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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. Welcome to the bonus segment for
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  Speaker 1: you podcast listeners. We'd like to give you an extra
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  Speaker 1: show every week. We really appreciate you checking out the
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  Speaker 1: podcast all the time. So you remember when President Trump
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  Speaker 1: decided not to fund NPR the government should get out
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  Speaker 1: of the business of funding public TV NPR and all
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  Speaker 1: the uproar about it. Well, first of all, they really
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  Speaker 1: weren't getting that much government funding. Originally was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it, but through the years it went down to
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent, eighteen percent. But they kind of slit their
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  Speaker 1: own throats there. The idea of public television, they used
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  Speaker 1: to call it educational television, the idea of NPR to
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  Speaker 1: bring you stuff you couldn't get on a network TV,
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  Speaker 1: you know, originally public television. That's where you saw, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a special documentary on Peru and you saw all this
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  Speaker 1: educational stuff and you saw remember the Vision series. They'd
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  Speaker 1: take you on these travel things and stuff you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see on regular television. And Sesame Street came along and
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  Speaker 1: that was that was that was really the original idea
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  Speaker 1: of all this great educational programming that the networks would
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  Speaker 1: never do. Well. It's years later and two things happen. One,
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  Speaker 1: you've got online streaming Internet, everything and anything in the
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  Speaker 1: world you want to see is easily available, so you're
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  Speaker 1: not dependent on the three networks anymore. So there's nothing,
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  Speaker 1: nothing you could show on public television that isn't available
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  Speaker 1: all over the place online. And the number two problem
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  Speaker 1: was somehow they decided I'll get in the news business,
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  Speaker 1: which was a huge mistake. The one thing we don't
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  Speaker 1: need is any news on public television. Between CNN and
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  Speaker 1: ms NOW and Fox and a million news sites and
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  Speaker 1: the network News, you don't need any of that, there's
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  Speaker 1: no reason for them to be doing news. So that's
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  Speaker 1: a mistake. And then the big problem is when they
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  Speaker 1: decided to do news, it was slanted, biased, partisan, ultra
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  Speaker 1: left wing coverage. Bill Moyers remember him, I mean he
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  Speaker 1: was the worst fake news left slanted and it continues
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  Speaker 1: today all over the place. You watch at the PBS
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  Speaker 1: News Hour. Oh maybe years ago McNeil Lair, maybe that
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  Speaker 1: was all right, but now it is the most biased,
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  Speaker 1: slantest crap. So the government can't be in the business
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff. Even if they were totally slanted, total
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  Speaker 1: right wing stuff. The government can't fund that I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're neutral, maybe they can fund it. But it
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have been doing news anyway. So big outcry, big uproar.
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  Speaker 1: The president cut the funding. Howere they survived They were
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  Speaker 1: cutting divisions and cutting things down, and well they can
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  Speaker 1: survive easily. First of all, Sesame Street is like a
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  Speaker 1: nine billion a year business. It can fund everything. Second
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  Speaker 1: of all, you know there's all those left wing billionaires
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  Speaker 1: out there. They'll finance the whole thing. In fact, one
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  Speaker 1: of them, remember Steve Balmer, the Microsoft founder. One of
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  Speaker 1: them is wife Connie Ballmer, a philanthropist, just donated eighty
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  Speaker 1: million to NPR. Let them fund it. If they want
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  Speaker 1: crazy left wing news and bias slanted program, let them
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  Speaker 1: fund it. She just gave eighty million. Here's another donor
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  Speaker 1: just gave thirty three million. That's one hundred and thirteen million.
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  Speaker 1: That should basically cover the whole thing. That's all you
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  Speaker 1: need and listening. I say this as a longtime PBS host.
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  Speaker 1: I was on there for twenty something years, but I
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  Speaker 1: would do and this was a good thing we did
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  Speaker 1: back then. We would do all this stuff you didn't
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  Speaker 1: see it with us. I did that started with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Frank Sinatra specials all about Frank Sinatra, and
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  Speaker 1: then we did everybody from Ella Fitzgerald to television entertainment stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was great, But now let's be honest. You got YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: You can go see every Frank Sinatra show, concert, everything
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  Speaker 1: you ever did in his life on YouTube, or any
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  Speaker 1: singer you can name. We used to show all this
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  Speaker 1: rare stuff, entertainment stuff, music stuff, concerts nobody'd ever but
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  Speaker 1: it's all online. Nice. You don't really don't need PBS
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  Speaker 1: or NPR for anything. And NPR is the silliest left
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  Speaker 1: wing slanted stuff here. I'm talking. This is how you
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  Speaker 1: talk on the radio. If it's NPR, they talk like this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why talking like this is supposed to
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  Speaker 1: make you sound more authoritative. You talk like this, this
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  Speaker 1: is how you talk on the radio. But they talk
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  Speaker 1: like this the whole time, and to me, it just
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  Speaker 1: sounds like they're a golf announcer. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: they have to do that, but it's the phoniest thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Speaking of slanted, CBS getting a little flack.
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  Speaker 1: The CBS Morning Show had Zoron Mamdanni Crazy Mom Donni
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  Speaker 1: on for an interview well, it was the most slanted interview.
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  Speaker 1: It was the most biased softball interview. It was Gail
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  Speaker 1: King as a real left wing agitator, and the co
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  Speaker 1: host is Vladimir Duthier's. If you want to stump people,
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  Speaker 1: just ask him. Who the hell is Vladimir Duthis. There's
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  Speaker 1: nobody on earth who knows who this guy is. But
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  Speaker 1: they made it just the most gentle, wonderful, friendly interview
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  Speaker 1: softball questions. Now, that's pretty irresponsible of CBS to allow
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  Speaker 1: that on the air. You know, he talks about his
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  Speaker 1: free grocery stores and all of that. You should have
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  Speaker 1: said to him. Every major supermarket says it's two million
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  Speaker 1: to open a store. Why are you spending thirty million
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  Speaker 1: on a tiny one? They never asked him that. It says, right,
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  Speaker 1: and your thing. It's not going to open for like
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  Speaker 1: three years grocery stores. Ask any grocery store company they
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  Speaker 1: can build one in three four months. They never asked
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  Speaker 1: him anything, never asked him anything. So again, forget NPR,
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  Speaker 1: forget CBS in the Morning with Gail King. Although I
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  Speaker 1: don't think she'll be there that much longer, but you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to don't count on them for anything. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the Jeffrey Epstein story continues. Now there's rumors, and we
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  Speaker 1: hadn't heard this before, that he wrote a suicide note,
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  Speaker 1: an actual suicide note, right before his death. The contents
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  Speaker 1: remained secret seven years ago. Why that was seven years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Seven years ago a judge ordered it sealed. The new
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  Speaker 1: report revealed Thursday. He reportedly in the note, proclaimed his
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  Speaker 1: innocence in the note and moaned that investigators had found
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  Speaker 1: nothing on him despite months of searching. And then he wrote,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want me to do? Bust out crying,
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  Speaker 1: And then he wrote time to say goodbye. Now, supposedly
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  Speaker 1: he wrote this on a piece of yellow legal paper,
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  Speaker 1: tucked it into a book, and the cell mate at
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  Speaker 1: the correctional center found this. This is the cell mat
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  Speaker 1: who everybody's a little suspicious of anyway. It's a convicted killer,
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  Speaker 1: Nicholas Tartaglione, who people suspect of all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But he's saying he found at the X COP. He's
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  Speaker 1: denying he attacked Epstein. Some of speculated that was the
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  Speaker 1: marks on Epstein's neck, but that suicide noteve it should
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  Speaker 1: be pretty easy to prove if it's his handwriting should
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  Speaker 1: be released at some point. So remember I told you
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  Speaker 1: during the week, Amazon is looking to bring back The Apprentice. Now,
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  Speaker 1: obviously Donald Trump's a little busy, but they want to
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  Speaker 1: do it with Donald Trump Junior. Now it's really Eric
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  Speaker 1: that runs the business. Donald Trump Junior is great, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun, smart guy, but it's Eric that's the
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  Speaker 1: brilliant business guy who's running the whole company. But I
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  Speaker 1: mean they're both great, but Don Junior is a little
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  Speaker 1: more photo Jenik. He's a little more you know, television
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  Speaker 1: kind of a personality. So again, Eric's like the serious businessman,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior the more fun guy. So he is
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  Speaker 1: in talks with Amazon to bring back The Apprentice. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be the host. So Trump's senior was asked about it,
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  Speaker 1: and he endorsed that's the project. But it wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: big endorsement. Some people were a little surprised that it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't an overwhelming endorsement. Trump said, well, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: He's a good guy. He's probably good. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: little charisma going. You need a little charisma for that,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. Yeah, they told me about it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, well, you know what that might just be Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Believe it or not. He can be very modest at times.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't want to sound like those parents when you bring
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  Speaker 1: up their kid. My son is amazing. He's amazing, He's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: So he might just find it be a little humble.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably good. He's got a little charisma going, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's This is probably going to happen. You'll be seeing
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  Speaker 1: The Apprentice come back, and if it's successful in a
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  Speaker 1: big hit, hopefully they'll start running the Real Apprentice again.
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  Speaker 1: There's like fourteen seasons of it. Just start running again
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  Speaker 1: and be fascinating to watch. Now, you know, they tell
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  Speaker 1: you how bad everything is in New York. The economy
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  Speaker 1: is bad, but massive skyscrapers are now being built all
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  Speaker 1: over Manhattan. Real estate guys think there's a huge future here.
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  Speaker 1: And the World Trade Center, you know, they've opened all
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  Speaker 1: these buildings down there. Office space is going for big money.
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  Speaker 1: It's being bought up and least like crazy. This is
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  Speaker 1: office space around the Trade Center and the buildings around it,
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  Speaker 1: the large blocks. Now, remember the nine to eleven attack
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  Speaker 1: was twenty five years ago. And what's the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that everybody said after that, Well, nobody will ever go
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  Speaker 1: downtown again. Nobody will ever live downtown, nobody will ever
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  Speaker 1: work downtown again. I kept telling you that that's all
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  Speaker 1: you heard. Well, everybody wants to be not only downtown
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  Speaker 1: right at the World Trade Center office space now going
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty per square foot and it's
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  Speaker 1: rivaling Midtown Manhattan. You know the other thing they said
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  Speaker 1: back then, nobody will ever live in a big glass
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  Speaker 1: tower on a real high floor. Well, that turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be totally false, because in the last twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: all they did right around this neighborhood in Midtown is
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  Speaker 1: built one hundred story glass skyscrapers, and there's lots of
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  Speaker 1: people living in them. In fact that we're a block
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  Speaker 1: away from about twenty of them over there now a
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. You'd think it's such a disaster that everything's
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  Speaker 1: just a mess there real estate wise. Not really. There's
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  Speaker 1: a mega mansion that just went on the market expected
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  Speaker 1: to be the first four hundred million dollar home, smashing
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  Speaker 1: real estate records forever four hundred million. It's a big,
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  Speaker 1: massive house, seventy thousand square feet. Well actually, and it's
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of houses on the property. The main
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  Speaker 1: house is fifty thousand square feet. That's huge. It's got
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  Speaker 1: twenty three bedrooms. Now, if you got twenty three bedrooms,
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  Speaker 1: you can put up twenty two people to come over.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you need a guest house. You got twenty
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  Speaker 1: three bedrooms, you need a guest house. Well, it has
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  Speaker 1: a guesthouse, and that's estimated to be thirty thousand square feet,
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  Speaker 1: bigger than most mansions. That guesthouse has sixteen bedrooms. That's
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine bedrooms. You know how hard it is to
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  Speaker 1: take care of thirty nine bedrooms. Now, I've known some
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  Speaker 1: people that have stayed in those kinds of places. Gone
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  Speaker 1: to visit somebody and they walk out of their bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: This has actually happened to them. They go downstairs to
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen, they're hungry. In the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: they get them. Now they go back up and they're
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  Speaker 1: walking down the hallway and they can't remember which is
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  Speaker 1: their bedroom because there's like ten of them in a row.
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  Speaker 1: So in the middle of the night they got to
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  Speaker 1: open doors and wake up somebody sleep and it turns
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  Speaker 1: out the wrong room. Now, this house also has a gym,
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  Speaker 1: a swimming pool, it has a museum worthy art it
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  Speaker 1: has many kitchens, it has a wellness spot, it has
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  Speaker 1: an X ray machine. I don't know why you need
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  Speaker 1: that entertainment wing. That's absolutely massive. Hey, we were speaking
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  Speaker 1: of CBS before. You know, the CBS Evening News is
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  Speaker 1: now hosted by Do That Today. Ask anybody who's the
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  Speaker 1: host of the CBS Evening News. Nobody will know it's
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  Speaker 1: a guy, Tony. I think I don't even know how
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  Speaker 1: you say this, Tony to Coppel, the couple not doing
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  Speaker 1: well in the ratings. It's down to three point eight
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  Speaker 1: million viewers. ABC World News much much, much bigger it
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  Speaker 1: does eight million. CBS Evening News was always in third place,
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  Speaker 1: but this is getting embarrassing. It's setting the record lows now.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess they're sticking with him within nbcson second place.
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  Speaker 1: But within the CBS they all hate this Tony Dakopel
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  Speaker 1: just mean, it seems like a nice guy. But the
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  Speaker 1: insiders they're all mad. These are all the left wing
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  Speaker 1: coops that have been there for years, and they keep
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  Speaker 1: saying he's a useful idiot, he's just eye candy. The
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  Speaker 1: report claimed he was undercut from the outset. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they try to get big marque names. They try to
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  Speaker 1: get Brett Bhar They try to get Anderson Cooper, but
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  Speaker 1: there's no reason. You know, Brett bears on Fox, a
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  Speaker 1: much bigger network than CBS, much bigger audience, no reason
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  Speaker 1: he'd leave. But to call this guy, I can't. He's
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  Speaker 1: a good looking guy, but he looks exactly like the
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  Speaker 1: guy ABC David Muir. And if you watch the new
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  Speaker 1: NBC guy, he looks like him. They all look exactly identical.
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  Speaker 1: They all look like they're triplets. So Mewor had great success,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess they figured copy him, but it's not working. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're out of time. Thanks for listening to the bonus
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  Speaker 1: segment on the podcast. I'm on Live ten to noon
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  Speaker 1: every weekday, or you can listen to the podcast any
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  Speaker 1: place you get podcasts. You'll find us there. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: already know that you're listening. Obviously you found it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll see him Monday. Thanks for listening, Mark Simone, have
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  Speaker 1: a great weekend. Take care,