280-0282-2882. It's Mark Simone here for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Let's go to Stephen in Pennsylvania. Steven, how you doing?
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Caller 1
Doing well. How are you today, sir?
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Marc Simone
Let me check. Not bad, not bad.
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Caller 1
I think Trump has a lot of good ideas. I especially like rfk Making America healthy again.
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Marc Simone
Yeah.
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Caller 1
I have a question for the audience. I am healthy. I am semi retired, meaning I, I'm retired, but I'm looking for something to do. And the thing is right now I have to be careful that I don't get a full time job. Otherwise I lose my health benefits through Social Security.
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Marc Simone
Yeah, that can happen.
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Caller 1
Why can't I paid in to Social Security for 40 plus years. Why can't I go get a full time job at something I like doing? It may not well, be the greatest.
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Marc Simone
I don't know much about Social Security and it is run by the government, so everything there is a disaster. But if you go back to work full time, how are you retired? You're either retired or you're not retired. You can't be both.
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Caller 1
That's what I'm asking you. That's not common sense.
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Marc Simone
Well, it kind of is. I know Social Security, I'm sure it's a mess. I've never had to deal with them, but. And the government messes up everything. But I can understand their point. Either you're retired or you're not retired. You can't do both.
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Caller 1
Why not?
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Marc Simone
Well, if you go to work full time, you're not retired. You're going to work every day from nine to five. You're not retired.
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Caller 1
This has nothing to do with being retired. What it says is, I put in.
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Marc Simone
I understand here, you get it.
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Caller 1
When you retire, if I'm. Why, why am I being penalized for being productive?
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Marc Simone
Because you unretired.
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Caller 1
No, I just.
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Marc Simone
Now let me point out to the audience, if you're with a family gathering and you get into these fights, don't even try. Now I've tried. How many times have I tried here? 3, 4 times with this guy. You cannot win. You can't win. The psycho. You know, when you get in these political arguments, especially with people, if it's about Trump or Democrats or Biden, don't argue with anybody. It could be the family dinner. You could be out with friends when they start, just yes them to death and change the subject. Somebody says to me, donald Trump elect, this is the worst nightmare. I can't sleep at night. I just go, yeah, me too. Anyway, you see the football game, Just change the subject. Don't even try. You're not changing anybody's opinion. Not going to happen. Don't even bother. Let's go to Mike in Ohio. Mike, how you doing?
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Caller 2
I'm well. Thanks for taking my call, Mark. And in the spirit of changing that subject, because I'm, I'm in my 60s, I am retired, you can add me to the list of Americans who also love that chart that you spoke of a little bit earlier. I wanted to refer back to the prior caller before you went to commercial break and his typical use of euphemism and lots of syllables and all that kind of stuff to dredge up the idea of a corporate narrative as a justification or rationalization behind murdering a health Care company executive. And there's a predicate assumption of facts not in evidence behind that argument, where the healthcare executive or the healthcare company is ultimately responsible for the misery or the pain or condition that that person has. And I, you know, somebody's going to have to show me how that healthcare company ultimately is responsible for condition X in the case of the.
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Marc Simone
That's a good point. Whatever the nightmare of the healthcare system is, it's not that guy's fault. He's got to operate in it, obviously.
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Caller 2
Yeah, that's exactly it. And we can. We can, you know, quibble about the points of the denials of coverage and that kind of stuff, but to go to the extent where you would murder another human being and then have these sycophants come behind the event and say, you know, well, you know, hey, yeah, it's bad to kill somebody, but, you know, they're responsible for.
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Marc Simone
Yeah, but you bring up a good point. They're really not responsible. Listen, if you were Brian Thompson, you're the head of United Healthcare, you would love to give the greatest service in the world because then everybody would sign up, everybody would leave every other company. You'd wipe out your competitors. But you got the nightmares of trying to exist in the system. You got to show a profit. You got to do whatever you have to do. It's horrible. But that's the system. And again, you can hate the healthcare company, but they're operating in this terrible system. That's why a guy like Trump sometimes is good at figuring out the broader picture. The forest, the trees, like the root, root cause. You know, Kamala liked to talk about root cause. United Healthcare, whatever they were doing that was just terrible for the customers. There was a root cause in the system. You got to fix the whole system. That's where you need a guy like Elon Musk and Vivek. Hopefully with the government efficiency, they'll start to look at it. You know, the problem with the healthcare system is the cost. It's out of control. It's probably totally corrupt. Why would it be $5,000 a night for a hospital room? You could go stay in the Ritz Carlton, the finest suite, and it's 1,200 a night. Why would it be $18 for an aspirin in the hospital? I can go to Costco and get a box that big for like $4. It's the corrupt system. You got to clean it up. Hopefully Musk and Vivek have that on the list. Hey, we'll take some more calls in a minute. Also, we'll take a look back at the Biden administration who was really running that. We'll look at all of that and more coming up. It's Mark Simone here for Buck and Clay. Make sure you follow me on Twitter. It's Mark Simone NYWitter Instagram. It's Mark Simone NYC@Instagram. You can check my website. Does anybody do that anymore? Mark simone.com you can hear me on the iHeart app, but we'll take some calls in a moment. Mark Simone here for Clay, Travis and.
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Clay Travis
Buck Sexton, Patriots radio hosts, a couple of regular guys, Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Marc Simone
Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Play Travis and Buck Sexton is a nice email. Linda from Florida writes, Dear Mark, it's the first time I've listened to you. Your voice sounds like an intelligent and coherent version of Howard Stern. Wait a minute, do I sound like Howard Stern? I was an instant fan and hearing your program. Okay, but Howard Stern, that used to be a good name. Ever since he became this left wing woke Howard Stern. It's just unlistenable anymore. Can't listen to it at all. Let's see. Let's take some calls. Let's go to Dirk in Tennessee. Dirk, how you doing?
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Caller 3
I'm doing great. How you doing today? Good, good. I would like this guy in the CEO that was assassinated in New York City.
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Marc Simone
Yeah.
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Caller 3
Allegedly not providing health care or denying health care to people. And they're upset about that and they think it's somehow justified. But they're under their, they're thinking that they're going to get health care if we go to like the universal health care system. But even Obama had admitted that by that time on, I guess on tv, he said that Graham, sometimes it might be better just to give. Put grandma on painkillers and send her home.
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Marc Simone
Yeah, it's a very good point. You know, the whole campaign, during the Kamala Harris campaign, Democrats kept arguing that Obamacare was wonderful and it had cleaned up the mess and that under Obamacare everything's improved. Well, obviously it hasn't. Yeah, you're right. You remember part of Obamacare was that ghoul, remember that evil looking. What the Dr. Rahm Emanuel's brother, what was his name? Zeke. Dr. Zeke Emanuel. Remember him? That's ghoul, ghoulish looking, awful doctor who would go on television, talk about death panels and if you got to a certain age, maybe you were 85. Well, not worth giving you the operation death panels. Speaking of that ghoul, his brother Rahm Emanuel, I forgot he's talking about running for president next time around. Oh, hopefully Democrats have learned they'll get back towards the center, back to common sense and find a normal, normal candidate. Hey, coming up, we'll talk to Jake Novak. Great analysis of the news and who is really running this administration. We'll take a look at that and more coming up. It's Mark Simone here for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. They'll be back real soon. And we'll be back in just a moment.
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Clay Travis
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth. And now we returning to Mark Simone of AM710WO filling in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
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Marc Simone
Yeah, Mark Simone here for Buck and Clay. Hey, Jake Novak, a great columnist and commentator and make sure you follow him on Twitter. It's Jake, Jake NY at Twitter, also Jake Novak, substack and you can watch him on Real America's Voice. He's on every morning, 7:00am Real America's voice. Jake Novak, how you doing?
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Jake Novak
I'm doing fine. I haven't overeaten too much yet. I know there's a few days left, but just so far so good.
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Marc Simone
Hey, now that the nightmare is over of Joe Biden or just about all the fake news, the fake story, the fake what's going to happen with the media? Are they going to learn their lesson? Are they going to try to reform or is it just going to continue?
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Jake Novak
No. And you know, Mark, I like to give your listeners and my viewers a heads up on the latest media nonsense that's gonna be thrown at them. And I see one coming down the pike already, already this week. Get ready for what I call trans murder mania. I noticed this in a number of papers this morning. They're gonna start this narrative that trans people get murdered more often than other people. And it's because you and me, Mark, it's because you and I are upset about boys being in a girls locker room. And shouldn't we be ashamed because this is leading to murder. Of course, that's not why they get, they get murdered. And by the way, whoever murders them should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Absolutely. But they're getting murdered, Mark, because they live, they have a very high rate of at risk lives. They're very highly likely to be in prostitution or in heavy drug trades or other parts of life that are very, very dangerous. It's very sad. But that's got nothing to do with you or me not wanting Our daughters to be in a locker room with an adult male, and then we shouldn't be. But by the way, this is what's going to happen. I already saw it in the LA Times and the Chicago Sun Times. They're going to start to try to hit us with this nonsense. So, no, they have not learned their lesson. They'll move from immigration to this and back and forth over the next few months. You just watch.
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Marc Simone
Well, it's a long democratic tradition. In fact, it goes back to the French Revolution. You try to create some fake nightmare boogeyman, you know, the QAnon or it's the alt right or it's the T. You try to drum up some fear of something and only you can rescue these people from it. Remember, it was white supremacists. There's a handful of white supremacists somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, maybe in a prison somewhere, but outside of that, it's not a big problem. So. But you think people have just stopped falling for all of this?
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Jake Novak
Yes. You know, I have noticed it's been refreshing. Fewer people are falling into this, you know, this nonsense. You know, again, I mean, obviously the election result is the best example that all the hoaxes and the lies about Donald Trump didn't really take. I think there was also an aspect of not just smarts and people getting wise to it, Mark, but I think people just got really tired of it. You know, there's only so much of the world is on fire that a human brain can take, and they eventually either turn the channel or just focus on something else. You know, I'm a Jets fan. I can't take the end of the world any more than watching that team. So, I mean, honestly, at some point you get tired of it and you really, you at least need to take a break. And so I don't. Again, that's something that this news media doesn't get. And they also don't get how to really attract an audience. You know, I see CNN is leading this morning with the fact that conservatives are arguing over the H1B visa. But that's democracy, by the way. No one killed anyone over this. We're arguing, we're having a very smart debate. Meanwhile, you got this New York subway murderer story. Him getting arraigned. To me, that's a much bigger story. I don't know. These people apparently don't want to have viewers or listeners. They're not covering that at all. So, you know, they don't even know how to scare us properly or sensationalize properly. They're just so lost.
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Marc Simone
Yeah, the subway story. And people may not know. Around the country, a guy, just an illegal here. Illegal, set a woman on fire, burned her up on fire on the subway. Because of that Daniel Penne case, everybody was afraid to get involved or do anything. And it was a black. Was it a black guy and a white woman?
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Jake Novak
I think no, it was a Guatemalan illegal migrant who had been deported and he came back illegally under the Biden administration's easy open border policies. But I really think this is a story, Mark, that could really turn the tide even in the blue cities, in the blue sanctuary cities. Because anytime somebody says we have to do X, Y and Z to pay, use taxpayer money to help these illegal migrants and not allow Donald Trump to get. All you need to do is show him this horrific video. And the video is horrific. I warn anyone watching it. You see a woman burning and people just walking by. You know, we had a famous case in New York city in the 1960s, the Kitty Genovese case. This is a woman who was raped and murdered in Queens. And there was a lie that was perpetuated for decades that no one did anything about it because the New York Times reported they've been fake news for 50 years. Mark, the New York Times reporter said that nobody came to help her. It turned out that wasn't true, that many people tried to help her, including a very small, smallish woman who almost died herself trying to save her. But the New York Times reporter wanted to create the sensational story that nobody cared. Sadly, in this case, we have the video showing even the cops walking by as this woman is standing up. And by the way, they haven't been able to identify this woman yet. I mean, how alone in the world must she be? She's been missing since Sunday and no one's come to the cops and said, oh, I think that was my loved one. I mean, it's a really horrific story, but hopefully the silver lining of it will be that it will end this argument that we have to protect these illegal migrants from the evil Donald Trump. This is what they're doing in our city. They can't be allowed to continue.
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Marc Simone
So Democratic Party we're talking to, Jake Novak is a mess, a total shambles. The brand is damaged. I don't think they realize how much crime affects every voter and the border and all that. They gotta clean up this party. Who's gonna. Is there anybody right now who's really the boss in Democratic world? Anybody in charge?
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Jake Novak
No one person. You know, let's talk about Our grammar here, singular. I can't say. I can't say that. No. We don't know who is in charge. It's been an anonymous committee running this White House since day one. We know that now. Since we know. I mean, a lot of us knew in 2019 that Joe Biden wasn't all there, but I guess now it's documented to 2021 when he first took office. And the only person who has come forward in the last few days to say, I want to take over this party is Marianne Williamson, who has no chance in hell of getting. She wants to be the DNC chairwoman. It's never going to happen. And you. And. But it's very telling that someone who's on the. I mean, she's on the fringe, even for the Democrats. She's. She apparently used to be a Bernie Sanders kind of acolyte, but she's not even in his inner circle. I mean, she is completely, completely on the outs, and she's the only one to stand up. Which just goes to show, Mark, it's still an anonymous committee that's running this party, running this White House. We don't know who they are. I mean, I can guess some of the people. I can. I assume Barack Obama's on it. Susan Rice, David Axelrod, maybe even Nancy Pelosi. But I don't know the names of the full committee, which means I have less freedom than the people of the Soviet Union back in the worst days of the USSR because at least they knew the names of their darn Politburo. I don't know the names of the secret committee that's running my country right now, at least until January 20th.
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Marc Simone
If it was Barack Obama, then I would assume that's over because he's like a New York jets coach where he called all the wrong plays and they lost the game. So wouldn't they be done with him by now, listening to him?
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I think, you know, when he gave that speech the Friday before Thanksgiving and he was leaving the country, I got the feeling that he was throwing up his hands and saying, all right, I'm done. And I do think they are moving on from him, but I don't think they have anybody to move on to. You know, this is an example of where it would have been nice if Bill Clinton hadn't really destroyed his political legacy. He's still, apparently, he's quite sick, but still, he had a winning brand for the Democrats. Love him or hate him, he created a Democratic Party that was pro capitalism, that was softer on a board that didn't shove abortion down our throats. I shouldn't use that term with Bill Clinton. Sorry, that didn't, that, you know, that wasn't crazy about crime. He was in favor of the death penalty. Wouldn't it be great if they could go back? But they completely ran him out of town. He did it to himself, too, with the Lewinsky scandal and allowing Hillary Clinton to go crazy, far left to get Obama's endorsement. You know, he could have reined her in and said, hey, listen, I'll support you for President, Hillary, but you're ruining the legacy that I created. So wouldn't it be nice if they could go to him? It'd be great if they could go to a guy like John Fetterman who, like, listen, I don't know how John Fetterman is gonna vote. I don't know if he's really that reliable in that way. But he's the one sane voice in that party in a high level position. He's a member of the U.S. senate. It would be great if they turned to him for some leadership, but clearly he's not in the inner circle. So they do, they do have some options, but it's a far way for them to go and they've dug their own hole.
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Marc Simone
Yeah. The only thing with Fetterman, we don't know, is he some sort of fake phony Joe Manchin, you know, trying to, like, play with everybody? He could be that, too.
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Caller 4
Yeah.
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Jake Novak
We don't know yet. We don't. And I advise everyone, I'm not the first one to say this. I advise everyone not to make him a saint yet. But on the other hand, when somebody does something good or says something good from the other side, I think we should make a big point of agreeing. So when he says great stuff about Israel or when he says great stuff about how blue collar people have been ignored by the Democratic Party, we should let everyone know that we agree with that. And here's our plan to make sure that that continues on our side. And also say, hey, if you really think that, John, then confirm Trump's nominees, vote for this bill, that kind of thing. And let's just see if he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. And if that's the case, then he'll deserve more praise. Until then, we should always be careful with people, Republicans too, not just Democrats.
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Marc Simone
Yeah. Hey, Jake Novak, speaking of Israel, what's going to happen? What can Trump do? How can he settle that real fast?
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Jake Novak
Well, Joe Biden's administration has been Slow walking weapons and other things. Israel needs to fight these wars. They've also been constantly telling them what they can and can't do, and it's cost a lot of lives for not just Israelis, but also some other civilians. So Donald Trump is going to end that. You know, again, a lot of you may not notice it because of some of this stuff that Biden's been doing, the administration's been doing, has been in secret. The only thing that, you know, you really saw that was very clear was when they said don't go into Rafah, and thank God they did go into Rafah or we'd still be fighting. You know, Hamas would still be pretty strong.
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Marc Simone
Yeah.
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Jake Novak
So Donald Trump will remove those stoppers and I think it will very much quickly end what's left of the war with Hamas, what's left of the war with Hezbollah, and, and now the war with the Houthis, who of course simultaneously attacked the US And Israel. So that'll be a double win for the American people. So I do think we're gonna see that and I think, Mark, that within six months of Donald Trump taking the oath of office, we will see Saudi Arabia sit down and sign an actual peace treaty with Israel and join the Abraham Accords. I think that will happen by June, and that will be because of Donald Trump.
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Marc Simone
Wow.
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Caller 3
Hey.
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Marc Simone
When he demands the hostages back, I hate to even ask, but what are the odds these hostages are alive?
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Jake Novak
I think about, you know, the number I keep hearing from my sources is 50 or 51 of the hostages are still alive. I'd like to believe that maybe conservatively, it's maybe half that. I don't know. But again, they keep giving me that number, 5051, and I'm hoping it's, it's more, but it's probably that. The issue is, where are they? Are they in Gaza? Did they get snuck into Egypt? Because there was a time when they were able to get into Egypt pretty freely. There's some horrific rumors about what's happening to the two toddlers, the babies that were kidnapped, that they're now being raised to be terrorists themselves. I mean, her horrible, horrible stories, but it's possible. Listen, the nation that was able to blow up these guys with pagers that they sold them, I believe has an opportunity. You know, there's a chance that they have a better idea of where these hostages are. And so I'm just hoping that they will be returned. And I do think that's something. I think we will get some of them back. I'm not going to throw out a number there because I don't want to say too small a number and be under optimistic or too big a number and disappoint people. But I do think that also within a few months of Trump's taking office, we will have some of these hostages returned.
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Marc Simone
Now, Donald Trump would have a lot of leverage with Iran. He could destroy their oil economy if he got them to cut the funding for all these groups. What would that do?
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Jake Novak
Well, that would immediately, immediately show a tremendous, tremendous plus. You know, Hezbollah is still getting weapons from Iran. The Houthis are getting a massive amount of weapons from Iran if the money is cut off and they're unable to. But it costs Iran a lot of money to do this, not only to procure the weapons but to get them around some of the blockades and things like that. And this is what I always tell the American people. Don't listen to anyone who says that we need to have a full on war with Iran and American troops ever have to be in the Middle east. They never do. They just need to cut off the darn money. And whatever American forces are in the Middle east right now wouldn't have to be engaged if we didn't have a Biden administration. They're talking about well over $200 billion under the Biden administration that went to Iran that easily could have been withheld from them. And almost all of that money went to killing innocent people, period. That's easy to understand. And so it's easy to understand that cutting that off would lead to less death and destruction.
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Marc Simone
Well, Jake Novak, great stuff. Make sure you follow him on Twitter. It's Jake, Jake NY at Twitter. Make sure you follow him at substack. A lot of good stuff every day. Jake novak.substack.com and tell people where to watch you.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I'm on Real America's Voice every morning. American Sunrise early edition Monday through Friday, 7 to 8am Eastern Time. Talk about a lot of these issues that I just talked about with Mark. And it's, it's a lot of fun. I just started it about a month ago. Every morning, Monday through Friday, I got to write, produce and book it myself. But I wouldn't have it anyway.
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Marc Simone
Well, everybody watch it. Make sure you follow him on Twitter. Jake, Jake NY at Twitter. Jake Novak, thanks for being with us.
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Jake Novak
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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Marc Simone
All right. Take care. Hey, we'll take some calls in a minute. 800-282-2882. It's Mark Simone here for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, news you can count on.
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Clay Travis
And some laughs, too. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Marc Simone
Hey, welcome back. Mark Simone here for Buck and Clay. I'm looking on Instagram. Everybody's on vacation now. See, look at this guy. Friend of mine, he's on the beach. Beautiful beach, white sand, the blue water. Now this guy. You get jealous looking at this, okay? But now look at her. She's on a ski vacation. She's on top of a mountain with goggles all bundled up, six scarves, two to three jackets, four. Why would you pay. Why would you pay a lot of money to go somewhere where there's more snow than where you are? Why would you want to go freeze? You know, you go to this beach, what do you got to pack? A bathing suit. That's it. Look at this. You got to pack skis and goggles and poles and mittens and. It doesn't make any sense. We got time for one more call. Yeah, let's go to Damon, who's calling from Washington. Damon, how you doing?
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Caller 4
I'm doing good. Thanks for taking my call. It's the same people that for Biden that are running things were the same people that put together his campaign from the basement and kept him from having to answer any questions. Like when they had the, the reporters stand in line and each had to, had to read off their questions so that he could keep track of who they are, what their questions were and come up. Well, he didn't come up with anything. He had the answers in advance.
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Marc Simone
Yeah, it's a very good point. But you watch that Trump press conference from two, three weeks ago at Mar A Lago, took questions from anybody and everybody call on anybody. Didn't matter who it was. You could be the most vicious pit bull from CNN. He'd call on everybody and it was 75 minutes. And there were good, tough questions. And every question you give a 5, 10 minute real answer to, you compare that to Biden, who the very, very, very few press conferences, they literally say, this is the person you call on. They'd put his name in big block letters with a picture so he'd know who they were. Four or five people you had to call on, here's what they look like. And then they would print out the answer on a card. He'd read the answer and then he'd end the thing and try to walk off the stage, but didn't know where the door was. It's at the White House. It's his own house. He lives there. He can't find the door. The nightmare will be over in 24 days. Trump will take over. Hey, we're out of time, but thanks a lot for listening. It's Marc Simone. If you wanna listen to me normally, go to the Iheart app or my podcast on iheart or 710WOR in New York. You can follow me on Instagram marksimonenyc. At Instagram. Just check my website, marksimone.com it's got a link to everything there. Well, thanks for being with us. Have a great new year and take care.