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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, welcome to the bonus segment for all your podcast
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  Speaker 1: listeners out there. Remember it's a three day weekend President's
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  Speaker 1: Day and important day to celebrate. This is a country
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  Speaker 1: where anybody can be president, and if you've seen some
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  Speaker 1: of our presidents, you know anybody can be president. So hey,
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  Speaker 1: members of Congress are leaving at a historic rate. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's always somebody retiring or somebody decides not to seek reelection,
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  Speaker 1: but more than ever right now, you've got midterm elections
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  Speaker 1: coming up, and you've got more people leaving. Sixty six zho,
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  Speaker 1: sixty members of Congress have decided not to run for
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  Speaker 1: reelection this year. Fifty one House members and nine Senators.
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  Speaker 1: That's more than usual. Last time that many left was
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty, so that's almost one hundred years ago. So
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of big changes coming
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  Speaker 1: up now. Voter ID that's a big, big, big important
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  Speaker 1: thing that will be a major help the Republicans in
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. And it comes to the no voter ID
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  Speaker 1: and anybody voting or over voting or illegal voting. The
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  Speaker 1: only way to stop that is voter ID. Democrats pushing
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  Speaker 1: like crazy to block voter ID Chuck Schumer yelling and
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  Speaker 1: screaming about Jim Crow. Nobody knows what hell Jim Crow
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  Speaker 1: is anymore. But obviously you got to have ID everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: You need ID to get a library, book, to buy
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  Speaker 1: cough medicine, and a drug store. You need ID to
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  Speaker 1: get on a play well. You know, you need voter
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  Speaker 1: ID to get into not photo ID to get into
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  Speaker 1: any office building in New York. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: be on CNN, you got to show them photo ID
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  Speaker 1: to get in a building. You have to have photo
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  Speaker 1: ID to get into Congress. You know you cannot vote
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  Speaker 1: in Congress unless you have photo ID. So obviously blocking
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  Speaker 1: voter ID is absolutely ludicrous. It's insane. But they're so
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  Speaker 1: desperate they even brought a Barack Obama back out of
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  Speaker 1: the dead to push for this. Obama this week, big
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  Speaker 1: push for voter ID. People looking at that as a
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  Speaker 1: sign that the Democrats are panicking if they brought Obama back.
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  Speaker 1: And of course online people found the old video of
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  Speaker 1: Obama voting in twenty twelve, fourteen years ago. But when
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  Speaker 1: he went to vote. In the video, you could see
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  Speaker 1: him proudly pull out his Illinois driver's license from his
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  Speaker 1: wallet to show the poll workers. So just again, the
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  Speaker 1: flip flopping and the ridiculous fighting against voter ID just
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  Speaker 1: tells you what's gonna what Democrats plot when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to voting. Hey, yeah, the Epstein files my new favorite hobby.
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  Speaker 1: Just searching the Epstein files. Just anybody you know, just
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  Speaker 1: type them in there. You'd be amazed. Who comes up?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of college presidents. Boy, these college presidents were
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  Speaker 1: just all over Epstein. Now he was a big donor
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  Speaker 1: to colleges, lots of colleges, Harvard, Mit, all sorts of colleges.
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  Speaker 1: But there was one college bar guard which is here
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  Speaker 1: in the New York State and the president and I
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  Speaker 1: know this guy, Leon Botstein. He's kind of a goofy guy,
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  Speaker 1: but a nice guy. But he was all over Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: If you just google him in the or search him
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  Speaker 1: in the Epstein files, he comes up like eighty seven
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  Speaker 1: thousand times, constantly gushing all over Epstein. Now Epstein is
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  Speaker 1: making donations to his college, and Bard College operates some
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  Speaker 1: high schools. And actually his name comes up twenty five
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  Speaker 1: hundred times in the file, twenty five hundred times. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's stuff in it. Not only is he
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  Speaker 1: visiting Epstein, calling Epstein, having lunch with Epstein, writing love
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  Speaker 1: letters to Epstein about how wonderful he is. He invites
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  Speaker 1: Epstein they operate high schools Bard College. He offers Epstein
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  Speaker 1: invites Epstein to come visit the high schools filled with teenagers.
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  Speaker 1: Now some of this is in twenty thirteen. This is
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years after after Epstein got convicted for
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  Speaker 1: you know, sex with underage kids, and as a registered
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  Speaker 1: sex offender, why would you invite him to a high
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  Speaker 1: school filled with teenagers. And if you read the emails
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  Speaker 1: from this college president, Leon Botstein to Epstein, he just
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  Speaker 1: gushes all of him. Look, look at this one. I
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  Speaker 1: greatly cherish our friendship. I have real admiration for how
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  Speaker 1: you go about doing things. And just all these gushing, gushing,
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  Speaker 1: flattering emails to Epstein. Well, if you're barred college and
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  Speaker 1: this is your president, well you know you can't believe
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  Speaker 1: he invited a pervert to a high school filled with
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  Speaker 1: teenage girls. And apparently Botstein getting a little flack, but
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  Speaker 1: he put out a letter to the college and to
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  Speaker 1: the college community. He insisted that the warm tone of
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  Speaker 1: his messages to the sexual predator is a common fundraising practice.
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  Speaker 1: My interaction with Epstein were always and only for the
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  Speaker 1: sole purpose of soliciting donations for the college. Mister Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was not my friend. He was a prospective donor. But
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  Speaker 1: if you go back and read the emails, I value
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  Speaker 1: our friendship. I cherish our friendship. He keeps calling them
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  Speaker 1: a friend. And if that's a standard fundraising technique, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you ever donated to a charity or
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  Speaker 1: a college. Oh, you get a nice thank you note,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't gush all over you and tell you
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  Speaker 1: how much today cherish your friendship and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people leaving New York they're going to Florida,
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  Speaker 1: that you get a lot of that kind of stuff, taxes,
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  Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. Well, apparently California's got a
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  Speaker 1: bigger problem than New York. More people leave in California,
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  Speaker 1: a fact. Even Mark Zuckerberg purchasing a massive home in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking to get out. A lot of these tech
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  Speaker 1: guys are moving to Florida. But they got a new problem.
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  Speaker 1: Many of them are just going across the border to
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. A lot of wealthy California home buyers are
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  Speaker 1: pouring into Las Vegas because the California's putting up this
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  Speaker 1: health tax, this additional tax, and Mom, Donnie, are you listening,
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  Speaker 1: you put up an additional tax. They do leave lots
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  Speaker 1: of billionaires leave so many high net worth home buyers
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  Speaker 1: from California moving to Las Vegas and the suburbs of
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Taxes, costs a living are the major reasons.
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  Speaker 1: And Nevada has no state income tax, so they're be
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  Speaker 1: getting tons and tons and tons of people coming from California. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of Zuckerberg, Facebook, it's now called Meta. If you
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  Speaker 1: own stock in Meta, it's way up it was. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it came on the market like fifteen dollars. MetaStock is
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  Speaker 1: now like five hundred dollars. But if you own a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it and you're wondering about the future's thinking
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  Speaker 1: maybe I should sell it. Well, the billionaire activist, the
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  Speaker 1: great hedge fund guy, Bill Ackman, just spent a fortune
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  Speaker 1: on Meta stock Facebook Meta stock. He put about two
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  Speaker 1: billion into it. That's about ten percent of his whole portfolio.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously he's got a lot of confidence in Facebook
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  Speaker 1: book Meta going up. He said he thinks it's the
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence arms race that will do it. They're not
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  Speaker 1: really that well known as a great artificial intelligence service,
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  Speaker 1: but Ackman believes Zuckerberg is going to be way ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the game. He's been secretly quietly working on artificial intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: spending a fortune hiring away people. So that could be
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  Speaker 1: the big future of the company. Hey, we keep talking
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  Speaker 1: about Iran. It is the worst regime in the world.
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  Speaker 1: The president has to get regime changed there. This is
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  Speaker 1: the closest we have ever come to getting it with
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  Speaker 1: a huge revolution there. The Ayahtola and his family sending
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  Speaker 1: millions and millions out of the country, Russia offering to
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  Speaker 1: take them. There's a good chance they'll leave. Can't blow
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity. Very very important to change this regime. I've
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  Speaker 1: been telling you these horror stories. Last week they went
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  Speaker 1: into a hospital and they shot patients right in their bed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now look at this. Here's a Nobel Peace Laurie at
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  Speaker 1: Narje Mohammadi And apparently she went to a rally or something,
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  Speaker 1: so this is the Nobel Peace piece laureate. Iranian forces
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  Speaker 1: beat her to death with wooden sticks and batons, dragged
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  Speaker 1: her by the hair until sections of her scalp tour
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  Speaker 1: kept kicking her in the genitals, leaving unable to sit
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  Speaker 1: or move. They threw her in prison. She's been there
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  Speaker 1: since December, that's two months. The savage beatings continue in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Lawyers and human rights advocates are fighting for her. During arrest,
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  Speaker 1: multiple witnesses they said Iran security forces they saw them
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  Speaker 1: just beat her viciously, throw her into a vehicle. The
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  Speaker 1: beatings continue in prison. This is why you got to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of this regime. And you see protesters for
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  Speaker 1: everything except this, all these crazy left wing protests. There's
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  Speaker 1: the one thing they're not protesting. What's going on in Iran. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of illegals, now here in New York. Three illegals
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  Speaker 1: decide they'll do some stick ups, and they held up
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  Speaker 1: a couple of places. One was on West forty seventh
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  Speaker 1: between ninth and tenth late at night. The police caught him,
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  Speaker 1: arrested them, charged from robbery, criminal possession of a weapon,
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  Speaker 1: criminal possession of stolen property, menacing, took them to court.
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  Speaker 1: The judge released them. This is what goes on with
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  Speaker 1: these New York judges. The judge decided just to release them,
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  Speaker 1: let them go. In fact, let them sneak out the
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  Speaker 1: back door so that ice would not find them. Just
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  Speaker 1: absolutely awful. This goes on all the time in New York.
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  Speaker 1: So Hey congestion pricing. There's no sign of it ever,
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  Speaker 1: leaving in fact Hochel bragging that it's the States are
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  Speaker 1: making a fortune of it. But it turns out the
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  Speaker 1: governor and her detail. You know, she travels in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a motor cage. She's got her car,
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  Speaker 1: police cars behind her. They racked up about one thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars worth of congestion pricing tolls with her and her
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  Speaker 1: state vehicles to follow her around, but Hokele agreed to
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  Speaker 1: compensate the agency nine dollars for each time she drives
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  Speaker 1: into the city. Now you got to get you got
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of Hochel in November, because it's not
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  Speaker 1: just Hochel. She's picked her lieutenant governor. And for lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: governor she picks the craziest left wing lunatic, former city
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  Speaker 1: council speaker, Adrian Adams, who makes mom Donnie look like
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  Speaker 1: a moderate. So she'll be if Hochele were to win,
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  Speaker 1: she would be the lieutenant governor. And remember a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times the governor leaves and you get the lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: governor's governor. Remember Spitzer left, Cuomo left. It can happen anytime,
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  Speaker 1: so you cannot have her as lieutenant Governor'd be absolutely
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  Speaker 1: the most dangerous thing for New York. Hey, you were
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  Speaker 1: talking about people moving, Obviously a lot of New Yorkers leave,
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  Speaker 1: they go to Florida. For the first time ever, Miami
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  Speaker 1: had more million dollar plus home sales than New York.
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  Speaker 1: Home selling for over a million dollars. New York always
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  Speaker 1: has the most. In fact, we had ten thousand, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred this past year ten thousand, one hundred. Miami had
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand, five hundred. It's the first time they beat us.
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  Speaker 1: Home price is going nuts in Florida, Palm Beach, Miami
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  Speaker 1: homes going for one hundred million, two hundred million, even
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  Speaker 1: the West Coast Naples. But when you get an explosion
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  Speaker 1: in prices and they just go crazy, it usually means
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  Speaker 1: a bubble is coming. It usually means that bubble will burst.
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  Speaker 1: So just bear that in mind if you're thinking of
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  Speaker 1: going to Florida, just wait. That bubble may burst and
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  Speaker 1: the prices may come crashing down. Now, for all these
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  Speaker 1: people moving into Miami, twenty seven percent of them are
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  Speaker 1: coming from New York, but that's not the majority, so
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  Speaker 1: most of them are coming from around the country. Remember Florida,
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  Speaker 1: whenever it's the hottest place on earth, always dies within
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  Speaker 1: ten years. Remember in the late fifties, early sixties, Miami
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  Speaker 1: was the hottest city in America. It was unbelievable, and
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  Speaker 1: then by the end of the decade it was a ghetto.
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  Speaker 1: And then Miamivice came along in the early eighties and
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  Speaker 1: Miami was the hottest place on earth all over again.
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  Speaker 1: And ten years later it was a ghetto all over again.
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  Speaker 1: So that tends to happen in Miami, so don't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if the bubble bursts down there. Starbucks new CEO,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a long term growth plan. He plans to
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  Speaker 1: open thousands and thousands of new stores. They've redesigned him.
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  Speaker 1: It's more coffee, less food. It's a sleeker, quicker kind
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  Speaker 1: of look. They're trying to do something about the lines.
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  Speaker 1: You know the problem with Starbucks. It's like getting coffee
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  Speaker 1: at the motor vehicle department. You just wait in lines there.
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  Speaker 1: But they're trying to get rid of all that new
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  Speaker 1: menu items, new beverages. They're going to add two thousand
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  Speaker 1: new stores in the next year, two thousand new stores.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're trying to get more people on the app.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the great thing is the app where it's
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  Speaker 1: one thing of If it's food, you pre order, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like Chopped with the salads or Chipotle, you pre order,
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  Speaker 1: everything's made, you show up. It's in a bag. You
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  Speaker 1: just grab it and leave. It's different when it's coffee
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  Speaker 1: because it's not going to be the same, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be sitting there forever, getting stale. Not the same. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for listening. This has been the bonus segment of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. Have a great President's Day weekend, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: be back on Tuesday. Curtis will be here for me Monday,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll be back on Tuesday. I'll see you then.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.