Hour 1: Consumer Prices rose less than expected.

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mark breaks down President Trump’s speech to the nation from last night. Ronald Hicks is announced as the new archbishop, replacing Cardinal Dolan in New York after Dolan’s retirement announcement. Mark takes listener calls. Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. Steve analyzes the new economic reports, noting that November’s consumer prices rose at a 2.7% annual rate, lower than expected due to a delayed report. Moore discusses how President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” could bring historic savings for many Americans, affecting their tax statements and paychecks.

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0:00.0	Now on the voice of New York. It's the Mark Simone show on 710 W.O.R.
0:11.0	Well, hey, there's a lot happening. We'll get to Cardinal Dolan is leaving. That's very bad news.
0:16.7	We'll get to Brown University that president should be leaving. Just horrible job she's done. We'll get to Brown University, that president should be leaving.
0:21.0	Just horrible job she's done.
0:23.1	We'll get to President Trump.
0:25.3	We'll get to the speech last night, a bit of a dud.
0:28.6	But we'll get to something else he did yesterday that is going to upset everybody.
0:34.1	It's not the right thing to do.
0:35.4	You shouldn't do it, but it's good that he did.
0:38.0	It just drives these Democrats in the media. Absolutely crazy. We'll get to that. We'll get
0:43.3	to Nick Reiner and we'll get to Jack Smith and a whole lot more. Hey, this is just breaking this
0:50.5	morning. The Oscars seen on ABC TV for decades, decades, Oscars, Sunday night, ABC,
0:59.4	Oscars, Channel 7, ABC TV for decades and decades. And I think before that, in its first few years,
1:06.3	it was NBC, I think. I think that's why Bob Hope was the host and Johnny Carson. But it moved to ABC,
1:11.8	where it's been for decades. Well, they lost the Oscars. They've got it for the next two years,
1:17.7	but then it moves to YouTube. YouTube got the Oscars. Now, YouTube is really taken over television.
1:28.3	You know, as network TV completely dies and has fewer and fewer viewers every second, you think
1:36.3	that Netflix and the streaming services are taken over, but it's really YouTube that's capturing
1:42.3	the biggest share of the television audience.
1:44.9	YouTube is going to be the biggest thing.
1:46.8	Now, this is a big step getting the Oscars.
1:50.6	We always assumed Amazon or Netflix would get the NFL or Major League Base.
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