The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - The Stone Zone ｜ 02-19-26

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00:00:25.540 The Red Apple Audio Network with Walter Sterling for Roger Stone.

00:00:30.980 Oh, my God.

00:00:31.680 Can you believe the standards have been lowered to the point where they want me on this station?

00:00:37.400 You know, this is an actual radio station.

00:00:39.660 This isn't a carrier current at a community college.

00:00:42.680 This is something that people take very seriously.

00:00:45.840 And I'm still traumatized by something that happened at the Olympics this week.

00:00:52.180 And I'm just going to mention it because every time I get near a microphone, I feel the need to say this happened at the Olympics.

00:00:58.880 And you've got to be kidding me.

00:01:00.780 Then I'll get on.

00:01:01.500 I'll talk about the things grownups are talking about today.

00:01:04.200 We'll talk about ice vehicles being rented that are dangerous. 1.00

00:01:08.020 We'll talk about Prince Andrew, who's the stupidest man in North America and Northern England. 0.99

00:01:13.920 And the incredibly bizarro world that got Mondani elected mayor. 1.00

00:01:19.420 But first, I have to talk about this.

00:01:21.820 Good evening.

00:01:22.340 I'm Walter Sterling.

00:01:24.060 And I don't even know how to say it to you without risking the station's license because it will all sound bad.

00:01:33.080 Everything I'm about to say will sound bad.

00:01:37.780 Remember when you were younger?

00:01:39.680 Well, in your case, you know, before you were a great grandfather.

00:01:42.660 Remember when you were younger and you learned about an Olympic sport called the luge?

00:01:50.660 And you saw the luge, which was a person lying on what looked like a weird sled that he steered with his feet.

00:01:58.760 He steered it with his feet and he went down an ice slide.

00:02:03.300 It was pure ice.

00:02:04.360 It's pure ice.

00:02:05.180 And they go like 200 miles an hour to not die.

00:02:08.320 And then they get a gold medal.

00:02:10.360 That's the luge.

00:02:11.280 Now, from my humble perspective, that's enough.

00:02:15.380 There doesn't need to be anything added to the luge.

00:02:19.820 But I'm going to tell you what they did.

00:02:21.940 And if you didn't see it, ask somebody who did.

00:02:25.120 Ask around to make sure that Walter Sterling is not lying.

00:02:28.920 Because what I'm about to tell you sounds like a lie.

00:02:33.920 Now, an Olympic sport is the double luge.

00:02:38.460 The double luge is when an athlete, a man, lies on the luge.

00:02:48.320 He's referred to as the bottom.

00:02:50.920 And then another man lies on top of him.

00:02:55.860 He's lighter.

00:02:56.900 So the heavier person is on the bottom.

00:03:00.820 He is called the power luger.

00:03:04.520 He's on the bottom.

00:03:07.560 And the person on the top is lighter weight.

00:03:11.560 Here are two men in the peak condition, putting on cute, skimpy, tight uniforms, lying on top of each other, facing death.

00:03:22.540 Congratulations, that's an Olympic sport.

00:03:25.860 What do you mean that's an Olympic sport?

00:03:27.260 That sounds like a whole bunch of other things that you can imagine and that I know your imagination goes to.

00:03:33.620 The double luge.

00:03:35.440 And the worst part is, yes, the United States of America did win the gold in the double luge.

00:03:42.180 Which we did, no, but this leads to the question, where's ultimate frisbee?

00:03:47.520 Why the hell isn't ultimate frisbee an Olympic sport?

00:03:51.120 Why isn't pickleball an Olympic sport?

00:03:55.480 We have the double luge.

00:03:56.820 And did they stop with the twirling?

00:03:58.780 Remember they used to, women used to get in the pool and they had twirling things. 0.99

00:04:03.540 Yeah, yeah, they were twirling.

00:04:05.080 I'm not talking about the synchronous swimming, which is actually a sport.

00:04:08.300 But it's, imagine they gave an Olympics and nobody cared.

00:04:14.000 Have you cared about anything that's happened at the Olympics?

00:04:16.720 No.

00:04:18.180 And by the way, Marketing 101, I'll tell you, I'll share, I'll mansplain exactly why nobody cares.

00:04:26.840 There was a time when people cared a lot, and it's because there was a man named Rune Arledge who invented modern sports broadcasting.

00:04:33.600 And about a year and a half before the Olympics started, what Rune did is he started to pull one member of each team for each sport, just one.

00:04:45.300 And we found out everything about that person.

00:04:48.220 We had the full bio, their life, their dreams, their hopes, long interviews, short interviews.

00:04:53.640 We knew one person on each team, and therefore our hearts cared.

00:04:58.380 We emotionally were bonding with people who were on the team.

00:05:01.660 There's none of that.

00:05:02.400 All they do is announce.

00:05:04.160 They announce when the swimming is, the diving is.

00:05:06.920 They just announce the events like MBAs.

00:05:11.040 It's as though they turned over the Olympic coverage to people from Wharton.

00:05:15.540 Let's figure out how we can make this as dull as we possibly can, and that's what they've done.

00:05:20.340 And then I promise you that NBCUniversal will lose money on the Olympics, guaranteed.

00:05:26.980 That's a two-week event involving 8,000, 9,000 cameras, grossly overstaffed camera crew.

00:05:35.800 It's crazy talk.

00:05:36.860 Well, it's a live radio show, and I want to talk to you.

00:05:40.340 I've got a phone number.

00:05:41.240 It's 800-848-9222.

00:05:43.580 800-848-9222.

00:05:47.120 This is Roger Stone's show.

00:05:48.920 He'll be coming back in a fever pitch after he hears this.

00:05:52.620 Now I'm going to have this sacred water.

00:05:54.460 Hold on.

00:05:54.960 In other news, the big news is that the ex-prince of the United Kingdom, ex-prince Andrew, was arrested after more of the Epstein file revelations have come out.

00:06:12.180 More of the Epstein file revelations have come out.

00:06:15.320 And I have yet to hear some things that I'd like explained about Epstein, not that it's dinner table talk.

00:06:26.620 But here's the thing.

00:06:31.000 There are key elements missing here, not just, oh, the names of people.

00:06:35.540 So all those names in there, 99.9% of them did nothing wrong except get an email from him, send an email to him.

00:06:43.040 They broke no laws.

00:06:44.200 It is tragic that when you have five million pages of paper that, gee, some names are going to come up.

00:06:51.240 And I'm not dismissing anything that happened because I have three daughters.

00:06:56.400 I have three magnificent daughters.

00:06:58.520 Those are all the guys I want them to stay far away from, all of them, especially Hillary.

00:07:03.340 I want them to stay far away from all of those people.

00:07:08.360 That's not the issue.

00:07:09.940 The issue is thousands of names are in there that they did nothing wrong.

00:07:15.960 But there are some problems here.

00:07:18.200 There are some problems.

00:07:19.340 It seems that members of mass media keep referring to him as a financier.

00:07:24.700 How the hell is he a financier?

00:07:26.860 Nobody on Wall Street, no financial machination people have any recollection of doing any transactions with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:07:38.220 He wasn't part of their community, wasn't in the Union League club, wasn't in the downtown.

00:07:44.120 He was not part of their community.

00:07:47.040 He just was this guy.

00:07:48.640 But they kept calling it, you know, The Post and other newspapers keep referring to him as financier.

00:07:55.060 How the hell is he a financier?

00:07:57.080 He had no time to be a financier.

00:08:00.020 He was always coming up with really interesting scenarios and interesting ways to blackmail people.

00:08:07.980 I don't know how he's a financier.

00:08:09.780 Stop calling him a financier. 0.96

00:08:11.420 I know, call him Jeffrey Epstein, comma, creep, Jeffrey Epstein, comma, womanizer, Jeffrey Epstein, comma, blackmailer. 0.97

00:08:20.740 Let's call him what he is. 0.93

00:08:21.560 He's not a financier. 0.99

00:08:23.000 That's ridiculous. 0.86

00:08:23.960 And it's an insult to the four or five legitimate financiers who exist. 0.97

00:08:28.520 I don't get that.

00:08:29.700 But the other thing I don't get, the way he convinced real billionaires that he was a billionaire was very simple.

00:08:38.040 And it's one of the oldest scams alive, which is his house.

00:08:43.920 If you have the largest house in Manhattan, it is assumed you're a billionaire.

00:08:49.140 He had the largest house in Manhattan.

00:08:51.240 And if you live in Manhattan, there is tremendous weight put on where you live.

00:08:58.520 What is your real estate like?

00:09:00.640 And if you say, well, you know, I live here, blah, blah, blah.

00:09:03.120 Wait, you live on the block with the largest house in Manhattan?

00:09:06.960 Yeah, that's my house.

00:09:08.780 Whoa.

00:09:09.660 You don't ask any more questions.

00:09:11.340 You don't look for his CV.

00:09:13.000 You don't ask what are his investments.

00:09:15.220 You don't need to do any of that.

00:09:16.720 You just say, oh, he has the largest house.

00:09:18.820 That's all he had to do.

00:09:20.640 How did he get all those people to come in and visit him?

00:09:22.940 All he had to do was point out, oh, that's my house.

00:09:26.040 And in Manhattan culture, among the people who are focused on money, the largest house wins.

00:09:33.620 He had access to everything just because of the house.

00:09:38.100 Well, how the hell did he get the house?

00:09:40.980 Larry Wexler, founder of the Limited Company, which actually was founded by his mother.

00:09:46.460 There's a proud mom.

00:09:49.140 Tons of money apparently gave him the house, and his name is on the deed of the house.

00:09:55.420 Jeffrey Epstein's name is on the deed of the house.

00:09:59.080 That's how he got the house.

00:10:03.360 Okay, that's nice.

00:10:04.620 What did Larry Wexler get from Jeffrey Epstein?

00:10:09.700 What exactly did he get from Jeffrey Epstein?

00:10:11.980 Now, there are many, many articles in Ohio where Larry Wexler, founder of the Limited, where he lives,

00:10:19.760 many articles saying, well, it seems Larry used to go to bars in the Columbus area that were known to be popular

00:10:28.180 among the gay population of Columbus.

00:10:32.800 Larry had a side hustle.

00:10:35.960 Maybe he liked guys, even though he's married and has two or three daughters.

00:10:41.160 So the speculation among the sleazoids, because all of this is sleazy, this is all like the Inquirer, right,

00:10:48.400 is that Larry and Jeffrey Epstein had an affair.

00:10:54.260 And Jeffrey said, you know, it would be terrible if other people found out about this.

00:10:59.860 You know, you're chairman of the Limited, the Gap, Banana Republic, Justice.

00:11:04.980 There's one for you.

00:11:06.300 Justice.

00:11:06.700 Justice, I'm tempted to tell people about this unless you give me X. 0.86

00:11:15.100 And Larry having so much money and having such a big company, he couldn't afford to have some creep turn him in as being gay.

00:11:23.740 And that's how he got the house. 0.62

00:11:27.700 I'm like, whoa, 800-848-9222.

00:11:33.000 Walter Sterling for Roger Stone at 800-848-9222.

00:11:38.060 You and I can talk about these very vital stories.

00:11:41.780 800-848-9222.

00:11:45.060 When discussing the Epstein affair, first of all, I'm always puzzled by how these people have so much time.

00:11:51.580 Like, Jeffrey, I'm busy.

00:11:55.800 To do all the things that Jeffrey Epstein allegedly did, it had to be a 24-hour-a-day job nonstop.

00:12:03.240 I mean, what he did was you go through those pages.

00:12:06.200 If you did a profile of my life or yours, could you come up with 4 million pages of things that happened in the past 20 years?

00:12:14.500 No.

00:12:14.780 Here's what it would say.

00:12:16.180 You ready?

00:12:17.540 Car needs oil.

00:12:19.320 Got to get oil.

00:12:20.220 Hmm, the engine light's on again.

00:12:23.560 Got to get oil.

00:12:25.520 It's really dirty.

00:12:26.560 Got to get the car washed.

00:12:28.160 Oh, the neighbor's making a lot of noise. 0.99

00:12:30.000 Oh, darn it. 0.99

00:12:30.840 Tomorrow's trash day. 0.99

00:12:32.120 I have to get all the trash out.

00:12:34.380 What?

00:12:35.040 What do you mean there's water in the basement?

00:12:37.700 And why do I have to talk to your teacher?

00:12:40.720 All right, that would be, those would be the Sterling files.

00:12:44.380 Those would be the Sterling files.

00:12:46.140 I don't know how this man came up with all of this time.

00:12:49.500 That's number one.

00:12:51.360 This incredible amount of activity in a couple of years, a couple of years.

00:12:56.340 But the last thing is this.

00:12:58.120 You're a parent and you have kids, which means you're a parent.

00:13:04.520 And I have three daughters.

00:13:06.300 You know who's responsible for the safety of those three daughters?

00:13:09.400 Me.

00:13:09.720 I'm responsible for those kids.

00:13:12.280 I know at any given time where they are.

00:13:15.660 I know what they're doing.

00:13:17.960 And I know when they're coming home and how they're coming home.

00:13:22.280 Why?

00:13:23.280 That's my job.

00:13:24.540 That's not even being a good parent.

00:13:26.360 That is the bare minimum.

00:13:28.060 I have the safety of my children.

00:13:29.960 That's the bare minimum.

00:13:31.340 That's what we do as parents.

00:13:33.140 Where were their parents?

00:13:34.840 All of these teenage girls, all of these teenage girls, they had parents.

00:13:41.300 And they're, well, you know, then I'll hear, you know, they were terrible parents.

00:13:45.180 They were drunks. 1.00

00:13:45.860 They were horrible. 0.97

00:13:46.420 Yeah, but it's still their responsibility until they're over 18.

00:13:52.020 And they could, these poor girls could have gotten mixed up with these horrible people. 1.00

00:13:56.000 But the first line of defense is mom and dad.

00:13:59.420 And I believe that first mom and dad, all of their mom and dads need to be arrested.

00:14:06.180 And preferably executed for letting this happen.

00:14:09.780 These girls were away for weeks and months. 1.00

00:14:12.640 These girls were taken to the scary island. 0.93

00:14:15.740 I mean, 16-year-old, what do you mean you've been taken to an island?

00:14:18.920 How the hell do you get to an island?

00:14:23.280 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222.

00:14:27.900 I'm Walter Sterling for Roger Stone.

00:14:30.100 And this is the Red Apple Audio Network.

00:14:45.740 Well, I think that's the problem right now is, right?

00:14:50.200 A lot of people that are close to retirement, they're taking so much risks.

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00:16:53.200 Roger Stone is an interesting man in that his hair never moves.

00:17:05.840 Have you noticed that?

00:17:06.840 He's got that beautiful head of gray, salt-and-pepper hair, but it never moves.

00:17:11.380 All my life, me, Walter Sterling, who has the privilege of guesting for Roger Stone tonight,

00:17:17.640 and it is a privilege because he's a great man, and this is a great radio company, the Red Apple Audio Network.

00:17:24.780 But all my life, I've wanted that hair that doesn't move.

00:17:28.000 I've never achieved it.

00:17:29.600 Even if I spray it, like today I've sprayed it and it looks almost okay,

00:17:33.660 but yet it's not commanding like Roger Stone's hair.

00:17:36.740 And I think that's pretty much all I know that is significant in terms of him being unique.

00:17:43.220 But then he starts talking, and when he talks, I'm like, this is a brilliant guy.

00:17:47.920 And then again, I'm faced with, I'm never going to be that brilliant.

00:17:51.320 It's hard to understand. 0.97

00:17:53.420 I am endlessly shocked by the mayor of New York City, this Mondani clown. 1.00

00:17:58.600 I'm endlessly shocked that he's doing everything wrong, including lying about everything he promised he was going to do. 0.95

00:18:08.380 And that's not a casual thing.

00:18:11.160 New Yorkers always give new mayors a test.

00:18:14.140 It's the same test every time there's a new mayor.

00:18:16.780 You want to know what it is?

00:18:18.680 There'll be a blizzard.

00:18:20.100 Every new mayor has a blizzard in January.

00:18:23.460 Mayor Lindsey, John Lindsey, practically got...

00:18:28.600 Thrown out of the office because of his failure to handle the January blizzard.

00:18:33.940 It was huge.

00:18:35.600 And then Michael Bloomberg, an otherwise excellent mayor,

00:18:39.200 he was in Bermuda during the blizzard that attacked his city,

00:18:43.420 and he was out of town in Bermuda.

00:18:45.880 Now, having been to Bermuda, and I urge you to go to Bermuda,

00:18:49.380 I understand why he was in Bermuda in January.

00:18:51.940 It makes perfect sense.

00:18:52.860 And he probably thought, well, I have a phone,

00:18:54.340 and I'm only 90 minutes away by private plane.

00:18:57.880 I can get there if something happens.

00:18:59.480 But he couldn't because, you see, the airports were closed

00:19:03.900 because it was that big a blizzard. 0.89

00:19:05.800 Now we have this Mondani clown, and he's failed the blizzard test. 1.00

00:19:13.480 It signals what's going to be coming the rest of his term. 0.77

00:19:16.680 I'm Walter M. Sterling.

00:19:18.080 Thank you for Roger Stone, and this is the Red Apple Audio Network.

00:19:26.400 The Stone Zone.

00:19:28.300 Entertaining and informative.

00:19:30.440 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:19:33.380 The brilliant Roger Stone.

00:19:35.240 This is his show.

00:19:36.260 He took a night off.

00:19:37.820 Good decision.

00:19:38.640 Walter M. Sterling for Roger Stone.

00:19:41.480 A man whose hair never moves. 0.98

00:19:43.260 I am puzzled by this Mondani, the mayor of New York.

00:19:48.300 I don't understand.

00:19:49.760 I understand how he won.

00:19:51.460 I don't understand how he won by such a big amount.

00:19:54.760 He had okay opponents.

00:19:57.260 Mario Cuomo's son seemed viable.

00:20:00.060 I'm sure there were others.

00:20:01.620 But what he promised was nonsense.

00:20:05.620 And he knew it was nonsense because, allegedly, he's a bright fellow.

00:20:09.420 There will be no free food banks.

00:20:13.460 And, by the way, there have always been free food banks.

00:20:16.580 If you are hungry in a city like New York, you do not have to stay hungry.

00:20:23.040 There are food banks.

00:20:24.360 There are multiple places from the Salvation Army to other private organizations to churches and synagogues that will give you food.

00:20:31.620 And they will happily give you food.

00:20:33.480 None of us want to see our neighbors hungry.

00:20:35.700 We take care of each other.

00:20:36.960 One out of five people in New York City need food.

00:20:42.340 So I don't know why he promised that.

00:20:43.760 Then he promised free buses.

00:20:45.260 But, hey, Mondani, you don't control the fare of the buses.

00:20:50.600 The MTA is controlled by the state of New York.

00:20:54.400 And you know how that's going.

00:20:55.900 How's that going there with the state of New York controlling the buses, the subways, and, oh, yeah, peak pricing for traffic coming into parts of Manhattan.

00:21:06.960 That's all going so well, isn't it?

00:21:08.840 I don't know why he imagined that he'd have control over the price of buses.

00:21:13.120 You're telling me the whole time he ran for mayor, not one person working with him said, by the way, you have no control of the buses.

00:21:21.180 You have no control of the subway.

00:21:23.160 You have no control.

00:21:24.080 It wasn't until Mayor Bloomberg came around that you got any control at all of the schools.

00:21:30.740 Up until Bloomberg, the only control the mayor had of schools was the capital budget, putting in new staircases, buying paper, filling in holes in the concrete.

00:21:42.780 That's what they had no control over the city, over the agenda of those schools at all.

00:21:47.880 The city had no control.

00:21:49.260 That was all the state.

00:21:51.340 He just needs to behave.

00:21:53.440 His job is to behave, to listen to what the people of New York City actually want. 1.00

00:21:59.980 And about his budget thing, he's saying now that he is like a billion and a half dollar shortfall or something stupid. 0.99

00:22:06.980 And I have a solution for that, too. 0.95

00:22:09.260 But first, this would rather do is ensure that they remain as they are so that the city can be on firm financial footing.

00:22:17.340 However, in order to get to this point of closing the gap on both this fiscal year and the next fiscal year, we are forced to raid the rainy day fund, the retiree health benefits trust reserve and to increase property taxes across these other years.

00:22:31.860 But I thought everything was supposed to be free.

00:22:35.280 And what is considered an emergency today in New York City, an emergency enough where you have to raid the rainy day fund of nearly a billion dollars while also giving 1.2 billion to illegals?

00:22:51.460 What's the emergency?

00:22:52.700 Could it could it be Mom Donnie's policies?

00:22:54.700 If your political strategy is considered an emergency enough to raid and rob and steal from the emergency fund, it is you that is the problem.

00:23:08.760 You have a nearly 5% GDP growth.

00:23:13.300 Where's the emergency?

00:23:15.660 Oh, that's right.

00:23:16.840 People are leaving, which means the tax base is shrinking and the government is overspending.

00:23:23.060 That's the emergency that was created by socialist policies that the people voted in.

00:23:30.480 So the solution, get this, this is how socialism works.

00:23:33.920 Tax the rich, tax the corporations.

00:23:35.420 Okay, well, the people with the financial freedom then leave.

00:23:37.940 So the solution becomes tax everyone else.

00:23:40.900 So the middle class, the working class get hit the hardest and they get taxed basically until they're poor.

00:23:46.440 And socialism does its thing where what socialism is, is equal misery for everyone except somehow the ruling class.

00:23:54.860 And the more you tax the average person, the more people are going to leave, which decreases the tax base. 1.00

00:24:02.120 Even more, you financially illiterate socialist moron. 0.98

00:24:06.720 Mom Donnie has put himself on the same playing field as Gavin Newsom, as Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, Tennessee's top real estate agent. 1.00

00:24:18.080 There's just, there's no other word for this besides financial retardation. 1.00

00:24:22.680 I would say political as well, but I'll give him credit because he did manage to find a equally retarded voter base. 0.78

00:24:30.680 I hate to say I told you so, but this is, this is socialism, equal misery for everyone.

00:24:41.160 This isn't going to turn out well.

00:24:43.460 And he's wondering where, where'd that billion dollars go?

00:24:46.400 Where's the billion dollars?

00:24:47.620 That would be a de Blasio's wife. 0.97

00:24:50.180 That would be the fascinating organization that Mayor de Blasio's wife put together. 0.98

00:24:54.720 Remember that?

00:24:55.580 I don't remember what it was called, but she somehow or another got funded with over a billion dollars to do something.

00:25:04.200 Was there an audit?

00:25:05.320 No, no audit.

00:25:06.360 Has there been any accountability of that?

00:25:08.240 No, no audit.

00:25:09.500 And then to put it in perspective, when you think of a New York City business, you can think of Chase Manhattan.

00:25:17.500 I'm sorry, JPMorgan Chase quickly.

00:25:19.340 JPMorgan Chase quickly comes to mind, right?

00:25:22.780 Just finished a giant new tower on Park Avenue.

00:25:26.660 Jimmy Diamond, the chairman of the board, is running around saying, you must come back to work.

00:25:30.640 You must come back to work.

00:25:31.680 I spent a billion dollars building this, this tower for you.

00:25:34.900 And now you're sitting at home in Jersey.

00:25:36.460 That was not the plan.

00:25:39.020 Here's the statistic that's amazing.

00:25:41.420 As of now, JPMorgan Chase has had enough with New York City, even though they spent money on a giant building,

00:25:48.300 which must have a spectacular executive dining room in it. 0.97

00:25:51.240 Can you imagine the executive dining room?

00:25:53.460 It's probably attached to Jimmy Diamond's suite of offices on the top floor.

00:25:58.420 Can you imagine that?

00:25:59.420 Okay, you and I are never going to be invited there.

00:26:01.900 Why?

00:26:02.200 Because our relationship with JPMorgan Chase is $33 every time we bounce a check.

00:26:07.700 That's our relationship with JPMorgan Chase.

00:26:09.980 You bounce a check, you charge $33.

00:26:12.620 So, yes, we contribute to their success, but Jimmy is not calling us.

00:26:16.200 Well, more JPMorgan employees live and work in Florida than in New York City.

00:26:25.500 There are more JPMorgan employees in Florida than in New York City.

00:26:31.220 And it's real simple. 1.00

00:26:33.280 If you keep telling a kid at school that you're a jerk, we hate you, you're going to stop talking to that group of kids. 1.00

00:26:39.120 You're not going to like that group of kids. 1.00

00:26:41.020 Well, that's what this Mondani clown is doing. 1.00

00:26:43.420 He's saying, I don't like you because you're successful. 0.98

00:26:46.800 I don't like you because you have a lot of money.

00:26:50.240 I don't like you because your business is thriving. 0.88

00:26:53.120 I'm going to punish you.

00:26:54.860 How is this Management 101?

00:26:57.060 Oh, that's right.

00:26:57.800 He never managed anybody.

00:26:59.760 He's never been a boss.

00:27:01.340 He's been the least useful part of our government, a state, not federal, a state legislator.

00:27:08.300 That's what this Mondavi clown did and apparently had the worst voting record, didn't vote on anything. 0.85

00:27:14.800 The worst attendance record, didn't show up. 0.87

00:27:17.540 And wow, now he's mayor of the city of New York.

00:27:21.860 And it's gone downhill.

00:27:23.480 We went from de Blasio to the guy after de Blasio to this guy.

00:27:30.000 How is this good?

00:27:30.860 When was in my lifetime, when was the last good mayor?

00:27:36.360 Right.

00:27:37.380 Bloomberg.

00:27:38.320 Right.

00:27:39.060 Giuliani.

00:27:39.820 Right.

00:27:40.140 That's it.

00:27:41.300 After that, it was all downhill.

00:27:43.700 I was here on 9-11.

00:27:45.000 I was in New York City on September 11th.

00:27:47.340 And I saw a great man.

00:27:48.980 I saw Mayor Giuliani.

00:27:50.360 I saw greatness.

00:27:52.600 Therefore, my tuning fork is set.

00:27:55.860 Think it through.

00:27:56.800 Imagine a terrorist attack where this Mondani is the mayor.

00:28:02.700 Imagine a major terrorist attack in New York City where this Mondani guy is the mayor. 1.00

00:28:08.120 How is that going to go?

00:28:10.220 You've seen who he's picked for his cabinet so far.

00:28:13.340 These are people who, again, have had no experience in the real world, have never had a management job.

00:28:21.700 I hope he somehow or another figures out how to keep that police commissioner, Ms. Tish. 0.99

00:28:26.380 She seems pretty good.

00:28:27.840 But in general, this is insanity.

00:28:33.160 Nowhere in his discussion of the budgets have I heard him say, and this is what I'm going to cut out.

00:28:39.240 These are the programs I'm going to cut out.

00:28:41.360 This is where we're going to save money.

00:28:43.120 Because usually it's a good idea before you ask for money alone in the form of taxes, which is a loan, you are able to demonstrate to the banker or the relative or your rich aunt, here's how I've economized.

00:28:57.700 Here's what I've done.

00:28:58.900 I can't do any more.

00:29:00.920 How do you feel about this?

00:29:02.060 800-848-9222.

00:29:04.600 800-848-9222.

00:29:06.800 I'm Walter Sterling for the great Roger Stone.

00:29:11.840 800-848-9222.

00:29:14.480 And I look forward to sharing this time with you.

00:29:17.660 We can talk about Mondavi.

00:29:19.260 We can talk about your theories as to where did Jeffrey Epstein get his money.

00:29:23.540 How is this possible that he was able to – where did he have the time to do all of this?

00:29:29.040 Look at the list of activities on any given day.

00:29:32.460 Oh, my God.

00:29:33.840 Max in Manhattan, welcome to the Red Apple Audio Network.

00:29:37.160 Hi, Max.

00:29:37.640 Hello, thank you for taking my call. 0.83

00:29:42.420 This Mamdani character, I don't think he's stupid.

00:29:44.940 I think he's very intelligent. 0.99

00:29:46.060 He knows what he's doing.

00:29:47.480 The same thing was done in – or has been done in England about nine times with bringing in some sort of leftist agenda, which is the red agenda, and then they bring in the green agenda, which is Islamic takeover. 0.89

00:30:00.140 And, unfortunately, that's the direction where we're headed in.

00:30:03.280 And, luckily, I think we're a little bit better conditioned than England is.

00:30:10.320 England was saved by that great prime minister.

00:30:13.740 She recognized that socialism was creeping into England, and she stopped it.

00:30:18.380 And, thank goodness for that.

00:30:19.680 I wonder who's going to stop it here, Max.

00:30:21.660 Who do you think is going to stop it in New York City?

00:30:23.580 The more he just speaks honestly and where he wants to go with his anti-Semitism, the more he does that, the quicker he's going to go.

00:30:34.880 Thank you very much for your call, Max.

00:30:36.820 At 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222.

00:30:42.860 The amount of control the city of New York mayor has is surprisingly limited relative to what the state can impose and what the feds can impose.

00:30:52.360 So, there's a lot of bumper guards on the mayor of New York.

00:30:55.480 However, among big cities, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, the mayor of New York is far more powerful than those mayors.

00:31:05.320 Because, in those cities, the city council has to vote on everything.

00:31:09.980 They have no unilateral powers.

00:31:12.260 In New York City, of course, the mayor flirts with being a king.

00:31:17.560 It can happen.

00:31:18.340 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222.

00:31:23.920 I'm Walter Sterling, and the other thing that's shocking is Prince Andrew was arrested as more and more information comes out in the Epstein files.

00:31:36.240 Prince Andrew, former Prince Andrew of England, has been arrested.

00:31:40.540 And he is, I'm just looking at something.

00:31:47.200 And this was a creepy guy.

00:31:49.260 I mean, he was first, and then what the king of England did is first he put him in a different wing, a Buckingham Palace.

00:31:57.020 Then they put him in another house.

00:31:58.760 And now he's in a worse house, and now he's in jail.

00:32:01.360 Now he's in the workhouse.

00:32:02.400 But he was a creepy guy.

00:32:05.380 And again, I go back to the original problem, which is, well, how was he allowed to be in touch with these women?

00:32:12.380 Answer, their parents let it happen.

00:32:17.740 In fact, possibly their parents encouraged it.

00:32:20.340 Oh, you're going to get a nice trip to a beautiful island?

00:32:22.880 You go right ahead, dear.

00:32:24.820 And I know everybody's saying, well, their parents were horrible, and they were alcoholics, and they were mean to the girls and all that.

00:32:29.840 I don't care.

00:32:30.820 They're still legally responsible.

00:32:32.760 And every single time somebody like Prince Andrew is arrested and taken away relative to the Epstein file, the parents of those girls should also be arrested and taken away.

00:32:45.120 800-848-9222.

00:32:47.740 Melvin, you're on the Red Apple Audio Network.

00:32:50.600 Good evening, Melvin.

00:32:52.880 I support the mayor of the city of New York, because I am a member of an organization, and I was born and raised in Bronx County.

00:33:03.260 Now, what organization are you a member of, and what do you want to bring to the table to approve the quality of that?

00:33:09.500 I'm a firm believer.

00:33:11.280 Let's bring everything we disagree with to the table.

00:33:14.480 Because the War of 1861-1865 is still being forced to be over six rights.

00:33:22.060 Melvin?

00:33:22.880 In the Bronx, thank you very much for calling.

00:33:25.240 800-848-9222.

00:33:28.060 800-848-9222.

00:33:30.260 Thank you for your call.

00:33:31.960 Here's what I want from the mayor.

00:33:33.480 See if this matches up with what you would want from your elected officials.

00:33:37.140 I want the mayor to put the general needs of the population first.

00:33:42.300 Well, that means, how can I lower expenses?

00:33:45.180 How can I make it less necessary to tax these people?

00:33:48.560 Here's the list of expenses I have eliminated.

00:33:51.480 I don't need to have a car service.

00:33:53.180 Take me to work every day.

00:33:54.640 He's got a car service.

00:33:56.380 He's got the police taking him to work.

00:33:57.920 He doesn't need that.

00:33:59.400 You want to be a real mayor?

00:34:00.740 You get on the subway.

00:34:01.920 You take the subway.

00:34:02.840 Just like all those nice people who voted for you.

00:34:07.520 Secondly, I'd like to know from now on, where exactly are you spending the money?

00:34:13.880 Where does it go?

00:34:15.340 These are huge budgets.

00:34:16.540 You realize the budget of the city of New York is bigger than the budget of the state of Florida.

00:34:22.180 Hold that thought.

00:34:23.880 Bigger than the state of Florida.

00:34:25.540 It's an enormous budget.

00:34:27.560 The waste, the fat must be extraordinary.

00:34:31.280 We do not cut the police.

00:34:35.620 We make more police.

00:34:37.180 We hire more police.

00:34:38.680 We train more.

00:34:39.880 We get them on the street.

00:34:41.360 I'd like to see them on the street.

00:34:43.100 When was the last time in New York City I saw two cops walking down the street?

00:34:46.620 It's been a while.

00:34:48.460 That's what I'd like to see.

00:34:49.720 But most importantly, this month, and hopefully next month, I would like to see no snow.

00:34:56.380 It shouldn't have to be 50 degrees to get rid of the snow in the city of New York.

00:35:01.060 There are plenty of snow plows.

00:35:03.760 There are plenty of salters.

00:35:05.880 It is possible to get rid of the snow with the incredible numbers of pieces of equipment of the city of New York.

00:35:14.520 That's what has to happen.

00:35:16.700 But I didn't hear him acknowledge the snow.

00:35:19.580 He didn't even say, yes, we had a lot of snow.

00:35:22.620 This is what I'm doing. 0.97

00:35:23.860 That was the first thing he needed to do, this Mondavi clown. 1.00

00:35:27.300 He needed to say, yes, we had a lot of snow, and this is what I'm doing. 0.54

00:35:32.400 And I promise you, even in the far reaches of Queens, in the far reaches of Queens, there will be no snow 24 hours after it falls.

00:35:42.640 800-848-9222.

00:35:44.740 Walter Sterling for Roger Stone with Bill in Pennsylvania.

00:35:47.960 Hello, Bill.

00:35:50.580 Hey, Walter.

00:35:51.360 Thank you for taking my call.

00:35:52.620 Yeah.

00:35:53.160 I have a long ride home from Queens out back to Pennsylvania.

00:35:57.460 Where do you live in Pennsylvania?

00:36:02.040 Bethlehem in the Lehigh Valley.

00:36:03.620 It's a long drive.

00:36:09.180 It's a very long drive.

00:36:10.460 I only have about an hour and 20 minutes left.

00:36:13.100 Well.

00:36:13.660 And I'm battling a little head cold, and I just want to get home and snuggle with my wife and kids.

00:36:19.620 And, you know, I've got a one-year-old, a four-year-old, and a 22-year-old.

00:36:23.820 Imagine that.

00:36:24.960 Is it the same wife?

00:36:30.200 Yes.

00:36:30.680 And I don't want to snuggle with my 22-year-old.

00:36:33.940 I just want to make that correction.

00:36:35.380 But I just want to get my little one-year-old daughter and get in bed and get ready for work tomorrow.

00:36:39.700 Well, I have a 22-year-old daughter, and I have a 13-year-old daughter.

00:36:43.600 You beat me.

00:36:44.320 But I have a 20.

00:36:45.300 And, you know, the worst question I get asked about the 13-year-old is, was she a surprise baby?

00:36:54.780 Was that a surprise baby?

00:36:56.700 I'm like, no.

00:36:57.900 We planned for it for years.

00:36:59.940 It wasn't up to us.

00:37:01.560 Something much bigger than us decided when it was time for us to get the baby, the new baby.

00:37:06.200 And it was exactly the right moment.

00:37:08.520 Was that your experience, Bill?

00:37:11.200 Absolutely.

00:37:12.160 You know, and I tell people, it wasn't a surprise.

00:37:15.240 No, it was a blessing.

00:37:16.780 It just happened at the right time.

00:37:18.420 And I'm so thankful for what we have.

00:37:21.560 And it's just what keeps us going every day, you know.

00:37:24.140 And glad to hear the way you put that.

00:37:27.000 I appreciate the call.

00:37:29.540 And I thank you very much for calling the Red Apple Audio Network at 800-848-9222.

00:37:35.540 Walter M. Sterling for Roger Stone.

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00:38:00.340 Entertaining and informative.

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00:38:04.220 What have we learned tonight?

00:38:06.540 Exactly what have we learned with Walter Sterling for Roger Stone?

00:38:09.660 First of all, Roger, thank you very much for the privilege of letting me share some time with your listener.

00:38:15.320 Great, great, fabulous people.

00:38:17.260 Easily the best listeners in American radio.

00:38:19.920 Roger, thank you.

00:38:21.020 To the Katsimatidis, a fantastic radio station which has free food.

00:38:26.920 That's how you know that it's a fantastic radio station.

00:38:29.860 Free food is available all the time.

00:38:32.580 And what else have we learned?

00:38:33.580 We've learned that it makes no sense that Jeffrey Epstein is called a financier.

00:38:37.760 He's not a financier.

00:38:39.800 He never did any financial transactions. 0.99

00:38:42.720 It was just like really creepy crap. 0.99

00:38:45.060 Walter M. Sterling. 0.98

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