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Hour 1: 125 million viewers tuned into the Super Bowl. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent Tenor.
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Speaker 2: Well, we got a lot to get to today. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to the latest don the guth three situation. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to President Trump, We'll get to the police commissioner
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Speaker 2: making some changes. We'll get to the super Bowl, We'll
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Speaker 2: get to bad Bunny and a whole lot more. You
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Speaker 2: got forty degrees today, it'll be forty today. This will
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Speaker 2: really start melting the snow. You'll really start to get
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Speaker 2: rid of it today, and then it's going to stay
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Speaker 2: upper thirties and then maybe forty over the weekend. So
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Speaker 2: by Sunday Monday, all the snow should be gone once
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Speaker 2: and for all. Hey, you are only thirty seven days
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Speaker 2: till spring. That's five weeks, five weeks until spring begins.
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Speaker 2: Spring training today, teams doing their first work at today,
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Speaker 2: so we're getting there almost through the winter. Jobs numbers
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Speaker 2: came out this morning, very very very good, expecting about
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Speaker 2: sixty thousand new jobs. Who've got one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 2: thousand new jobs, Very very good numbers for the economy.
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Speaker 2: Wages are up, inflation is down, the Big Beautiful Bill
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Speaker 2: starting to kick in economy, improving, Dow way over fifty thousand.
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Speaker 2: Average wages is for workers up a couple thousand this year,
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Speaker 2: and for the first time in a few years, wages
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Speaker 2: are going up much much faster than inflation, So that's
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Speaker 2: good news. The Guthrie kidnapping, well, I'm sure you've seen
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Speaker 2: the doorbell camera. The few things that are obvious. They're
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Speaker 2: not the most elaborate professional kidnapping. This one slow bumbling
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Speaker 2: sort of guy who gets there and looks surprised to
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Speaker 2: see that doorbell camera there and looks at it, and
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Speaker 2: the fact that he was surprised by it is now
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Speaker 2: telling him that may be maybe there wasn't a lot
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Speaker 2: of casing the place first, or surveillance first, or knowing
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Speaker 2: the place really well before they got there. Now the
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Speaker 2: guy is bundled up like crazy. He has covered head
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Speaker 2: to toe in You remember, this is Tucson, Arizona, where
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Speaker 2: it's very warm. Why would anybody have what looks like,
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Speaker 2: you know, he's going skiing or something. It looks like
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Speaker 2: he's an Antarctica bundled up in this puffy, you know,
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Speaker 2: winter type outfit, obviously trying not to leave any DNA
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Speaker 2: on the scenes. Big puffy gloves over his hands, face
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Speaker 2: covered except for the mouth and the eyes. But all
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Speaker 2: of that covering up means, besides hiding his identity, trying
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Speaker 2: not to leave any DNA in the house. But here's
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Speaker 2: the thing. It's Tucson, Arizona, where it's very warm, and
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Speaker 2: if you're bundled up in heavy, heavy clothes like that,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna sweat, and you're probably gonna sweat a lot.
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Speaker 2: So investigators are back in the house right now as
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Speaker 2: we speak, looking for sweat, looking for they want to
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Speaker 2: get DNA off. This person covered himself up so he
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Speaker 2: wouldn't leave any DNA, but if he dropped one beat
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Speaker 2: of sweat anywhere, that's got the DNA in it. So
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Speaker 2: they're looking for that right now as we speak. They
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Speaker 2: did detain somebody last night. Now apparently they're looking carefully
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Speaker 2: at anybody that was in the house, workers of any
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Speaker 2: kind that were doing work in the house. So there
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Speaker 2: was one they stopped last night. They've let him go.
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Speaker 2: Apparently he's totally innocent. They do say off the record,
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Speaker 2: they got a couple persons of interest they're still looking at. Now.
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Speaker 2: What took so long to get that footage, the doorbell
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Speaker 2: camera footage. You should have seen that the first dit
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Speaker 2: well she has is it nesters it an Amazon camera,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. You gotta have a subscription to have
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Speaker 2: the footage stored. You can see it live, but if
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Speaker 2: you want it stored and saved, you have to pay
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Speaker 2: for the subscription, which is something like one hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: a year. She didn't subscribe, didn't have the subscription. So,
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Speaker 2: as we kept hearing, none of the surveillance video was saved.
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Speaker 2: None of it. However, this is not the local authorities now,
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Speaker 2: this is the FEDS. This is the FBI, federal government.
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Speaker 2: President Trump has sent all of the resources he can send.
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Speaker 2: These guys are highly sophisticated. So even though with it
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Speaker 2: Google or whoever I think was Google the company, but
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Speaker 2: they didn't save the footage. But these guys were able
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Speaker 2: to go into servers and find the footage even though
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Speaker 2: it's deleted off of Google. It goes somewhere into some
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Speaker 2: server and it takes very very sophisticated work to find it,
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Speaker 2: but they found it. That's how they got it. Now
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Speaker 2: there are some people might get a little shake of
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Speaker 2: surprise that because they got that doorbell camera and they're
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Speaker 2: carefully deleting their footage for whatever reason now they find
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Speaker 2: out it could be recovered by law enforcement if they
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Speaker 2: absolutely had to. So it took a while to get it,
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Speaker 2: and what to get deleted footage. You got to go
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Speaker 2: through every possible back end server, look through everything. Probably
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Speaker 2: had to look through millions of hours to find this.
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Speaker 2: It was not easy. Took incredible manpower to do it. Again,
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Speaker 2: that's something the locals couldn't have done. So off the record,
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Speaker 2: these the Feds are saying they got a couple of
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Speaker 2: persons of interest. There's a couple of people they're looking at.
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Speaker 2: They said, things are different in this kidnapping from a
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Speaker 2: normal case. Normally a ransom note letter would be sent
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Speaker 2: to the family. In this case, they're being sent to
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Speaker 2: the local TV station. Savannah Guthrie course, works for the
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Speaker 2: NBC network here in New York. So why weren't the
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Speaker 2: ransom notes sent to NBC if you decided to send
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Speaker 2: them to television? Why the local two Sound station. Well,
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Speaker 2: that suggests that the kidnappers are local two Sound people
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Speaker 2: and familiar with that station. Also, the other thing is,
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Speaker 2: normally you'd send something some proof of life. You'd send
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Speaker 2: a picture of the victim kidnapped, you'd send a picture
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Speaker 2: of her tied up, you'd send a recording something. They
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Speaker 2: haven't done anything like that. Now. They did want six
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Speaker 2: million in bitcoin. They gave the bitcoin account, and people
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Speaker 2: looking at thatcoin account have seen activity yesterday or the
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Speaker 2: day before. They saw three hundred dollars go into it.
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Speaker 2: That's usually what the FBI or law enforcement will do
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Speaker 2: to track you down. You can track down crypto. It
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Speaker 2: can be done, and one of the first steps you
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Speaker 2: send a small amount of money into the account and
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Speaker 2: you can follow it through the blockchain. You can follow
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Speaker 2: it to see where it lands. You can scrape bits
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Speaker 2: of stuff off the different places it goes through, so
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Speaker 2: you may see another exchange or two for a couple
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Speaker 2: hundred bucks. That's them tracking it. But believe it or not,
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Speaker 2: you can track crypto. Now. This could cause a drop
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Speaker 2: in some of those crypto stocks in a week or two,
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Speaker 2: when all of a sudden they realize criminals or whoever
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Speaker 2: using it for shady purposes. You hedge fun guys. They
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Speaker 2: may start to realize it is traceable and that might
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Speaker 2: cause a little drop in crypto use coming up. So
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Speaker 2: we'll keep following it for you. We'll let you know
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Speaker 2: if anything breaks. This could happen at any time. They
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Speaker 2: could announce something at any time. The Epstein case, well,
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Speaker 2: you can go through these files over and over and
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Speaker 2: most of it is pretty boring. The Prince Andrew stuff
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Speaker 2: is juicy, The Bill Clinton stuff is juicy, but the
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Speaker 2: rest of it is nothing. They have been trying to
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Speaker 2: go after Howard Lutnik. They got him in Congress, he
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Speaker 2: had to testify in front of Congress. Here's a guy
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Speaker 2: who had almost no relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Here's the
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Speaker 2: White House Press Secretary.
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Speaker 3: Secretary lot Nek remains a very important member of President
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Speaker 3: Trump's team, and the president fully supports the secretary.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now they want him fired because all he did
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Speaker 2: was one time he had lunch with Epstein. Now, if
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Speaker 2: you're going to fire people that had lunch with Epstein,
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Speaker 2: well that's every major fire on Wall Street. That's about
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Speaker 2: twenty five world leaders. That's a lot of prominent people.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people have had lunch with Epstein. Now,
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Speaker 2: the reason Lutnick got involved with Epstein, he didn't really
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Speaker 2: get involved with him, but the only reason he knew him.
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Speaker 2: Lutnick bought a house in Manhattan. He was married and
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Speaker 2: his kids and he bought a big townhouse on seventy
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Speaker 2: first Street, and the house next door, which literally touches
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Speaker 2: his house. They share a wall together. The house next
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Speaker 2: door was Jeffrey Epstein, so at some point he got
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Speaker 2: to know his neighbor. They talked. At one point Epstein said,
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Speaker 2: you want to see my house, and he came and
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Speaker 2: looked around the house, and then they started to exchange emails,
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Speaker 2: very very few emails. I think it was like eight
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Speaker 2: emails over four years. So it's not really a relationship.
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Speaker 2: And at one point and Epstein would invite everybody to
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Speaker 2: his house in Palm Beach, to his house in New York,
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Speaker 2: wherever he was, the island down in the Bahamas, And
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Speaker 2: it turned out Lutnick was down there in the Bahamas,
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Speaker 2: big vacation week. He was with his family. And Epstein
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Speaker 2: keeps it stop by for lunch, stop by the island
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Speaker 2: for lunch. So one day he does stop by the
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Speaker 2: island for lunch, but he came to lunch. He was
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Speaker 2: there for an hour. When he came to lunch, he
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Speaker 2: had with him his wife, his kids, and two nannies. Now,
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Speaker 2: some people think that when you're testifying, just say a nanny.
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Speaker 2: Don't say, two nannies. You sound too elitist when you
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Speaker 2: have to have two nannies for your kids. But this
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Speaker 2: is him and Mike Johnson, the Speaker was asking, well,
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Speaker 2: shouldn't he resign? Everybody wants him to resign.
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Speaker 3: Flutnick is a great Commerce secretary to an extraordinary job
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Speaker 3: play the country, and Thomas Massey should stop playing.
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Speaker 2: Third again again. If you had to resign for having
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Speaker 2: lunch with Epstein, that would be half the CEOs in
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Speaker 2: New York, about twenty world leaders. In fact, Epstein was
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Speaker 2: always having people come to his house for lunch, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of times, by the way, you have to
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Speaker 2: have every college president of every major university resigned because
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Speaker 2: they were all constantly having lunch at Epstein's house. One
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Speaker 2: reason is he was a big donor. Now why would
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Speaker 2: all these guys get Well, he had what they call
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Speaker 2: check's appeal. He would write your check. He would donate
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Speaker 2: millions to a college. If you had some charity, he'd
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Speaker 2: write He wrote a check just like that, as I
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Speaker 2: mentioned Dick Cavot, and he wanted somebody to finance his
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Speaker 2: a PBS special, an American Master Special, four hundred and
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Speaker 2: eighty thousand. Epstein just wrote the check just like that.
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Speaker 2: So if that's all he wants in exchange, come to lunch,
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Speaker 2: come to dinner, you do it. And here's Lutnick he
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Speaker 2: had to testify about this, about this visit.
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Speaker 3: When you visited the private island? Did you see anything
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Speaker 3: inappropriate during that visit?
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Speaker 4: The only thing I saw with my wife and my
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Speaker 4: children and the other couple and their children was staff
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Speaker 4: who worked for mister Epstein on that island.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all. It was an hour boat pulled up,
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Speaker 2: got off, had lunch with Epstein. There was another couple
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Speaker 2: with their kids, a lot of kids there, and that
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Speaker 2: was it.
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Speaker 3: Did you in fact make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's
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Speaker 3: private island?
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Speaker 4: I did have lunch with him, as I was on
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Speaker 4: a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife
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Speaker 4: was with me, as were my four children and nanny's.
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Speaker 4: I had another couple. They were there as well with
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Speaker 4: their children, and we had lunch on the island.
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Speaker 2: That's it pretty simple. Now, what can we learn from this, Well,
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Speaker 2: don't invite Howard Lutnick to lunch, because look at this guy.
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Speaker 2: He brings four kids with him, he brings his wife,
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Speaker 2: he brings another couple with kids. He brings two nannies.
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Speaker 2: You invite the guy to lunch, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: it takes twelve seats. I mean, so don't invite him
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Speaker 2: to lunch. But he's a nice guy. I don't think
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Speaker 2: there's anything there. Listen, there's a lot of people I know.
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Speaker 2: There's a guy I know who's almost another Howard Lutnik.
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Speaker 2: He's a big hedgehunt and chairman. I don't really know
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Speaker 2: the guy, but he always invites me to parties at
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Speaker 2: his house. And he has great parties, all fine people.
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Speaker 2: I've been to three or four of them, and I
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Speaker 2: don't know the guy. I never talked to the guy
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Speaker 2: more than five seconds of my whole life. So the
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Speaker 2: fact that he stopped by with twelve people for lunch,
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Speaker 2: it's pretty harmless, pretty innocent. Now, when you get to
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Speaker 2: Bill Clinton, that's another matter. Because Bill Clinton was heavily
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Speaker 2: involved financially with Epstein, so is Hillary. It looks like
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Speaker 2: Epstein was the guy who helped launch and fund and
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Speaker 2: start the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Global Initiative was a
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Speaker 2: big Epstein project, and he gave tons of money to
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Speaker 2: the Clintons and Clinton did a lot of stuff for Epstein.
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Speaker 2: Epstein is trying. He's a fixer who tries to open
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Speaker 2: doors in other countries for business. And if you're having
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Speaker 2: a problem there in India, why Bill Clinton can call
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Speaker 2: the President of India. He can call the ahead of
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Speaker 2: any entry, heads of state. They all loved Bill Clinton.
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Speaker 2: He can get you right into the President's office, right
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Speaker 2: into the Prime Minister's office. And he did that kind
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Speaker 2: of stuff for him. But it looked like, unlike these
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Speaker 2: other people, with Bill Clinton, there was a lot of socializing.
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Speaker 2: There's Bill Clinton in the pool with some women. There's
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Speaker 2: Bill Clinton in the hot tub with some women, now
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Speaker 2: not underage, not underage. Bill Clinton preferred older women, but
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Speaker 2: there were plenty of them around. So you can go
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Speaker 2: to the Epstein files. By the way, just google Epstein files.
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Speaker 2: It'll take you to the DOJ website where it's called
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Speaker 2: the Epstein Library. There's a search bar. You can search
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Speaker 2: any name you want. And it's fascinating to read the
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Speaker 2: emails of some of these people. And the first thing
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Speaker 2: are going to think is why the hell did they
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Speaker 2: put all this in writing? But they're writing back and
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Speaker 2: forth about everything. All the Epstein's emails are up there,
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Speaker 2: all of his texts, all of his credit card bills.
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Speaker 2: It's fascinating to read. Hey, the super Bowl second highest
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Speaker 2: audience ever, one hundred and twenty five million viewers. Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl second highest audience ever, one hundred and twenty five million,
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Speaker 2: and there were a lot of people tuned in just
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Speaker 2: to see Bad Bunny. That was the peak because when
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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny did his halftime show over one hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty eight million, we're watching one hundred and twenty eight million. Now,
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Speaker 2: that's not the highest halftime Kendrick Lamar got one hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty three million, but big, big reviews for big numbers,
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Speaker 2: big ratings for Bad Bunny, which I thought it was
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Speaker 2: pretty good. I mean, one thing he said, I couldn't
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Speaker 2: understand what he was singing. But hey, when I listen
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Speaker 2: to the radio half the artist singing, I don't understand
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Speaker 2: what they're saying. Anyway, even when they speak English, you
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Speaker 2: can't always understand the lyrics. But it was a colorful,
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Speaker 2: lively sort of halftime show. Now, you know the Real
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Speaker 2: Housewives in New York, remember the original cast, Jill Zarin,
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Speaker 2: Ramona Singer, Sonia Morgan, the Countess. They were the original
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Speaker 2: Real Housewives in New York. They're all these old hags
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Speaker 2: now Palm Beach. So they were going to do a
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Speaker 2: big comeback show. Bravo was gonna be a it's a
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Speaker 2: big show. It's coming in the fall. Original cast of
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Speaker 2: the Real Housewives in New York. They're all back. But
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Speaker 2: Jill Zarin has been fired. She was fired yesterday because
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Speaker 2: after the Bad Bunny thing, she put up this video
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Speaker 2: ranting and raving about bad Bunny. Now here's the problem
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Speaker 2: these And I know most of these Real Housewives, or
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Speaker 2: I used to know them. I stopped talking to all
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Speaker 2: of them. They're just horrible to be around. They're really
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Speaker 2: really shallow people, really tacky, not very bright. And when
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Speaker 2: you're a you know, Abbio, she's one of those, and
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Speaker 2: you're not that bright. Some of those, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Some of those are pretty bright. These people not bright.
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Speaker 2: These are low IQ people. So she's whenever low IQ
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Speaker 2: people like that try to talk about anything political, anything
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Speaker 2: in the news, they sound like absolute morons. And she
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Speaker 2: was talking about bad Bunny and sounded like an imbecile
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Speaker 2: and to ranting and raving, and she's being called a racist.
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Speaker 2: She said at one point, why would I know white people?
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Speaker 2: How come no white people, and it just sounded awful.
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Speaker 2: They fired her immediately. In fact, most of the real
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Speaker 2: housewives of all those different cities have come out and
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Speaker 2: condemned her. In her defense, she it sounded racist, but
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Speaker 2: she may not be a racist because I did know her.
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Speaker 2: She is a babbling idiot, not very bright. So and again,
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Speaker 2: when people like that try to talk about anything political,
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Speaker 2: they get themselves into trouble. But she has been fired
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Speaker 2: and that's it. You know, her family, her husband had
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Speaker 2: a big business, Zaren Fabrics. It's a huge company, big,
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Speaker 2: one of the top fabric companies. But I guess they
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Speaker 2: sold it. She has no connection to it now. So
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Speaker 2: even Zaren Fabrics on their website, on their Instagram put
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Speaker 2: up a big notice, we have nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: this woman. We don't know this woman, We never heard
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Speaker 2: of this woman. Pretty bad for her. Hey, we'll take
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Speaker 2: some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
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Speaker 2: ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one zero
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Speaker 2: seven ten, New York.
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Speaker 1: Mark simone on woor.
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Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Bobby
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Speaker 2: in Carmel, New York. Bobby, how you doing okay? Good?
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Speaker 5: Mark? H Yeah, They they interpreted the lyrics the bugs
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Speaker 5: Bunny sang, and they said they were really x rated.
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Speaker 5: I don't know who's pick of that, but I don't
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Speaker 5: know if you heard that.
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Speaker 2: No, what what did bugs Bunny saying that was x rated?
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Speaker 5: They said the lyrics were interpreted, which lyrics break?
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Speaker 2: Which lyrics?
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Speaker 5: The lyrics that Big Bunny was singing.
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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny? I think he said bugs Bunny.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well bugs Bunny, bad Bunny. What's the difference. But
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Speaker 5: they said the lyrics were x rated. I didn't I
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Speaker 5: heard some of them.
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Speaker 2: But it could be. That could be. But hey, a
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Speaker 2: lot of music is x rated. A lot of English
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Speaker 2: lyrics are pretty suggestive and x rayed. Let's go to
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Speaker 2: George and beautiful Port Jefferson. George, how you doing.
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Speaker 6: I'm doing great, Mark, I'm just like the Epstein case
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Speaker 6: instead of been cleared up. Where was he getting the
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Speaker 6: money all his cash flow to give to people and
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Speaker 6: curry face?
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Speaker 2: Oh, he was worth about four or five hundred million.
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Speaker 2: He was running a hedge fund, a wealth management company.
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Speaker 2: Was a big financial guy.
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Speaker 6: That's where he got the money of his own work.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can make a lot of money and that
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Speaker 2: sort of stuff.
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Speaker 6: Okay, I wasn't really sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a wealth management fund. He had a
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Speaker 2: lot of billionaires putting money in there. He was managing
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Speaker 2: tons of money, running a hedge fund, running all sorts
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Speaker 2: of stuffy.
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Speaker 6: So he was obviously a small guy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. He actually was a mathematician before he did this,
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Speaker 2: and then because of that mass skill, he was able
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Speaker 2: to figure out all kinds of financial things. And he
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Speaker 2: was apparently a genius reason a lot of these guys
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Speaker 2: put money in with him. He was a genius at
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Speaker 2: how to avoid taxes legally, how you could use shell
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Speaker 2: companies put it off shore.
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Speaker 6: He was thanks for clearing.
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Speaker 2: Hey, you got a lot of snow in Port Jefferson, a.
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Speaker 6: Lot, And don't tell people. Port Jefferson is great. I
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Speaker 6: don't want people to move. More people to move here.
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Speaker 6: It's a great place. It's a great garden city. I
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Speaker 6: lived in the city, mantin.
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Speaker 2: Garden City is a great place. Port Jefferson. You got
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Speaker 2: great restaurants. You got prohibition that you'll go there.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's a it's a great town
19:19
Speaker 6: right near the sound.
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Speaker 2: At the hotel there that Danford. Everybody go there this weekend.
19:24
Speaker 2: Just screw up. George just to get George fire. Yeah,
19:28
Speaker 2: thanks for calling. Yeah, in the middle of summer, you
19:30
Speaker 2: can't move in that in that town. Let's go to
19:33
Speaker 2: Robert in Westchester. Robert, how you doing.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark, and thank you for taking my call.
19:39
Speaker 8: Mark.
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Speaker 7: Last night, Bill O'Reilly had announced that as of today.
19:43
Speaker 7: He said, as of today, if the midterms were being held,
19:47
Speaker 7: that we would probably lose to Congress and tie with
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Speaker 7: the Senate. Now I'm praying every day for the you know,
19:54
Speaker 7: President Trump in our country that with these numbers that
19:57
Speaker 7: are coming out, I'm praying they only get even better
19:59
Speaker 7: the president.
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Speaker 2: You remember something, all these poll numbers, everything you see
20:03
Speaker 2: now means absolutely nothing. It's like trying to predict a
20:05
Speaker 2: super Bowl winner for twenty twenty eight. It doesn't mean them.
20:09
Speaker 2: Now I had no argument, So okay, great, Let's go
20:12
Speaker 2: to Harold in Warwick. Harold, how you doing.
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Speaker 7: Good?
20:17
Speaker 5: Thank you?
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Speaker 9: Mark.
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Speaker 2: How Come?
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Speaker 10: How come Savannah Guthrie is making fourteen million dollars a year?
20:22
Speaker 10: How come she can only I can only scrounge a
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Speaker 10: fifty grand for a for a ransom I'm to pay
20:29
Speaker 10: for information.
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Speaker 7: This is ridiculous. A million dollars would maybe loosen up
20:35
Speaker 7: some people around.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good point. A lot of people have, even
20:38
Speaker 2: law enforcement people off the record, it said it's a
20:40
Speaker 2: pretty chinzy reward. Fifty thousand should the rewards should be
20:44
Speaker 2: much higher. But you gotta remember in two sound things
20:46
Speaker 2: are much cheaper. For instance, you saw the house. That's
20:48
Speaker 2: a one point two million dollar house she lived in.
20:52
Speaker 2: If that house were in Long Island, that would be
20:54
Speaker 2: like a nine million dollar house. Everything's just cheap. If
20:57
Speaker 2: we were in New Jersey, you'd be like a seven
20:58
Speaker 2: million dollars everything. It's an enormous house with a pool, everything.
21:02
Speaker 2: It's just cheaper out there, So fifty thousand out there
21:05
Speaker 2: could be like two hundred and fifty thousand. Here, let's
21:08
Speaker 2: go to Lorenzo in Levittown. Lorenzo, how you doing good?
21:12
Speaker 8: To hear your voice. I want the world to know
21:14
Speaker 8: that Donald Trump, God bless him, has done more to
21:16
Speaker 8: help American veterans than all the presidents after Reagan. And
21:19
Speaker 8: he's done more than Reagan and almost much as that
21:22
Speaker 8: FDR with the GI Bill, and the world should know this,
21:25
Speaker 8: and also pose of war and vmcl antucts. We should
21:28
Speaker 8: drop to the bowl. Richard Bavley Animal practice, They help American, right.
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Speaker 2: I had to break it to you, But for the
21:32
Speaker 2: last twenty seconds you were unintelligible. You were talking so
21:35
Speaker 2: fast and mumbling. Nobody could understand one thing you said.
21:38
Speaker 2: I had a better shot understanding the bad Bunny lyrics
21:41
Speaker 2: than whatever you just said there. Yeah, Donald Trump, veterans
21:44
Speaker 2: was always a major cause. He was going back to
21:46
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventies. In fact, there was a time in
21:49
Speaker 2: the I think it was the early eighties. The Veterans
21:52
Speaker 2: Day Parade is a big thing in New York every year,
21:54
Speaker 2: and I forget why the organization ran out of money.
21:57
Speaker 2: They had no money, and for the first year ever
22:00
Speaker 2: there was going to be no Veterans Day Parade in
22:02
Speaker 2: New York. And then Donald Trump stepped in and paid
22:06
Speaker 2: for it, personally financed it, and then took the organization
22:09
Speaker 2: and worked with them and got them back on their
22:11
Speaker 2: feet financially and saved it. But hey, when we come back,
22:14
Speaker 2: the brilliant Steve Forbes Big Job number came out today.
22:18
Speaker 2: We'll talk to him about the economy, about the midterms,
22:21
Speaker 2: the country. We'll get to all of that next on
22:24
Speaker 2: seven to ten wor the.
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Speaker 1: Mark Simoniell on sevent ten wor Well.
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Speaker 2: We like to bring you the smartest people on earth,
22:33
Speaker 2: and Steve Forbes is one of them. Steve Forbes, chairman
22:36
Speaker 2: of Forbes Media, and you should get his latest book.
22:40
Speaker 2: It's an excellent book. You should read this book. It's
22:42
Speaker 2: called Inflation, and there's no better book on the subject.
22:45
Speaker 2: Steve Forbes, How you doing.
22:48
Speaker 9: Doing fine today? Good jobs report and we're having, as
22:53
Speaker 9: you know, in the New York area heat wave in
22:56
Speaker 9: the thirties after single digit temperatures. I feel like getting
23:01
Speaker 9: out the sunlation. It's quite wonderful. Yeah, ghivering, not so much.
23:06
Speaker 9: Job report was big, it was much double. I could
23:09
Speaker 9: tell it was a good jobs number because I have
23:11
Speaker 9: all the TV networks on. I see no coverage of it,
23:13
Speaker 9: so it must have been really good. Well, and just
23:17
Speaker 9: just a little note of caution the way they do
23:20
Speaker 9: seasonal adjustments, and with all the government problems with the
23:24
Speaker 9: numbers recently, I'm waiting for February, I think for you
23:29
Speaker 9: and marsh Wall finally get some sanity back. But the number,
23:34
Speaker 9: though no denying, the number that came in today was
23:37
Speaker 9: about two or three times what the so called experts
23:40
Speaker 9: are estimating. So take what we can and certainly, fourth
23:44
Speaker 9: quarter growth looks pretty good. There are some very big
23:48
Speaker 9: roadblocks ahead, but that's true of the world. But in
23:52
Speaker 9: the meantime things the arrows are green rather than red
23:57
Speaker 9: in terms of the economy moving joy. Why you can
24:01
Speaker 9: even if the weather's a lousy Yeah.
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Speaker 2: These are real jobs. In the Biden administration, often they
24:05
Speaker 2: would just throw in government jobs to get that number up.
24:07
Speaker 2: These are real.
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Speaker 9: Wow, that's why you hit on something very important. Government
24:11
Speaker 9: jobs according to these numbers fell and so that means
24:16
Speaker 9: that we have which you might call more productive jobs,
24:20
Speaker 9: people doing real things.
24:22
Speaker 8: Yay.
24:23
Speaker 2: Yeah. So in the Biden years they would go out
24:25
Speaker 2: and hire a few hundred thousand people that would get
24:27
Speaker 2: a job. Number to go on.
24:28
Speaker 9: And by the way, they did a revision of twenty
24:31
Speaker 9: twenty four, the last year of President Biden or whoever
24:35
Speaker 9: was handling them, and the number number of estimated jobs
24:41
Speaker 9: went down almost by a million. So so so so
24:45
Speaker 9: much for his economic performance.
24:48
Speaker 2: I don't know, he was. He was a pretty impressive president,
24:52
Speaker 2: don't you think I'm kidding?
24:55
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh no, you have to put make it plural presidents, whoever,
25:01
Speaker 9: whoever was running it, whoever was running it behind the scenes,
25:06
Speaker 9: including Missus Wilson aka doctor Joe Biden.
25:11
Speaker 2: Now, the problem with government spending, one of the big
25:13
Speaker 2: problems which people forget, is you're overpaying by about ten
25:17
Speaker 2: for everything, I mean, the fraud, the waste. Are we
25:21
Speaker 2: ever going to fix that problem?
25:24
Speaker 9: I think the answer in this high tech age is yes.
25:28
Speaker 9: Because one of the things that is coming out, and
25:31
Speaker 9: especially it's amazing how these things really hit the critical
25:34
Speaker 9: mass is what's unfolding in Minnesota. Twenty three year old
25:39
Speaker 9: comes in and actually looks where does this money go?
25:42
Speaker 9: And we find out about the Leering Center and other
25:46
Speaker 9: massive waste. And so the key thing is and what
25:50
Speaker 9: the Republicans have to get across. We're not toying about
25:53
Speaker 9: taking things away from people. We're toying about taking money
25:56
Speaker 9: away from people. Are stealing it from you and not
25:59
Speaker 9: using it for a stated purposes. And that Learying Center,
26:03
Speaker 9: so called learning center, will stand as a symbol. And
26:07
Speaker 9: so people get that, and that says and of course
26:10
Speaker 9: it's not just Minnesota, it's everywhere Illinois. You name it,
26:13
Speaker 9: you're going to find it there. And so if people
26:16
Speaker 9: are dedicated online, there's doing some basic research going and
26:20
Speaker 9: finding out where do these things go, What are these
26:23
Speaker 9: people being paid for? I think you're going to set
26:26
Speaker 9: in motion a grassroots reduction in terms of wasteflespending, not
26:31
Speaker 9: from hearings in Washington, but grass roots and that's where
26:35
Speaker 9: you get results, not just with the federal budget budget,
26:38
Speaker 9: but state and local budgets. People are going to take
26:41
Speaker 9: in a good way the budget law in their own hands.
26:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, what about California. Besides the fact that we're
26:47
Speaker 2: probably going to find more fraud out there, but what
26:49
Speaker 2: about you know, they'll get like one hundred billion for
26:51
Speaker 2: a high speed rail and it's twelve years later and
26:53
Speaker 2: they haven't built one inch of it. How do they
26:55
Speaker 2: get away with that?
26:57
Speaker 9: Well, they get away with it because there have very
27:00
Speaker 9: powerful interest construction interests that want things to do, and
27:04
Speaker 9: we have very real needs in terms of infrastructure. But
27:08
Speaker 9: these kinds of things are just political payoffs. You you
27:13
Speaker 9: mentioned that train to nowhere and spending billions and billions
27:17
Speaker 9: of dollars, and even if they ever completed a thing,
27:20
Speaker 9: which they won't. Even if they completed it, the estimates
27:24
Speaker 9: are you're only going to get a handful of people
27:26
Speaker 9: using it, and so you're taking real resources created by
27:29
Speaker 9: real people for something that does nothing, that is a
27:32
Speaker 9: drain and diverting it for unproductive purposes and being polite here.
27:37
Speaker 9: And I think the public is going to react against that,
27:40
Speaker 9: and that's what we have to run against. We're not
27:42
Speaker 9: we're not taking away safety nuts. We're just making sure
27:45
Speaker 9: that the fraudsters are ferreted out.
27:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, Steve Forbes, voter ID. It's used everywhere. You
27:53
Speaker 2: can't go into NBC.
27:55
Speaker 9: Yeah, you're right about that. You got to Fox, go
28:00
Speaker 9: to NBC or any place you have to show an ID,
28:03
Speaker 9: not to mention getting on an airplane. And so this
28:07
Speaker 9: whole thing that this is a great smear against voting, well,
28:12
Speaker 9: we've states that have voter ID, like Georgia, where everyone
28:17
Speaker 9: was saying, oh, this is going to throw hundreds of
28:19
Speaker 9: thousands people off the rolls. You know, you've covered it. Voting,
28:23
Speaker 9: voting went up, to turn out went up, and people
28:28
Speaker 9: I think one of the reasons people are one of
28:31
Speaker 9: the factors in their sour mood is no trust in
28:35
Speaker 9: the integrity of elections. The whole thing on redistricting, that mess,
28:40
Speaker 9: jerry mandering. People just feel the game is rigged, so
28:44
Speaker 9: they want it's overwhelming. You've seen the polls. You've discussed them.
28:48
Speaker 9: It's across every segment of society wants voter I D
28:53
Speaker 9: they want honest elections.
28:55
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, it's a good, good point. Steve Forbes, A
28:58
Speaker 2: long time ago, a couple of years, you about AI
29:00
Speaker 2: and you said, you know, back then, thought it was
29:02
Speaker 2: going to kill us, it was going to wipe us out,
29:04
Speaker 2: it was going to take over, and you caution, you
29:07
Speaker 2: said it's going to be fine. It's but now there's
29:09
Speaker 2: other things I'm worried about. Apparently it takes double the
29:12
Speaker 2: electricity we can produce in this country just to run AI.
29:16
Speaker 2: For all the benefits, is it going to cause us
29:18
Speaker 2: a lot of headaches too? Well, anything new like that
29:22
Speaker 2: is going to We get the benefits, but also it
29:25
Speaker 2: has it has repercussions, and one of them is they
29:29
Speaker 2: are huge consumers of electricity, and the AI spending now
29:35
Speaker 2: is far above what we might say really need because
29:39
Speaker 2: every company feels.
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Speaker 9: Even though they there may be a temporary surplus, they
29:46
Speaker 9: have to do it if they're going to stay in
29:48
Speaker 9: the game. So these things are normal, they shake out.
29:51
Speaker 9: And what it also underscores is in terms of electricity,
29:56
Speaker 9: hopefully it leads to we can always hope, uh, Pollyanna
30:00
Speaker 9: existed for a reason, that this will bring about reform
30:04
Speaker 9: of the electricity grid in the US and stop cluttering
30:07
Speaker 9: the grid, especially in California with all these renewables that
30:11
Speaker 9: are expensive to make, and when you go on these renewables,
30:15
Speaker 9: especially the windmills and the solar panels, from the beginning,
30:20
Speaker 9: when you mine, when you need these special minerals, rare
30:24
Speaker 9: earth minerals, and the refining which takes place in China
30:28
Speaker 9: you go from, and then when you have to recycle
30:30
Speaker 9: these things. These things don't last forever environmentally, they don't
30:35
Speaker 9: do anything for the environment. They harm it actually at
30:38
Speaker 9: the end of the day. So let's pull back on
30:41
Speaker 9: these mandates. If somebody's got a good solar panel and it
30:45
Speaker 9: makes sense, fine, but these mandates are killing the grid,
30:49
Speaker 9: overwhelming the grid. So we've just got to make some
30:53
Speaker 9: major reforms in what we're doing here and going to
30:56
Speaker 9: what we know works. One is natural gas beautiful and
31:00
Speaker 9: even though it's going to take years, nuclear power is suddenly,
31:04
Speaker 9: oh it's clean.
31:07
Speaker 2: Revelation. Hey, we only got a minute left. Steve Forbes,
31:11
Speaker 2: you wrote the best book on inflation. Get his book
31:14
Speaker 2: called inflation. So give us the scorecard. How are we
31:17
Speaker 2: doing right now in inflation?
31:20
Speaker 9: Well, in terms of nominal inflation, it's going up less
31:25
Speaker 9: and there'll be some blips, but people still feel pressure
31:30
Speaker 9: because while their wages are starting to rise again, it
31:33
Speaker 9: hasn't had enough time and momentum for people to really
31:36
Speaker 9: feel Okay, I'm finally getting head on the instead of
31:39
Speaker 9: being on a treadmill. And one of the things the
31:42
Speaker 9: Federal Reserve is sewing though, and that's why we got
31:44
Speaker 9: to get Kevin Warsh and some other governors in there,
31:47
Speaker 9: is that.
31:48
Speaker 2: They're undermining the value of the dollar.
31:51
Speaker 9: You see it against other currencies. We're a weak against
31:54
Speaker 9: things like the British pound for crying out loud, and
31:57
Speaker 9: they see it in the gold price.
31:59
Speaker 2: You had.
31:59
Speaker 9: Gold took a big hit, but it's still more than
32:01
Speaker 9: twice what it was a couple of years ago. All
32:04
Speaker 9: those things say the dollar is wobbly. So we've got
32:07
Speaker 9: to go in and restore integrity and belief in the dollar.
32:10
Speaker 9: And that's what I worry about longer term. It's not
32:13
Speaker 9: going to affect us this year, but longer term, great
32:16
Speaker 9: countries don't have week currencies and that destroyed George W. Bush.
32:21
Speaker 9: They thought they could gradually weaken the dollar, and it
32:24
Speaker 9: ended up giving us the crisis of two thousand and
32:26
Speaker 9: eight two thousand and nine, which is still coping with today.
32:30
Speaker 9: Good countries have good currencies, Stee. Great countries have great currencies.
32:34
Speaker 2: Steve Forbes brilliant as always, great stuff. Make sure you
32:37
Speaker 2: get his book Inflation. It's the best book on the subject.
32:40
Speaker 2: All of his books are great, but get the latest book,
32:42
Speaker 2: and of course read Forbes and read his columns. And
32:46
Speaker 2: we'll see all over television too. Steve Forbes, thanks for
32:49
Speaker 2: being with us. Thank you all right, take care, Hey,
32:51
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