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December 12, 2025 • 13 mins
Mark Simone talks about the Minnesota welfare scam; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy escapes criticism; De Blasio's romantic exploits; a new book coming out about Jack Nicholson's partying days; Dick Van Dyke is about to turn 100; Glen Cove bans marijuana in public; Ilhan Omar allegedly has 2 husbands, and Wikipedia's left-wing bias.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome to the bonus segment for
all you podcast listeners out there. So you know about
the big scandal, the billions missing Minnesota, the Somalia community.
This is going to be bigger and bigger and bigger.
You wouldn't note if you watch fake news because they're
barely covering it. But apparently this is going to spread too.

(00:23):
Word is in Ohio. They're going to have the same problem,
big Somalian community there, and they may have there's a
couple of whistleblowers already saying you're going to have the
same kind of fraud there. Although in Minnesota under the
extremely bad leadership of Tim Waltz, where everything went out
of control. You got a bad mayor, you got a
bad governor. It was originally thought a billion dollars went missing,

(00:46):
then it was two billion. Now it looks like it
might be up to eight billion dollars. Steven Miller in
the White House said this welfare scam could be the
single greatest theft ever in the history of taxpayer dollars.
Dozens and dozens of Somali migrants are going to be convicted.
Miller also serves as a Homeland Security advisor to President

(01:08):
Trump said, you're going to see dozens and dozens and
dozens of convictions. And they believe that right now, they've
only scratched the very tip of the iceberg on this,
and it's going to go very deep. Prosecutors have already
charged eighty people, eight h eighty people, and they're more coming.

(01:31):
Doctor Oz warns Tim Waltz that they're going to stop
medicaid payments. The tremendous medicaid fraud was involved in this,
and Oz warns Tim Walts, you better start cleaning this
up or you're going to lose federal funding. We'll just
stop paying. That could be total disaster for the state.

(01:53):
So expect it to spread, and as I said, expect
it to spread to other states. So you had one
crazy Congress say he's introducing articles of impeachment against Pete Hegsith.
So they're trying to get rid of Pete Hegsith. They're
going after Christy Nome in those hearings this week. They're
trying to won by one Bobby Kennedy Junior. You know,

(02:13):
they go after all the cabinet members. You might be saying,
how come I haven't heard anybody attack Sean Duffy. You know,
all these same democrats in Congress, they've never said a
word about Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary. Well, there's a reason
for that. Seawn Duffy is very popular in Congress. Now.
The reason for that all these different cabinet departments, the

(02:36):
one that actually touches congressmen and women is the Department
of Transportation. Because one thing these Congress people do is
they fly home every weekend, they fly back every weekend.
They're always using the airports, the planes, the trains. They
are very, very very personally involved with the Department of
Transportation because they're always in airports and trains and planes.

(02:57):
And well, Seawan Duffy is very good at working these people.
You got to know how to do that. I imagine
Pete Budhajet did the same thing with all these vicious,
you know, pontificating democrats in Congress. Duffy has been very
careful to get friendly with each each one and give
them his cell number. Here's my cell number. You call

(03:18):
me if you have any problems. So if they're ever
in the airport, they could call Duffy right on his
cell phone. Very smart, and that's why they keep very
quiet about Sean Duffy. He knows exactly how to play
the game. Hey Bill de Blasio, who I think. You
can see a lot of him in the mom Donnie administration.
He was the chief campaign advisor to Mom Donnie. His

(03:43):
people were the people that ran the Mom Donnie campaign.
A number of his top people are going to be
the top people in city Hall for Mom Donnie. So Deblasio,
very close to the whole situation. But this guy's quite
the player. This guy's quite the ladies man. This build
the Blasio. I've seen it myself in real life a
few times. Very smooth operator, this guy. When there's a

(04:04):
lot of good looking women around, he's very good at flirting. Anyway, Deblasio,
you know he was with this one woman, then apparently
got caught with another woman, and then this one says
he was cheating on him, and he's going on and on.
There's a lot of articles about this everywhere. He did
a podcast. Oh the woman did the podcast, and she said,

(04:27):
it's clear we had a WorldWind romance for ten months,
but it was undermined by his affinity for chaos. She
goes on to claim this is chasing other women she said,
I think he has a real fear of intimacy and
being hurt. You know, they always do this when a
guy likes women and he likes to go out with

(04:47):
lots of women, and he likes dating a lot of
people and doing who knows what with a lot of it,
they always described that as a fear of intimacy. It
could be in some cases, but it's not necessarily a
fear of intimacy. The guy must may just enjoy it.
You know, if the guy's a football fanatic and he
watches twelve games every Sunday and then nineteen college games,

(05:11):
and doesn't mean he's a fear of intimacy. He's a
guy likes football a hell of a lot. So in
the case of builde Blasi or Charlie Sheen or what,
it's not necessarily a fear of intimacy. It's a real
love of running around with women. That's a speaking of
which this stuff is coming out about Jack Nicholson and
his earlier days. Here this woman writes all about Nicholson's

(05:35):
wildest partying days. It was womenizing, drugs, sex with his stalker.
Even Nicholson explained once he said, you know, he's always
a very cool looking guy, the sunglasses everything. But Nicholson said,
with my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without him, I'm
fat and sixty. Well, believe it or not, he's just

(05:56):
about ninety years old right now. Not hard to believe
he's ninety ninety. But this woman apparently was running around
with Nicholson twenty eight years ago, and she said, you know,
he looks kind of wobbly now, but back then, this
guy was running around like crazy hell raising women, chasing
drug consuming decades in the seventies and eighties. She saw

(06:17):
a lot of that. Now she's the same thing. She's
analyzing this. She said, his cardinal carnal looseness is based
on emotional neediness. Okay, Now, Nicholson did have kind of
a traumatic experience, and she points this out. When he
was thirty seven years old. Remember he's already a big

(06:40):
movie star. Then he's a huge movie star. He's thirty
seven and he finds out that his sister is actually
his mother. Yeah, I mean, this has happened. This has
happened to Bobby Darren, the same thing, and Darren went
a little nuts for a while. I guess the sister
when she gave birth. She was under age, too young,

(07:01):
it would have been too much of a scandal. So
the mother pretended to be the mother. So he finds
out his sister is his mother. It said. She says
it made him crazy. He could never trust women ever again.
You know, Nicholson's from New Jersey, grew up in Neptune,
New Jersey. But she said, this great deception killed any
trust he could have in women. He went out with

(07:22):
lots of women, Diane Keaton, Joni Mitchell, Margaret Trudeaux. It
goes on and on and on. One playboy woman that
went out with him said, he's a NonStop sex machine.
He's into fun and games, spanking, handcuffs, whips, polaroid pictures. Well, anyway,
this is a family show. What the hell are we
talking about here. Let's get to somebody who's you know,

(07:45):
he's ninety, but look at this. Let's get to somebody
living a cleaner life. Dick Van Dyke is about to
turn one hundred, one hundred. Now there's a big documentary
being made. Actually there's two big projects. As he turns
a hundred, big documentary. And then they talked to Van
Dyke about his life. Is he's had a long career,

(08:06):
but he said the two things, the two greatest things.
He said, the two greatest blessings of his career were
the Dick Van Dyke Show. Obviously, the Dick Van Dyke Show,
and what do you think the other one was? Now,
it was Mary Poppins. He believes that's the best thing
he ever did. Dick Van Dyke Show and Mary Poppins.
I love the Dick Van Dyke Show. I still watch

(08:28):
it every Sunday night on What is That Me? TV?
Mary Poppins no interest, but he said it was really
special to him. Dick Van Dyke Show is one of
the greatest sitcoms ever in history, with some great talent
Carl Reiner and others putting it together. Danny Thomas was
one of the producers. But it was Mary Poppins. You

(08:49):
gotta remember, Dick Vandyke was a Broadway star, a musical
comedy star, a singer dancer on Broadway. So it was
Mary Poppins that gave him a chance to really show
that to the world. So that's why that made the list.
Dick Van Dykes Show ended nineteen sixty six. You realized,
oh my god, that's sixty years ago. It went off
the year sixty years ago, so he was forty at

(09:09):
the time. He's about to turn a hundred. He uh so,
you know when he says one are the two biggest
things in his career, he forgets one thing Dick van
Dyke's show, and I would put in second place the
Colombo episode that he did. Remember Dick van Dyke in Colombo,
he was great. He was a great Columbo villain. But
he's going to turn one hundred. His career has been

(09:30):
eighty years long. He's said, listen, you're one hundred. You're
gonna have trouble seeing, hearing, walking, all that stuff. But
the upcoming documentary takes a look at his whole don't
miss it. It's pretty pretty good. Hey. You know, when
you walk around in New York City, I got alo
sues right now. I can't smell anything. But when you
walk around New York City, everybody smells pot. Everywhere. The

(09:51):
whole city just reeks of pot. Marijuana. It's everywhere. So yeah,
like me, if you have no interest in marijuana or
pot or any of that, you don't want to do it.
So why did you want it? Why do you want
it in the air? Why do you want secondhand smoke
from it? Why do you want to smell it everywhere?
It's terrible. Well, finally, one city, one town is going

(10:12):
to ban it in New York State. It's glen Cove.
Good for Glen Cove, Long Island, the city. There's the
first municipality in the state of New York to enact
a ban. You know, New York made weed legal, but
the city council approved the prohibition. It was a very
contentious meeting Tuesday night, a lot of fighting, but it's

(10:32):
now banned. You can smoke marijuana in your house. You
can smoke it in your yard, you can smoke it
in your friend's backyard. It's banned from public places like beaches, stadiums, parks,
places where children are. A mayor of Glen Cove, Pamela
Penzen back good for her. Under the new law, anybody

(10:52):
caught smoking pot in public, we'll get a fine of
one hundred dollars first offense, two hundred and fifty dollars
subsequent offenses. I think it's a good idea. Hopefully more
and more towns will start doing that. It's a great idea. Hey,
Elon Omar, controversial figure been fighting with Trump, she's going

(11:12):
to get caught up in this Somalio welfare fraud scheme.
She's Her involvement with these people is endless. You know,
she has two husbands. The second husband is the one
that many people believe as her brother. Why would she
marry her brother, Well, it was probably to get citizenship
to get into the United States. But this guy, the

(11:34):
second husband, has run off. People are talking about him
a lot, and he's left for South Africa. He's just
hiding over there. I guess a lot of people believe
that's her brother. She wed him in two thousand and
nine and actually from two thousand and nine to twenty seventeen.
They're no longer married, but it was believed she married

(11:54):
him just to get into the country. But he's as
soon as all this flax and all this talk started
about him, he just fled the country and left. Hey. Wikipedia,
you know, it's the most biased thing in the world.
It is so left wing slanted. You could go through
it and find so many examples of fake, slanted, biased

(12:16):
reporting on everything. A lot of it's not true. But
the people that run Wikipedia, basically the readers what they
call their editors, are basically just online people to control it.
Even the chairman himself told me once he's totally lost
control of it. But the editors in for instance, they
do not allow quoting from Fox News, the New York Post,

(12:37):
but they're labeled bad sources, but labeled reliable CNN, the Nation,
Mother Jones is labeled as reliable. I mean, this is
nuts to say. Fox News is not a reliable source,
but mother Jones is. So it's there are people now
fighting to do something about it. They call it Wokipedia
not Wikipedia. It is so biased, you know, Elon Musk.

(13:01):
Twitter was so corrupt, so biased, so censoring of anything conservative.
Elon Musk bought it and turned it around. You can't
buy Wikipedia. It's not a company you can buy. But
he's now said he's going to do something about it.
He's going to create a normal, neutral, fair version of
or what he calls Wikipedia Wikipedia. So that'll be another

(13:22):
great service if you can pull that off. Hey, thanks
a lot for listening. We love all you podcast listeners.
If you want to listen live, I'll be back Monday
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