Howard Lutnick

If that guy was there, I wasn't going because he's gross.

My wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.

So I was never in the room with him socially, for business, or even philanthropy.

If that guy was there, I wasn't going because he's gross.

opens the doors and there's a massage table in the middle of the room and candles all around and stuff.

So I ask very insightful cutting questions.

I say to him, massage table in the middle of your house?

How often do you have a massage?

And he says, every day.

And then he like gets like weirdly close to me and he says, and the right kind of massage.

Now my wife is standing here.

So she looks at me and I look at her and we say, I'm sorry, we have to.

And we left.

And in the six or eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.

So I was never in the room with him

Socially, for business, or even philanthropy.

Back I was there, I wasn't going because he's gross.

And so I look back at it as a gift.

Yes.

He gave me a gift.