Mark's 11am Monologue.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | here's more of the mark simone show on w o r well hey the very last migrant hotel in new york was |
| 0:14.0 | a shut down you know how much we spent on these migrant hotels it was of it was billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars on these migrant hotels. It was billions of dollars, a taxpayer dollars, on these migrant hotels. |
| 0:24.0 | So the last one was just shut down 1,330 rooms. |
| 0:32.3 | Now, you know, why would a hotel want to become a migrant hotel? |
| 0:36.6 | Well, because you can make a fortune. This one hotel, |
| 0:40.8 | this one hotel got 170 million in a contract to house the migrants. And some of them, |
| 0:47.2 | you know, Roosevelt, some of these hotels are getting $250 million contract. It's more money than you can |
| 0:51.6 | make as a regular hotel. So that's why they did it. |
| 0:55.2 | So it looks like that's it. That's the final migrant hotel, unless you see the nut job, |
| 1:03.2 | Kamimam Dami, the Champagne Socialists get in, then that could change. But right now, |
| 1:08.9 | that's good. Las Vegas having a hard time. For some reason, |
| 1:14.1 | tourism is way down in Las Vegas. You know, they just made the new law that you don't have to pay |
| 1:20.1 | tax on your tips. And most of Las Vegas, the employees there, make most of their money on tips. |
| 1:27.3 | So this was great for them. But at the same time, there most of their money on tips. So this was great for them. |
| 1:28.4 | But at the same time, there was like a 12% drop in visitation and a big drop in spending in Las Vegas. |
| 1:35.7 | Now, it's, well, one of the reasons people point out that it just got so expensive in Las Vegas. |
| 1:42.5 | It's not Monte Carlo, where you got all these zillionaire high rollers. |
| 1:46.5 | It's Las Vegas where you get, you know, just regular middle class people for the most part. |
| 1:51.3 | And they're not, they don't want to pay $18 for a bottle of water in the mini bar. |
| 1:57.4 | Martini's $37, $25 drinks, $30 pancakes, $35 burgers. |
| 2:05.3 | Well, this is the reaction now. |
| 2:10.2 | A lot of people not going to Las Vegas anymore. |
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