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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. This is the bonus segment for
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Speaker 1: all of you podcast listeners out there. Don't forget this
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Speaker 1: weekend daylight saving time. That's right, you get an extra hour.
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Speaker 1: You lose an hour of sleep, but you get an
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Speaker 1: extra hour of daylight starting on Sunday. Hey, the Ford
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Speaker 1: Motor Company, they are winding down on making electric car,
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Speaker 1: so they'll still have a one or two. But CEO
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Speaker 1: of Ford says, the customer has spoken. The EV push
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Speaker 1: was a disaster, especially for them. He says, I think
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Speaker 1: the customer has spoken. The company has lost almost five
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Speaker 1: billion dollars on EV's last year and projects twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six will be even worse. So it's not just Ford,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of companies. Hey, it's a great thing,
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Speaker 1: an electric car. It's a novelty. It's not mainstream, it's
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Speaker 1: never going to be. And Ford's not the only company
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Speaker 1: going through that now, you know Paramount sky Dance. The
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Speaker 1: company has just made that deal Warner Brothers Discovery and
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Speaker 1: they're set to acquire CNN as part of the deal.
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Speaker 1: So the chairman Ellison, David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison,
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Speaker 1: asked whether or not there'd be big changes in CNN's
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Speaker 1: editorial stance and all of that, and he said, now
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Speaker 1: it's all about the truth. We want to maintain the truth.
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Speaker 1: We want honest reporting and the truth. Well, that sounds
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Speaker 1: like a big change. Actually, that sounds like a complete
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Speaker 1: change of format. Editorial independence will be absolutely maintained. He says, Now, well,
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Speaker 1: that's true, but it could be a whole new bunch
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Speaker 1: of people maintaining it. So if you put in the
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Speaker 1: right people, then you can let them be independent. But
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Speaker 1: he says, we want to talk to the seventy percent
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Speaker 1: of Americans that aren't far left or far right. We
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Speaker 1: want to talk more to the center, which is a
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Speaker 1: good idea. That's what CNN was for years, and it's
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Speaker 1: a good sign. We want to be in the truth business.
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Speaker 1: We want to be in the trust business. Well, that
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Speaker 1: means you're going to have to get rid of a
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Speaker 1: lot of people CNN. Now, remember Netflix was trying to
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Speaker 1: win that deal. They were beaten out here by Paramount Skydance.
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Speaker 1: Netflix lost in the end. Now they were to you know,
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Speaker 1: talk about well, they would have had an antitrust problem
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Speaker 1: with the FCC, with the administration. But there was another
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Speaker 1: slight factor here apparently apparently tampons played a role in this.
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Speaker 1: So during the deal negotiations, Netflix the big you know,
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Speaker 1: they went to Netflix. Lawmakers went to Netflix, GOP lawmakers
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Speaker 1: to talk to them. They didn't realize what a left
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Speaker 1: wing company it was. But they were stunned when they
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Speaker 1: went into the men's room and they were shocked to
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Speaker 1: find out and the men's room was a basket containing tampons.
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Speaker 1: You know, this is real Tim Waltz kind of left
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Speaker 1: wing stuff that you have to put tampons in the
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Speaker 1: men's room. So it was a factor among these lawmakers
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Speaker 1: that they didn't realize. They called the tampon incident. They
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Speaker 1: didn't realize what a kooky left wing company Netflix was. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Miami Beach. You know, real estate is exploding there, Miami,
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Speaker 1: Miami Beach, all of Florida, really, but Miami now for
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Speaker 1: the first time pulled ahead of New York in the
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Speaker 1: number of million dollar plus homes on the market. There's
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Speaker 1: about about ten thousand, six hundred on the market in
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Speaker 1: New York right now, it's only ten thousand, one hundred.
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Speaker 1: So they pulled ahead. And it's probably temporary. You're about
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Speaker 1: to probably see a big real estate crash in Miami
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Speaker 1: in the future, which could be a month, could be
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Speaker 1: a year, could be a couple of years. But it's
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Speaker 1: just exploding in Miami. Traffic is crazy, it's crowded. Buildings
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Speaker 1: are going up. There's a skyline that is just huge.
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Speaker 1: Now you got this big skyline in Miami. Now they're
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Speaker 1: talking about super talls that'll go eighty ninety one hundred
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Speaker 1: stories and then you'll see the crash probably in Miami
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Speaker 1: at some point. Hey, Starbucks new CEO, longtime growth both
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Speaker 1: planned plans to open thousands of new stores. This is
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Speaker 1: all we need more Starbucks. But they showcased a new
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Speaker 1: floor model, the new design. Didn't They just redesign it
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Speaker 1: like two years ago. They rebuilt every Starbucks like a
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Speaker 1: year ago. But the new design will feature leather seating,
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Speaker 1: tea colored cabinet, displays all sorts of tastings, upcoming menu,
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Speaker 1: new Macha beverage line, and exhibited new and upcoming in
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Speaker 1: store technology such as new espresso brewing equipment, AI powered
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Speaker 1: to make your drinks for you. It's another thing these baristas.
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Speaker 1: Two years from now, you may be seeing robots and
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Speaker 1: AI doing all of this. You may see that in
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Speaker 1: a lot of stores. Starbucks expects to add two thousand
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Speaker 1: new stores by twenty twenty eight, has a lot of
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Speaker 1: stores in one year. You know, again everything getting simplified.
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Speaker 1: You know, you go to a lot of places at
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Speaker 1: Chipotle or Chopped or place like that. You don't go
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Speaker 1: in there, nor do you do it on the app
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Speaker 1: before you go there. You just do it all on
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Speaker 1: the app. Order what you want. I don't want this
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Speaker 1: in the salad. I want that in the salad. I
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Speaker 1: want extra that You do it on the app and
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Speaker 1: then that's it. And then when you go in there,
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Speaker 1: you still don't have to talk to anybody. You pay
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Speaker 1: on the app. You go in there and I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you on the app when it's ready, and it's going
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Speaker 1: to be on shelf six. You go to shelf six,
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Speaker 1: it's in a bag, you take it to leave. You
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Speaker 1: never talked to anybody, you never did anything. You're going
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Speaker 1: to see more and more and more of that. Costco's
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Speaker 1: starting to get into that business. They were way behind
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Speaker 1: when it came to having a good mobile app. You
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Speaker 1: know a lot of people have. If you want a
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Speaker 1: cake or pastrios, Costco's unbelievable at making the wedding cakes,
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Speaker 1: their birthday cakes, their deli trays are all that sort
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Speaker 1: of stuff. But you had to go in there, and
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Speaker 1: it took a while to order it and do it. Well,
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Speaker 1: now they finally catching up their app. You can do
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Speaker 1: all of that on there. Just show up and pick
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Speaker 1: it up, get it all done. The online ordering system
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Speaker 1: include customizable cakes of all kinds. And because lots of
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Speaker 1: you said to go in there, order the whole thing
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Speaker 1: and then come back the next day, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of people they're not that close to the costco. They
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Speaker 1: don't want to have to make two trips. So their
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Speaker 1: catch everybody will be like, pretty soon you'll never talk
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Speaker 1: to anybody ever again. It'll just be everything will be
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Speaker 1: done on an app, and that's it. Look at this
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Speaker 1: gen Z skipping sex from now on. New study says
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Speaker 1: they're not drinking and they're not having sex. What is
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Speaker 1: the point then, But why would today's youth do this? Will?
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Speaker 1: According to survey, sixty seven percent of gen z would
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Speaker 1: rather have a RESTful night's sleep all right. The drinking,
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Speaker 1: they just don't they don't need it. They just don't
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Speaker 1: drink as much. This has affected bars and restaurants and
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Speaker 1: caused a lot of they're shifting their attention to maintaining
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Speaker 1: healthy friendships. Forty six percent prefer solo time than to
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Speaker 1: being with it again, you're not going to there'll come
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Speaker 1: a time fifty years from now you never talk to
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Speaker 1: anybody for anything. They're more intentional about intimacy than older generations.
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Speaker 1: It's it's going to get stranger and stranger. Fifty years
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Speaker 1: from now. You wouldn't even see Remember you watch those
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Speaker 1: futuristic shows, you know, those two thousand and one A
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Speaker 1: Space Odyssey, the Jetsons. That's what they missed. They didn't
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Speaker 1: realize nobody would be talking to anybody anymore. Everybody would
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Speaker 1: just be buried in their phone. Hey, Epstein, there's more
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Speaker 1: stuff coming out in the Epstein files. You know a
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Speaker 1: lot of people were very tangled up with Epstein. You
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Speaker 1: know the writer Michael wolf who always writes these books
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Speaker 1: bashing Trump and comes up with all kinds of wild, ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: crazy stories about things Trump didn't. It's Michael Wolfe. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the books go right to the fiction section, sleazy tabloid writer.
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Speaker 1: Nothing is true, everything's embellished, exaggerated. Half of it never
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Speaker 1: even happened. But you read these Epstein files. Boy, he
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Speaker 1: is close to Michael wolf They are talking to each
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Speaker 1: other day and night, bashing Trump, plotting. They were plotting
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Speaker 1: to get rid of Trump, plotting to have the twenty
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Speaker 1: fifth Amendment, you know, to use to remove him from office.
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Speaker 1: And apparently Wolfe was reportedly working on a book about
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Speaker 1: Epstein with Epstein cooperating. Right before his death. He was
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Speaker 1: actually trying to I mean they were really really close.
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Speaker 1: Then you see these other people in there. Mort Zuckerman,
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Speaker 1: the great Daily News publisher. He's not well now, kind
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Speaker 1: of out of it now, but here he was all
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Speaker 1: tangled up with Epstein. Breakfast at Zuckerman's house with him
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Speaker 1: going to this. A lot of these guys, You're surprised
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Speaker 1: at how involved they were with Epstein. Tommy Mattola, the
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Speaker 1: great music executive, Sony Records CEO, husband of ex husband
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Speaker 1: of Mariah Carey, long friendship with Epstein. In fact, he
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be involved in a deal I think
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Speaker 1: it was with Jimmy Follon to create their own something,
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Speaker 1: their own beer, their own So anyway, he had to
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Speaker 1: pull out of the deal. Peggy Siegel, the Manhattan publicist
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Speaker 1: and Hampton's may stay mainstay. An extremely annoying woman as
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Speaker 1: Peggy Siegel. Nobody closer to Epstein if you read those files,
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Speaker 1: she was like a sister to him. Nobody was more
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Speaker 1: busy with Epstein than Peggy Siegel. She's all through this.
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Speaker 1: Rich Cohn, Darren, Indyke. There. These are people that come
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Speaker 1: up to most of the Epstein files. Long Island attorneys.
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Speaker 1: They worked for him for decades. They helped set up
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Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands estate, they helped them navigate all the
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Speaker 1: legal issues. They're all through the files and both were beneficiaries.
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Speaker 1: Epstein left them each fifty million bucks in his will.
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Speaker 1: You know, he had about six hundred million when he died.
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Speaker 1: It's unclear whether they'll get the money or when, because
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Speaker 1: there's all kinds of litigation fighting now over that money.
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Speaker 1: Now there was He had a girlfriend once, an older woman,
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Speaker 1: a girlfriend he was very serious with. But she now
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Speaker 1: says that he was always always eyeing her daughter and
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Speaker 1: it was awful, just awful. He was always looking at
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Speaker 1: her daughter. The girlfriend was a former Miss Sweden and
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Speaker 1: she was a runner up in Miss Universe. But she
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Speaker 1: said to Epstein had a fixation with her daughter, which
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Speaker 1: drove her crazy and I mean, his trust had one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven million in assets and he wanted
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Speaker 1: to apparently was going to donate a lot of money
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Speaker 1: to her. She was named alongside Epstein's brother as a
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Speaker 1: major beneficiary in the will. Hey, you remember The Brady Bunch.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the house that was on The Brady Bunch.
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Speaker 1: You know, you remember the outside of the house. Well,
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Speaker 1: it was a real house in San Fernando Valley in California,
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Speaker 1: and then somebody bought it a couple of years ago
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Speaker 1: and decided to gut it and build the inside of
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Speaker 1: the house. The inside didn't look anything like the inside
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Speaker 1: of the show on TV. But this woman gutted. It's
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Speaker 1: been a fortune to recreate every room that you saw
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Speaker 1: on TV, that famous living room, the famous kitchen with
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Speaker 1: the orange for Mica, the bedroom. So she duplicated the
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Speaker 1: interior exactly the same. And now it's a big tourist attraction.
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Speaker 1: People line up for miles to go look at it
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Speaker 1: from the outset, but then go inside and you're actually
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Speaker 1: in the set of The Brady Bunch. Pretty much. Well,
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, the city council just voted to grant
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Speaker 1: the house historic Cultural Monument, Historic landmark status. It's now
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Speaker 1: a historic landmark in California. Current owner's been working on
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Speaker 1: this for years. She's thrilled. She bought the home just
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Speaker 1: a few couple of years ago, three years ago, three
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Speaker 1: point two million, spent a fortune redoing it. But this
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Speaker 1: is good news. It's now his historic landmark. Nobody can
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Speaker 1: touch it, nobody can do anything with it. Hey, you
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Speaker 1: know the Gilgo Beach killer. Apparently more stuff coming up
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Speaker 1: about this guy, Rex Huerman, a very very twisted guy.
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Speaker 1: Now he had a tender account. You know they always
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Speaker 1: say what kind of nuts might be on these apps
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Speaker 1: on bumble, on Tinder. Well, I think this guy would
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Speaker 1: win the award murdering multiple women and chopping them up
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Speaker 1: and burying them on a bit. I think that's a
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Speaker 1: pretty bad tender date. But they've gone through his stuff,
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Speaker 1: his computer. Now apparently he had all these He had
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Speaker 1: unbelievable amounts of porn, disgusting, really bad porn, like you know,
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Speaker 1: a torture mutation, I mean all the horrible point and
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Speaker 1: as far as the Tinder, the dating stuff, he had
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Speaker 1: it on a separate phone, a burner phone. Remember he
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Speaker 1: was married, just trying to keep all this from his wife,
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Speaker 1: but he had a couple of burner phones. One burner
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Speaker 1: phone who used to contact fifty six sex workers, massage
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Speaker 1: parlors more than three hundred times. He had sixty one
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Speaker 1: prostitute numbers in there. I mean, this goes on, and
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Speaker 1: this is all coming out now, and then normally, if
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Speaker 1: this came out about you, boy, it's your reputation would
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Speaker 1: be ruined. But if your rex Hureman, this doesn't even
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Speaker 1: make a dent in your reputation. He's already murdered and
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Speaker 1: shopped up a million people, buried him in a beach.
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Speaker 1: So I guess that once you reach that point, there's
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Speaker 1: nothing that's going to embarrass you after that. Hey, Bobby
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Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, Robert Kennedy Junior, you know he's going after
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Speaker 1: everything once everything healthier, candy bars, food, everything, get rid
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Speaker 1: of the chemicals, get rid of all this stuff. Now
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Speaker 1: he's going to He's there's a big revolution in Massachusetts
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Speaker 1: against him where he's from. But he's going after Dunkin Donuts.
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Speaker 1: He thinks it's two sugary Starbucks too, but he wants,
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Speaker 1: especially dunkin Donuts, to put more safety data, get rid
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Speaker 1: of some of that sugar. He's tampering with the drinks.
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Speaker 1: But dunkin Donuts is from Massachusetts. It's like sacred there,
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Speaker 1: so they're very, very upset, even the governor joining in
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Speaker 1: to go after him. Dunkin Donuts just beloved in Massachusetts,
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Speaker 1: but he is trying to clean it up, trying to
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Speaker 1: make things healthier for everybody. Hey, we're out of time,
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Speaker 1: but thanks for listening. This has been the bonus segment.
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Speaker 1: Don't forget daylight saving time. You set your clock back
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Speaker 1: Saturday after midnight, actually said it ahead. You'll lose an hour,
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Speaker 1: but otherwise I'll be back Monday ten to noon. I'll
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Speaker 1: talk to you then on seven to ten. WR