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The Mark Simone Show

"Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment — NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO!"

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Mark discusses Trump accelerating the re-building of Los Angeles; CBS News offering buyouts to staffers; Apple trying to make Siri more powerful; details of the Saks Fifth Avenue bankruptcy; Hunter Biden back in court; controversary of NYC Mayor Mamdani dealing with homeless during major snowstorm; new CA bill regarding third hand smoke; Tesla owner drives across America using only the self-driving system and the latest news about electric car batteries.

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the bonus segment.

0:02.1

You know, if you're a podcast listener, every weekend, we give you a little extra show,

0:05.5

a little bonus segment because we love our podcast audience.

0:09.3

So a lot going on this week.

0:11.9

You know, in Los Angeles, they had the nightmare wildfire that destroyed all those homes,

0:16.9

destroyed huge parts of Los Angeles, devastating.

0:21.0

So you've got to rebuild all these homes.

0:23.7

Well, it's taken forever, and nothing's getting done.

0:26.9

Nobody's rebuilding any homes because in California, you know, it's Gavin Newsom and others

0:31.5

like that running the whole place.

0:33.9

Nobody can get the permits.

0:35.2

Everything's held up.

0:36.2

Everything's a bureaucratic mess so president

0:39.1

trump this week signed an executive order now i don't know if you can do this or how this would work

0:43.7

but he signed an executive order for the feds to take over LA's nightmare and and he in the feds

0:51.4

will help rebuild all of these homes now it'll sidestep somehow I guess there's a way to do this. They must have figured this out. There's a way for the feds to sidestep all the California red tape and fast track the rebuilding of Los Angeles. Now, this is a year later. It's been a year and nothing happening, nothing getting rebuilt. So the feds can take over. President Trump said, I want to see if we can take over the city and

1:15.3

state process, give the people their permits they want to build, get it done. So far, like 99% of,

1:24.3

no, I think it's 90% of the homes destroyed have not received, have not received their approvals,

1:32.1

and they can't move forward. This is a year later. So Trump's order is designed to preempt,

1:38.2

I guess, I mean, he must have checked this out and they legally can do it. The feds can

1:41.7

preempt the building permit process

1:44.6

and empower the federal government to help you.

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