1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: It hits in access to Mark by setting a pre 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: set in the iHeartRadio app for his live show and 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: his podcast. Now back to the Mark Simone show on 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: wor Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Sarah 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: in Manhattan. Sarah, how you doing? 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 2: Hi there, good morning. No one ever talks about where 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: Epstein got all this money from, Like where did he 8 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 2: get it? 9 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: Well, it's a little boring, but he was a big 10 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: financial Wall Street guy. He worked at bear Stearns for years. 11 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: Then he worked at Goldman Sachs for years. He met 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: all the big financial gurus. They mentored him, and then 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: he started his own fund. Because he knew all the 14 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: big investors, he got them to put money, and he 15 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: was a former mathematician. He was pretty good. He figured 16 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: out a lot of systems to grow your money, and 17 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 1: he was particularly good at doing it in a way 18 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: that would avoid taxes. So and more and more people 19 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: invested with him now that he was involved in beginning 20 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: years when he first went on his own with some 21 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: shady characters, there were some Bernie madeoff sort of schemes 22 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: that he was involved in. But then it was a 23 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: real fund. He had a wealth management fund and others. 24 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: Does that answer it? 25 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. You just you seem to have a 26 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 2: lot to dole out. 27 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, No, he got himself up to about five 28 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: six hundred million. You got to give him credit for that, 29 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: and thanks for calling Sarah. He then had what is 30 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: known as Check's appeal. Starts giving big money to everybody, 31 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 1: to politicians, to museums, to the symphony, all that sort 32 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: of stuff. And there's certain things that are very very 33 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: prestigious to give you a lot of clout, a lot 34 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: of cachet, like the Rockefeller Foundation. He started making big 35 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: donations to the Rockefeller Foundation, so they got friendly with him. 36 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, he got himself on the board 37 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: of the Rockefeller Foundation and they were having some money troubles. 38 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: You know, a lot of these charities they're not good 39 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: at investing their money, so that's one reason they put 40 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: them on the board. He could show them how to 41 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: better invest their their money. And then he got himself 42 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: on the board of the Carlisle Group. So this this 43 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: gave him a lot of cachet with with the big 44 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: money guys and the politicians. And I mean he was 45 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: clever the way he climbed the ladder. Let's go to 46 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: Chris in Manhattan. Chris, how you doing? 47 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:17,839 Speaker 2: Oh good? 48 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: Thanks Mark, I hope you're doing well too. 49 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: Listen, I'm one hundred percent behind what Trump. 50 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 1: Chris Well explain. Chris's there's always a big butt coming 51 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 1: and he's the biggest what they call panickins. He panics 52 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:31,239 Speaker 1: at everything. Go ahead. 53 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: You are absolutely my can't miss show, no matter how 54 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: you treat me. 55 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: I always love you. I love you. But you're the 56 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: poster boy for the they call him the Pannikins. Whatever 57 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: Trump does this is going. 58 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,839 Speaker 2: To be a disaster. I'm not panicking about it. But 59 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: in reality, everything he's doing is going to make everything 60 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 2: go up in price, which is fine, okay, but he's 61 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 2: doing the right thing. 62 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: But it's still my Italy goes up in price very 63 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: a few weeks and then it goes way down in 64 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: price because we free up a massive amount of oil. 65 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: So you don't think this will this will hurt his 66 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: the mid terms because if they if they win them, 67 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: every election, everything, you'll check the record every election. You 68 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: got something that's going to kill a Remember it was 69 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: abortion when he ran for a president. 70 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, abortion. Well, I'm still surprised about that. 71 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: I was sure. 72 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: Don't check that. You never checked it. You never checked 73 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: the actual data. It was not an issue in the campaign. 74 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: President has nothing to do with abortion anymore. It's a 75 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: state issue, federal government. I live in Manhattan when they 76 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 1: were running around voting a Hall of fame because he 77 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: should have been Yeah, uh well, anyway, don't what happened 78 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: to Did we lose them? Are there? 79 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 2: Chris? 80 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: All right, let's switch to another call. I don't know 81 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: what happened. That's that's very strange. Uh sorry about that, Chris, 82 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, the Pannicans will tell you. Now, when you 83 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: go to war, the stock market is going to crash. 84 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: The price of oil is going to go away up. 85 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: But once it's over, a stock market starts soaring again, 86 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: price of oil comes crashing down because you're going to 87 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: free up a much, much bigger supply. Do you remember 88 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: when he started the tariffs, the stock market plunged eighty 89 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: billion points in one second, and that was it. The 90 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: whole economy was wiped out. And then that lasted a 91 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Then next thing you know, the stock 92 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: market went up on the biggest run you ever saw 93 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: and hit fifty thousand. Let's go to Adam in New Jersey. Adam, 94 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: how you doing, Hi, Mark, would you agree with me 95 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: that the president has just started the greatest peace movement 96 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: in the history of our country. Well, yeah, it's a 97 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: little hyperbolic, but okay, he's gotten rid of the biggest 98 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: terrorists of the world A K. 99 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: Vietnam. 100 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: Well, let's just say he got rid of the biggest 101 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: terrorists on Earth right now. And Democrats are very upset 102 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: because he eliminated the biggest threat to Israel at the 103 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: same time, and it'll make the Middle East certainly a 104 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: much more peaceful place. Let's go to Robert in Westchester. Robert, 105 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: how you doing, Good. 106 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 2: Morning, Mark, and thank you for taking my call. So Mark, 107 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 2: for all those Democratic talking heads that say Obama made 108 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 2: an agreement, they had a lock solid agreement. Well, the 109 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 2: last time we had an agreement with a democ private 110 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 2: administration under Bill Clinton was North Korea and how well 111 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: did that turn out? Well, the President Trump. 112 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: What they do is they come up with these phony agreements. 113 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: You know, they make up these phony There was an 114 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: agreement to for Iran not to have a nuclear weapon, 115 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: and the part of the agreement was they would self 116 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: inspect and let us know if they found it was 117 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: the dumbest agree. Remember they had that border bill when 118 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: the border was wide open and millions were crossing and 119 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: coming into the country, and the Democrats said, well, if 120 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: only you had passed the border bill. Well, if you 121 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: read the border bill, there was absolutely nothing in there 122 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: that would have done anything to help. In fact, the 123 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: border bill made the current situation permanent. It was the 124 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: worst thing. They make up these fake bills and try 125 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: to commit you. If only you had done that, if only 126 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: had followed the Obama Iran agreement. There was nothing in 127 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: that agreement that was going to do any good. Let's 128 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: go to David in Connecticut. David, how you doing good? 129 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 2: Mark, Hey, it's good talking to you. Why wasn't Neil 130 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 2: Sedaka never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? 131 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: Very good point. That was the problem with that's rock 132 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: and roll Hall of Fame. It's got better leadership now 133 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: in the last year or two, but for years the 134 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: leadership was horrible, and there was just a bunch of 135 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: guys picking who they liked and they didn't like. They 136 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: didn't like the sixties early sixties kind of oldiest kind 137 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: of sound. But you're right, and somebody should do something 138 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: about that. Neil Sedaka should be in the Rock and 139 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: Roll Hall of Fame. Good point, Thanks for Colin. You 140 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: know again, there's good leadership now running the Rock and 141 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: Roll Hall of Fame, so hopefully it'll change. But for 142 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: years it was Jan Winner and his friends, and you 143 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: know these guys. If you weren't a you know, scruffy looking, 144 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: a woodstock type with a big electric guitar, they didn't 145 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: want you in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 146 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: If you were cute Neil Sedaka with the duop kind 147 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: of they didn't want you in the Rock and Roll 148 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. But you're right, it's a glaring, glaring omission. Hey, 149 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: we'll take a break, rob Astarena. We'll talk to him 150 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: in just a moment.