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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 always give you an extra show
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  Speaker 1: every week. Let's see CBS News star Nora O'Donnell. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you call her. A CBS news star.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Can you picture anybody? Oh, that's Nora
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  Speaker 1: O'Donnell over it now, I don't think so. Now, CBS
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  Speaker 1: news fixture, Norah o'donald. They took her off the nightly
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  Speaker 1: news and you know she was I hate to say,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a fake news, always slanted, typical a
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  Speaker 1: CBS of the last few years. So she's off that.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they're stuck with her. So what are you
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  Speaker 1: going to do with her? Well, they've announced this is
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  Speaker 1: she's announced it. Nora O'Donnell, big new project. She's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do a podcast which everybody in the world doesn't do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, anybody doesn't have a podcast anymore. A new
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  Speaker 1: podcast that will focus on women's health. Health. Jeez oh,
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  Speaker 1: that sounds exciting. Women's health. Boy, you what an idea?
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  Speaker 1: People come to me all the time with these amateurs,
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  Speaker 1: with these I have an idea for a podcast women's health,
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  Speaker 1: And you have to explain to them once you google
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  Speaker 1: that there's already fifty thousand of those podcasts. But it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be called Healthful. It makes its debut this
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  Speaker 1: coming week. That says. This is her press release marking
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  Speaker 1: her latest role at the network after stepping down from
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  Speaker 1: the anchorchair. So you anchor the CBS Evening News. Now
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  Speaker 1: you're doing a podcast nobody's going to hear. Now, listen
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  Speaker 1: to this. If you don't think it's exciting, listen to
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  Speaker 1: this the weekly show, which features conversations with doctors and researchers.
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  Speaker 1: All right, right there, I mean, what show is going
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  Speaker 1: to have on doctors and researchers. Topics include menopause, reproductive health, cancer,
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  Speaker 1: the gut microbiome. This sounds like an exciting show. If
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  Speaker 1: I said, hey, don't make sure you listen tomorrow we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about gut microbiome and women's sexual health. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that part I might listen to. But otherwise, and when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to anything sexual, I don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: With Nora O'Donnell, it doesn't work. But she's been at
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  Speaker 1: the CBS for three decades, but she had quite a career.
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  Speaker 1: She covered Congress, then she was the White House correspondent.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big job, then anchoring the CBS News, and
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  Speaker 1: now she's doing a podcast on gut Microbiome. That's a
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  Speaker 1: big comedown. Hey, the New York Times is being hit
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  Speaker 1: with a big, big lawsuit, a real lawsuit, for its
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  Speaker 1: coverage over the last few years. Now, the bad part
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  Speaker 1: of this for The New York Times is this is
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  Speaker 1: coming from shareholders. A bunch of shareholders got together and
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  Speaker 1: they're suing The New York Times for just bad coverage, slanted,
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  Speaker 1: biased coverage. They're going to go after them for the
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  Speaker 1: gram Platner coverage where they downplayed these very very serious
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  Speaker 1: allegations and tried to, you know, sweep them under the rug.
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  Speaker 1: So this is shareholders going after them. Then they're going
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  Speaker 1: after them for the Nicholas Christoff Remember this awful, awful
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  Speaker 1: Times writer Nicholas Christoff wrote this horrible piece claiming that
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  Speaker 1: Israeli soldiers were raping prisoners. I mean, there was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: no truth to this, but The Times printed this disgusting
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  Speaker 1: anti Semite stood by it. Allegations of all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: sexual abuse in Israeli detention centers. But The New York
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  Speaker 1: Times has a history for decades and decades of anti semitism.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they covered up the Holocaust. So this will
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  Speaker 1: be interesting because these are shareholders. It's hard for a
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  Speaker 1: court to really even throw this out because they're actual shareholders.
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  Speaker 1: That gives them standing. They're suing the paper for violating
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  Speaker 1: the normal guidelines of journalism, and this is not going
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  Speaker 1: to be good for them. This is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a problem. Now. Of course, it's the fake news media
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  Speaker 1: all over the place that they won't cover the lawsuit,
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  Speaker 1: but you certainly you'll certainly hear about it from us. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: a new poll comes out which flags the people salute
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  Speaker 1: the most. Obviously, the American flag wins hands down with conservatives,
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  Speaker 1: but with Democrats seventy four percent. The flag they love
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  Speaker 1: the most the Black Lives Matter flag. That's the flag
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  Speaker 1: they salute. Remember Black Lives Matter. It was right after
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  Speaker 1: George Floyd. Black Lives Matter was being painted all over
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  Speaker 1: the streets, signs everywhere, banners. It was run by a
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  Speaker 1: few people. Turned out they were just cashing in, buying
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  Speaker 1: mansions and spending the money on trips and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But the Democrats, it's still a big deal. Hey, Bill Maher,
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  Speaker 1: who's a Democrat, pointing out that Democrats won't come on
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  Speaker 1: a show. Now. Bill Maher's a Democrat, he's a liberal,
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  Speaker 1: but he's been trying to get AOC on. She refuses
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  Speaker 1: to do the show. Kamala Harris will not do the
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  Speaker 1: show now for these two nitwits, I can see not
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  Speaker 1: wanting to talk to Bill Maher. He's a brilliant guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's very, very, very smart. He can out talk them out,
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  Speaker 1: debate them. They can't dodge the questions. So AOC Kamala Harris,
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  Speaker 1: I can understand that. But Mom Donnies or On Mom Dommy,
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  Speaker 1: who's a very smart, fast talking, glib guy, has refused
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  Speaker 1: to do the show, mar pointing out he's tried to
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  Speaker 1: get Mom Dommy for six months. He absolutely refuses to
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  Speaker 1: do the show. Now, when it looks like everybody's leaving
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  Speaker 1: New York City, everybody's fleeing businesses moving, guess who's opening
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  Speaker 1: up a huge office here AIRB and B Airbnb. You
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  Speaker 1: know it's a huge company, Airbnb. It's based in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb makes billions and billions of dollars. But they just
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  Speaker 1: bought a building here in New York, Gramercy Park neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: They just spent eighty one million for this building. It's
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  Speaker 1: forty two thousand square feet, beautiful old building. But it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a major headquarters here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have to come to New York, but a
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  Speaker 1: major headquarters here. They'll have six hundred employees in that building.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good news for New York City. Hey, the View,
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  Speaker 1: you know there's crazy nutshubs on the View. You got
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  Speaker 1: Sonny Houston, one of those lunatics on the View. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the way this works, you've got on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the aisle, you got your high brow shows and your
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  Speaker 1: lowbrow shows. You got, you know, on the liberal side,
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  Speaker 1: the high IQ show would be Rachel maddowur the PBS
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  Speaker 1: News Hover. That's your high brow, high IQ liberal show.
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  Speaker 1: Then you got your low IQ shows. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: the View is a low IQ show. The same thing.
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  Speaker 1: On the right, you got the high IQ shows and
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  Speaker 1: you got like the Alex Jones low IQ show. So
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  Speaker 1: the View, Sonny Houston apparently said forget not like in
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  Speaker 1: the American flag, she said she doesn't feel safe if
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  Speaker 1: she sees an American flag. Got a lot of flag
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  Speaker 1: for it, but she said it again. She actually doubled
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  Speaker 1: down on it. She does not feel safe if she
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  Speaker 1: sees an American flag. In fact, if there's a neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of American flags, she feels totally unsafe. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is the kind of a nutty things that go
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  Speaker 1: on in this crazy show. If you've never seen the view,
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  Speaker 1: watch it. You'll be stunned that anybody would broadcast this nonsense. Hey, now,
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  Speaker 1: how crazy are these Taylor Swift fans, you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: all excited about the wedding Madison Square Garden. Well, this
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  Speaker 1: is about as crazy as you can get. So some
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  Speaker 1: smart entrepreneur, after the wedding is all over and they've
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  Speaker 1: left Madison Square Garden, like the next day, this guy
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  Speaker 1: goes to the garbage cans and the dumpsters all around
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. As they took down everything from the wedding,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it goes in the trash in the dumpsters.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy fished it all out of these dumpsters.
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  Speaker 1: It's the garbage from the Tailor Swift wedding. So this
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  Speaker 1: guy capitalized on it by packaging the garbage. He put
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  Speaker 1: it into like a little two inch by three inch
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  Speaker 1: containers and sells them for twenty five dollars a pop.
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  Speaker 1: You're buying the actual garbage from the Taylor Swift wedding
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  Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a pop. Don't laugh. He sold thirteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred of them. He got orders from all around the world,
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  Speaker 1: from thirty countries for selling the garbage from Taylor Swift's wedding.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Las Vegas is having a lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas tourism is way down. Las Vegas doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: what to do. You know, years ago, you know, first
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  Speaker 1: days of Las Vegas, in the fifties, mid fifties, early fifties,
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas the whole theme was Western. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: big hotels were the al Rancho, the Frontier. When you
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  Speaker 1: went into the hotels, everybody was dressed in the gun smoke.
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  Speaker 1: They were wearing like Miss Kitty outfits and you know,
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  Speaker 1: cowboy outfits, Western theme. And it continued that way until
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  Speaker 1: the mid fifties. And it was very casual, like country
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  Speaker 1: western kind of Las Vegas. And it was Sinatra who
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  Speaker 1: changed it because all these gangsters running and this is
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  Speaker 1: what they figured. It's in the desert, we'll make it
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  Speaker 1: look like a cowboy thing. Sinatra was a huge star
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  Speaker 1: by then, traveling all over the world, and he came
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  Speaker 1: back from Europe and from Monte Carlo, and he told
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  Speaker 1: these guys, he said, you got it all wrong. You
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  Speaker 1: should see Monte Carlo casinos. They're elegant, they're fancy. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: wearing tuxedos, and this is what you got to do.
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  Speaker 1: So that's when Las Vegas switched the whole theme. In
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  Speaker 1: the late fifties, they quickly transitioned over to fancy, elegant
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  Speaker 1: suits and ties, the matrix and tuxedos, the women wearing
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  Speaker 1: beautiful dresses. It was very elegant, fancy, ritzy, and that's
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  Speaker 1: when the rat pack era came in and cash in
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  Speaker 1: on that, and then that went through most of the sixties,
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  Speaker 1: and by the late sixties that rat pack era was gone,
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  Speaker 1: so Las Vegas transitioned to the De Niro Joe Peshi
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  Speaker 1: casino kind of look. So then it looked like that
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  Speaker 1: for a while, with the leisure suits and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and then that died, and then in the eighties it
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  Speaker 1: went all family. It was like Disneyland. It was all
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  Speaker 1: family stuff and amusement parks, and instead of big names
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  Speaker 1: in the showrooms, like circus, solet circus this, circus that,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been that way for a long time, but
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  Speaker 1: apparently that's dying, so they didn't know what to do
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  Speaker 1: with Las Vegas. Business is way down, so they're transitioning
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  Speaker 1: back to super luxurious and elegant, and to do that,
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  Speaker 1: they've raised the prices like crazy. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the restaurants in the hotels now there. This used to
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  Speaker 1: be so cheap, those restaurants, but they brought in all
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  Speaker 1: the time up famous chefs of the world. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of these restaurants are now one thousand dollars per person,
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  Speaker 1: and tourism is way down. It's dropping like fifteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: percent a year because a lot of people don't want
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  Speaker 1: to deal with this anymore. A bottle of water in
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  Speaker 1: the mini bar twenty six dollars at hotels, cup of
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  Speaker 1: coffee in the hotels like twenty dollars. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: going crazy with this, chasing a lot of people out.
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  Speaker 1: But the MGM Grand And now has the famous French
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  Speaker 1: chef Robashan, so again this is not family stuff. The
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  Speaker 1: new Fountain Blue opened, which is huge, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the new Fountain Blue is almost four thousand rooms, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a whole new Las Vegas. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't like it, running away from it like crazy. So
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  Speaker 1: Bill Gates we mentioned during the week, Warren Buffett has
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  Speaker 1: kind of cut him off. They used to be friends,
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  Speaker 1: Buffett putting a fortune into the Gates Foundation. No more,
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  Speaker 1: he's took his money away, and even gates ex wife Melinda,
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  Speaker 1: who divorced him, now speaking out that it was definitely Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: She thought he was the most evil, creepy guy she'd
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  Speaker 1: ever seen, and when she found out her husband was
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  Speaker 1: spending all that time there, she couldn't deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: And she said, the first time she saw Epstein, she said,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever just seen somebody you just instantly know
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  Speaker 1: is evil? Just totally evil. The fact that her husband
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see it, and the fact that her husband kept
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  Speaker 1: going over there to that house for eight hours at
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  Speaker 1: a time, so that was the end. She just said,
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  Speaker 1: the relationship ended as soon as he got tangled with Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: She couldn't stay with him anymore. She had a bad
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  Speaker 1: feeling about this guy since she was right all along.
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  Speaker 1: She met him once and never would go near him again.
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  Speaker 1: So she said, she can't believe that anybody else, you know,
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  Speaker 1: these top business guys of the world, these famous college presidents, politicians,
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  Speaker 1: that they wouldn't have seen how creepy was the second
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  Speaker 1: they saw him. She said, if they didn't, something is
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  Speaker 1: wrong with these people. Absolutely right. Hey, anyway, thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 1: This has been the bonus segment of the podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: usually I'm on live every weekday from ten to noon.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise the podcast, as you know, Mark Simone here, Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for listening.