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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the

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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments

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Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one uh NonStop

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Speaker 1: infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here

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Speaker 1: is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really alright, so the Washington Post

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Speaker 1: put out a really interesting article on uh Trump's really

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Speaker 1: sketchy golf club purchases. Uh, not like purchases he made

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Speaker 1: at a golf club, but golf clubs that he has

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Speaker 1: been purchasing like entire you know golf courses like a club,

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Speaker 1: like entire courses that are sort of these classic, you know,

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Speaker 1: really beloved old golf courses in the UK. Uh. He

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Speaker 1: spent tons of his own money in the last decade.

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Speaker 1: Uh when up to this point his strategy had always

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Speaker 1: been to spend using bank loans or investors. Uh. He

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Speaker 1: is on the record being like anybody who spends their

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Speaker 1: own money as a fucking sucker, like spends their own money,

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Speaker 1: probably has money, right. So um, it just seems really

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Speaker 1: like he was known as King of Debt back in

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Speaker 1: the day because he would always take out loans and

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Speaker 1: spend that money rather than spending his own money. And

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Speaker 1: then he would bankrupt whatever he bought with the loans,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, get out of the whole situation

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Speaker 1: with bankruptcy. Is that how you declare bankrupt um? But

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Speaker 1: so the Posts looked into financial records and it turns

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Speaker 1: out he spent four hundred million dollars in cash on

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Speaker 1: these new properties, and nobody really knows where he's getting

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Speaker 1: this money from cash, because yeah, just straight up his

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Speaker 1: own money. It's like he's spending it, like it's his

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Speaker 1: own money to buy these golf courses in scott Atland

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Speaker 1: and Ireland. And since he's bought them, they've been such

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Speaker 1: a failing proposition. He's had to pump a hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty four million dollars more of his own money into

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Speaker 1: keeping them running, just to like keep them up and

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Speaker 1: running and not like filing for bankruptcy. He's had to

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Speaker 1: just pump in loads and loads of his own money.

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Speaker 1: Which this is a really weird time for him to

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Speaker 1: start spending his own money because his businesses were doing

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Speaker 1: really badly, Like right prior to this, he had, you know,

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Speaker 1: had his casino business like go under. Most of his

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Speaker 1: financial worth is tied up in the real estate industry.

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Speaker 1: And this is during the Great Recession, might remember it.

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Speaker 1: Um I just got out of college, so at this

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Speaker 1: time that shirt because and then I got into politics anyway.

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Speaker 1: Um So, people are wondering, like where this money is

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Speaker 1: coming from, and like it doesn't really make sense. Especially

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Speaker 1: this is also around the time when he stopped being

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Speaker 1: able to borrow money from actual banks, like American sources,

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Speaker 1: like the people who used to lend him money. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: we're like, no, you keep losing everything. You suck at business. Like, also,

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Speaker 1: how the fund did you get in here? We have

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Speaker 1: your picture at the security be like you don't even

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Speaker 1: let this do in the elevator. Right, There's no loans

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Speaker 1: on the record of him getting this money. But there

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Speaker 1: are all these reports and in fact, the big like

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Speaker 1: groundbreaking report I think came on golf dot com. This

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Speaker 1: is this is yeah, exactly the Washington Post of the

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Speaker 1: of the golf community, you know, the muck rakers over

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Speaker 1: a golf dot com right, more like the sandtrap raker

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Speaker 1: right firefire. Um So, one of their undercover reporters, not undercover,

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Speaker 1: And he was curious about this. He was like Hey,

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Speaker 1: how did you guys is get all of this money? Uh?

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Speaker 1: He was like Eric and Donald or together? Right? It

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Speaker 1: was Eric Trump, his son, the one that SNL makes

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Speaker 1: fun of for being stupid, which is not fair SNL.

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Speaker 1: Listen to the story. He's really smart. Uh. So, so

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Speaker 1: I'll just read you from the article. Uh, the guy says.

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Speaker 1: So when I got in the cart with Eric, Dodson says,

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Speaker 1: as we're setting off, I said, Eric, who's funding I know?

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Speaker 1: No banks because of the recession, the Great Recession have

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Speaker 1: last four or five years. By the way, it's not

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Speaker 1: out of the ordinary for a golf course to be

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Speaker 1: losing money. Golf courses lose money. It's almost like buying

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Speaker 1: a professional sports team. It's like a thing rich people do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not a good investment if you're like trying to

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Speaker 1: bounce back financially. Uh. And so back to the article, like, hey,

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Speaker 1: only like sixty people can right exactly. H So back

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Speaker 1: to the article, the golf dot Com reporter said, And

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Speaker 1: This is a terrible investment and you we're pretty sure

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Speaker 1: you don't have the money. Uh. And so back to

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Speaker 1: He said, well, we don't rely on American banks. We

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Speaker 1: and he said, oh yeah, We've got some guys that

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Speaker 1: We just go there all the time. Uh. So that

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Speaker 1: was three years ago. He report on this, like before

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Speaker 1: any of the Russia. Yeah. So if you weren't reading

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Speaker 1: Golf Digest or whatever golf dot com, sorry, uh you

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Speaker 1: might not have known that like this Russia thing was

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Speaker 1: coming down the pipe. But if you were, you're probably like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah this, Yeah, found some cool Russian golf enthusiasts.

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Speaker 1: other than the casino company that he bankrupt. Uh so

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Speaker 1: you can only look at like limited financing of the projects.

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Speaker 1: But they were able to look at the UK ones

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Speaker 1: and they showed just enormous amounts of capital flowing into

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Speaker 1: these projects from unknown sources. Um and on paper it

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Speaker 1: says it's just coming from the Trump organization, but it's

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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars, and anybody who has looked

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Speaker 1: this would not be a thing you could do. Uh

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Speaker 1: And so the dossier one of the people from Fusion GPS,

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Speaker 1: who you know, it's worth keeping in mind, we're doing

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Speaker 1: opposition research, so take this with somewhat of a grain assault.

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Speaker 1: But it's just that all these grains of salt that

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Speaker 1: all the other facts we're learning. But uh so, this guy,

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Speaker 1: Glenn Simpson suggested that it seemed like the golf courses

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Speaker 1: could be a money laundering scheme for the Russian mafia,

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Speaker 1: which would explain dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into

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Speaker 1: businesses that make zero profit and actually cost money. That's

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Speaker 1: how you launder money, is like, yeah, that's how you

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Speaker 1: make money disappear because there's a special slot for active way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there you go. But he said that it seemed like

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Speaker 1: for the beginning part of his career, Trump had connections

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Speaker 1: to a lot of Italian mafia figures, and then gradually

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Speaker 1: and it seems like, oh, well, this could just be people,

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Speaker 1: Russia and Trump together in their mind. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: the Trump saying Russia together, being like, oh yeah, we

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Speaker 1: just tosses a hundred million like it's nothing. So the

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Speaker 1: other thing that was interesting about this story was hearing

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Speaker 1: how he was trying to argue, like when with Deutsche Bank,

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Speaker 1: to be smaller, because they say in this article Trump's

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Speaker 1: logic in that case, the two thousand and eight financial

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Speaker 1: it should be considered like an act of God, like

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Speaker 1: that he was even this is how well he was

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Speaker 1: doing as a business. Right that suddenly you want me

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Speaker 1: of your business is to try and get out of

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Speaker 1: paying back your debt, Suddenly within a couple of years

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Speaker 1: your ass. And well, look, it's good to have friends.

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Speaker 1: Also if anybody, I don't care where you're from, but

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Speaker 1: if you have a hundred million dollars, you're just trying

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Speaker 1: to let me hold how that me at miles were great?

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Speaker 1: I have a few golf course ideas and exactly golf courses.

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Speaker 1: But let's talk. We do need to move on to

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Speaker 1: Milannia Trump because she is our greatest statesman, working woman,

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Speaker 1: states states woman, states lady. Is she a Slovenia person

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Speaker 1: or Slovakia person used don blankinship nomenclature, right, so we

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Speaker 1: all remember that she ripped Michelle for the two thousand

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Speaker 1: like this I'm killing at least in high school. We

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Speaker 1: need to like change, you know, like rephrase it in

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Speaker 1: your so you can't like Google copy and paste that

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Speaker 1: like my professors did. Man. Luckily I was I was

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Speaker 1: So I mean not that we can really blame her.

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Speaker 1: Michelle was the best first lady that has existed in

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Speaker 1: better than anyone else. Why wouldn't you want to steal

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Speaker 1: from her? So Milannia is a big signature thing has

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Speaker 1: been online bullying, which is fucking hilarious and the biggest

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Speaker 1: irony of all. But we can just move on from there.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's funny. There's an article. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, I feel bad. I don't feel

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, you know, do it? Like I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I get it. Look, they're a parasite, and you lashed

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Speaker 1: very soon, and it turns out motherfucker is as invincible

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Speaker 1: a actual coach that won't die. Bodies made of adamantium.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I think it's more like his body's

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Speaker 1: made of whatever McDonald's hamburgers are made of, because those

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Speaker 1: so you just add something that's like for like, it's

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Speaker 1: not that I feel bad for her, but I do

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Speaker 1: want to read her books so badly. I mean, in

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Speaker 1: just plagiarize Michelle obumpas I think my husband the first

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Speaker 1: children that she she has called be Best Now again

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Speaker 1: due to her history of biting Michelle's swag, I just

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Speaker 1: want to present to you a very huge moment that

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Speaker 1: came out of when Michelle Obama was sat down with Oprah.

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Speaker 1: So you know, that was a moment. It was a

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Speaker 1: movie and Oprah was just basically asking what can men do?

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Speaker 1: Just here? Just anyway, there's a very big moment between

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Speaker 1: Michelle Obama and Oprah that many people probably remember, what

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Speaker 1: So I think that was like at the International Woman's Congress,

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Speaker 1: in other situations, and that like it's just any excuse.

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Speaker 1: It's like whenever you have a dude who's looking for

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Speaker 1: a fight and he's like, what the fun did you

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Speaker 1: just say? What are you looking at and it's like, well,

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Speaker 1: you just yelled at me, so I was looked in

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Speaker 1: your direction, and uh, this is not about anything that

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Speaker 1: ever happened to me. Don't worry about it. But um

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Speaker 1: also say goodbye to any sort of cheap gas prices

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Speaker 1: in the future. Yeah, gas price gonna go. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: one thing. Don't funk with the country that gives you

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Speaker 1: a out three point eight million barrels a day, So

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Speaker 1: that's really true. Yeah, that's about a moonion barrels a

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Speaker 1: day more than transportation. They've upped it a lot since

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Speaker 1: sanctions were eased up. So thanks y'all. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how our gas could get any higher. Yeah, alright, so

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Speaker 1: let's ride these bicycles. We're all going to die, everybody.

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Speaker 1: That's a break out, look, but yeah, we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back and we're back.

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Speaker 1: We want to talk about some news that was big

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00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 1: breaking news in the last twenty four hours in half

448
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: the country, and we'll talk about how the other half

449
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: of the country is greeting this news. But so Michael

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Speaker 1: Avanadi came out and just dropped some who's also very tan.

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Speaker 1: By the way, for somebody very tan man. I spend

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Speaker 1: a lot of time at Lake the Ozarks. So you

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Speaker 1: guys understand that he is a fellow St. Louis South side.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh he is. I'm not allowed to go over there,

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Speaker 1: and you stay on the east side. I'm on the

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Speaker 1: middle of Saint Louis, a little town called University City

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Speaker 1: with Nellie. Yeah, so you know, slowdown from the lunatics.

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Speaker 1: Remember him. He was a dude where the Spider Man mask. Alright,

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Speaker 1: because because he yodels, I'm from St. Louis. Start, Hey, dude, Cobra,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Seventeen year old impression of Nellie. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: It's good because because the Yodo kid is bringing that

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Speaker 1: ship back and getting all this credit. Nellie. Nellie was

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Speaker 1: the first. Natalie was Yeah, Miles, tell us what Michael God,

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Speaker 1: Michael leave. And I first of all, I want to

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Speaker 1: say that he is either the coolest guy ever who

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Speaker 1: I'm loving every second of what he's saying because he

467
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: makes me feel like he has so many receipts, or

468
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Speaker 1: he's the biggest, fullest shit guy ever and we can't

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Speaker 1: believe a fucking word he says. That's what I was

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Speaker 1: always modulating in over the last few weeks when he

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Speaker 1: come and goes, he'll be like, he'll be our Rachel Maddow,

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Speaker 1: Rachel Rachel, the things that are gonna come out, Buckle

473
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Speaker 1: your seat belts and you're like, man, funk out of here,

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Speaker 1: like let me see something or shut the funk up.

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Speaker 1: And so yesterday he pulled, showed up something, showed us

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Speaker 1: something for sure. So he talks about this company, Essential Consultants, LLC,

477
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Speaker 1: which is the LLC that made the payment to Stormy

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Speaker 1: Daniels named Yes, and according to their findings, they say

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Speaker 1: they exist as a real estate consulting company that collects

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Speaker 1: fees for investment consulting work. Yeah. Okay, so this company

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Speaker 1: was created in October seventeen sixteen, most likely for the

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Speaker 1: sole purpose of obscuring this payment to Stormy Daniels. As

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Speaker 1: they look into it, though, things got a little bit murkier.

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Speaker 1: So first of all, this thing is like the textbook

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Speaker 1: definition of a shell company. Like there's no employees other

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Speaker 1: than Michael Cohen. They have no front facing anything, no website.

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Speaker 1: Nobody has heard of him. They don't. When you say they,

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Speaker 1: you mean he essentially yeah, they Yeah, I'm sorry, I

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Speaker 1: used that pronound very very loosely. Yes, he has nothing, uh,

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Speaker 1: no public presidence at all. Uh. And it's clear that,

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Speaker 1: based on this first transaction Stormy Daniels, that this company

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Speaker 1: is set up for the sole purpose of making transactions

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Speaker 1: that benefit the president. So clearly he would not do

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Speaker 1: the Stormy Daniels payment and then like go on to

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Speaker 1: do more shady ship with that same shell company. Right. Oh, right,

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Speaker 1: now that was a great set up because of course

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Speaker 1: he fucking did this. These guys are so dumb. So

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Speaker 1: first off, let's just get through the ship. That would

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Speaker 1: normally be a huge scandal. He received one point two

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Speaker 1: million dollars from no artists, the huge pharmaceutical company. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And because you know, I don't know why, they thought

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Speaker 1: that he could advise the company as to how the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration might approach certain US healthcare policy matters, including

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Speaker 1: the Affordable Care Act. Yeah, okay, so from just straight

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00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: up lobbying, like well, if you're a lobbyist, like you

506
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Speaker 1: have to register as a lobbyist because you have to

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Speaker 1: let it know that that money is a lobbying expenditure.

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Speaker 1: And there's a whole above board way of saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think when we have that system in place, right

510
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: is because otherwise it's just like, Hey, I know this guy,

511
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pay him some money and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: do this thing over here for me, and it's the

513
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Speaker 1: mafia instead of the fucking US government or the FEC

514
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: or whatever to be able to basically monitor what's going on.

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Speaker 1: So yes, that's the first one. So yeah, let's give

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Speaker 1: him the benefit of doubt. Maybe Michael Cohen knows a

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Speaker 1: lot about the A C. A. And he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he knows about you know, just what these how to

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Speaker 1: stabilize these Obamacare Mark Yeah, okay for that, he's the

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Speaker 1: guy for that, and let's just be generous to say that.

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Speaker 1: And so he also received two hundred thousand dollars from A.

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Speaker 1: T and T, which is cool too. What's weird though,

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Speaker 1: is in that time, all these payments were received after

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Speaker 1: the inauguration, mind yourself, the president of power. You know,

525
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Speaker 1: around this time, A T and T is in front

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Speaker 1: of the d o j's Anti Trust Commission to whether

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Speaker 1: or not they're going to approve a merger between A.

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Speaker 1: T and T and Time Warner. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: that maybe he's starting to stink like a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. He also received money from a Korean

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Speaker 1: aerospace company for like insights. I'm sure that's what they

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Speaker 1: will say to but so far, at best, it looks

533
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Speaker 1: like some kind of pay to place scheme. Yeah, and

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00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: the Korean aerospace company's incoming CEO had dinner with the

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Speaker 1: president after they made that payment, So there's evidence that

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Speaker 1: there is pay to play ship going on. This alone,

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Speaker 1: just those what we've talked about already is just straight

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00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: up scandalous, scandal like corruption. That's how a corrupt government

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Speaker 1: work him out. You pay those dude's homie, the president's

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Speaker 1: like buddy, and he then gets you to have dinner

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Speaker 1: with the president. Like that's just that is straight up

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00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: textbook corruption. And it's made worse when you look at

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00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: certain factors like a T and T like doing a

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Speaker 1: huge merger and then they're like especially when he blocks

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00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: other merger. This alone is just swamp bullshit. To begin with,

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00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: all this ship obviously it was all empty bullshit Trump

547
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: was running on. But this right here, I mean, they

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00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: need to answer this in a way that isn't just like, oh,

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00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. Because Michael Anati was also saying, well,

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00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: if you have anything that proves what I'm saying is wrong.

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00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: Please show me those bank statements because I have the motherfucking' receipts.

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00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: And now you're just gonna have to go figure out

553
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: how you're gonna lie. You're right out of this one.

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00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: So moving on that alone is a scandal. Now this

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00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: is where it gets. This will get to the holy

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00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: shit party. So we first, yeah, yeah, In January two

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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen to August seventeen, Colin received payments totally five

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand from Putin pal slash oligarch Victor Vexelberg through

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Speaker 1: the Russians US based company called Columbus Nova. But that's

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Speaker 1: impossible because didn't we have sanctions against that guy. Well,

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00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: hold on, now, this is a US based company. In

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Speaker 1: their statement, they're like, no, this, this company is entirely

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Speaker 1: US owned. This is absurd, blah blah blah. We'll check

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Speaker 1: this ship out. Vexelberg's cousin is technically an American and

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Speaker 1: he's the one who runs the company. So it says

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Speaker 1: his cousin's company that he left with. Yes, and also

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00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: that company was listed as a subsidiary of a much larger,

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Speaker 1: sanctioned Russian company, so again thinks like bullshit. And now

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Speaker 1: the thing that's very just kind of odd is that

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Speaker 1: the timing of it. This money came in around January,

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Speaker 1: you know, Michael Avenati, not that he was saying directly,

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Speaker 1: but it was offering like maybe we can speculate was

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Speaker 1: did the Russians actually fund this payment because Michael Avnati

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Speaker 1: said he pulled out a like a home equity loan

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Speaker 1: or whatever to pay to make pay Michael, Michael said,

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Speaker 1: that's how he got the hundred thirty. Yeah, but he

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Speaker 1: hasn't verified that. There's no there's no bank record of that,

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Speaker 1: or that he's presented that that verifies that. But we

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Speaker 1: do see that suddenly he makes hunt at their thousand

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Speaker 1: dollar payment and then boom, you get five hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars for a Russian oligarch that they can't even explain

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Speaker 1: what it is. My kids couche fun yeah whatever, my

583
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Speaker 1: kids couch front. I got a loan for a Corvette.

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Speaker 1: What's the big deal. I got a deal in four

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Speaker 1: taxim me downs. I was going to build a pool,

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Speaker 1: so I got a loan. His dream car is definitely

587
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Speaker 1: a Corvette one. And so yes, we don't know what

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00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: is going on, because if you just take the company

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00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: stuff alone, it's very hard to believe that of all

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00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: the lobbyists you could go to, of all the lawyers,

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Speaker 1: if you're really trying to get that, Michael Cohen is

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00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: the person. I mean, this is Michael Avanati yesterday on

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Speaker 1: MSNBC talking about it, where someone was like just trying

594
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Speaker 1: to speculate, like, well, what if maybe he is an expert? Right?

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Speaker 1: Are you suggesting that Michael Cohen does not have a

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Speaker 1: PhD in aerospace technology and pharmaceutical policy. I'm not only

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00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: going to suggest that, but I'm gonna stag. Don't have

598
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Speaker 1: real questions. I don't want to, but I don't want to.

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00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: This guy's the Da Vinci of our time. Okay to questions,

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00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: just still taking shots. Shout out to Michaelai. But yeah,

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00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: it's just a sure pay to play whatever could be.

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00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: But this other thing is now looking like, is this

603
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: the scenario in which the Russians were like bankrolling certain

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00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: aspects of the campaign, Whether that's like silencing people who

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00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring up stories that could damn as a

606
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: campaign or what other ship. It just opens up a

607
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: huge can of disgusting worms and the other thing to

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Speaker 1: note is that when this guy Vexelberg, was in the

609
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Speaker 1: States last the FBI met him at the airport and

610
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: straight up copied everything on his computers and film. So

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00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: they've already been having their eye on this guy. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just, you know, this ship gets crazier

613
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: and crazier. So then to cap that off, right, this

614
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: thing just sheds the light on the roaches and they

615
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: go scattering. Trump this morning is now basically like threatening

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Speaker 1: the press with their credentials, Like he was saying like, oh,

617
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: all this negative press, Like I get it's fake news.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should just stop giving them access, maybe take

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Speaker 1: away their credentials. I mean, that doesn't seem like a

620
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: coincidence that the day after this ship breaks now he's

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00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: talking about how fucked up the press is. It's just

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00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: that's just a sign to everybody that, yeah, this this

623
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: is as shitty is it? And they're also inquiring into

624
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: allegations that suspicious activity reports on cons banking transactions were

625
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: improperly disseminated. So basically, you know, instead of proving him wrong,

626
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,959
Speaker 1: and that he keeps feeling like proving me wrong if

627
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: if if I'm wrong, you know too where's the proof

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00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: that you have to contradict this proof? Instead of providing

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00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: that proof, they are going with the wait, how do

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00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: you find that? Right, which is as you said, somebody

631
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Speaker 1: is they're talking about the leaks that that's being yeah,

632
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: improperly disseminated. Is basically them saying like, how do you

633
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: find that these are being leaked? Which it's not uncommon

634
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: at all for journalists, lawyers, others in the public eye

635
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 1: to receive unauthorized takes. That's how people end up becoming

636
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: accountable for ship because you find out, oh, we know

637
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Speaker 1: you're dirt, and that's that logic is so fucking stupid

638
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: and it betrays the actual point. And I'm saying this earlier.

639
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: That's like a man getting caught cheating on his wife

640
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: and she's like, excuse me, why the fund do I

641
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: have this picture of you making out with her at

642
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Speaker 1: the fucking shake shack? And he goes, let me see that.

643
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Speaker 1: How the fund did you get who took this photo?

644
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Speaker 1: How the fund did they get what the fun is

645
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Speaker 1: going on? No, you are missing the whole point. Maybe

646
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Speaker 1: you don't read my diary, right, Yeah, it's like you've

647
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: been caught. Don't then go why did you catch me? No,

648
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: the fun are you talking about? Explain your fucking actions?

649
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: Are they talking about? Spit it right back at you?

650
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: What are you doing here? And just I want to

651
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 1: put this in the context of something we were talking

652
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: about either earlier this week time is a flat circle

653
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: and a complete blurr at this point, but we're talking

654
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Speaker 1: about the fact that Trump was buying up all these

655
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: golf courses with his own money, uh, which is weird

656
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: because quote unquote his quote quote unquote he's buying him

657
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: with cash, and he had always been buying stuff with debt.

658
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: That was the way he was known as the debt

659
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: King because he is good at nicknames and also because

660
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: like he just needed to uh you know, that's how

661
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 1: that's the smart way to finance uh purchases like giant purchases,

662
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: and suddenly starts buying all these golf courses with cash

663
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: that people are like, where the fund is he getting

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00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: this cash from? And it's at a time we have

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00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: Eric Trump, his uh, you know, less intelligent son bragging

666
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: to a golf dot com reporter. Uh, we have a

667
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: bunch of guys in Russia who really love golf courses

668
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: and uh, something that I didn't emphasize enough is that

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Speaker 1: this is at a time when Russian oligarchs and the

670
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: people surrounding Putin are doing everything in their power just

671
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: looking for ways to get their money out of Russia.

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00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: They're just looking for anyone who will accept their money

673
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: because we were freezing their money, freezing Putin's money because

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00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: he was like, we were talking about becoming the richest

675
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: man in the world unofficially by just you know, acquire

676
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: hiring everything illegally within Russia and then you know, just

677
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 1: giving it to cellists and like his friends, you know,

678
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: like just literally like I hold this three billion, essentially

679
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: embezzling like the entire nation's money. And now he is supposedly,

680
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Speaker 1: like almost twice as rich as Bezos, who is supposedly

681
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Speaker 1: the richest person to ever live. Putin is way rich

682
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Speaker 1: as right, So you imagine that conversation. Yeah, so we

683
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Speaker 1: have a lot of smoke in the golf courses thing

684
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: to think something shady is going on there with oligarchs. Uh,

685
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: and now this comes out and it's like they're just

686
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: directly taking payments from oligarchs. Yeah. Well that's the thing

687
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: with the election was if you were, if part of

688
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: being like African American or a minority in the United States.

689
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Speaker 1: Was you knew that white people weren't really going to

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Speaker 1: do anything because other white people were in control. So

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00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: even though and then that came out that you heard

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Speaker 1: people from the Republican Party being like in the deep

693
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Speaker 1: deep South, we're like, you know, Putin's got ideas because

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Speaker 1: as long as it's not eaty, I mean, as long

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00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: as it's not somebody from Brazil taking over, then it's

696
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: the same old management company just has a Russian front

697
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: now with a different accent. Yeah, so we're gonna let

698
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: these dudes walk all over is because it's the they

699
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: may be the only dudes that can save the race,

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00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 1: right right? Yeah? I mean I think there's a lot

701
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: of like implicit passive white supremacy going on just under

702
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: the cover. Like while the open ship is coming out

703
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: and people are like where is this coming from, there's

704
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: a lot of the undercover ship going Brandon, what is

705
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: something premier search history that is revealing about who you are? Uh?

706
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: I like birds, man, I was looking at I was

707
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: looking at different types of cranes because I think birds

708
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Speaker 1: are dope. Here's the thing real quick, if I can't

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00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: can I jump in this real quick? Here's the good

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00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: thing I about. I'm a religious person, right, I gotta

711
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: I got a pretty strong faith. And uh, I'm always

712
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: amazed that the creator be a he or she you

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Speaker 1: or a bird or whatever. For you designed a planet,

714
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: brought a planet together, and you didn't have to use color,

715
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: everything would be dope even if there was no color,

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00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: Like I still eat if everything was just on that

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00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: great scale. But whoever was making the ship, it was like, um,

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00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: this is a blue jacko. Okay, so its trees, right,

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00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: but not all all trees do the same ship, like

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Speaker 1: some of Christmas trees and some of oranges. You're like, what,

721
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 1: like what about these are these oranges? N I was

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00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: working with yellow that day, so they limited. So I'm

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Speaker 1: like this, you're getting high watching Planet Earth last I

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Speaker 1: was high on Planet Earth last night. Um, and I'm

725
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: always in tregued by birds because I'm like Jesus, whoever

726
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: is designing the planet sure does have a lot of

727
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 1: extra paint left over for for something that doesn't really

728
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: have to come in that many colors. But does what

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00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: are the big sort of care drists of a crane.

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Speaker 1: It's like super long legs and it's like a tall

731
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: pigeon um and there's not a lot of cranes, and

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00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: cranes get confused with other types of birds, Like there's

733
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: a million kinds of hawks, but a hawk isn't the

734
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: same thing as a raptor, right sonsaur? Like the Yeah,

735
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: like a dinosaurs they evolved into bard here this you see.

736
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Speaker 1: What I'm trying to tell you is that it's crazy

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00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: out there if you look up in these trees. Evolution

738
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: of Beauty is a good book for bird fanatics like birds.

739
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: Also State Birds in California is a really good bird book.

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Speaker 1: Has it got like the drawings and stuff that identifies

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00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: that'd be amazing. A bird book with no illustration kind

742
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: of an orange is yellow? Like, man, this book is useless. Alright, Uh,

743
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: We're back. I wanted to move on real quick to

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00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: a tool that I didn't know about, compete dot com

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00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: or a computer uh compute. Uh. So there's this website

747
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: similar web dot com where you can look at the

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00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: top websites in the world, like the most visited websites

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00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: and the average visit duration. It's just a cool little

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00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: tool that I hadn't seen before, and so I was

751
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: just going through checking out the top uh sites and interestingly,

752
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: U there are three porn sites that are bigger than Netflix.

753
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: Uh the way yeah, um because they're free. Yeah that

754
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: probably helps. Um. Also, the time on site is interesting

755
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: because when you look at ten minutes a sort of

756
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: a good dividing line because like, so Google average time

757
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: on site. Google is the biggest site in the world.

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00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: Average time on site is eight minutes and fifty one seconds. Uh.

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00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: YouTube it's twenty one minutes, which is crazy, but that

760
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: makes sense because it's just free television so people can

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00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: watch it. But other than YouTube, the only sites that

762
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: really get above ten minutes are basically porn, which is

763
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: like at twelve minutes, and Facebook, which is also at

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00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: twelve minutes, which I think is interesting because Facebook is

765
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: like this. This is something that I was reading this

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00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: article about how Facebook was contributing to this sort of

767
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: social unrest and it was basically like laying the groundwork

768
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: for a genocide in this country where it was like

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00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: a big way that people communicated with one another, and

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00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: it was spreading all these like wild videos that were

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Speaker 1: suggesting that one ethnic group was trying to uh, chemically

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Speaker 1: castrate the other ethnic group. And it was just this

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00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: is in Sri Lanka, Yeah, Sri Lanka, and it's a

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Speaker 1: feud between the Buddhist majority and the Muslim minorities, and

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00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 1: the Buddhists think that the Muslims are like trying to

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Speaker 1: like literally sterilized, sterilized sterilizing agents and their food. Uh.

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00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: And this is being spread by these Facebook videos. And

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00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: so as I was reading this, I was like, yeah,

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00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: but just in a in any objective reality, as the

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Speaker 1: Internet rises up, there's going to be a site where

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00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: you can like post videos. So like why is Facebook

782
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: so bad? And the article actually specifically explains why it's

783
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 1: that Facebook is specifically engineered to make you spend as

784
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: much time on Facebook as possible. So every single thing

785
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: that they're showing to you has been specifically engineered not

786
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: to bring you correct information, not to you know, do anything,

787
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: but make you watch it and stay there and share

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00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,959
Speaker 1: it and like go on to the next video. And

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00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: I think you see that in this similar web thing

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00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: that the only site it's basically like pornography for ego. Yeah,

791
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 1: essentially it's ego pornography and sort of like brain quick

792
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: fix pornography. Um, so I don't know. It's so what

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00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: you're saying is you're addicted to Facebook. I am personally not,

794
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: but I think I do think that, you know, for

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00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: Facebook to be safe, and Facebook is the second biggest

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00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: website in the world right now, next to Google. Uh,

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00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 1: it just needs to change. It's like central tenant, which

798
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: is to you know, everything is engineered to keep you

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00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: on Facebook for as long as possible. Yeah, and that's

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Speaker 1: dangerous when you think about the kind of the the

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00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: algorithms fretting you that kind of ship because they know, oh,

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00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: this ship keeps people on because it's this fiery rhetoric.

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Speaker 1: Whether that's confirming what you already you think it's in

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Speaker 1: me and mar Sri Lanka or whatever it's, you know

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Speaker 1: that it also has a hand in perpetuating this really

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00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: shitty stuff. Yeah. Posts that tap into this is a

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00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: quote from the New York Times article. Posts that tap

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00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: into negative primal emotions like anger or fear, studies have

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00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: found produced the highest engagement and so those proliferate. Yeah,

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00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: which is why a lot of those videos Where was

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Speaker 1: it I t V or Channel four in the UK

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00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,240
Speaker 1: went undercover to talk to Cambridge Analytica. Even those guys

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Speaker 1: are saying like fear and anger are like really going

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00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: to motivate people, and like these are the ads that

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Speaker 1: you want. So yeah, I feel like that's the basic,

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00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: you know, human reaction. Like if you follow a lot

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Speaker 1: of like celebs or people of note on Twitter, like

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00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 1: what's the thing they respond to the most? It's always

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Speaker 1: like the hate comments and all the stuff. Like I

820
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: used to be real annoyed, like when I'd like be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you're dope at this thing, or like I'll compliment him,

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Speaker 1: and like they you know, they don't even start. They

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Speaker 1: don't care, and you'll see them spend all day fighting

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Speaker 1: with people who hate them. Wow, you really would spend

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00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: more time like interacting with people who hate you than

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Speaker 1: too who are just like driving you insane, than people

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Speaker 1: who are saying like, oh man, that's that's dope. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: I never did. There there are porn websites on this

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Speaker 1: this I didn't even know where. I know. That's another

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Speaker 1: thing that I've never heard of. X and x X. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The X and x X is great because it's one

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Speaker 1: of the last few. I mean, they just recently got

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Speaker 1: into that territory. But They were one of the last

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Speaker 1: few who didn't care about the sites that it came from,

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Speaker 1: so you're able to get like a lot of the

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Speaker 1: low key VID's interesting that we're behind pay walls. But

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Speaker 1: x is the eleventh biggest website in the world. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know it exists in the world. Okay, damn yeah,

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Speaker 1: in the world. And it also has the highest average

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Speaker 1: visit duration of any site other than YouTube. It's fourteen

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Speaker 1: minutes long. Yeah, they beat porn Hub too. This is

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Speaker 1: what I love about my co host Miles is he

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Speaker 1: has had experiences with just the strangest subcultures. He was

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Speaker 1: telling us about the Kravmaga scene, like classes where uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, the instructors are just telling you, dude, crabma guy. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if we're going to talk about this, craba guy is

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Speaker 1: was in high school, I did it for like two

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Speaker 1: years or like just getting out of high school, and

851
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Speaker 1: every class, like there's this one instructor who this guy Sam.

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Speaker 1: He was like an ex like I d F dude

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Speaker 1: every situation. You know, most people go there because it's

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00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 1: a very effective self defense program. But every scenario where

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Speaker 1: he would teach us a move was actually like an assault,

856
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Speaker 1: like you were assaulting somewhere. That was He's like. It

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Speaker 1: was never like, ladies, let's say you're walking back from

858
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 1: someone grabs you in the darkness. It was always like, guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe at the bar and this guy's talking

860
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Speaker 1: ship to your girlfriend or something. She's gonna come up

861
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Speaker 1: to him. Yeah, you're gonna put your hand in his face.

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Speaker 1: Then boom, you follow up with the right straight and

863
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Speaker 1: like it was always like just he was solving like

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Speaker 1: club beef with like this very aggressive form of martial

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Speaker 1: arts and be like, yeah, maybe the bouncer is telling

866
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Speaker 1: you something you don't like, like, hey, sir, you're too

867
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Speaker 1: drunk and you need to leave. And honestly, Cindy, you know,

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Speaker 1: we know her, she's the bartender. She says, you broke

869
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 1: up three weeks ago, and you shouldn't be here because

870
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: you have a restraining order. Maybe you should lets go.

871
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: And then you say, what the funk brodri You're gonna

872
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Speaker 1: punch him in the throat, and then clearly there's two

873
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Speaker 1: bouncers they're gonna so it was yes, all right, that's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please

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Speaker 1: like and review the show. If you like the show,

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Speaker 1: UH means the world the miles. He needs your validation, folks.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will

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Speaker 1: talk to him Monday. By Sa