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- 0:00Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on seven tenor well it's only Tuesday.
- 0:09Speaker 1: These weeks are very slow, waiting for spring to come.
- 0:12Speaker 1: But it'll be here in a couple of weeks. So
- 0:14Speaker 1: players reporting today for spring training. That's good news. Now
- 0:19Speaker 1: the Epstein files, apparently there's three million more pages coming,
- 0:24Speaker 1: three million more pages coming. What have we learned so far? Well,
- 0:29Speaker 1: now you're gonna watch the fake news. The media go
- 0:32Speaker 1: after people like Howard Lutnik. They're going after him now
- 0:36Speaker 1: close to Epstein, Well he is in the Epstein files.
- 0:41Speaker 1: He did talk to Epstell. They never tell you the
- 0:45Speaker 1: reason why he was talking to Epstein. Epstein had a beautiful,
- 0:50Speaker 1: enormous mansion on seventy first Street, East seventy first between
- 0:54Speaker 1: Fifth and Madison. The reason he Lutnick got to know Epstein.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Lutnick had the house next door. They were literally next
- 1:02Speaker 1: door neighbors. Their houses literally touch each other. You know,
- 1:05Speaker 1: it's the townhouses in Manhattan. They're attached. So when you're
- 1:09Speaker 1: that close to somebody, you know, if somebody moves into
- 1:11Speaker 1: the house next to you, you'll probably get to know them.
- 1:14Speaker 1: They weren't really friends or anything, but at one point,
- 1:17Speaker 1: and I remember at the time. Lutnik is a big,
- 1:19Speaker 1: big Wall Street guy. He's the chairman of Canter Fitzgerald.
- 1:23Speaker 1: There's a major, major Wall Street for him. So this
- 1:26Speaker 1: is what Epstein basically did. He networked himself with anybody
- 1:29Speaker 1: of any importance in finance or media or anything. So
- 1:33Speaker 1: the guy lived a next door as the chairman of
- 1:35Speaker 1: Canter Fitzgerald. Epstein's all over the guy, come come take
- 1:38Speaker 1: a tour of my house, and it's your next door neighbor.
- 1:40Speaker 1: So he took a tour of the house, and then
- 1:42Speaker 1: he kept inviting him to his island, which is in
- 1:45Speaker 1: the Bahamas. Epstein was going to be in the Bahamas
- 1:48Speaker 1: on his boat with his family and everything. So Lutnik
- 1:51Speaker 1: is Epstein's emailing stop in for lunch, stop in for
- 1:55Speaker 1: so one day, and Lutnik is now admitted this. He
- 1:57Speaker 1: did stop at the island for lunch. He was at
- 2:01Speaker 1: the island, but he had with him his wife, his
- 2:03Speaker 1: four children, and some nannies, so he wasn't alone. They
- 2:07Speaker 1: simply had lunch and left. You have to remember this
- 2:10Speaker 1: is the part that it's just going to take a
- 2:13Speaker 1: while to sink in, especially with Democrats. They got themselves
- 2:16Speaker 1: all wound up and convinced that there's a client list.
- 2:19Speaker 1: He had a client list. They remember, they kept demanding
- 2:21Speaker 1: this client list, underage women, pedophile. Well that really didn't happen.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Epstein personally, I had this thing for these young girls,
- 2:31Speaker 1: and that was him. And it looks like one or
- 2:34Speaker 1: two of his friends got involved in that, Prince Andrew
- 2:36Speaker 1: and who knows, maybe another one or two. But all
- 2:39Speaker 1: these names involved with Epstein, and many times it was women,
- 2:42Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, but it was older women, you know,
- 2:46Speaker 1: women in their thirties, forties, fifties. That's what these guys liked.
- 2:50Speaker 1: And there were a couple that liked the glamorous twenty
- 2:54Speaker 1: something fashion models. Epstein had a bunch of those sprinkled
- 2:57Speaker 1: around his parties. But first underage girls. That was Epstein
- 3:01Speaker 1: personally and maybe one or two friends, and there was
- 3:03Speaker 1: no client list of it. I mean, the only clients
- 3:06Speaker 1: he had were for his wealth management fund. And that's
- 3:08Speaker 1: a list of about six names. But I think there's
- 3:14Speaker 1: about five million pages released, apparently three million more pages coming.
- 3:19Speaker 1: And you can go to it. Just google Epstein files
- 3:23Speaker 1: and it will take you to the Department of Justice
- 3:25Speaker 1: website where it's up there they call it the Epstein Library.
- 3:30Speaker 1: It has a search bar you can type in whoever
- 3:32Speaker 1: you want. You can read all the stuff, and a
- 3:34Speaker 1: lot of it's fascinating stuff. Apparently Epstein a big, big
- 3:39Speaker 1: Howard Stern fan, and he latched on to Jackie Martling.
- 3:45Speaker 1: They started emailing back and forth, and Jackie apparently came
- 3:49Speaker 1: to the house, came to parties, and then he used
- 3:51Speaker 1: Jackie to introduce them to other people, Gilbert Godfried, Nick DePaulo,
- 3:55Speaker 1: a bunch of other comedians he had become good friends
- 3:59Speaker 1: with Woody Allen. Of the reason is Woody Allen always
- 4:01Speaker 1: is looking for financing for his movies. So Woody Allen
- 4:05Speaker 1: is coming to the house, coming to lunches, coming to dinners.
- 4:08Speaker 1: And then at one point Epstein is always trying to
- 4:12Speaker 1: set up these dinners when you got one or two celebrities,
- 4:15Speaker 1: just try to lure in other celebrities. So he writes
- 4:19Speaker 1: to soon Ye, Woody Allen's wife, if he's setting up
- 4:23Speaker 1: a dinner, and apparently Dick capital be there, and he
- 4:28Speaker 1: writes back, how about Howard Stern? Why don't I get
- 4:30Speaker 1: Howard Stern to come? And soon Ye has to write
- 4:34Speaker 1: back to him and explain to him Woody is a
- 4:37Speaker 1: huge enemy of Howard Stern. Howard Stern went on the
- 4:40Speaker 1: air and bashed Woody constantly, really went after him during
- 4:43Speaker 1: the scandal. He will not be in the same room
- 4:46Speaker 1: with Howard Stern. She had explained this to Epstein. Apparently
- 4:50Speaker 1: he was really trying to get Chris Rock in with
- 4:52Speaker 1: this group. There's a comedian, Bobby Slayton, very very good comedian.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Maybe not that well known to everybody, but very very
- 5:00Speaker 1: good comedian, works all over the place. So he really
- 5:03Speaker 1: got close to Bobby Slayton. In fact, Epstein owned a
- 5:06Speaker 1: bunch of apartments. Whenever Bobby Slayton came to New York,
- 5:09Speaker 1: Epstein would lend him an apartment to stay in. So
- 5:13Speaker 1: he's using him, trying to get him to invite Chris Rock,
- 5:17Speaker 1: trying to get him to get Louis c. K to
- 5:19Speaker 1: show up at the house. Apparently they were working on
- 5:22Speaker 1: Lewis Black, and Lewis Black did come to a party there,
- 5:27Speaker 1: but it was with Bobby Slayton, Woody, Allen, Dick Cavett,
- 5:31Speaker 1: and the magician David Blaine, and he said it was
- 5:36Speaker 1: a lot of big names there. It was a big
- 5:37Speaker 1: glamorous sort of a party, but apparently Slayton was not
- 5:41Speaker 1: too thrilled with the atmosphere. I mean, lewis black and
- 5:45Speaker 1: never returned. But if you want go to the Epstein library,
- 5:49Speaker 1: it's up online. You can. I'm typing in all these names.
- 5:52Speaker 1: One day, I just said, let me type in my name. Well,
- 5:56Speaker 1: I came up six times in the Epstein files. All
- 5:58Speaker 1: harmless stuff, nothing, nothing bad. And I'm talking to a
- 6:03Speaker 1: friend of mine last night, a big comedian. I don't
- 6:05Speaker 1: want to mention any names, but he said, hell, you're
- 6:08Speaker 1: doing in the Epstein How could you be in those
- 6:10Speaker 1: Epstein I said, it's just harmless stuff. He was coming
- 6:12Speaker 1: to a lunch I was Empstein. He was emailing with
- 6:15Speaker 1: Jackie about being none of my show. Nothing. But so
- 6:20Speaker 1: I said to this comedian and I said, hey, type
- 6:22Speaker 1: your name and you may come up. He said, I'm
- 6:24Speaker 1: not going to come. And I hear him typing the keyboard,
- 6:26Speaker 1: and then I hear him go, oh my god. I said,
- 6:30Speaker 1: you're in there, aren't He says, yeah, I'm mean. Well,
- 6:31Speaker 1: it turned out Epstein was going to some show where
- 6:34Speaker 1: this guy was on the bill, and his name was
- 6:36Speaker 1: just listed as being in the bill, so you'd be surprised.
- 6:40Speaker 1: All of his American Express bills are up there. And
- 6:44Speaker 1: if you look at this stuff, there's some guys I
- 6:46Speaker 1: know who were very involved in a bad way with Epstein.
- 6:50Speaker 1: And if you look at this stuff, they're all putting
- 6:52Speaker 1: it and writing. They're emailing back and forth about women,
- 6:56Speaker 1: they're texting back and forth. All of his texts are
- 6:58Speaker 1: up there too. Who the hell would put this stuff
- 7:00Speaker 1: in writing? Now? A lot of this is back in
- 7:02Speaker 1: two thousand and five, two thousand and six. People weren't
- 7:06Speaker 1: as cautious about what they did online back then. But
- 7:09Speaker 1: so there's more pages, about three million more pages that
- 7:12Speaker 1: should be coming out pretty soon. Billy Joel took his
- 7:16Speaker 1: house off the market, the Long Island house. They say
- 7:19Speaker 1: Oyster Bay. It's actually on Center Island. You have to
- 7:22Speaker 1: go all the way to the top at Oyster Bay.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Then take this what's that road? Shore Road? You gotta
- 7:27Speaker 1: take this road forever. Center Island is beautiful. It's like
- 7:30Speaker 1: a private island with You've got to go over a
- 7:33Speaker 1: little bridge. There's a security guard there. Very secure, very private,
- 7:37Speaker 1: but too far away. You know, you get off the lye.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Here's still forty minutes from your house. It's annoying. So
- 7:43Speaker 1: he had it on the market for fifty million, then
- 7:47Speaker 1: it was twenty five million. Then they split it in
- 7:50Speaker 1: half and they divided up the property, tried to sell separately.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Apparently it's not selling. Just took it off the market.
- 7:56Speaker 1: I don't know why Long Island real estate booming. Parently,
- 8:00Speaker 1: people don't want to be out on that island. Hey,
- 8:03Speaker 1: those people that take ozempic not just those epic. You know,
- 8:06Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of those mumjarro whatever it is.
- 8:09Speaker 1: There's there's like four or five of those, they call
- 8:11Speaker 1: them glp ones. Every if you're taking that, you will
- 8:15Speaker 1: lose a lot of weight. You see, these people get
- 8:17Speaker 1: so skinny, But every two weeks another side effect comes out,
- 8:21Speaker 1: another disease they're getting as a result, problems with their teeth,
- 8:24Speaker 1: problems with this, their skin starts sagging. Well. Doctors are
- 8:28Speaker 1: now finding out people on those weight loss things are
- 8:32Speaker 1: getting and nobody this is old disease sailors used to get.
- 8:35Speaker 1: They're getting scurvy. Scurvy which is an old old disease
- 8:40Speaker 1: that includes extreme fatigue, joint pain, gum disease, skin hemorrhages.
- 8:45Speaker 1: It comes from malnutrition because you're lacking, you're not eating
- 8:49Speaker 1: the right things, and you're getting vitamin deficiencies. It's actually
- 8:53Speaker 1: causing scurvy. Hey, you know, I talked to all the
- 8:55Speaker 1: supermarket owners and apparently this those zempics has really hurt
- 9:01Speaker 1: their business because as people go on these drugs, they
- 9:04Speaker 1: eat a lot less. They might even eat the same thing,
- 9:07Speaker 1: but they're eating one third of what they used to eat.
- 9:10Speaker 1: So they're purchasing like sixty five percent less groceries. And
- 9:14Speaker 1: if you you know, if it's twenty percent of your customers,
- 9:16Speaker 1: thirty percent of your customers on these weight loss drugs,
- 9:19Speaker 1: it's really affected them. They're just buying less food. And
- 9:23Speaker 1: in a lot of restaurants now they have to make
- 9:25Speaker 1: like an ozempic portion because when you're on this ozempic,
- 9:29Speaker 1: you can eat, but you'll take like three bites in
- 9:31Speaker 1: your full so you're going to waste most of your entrees.
- 9:34Speaker 1: So they're actually putting out in some restaurants ozempic menus
- 9:39Speaker 1: where little little small portions of everything. Hey, President Trump
- 9:43Speaker 1: has set a new record. You know, Joe Biden hardly
- 9:47Speaker 1: ever talked of the press press conference once every two years,
- 9:51Speaker 1: and it would be two minutes long. He'd take two
- 9:53Speaker 1: questions and they had to write out the question ahead
- 9:55Speaker 1: of time and write out the answer. He'd read the answer. Well,
- 9:59Speaker 1: President Trump, he's it's only been in office. It's actually
- 10:03Speaker 1: a year. It's like a year and a week year.
- 10:05Speaker 1: In a couple weeks, he's done five hundred press interactions,
- 10:10Speaker 1: formal press conferences and just times where he let the
- 10:13Speaker 1: press in and ask him questions. So formal informal press conferences,
- 10:17Speaker 1: He's done five hundred of them in one year. That's
- 10:22Speaker 1: like at one point eight a day. Five hundred in
- 10:26Speaker 1: one year, compared to like three that Joe Biden did
- 10:28Speaker 1: in four years. It's an amazing accomplishment. Pretty good. Hey,
- 10:32Speaker 1: you know people in the super Bowl, they said, when
- 10:34Speaker 1: the player wins the super Bowl, well, how much money
- 10:37Speaker 1: does he win? Well, if you're Sam Darnold, you won
- 10:43Speaker 1: the bonus you get for playing in the super Bowl
- 10:45Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy eight thousand. It's one hundred and
- 10:48Speaker 1: seventy eight thousand for one game. But you know, most
- 10:53Speaker 1: of these states have these crazy tax things where they
- 10:55Speaker 1: tax players if you come into a city or a
- 10:59Speaker 1: state to play a game, your earnings for that day
- 11:02Speaker 1: get taxed. And in California they got a huge tax
- 11:07Speaker 1: on players. So he made one hundred and seventy eight
- 11:11Speaker 1: thousand that day, but the tax bill is two hundred
- 11:14Speaker 1: and fifty thousand, so he actually lost about seventy five
- 11:19Speaker 1: thousand that day. It's absolutely insane. But it's California, it's Democrat,
- 11:23Speaker 1: it's blue. The taxes are ridiculous. They call it the
- 11:26Speaker 1: jock tax. So if you come into a state to play,
- 11:29Speaker 1: you're getting taxed. A bunch of states have this. Seattle
- 11:32Speaker 1: is in Washington, they're trying to start this. Some teams
- 11:35Speaker 1: have actually moved away to get away from this. But
- 11:38Speaker 1: can imagine that the tax bill for him coming into
- 11:41Speaker 1: play that one day two hundred and fifty thousand bucks.
- 11:45Speaker 1: Absolutely ridiculous. And Tom Brady at the Super Bowl, he's
- 11:50Speaker 1: got this thing about watches, now, I mean crazy watches.
- 11:54Speaker 1: You know, you can buy a Rolex for sixty thousand,
- 11:57Speaker 1: you can buy a Protect philiprondred thousand, but he's got
- 12:02Speaker 1: these seven hundred thousand dollar watches, eight hundred thousand dollars watches,
- 12:06Speaker 1: different one for each game. And I don't know why
- 12:09Speaker 1: that is he's usually a you know, more of a layback,
- 12:13Speaker 1: quiet sort of guy. You know, he dresses kind of
- 12:15Speaker 1: business like. But the watches, so at the Super Bowl
- 12:18Speaker 1: he was showing off an eye popping ceramic rare ceramic
- 12:22Speaker 1: blue automor Piquet Royal Oak five hundred thousand dollars one
- 12:26Speaker 1: of his cheaper watches only five hundred thousand. Hey, JP
- 12:30Speaker 1: Morgan Chase, you know, if you work there, and they
- 12:33Speaker 1: got thousands and thousands and thousands of employees there, you
- 12:36Speaker 1: have to come to the office five days a week. Now,
- 12:39Speaker 1: most companies want you back in the office, but like here,
- 12:43Speaker 1: a lot of places, you know, Monday's remote, maybe Friday's remote,
- 12:47Speaker 1: you come in three days a week, but not JP
- 12:49Speaker 1: Morgan Chase. You got to be there every day. Some
- 12:53Speaker 1: employees want to work from home. They said they can't.
- 12:56Speaker 1: They're afraid. They said it would be career suicide. The
- 12:59Speaker 1: chair and Jamie Diamond is very tough about this. They
- 13:02Speaker 1: think it'd be total suicide not to come in five
- 13:05Speaker 1: days a week. You know, Jamie Diamond is like Pauli
- 13:09Speaker 1: and Goodfellows. You know, by coming back to work, I'm
- 13:11Speaker 1: not saying you got to go back this minute. But
- 13:14Speaker 1: you got to go back, you know. And it's not
- 13:16Speaker 1: just JP Morgan, other companies, just finance companies start to
- 13:19Speaker 1: do this. Goldman Sachs now demands everybody come in five
- 13:22Speaker 1: days a week. PNC plans to have all its staffers
- 13:27Speaker 1: back in the office full time beginning. This may all right,
- 13:33Speaker 1: it's eventually, I think everybody will be back at work
- 13:36Speaker 1: all the time. Hey, if you live in New York City,
- 13:39Speaker 1: you got to send your kid to a private school.
- 13:41Speaker 1: You got some of the Supposedly, I don't really think so,
- 13:44Speaker 1: but supposedly the finest private schools in Manhattan spends Dalton,
- 13:48Speaker 1: these kind of schools, and there's you know what it
- 13:51Speaker 1: costs to go there. Now, there's a high school. It's
- 13:53Speaker 1: a grade school, high school seventy thousand a year. That's
- 13:58Speaker 1: more than many colleges seventy a year for private school.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Those two and then maybe five others are more than
- 14:05Speaker 1: seventy thousand a year. And again, you know, you send
- 14:09Speaker 1: your kid there and they come back like a total
- 14:12Speaker 1: socialist communist when they get out of there. Anyway, we'll
- 14:14Speaker 1: take some calls next eight hundred three two one zero
- 14:18Speaker 1: seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one
- 14:22Speaker 1: zero seven ten,