Hour 1: Kevin McCarthy did not have the votes to be elected as Speaker of the House.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, well, we got lots to get to. |
| 0:02.9 | We'll explain the whole Kevin McCarthy situation what the problem is. |
| 0:06.5 | We'll clear that up for you. |
| 0:07.7 | And then we'll get to, hey, Greta Thunberg, actually pretty impressive over the weekend. |
| 0:15.6 | We'll get to that. |
| 0:16.5 | We'll get to Ron DeSantis, his new inaugural. |
| 0:19.7 | We'll get to lots of stuff today. We'll get to |
| 0:22.0 | Eric Adams and his craziness. Hey, Joe Bartlett, 65 degrees here today. Great. What's the |
| 0:28.5 | temperature there? Probably about the same thing. Oh, okay. It's a tie. I love when you |
| 0:36.0 | call somebody in Florida. 65. What is it? It's only 82. Okay, you win. So, uh, anyway, it's a, it's a sort of a quiet week. Not everybody's back, I notice here in the city. A lot of people took, uh, the rest of the week off. It's kind of quiet everywhere. You see a lot of Broadway shows closing. Don't |
| 0:55.4 | be alarmed. That doesn't mean you're 10 shows closed. It always happens in January. I think |
| 1:00.0 | just before the pandemic, that year 11 closed. So it's pretty normal. Hotels are looking busy |
| 1:05.6 | again. China's going to let people start traveling again. You know, it's one of our biggest |
| 1:09.2 | sources of tourists, Chinese travelers. And they're going to start to be allowed to travel again of course it's |
| 1:16.5 | going to cause great more covid coming out massive outbreak new variants uh they'll be spreading it everywhere |
| 1:21.7 | but we need to fill up those hotels so are you a kevin m fan? I'm not a plus or minus on McCarthy, you know? I'm not quite sure. |
| 1:31.3 | That's problem number one. You know, everybody's stunned. |
| 1:35.3 | Stunned that he didn't win. That's problem number one. You mentioned Kevin McCarthy to anybody, |
| 1:40.3 | and the first reaction is, |
| 1:43.3 | if you went into his house and said to his family |
| 1:47.7 | Kevin McCarthy they'll say he's that kind of a guy you know you mentioned any speaker |
| 1:56.1 | anybody Nancy Pelosi to Democrats she's great you mentioned Newtingrich, who had his problems after a while in office, |
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