1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Check it out. 4 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: A woman who's been married thirty eight years gifted her 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 2: husband her kidney for Valentine's Day. Mike Ray, here's the 6 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: sad part. He didn't need one. 7 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 3: That's a great Conan o'lynton making his surprise appearance. I'm 8 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 3: giving you my kidney. Back when late night comedians were funny. 9 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 3: All right, I got some great love stuff for you. 10 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 3: Right before we went to break. Katie hit us with 11 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 3: a Valentine's Day as a stupid holiday. It is tomorrow, 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 3: because it is. I say this every single year, and 13 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 3: it's still true. I have never known personally a long term, 14 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 3: successful couple who took Valentine's Day seriously. Now that it's 15 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 3: not proof of anything, but it's a pretty good sample set. Yeah, 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 3: every year you say that or I say that, and 17 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 3: we get one or two emails from people saying, hey, 18 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 3: I got to disagree. We blah blah blah. But I 19 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 3: ain't I know them. I ain't bragging. There are a 20 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 3: heck of a lot of folks who listen to the 21 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 3: show and the podcast and everything else, and the fact 22 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 3: that we might get one disagreeing kind of proves the point. 23 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 3: It really does. Yeah, it's it feels so obligatory and 24 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 3: out of nowhere. I love my wife every day of 25 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 3: the year, how much or she knows it. How many 26 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 3: dysfunctional you both are? Crazy, lots of fights, maybe the 27 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 3: cops drunk and rolling around on the floor throwing glasses. 28 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: Couples Have I known who one of them or both 29 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: of them. 30 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 3: Do take Valentine's Day seriously and a lot better live 31 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 3: up to the expectations or yes, yes, yes, So with 32 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 3: that said, uh oh, you know what I got to 33 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: get into is the the awesome uss Gerald Ford, which 34 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 3: is steaming quite quickly toward the Persian Gulf and is 35 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: ready to unleash whoop aass as needed on Iran. 36 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: This is getting more and more serious. 37 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 3: I got something interesting I came across about falling in 38 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 3: love that a therapist friend of mine I wasn't seeing 39 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 3: a therapist, it's a person I know who is a 40 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 3: therapist sent this to me last night on the topic 41 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: heading into Valentine's Day weekend, and I thought it was 42 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 3: really interesting. I'll get to that in just a second, 43 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 3: but first, this article from the New York Post about 44 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,679 Speaker 3: in cells AI in cells, so in cells spelled with 45 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 3: an eyesh's a. Again, it works better in print than 46 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: saying it out loud. Do you know what in cells are? 47 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 3: That's it's short for involuntary involved lentarily celibate. I hate 48 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 3: this whole thing because it's the kind of crowd that 49 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: calls themselves an insul. They're not actually involuntary celibate. It 50 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 3: looks like you're playing a big role in being celibate 51 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 3: but blaming the world for it, which is incredibly unhealthy. Yeah, 52 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 3: there's It's not like they have no legitimate complaints. But 53 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 3: get off your damn computer and get out into the world. 54 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 3: You might find yourself uncelibate. Well, A in culls are 55 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:34,519 Speaker 3: flocking to pop up cafes with their fake soulmates, their 56 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 3: AI soulmates. 57 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: I'm already agitated. Wow, this is good, good start. 58 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 3: And according to the New York Post, many people are 59 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 3: literally marrying their AI partners. I don't think literally is 60 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 3: any hair because it's not legal. 61 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: Currently, it's not what the word means. 62 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 3: But this says that's the opposite of literally. It says 63 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 3: here that seventy percent of Zoomers, a shocking majority of 64 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 3: Gen z ors, would marry their AI partner if it 65 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 3: were legal. 66 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: That's incredibly sad. 67 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 3: Shut up, cuckoo bird. That was uncharitable. I'm sorry, Katie's 68 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 3: was better. I don't know sad. So I'm just trying 69 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 3: to passion that's called for here. I'm trying to figure 70 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 3: out if this is real or if this is I mean, 71 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 3: it's such a dumb question. You're just you're mocking the 72 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 3: person who hit you with this question online or on 73 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 3: the phone, or on a street corner or at the 74 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 3: mall or whatever. You know, you're not taking the poll seriously. 75 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 3: A shocking portion of Generation Z say they could form 76 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 3: a deep emotional bond with an AI generated partner and 77 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: would even consider marrying one. A new study found eighty 78 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 3: three percent of the young people born between ninety seven 79 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 3: and twenty twelve said they could develop a meaningful connection. 80 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 3: Eighty percent said they would consider marrying one if it 81 00:04:52,839 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 3: was legal, a staggering seventy more number. And then you 82 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 3: can react. Seventy five percent of Gen Zer's said they 83 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 3: think AI partners have the potential to fully replace human companionships. 84 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 3: Oh boy, we are going to die out as a species, 85 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,239 Speaker 3: or at least have a population that is greatly greatly reduced, 86 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 3: and we will have to find a really interesting Oh yeah, 87 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 3: we will. 88 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: Ourselves in this. In this this situation. 89 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 3: We often talk about deer or you know, another beast, 90 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 3: and if they suddenly stopped reproducing, scientists would be going crazy, 91 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 3: probably blaming climate change or something like that. But you're 92 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 3: so right. We're bringing upon ourselves. I mean, I'm picturing 93 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 3: like a deer typing on a keyboard. Yeah, I can't talk, 94 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 3: I'm online. Oh yeah, no, not so much. It's one 95 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 3: thing if deer stopped reproducing, But then if you saw 96 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 3: a buck in the woods with a iPad trying to 97 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 3: help it, then you would think things are really off 98 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 3: the rails. True enough. So I've just had a brilliant idea. 99 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: This is this is my ten million dollar idea. It 100 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 3: used to be a million dollar idea, but you know, inflation. 101 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 3: I'm gonna run these camps so wood. He do camps 102 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 3: for young people age nineteen to twenty five or so, 103 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 3: and we're gonna go out into the woods. We're going 104 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: to unplug our phones. We're gonna relearn how to communicate 105 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 3: with human beings. We're gonna get comfortable doing that. Maybe 106 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 3: we'll do some of those silly. 107 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: Trust exercises, and then after four or five six days 108 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: of this. 109 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 3: We're gonna have some beers and you know, get after it, 110 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 3: get with each other. You find her attractive, so does she. 111 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 3: She's a boy and you're a girl. You know, assuming 112 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 3: you're heatero to semi quote Steven Silf, love the one 113 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 3: you're with. 114 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: Let's get it on people. Put down your computer and 115 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: pick up a human. You're gonna run. Great, you're gonna 116 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: run some sort of sex camp with booth. That's what 117 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: I'm paying. 118 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 3: Plugging the way I understand two nature sex camps is 119 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 3: exactly right. 120 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: The sex is voluntary. Obviously, it's all. 121 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 3: Gonna be consulting consenting adults. But instead of because you've 122 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 3: heard of the unplugging camps in the back to nature 123 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 3: camps and the blah blah blah, but this is going 124 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 3: to culminate with you know, all right, here's let's learn the. 125 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: Gentle art of love in that. 126 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 4: Man. 127 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 3: I know somebody who would have been an investor if 128 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:17,119 Speaker 3: they hadn't hung themselves in their cell allegedly. Okay, getting 129 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 3: to the actual love part. I thought this was really 130 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 3: interesting and see if you agree with it or not. 131 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 3: New study has attempted to quantify romance, revealing that the 132 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 3: average person experience is passionate love only about twice in 133 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 3: their lifetime. That's all we're capable of for most people 134 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 3: falling deeply in love twice. While pop culture often suggested 135 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 3: that people and fall in love constantly, the data paints 136 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 3: a picture of true intense romantic connection being a relatively 137 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 3: rare event in any human's life. Most humans lives' we'll 138 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 3: get to some of the extreme cases coming up. But 139 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 3: research focused on that specific overwhelming feeling of passion and 140 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 3: love and oh my god, you know we've got a 141 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 3: connection unlike anything I ever imagine, and we all know 142 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 3: what that feels like. That that only happens really maximum 143 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 3: of twice oftentimes. 144 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: One time I would to say, if you're. 145 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 3: Lucky, you know that what that feels like, it happens 146 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 3: for most people according to the stat Oh really yeah. 147 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 3: The statistical breakdown offers a revealing look at modern relationships. 148 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 3: According to findings, the largest group of people thirty percent 149 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 3: report falling in love exactly twice in their lives, almost 150 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 3: the same number twenty eight percent, so about the same 151 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 3: percent said they experienced once a single great love, so 152 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 3: it's as common to have one as to two. On 153 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 3: the higher end of the spectrum, seventeen percent said they 154 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 3: had felt that level of intensity three times, a select 155 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 3: eleven percent. We're lucky in love, I said, perhaps depends 156 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 3: on how you look at it with more than that. 157 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 3: I don't think that's lucky. I think that something's wrong 158 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 3: in your brain, and that's got to be an awful 159 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 3: lot of pain. The most somber statistics. Oh, then three 160 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 3: times you had the greatest love of your life and 161 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 3: it ended, Well, that's a rough road. 162 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 163 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 3: Only fourteen percent of adults reported never having experienced that 164 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 3: kind of love ever, so eighty six percent of us 165 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 3: do at least once. And you know, you know, the 166 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 3: best thing, of course, is if that's the person that 167 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 3: you married and are still with and all that sort 168 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 3: of stuff. You're right, God, anybody who's having that three 169 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 3: four times in their lives with obviously the math only 170 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 3: works of the other three or four. 171 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: Ended, that's a lot of pain. For one life. 172 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 3: I find myself surprised by that never number being as 173 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 3: low as it is given what I've heard about the 174 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 3: eighteen to thirty five set. 175 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: Huh, but I don't I can't personally verify that. No, 176 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: just hear a lot about it. 177 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 3: No, And I wonder if that number changes with age. 178 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 3: I mean, I look back on some points where I 179 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 3: thought I was, you know, madly in love, and it's 180 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 3: it's almost embarrassing, really, and I hate that. But yeah, yeah, 181 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 3: that's the way we're as a teenager. I couldn't help, 182 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 3: but I didn't know or whatever. But any thoughts on 183 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 3: that kind of interesting text line four one five two 184 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,839 Speaker 3: nine five KFTC. Four one five two nine five KFTC. 185 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 3: A word for the animal lovers rough Greens. 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That sounds stressful. 211 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a minority of people, though, at least according 212 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 3: to this study, any thoughts in that textas be interested 213 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 3: in that stay. 214 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 1: Tuned Armstrong cook into the text in a little bit. 215 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 3: That whole idea of people only fall in love one 216 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 3: or two times in their lives for real, and then 217 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 3: how that fits in with Valentine's Day or as I've 218 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 3: heard some guys crass call it Penis Christmas, which I 219 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 3: think is really wow. My Lord ever heard that and 220 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 3: certainly wouldn't repeat it if I had no. I just 221 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 3: read a couple of my favorite columnists pointing out how 222 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 3: the Republican Party is being blamed for economic woes and 223 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 3: lack of affordability and that sort of thing. If the 224 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 3: Republican Party isn't good enough at its job to communicate that. Yeah, 225 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 3: all that devastating inflation during the Biden era, we're trying 226 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 3: to Tampa Dowze. They don't deserve to win. I mean, 227 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,079 Speaker 3: people remain convinced. Of course, you know, the left has 228 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 3: the media on the side. But the idea that people 229 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 3: would turn to the Democrats because of inflation is bizarre 230 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 3: to me. 231 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. Anyway, so I thought this 232 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:45,439 Speaker 1: was interesting. 233 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 3: It's just just the you know, starmer in England has 234 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 3: got a thirteen percent approval ratings about to get booted, 235 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 3: and the likely the next election a third party, not 236 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 3: the two big parties have been dominating forever is likely 237 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 3: to win. You had Macrone come out of nowhere with 238 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 3: a different party. Same thing in Australia, lots of countries 239 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 3: that people are just not happy with their Western style democracies, 240 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 3: whichever party they so, it wouldn't be more, it wouldn't 241 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 3: be a I think the Democrats can handle this. It 242 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 3: just keep throwing the current bums out mood that we 243 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 3: all seem to be in. Yeah, I think that's right. 244 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 3: This is a complete change of topic. But I brought 245 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 3: this up, I think it was last week. There is 246 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 3: a whistle blower complaint against Tulsea Gabbard that's kicking around 247 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 3: behind the scenes in Washington. It's getting a lot of 248 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 3: whispers and it's and nobody knows what to do with 249 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 3: it because there are laws about how quickly whistleblower complaints 250 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 3: need to be brought to the surface and dealt with. 251 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 3: It's one of the few vestiges of transparency we have 252 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 3: left in government. 253 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: And they're good laws. 254 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 3: They brought us, for instance, those two heroes at the 255 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 3: IRS who talked about how the fix was in favor 256 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 3: of Hunter Biden with the tex stuff. But more a 257 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 3: little more has come out about what this is and 258 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 3: the reason it was it's stalled and it hasn't been 259 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 3: dealt with in the usual ways is it's so incredibly 260 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 3: classified that nobody knows what to do with it or 261 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 3: how to handle it. 262 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: But a little more has come out. 263 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 3: Apparently it's a highly classified whistleblower complain against Director of 264 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 3: National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbert. It's related to a conversation intercepted 265 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 3: last spring in which two foreign nationals were discussing Jared 266 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 3: Kushner and what he was up to. 267 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: Couldn't be determined which. 268 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 3: Country they came from or what they discussed about Kushner, 269 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 3: but the whistle blower heard it and said, hey, this 270 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 3: is the sort of thing we have to bring to light, 271 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 3: and was told you're gonna shut up. 272 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: Wow. 273 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 3: So who freaking knows? And I don't trust for a second. 274 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 3: I'll get an honest reporting from the mainstream media. But 275 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 3: it's something like that. There are so many burbling, possible 276 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 3: giant stories going on right now. You know what you're 277 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 3: just talking about, or all different kinds of financial stuff 278 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 3: in the Trump administration, or you know, I don't know 279 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 3: about this. If something big comes out of Epstein, I 280 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 3: would think if something big was going to come out 281 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 3: of Epstein. 282 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: It already would have. 283 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 3: But I think the big thing was what we talked 284 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 3: about yesterday, and I came across another great column about it, 285 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 3: the Epstein Files. In the hidden world of the unaccountable elite. 286 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 3: I think that's what it's about. It's not about a 287 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 3: giant sex trafficking ring. It's about people who laugh at 288 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 3: the law, They scratch each other's. 289 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: Backs, they laugh at the rest of us, and they 290 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: kind of run the world. 291 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, including well, there's an awful lot of lefties that 292 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 3: are caught up in the Epstein thing. 293 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting that. 294 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 3: The media and the Democratic Party has made it seem 295 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 3: like it's a you know, we're the good guys trying 296 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 3: to get the answer. 297 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: And the evil Republicans are giving it. 298 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 3: But a lot of the names, a lot, a lot, 299 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 3: a lot of the names are big time Democrats. Bill Gates, 300 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 3: he's no Republican, obviously. What's his name? The linguist we 301 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 3: are talking about yesterday, him, JOm Chomsky. He's a communist. 302 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 3: I mean, there's all kinds of lefty that got caught 303 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 3: up in this, So I don't quite understand the narrative. 304 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: Let me just read you the very first part of this. 305 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: It's pretty good. 306 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 3: It's from the New York Times, but Robert Draper is 307 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 3: writing here. Journalists and researchers will spend the next month 308 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 3: ferreting through the Epstein files in search of further criminal 309 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 3: conduct or a new conspiratorial wrinkle. But one truth has 310 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 3: already emerged. In unsparing detail. The documents lay bare the 311 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 3: once furtive activities of an unaccountable elite, largely made up 312 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 3: of rich and powerful men from business, politics, academia, and 313 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 3: show business. 314 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: The pages tell a story. 315 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 3: Of a heinous criminal given a free ride by the 316 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 3: ruling class in which he dwelled, all because he had 317 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 3: things to offer them money connections, sumptuous dinner parties, a 318 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 3: private plane, a secluded island, and in some cases sex. 319 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: Oh and this is good. 320 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 3: And I usually don't traffic in this sort of thing, 321 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 3: but we all got caught up in this. The story 322 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 3: of impunity is all the more outrageous now, in the 323 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 3: midst of rising populist anger and ever growing inequality. The 324 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 3: colligula like antics of Jeffrey Epstein and his friends occurred 325 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 3: over two decades that saw the decline of America's manufacturing 326 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 3: sector and the subprime mortgage crisis, in which millions of 327 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 3: Americans lost their home and nobody went to jail or 328 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 3: just were as poor as they'd been since they were 329 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 3: poor for a very long time. Well, how about the 330 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 3: Columbia University had to get rid of somebody because they 331 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 3: got caught out on getting Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend into college 332 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 3: when she'd gotten turned down. And he asks for a 333 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 3: favor and knew somebody in the the you know, the 334 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 3: the admissions department, and they let his girl friend in Columbia, 335 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 3: lecturing us all about everything doing deals with Jeffrey Epstein 336 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 3: to get his girlfriend in when she didn't qualify. 337 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: Equity for Epstein's hose. I mean, how about. 338 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 5: That armstrong and geddy Ludmantell in Congress He had, in 339 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 5: fact visited Epstein's private island with his wife and children 340 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 5: in twenty twelve, well after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes. 341 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 5: That visit was revealed in the DOJ documents. 342 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: Secretary Lutnik has addressed those ties himself. 343 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 5: But the congressman pressing Bondie, the nation's chief law enforcement officer. 344 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 5: These are senior officials and the Trump administration. 345 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 1: What what the heck just happened here? Rachels I don't 346 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: know if that's what I thought it was, okay, Adel. 347 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 3: Because well, I still want to hear because I've heard 348 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 3: it Lutnik talking about going to the island with his 349 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 3: family and that whole thing with the nannies and the wife. 350 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 3: I mean, it's really an odd story, especially given the 351 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 3: other stuff that we've played where the Commerce Secretary says, no, 352 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 3: I went to his house and saw the massage table, 353 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 3: and he talked about happy endings, and I told my wife, 354 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 3: we are never being in a rith's room with this 355 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 3: man again. He's gross and gross and he's gross and 356 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. And then he testifies it, Yeah, 357 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 3: I went to the island, my wife and kids and 358 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 3: the nannies and everything. 359 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: At the island. 360 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 3: So I mean, that's a heck of a thing. So 361 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on there. I mean that one, 362 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 3: just like in itself, what he said is not bad. 363 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 3: You're there with your wife and kids and nannies. It's 364 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 3: not like you went there to have an orgy or 365 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 3: something like that. But you obviously really really really misled 366 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 3: us with your story. Yeah, clearly, so is. 367 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: There more to it than that? I don't know? 368 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,640 Speaker 3: And then getting to and I pointed out the thing 369 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 3: that seems like there's way more high profile Democrats getting 370 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 3: in trouble with the whole Epstein thing than there are 371 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,679 Speaker 3: like MAGA people, and the media doesn't seem to be 372 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 3: paying attention to that for whatever reason. And this one 373 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 3: that came across. Columbia University fired some of their administration 374 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 3: this week after recently released Epstein files revealed that the 375 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 3: Ivy League school admitted the child sex trafficker's girlfriend through 376 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 3: irregular emissions. According to school officials, Epstein's girlfriend, who I 377 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 3: don't think I have an age here. She looks really 378 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 3: young in this picture. She looks like she's in her 379 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 3: twenties and he's in his fifties. She wanted to get 380 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,479 Speaker 3: into dental school or something like that, so she applied, 381 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 3: doesn't get in. Epstein writes a letter, and they've got 382 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,479 Speaker 3: so much of it redacted it's hard to tell exactly 383 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 3: what's going on. But it's too Colombian. It's from Epstein, 384 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 3: and Columbia actually fired some people in their admissions department 385 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 3: this week, so it obviously is true. But they because 386 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 3: Epstein talked about donating a bunch of money to the 387 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 3: college for some department. They let his girlfriend, who they 388 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 3: previously had said was unqualified into the school for Epstein. 389 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 3: And this is after his conviction, right, this is years 390 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 3: after his conviction. 391 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 1: Columb knock me down with a diploma. I can't believe it. 392 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 3: Columbia University, who lectures us all about everything, like all 393 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 3: the Ivy League schools do, was willing to overlook a 394 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 3: billionaire capitalist. You hate that sort of thing, a sex 395 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 3: perv who you believe in, like microaggressions and that sort 396 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 3: of thing. And it's as bad as violence to say 397 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 3: the wrong word to a woman or whatever. He got Epstein, 398 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 3: who's committed all these crimes, taking money from him and 399 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 3: letting his unqualified girlfriend into college. But how do you 400 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 3: get to lecture anybody about anything after that? 401 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 1: Right? Right? 402 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 3: Well, And we're only finding out about this because of 403 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 3: into the Epstein files in the way they came out 404 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 3: in an untward way, and we probably shouldn't be learning 405 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 3: about this at all. But how often does this sort 406 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 3: of thing and go on? Yeah, a lot, I'm guessing. 407 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, getting back to this piece by what's his face? 408 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: In the New York Times. What is his face? 409 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,120 Speaker 3: Robert Draper, I'm going to reread a couple of sentences, 410 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 3: then to add on to it, and on sparing detail. 411 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 3: The documents lay bare the once furtive activities of an 412 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 3: unaccountable elite, largely made up of rich and powerful men 413 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 3: from business, politics, academian show business. The pages tell the 414 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 3: story of a heinous criminal given a free ride by 415 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 3: the ruling class in which he dwelled, all because he 416 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 3: had things to offer them, money, connections, sumptuous dinner parties, 417 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 3: private planes, included island and in some cases sex. If 418 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 3: mister Epstein's goal was to build a wall of protection 419 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 3: around his abuse by surrounding himself with the well connected. 420 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 3: He failed in the end, but both before and after 421 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 3: he was first prosecuted for abusing girls, his correspondence described 422 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 3: a network of people whose high flying lives belied the 423 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 3: struggles of ordinary Americans, and at the center of that 424 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 3: network was a sexual predator, seemingly on top of the world. 425 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 3: Then he goes into some of the trips around the 426 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 3: world with Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey to African countries 427 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 3: and Elon Musk correspondence put early on he had a 428 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 3: friendship with Trump, and he dispenses favors to and rubs 429 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 3: elbows with Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky, Kenneth Starr, the Independent 430 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 3: Council and the Clinton investigation. Kenneth Starr, who's one of 431 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 3: the straightest arrows ever to walk the earth. Katherine Ruhmler, 432 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 3: the former Obama White House Council who on Thursday night 433 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 3: resigned as General counsel of Goldman Sachs, which I'm telling you. 434 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: Is a good gig. 435 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:40,120 Speaker 3: Steve Bannon, Deepak Chopra, the New Age Guru, the film producer, 436 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 3: Barry Josephson, Lawrence H. Summers For former President of Harvard 437 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 3: and Treasury Secretary Andrew mount Botton Windsor Ay Shay, the 438 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 3: former Prince Andrew Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, 439 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 3: Crown Prince Matt Mariet of Norway in a cavalcade like 440 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 3: everybody on Wall Street, every body that is really quite 441 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 3: the collection of mean a diverse group. He really covered 442 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:19,719 Speaker 3: his bases Hollywood, politics, business, academia, just everything. Yeah, and 443 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 3: and then I imagine once you get it started, it 444 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 3: would be really hard to get going. But once you 445 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 3: get it going, then it's probably easier to pull in 446 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 3: people from different because you know Bill Clinton and Woody 447 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 3: Allen and the president of Harvard. Then it's easy to 448 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 3: get the business guy in. And then it just it 449 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 3: all works together as you climb that mountain of knowing people. 450 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 1: And if I take a producer and a director on 451 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: my plane to the island and they put together a deal, 452 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: now both of them are in a position where they're 453 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: more than happy to do something nice for me. 454 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 3: All about the college thing is a big one all 455 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 3: across the country for movers and shakers like Epstein, I 456 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,959 Speaker 3: can get your kid into because we all know it's phony. 457 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 3: It's all freaking phony, the whole Georgetown, Columbia, Harvard, all 458 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 3: that stuff. It's just freaking phony. The fact that they've 459 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 3: been able to lectures and still do about inequity and 460 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 3: racism and all this crap when we now know that 461 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 3: rich connected people all the time, almost always for probably 462 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 3: white kids, call you up and say, yeah, I need 463 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 3: you to do a friend a deal for this brand 464 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 3: because they produced a documentary on my island. 465 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. So can you get their kid in? 466 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: Sure we will. 467 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 3: I will keep hammering this until the world figures it out. 468 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 3: A lot of those claims about equity and microaggressions and 469 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 3: everything are fake. 470 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: They know they're fake. 471 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 3: It is weapons of capture, weapons of takeover of institutions. 472 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 1: It is a specific. 473 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 3: Strategy laid out by the neo Marxists of the critical theory. 474 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 3: Crowd call people racists until they give you power, Call 475 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 3: them homophotes, call them transphobes until they're so afraid of 476 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 3: you you take control of the department of whatever or 477 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 3: the board of directors. 478 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: Oh, that reminds me. 479 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 3: We can compare and contrast the history classes at Havad 480 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 3: in the forties and fifties with those of the modern 481 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 3: day later on today, if you want. Let's do that 482 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 3: combined with their new grading score, which I like, which 483 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 3: they're only going to give out twenty percent as compared 484 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 3: to what they were doing in the past, which is 485 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 3: pretty interesting. We know those numbers too unbelievable. The whole 486 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 3: elite university thing. I always hated it, just kind of 487 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 3: somewhat reflexively, because you know, they wouldn't have men. 488 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 1: It's down on us. 489 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 3: Nobody likes to be looked down upon, true, nobody likes 490 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 3: to be looked down upon. But the fact that you're 491 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,719 Speaker 3: beneath me, You're actually beneath me, not above me, is 492 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 3: really really maddening. 493 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: You had that kind of power for so many years. 494 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 3: And I'm just so amused that I'll speak for myself, 495 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 3: my naivete about that completely mediocre person we knew who 496 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 3: gone to Was it Stanford and Oxford? 497 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: Yes, and we just would we would have conversations. She 498 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: doesn't seem that. 499 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 3: Boy had a boss who went to Stanford and Oxford 500 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 3: and they did not come off as smart at all. 501 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 3: We just thought, well, it must be one of those 502 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 3: people's like crazy book smart but a little shy or something. 503 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 1: No, it's her daddy was rich and wrote checks. 504 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 3: This person ended up going to jail for getting their 505 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 3: kid into uh fancy universities and the. 506 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: Writing checks correct, yeah, yes, and and fake. 507 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 3: Which sucks for people like our good friend Gary Dietrich 508 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 3: who went to Harvard the real way. It sucks for 509 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 3: those that crowd, because I'm sure there are plenty of 510 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 3: really really smart people, Lonnie Jen that go to these 511 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 3: elite universities. But if you've ever known somebody that went 512 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 3: to one of those universities and you thought, why they 513 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 3: don't strike me as any smarter than me. That's why, 514 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,640 Speaker 3: m wow, we got a lot more on the ways 515 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 3: to hear. 516 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 4: The two Navy vessels are about to lie, one of 517 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 4: them sounding the corn is. The destroyer and the supply 518 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 4: craft get closer and then impact. The supply ship manages 519 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 4: to steer away as the USS truckst and destroyer appears 520 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 4: to come to a stop. Another shift, the USS Gettysburg 521 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 4: was also right there. The three of them were performing 522 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 4: a complex side by side replenishment maneuver, which involves passing 523 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 4: supplies between crafts at close quarters and at speed. The 524 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 4: Navy tells us two people sustained minor. 525 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 3: Injuries and a marine died yesterday, knocked off a ship 526 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 3: doing some sort of training and drowned. 527 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: And when I. 528 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 3: First heard the story yesterday that a couple of Navy 529 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 3: vessels there we're talking about the waters there near where 530 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 3: we're getting ready to go to Warwick ran if that's 531 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 3: what we're doing, crashed into each other. I thought, Oh, 532 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 3: is this another one of these. You know, it's going 533 00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 3: to be a real blow to the Navy of incompetence 534 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 3: like that. No, it sounds more like some really high skilled, 535 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 3: delicate training that's not easy to do. And why is 536 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 3: that happening? Is that because, I mean, is that how 537 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 3: close we are to actual kinetic action, that we're like 538 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 3: doing really difficult maneuvers right there getting ready for it. 539 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 3: Obviously it's smart to do that, so you're not doing 540 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 3: it for the first time, and that's why those boats 541 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 3: are made of thick hunks of metal. But I'm glad 542 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 3: nobody is hurt, you know. I actually saw that video 543 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 3: and the one thing that bothered me a little bit. 544 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 3: And maybe they were off duty, who knows, maybe they 545 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 3: were civilian contractors. I don't know, but there were a 546 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 3: couple of guys with their phones out taking video of 547 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 3: the collision. 548 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: That's not a cruise ship, it's a naval ship. Don't 549 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: you have a job to do? I'm s and not 550 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: loading up your gram with cool videos. I don't know 551 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: anything about the modern military. I'm just kind of surprised. 552 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm kind of surprised you're walking around with 553 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 3: your own personal phone at all. 554 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: Really, but I don't know what they use them for. 555 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. 556 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 3: Today, the Pentagon is sending the Navy's largest and most 557 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 3: advanced aircraft carrier to the Middle East. We mentioned this earlier. 558 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 3: The USS Gerald R. Ford is going to join the 559 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln, so two aircraft carriers and nine other warships 560 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 3: already operating in the Middle East. This is the part 561 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 3: that I didn't know, as we are starting to build 562 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 3: up the way we built up off of Venezuela in 563 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,479 Speaker 3: terms of and we all know how that went. All 564 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 3: of a sudden, out of nowhere, we launch a major, 565 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 3: major military operation, yank Maduro out by his mustache. Of course, 566 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 3: Iran is not Venezuela. But epic feud threatens Mideast stability 567 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 3: at a delicate moment. I remember talking about this years 568 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 3: ago when I first became. 569 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: Aware of MBZ. 570 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 3: Not MBS of Saudi Arabia, but MBZ of the United 571 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 3: Arab Emirates. And he is really the leader of all 572 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 3: that crowd there, and everybody looks up to him and 573 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 3: follows his rules. Well, there's now a feud between MBS 574 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 3: and NBZ, and they've gone from working together and being 575 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 3: super tight as a counter to Iran in a battle. 576 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 3: According to David Ignacious of The Washington Post, that just 577 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 3: started a couple of weeks ago, and that could be 578 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 3: a major player in this whole thing that they're no 579 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 3: longer cooperating. Then you get the Kataris. I'll tell you, 580 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 3: I've been telling you for decades. Now all you have 581 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 3: is temporary friends in the Middle East. 582 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: Learn that. Know that. Yeah. 583 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 3: According to David Ignacious in the Washington Post, this dispute 584 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 3: between these two men matters because Trump has placed his 585 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 3: big bets on both countries working together and being United 586 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 3: Gulf support as he threatens military action against Ara, and 587 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 3: now their friendship is completely falling apart. Uh oh, yeah, 588 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 3: that's something. This could be like an historic sort of disagreement. 589 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 3: In terms of the timing, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, 590 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 3: the two drivers of modernization in the Middle East, should 591 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 3: be rejoicing together these days. Iran is weak, its proxies 592 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 3: are on the run, and an American armada approaches the 593 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 3: Persian Gulf. But instead they've stumbled into an epic feud 594 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 3: that could polarize the region for a long time to come. 595 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 3: That's really interesting stuff. You got sand, he's got sand. 596 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 3: You've got oil and trillions of dollars in reserves. He's 597 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 3: got oil and trillions of dollars. He gotta hear them. 598 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,959 Speaker 3: You gotta hear him. He's got a Bentley, You've got 599 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 3: a Rolls. Can we all get along? 600 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: I don't. 601 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 3: I read the whole article and I heard something about 602 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 3: it your whip dissidence, he cuts off their arms. There's 603 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 3: plenty of common ground. We both like these things. We 604 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 3: are on our heads. I was trying to understand this. 605 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 3: I was reading about it in this article, and then 606 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 3: something I heard yesterday. I'm thinking, it's just MBZ was 607 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 3: kind of the leader, been around for a long time, 608 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 3: and MBS is now old enough, thinking why why do 609 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 3: I have to listen to you? Yeah, you ain't. You 610 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 3: ain't all that. 611 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: I could be a leader. I mean that's the classic. 612 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: I mean nothing could be more classic than that. Indeed, hey, 613 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: here's where I tie it all together. I got an 614 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: Epstein angle for you. 615 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 3: So, in spite of the narrative of earlier about how 616 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 3: it's about sex, but it's also about. 617 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: The rich and powerful. 618 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 3: A scratch each other's backs and they laugh at the 619 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 3: rest of us. But there is some unbelievable sex stuff. 620 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 3: Epstein received an email from an associate whose name has 621 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 3: been redacted, that said, in full quote, thank you for 622 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 3: a fun night your littlest girl, was a little naughty. Ugh, 623 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 3: and then there's a thing about sex toys. And then 624 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 3: Epstein wrote to another undisclosed recipient No. Nine, who was 625 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 3: identified on Wednesday in the House Hearing is salt Ahmed 626 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 3: bin Sulium. Sulium, a powerful Emiadi businessman the UAE. 627 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: Okay, where are you are you? Okay? I love the 628 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: torture video. Ooh oof is right? What does that mean? Yeah? 629 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just so, mister, Epstein wrote him in twenty eleven. 630 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,280 Speaker 3: I ordered sweet young coconuts from Thailand for you today 631 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,239 Speaker 3: and they just arrived, just so you don't have to 632 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,800 Speaker 3: drink juices from I'm not even gonna finish that sentence. 633 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 1: Now. 634 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of people making claims about code 635 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 3: words and stuff like that that seem pretty far fetched 636 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 3: to me. 637 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 1: This one is not. 638 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 3: That one's no, but it extended to your oil shakes 639 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 3: of the Middle East. 640 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, unbelievable. Is there any so? 641 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 3: Is it possible he was just a guy that got 642 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 3: that rich through real estate and was really good at 643 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 3: networking and put these people together, or is there a 644 00:34:55,080 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 3: bigger thing where he was He's an Israeli asset or something. No, 645 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 3: I just think that he was what he seems to 646 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,759 Speaker 3: be is we've been describing it, and he was a 647 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 3: real pig who liked really, really young women to the 648 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 3: point that they were girls. And in the course of 649 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 3: his partying and carryings on, he became aware of other 650 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 3: men with that sort of taste. As I said before, 651 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 3: it's like, you know, back in the day when it 652 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 3: was all illegal, one pot smoker would find another pot smoker, 653 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 3: And there are ways there. One gay guy would find 654 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,760 Speaker 3: another gay guy. But back when you didn't dare come out, 655 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 3: one guy really really likes really young females, it finds 656 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 3: a way to communicate that to somebody else, a bunch 657 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,799 Speaker 3: of sickos, And then you've got this underlying problem of 658 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 3: we shouldn't know a whole bunch of this stuff because many, many, many, 659 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,760 Speaker 3: many of these people were talking about were never charged 660 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 3: with anything. No, No, I am torn about all of that, 661 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 3: I really am. And if we start releasing all kinds 662 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 3: of grand jury information and testimony and documents even when 663 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,440 Speaker 3: nobody was charged, that's going to change the world, change America. 664 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, can't wait till my files come out. Oh, 665 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 1: I got a lot to answer for. 666 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 3: If you can do that against your enemies politically, like 667 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 3: you get in charge and all of a sudden you 668 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,359 Speaker 3: can release any investigation ever. 669 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: I mean you could damage a lot of people. 670 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 3: Yikes, that's ugly anyway, if you missed a segment, get 671 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 3: the podcast Armstrong and Getty on the Bank.