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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

4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Mark Simone talks about the most Instagramable city in the world; the President of France starts his prison term; AOC raising funds to take on Chuck Schumer; Bill Maher gives advice to Democrats;  early voting starts this weekend; Letitia James pleads not guilty in court;  Costco is getting into the Ozempic business; the downsides to using weight loss drugs; only one person left alive from the cast of 'I Love Lucy .'

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome to the special bonus segment. If you're a podcast listener,

0:05.6

and we love our podcast listeners, we always do this bonus segment on the weekends.

0:10.7

Hey, by the way, we always love hearing from you, too, if you want to send us an email or just go to,

0:15.6

I'll go to my website, mark simone.com, Marksimon.com hit the email button there.

0:22.8

And make sure you follow me on Instagram and all of that.

0:25.8

Speaking of which, what is the most Instagrammed city in the world?

0:31.9

Most Instagramable city in the world,

0:34.0

where people put up pictures of the most Instagramable city in the world.

0:38.7

Researchers analyzed over 890 million Instagram posts featuring whatever location was

0:47.5

being used the most in Instagrams in the world.

0:51.1

Number one, New York City. New York City, actually the most Instagramable city in the U.S.

0:57.7

Now, this is very important because nowadays, that's the way you do business. That's the way you get

1:03.6

tourism. You know, remember the old days they run that I Love New York campaign. You'd run

1:08.0

these TV commercials to get tourists to come visit New York. It's a big source

1:12.5

of revenue. It's very important. But nowadays, you know, very few people watch TV anymore, network

1:18.2

TV. So Instagram is the biggest way to generate business, tourism. Same thing with restaurants.

1:25.3

It used to be you'd hope to get that New York Times restaurant review.

1:29.0

Boy, that would put you on the minute. But it doesn't mean anything anymore.

1:32.1

You can get the biggest, greatest review in the New York Times and nobody will show up.

1:35.2

But you get the right Instagram accounts and you're all over Instagram.

1:39.3

There's a line out the door the next day.

1:40.9

So New York being the most Instagram- city in the world is a very,

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