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Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment — NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Mark Simone. This is the bonus segment for
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  Speaker 1: all of you podcast listeners out there. So, as we've
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  Speaker 1: been reporting Iran out to get President Trump, literally trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill him. They've issued all kinds of threats, and
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  Speaker 1: Israel has warned him that they're targeting Air Force One.
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  Speaker 1: It's now being escorted by fighter jets all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: But President Trump revealing that he has left instructions if
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  Speaker 1: anything happens to him to just wipe out Iran, bomb
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  Speaker 1: them at levels never ever seen before. That's a great deterrent,
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  Speaker 1: except these are people running around are absolute raging fifteenth
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  Speaker 1: century lunatics. Threats and deterrence and all that doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to work on them as it would work on other people.
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  Speaker 1: But my money's on President Trump to win this thing now.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, you don't hear much about him in the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. He's kind of gone quiet a little.
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  Speaker 1: You remember about two weeks ago the Justice Department announced
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  Speaker 1: they're taking a look at Gavin Newsom, probing Gavin Newsom,
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  Speaker 1: investigating him. There's all kinds of money flying around with
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  Speaker 1: the Gavin Newsom and with his wife. The wife set
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  Speaker 1: up fundraising of philanthropy charity nonprofit and millions and millions
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  Speaker 1: and millions came pouring in from donors, people to do
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  Speaker 1: business with California. It's pretty shady stuff, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit charity. However, the Justice Department is saying they are
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  Speaker 1: investigating to see if money from that made its way
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  Speaker 1: into either the personal finances of the Newsoms or into
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  Speaker 1: there for profit businesses, and they've started looking at that. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom says it's all political, it's a law, but
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  Speaker 1: apparently it's real as far as the money actually coming in,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of activity there that needs looking at. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is Gavin Newsom, you know, has gone
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  Speaker 1: kind of quiet the last couple of weeks. And also
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  Speaker 1: people are demanding reporters in the press demanding to see
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  Speaker 1: his tax forms and there are apparently missing tax returns. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Years ago, this guy was always putting out his taxes
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  Speaker 1: through the years. Years ago, it was no problem. But
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  Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, there's no tax forms. And
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  Speaker 1: finally a reporter confronted him and said, where are these
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  Speaker 1: missing tax returns? Why can't we see them? And Newsom said,
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  Speaker 1: I know you love taxes Donald Trump, when has he
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  Speaker 1: released his taxes? Well, plenty of times. But Newsom all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden not releasing these tax forms, which makes
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing look even more suspicious. You know that
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  Speaker 1: where there's smoke, there's fire, Well there seems to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of smoke here coming out of Newsom. He
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  Speaker 1: previously had no problem releasing tax forms. But now and
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  Speaker 1: he said, hey, I've released my taxes for decades. Well
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  Speaker 1: that makes it me even more suspicious that you won't
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  Speaker 1: do it now. And he says, you will have those
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  Speaker 1: new tax returns. I have no reason why you haven't
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  Speaker 1: gotten them already, but you will have them. Well, release them.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't take that long. It's not that hard, hey speaking.
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  Speaker 1: California Consumer Affairs does this ranking every year of the
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  Speaker 1: best to worst states. Guess where California is absolutely one
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  Speaker 1: of the worst states in America. It used to be
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  Speaker 1: at the top, used to be the very top of
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  Speaker 1: the list. Now it's number forty eight out of fifty.
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  Speaker 1: It's in forty eighth place. The only thing worse is
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana at forty nine, in New Mexico at fifty. And
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  Speaker 1: I can see that. You ever watch breaking bad in
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico where they live, it looks kind of bleak,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, even the wealthy drug lords living in
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  Speaker 1: these like adobe houses with a cactus every place that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like a place you want to live. But
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  Speaker 1: California drops to forty eight, what's number one? Now, you'll
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  Speaker 1: never get New Hampshire. And somehow New Hampshire became number one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, over the last decade or two or three,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of New Yorkers Massachusetts, a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: elite Northeasterners moving up to Vermont and then Maine and
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  Speaker 1: now New Hampshire. A lot of it's beautiful up there.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people moving to New Hampshire. You know
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  Speaker 1: about this new trend gray divorce. Gray divorce is becoming
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  Speaker 1: a big thing. It means older people as they get
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  Speaker 1: towards retirement and seniors now getting divorced. It's a big trend.
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  Speaker 1: Gray divorce is growing like crazy. Reason is, as they
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  Speaker 1: get older, they've retired, they work their whole life. You know,
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  Speaker 1: normally you're retired somewhere and you're going to play golf
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. Now they want to get divorced because they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to basically say i'd like to really enjoy myself
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  Speaker 1: for once. I want to live the second half of
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  Speaker 1: my life having fun and being happy, not with the
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  Speaker 1: wife nagging or the husband driving your nuts. As they say,
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  Speaker 1: the second half of life is too precious to accept
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  Speaker 1: anything less than total fulfillment. So you got these all
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  Speaker 1: these studies shows like younger people gen Z, twenty somethings
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  Speaker 1: not dating as much, not doing. So it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the seniors that take over this world. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to be the singles that are out there all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a big, big trend. So instead of I do,
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  Speaker 1: it's I don't. You're going to see more and more
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  Speaker 1: and more of these older divorces. So, hey, mom, Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: you know he's been pushing this plan for faster buses.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm in mid taw Manhattan. Every time
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  Speaker 1: I walk around, you know, you're almost getting run over
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  Speaker 1: by a speeding bus. So I don't know what this
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  Speaker 1: concern is about faster buses, but this is a big
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  Speaker 1: priority he's talking about putting in. This putting in that
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  Speaker 1: we've got to speed up the buses. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: speed up the cars. I mean, most people are in cars,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't. I mean, most people don't complain about
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  Speaker 1: the speed of buses. Most people aren't going that far.
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  Speaker 1: And I've never heard me really complained about bus speed.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're really in a hurry, you take
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  Speaker 1: the subway. You're there in a second. But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people looking at what he's up to and what
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  Speaker 1: he's plotting and planning, say what this is really all about,
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  Speaker 1: because he's saying part of the thing to speed up
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  Speaker 1: buses is they'll put up traffic cameras. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: started doing this in different places in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Speed cameras. You know, you put that up. And what
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  Speaker 1: you do is you put it up and you lower
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  Speaker 1: the speed limit. If it's thirty five, you lower it
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  Speaker 1: to twenty. Who the hell could drive twenty, So everybody's
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  Speaker 1: going to go more than twenty, and then you give
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  Speaker 1: out speeding tickets to the speed cameras. Well. Part of
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  Speaker 1: this bus plan is they're going to put in about
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  Speaker 1: thirty thousand of these speed cameras. It's a great revenue
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  Speaker 1: generator for the city. It's an awful thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think about it, well, if you make
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  Speaker 1: people go lower the cars want that slow down the buses. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, if you want you want the buses to
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  Speaker 1: speed up, let the cars go faster. It'll help the
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  Speaker 1: buses go faster. So, I mean, it's just crazy New
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  Speaker 1: York City. It's government at its worst. There's another example.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Nightsche City Housing. Nightsche the city housing projects. They've got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, their own plumbers, their own electricians. And here's
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  Speaker 1: one plumber. Turns out he's New York City's highest paid employee.
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  Speaker 1: He's under investigation, but he's a Knightsche plumber, New York
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  Speaker 1: City Housing Authority plumber. Five hundred thousand last year, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. He put in for twenty six hundred
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  Speaker 1: hours of overtime. Nobody believes anybody worked twenty six hundred
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  Speaker 1: hours of overtime. But he's currently being investigated. Hey, terrible
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  Speaker 1: in Scarsdale this week there was a murder in Scarsdale. Beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: peaceful Scarsdale. It's a beautiful suburb with what's that restaurant?
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  Speaker 1: Chat is very nice, There's what's that great bakery Martinez.
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  Speaker 1: Not a nice restaurant Scarsdale, but anyway, very peaceful. So
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  Speaker 1: this woman seventy one years old murdered in her home, stabbed, beaten.
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  Speaker 1: This doesn't happen in Scarsdale. Think the last time it
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  Speaker 1: happened was a few decades ago. Turns out it was
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  Speaker 1: her twenty six year old son. And this is like
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  Speaker 1: a Rob Reiner situation. The son looks like he was
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  Speaker 1: they say he was troubled. He was just really it
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  Speaker 1: looks like he was a bit nuts and having all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of mental problems. And same thing with the Rob Reiner.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like she was trying to take care
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  Speaker 1: of them. You know, they didn't want to. You know,
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants to institutionalize their kid, but he probably should
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  Speaker 1: have been. And again, just like Rob Reiner, the kid
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  Speaker 1: went crazy, stabbed her, beat her to death. It's just
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  Speaker 1: awful inside a three million dollar home in Scarsdale. Just
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  Speaker 1: an awful situation. Hey, you know, Mom Downey with this
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  Speaker 1: crazy government grocery stores and all this, These socialists are everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: You got one in San Francisco. Socialists running San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're talking about government banks, a socialist bank. Now,
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  Speaker 1: anything government does is going to stink. Anything socialists do
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  Speaker 1: is going to really stink. So they're talking about opening
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  Speaker 1: the first government bank, a city bank, not the company
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  Speaker 1: city bank, a city blank bank would unlock financing for
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  Speaker 1: thousands of housing units that lack funding to address the
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  Speaker 1: housing crisis. It could finance climate goals or lend to
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  Speaker 1: small business. You know, anytime you start making loans to
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  Speaker 1: housing units that can't get funding, you go broke. That's
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  Speaker 1: what caused that, you know, stock crisis, that mortgage crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you put money into climate goals, you go broke.
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  Speaker 1: So this government bank will go broke. Now we could
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  Speaker 1: start laughing about it, but it's taxpayer funded, taxpayers going
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  Speaker 1: it's taxpayer money they're going to use to go broke with.
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  Speaker 1: So it's an awful thing. Now. You know, AI uses
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  Speaker 1: so much power, so much electricity, and it uses so
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  Speaker 1: many chips, the microchips, you know, it uses so many
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  Speaker 1: of them that there's now a shortage, a real shortage.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why the price of Apple products is going up.
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  Speaker 1: Apple is so big and powerful they never had to
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  Speaker 1: weight in line to get chips. But now there's such
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  Speaker 1: a demand and all the chips are being used by
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  Speaker 1: Amazon and Google and Meta and Microsoft that Amazon is
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  Speaker 1: having trouble with the supply line and the price of
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  Speaker 1: chips is going up, so it's going to raise the
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  Speaker 1: price of phones and tablets and all that stuff. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big crisis. But here's that's interesting Meta, which is
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  Speaker 1: Facebook Meta, and this is what Zuckerberg has been up to,
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  Speaker 1: is figuring out how to they're going to make their
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  Speaker 1: own chips. They're going to make their own chips. They
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  Speaker 1: won't have to depend on anybody. They'll make them in house.
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  Speaker 1: They'll set up their own factories. And apparently Amazon, Google
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  Speaker 1: and Microsoft are looking to do the same thing, seeking
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  Speaker 1: to make their own chips. That way, they won't have
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  Speaker 1: to wait, they won't have to overpay. They'll figure out
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  Speaker 1: how to produce chips. And it's complicated, but these guys
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  Speaker 1: are geniuses that can do that. Now. The only thing
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  Speaker 1: is if they start doing that, it means they will
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  Speaker 1: no longer be totally dependent on Navidia, which is the
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  Speaker 1: big chip maker, and it's a huge stock. You know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people bought that stock and it's soaring
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  Speaker 1: and it's been going up for years, and you're making
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  Speaker 1: a fortune with your Nvidia stock. If Meta figures out
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  Speaker 1: how to do this and these other companies, watch out
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  Speaker 1: for that stock that's going to be a problem tourism
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Well, it's dropping, still dropping. We reported
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  Speaker 1: this last year, dropping even more because the Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: has changed over the years. I remember it was the rat
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  Speaker 1: pack and tuxedos and gowns and classy, and then that
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  Speaker 1: kind of ended after the sixties, and then it became
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  Speaker 1: De Niro and Peshi and that crowd in casino, and
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  Speaker 1: then that kind of ended, and then like the eighties
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  Speaker 1: and nineties, it became like families and circuses instead of
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  Speaker 1: a big shows in the showroom, and it was more
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  Speaker 1: like an amusement park. Well, that whole family time is over.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know what to do next. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: go high end again, so they've raised the prices of everything,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently the old crowd is leaving because now it's
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  Speaker 1: twenty six dollars for a bottle of water in a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many of these hotel restaurants. They used to
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  Speaker 1: be the cheapest restaurants, the Vegas hotels. Now many of
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  Speaker 1: them are one thousand dollars per person, nine to ten
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  Speaker 1: course meals, like the new hotels, the Fountain Blue, Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas very very very expensive. It's driving business down. It's
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  Speaker 1: already dropped. It's dropping about ten to fifteen percent a year.
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  Speaker 1: Visitation is way down, So I guess they're looking to
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  Speaker 1: get that high end rat pack crowd. But I hate
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  Speaker 1: to break it to all of you in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: They're dead, they're not around anymore. And the new high
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  Speaker 1: end people, I don't think they want to go to
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Hey, this has been the bonus segment of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. Thanks for listening. You can listen live Monday
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  Speaker 1: through Friday from ten to noon, or get the podcast
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  Speaker 1: and listen anytime you want. Have a great weekend. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for listening.