October 31, 2025 • 13 mins
Mark Simone talks about the Washington Post being cleaned up following the acquisition by Jeff Bezos; The Democrats losing their mind over the new ballroom despite most other top countries having similar buildings for visiting officials; the Louvre heist investigation still going on with a few of the rumors that are circulating; Bill Gates changing his tune on climate change and turning his back on the Dems; Francis Ford Coppola allegedly went broke making his passion project ‘Megalopolis’ and now being forced to pawn off some old watches to make some money back; Businesses are looking for pennies after the treasury stopped producing them earlier in the year; A lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over the Iowa poll before the election that turned out to be wildly inaccurate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Mark Simone. This is the bonus segment of
the podcast all you podcast listeners who We love our
podcast listeners, so we do a special extra show bonus
segment for them. A lot of stuff happened this week
the Washington Post. You know, this always the biggest Trump
hating newspaper Trump arrangement syndrome, but Jeff Bezos has kind
(00:22):
of cleaned it up a little, gotten it back to
more of a normal newspaper, not always bashing Trump. They've
defended him on a couple of things, the shutdown, if
he yelled at Democrats to stop being so crazy about
the shutdown. And here's another one. They praised Donald Trump's
aggressive approach to building his new ballroom. Washington Post says,
(00:43):
in classic Trump fashion, president pursuing a reasonable idea in
the most jarring manner possible. The board wrote, but they
said his plans are great, and they said they should
have submitted the plans ahead of time and all of that.
But then the Democrats would have gone crazy and held
it up forever. So they actually applaud the aggressive. Just
(01:05):
get it done, don't let it get bogged down in
committees and government and Congress. As the Washington Post point
out the Blue Princes would have faced death by a
thousand cuts, and he said The Washington Post also points
out privately, many people from the Biden and the Obama
White Houses acknowledge this is long overdue, that they wish
(01:30):
they had had this ballroom, that they wish they had
an event space like Trump is creating. It was a
big problem for every president. You know, when these presidents
go to other countries, when they go to any world
leader anywhere in the world. Whether you saw the dinner
the Prince Charles Throom in the most unbelievable, ornate, spectacular
dining room ever in the world, you go to France,
(01:52):
these world leaders are living in palaces with ballrooms and
venues that you can't believe. So it was crazy when
they come to America for a big dinner at the
White House, if it's you know, five hundred people, it's
in a tent on the lawn with porta potties. How
does that look for other countries. So the whole idea,
(02:14):
Trump's idea of redoing the Oval Office and then doing
this ballroom. You want to project power and wealth and
strength to these other world leaders. So the Obama and
Biden White House people privately saying this is a much
much needed thing. We really need to have this. So
that Louver heist the Louver Museum looks like a number
(02:37):
of professionals, real real pros, who got in and out
and like that whatever was four minutes or something, then
stole all that jewelry they've gotten I think five of
them now, DNA and other things. They were able to
track them down, they still don't have the jewels. Though
nobody can figure this crime out. You can't really fence
them obviously, they're such well known pieces. So a couple
(02:58):
of theories floating around that it was a professional collector
with billions of dollars who hired the best team of
professionals to go steal the stuff and he just wanted
it in his collection. That's a possibility. The other thing
is they're thinking that somebody stole it knowing you could
break down the stones and then sell them separately and
(03:19):
make a lot of money. But if that were the case,
I don't think you'd go to all the trouble of
doing the Louver. You could just go to any jewelry
store and steal a lot of stones. So that professional
collector looking to just have them. That's probably the better theory.
Bill Gates shocked a lot of left wing people, totally
changed his tune on climate change. I don't know exactly why.
(03:40):
Maybe Gates wants back in with the White Houses with
President Trump, I don't know, but he's admitting now a
bunch of things. Number One, he admitted climate change is
a problem, but it's not going to end civilization. It's
not going to destroy the earth, or it's not going
to destroy the ocean. None of that's And he also
acknowledge the temperature is not the way you measure progress
(04:04):
on climate It's not about temperature. It's not that simple.
And he also acknowledged it's about health and prosperity. It's
the best defense against climate change. Build up a lot
of these other countries. But it's a major, major reversal
for Bill Gates. Now, the other reason he might have
done it, you end up with this Al Gore problem,
(04:25):
with this John Kerry problem. When you run around lecturing
everybody about climate change, then you get yelled at every
time you're flying around in your eighty five million dollar
private jet and you're using four hundred and fifty gallons
of jet fuel every hour, and you travel around on
yachts and a caravan of SUVs. So maybe the other
reason he backed off on that. But it's good. It's
(04:46):
good he's finally being honest about the whole thing. Hey,
the director The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola, the great director
The Godfather, apparently went totally broke. The eighty six year
old spent all this money he had this movie. It
was like a passion project for decades. He's been trying
to do this called Megalopolis, whatever the hell it was.
(05:08):
But he invested one hundred and twenty million of his
own money, one hundred and twenty million of his fortune,
and the movie totally bombed. It only grows fourteen million,
So that's one hundred and six million dollar loss. So
I guess that was everything. He went broke. He's now
selling stuff. He's even selling off his luxury watch collection,
(05:30):
which apparently is an amazing, very serious collection. One piece
is worth over a million dollars. But he's got how
many pieces, seven seven others, so figure it's five to
six million in watches. He's going to auction them off.
December sixth and seventh, Phillips Auction House in New York City.
You know, for a guy like that, a veteran of
(05:53):
Hollywood who's been there forever, first of all, one hundred
and twenty million for this pet prize. But there's so
many ways to raise money in Hollywood for a movie,
so many investors. If you can't get them, the next
thing you do in Hollywood is you go to what
they call civilians, people not in the movie business. You
go to rich guys, billionaires who want to be in
(06:14):
show business, and they're easy to find. It's done all
the time. Directors do that all the time. A big
studio want fund a movie, you go find these amateurs
all over America, these bazillionaires, they like to call themselves
a movie producers. Although you raise the money that way.
It's easy. And if you can't do it in America,
you can do it in the Middle East. A lot
of these Sultan's and Saudi's and these they all want
(06:37):
to be movie producers. It looks good and for ten million,
twenty million, which is nothing to them, they chip in
and so you easily raise the money. Martin Scorsese has done.
Plenty of people have done it. So if he couldn't
raise the money, that way. That meant things were really, really,
really bad as far as everyway it looked at the
movie and had no interest. Hey, we just want to
pay tribute to Rabbi Alvin Kass. They passed away this year.
(07:01):
He was eighty nine years old. He was the NYPD
chaplain for sixty years. Beloved. Beautiful tribute from the Police
Commissioner Jessica Tish about how much he meant to the
police department and to so many families. Do you have
any pennies right now? Do you have a penny anywhere
on you? Do you have a jar of pennies anywhere?
(07:25):
They may become valuable. Actually, there's now a penny shortage
that's going to impact the country. They stopped making pennies
earlier this year. President Trump asked the Treasury Department stop
making pennies. You don't need them anymore. They're wasteful, and
believe it or not, for the Treasury Department to make them,
(07:46):
to make a penny costs three three point six cents,
so it's almost four cents to make a penny. So
they lose about three cents on every penny they make,
and that can add up to a lot of money.
He's asked them to stop making pennies. And they thought
somewhere years from now there will be a penny shortage.
(08:07):
But they figured to be okay, because everything will be
digital by then. Right now, people are using Apple Pay
and Google Pay and credit cards on your phone. Everybody's
paying that way. Nobody pays cash anymore. It's very unusual.
But they guessed wrong. The penny shortage is already hitting
and businesses now have found themselves asking customers not to
(08:29):
pay with cash. You know, a lot of people still
use cash, but they're asking you not to pay, and
if you do, they're telling you they're not going to
be able to give you the correct change because they
don't have pennies anymore. They've run out. Even though it's
now believed there are about two billion pennies in the world,
it's not enough. So if you got that big jar
of pennies going there and offer to a business, maybe
(08:52):
they'll overpay for it. You never know. Hey, Donald Trump,
another lawsuit he might You know, he's made a fortune
sueing ABC, CBS. He's already up about fifty sixty million
on these lawsuits. Now he's suing You remember, right before
the election. There was a poll that came out in
Iowa or the Iowa Polls. It was the Des Moines Register.
(09:15):
They put out this fake poll that Trump was something
like twenty points behind Kamala couldn't possibly win. The reason
they do that is to stop his votes, to stop
his donations. But it was totally wrong, total fake poll.
He's now suing them the cases in Iowa State Court
and he's won the first lost one round, but he's
(09:36):
won the big round and the case progresses. So this
could be pretty interesting. It could be another huge payday
for Trump. In the end, he'll end up making a
couple hundred million, suing the networks and the media and
making all this money. Hey, also, the Trump Department of
Justice is starting to look at crime statistics around the
country and they've found so far that Democrats are playing
(10:00):
with the numbers, juggling the crime status. You know when Illinois, Chicago,
of these cities, Portland, they keep telling you crime is
down twenty percent. You know, whenever Trump tries to send
the military in or do something, they always use the excuse, well,
crime is dropping. It's dropped every drop this year, it
dropped last year. They're really looking into it. And this
has happened in a lot of cities where they play
(10:23):
with the crime numbers. It's pretty easy to do. There's
some periods in New York where it may have happened
if you get the right police commissioner and he takes
orders from the mayor and you can put the right
people in charge of the numbers. And the way they
do it is they if it's a felony, they knock
it down to a misdemeanor. There were even cases in
some cities where there's a murder they called it a
(10:44):
suicide just to not have as many murders on the books.
So the Department of Justice looking into this, the whole
team going through numbers, going through records, and they may
catch a bunch of these cities. Case of one guy
who's a sword maniac, remember the maniac wielding this sword.
(11:06):
He was arrested for killing a woman on the subway,
killed her with a sword. It was a horrible thing,
long criminal record, and the judge lowered his bail in
an assault case. They knocked it down to a misdemeanor
so it wouldn't be a felony. That kind of stuff
going on, So you may see a big, big report
coming out on all that stuff happening pretty soon. Lots
(11:30):
of stuff going on all over the place. Hey, the
cell phone ban in New York, New York State. This
is the first school year where they banned cell phones.
If you're a kid, you have to lock up your
cell phone. You can't have it all day long. Now,
to me, I would have been able to get through
school a lot easier with a cell phone. I couldn't
bear listening to anything. But if we'd had a cell
(11:52):
phone back then, I could be reading books that I
want to read, watching TV beyond line bind. It would
have gotten me through the day. But no more self
phones in school. So here's one group of educators from
Long Island. They say they've seen a huge difference with
students because they have no phone. They've, you know, it's
tough for a week or so, then they accept it.
(12:13):
And what they're seeing now is students are talking more
in class, engaging more in class and in recess lunch hour,
more socializing, more talking. So they're saying it's actually a
good thing. So if that's true, if we can believe
all these teachers, it's pretty good. There are experts in
(12:34):
psychologists that say, if you can put your phone down
for like two three hours a day and just not
look at it and go phoneless for a couple hours
a day, it's really better for your mental health. I
don't know exactly why, but they keep claiming that. Now
here's another new trend. You have a wedding. You got
to spend a fortune on a wedding. You got to
rent them. Then you got to pay all this cost
(12:56):
of fortune. So there are companies now that want to
sponsor weddings, but in exchange, you'd have to put their
logo all over the place. Now would you do this?
If a sponsor would come into a company, a corporation,
a product, will sponsor your wedding, save you a lot
of money, would you do it? Well, people are doing it.
In fact, there's a new survey sixty two percent of
(13:19):
Americans would do it, sixty two percent. But organizations would
need to cover sixty five percent of the wedding bill
to be included. Now imagine they don't do this for
just any wedding. It's got to be the right place,
the right type of crowd. But pretty interesting idea. Hey,
this has been the bonus segment of the podcast. If
you want to listen live, it's Monday through Friday, ten
(13:43):
to noon. To make sure you follow me to on Instagram,
Mark Simone NYC at Instagram, Twitter, Mark Simone ny thanks
for listening. I See a Monday. Have a great weekend.
Hey, it's Mark Simone. This is the bonus segment of
the podcast all you podcast listeners who We love our
podcast listeners, so we do a special extra show bonus
segment for them. A lot of stuff happened this week
the Washington Post. You know, this always the biggest Trump
hating newspaper Trump arrangement syndrome, but Jeff Bezos has kind
(00:22):
of cleaned it up a little, gotten it back to
more of a normal newspaper, not always bashing Trump. They've
defended him on a couple of things, the shutdown, if
he yelled at Democrats to stop being so crazy about
the shutdown. And here's another one. They praised Donald Trump's
aggressive approach to building his new ballroom. Washington Post says,
(00:43):
in classic Trump fashion, president pursuing a reasonable idea in
the most jarring manner possible. The board wrote, but they
said his plans are great, and they said they should
have submitted the plans ahead of time and all of that.
But then the Democrats would have gone crazy and held
it up forever. So they actually applaud the aggressive. Just
(01:05):
get it done, don't let it get bogged down in
committees and government and Congress. As the Washington Post point
out the Blue Princes would have faced death by a
thousand cuts, and he said The Washington Post also points
out privately, many people from the Biden and the Obama
White Houses acknowledge this is long overdue, that they wish
(01:30):
they had had this ballroom, that they wish they had
an event space like Trump is creating. It was a
big problem for every president. You know, when these presidents
go to other countries, when they go to any world
leader anywhere in the world. Whether you saw the dinner
the Prince Charles Throom in the most unbelievable, ornate, spectacular
dining room ever in the world, you go to France,
(01:52):
these world leaders are living in palaces with ballrooms and
venues that you can't believe. So it was crazy when
they come to America for a big dinner at the
White House, if it's you know, five hundred people, it's
in a tent on the lawn with porta potties. How
does that look for other countries. So the whole idea,
(02:14):
Trump's idea of redoing the Oval Office and then doing
this ballroom. You want to project power and wealth and
strength to these other world leaders. So the Obama and
Biden White House people privately saying this is a much
much needed thing. We really need to have this. So
that Louver heist the Louver Museum looks like a number
(02:37):
of professionals, real real pros, who got in and out
and like that whatever was four minutes or something, then
stole all that jewelry they've gotten I think five of
them now, DNA and other things. They were able to
track them down, they still don't have the jewels. Though
nobody can figure this crime out. You can't really fence
them obviously, they're such well known pieces. So a couple
(02:58):
of theories floating around that it was a professional collector
with billions of dollars who hired the best team of
professionals to go steal the stuff and he just wanted
it in his collection. That's a possibility. The other thing
is they're thinking that somebody stole it knowing you could
break down the stones and then sell them separately and
(03:19):
make a lot of money. But if that were the case,
I don't think you'd go to all the trouble of
doing the Louver. You could just go to any jewelry
store and steal a lot of stones. So that professional
collector looking to just have them. That's probably the better theory.
Bill Gates shocked a lot of left wing people, totally
changed his tune on climate change. I don't know exactly why.
(03:40):
Maybe Gates wants back in with the White Houses with
President Trump, I don't know, but he's admitting now a
bunch of things. Number One, he admitted climate change is
a problem, but it's not going to end civilization. It's
not going to destroy the earth, or it's not going
to destroy the ocean. None of that's And he also
acknowledge the temperature is not the way you measure progress
(04:04):
on climate It's not about temperature. It's not that simple.
And he also acknowledged it's about health and prosperity. It's
the best defense against climate change. Build up a lot
of these other countries. But it's a major, major reversal
for Bill Gates. Now, the other reason he might have
done it, you end up with this Al Gore problem,
(04:25):
with this John Kerry problem. When you run around lecturing
everybody about climate change, then you get yelled at every
time you're flying around in your eighty five million dollar
private jet and you're using four hundred and fifty gallons
of jet fuel every hour, and you travel around on
yachts and a caravan of SUVs. So maybe the other
reason he backed off on that. But it's good. It's
(04:46):
good he's finally being honest about the whole thing. Hey,
the director The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola, the great director
The Godfather, apparently went totally broke. The eighty six year
old spent all this money he had this movie. It
was like a passion project for decades. He's been trying
to do this called Megalopolis, whatever the hell it was.
(05:08):
But he invested one hundred and twenty million of his
own money, one hundred and twenty million of his fortune,
and the movie totally bombed. It only grows fourteen million,
So that's one hundred and six million dollar loss. So
I guess that was everything. He went broke. He's now
selling stuff. He's even selling off his luxury watch collection,
(05:30):
which apparently is an amazing, very serious collection. One piece
is worth over a million dollars. But he's got how
many pieces, seven seven others, so figure it's five to
six million in watches. He's going to auction them off.
December sixth and seventh, Phillips Auction House in New York City.
You know, for a guy like that, a veteran of
(05:53):
Hollywood who's been there forever, first of all, one hundred
and twenty million for this pet prize. But there's so
many ways to raise money in Hollywood for a movie,
so many investors. If you can't get them, the next
thing you do in Hollywood is you go to what
they call civilians, people not in the movie business. You
go to rich guys, billionaires who want to be in
(06:14):
show business, and they're easy to find. It's done all
the time. Directors do that all the time. A big
studio want fund a movie, you go find these amateurs
all over America, these bazillionaires, they like to call themselves
a movie producers. Although you raise the money that way.
It's easy. And if you can't do it in America,
you can do it in the Middle East. A lot
of these Sultan's and Saudi's and these they all want
(06:37):
to be movie producers. It looks good and for ten million,
twenty million, which is nothing to them, they chip in
and so you easily raise the money. Martin Scorsese has done.
Plenty of people have done it. So if he couldn't
raise the money, that way. That meant things were really, really,
really bad as far as everyway it looked at the
movie and had no interest. Hey, we just want to
pay tribute to Rabbi Alvin Kass. They passed away this year.
(07:01):
He was eighty nine years old. He was the NYPD
chaplain for sixty years. Beloved. Beautiful tribute from the Police
Commissioner Jessica Tish about how much he meant to the
police department and to so many families. Do you have
any pennies right now? Do you have a penny anywhere
on you? Do you have a jar of pennies anywhere?
(07:25):
They may become valuable. Actually, there's now a penny shortage
that's going to impact the country. They stopped making pennies
earlier this year. President Trump asked the Treasury Department stop
making pennies. You don't need them anymore. They're wasteful, and
believe it or not, for the Treasury Department to make them,
(07:46):
to make a penny costs three three point six cents,
so it's almost four cents to make a penny. So
they lose about three cents on every penny they make,
and that can add up to a lot of money.
He's asked them to stop making pennies. And they thought
somewhere years from now there will be a penny shortage.
(08:07):
But they figured to be okay, because everything will be
digital by then. Right now, people are using Apple Pay
and Google Pay and credit cards on your phone. Everybody's
paying that way. Nobody pays cash anymore. It's very unusual.
But they guessed wrong. The penny shortage is already hitting
and businesses now have found themselves asking customers not to
(08:29):
pay with cash. You know, a lot of people still
use cash, but they're asking you not to pay, and
if you do, they're telling you they're not going to
be able to give you the correct change because they
don't have pennies anymore. They've run out. Even though it's
now believed there are about two billion pennies in the world,
it's not enough. So if you got that big jar
of pennies going there and offer to a business, maybe
(08:52):
they'll overpay for it. You never know. Hey, Donald Trump,
another lawsuit he might You know, he's made a fortune
sueing ABC, CBS. He's already up about fifty sixty million
on these lawsuits. Now he's suing You remember, right before
the election. There was a poll that came out in
Iowa or the Iowa Polls. It was the Des Moines Register.
(09:15):
They put out this fake poll that Trump was something
like twenty points behind Kamala couldn't possibly win. The reason
they do that is to stop his votes, to stop
his donations. But it was totally wrong, total fake poll.
He's now suing them the cases in Iowa State Court
and he's won the first lost one round, but he's
(09:36):
won the big round and the case progresses. So this
could be pretty interesting. It could be another huge payday
for Trump. In the end, he'll end up making a
couple hundred million, suing the networks and the media and
making all this money. Hey, also, the Trump Department of
Justice is starting to look at crime statistics around the
country and they've found so far that Democrats are playing
(10:00):
with the numbers, juggling the crime status. You know when Illinois, Chicago,
of these cities, Portland, they keep telling you crime is
down twenty percent. You know, whenever Trump tries to send
the military in or do something, they always use the excuse, well,
crime is dropping. It's dropped every drop this year, it
dropped last year. They're really looking into it. And this
has happened in a lot of cities where they play
(10:23):
with the crime numbers. It's pretty easy to do. There's
some periods in New York where it may have happened
if you get the right police commissioner and he takes
orders from the mayor and you can put the right
people in charge of the numbers. And the way they
do it is they if it's a felony, they knock
it down to a misdemeanor. There were even cases in
some cities where there's a murder they called it a
(10:44):
suicide just to not have as many murders on the books.
So the Department of Justice looking into this, the whole
team going through numbers, going through records, and they may
catch a bunch of these cities. Case of one guy
who's a sword maniac, remember the maniac wielding this sword.
(11:06):
He was arrested for killing a woman on the subway,
killed her with a sword. It was a horrible thing,
long criminal record, and the judge lowered his bail in
an assault case. They knocked it down to a misdemeanor
so it wouldn't be a felony. That kind of stuff
going on, So you may see a big, big report
coming out on all that stuff happening pretty soon. Lots
(11:30):
of stuff going on all over the place. Hey, the
cell phone ban in New York, New York State. This
is the first school year where they banned cell phones.
If you're a kid, you have to lock up your
cell phone. You can't have it all day long. Now,
to me, I would have been able to get through
school a lot easier with a cell phone. I couldn't
bear listening to anything. But if we'd had a cell
(11:52):
phone back then, I could be reading books that I
want to read, watching TV beyond line bind. It would
have gotten me through the day. But no more self
phones in school. So here's one group of educators from
Long Island. They say they've seen a huge difference with
students because they have no phone. They've, you know, it's
tough for a week or so, then they accept it.
(12:13):
And what they're seeing now is students are talking more
in class, engaging more in class and in recess lunch hour,
more socializing, more talking. So they're saying it's actually a
good thing. So if that's true, if we can believe
all these teachers, it's pretty good. There are experts in
(12:34):
psychologists that say, if you can put your phone down
for like two three hours a day and just not
look at it and go phoneless for a couple hours
a day, it's really better for your mental health. I
don't know exactly why, but they keep claiming that. Now
here's another new trend. You have a wedding. You got
to spend a fortune on a wedding. You got to
rent them. Then you got to pay all this cost
(12:56):
of fortune. So there are companies now that want to
sponsor weddings, but in exchange, you'd have to put their
logo all over the place. Now would you do this?
If a sponsor would come into a company, a corporation,
a product, will sponsor your wedding, save you a lot
of money, would you do it? Well, people are doing it.
In fact, there's a new survey sixty two percent of
(13:19):
Americans would do it, sixty two percent. But organizations would
need to cover sixty five percent of the wedding bill
to be included. Now imagine they don't do this for
just any wedding. It's got to be the right place,
the right type of crowd. But pretty interesting idea. Hey,
this has been the bonus segment of the podcast. If
you want to listen live, it's Monday through Friday, ten
(13:43):
to noon. To make sure you follow me to on Instagram,
Mark Simone NYC at Instagram, Twitter, Mark Simone ny thanks
for listening. I See a Monday. Have a great weekend.
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