November 21, 2025 • 13 mins
Mark Simone talks about Kathy Hochul commenting on a possible Bruce Blakeman run for NY Governor; Hochul putting off the ban of gas stoves; Bill and Hillary Clinton forced to testify about Epstein in Congress; Epstein's mansion is being remodeled and is up for sale; the inside scoop on the Ted Cruz vs. Tucker Carlson fight; Barack Obama's presidential library; Ron Goldman's father going after the estate of OJ Simpson and foreign-born people in Queens, NY don't vote for old school Democrats.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome to the bonus segment for
all of you podcast listeners. We love the fact that
you listening to the podcast every weekend. Bonus segment. So
Kathy Hokeel while she was asked about elis Stephonic and
she's got a pretty good lead over Stefanic in the polls,
although Stefanic keeps arising, but still Hokel has like a
(00:23):
twenty point lead. But she was asked about Bruce Blakeman,
who is definitely looking at running. He hasn't decided yet.
He's going to go tour upstate to get a feel
for things. But asked about him, Now, he's probably the
bigger threat. You know, one thing about Stephonic, she's great,
and she's brilliant in Congress and you know, number one
in her class at Harvard, smart, very articulate. But it's
(00:45):
Blakeman that's the governor, a manager. You know, he's the
county executive of Nassau County. It's like being the governor
of Nassau County. He's the best county executive in America.
So that could be the real threat. Asked about him,
she said, Nah, I don't care how many Trump cheerleaders
run against me. Well, that's a pretty good sign for Blakeman.
She can't seem to come up with the argument against
(01:08):
him if she's got a resort to Trump arrangement syndrome
to go after him. Eh, not a good sign. And
NASA County's done very well under him as far as taxes, crime, economy, everything.
So she's you can tell she's a little worried about
that Blakeman threat. Now here's the other thing about Hockel.
(01:29):
You know everybody hates these things. She comes up with
one of them. She's gonna ban natural gas. She's going
to ban gas stoves. You won't be allowed to have
a gas stove. Now that's very important. It's okay if
you got an electric stove, but a gas stove it's
much better for cooking. You get much better results, you
get much better texture everything. That's why in restaurants they
only use gas stoves. And if she bans these gas stoves,
(01:53):
you really can't have a restaurant. I guess they'll have
to grandfather the old ones. You could keep those, but
nobody will be able to build a new restaurant if
you can't use gas stoves. So it's a nightmare. Wednesday,
she said she's putting off the ban on gas in
homes and buildings under seven stories. She's not gonna do it.
(02:15):
She's putting it off. But Hokal watchers say, don't be
fooled by this for a second. It's like the congestion pricing.
She did the same thing. Remember she said, forget the
congestion pricing. That's on hold, not doing well. It was
just till the election was over. Then the day after
the election there's the congestion pricing again. So if everybody's
(02:37):
saying that's the deal, she's putting off this nonsense just
till the day after the election. It's next year. It's
a year from now. But don't be fooled by that.
The gas ban will come in the day after the election.
So you know, these Democrats are scream about tariffs, tariffs.
Why they just raised the prices. If you put a
tariff on these companies, they're gonna have to raise their prices.
(03:00):
The tariff will cause inflation. But then they go doing
the same exact thing. They don't call it a tariff,
they call it increased corporate tax. You know, if you
increase the tax on corporations. That's a tariff. It's the
same exact thing as a tariff. So Democrats do it
all the time, that's all. They can'tpaign on tariffs. They
call it a corporate tax increase, but it's basically a tariff. Hey,
(03:24):
we've been talking about Jeffrey Epstein all week. The Clintons
apparently are going to be called to testify in Congress
about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. This could be next month.
Bill and Hillary forced to testify in Congress. Now the
Clinton I guess it's the attorney has written to Congress
(03:46):
saying Bill and Hillary Clinton will be happy to provide
a written proffer. In other words, he says, on what
little they know about Jeffrey Epstein. Suddenly they don't know
the guy. They don't know anything about it. They barely
met him. Meantime, they were with him all the time.
They were close to Jeffrey Epstein. But the attorney is
trying this. They'll give you in writing what little they
(04:10):
knew about him, whether there was plenty. You know, it's
going to come out. We mentioned this during the week.
The Clinton Global Initiative, which is now known as the
Clinton Foundation, started by Jeffrey Epstein. He was the big
donor that launched it. Epstein funded the whole thing. They
were very close, and that's one reason all these politicians
(04:31):
know Epstein. He had a big check book, and he
wasn't afraid to write big checks. He paid for access.
You know, normally, if you're some big intellectual type politician
or big ivy league scholarly trustee, I wants to hang
out with slimeball Jeffrey Epstein. But he'd write checks like crazy,
(04:51):
Oh you got a charity, here's one hundred thousand for
your charity, Clinton Global Initiative. Let me give you a
million dollars. Well, so they'd show up, sit there at
his dinner table, pretend they were interested in what he
was saying. But if you like that Clinton Foundation, thank
Jeffrey Epstein. He's the guy behind it. Hey speaking to Epstein.
You know, he's got that beautiful mansion seventy first Street.
(05:12):
It's huge, it's been up for sale and it's undergone
apparently a massive million dollar remodel. They're trying to scrub
all traces of all the terrible, disgusting Epstein nonsense that
went on there. His twisted sex crime City record show
already nine hundred and twenty five thousand spent on renovation,
(05:35):
and there's more coming. The home's new owner is a
former Goldman Sachs executive. It's bigger than a normal townhouse.
It's like the size of two townhouses. It was a
big building. Actually it was a private school. So this guy,
the former Goldman Sachs guy, paid fifty one million for it.
Probably was worth more, but it probably the price was
(05:56):
a little lower because it had all the stain of
Jeffrey Epstein, no pun in downd it all over it. Yeah.
Actually here it says it was originally eighty eight million,
So the guy got a hell of a bargain thirty
million off the price. But it's gonna take millions. Needs
a complete makeover physically, probably needs an exorcism, Probably needs
a hazmat team to come in there. I don't know.
(06:18):
I wouldn't want to live in that thing. So, hey,
what is Ted Cruz has been going crazy going after
Tucker Carlson. Now, Tucker Carlson is just gone off the
deep end. He's now like a redneck crazy in all
kinds of areas that are so controversial. And then you
(06:39):
got Tucker, Megan Kelly and these kind of who's that
another one that Kansas owns. They're running down the weirdest
rabbit holes and they're getting into anti Semitic, anti Israel
crap that is absolutely ridiculous. Mark le event has gotten
into a huge feud with him, But now Ted Cruz
really going after him special Tucker Carlson, the anti Semitism,
(07:02):
the anti Americanism. He's yelling in screen, but he's carrying
on quite a crusade against Tucker Carlson. Now Washington insiders think,
what's really going on? You know, it comes to twenty
twenty eight. On the Republican side, who's the candidate in
twenty twenty eight Trump is term limited out, who's the candidate? Well?
Jd Vance number one? And then people talk about Marco Rubio.
(07:26):
Apparently Ted Cruz wants in on that. He wants to
be the twenty twenty eight candidate. Hard to get past J. D. Vance,
who's the sitting Vice president. Rubio is the Secretary of State.
So apparently that's one reason Cruz is doing this, going
crazy with the fighting the anti semitism. You could think
major Jewish donors will come to him, will turn to
(07:49):
him more than those other guys in the twenty twenty
eight race, give him the backing, the financing he needs,
and maybe the clout in some areas. So that's what
it's all about. At the beginning of the twenty twenty
eight race, Barack Obama is building his presidential library, great
testament to what a bad manager. Barack Obama is just awful. Now.
(08:11):
First of all, it is considered the ugliest building ever
built in America. Just google Barack Obama Presidential Library. It
is the most hideous, ugliest. I don't even I can't
even call it a building. It's just a big ten
story slab of the ugliest concrete with no windows. It's
(08:33):
the most hideous thing ever built. And apparently he's gone
insane with bad management. It should cost one hundred million
or whatever. He's already like eight hundred and fifty million
over budget. It's donor money that he's wasted. So it's
the ugliest thing ever built. It's ridiculously over budget. And
(08:55):
apparently the other thing is he's building this in a
park in Chicago. It's not just any park. It's Frederick
law Olmsted, who's the greatest designer of parks. He's the
guy that did Central Park. If you're out in Long Island,
he did the beautiful planting fields. But apparently this is
an isore that has screwed up the park. People in
(09:15):
Chicago are furious at Obama. It took twenty acres out
of the park and in this beautiful Olmsted Park it
put this ridiculous isyesore that takes up way too much
land and ruins the view all over the wherever you
are in the park, it just ruins your view, and
people are furious with Obama. Now you may not have
(09:36):
heard about this because it's Obama and the press covers
for it. If this were Donald Trump or any Republican,
this would be front page news for the last year.
It's being covered up. But it is just Google Obama
Presidential Library. You won't believe anybody would approve this design.
The ugliest thing ever built in America. Hey, OJ Simpson's estate.
(10:02):
He's no longer with us, of course. Ron Goldman's been
battling OJ Simpson for years. When Simpson got acquitted, remember
Ron Goldman went to court. Civil trial is much easier.
You don't need as much evidence or standards are lower
for a civil conviction, and he got OJ convicted civilly
(10:23):
and he got a massive judgment. I think it was
fifty eight million. Now, how do you collect that from OJ? Well,
it's tough, but OJ's dead. Ron Goldman going after the estate. Well,
the estate agreed to pay the fifty eight million. I
don't know exactly how they're going to pay it. They
don't have the money. It's thirty three million the original judge. Oh,
(10:45):
the original judgment was thirty three million. It's grown to
fifty eight million with interest in all that. You know,
all of this Ojson, this is nineteen ninety five. Hard
to believe, thirty years ago, the OJ stuff, the trial
that Johnny Cochrane, who's the other guy Kardashian and bought
Robert Shapiro. And remember the Bronco Chase, the White Bronco
(11:07):
Chase that Friday night, that was all over television. All
of that thirty years ago. So the executor told press
that the estate intends to pay as much of the
amount as they can through ongoing auctions of Simpson's possessions.
They'll auction his memorabilia. I don't think this is going
to come down millions of dollars. They also point out
(11:29):
a lot of the memorabilia was stolen. They're working with
attorneys to recover it. They're also pointing out they owe
a ton of money the IRS and that has priority,
so Goldman gets nothing until the IRS is paid. Also,
California's apparently owed seven hundred thousand, so it's going to
be a while for Goldman to get any of that money.
(11:51):
But good for him for keeping it up. You know,
it was quite an election this year, and you don't
realize when you can't pain in New York City how
big New York City is, you know it just take Queens,
one Borough, Queens. How many people you think are in
Queens two and a half million, Two and a half
(12:12):
million people are in Queens. How many languages you think
are spoken in Queens one hundred and sixty, one hundred
and sixty languages. Forty eight percent of Queens is foreign. Now,
that's something that came out on the show this week.
That was one of the most interesting things we It
was an culter that came up with it. You know,
Democrats left the borders wide open so that millions could
(12:35):
come in here because they saw through all their studies
that if you let all these people in, all these
illegals that eventually go on the voter rolls, they vote
Democrat nine to one, so that's why they wanted them here.
They'll vote Democrat nine to one. So they let like
twenty million of them in thirty million only, like everything
(12:55):
that Democrats do, it backfired on them. Yeah, they'll vote Democrat,
but not for establishment Democrat. They don't like old fossil
dinosaur Chuck Schumer types. No, they'll vote for a socialist
foreign third world mom Donnie types. You know, all these
people that came in are young, they come from socialism
or communism or third world places, and that's what they'll
(13:18):
vote for. So it's backfired completely. It's made it impossible
for an old fossil like a Schumer type or even
a Cuomo to get elected anymore among Democrats. Hey, we're
out of time, but thanks for listening. You can listen
live ten to noon every weekday, or get the podcast
any place you get podcasts. You know, get our special
(13:39):
bonus segment, Mark Simone here. Thanks for listening.
Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome to the bonus segment for
all of you podcast listeners. We love the fact that
you listening to the podcast every weekend. Bonus segment. So
Kathy Hokeel while she was asked about elis Stephonic and
she's got a pretty good lead over Stefanic in the polls,
although Stefanic keeps arising, but still Hokel has like a
(00:23):
twenty point lead. But she was asked about Bruce Blakeman,
who is definitely looking at running. He hasn't decided yet.
He's going to go tour upstate to get a feel
for things. But asked about him, Now, he's probably the
bigger threat. You know, one thing about Stephonic, she's great,
and she's brilliant in Congress and you know, number one
in her class at Harvard, smart, very articulate. But it's
(00:45):
Blakeman that's the governor, a manager. You know, he's the
county executive of Nassau County. It's like being the governor
of Nassau County. He's the best county executive in America.
So that could be the real threat. Asked about him,
she said, Nah, I don't care how many Trump cheerleaders
run against me. Well, that's a pretty good sign for Blakeman.
She can't seem to come up with the argument against
(01:08):
him if she's got a resort to Trump arrangement syndrome
to go after him. Eh, not a good sign. And
NASA County's done very well under him as far as taxes, crime, economy, everything.
So she's you can tell she's a little worried about
that Blakeman threat. Now here's the other thing about Hockel.
(01:29):
You know everybody hates these things. She comes up with
one of them. She's gonna ban natural gas. She's going
to ban gas stoves. You won't be allowed to have
a gas stove. Now that's very important. It's okay if
you got an electric stove, but a gas stove it's
much better for cooking. You get much better results, you
get much better texture everything. That's why in restaurants they
only use gas stoves. And if she bans these gas stoves,
(01:53):
you really can't have a restaurant. I guess they'll have
to grandfather the old ones. You could keep those, but
nobody will be able to build a new restaurant if
you can't use gas stoves. So it's a nightmare. Wednesday,
she said she's putting off the ban on gas in
homes and buildings under seven stories. She's not gonna do it.
(02:15):
She's putting it off. But Hokal watchers say, don't be
fooled by this for a second. It's like the congestion pricing.
She did the same thing. Remember she said, forget the
congestion pricing. That's on hold, not doing well. It was
just till the election was over. Then the day after
the election there's the congestion pricing again. So if everybody's
(02:37):
saying that's the deal, she's putting off this nonsense just
till the day after the election. It's next year. It's
a year from now. But don't be fooled by that.
The gas ban will come in the day after the election.
So you know, these Democrats are scream about tariffs, tariffs.
Why they just raised the prices. If you put a
tariff on these companies, they're gonna have to raise their prices.
(03:00):
The tariff will cause inflation. But then they go doing
the same exact thing. They don't call it a tariff,
they call it increased corporate tax. You know, if you
increase the tax on corporations. That's a tariff. It's the
same exact thing as a tariff. So Democrats do it
all the time, that's all. They can'tpaign on tariffs. They
call it a corporate tax increase, but it's basically a tariff. Hey,
(03:24):
we've been talking about Jeffrey Epstein all week. The Clintons
apparently are going to be called to testify in Congress
about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. This could be next month.
Bill and Hillary forced to testify in Congress. Now the
Clinton I guess it's the attorney has written to Congress
(03:46):
saying Bill and Hillary Clinton will be happy to provide
a written proffer. In other words, he says, on what
little they know about Jeffrey Epstein. Suddenly they don't know
the guy. They don't know anything about it. They barely
met him. Meantime, they were with him all the time.
They were close to Jeffrey Epstein. But the attorney is
trying this. They'll give you in writing what little they
(04:10):
knew about him, whether there was plenty. You know, it's
going to come out. We mentioned this during the week.
The Clinton Global Initiative, which is now known as the
Clinton Foundation, started by Jeffrey Epstein. He was the big
donor that launched it. Epstein funded the whole thing. They
were very close, and that's one reason all these politicians
(04:31):
know Epstein. He had a big check book, and he
wasn't afraid to write big checks. He paid for access.
You know, normally, if you're some big intellectual type politician
or big ivy league scholarly trustee, I wants to hang
out with slimeball Jeffrey Epstein. But he'd write checks like crazy,
(04:51):
Oh you got a charity, here's one hundred thousand for
your charity, Clinton Global Initiative. Let me give you a
million dollars. Well, so they'd show up, sit there at
his dinner table, pretend they were interested in what he
was saying. But if you like that Clinton Foundation, thank
Jeffrey Epstein. He's the guy behind it. Hey speaking to Epstein.
You know, he's got that beautiful mansion seventy first Street.
(05:12):
It's huge, it's been up for sale and it's undergone
apparently a massive million dollar remodel. They're trying to scrub
all traces of all the terrible, disgusting Epstein nonsense that
went on there. His twisted sex crime City record show
already nine hundred and twenty five thousand spent on renovation,
(05:35):
and there's more coming. The home's new owner is a
former Goldman Sachs executive. It's bigger than a normal townhouse.
It's like the size of two townhouses. It was a
big building. Actually it was a private school. So this guy,
the former Goldman Sachs guy, paid fifty one million for it.
Probably was worth more, but it probably the price was
(05:56):
a little lower because it had all the stain of
Jeffrey Epstein, no pun in downd it all over it. Yeah.
Actually here it says it was originally eighty eight million,
So the guy got a hell of a bargain thirty
million off the price. But it's gonna take millions. Needs
a complete makeover physically, probably needs an exorcism, Probably needs
a hazmat team to come in there. I don't know.
(06:18):
I wouldn't want to live in that thing. So, hey,
what is Ted Cruz has been going crazy going after
Tucker Carlson. Now, Tucker Carlson is just gone off the
deep end. He's now like a redneck crazy in all
kinds of areas that are so controversial. And then you
(06:39):
got Tucker, Megan Kelly and these kind of who's that
another one that Kansas owns. They're running down the weirdest
rabbit holes and they're getting into anti Semitic, anti Israel
crap that is absolutely ridiculous. Mark le event has gotten
into a huge feud with him, But now Ted Cruz
really going after him special Tucker Carlson, the anti Semitism,
(07:02):
the anti Americanism. He's yelling in screen, but he's carrying
on quite a crusade against Tucker Carlson. Now Washington insiders think,
what's really going on? You know, it comes to twenty
twenty eight. On the Republican side, who's the candidate in
twenty twenty eight Trump is term limited out, who's the candidate? Well?
Jd Vance number one? And then people talk about Marco Rubio.
(07:26):
Apparently Ted Cruz wants in on that. He wants to
be the twenty twenty eight candidate. Hard to get past J. D. Vance,
who's the sitting Vice president. Rubio is the Secretary of State.
So apparently that's one reason Cruz is doing this, going
crazy with the fighting the anti semitism. You could think
major Jewish donors will come to him, will turn to
(07:49):
him more than those other guys in the twenty twenty
eight race, give him the backing, the financing he needs,
and maybe the clout in some areas. So that's what
it's all about. At the beginning of the twenty twenty
eight race, Barack Obama is building his presidential library, great
testament to what a bad manager. Barack Obama is just awful. Now.
(08:11):
First of all, it is considered the ugliest building ever
built in America. Just google Barack Obama Presidential Library. It
is the most hideous, ugliest. I don't even I can't
even call it a building. It's just a big ten
story slab of the ugliest concrete with no windows. It's
(08:33):
the most hideous thing ever built. And apparently he's gone
insane with bad management. It should cost one hundred million
or whatever. He's already like eight hundred and fifty million
over budget. It's donor money that he's wasted. So it's
the ugliest thing ever built. It's ridiculously over budget. And
(08:55):
apparently the other thing is he's building this in a
park in Chicago. It's not just any park. It's Frederick
law Olmsted, who's the greatest designer of parks. He's the
guy that did Central Park. If you're out in Long Island,
he did the beautiful planting fields. But apparently this is
an isore that has screwed up the park. People in
(09:15):
Chicago are furious at Obama. It took twenty acres out
of the park and in this beautiful Olmsted Park it
put this ridiculous isyesore that takes up way too much
land and ruins the view all over the wherever you
are in the park, it just ruins your view, and
people are furious with Obama. Now you may not have
(09:36):
heard about this because it's Obama and the press covers
for it. If this were Donald Trump or any Republican,
this would be front page news for the last year.
It's being covered up. But it is just Google Obama
Presidential Library. You won't believe anybody would approve this design.
The ugliest thing ever built in America. Hey, OJ Simpson's estate.
(10:02):
He's no longer with us, of course. Ron Goldman's been
battling OJ Simpson for years. When Simpson got acquitted, remember
Ron Goldman went to court. Civil trial is much easier.
You don't need as much evidence or standards are lower
for a civil conviction, and he got OJ convicted civilly
(10:23):
and he got a massive judgment. I think it was
fifty eight million. Now, how do you collect that from OJ? Well,
it's tough, but OJ's dead. Ron Goldman going after the estate. Well,
the estate agreed to pay the fifty eight million. I
don't know exactly how they're going to pay it. They
don't have the money. It's thirty three million the original judge. Oh,
(10:45):
the original judgment was thirty three million. It's grown to
fifty eight million with interest in all that. You know,
all of this Ojson, this is nineteen ninety five. Hard
to believe, thirty years ago, the OJ stuff, the trial
that Johnny Cochrane, who's the other guy Kardashian and bought
Robert Shapiro. And remember the Bronco Chase, the White Bronco
(11:07):
Chase that Friday night, that was all over television. All
of that thirty years ago. So the executor told press
that the estate intends to pay as much of the
amount as they can through ongoing auctions of Simpson's possessions.
They'll auction his memorabilia. I don't think this is going
to come down millions of dollars. They also point out
(11:29):
a lot of the memorabilia was stolen. They're working with
attorneys to recover it. They're also pointing out they owe
a ton of money the IRS and that has priority,
so Goldman gets nothing until the IRS is paid. Also,
California's apparently owed seven hundred thousand, so it's going to
be a while for Goldman to get any of that money.
(11:51):
But good for him for keeping it up. You know,
it was quite an election this year, and you don't
realize when you can't pain in New York City how
big New York City is, you know it just take Queens,
one Borough, Queens. How many people you think are in
Queens two and a half million, Two and a half
(12:12):
million people are in Queens. How many languages you think
are spoken in Queens one hundred and sixty, one hundred
and sixty languages. Forty eight percent of Queens is foreign. Now,
that's something that came out on the show this week.
That was one of the most interesting things we It
was an culter that came up with it. You know,
Democrats left the borders wide open so that millions could
(12:35):
come in here because they saw through all their studies
that if you let all these people in, all these
illegals that eventually go on the voter rolls, they vote
Democrat nine to one, so that's why they wanted them here.
They'll vote Democrat nine to one. So they let like
twenty million of them in thirty million only, like everything
(12:55):
that Democrats do, it backfired on them. Yeah, they'll vote Democrat,
but not for establishment Democrat. They don't like old fossil
dinosaur Chuck Schumer types. No, they'll vote for a socialist
foreign third world mom Donnie types. You know, all these
people that came in are young, they come from socialism
or communism or third world places, and that's what they'll
(13:18):
vote for. So it's backfired completely. It's made it impossible
for an old fossil like a Schumer type or even
a Cuomo to get elected anymore among Democrats. Hey, we're
out of time, but thanks for listening. You can listen
live ten to noon every weekday, or get the podcast
any place you get podcasts. You know, get our special
(13:39):
bonus segment, Mark Simone here. Thanks for listening.
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