"Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment — NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO!"
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Mark Simone. This is the bonus segment for all of you podcast listeners out there. |
| 0:06.1 | Don't forget this weekend, daylight saving time. That's right. You get an extra hour. |
| 0:11.1 | You lose an hour of sleep, but you get an extra hour at daylight starting on Sunday. |
| 0:15.6 | Hey, the Ford Motor Company, they are winding down on making electric cars. |
| 0:20.2 | They'll still have a one or two, but |
| 0:22.1 | CEO Ford says, the customer has spoken. The EV push was a disaster, especially for them. |
| 0:29.8 | He says, I think the customer has spoken. The company has lost almost $5 billion on EVs last year |
| 0:35.5 | and projects 2026 will be even worse so uh it's not just |
| 0:40.5 | ford it's a lot of companies hey it's a great thing an electric car it's a novelty it's not |
| 0:46.7 | mainstream it's never going to be and uh ford's not the only company going through that now you know |
| 0:52.7 | paramount skydance the company company just made that deal, Warner Brothers Discovery, |
| 1:00.2 | and they're set to acquire CNN as part of the deal. |
| 1:04.1 | So the chairman, Ellison, David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison, asked whether or not there'd be big changes in CNN's editorial stance and all of that. |
| 1:14.2 | And he said, no, it's all about the truth. |
| 1:15.9 | We want to maintain the truth. |
| 1:18.3 | We want honest reporting and the truth. |
| 1:20.4 | Well, that sounds like a big change, actually. |
| 1:23.1 | That sounds like a complete change of format. |
| 1:25.8 | Editorial independence will be absolutely maintained, he says. |
| 1:31.3 | Now, well, that's true, but it could be a whole new bunch of people maintaining it. |
| 1:36.4 | So if you put in the right people, then you can let him be independent. |
| 1:40.1 | But he says, we want to talk to 70% of Americans that aren't far left or far right. |
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