Hour 1: Mike Johnson is the frontrunner for the Speaker of the House job, and Trump is behind him.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we got a lot to get to today. We'll get to the fascinating race for speaker. |
| 0:06.4 | We'll get to the horrible anti-Semitism that is just pouring out of every different corner of |
| 0:13.2 | the Democrat, liberal world. We'll get to the Michael Cohen testimony, which I think totally backfired. We'll get to John Shaft. We'll get to Eric Adams. |
| 0:24.9 | We'll get you the actual numbers. They finally released the actual numbers. How many people are leaving New York? And where are they actually moving to? We'll get to all of that coming up. |
| 0:36.2 | So can you figure out this race for a Speaker of the House? |
| 0:39.6 | Nobody can. It's 14 different candidates. Every day they got a new guy that nobody ever heard of. |
| 0:44.4 | You know, it's like Fred Phillips. Oh, everybody's behind Fred Phillips. Next day he's gone. |
| 0:49.2 | It's Bob Johnson. Everybody's behind Bob Johnson. Next day he's gone. I don't know where they keep finding these guys. They all look the same. They all sound the same. Nobody knows who the hell they are. And here's Ralph Connors. Ralph Conner. Everybody's for this guy. Danny's gone. The next day they find another guy. Here's Fred Daniels. We're all behind Fred Daniels. Then he's gone. |
| 1:12.1 | So today, we've had 14 of these. |
| 1:16.0 | Back in the beginning, we knew who they were. |
| 1:17.8 | Steve Scalese, okay, I know who that is. |
| 1:20.7 | And then Jim Jordan. |
| 1:21.9 | Well, we know who that is. |
| 1:23.0 | We like him. |
| 1:24.9 | And then every day it's, you know, Bob Davis. We're all behind Bob Davis. The next thing he's gone. So today, and they think this guy could maybe get it, I don't know, but we've been telling you this every day for 22 days. This guy is Mike Johnson. They all got these names. They're all like married guys checking into a hotel room kind of names. |
| 1:47.8 | Mike Johnson is today's. |
| 1:50.2 | But Trump has tweeted out, well, it's on truth social. |
| 1:55.6 | What do you call that? |
| 1:56.7 | It's not a tweet, but he is backed Mike Johnson. |
| 2:01.6 | This is not to be confused with Ron Johnson from four days ago. |
| 2:04.9 | This is Mike Johnson, and hopefully they'll vote later today, and we'll see if he gets it. |
| 2:11.3 | And if he doesn't get it, they'll find another guy with a, you never heard of, with a very |
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