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"Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment — NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO!" · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Mark Simone here. Welcome to the special bonus
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  Speaker 1: segment just for you podcast listeners. We really appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: listening to the podcast. Every day we've been talking. We
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time this week talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you had that plane called the Lolita Express.
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  Speaker 1: That's the plane that you saw Prince Andrew and Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton and everybody flying around the world with Epstein on.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happened to that plane, Well, the New York Post
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  Speaker 1: found it. They were looking for the plane. Apparently it's
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  Speaker 1: a Boeing seven twenty seven. That's a big, big business jet.
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  Speaker 1: But they found it. It's in uh, I think it's Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually basically like a rotting skeleton right now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you get rid of a plane, I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you can, you sell it to somebody else. But after
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  Speaker 1: a while the plane is too old, or if it's
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's plane, who the hell wants at this? And
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  Speaker 1: that you need a has Matt team to clean that
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  Speaker 1: thing out. So you get rid of the it goes
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  Speaker 1: to a plane gratyard and that's the end of it.
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  Speaker 1: So the Post found it in one of these the
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  Speaker 1: plane graveyards where it's been left outside and it's just
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  Speaker 1: covered with insects and mildew. And they found everything in there,
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  Speaker 1: like moldy shaving cream cans, old toothbrushes. The post found
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's brand baby lotion and baby powder in every bathroom cabinet,
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  Speaker 1: oh good, other things. A disassembled satellite phone was hidden
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  Speaker 1: in a nightstand, dirty towels, paper napkins. You know, there
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  Speaker 1: was one bedroom on that plane. The three emergency air
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  Speaker 1: masks were dangling overhead, but king size mattress was still
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  Speaker 1: neatly made with a plush white comforter. The owner of
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  Speaker 1: this plane graveyard said, the watching you know it said,
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  Speaker 1: the plane is nearly sixty years old. It's from the sixties.
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  Speaker 1: It's an old plane. It can never fly again. It's
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  Speaker 1: stripped of all three engines. First thing you do is
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  Speaker 1: take the engines out of that plane. But it's sitting
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  Speaker 1: in there at that plane graveyard. Hey, you know Channel
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  Speaker 1: eleven here in New York, they do the news, you
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  Speaker 1: know Channel five, news, Channel eleven, news, Channel two to four.
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  Speaker 1: So well, Channel eleven just fired a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: over there. The early morning anchor, Craig Treadway John Muller.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen that guy in local news for years. Good
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  Speaker 1: guy in the Corey Chambers is like the big anchor.
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  Speaker 1: These are the big, big, big, big news anchors at
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  Speaker 1: the Channel eleven. They fired them all. Looks like these
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  Speaker 1: layoffs are part of a big, big restructuring next Star
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  Speaker 1: Media group. They own a news nation, they own a
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  Speaker 1: lot of TV stations, but apparently they're either having a
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  Speaker 1: cash crunch or they're trying to raise some cash. They've
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  Speaker 1: fired a lot of people in a lot of newsrooms,
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  Speaker 1: not just these anchors, but a lot of newsroom production
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  Speaker 1: and sales. Big layoffs coming. You know, you gotta remember
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  Speaker 1: TV has beenlining and declining. You know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are the illusion that well, radio is not what
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  Speaker 1: it used to be. Nobody listens to radio, and actually
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  Speaker 1: more people listening to the radio now than twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: AM talk radio sixty three million people listen every day,
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  Speaker 1: sixty three million AMFM radio one hundred and fifty nine
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  Speaker 1: million people listen. But TV, just regular old TV and
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  Speaker 1: not streaming or any of that, but just regular broadcast
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  Speaker 1: television has really been declining. Even the big networks that
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  Speaker 1: used to in primetime get twenty thirty million viewers. Now
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  Speaker 1: they're lucky to get two or three million, and the
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  Speaker 1: local TV stations tiny audiences compared to what they used
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  Speaker 1: to have, So a lot of these layoffs are coming
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  Speaker 1: all over the place. Hey, a new survey shows one
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  Speaker 1: third of New Yorkers want to flee New York. One
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  Speaker 1: third want to get the hell out of here landslide.
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  Speaker 1: Majority actually more than eight and ten New Yorkers. Eighty
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  Speaker 1: six percent now to Marris College Pole, so it's a
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  Speaker 1: college polly again, take them too seriously. But eighty six
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  Speaker 1: percent said the state is no longer affordable. Another seven
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  Speaker 1: percent are fed up with the weather, so say it's
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  Speaker 1: actually a money affordability much more than weather. So one
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  Speaker 1: third said they're planning to flee in the next five years.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they will. And a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: talk like that and never actually never actually go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert attacking President Trump this week. Wow, that's breaking news. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Actually this time for the State of the Union only
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  Speaker 1: got about thirty two million viewers. Last year, I think
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  Speaker 1: it was thirty six It's down like eleven percent, So
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  Speaker 1: the State of the Union got less viewers. Colbert ridiculing
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  Speaker 1: President Trump because the State of the Union had lower
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  Speaker 1: ratings than last year. Now, I don't think he realizes
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  Speaker 1: that's actually a compliment to the president because if you
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  Speaker 1: look historically, what would cause the State of the Union
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  Speaker 1: to get big ratings, Well, usually when things aren't going well,
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  Speaker 1: usually when there's trouble, when things are bad. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously during the pandemic, well, everybody would watch the State
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  Speaker 1: of the Union. Was much more important. If we were
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a war, everybody would watch the
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  Speaker 1: State of the Union. But if things are pretty peaceful
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  Speaker 1: and everything's going well, not everybody watches the State of
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  Speaker 1: the Union. They're not that concerned. So what Colbert didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to get was the lower ratings this year means
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  Speaker 1: things are going much better under President Trump this year
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  Speaker 1: than last year. So it was kind of a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: Now for the State of the Union address, you know who,
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  Speaker 1: it's on every network, So guess which network won? Got
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  Speaker 1: more people watching on that network than any other? That's right, Fox,
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  Speaker 1: Fox beat the major networks this time. Now for overall
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  Speaker 1: ratings for the whole month of February. The whole month
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  Speaker 1: of February, Fox News had a big month. Fox News
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  Speaker 1: beat CNN and MSNBC whatever it's called combined. If he
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  Speaker 1: combined CNN and MSNBC, Fox beat him combined by thirty
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  Speaker 1: five percent more viewers. It was a huge, huge month
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  Speaker 1: for Fox. It was amazing. And even in the key
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  Speaker 1: demo twenty five to fifty four, Fox crushed MSNBC or
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  Speaker 1: ms NOW and CNN daytime they killed Fox, just killed
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  Speaker 1: both networks combined. Biggest show on Fox, most watched show
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  Speaker 1: on Fox. What do you think it is? No, Actually
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  Speaker 1: it's the five, the number one most watched show on
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  Speaker 1: cable news and on Fox's the five highest rated program
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  Speaker 1: in February averaged four million viewers. That's huge. Four million.
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  Speaker 1: That's more than the most primetime network shows. Speaking of
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert, he was blasting Hakeem Jeffries for being silent
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  Speaker 1: during Trump's State of the Union address. Actually, Jeffries, before
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  Speaker 1: the State of the Union urged all Democrats to protest silently.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, don't yell, don't heckle, don't cause a scene,
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  Speaker 1: because he knows that doesn't look good with the public
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to be used in campaign commercials. Make
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  Speaker 1: you look nuts. So it was the right thing for
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  Speaker 1: jeffries to do, but crazy, angry, bitter Colbert yelling at Jeffrey,
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  Speaker 1: saying it was the worst thing. You see, Well, all
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  Speaker 1: you did was Jack squat. You didn't do anything, Colbert
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  Speaker 1: blasting the Democratic Party for keeping quiet during the State
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  Speaker 1: of Union. But it's the right thing to do. It's
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  Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do, remember, Carl Rove, here's Karl Rove.
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  Speaker 1: Karl Rove rips the Trump administration for key mistakes at
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  Speaker 1: the angry State of the Union speech. Was it angry?
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  Speaker 1: It didn't seem that angry, Carl Rove, saying, too often
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  Speaker 1: sounded like a political convention speech rather than a presidential address.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans must offer more substance, be more forward looking, display
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  Speaker 1: more empathy. But again, Carl Rove, you got to remember,
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  Speaker 1: is a outdated Karl Rove is a guy from twenty
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  Speaker 1: five years ago. He was very big in the nineties
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  Speaker 1: and Texas he won every state wide race. He helped
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  Speaker 1: George Bush win. But again, that's twenty five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole other era. Also, Karl Rove a real
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  Speaker 1: establishment sort of guy. So you know, Trump's creating a
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  Speaker 1: whole new business model for all of this stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: I would go by him and not Carl rove A.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good thing. Tampa International Airport announced they're
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  Speaker 1: banning passengers wearing pajamas. You know, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: those old airplane ads from the nineteen fifties and sixties,
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  Speaker 1: or if you watch Don Draper and Madmen, when he
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  Speaker 1: gets on the plane, everybody's wearing a suit and tie.
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  Speaker 1: It's very distinguished, and everybody's dressed in business clothes. And
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  Speaker 1: if you go to the airport now, well it's a
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  Speaker 1: whole different matter. Everybody's in sweats and everybody and hoodies
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  Speaker 1: and fanny packs. And now it's getting to the point
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  Speaker 1: where they're actually wearing pajamas on the plane. So the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa International Airport has actually announced they're banning pajamas from
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  Speaker 1: the airport and the plane. But the passengers counter and
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  Speaker 1: they're not entirely wrong here. I mean I would always
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  Speaker 1: be dressed up on a plane. First of all, if
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  Speaker 1: you got a suit or a sport coat, and then
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  Speaker 1: you're taking that on the trip, it's easier to wear
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  Speaker 1: it than to try to pack it, so you might
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  Speaker 1: as well wear it. But the passengers have a point.
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  Speaker 1: If you go back and look at those old airplane
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  Speaker 1: adds from the nineteen sixties. The seats were nice and
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  Speaker 1: big and comfortable. The plane was big. Everybody was dressed up,
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  Speaker 1: but they were serving steak and lobster tail. It was
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  Speaker 1: very elegant to fly back then. Now it's just disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: You crammed into this like a cattle car, these little
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  Speaker 1: seats and everything. And here's one passenger says, well, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter what I wear. The TSA agents go through
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  Speaker 1: everything pat me down, So why should I care what
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  Speaker 1: I wear on my flight? I'm gonna crammed in with
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of miserable people while somebody reclines their seat
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  Speaker 1: right into me another passenger. Maybe if there was more
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  Speaker 1: room on the plane, people wouldn't have to wear such
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  Speaker 1: flexible material. But well, they do have a point, they
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  Speaker 1: do it. Hey, you know what a great restaurant just
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  Speaker 1: closed in the Theater district. Barbetta. You know, the Italian
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  Speaker 1: restaurant Barbetta on a restaurant Row West forty sixth the
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  Speaker 1: Theater district has closed after a one hundred and twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the landmark restaurants in New York. One
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty years, mainly because the owner, who is
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  Speaker 1: ninety three, passed away and without her, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anybody can run it. So the beautiful Barbetta has closed
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  Speaker 1: down after one hundred and twenty years. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about the restaurants that were were great institutions. You
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  Speaker 1: think at twenty one it's gone. You think of Le
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  Speaker 1: Cirque gone, the old Homestead, I think it's still there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Patsy's. Patsy's is still there. Patsy's been around about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years. But that's about it. These long running
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  Speaker 1: institutions mostly gone. Oh Demonico's, I think that's been there
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred years or something. Hey, we're talking about Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the people that have been wiped out in
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  Speaker 1: this Epstein scandal or have had a real problem. George Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: You remember the senator from a New England, Senator George Mitchell,
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  Speaker 1: of this very distinguished old and man. Well remember he
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  Speaker 1: brought peace to Northern Ireland. He's getting a lot of
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  Speaker 1: flack now because if you go through the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell's name appears three hundred times. He's on flight logs,
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  Speaker 1: he's on invitations, he's meeting with Epstein. All the time. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what is this old, old, old New England, distinguished New
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  Speaker 1: England Senate, What the hell's he doing with Epstein all
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  Speaker 1: these times? He's been in declining health in recent years,
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  Speaker 1: but he denies any knowledge of any inappropriate behavior. But
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  Speaker 1: he's getting a lot of flak over this. Also, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Mottola, the big record company, superstar executive CEO of
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  Speaker 1: Sony Music and big, big figure Tommy Mattola in the
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  Speaker 1: record business. He's got a problem because he's all through
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  Speaker 1: these Epstein files and apparently he's going to Epstein's house
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  Speaker 1: all the time. There's too much Shenanigan's I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what he did, but too much visiting Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: talking Epstein, hanging out with Epstein. So the two were
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  Speaker 1: close enough for Mattola to send Epstein a huge box
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  Speaker 1: of chocolates everything and send them a gift basket. And
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't look good, it doesn't sound good. I think
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  Speaker 1: he was supposed to. I think he's actually canceled a
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  Speaker 1: couple of deals over this. And then Barry Dillar, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the great the media executive, Barry Dillar, is in a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of emails. He's not accused of any wrongdoing, but well,
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  Speaker 1: he writes. At one point, his assistant writes, Barry Diller
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  Speaker 1: would like to take a hike on your island. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it could be just wants to take a hike on
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  Speaker 1: the island. I don't know if he did anything wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but he says. He writes, I'm probably the only one
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  Speaker 1: who went to the island to see the architecture rather
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  Speaker 1: than the inhabitants. I don't know. Well, I sort of
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  Speaker 1: believe him, but he's a billionaire. I can go to
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  Speaker 1: a million islands. Mick Jagger spotted a lot of photographs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Jag. I mean, does Jagger need Epstein
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  Speaker 1: for anything? I don't think so. But anyway, we're out
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  Speaker 1: of time. As been the bonus segment of the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: which we give you every week. Thanks for listening, really appreciated.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back Monday Live ten to noon. I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to you then.