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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: all you podcast listeners. We always give you an extra
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  Speaker 1: show every week for many people. Three day holiday weekend
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  Speaker 1: this week a lot going on. Hey, how long has
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  Speaker 1: mom Donnie been in office? Now? Six months almost six months,
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  Speaker 1: so he's got three and a half years left. But
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  Speaker 1: apparently he's already running for reelection. Already running. Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: not getting rid of him that easily. He said he
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  Speaker 1: loves being mayor, plans to seek as said, he will
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  Speaker 1: seek reelection in twenty twenty nine. He said, it's the
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  Speaker 1: job of a lifetime. Well, it's the only job he's
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  Speaker 1: ever had, never had a job before, so actually for him,
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  Speaker 1: it is literally the job of a lifetime. He has
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  Speaker 1: never had another job. He said, I can't imagine anything
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  Speaker 1: else I'd rather do. Well, since there is nothing else
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  Speaker 1: he's qualified to do, this works out perfectly. Mom. Donnie
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  Speaker 1: defended the tax on wealthy non resident on this radio show.
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  Speaker 1: He only goes on the crazy left wing shows, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, claims that rich residents and corporations would flee
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  Speaker 1: the city over taxes, it's not materialized in the past. Now,
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  Speaker 1: obviously this guy I don't see just lying as he
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  Speaker 1: have no access to the news or anything. But I
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  Speaker 1: could name one hundred people I know who fled, and
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  Speaker 1: anybody could. I mean, you look at all the famous
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  Speaker 1: we could name them all, all the famous people that
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  Speaker 1: have left New York and moved to Florida. And they've
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  Speaker 1: said it's over the high taxes, whether it's Carl Icon
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  Speaker 1: or you know, all those Hedge funt guys, all those
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street guys, all those other people we know corporations
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  Speaker 1: and companies that have announced they moved to Florida because
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  Speaker 1: of the taxes and all of that. Now there's this
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  Speaker 1: great billionaire, Peter Teal. He founded PayPal. He was one
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  Speaker 1: of the original investors of Facebook, and he's a multi multi,
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  Speaker 1: multi billion air A genius. I mean, I've talked to
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  Speaker 1: the guy at Number It took a little strange, but
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  Speaker 1: a genius. All these geniuses are a little strange. Elon
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  Speaker 1: Musk too, you know, I always at the kind of
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  Speaker 1: funny look in there for Ice, But that's because they're
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  Speaker 1: operating on a higher level, like a million levels above us.
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  Speaker 1: But Peter tele had moved his family. He had a big,
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  Speaker 1: big apartment in New York and big apartment in California,
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  Speaker 1: but he's moved to Argentina, buenas Ares. He's moved his
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  Speaker 1: entire family down there. He said it's a refuge from
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  Speaker 1: the high taxes, but he said it's also a refuge
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  Speaker 1: from political turmoil. And he's been talking about this potential catastrophes,
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  Speaker 1: nuclear war or an AI meltdown. Peter Teal also does
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  Speaker 1: this conference every year of a big, big money guy's investors.
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  Speaker 1: Once a year. It's his little Davos. He gathers them
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  Speaker 1: together and they have meetings. I noticed that's on the
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  Speaker 1: for this year's meeting, which is coming up, talking about
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  Speaker 1: disaster that could happen preparing for It's like they do
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  Speaker 1: these conferences about different things. One's going to be about
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  Speaker 1: World War three, one's about AI winter. Now, this guy's
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  Speaker 1: a tech genius. I mean he dreamed up a million
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  Speaker 1: great technics and absolute genius of this stuff. So he's
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  Speaker 1: worried about an AI meltdown. Now, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are worried because when the AI stuff really takes over everything,
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  Speaker 1: you can have a lot of people put out of work.
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  Speaker 1: Millions and millions and millions and millions can be put
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  Speaker 1: out of work. Now we've had this happen before Industrial Revolution,
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  Speaker 1: even around the year two thousand when the Internet came
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  Speaker 1: in and took over, a lot of people were put
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  Speaker 1: out of work by it. This happens, and like with
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  Speaker 1: the Industrial Revolution, eventually everybody gets back to work, but
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  Speaker 1: they all have to find a new field, find a
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  Speaker 1: new trade, find something else, and it can be a
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  Speaker 1: transition period of five or ten years. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Internet and the digital stuff came in, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people were put out of work. But then they figured
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  Speaker 1: out other ways to you know, many of them said, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's go into software coding and all that will make money.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing coding, and now it's funny, all those people
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  Speaker 1: are going to get put out of work because that's
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  Speaker 1: all going to be done by AI. So but Peter Thiel,
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  Speaker 1: now again he's kind of a strange sort of a guy.
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  Speaker 1: He could be just you know, being overly a little
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  Speaker 1: crazy about this with this meltdown and nuclear war. But
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  Speaker 1: I've also noticed the top investors, you know, look the
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  Speaker 1: four or five or six or seven best investors we
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  Speaker 1: have in the country, Warren Buffett. A lot of these guys,
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  Speaker 1: they're selling a lot of stock, they're taking a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cash and putting a lot of money on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 1: Now that just could be because the market is doing
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  Speaker 1: extremely well. It's hit an all time high about twelve
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  Speaker 1: times in the last couple of weeks. Usually when you
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  Speaker 1: pull out. But I see a lot of them, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of cash from these guys, Bill Ackman, all these
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  Speaker 1: other guys taking a lot of cash and putting it
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Now it could be just you know,
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  Speaker 1: you sell when you hit what you think is the top,
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  Speaker 1: and you wait for it to drop a little and
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  Speaker 1: go back in. Hopefully that's all it is. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: also Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey. The getting married looks like
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  Speaker 1: it is going to be Madison Square Garden. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to hold the wedding there. They're already talking to the
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  Speaker 1: NYPD about security and all of that. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: cost a fortune because you have to decorate Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you do a wedding, you got to
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  Speaker 1: bring in flowers and special seats and you know, tables
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  Speaker 1: and well it's one thing in a ballroom that can
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  Speaker 1: cost you a million dollars if you really go all out.
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  Speaker 1: But to do it in Madison Square garden a much
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  Speaker 1: much bigger venue. Some estimate ten million for the wedding,
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  Speaker 1: maybe twenty million for the wedding. But Taylor Swift is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest marketer. H knows how to get attention. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about what Jimmy Faylis said on the program
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  Speaker 1: this week, because I remember and the Knicks champion there,
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  Speaker 1: she was at the courtside the Knicks, wearing her Knicks shirt,
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  Speaker 1: cheering on the Knicks. I said, oh, she's a Knicks fan.
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  Speaker 1: But Jimmy Fayler pointed out a couple of weeks before
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  Speaker 1: she was in Cleveland wearing a Cleveland shirt, cheering on Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: So this is all just a smart, you know, publicity
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  Speaker 1: hound who knows how to generate publicity. So, uh, I
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  Speaker 1: thinks that's why the garden, you know, she said, well,
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  Speaker 1: the reason we have to use Madison Square Garden it
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  Speaker 1: has the proper security for something. No it doesn't. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's got good security, but there's much better everybody
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  Speaker 1: else that had to do this and want a total security.
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  Speaker 1: They do it on an island. It's a JFK Junior
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  Speaker 1: and you know Royal weddings, they go to an island
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  Speaker 1: where nobody can get on. That's total security. So obviously
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  Speaker 1: she's looking to make this a big spectacle, get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of attention with it. Hey, you know, Broadway during
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic was getting those bailouts, you know, those coronavirus bailouts.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently they're still getting it. Even though the pandemic's been
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  Speaker 1: over for five years and everything's been fine for five years.
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  Speaker 1: Broadways still collecting five hundred and fifty million in pandemic funds.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, their pandemic funds got boosted by one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty million in this year's budget. What the hell
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  Speaker 1: is that all about? Well, looks like it's a Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hokele at work. Kathy Hochl and those politicians taking care
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  Speaker 1: of their Broadway buddies. So it's actually another New York
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer subsidy for the wealthy, because who runs these Broadway shows,
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  Speaker 1: who finances these Broadway shows? Extremely wealthy people that have
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  Speaker 1: enough money to take risks on Broadway shows. So Hokl
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  Speaker 1: has still giving out these pandemic funds to Broadway shows
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  Speaker 1: even though there's no pandemic. Hokal's office defense did the
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  Speaker 1: Broadway credits saying it's crucial to stabilize the theater district
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  Speaker 1: and maintain and generate jobs. First of all, the theater
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  Speaker 1: district is perfectly stable and maintained. Second of all, one
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  Speaker 1: thing about the theater, it's all union. You can't fire
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  Speaker 1: anybody anytime anywhere. That's it's ridiculously high paid. Union jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody that works in the theater, union jobs, every employee.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the ticket price is five hundred bucks. Remember
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  Speaker 1: it used to be fifty. Well, union costs, that's why
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  Speaker 1: it's so high. Do you remember the Concord, the supersonic jet.
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  Speaker 1: There were two of them. There was British Airways Concord
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  Speaker 1: and there was Air France. You get to London in
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  Speaker 1: three or four hours supersonic. But you know when it
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  Speaker 1: flew over land it created a sonic boom, so you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't fly it over land, so it would leave from
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  Speaker 1: New York and land in London. Well it's long gone,
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  Speaker 1: there's no more Concord, but they're talking about bringing it back,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently NASSA has made a breakthrough. They figured out
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  Speaker 1: how to do a high speed jet, supersonic jet without
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  Speaker 1: the boom, without the sonic booms, So they've got this
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  Speaker 1: new jet. It will travel at the speed of sound,
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  Speaker 1: and instead of a boom, it creates like a little wave,
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  Speaker 1: just a slight shock wave you can barely hear. So
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  Speaker 1: it means not only will the concord come back the
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  Speaker 1: supersonic jets, but since it's no sonic boom, they could
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  Speaker 1: fly over land. So from New York to la you
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  Speaker 1: could probably do it in an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 1: It would be unbelievable. New York to Florida you could
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  Speaker 1: probably do it in forty five minutes if you go supersonic. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the only problem I remember going on the concord. It's
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  Speaker 1: the most uncomfortable plane in the world because it's not
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  Speaker 1: like a big, huge, wide bodied jumbo jet. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a long, narrow with a pointed nose. So it was cramped.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very cramped little plane. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: took it a few times, but other times, going on London,
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  Speaker 1: I just started to take the regular plane. It's three
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  Speaker 1: hours longer, but it's comfortable. That the concord is so
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  Speaker 1: tiny and cramped, you get a little clausterphobic in there.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the problem with the new concord. This one
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  Speaker 1: supersonic speeds can go almost one thousand miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: But if you look at the design, the way it's designed,
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  Speaker 1: there's no front windows. It's got an unusually long nose
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  Speaker 1: and there's no front windows. In other words, the cockpit
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  Speaker 1: would have no windows, so the pilot would rely on
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  Speaker 1: a network of high definition cameras and augmented reality displays.
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  Speaker 1: Now does that sound totally safe? The camera will be
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  Speaker 1: on the front of the plane, so on a screen
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  Speaker 1: he'll see it'll look like the window, but it's really
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  Speaker 1: just coming from the TV camera. Now, if that goes
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  Speaker 1: out and he can't see anything, I imagine they have
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of backup cameras, but sounds extremely risky if
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  Speaker 1: you lose the So if you lose the screens, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how many backups could they have? Now? The other thing
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  Speaker 1: they're working on gigantic buses of the future. California is
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  Speaker 1: working on this, these super buses that would go one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty miles an hour. This would you know,
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  Speaker 1: the big problem in California is such a big state.
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  Speaker 1: You want to get from La to San Francisco or
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  Speaker 1: San Diego, it's so far as so many hours. But
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  Speaker 1: these super buses could get to you know, like La
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  Speaker 1: to San Francisco three hours instead of six hours. They
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  Speaker 1: would go one hundred and twenty to one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty miles an hour. That's very fast. You'd have to
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  Speaker 1: have special highways for them. Now, the good news is
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  Speaker 1: it's California, it's Gavin Newsom, so none of this will
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  Speaker 1: ever happen. You remember, we gave hundreds of billions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars to build that high speed railroad that was years ago.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't built one inch of it yet. Nothing. All
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  Speaker 1: the money is wasted, nothing got nothing happens, nothing gets built.
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  Speaker 1: So don't worry about It's California. You'll never see this. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Maxine Waters, you know the old, old, crabby, old congresswoman.
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  Speaker 1: They asked her. You know, she's eighty seven and she
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  Speaker 1: thinks she should run again. Eighty seven, she thinks she
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  Speaker 1: should run again. So they asked her, what about if
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  Speaker 1: you're a hundred, is one hundred too old to serve
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  Speaker 1: in Congress? And she said absolutely not, not, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: It depends on the person. I don't know. Once you
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  Speaker 1: hit triple digits, I think it's time to retire from Congress. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: your iPhone greatest phone in the world the iPhone. Now
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  Speaker 1: you've seen that Samsung foldable one. It folds open to
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  Speaker 1: a much bigger screen. Apple word is they were always
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  Speaker 1: working on the foldable phone. It was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: later this year. Latest rumor actually report inside reporters saying
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  Speaker 1: they've hit a snag in early testing. Probably not going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. It would be over two thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: for the phone. You know the problem with that foldable phone.
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  Speaker 1: I know you can get a Android, you can get
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  Speaker 1: a Samsung that folds open, but there's always that seam
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  Speaker 1: down the middle they can't get rid of. Apple has
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  Speaker 1: said they were kno going to out do a poldo
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  Speaker 1: a phone unless you can absolutely get rid of that
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  Speaker 1: seam down the middle, and I guess they haven't figured
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  Speaker 1: out how to do it. Well, this has been the
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  Speaker 1: bonus segment. Thanks for listening, and of course I'll be
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  Speaker 1: here live six to ten. I'm not six to ten. Ooh,
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  Speaker 1: I scared myself six to ten, no. Ten to noon,
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  Speaker 1: every weekday, ten to noon, every weekday. Podcast. Well you
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  Speaker 1: know about it. You're a loyal podcast listener and we
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  Speaker 1: thank you for it. Have a great weekend. Talk to
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  Speaker 1: you soon.