Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2: A woman who's been married thirty eight years gifted her
Speaker 2: husband her kidney for Valentine's Day. Mike Ray, here's the
Speaker 2: sad part. He didn't need one.
Speaker 3: That's a great Conan o'lynton making his surprise appearance. I'm
Speaker 3: giving you my kidney. Back when late night comedians were funny.
Speaker 3: All right, I got some great love stuff for you.
Speaker 3: Right before we went to break. Katie hit us with
Speaker 3: a Valentine's Day as a stupid holiday. It is tomorrow,
Speaker 3: because it is. I say this every single year, and
Speaker 3: it's still true. I have never known personally a long term,
Speaker 3: successful couple who took Valentine's Day seriously. Now that it's
Speaker 3: not proof of anything, but it's a pretty good sample set. Yeah,
Speaker 3: every year you say that or I say that, and
Speaker 3: we get one or two emails from people saying, hey,
Speaker 3: I got to disagree. We blah blah blah. But I
Speaker 3: ain't I know them. I ain't bragging. There are a
Speaker 3: heck of a lot of folks who listen to the
Speaker 3: show and the podcast and everything else, and the fact
Speaker 3: that we might get one disagreeing kind of proves the point.
Speaker 3: It really does. Yeah, it's it feels so obligatory and
Speaker 3: out of nowhere. I love my wife every day of
Speaker 3: the year, how much or she knows it. How many
Speaker 3: dysfunctional you both are? Crazy, lots of fights, maybe the
Speaker 3: cops drunk and rolling around on the floor throwing glasses.
Speaker 1: Couples Have I known who one of them or both
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 3: Do take Valentine's Day seriously and a lot better live
Speaker 3: up to the expectations or yes, yes, yes, So with
Speaker 3: that said, uh oh, you know what I got to
Speaker 3: get into is the the awesome uss Gerald Ford, which
Speaker 3: is steaming quite quickly toward the Persian Gulf and is
Speaker 3: ready to unleash whoop aass as needed on Iran.
Speaker 1: This is getting more and more serious.
Speaker 3: I got something interesting I came across about falling in
Speaker 3: love that a therapist friend of mine I wasn't seeing
Speaker 3: a therapist, it's a person I know who is a
Speaker 3: therapist sent this to me last night on the topic
Speaker 3: heading into Valentine's Day weekend, and I thought it was
Speaker 3: really interesting. I'll get to that in just a second,
Speaker 3: but first, this article from the New York Post about
Speaker 3: in cells AI in cells, so in cells spelled with
Speaker 3: an eyesh's a. Again, it works better in print than
Speaker 3: saying it out loud. Do you know what in cells are?
Speaker 3: That's it's short for involuntary involved lentarily celibate. I hate
Speaker 3: this whole thing because it's the kind of crowd that
Speaker 3: calls themselves an insul. They're not actually involuntary celibate. It
Speaker 3: looks like you're playing a big role in being celibate
Speaker 3: but blaming the world for it, which is incredibly unhealthy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's It's not like they have no legitimate complaints. But
Speaker 3: get off your damn computer and get out into the world.
Speaker 3: You might find yourself uncelibate. Well, A in culls are
Speaker 3: flocking to pop up cafes with their fake soulmates, their
Speaker 3: AI soulmates.
Speaker 1: I'm already agitated. Wow, this is good, good start.
Speaker 3: And according to the New York Post, many people are
Speaker 3: literally marrying their AI partners. I don't think literally is
Speaker 3: any hair because it's not legal.
Speaker 1: Currently, it's not what the word means.
Speaker 3: But this says that's the opposite of literally. It says
Speaker 3: here that seventy percent of Zoomers, a shocking majority of
Speaker 3: Gen z ors, would marry their AI partner if it
Speaker 3: were legal.
Speaker 1: That's incredibly sad.
Speaker 3: Shut up, cuckoo bird. That was uncharitable. I'm sorry, Katie's
Speaker 3: was better. I don't know sad. So I'm just trying
Speaker 3: to passion that's called for here. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 3: out if this is real or if this is I mean,
Speaker 3: it's such a dumb question. You're just you're mocking the
Speaker 3: person who hit you with this question online or on
Speaker 3: the phone, or on a street corner or at the
Speaker 3: mall or whatever. You know, you're not taking the poll seriously.
Speaker 3: A shocking portion of Generation Z say they could form
Speaker 3: a deep emotional bond with an AI generated partner and
Speaker 3: would even consider marrying one. A new study found eighty
Speaker 3: three percent of the young people born between ninety seven
Speaker 3: and twenty twelve said they could develop a meaningful connection.
Speaker 3: Eighty percent said they would consider marrying one if it
Speaker 3: was legal, a staggering seventy more number. And then you
Speaker 3: can react. Seventy five percent of Gen Zer's said they
Speaker 3: think AI partners have the potential to fully replace human companionships.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, we are going to die out as a species,
Speaker 3: or at least have a population that is greatly greatly reduced,
Speaker 3: and we will have to find a really interesting Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: we will.
Speaker 1: Ourselves in this. In this this situation.
Speaker 3: We often talk about deer or you know, another beast,
Speaker 3: and if they suddenly stopped reproducing, scientists would be going crazy,
Speaker 3: probably blaming climate change or something like that. But you're
Speaker 3: so right. We're bringing upon ourselves. I mean, I'm picturing
Speaker 3: like a deer typing on a keyboard. Yeah, I can't talk,
Speaker 3: I'm online. Oh yeah, no, not so much. It's one
Speaker 3: thing if deer stopped reproducing, But then if you saw
Speaker 3: a buck in the woods with a iPad trying to
Speaker 3: help it, then you would think things are really off
Speaker 3: the rails. True enough. So I've just had a brilliant idea.
Speaker 3: This is this is my ten million dollar idea. It
Speaker 3: used to be a million dollar idea, but you know, inflation.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna run these camps so wood. He do camps
Speaker 3: for young people age nineteen to twenty five or so,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna go out into the woods. We're going
Speaker 3: to unplug our phones. We're gonna relearn how to communicate
Speaker 3: with human beings. We're gonna get comfortable doing that. Maybe
Speaker 3: we'll do some of those silly.
Speaker 1: Trust exercises, and then after four or five six days
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have some beers and you know, get after it,
Speaker 3: get with each other. You find her attractive, so does she.
Speaker 3: She's a boy and you're a girl. You know, assuming
Speaker 3: you're heatero to semi quote Steven Silf, love the one
Speaker 3: you're with.
Speaker 1: Let's get it on people. Put down your computer and
Speaker 1: pick up a human. You're gonna run. Great, you're gonna
Speaker 1: run some sort of sex camp with booth. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm paying.
Speaker 3: Plugging the way I understand two nature sex camps is
Speaker 3: exactly right.
Speaker 1: The sex is voluntary. Obviously, it's all.
Speaker 3: Gonna be consulting consenting adults. But instead of because you've
Speaker 3: heard of the unplugging camps in the back to nature
Speaker 3: camps and the blah blah blah, but this is going
Speaker 3: to culminate with you know, all right, here's let's learn the.
Speaker 1: Gentle art of love in that.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: I know somebody who would have been an investor if
Speaker 3: they hadn't hung themselves in their cell allegedly. Okay, getting
Speaker 3: to the actual love part. I thought this was really
Speaker 3: interesting and see if you agree with it or not.
Speaker 3: New study has attempted to quantify romance, revealing that the
Speaker 3: average person experience is passionate love only about twice in
Speaker 3: their lifetime. That's all we're capable of for most people
Speaker 3: falling deeply in love twice. While pop culture often suggested
Speaker 3: that people and fall in love constantly, the data paints
Speaker 3: a picture of true intense romantic connection being a relatively
Speaker 3: rare event in any human's life. Most humans lives' we'll
Speaker 3: get to some of the extreme cases coming up. But
Speaker 3: research focused on that specific overwhelming feeling of passion and
Speaker 3: love and oh my god, you know we've got a
Speaker 3: connection unlike anything I ever imagine, and we all know
Speaker 3: what that feels like. That that only happens really maximum
Speaker 3: of twice oftentimes.
Speaker 1: One time I would to say, if you're.
Speaker 3: Lucky, you know that what that feels like, it happens
Speaker 3: for most people according to the stat Oh really yeah.
Speaker 3: The statistical breakdown offers a revealing look at modern relationships.
Speaker 3: According to findings, the largest group of people thirty percent
Speaker 3: report falling in love exactly twice in their lives, almost
Speaker 3: the same number twenty eight percent, so about the same
Speaker 3: percent said they experienced once a single great love, so
Speaker 3: it's as common to have one as to two. On
Speaker 3: the higher end of the spectrum, seventeen percent said they
Speaker 3: had felt that level of intensity three times, a select
Speaker 3: eleven percent. We're lucky in love, I said, perhaps depends
Speaker 3: on how you look at it with more than that.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's lucky. I think that something's wrong
Speaker 3: in your brain, and that's got to be an awful
Speaker 3: lot of pain. The most somber statistics. Oh, then three
Speaker 3: times you had the greatest love of your life and
Speaker 3: it ended, Well, that's a rough road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Only fourteen percent of adults reported never having experienced that
Speaker 3: kind of love ever, so eighty six percent of us
Speaker 3: do at least once. And you know, you know, the
Speaker 3: best thing, of course, is if that's the person that
Speaker 3: you married and are still with and all that sort
Speaker 3: of stuff. You're right, God, anybody who's having that three
Speaker 3: four times in their lives with obviously the math only
Speaker 3: works of the other three or four.
Speaker 1: Ended, that's a lot of pain. For one life.
Speaker 3: I find myself surprised by that never number being as
Speaker 3: low as it is given what I've heard about the
Speaker 3: eighteen to thirty five set.
Speaker 1: Huh, but I don't I can't personally verify that. No,
Speaker 1: just hear a lot about it.
Speaker 3: No, And I wonder if that number changes with age.
Speaker 3: I mean, I look back on some points where I
Speaker 3: thought I was, you know, madly in love, and it's
Speaker 3: it's almost embarrassing, really, and I hate that. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the way we're as a teenager. I couldn't help,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know or whatever. But any thoughts on
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Speaker 3: I think we've all known maybe a person or two
Speaker 3: in our lives who it seems like they have fallen
Speaker 3: deeply in love several times since we've known them in.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of years. That sounds stressful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a minority of people, though, at least according
Speaker 3: to this study, any thoughts in that textas be interested
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Speaker 3: That whole idea of people only fall in love one
Speaker 3: or two times in their lives for real, and then
Speaker 3: how that fits in with Valentine's Day or as I've
Speaker 3: heard some guys crass call it Penis Christmas, which I
Speaker 3: think is really wow. My Lord ever heard that and
Speaker 3: certainly wouldn't repeat it if I had no. I just
Speaker 3: read a couple of my favorite columnists pointing out how
Speaker 3: the Republican Party is being blamed for economic woes and
Speaker 3: lack of affordability and that sort of thing. If the
Speaker 3: Republican Party isn't good enough at its job to communicate that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all that devastating inflation during the Biden era, we're trying
Speaker 3: to Tampa Dowze. They don't deserve to win. I mean,
Speaker 3: people remain convinced. Of course, you know, the left has
Speaker 3: the media on the side. But the idea that people
Speaker 3: would turn to the Democrats because of inflation is bizarre
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. Anyway, so I thought this
Speaker 1: was interesting.
Speaker 3: It's just just the you know, starmer in England has
Speaker 3: got a thirteen percent approval ratings about to get booted,
Speaker 3: and the likely the next election a third party, not
Speaker 3: the two big parties have been dominating forever is likely
Speaker 3: to win. You had Macrone come out of nowhere with
Speaker 3: a different party. Same thing in Australia, lots of countries
Speaker 3: that people are just not happy with their Western style democracies,
Speaker 3: whichever party they so, it wouldn't be more, it wouldn't
Speaker 3: be a I think the Democrats can handle this. It
Speaker 3: just keep throwing the current bums out mood that we
Speaker 3: all seem to be in. Yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 3: This is a complete change of topic. But I brought
Speaker 3: this up, I think it was last week. There is
Speaker 3: a whistle blower complaint against Tulsea Gabbard that's kicking around
Speaker 3: behind the scenes in Washington. It's getting a lot of
Speaker 3: whispers and it's and nobody knows what to do with
Speaker 3: it because there are laws about how quickly whistleblower complaints
Speaker 3: need to be brought to the surface and dealt with.
Speaker 3: It's one of the few vestiges of transparency we have
Speaker 3: left in government.
Speaker 1: And they're good laws.
Speaker 3: They brought us, for instance, those two heroes at the
Speaker 3: IRS who talked about how the fix was in favor
Speaker 3: of Hunter Biden with the tex stuff. But more a
Speaker 3: little more has come out about what this is and
Speaker 3: the reason it was it's stalled and it hasn't been
Speaker 3: dealt with in the usual ways is it's so incredibly
Speaker 3: classified that nobody knows what to do with it or
Speaker 3: how to handle it.
Speaker 1: But a little more has come out.
Speaker 3: Apparently it's a highly classified whistleblower complain against Director of
Speaker 3: National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbert. It's related to a conversation intercepted
Speaker 3: last spring in which two foreign nationals were discussing Jared
Speaker 3: Kushner and what he was up to.
Speaker 1: Couldn't be determined which.
Speaker 3: Country they came from or what they discussed about Kushner,
Speaker 3: but the whistle blower heard it and said, hey, this
Speaker 3: is the sort of thing we have to bring to light,
Speaker 3: and was told you're gonna shut up.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So who freaking knows? And I don't trust for a second.
Speaker 3: I'll get an honest reporting from the mainstream media. But
Speaker 3: it's something like that. There are so many burbling, possible
Speaker 3: giant stories going on right now. You know what you're
Speaker 3: just talking about, or all different kinds of financial stuff
Speaker 3: in the Trump administration, or you know, I don't know
Speaker 3: about this. If something big comes out of Epstein, I
Speaker 3: would think if something big was going to come out
Speaker 3: of Epstein.
Speaker 1: It already would have.
Speaker 3: But I think the big thing was what we talked
Speaker 3: about yesterday, and I came across another great column about it,
Speaker 3: the Epstein Files. In the hidden world of the unaccountable elite.
Speaker 3: I think that's what it's about. It's not about a
Speaker 3: giant sex trafficking ring. It's about people who laugh at
Speaker 3: the law, They scratch each other's.
Speaker 1: Backs, they laugh at the rest of us, and they
Speaker 1: kind of run the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, including well, there's an awful lot of lefties that
Speaker 3: are caught up in the Epstein thing.
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting that.
Speaker 3: The media and the Democratic Party has made it seem
Speaker 3: like it's a you know, we're the good guys trying
Speaker 3: to get the answer.
Speaker 1: And the evil Republicans are giving it.
Speaker 3: But a lot of the names, a lot, a lot,
Speaker 3: a lot of the names are big time Democrats. Bill Gates,
Speaker 3: he's no Republican, obviously. What's his name? The linguist we
Speaker 3: are talking about yesterday, him, JOm Chomsky. He's a communist.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's all kinds of lefty that got caught
Speaker 3: up in this, So I don't quite understand the narrative.
Speaker 1: Let me just read you the very first part of this.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
Speaker 3: It's from the New York Times, but Robert Draper is
Speaker 3: writing here. Journalists and researchers will spend the next month
Speaker 3: ferreting through the Epstein files in search of further criminal
Speaker 3: conduct or a new conspiratorial wrinkle. But one truth has
Speaker 3: already emerged. In unsparing detail. The documents lay bare the
Speaker 3: once furtive activities of an unaccountable elite, largely made up
Speaker 3: of rich and powerful men from business, politics, academia, and
Speaker 3: show business.
Speaker 1: The pages tell a story.
Speaker 3: Of a heinous criminal given a free ride by the
Speaker 3: ruling class in which he dwelled, all because he had
Speaker 3: things to offer them money connections, sumptuous dinner parties, a
Speaker 3: private plane, a secluded island, and in some cases sex.
Speaker 1: Oh and this is good.
Speaker 3: And I usually don't traffic in this sort of thing,
Speaker 3: but we all got caught up in this. The story
Speaker 3: of impunity is all the more outrageous now, in the
Speaker 3: midst of rising populist anger and ever growing inequality. The
Speaker 3: colligula like antics of Jeffrey Epstein and his friends occurred
Speaker 3: over two decades that saw the decline of America's manufacturing
Speaker 3: sector and the subprime mortgage crisis, in which millions of
Speaker 3: Americans lost their home and nobody went to jail or
Speaker 3: just were as poor as they'd been since they were
Speaker 3: poor for a very long time. Well, how about the
Speaker 3: Columbia University had to get rid of somebody because they
Speaker 3: got caught out on getting Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend into college
Speaker 3: when she'd gotten turned down. And he asks for a
Speaker 3: favor and knew somebody in the the you know, the
Speaker 3: the admissions department, and they let his girl friend in Columbia,
Speaker 3: lecturing us all about everything doing deals with Jeffrey Epstein
Speaker 3: to get his girlfriend in when she didn't qualify.
Speaker 1: Equity for Epstein's hose. I mean, how about.
Speaker 5: That armstrong and geddy Ludmantell in Congress He had, in
Speaker 5: fact visited Epstein's private island with his wife and children
Speaker 5: in twenty twelve, well after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.
Speaker 5: That visit was revealed in the DOJ documents.
Speaker 1: Secretary Lutnik has addressed those ties himself.
Speaker 5: But the congressman pressing Bondie, the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
Speaker 5: These are senior officials and the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: What what the heck just happened here? Rachels I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's what I thought it was, okay, Adel.
Speaker 3: Because well, I still want to hear because I've heard
Speaker 3: it Lutnik talking about going to the island with his
Speaker 3: family and that whole thing with the nannies and the wife.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's really an odd story, especially given the
Speaker 3: other stuff that we've played where the Commerce Secretary says, no,
Speaker 3: I went to his house and saw the massage table,
Speaker 3: and he talked about happy endings, and I told my wife,
Speaker 3: we are never being in a rith's room with this
Speaker 3: man again. He's gross and gross and he's gross and
Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. And then he testifies it, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I went to the island, my wife and kids and
Speaker 3: the nannies and everything.
Speaker 1: At the island.
Speaker 3: So I mean, that's a heck of a thing. So
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on there. I mean that one,
Speaker 3: just like in itself, what he said is not bad.
Speaker 3: You're there with your wife and kids and nannies. It's
Speaker 3: not like you went there to have an orgy or
Speaker 3: something like that. But you obviously really really really misled
Speaker 3: us with your story. Yeah, clearly, so is.
Speaker 1: There more to it than that? I don't know?
Speaker 3: And then getting to and I pointed out the thing
Speaker 3: that seems like there's way more high profile Democrats getting
Speaker 3: in trouble with the whole Epstein thing than there are
Speaker 3: like MAGA people, and the media doesn't seem to be
Speaker 3: paying attention to that for whatever reason. And this one
Speaker 3: that came across. Columbia University fired some of their administration
Speaker 3: this week after recently released Epstein files revealed that the
Speaker 3: Ivy League school admitted the child sex trafficker's girlfriend through
Speaker 3: irregular emissions. According to school officials, Epstein's girlfriend, who I
Speaker 3: don't think I have an age here. She looks really
Speaker 3: young in this picture. She looks like she's in her
Speaker 3: twenties and he's in his fifties. She wanted to get
Speaker 3: into dental school or something like that, so she applied,
Speaker 3: doesn't get in. Epstein writes a letter, and they've got
Speaker 3: so much of it redacted it's hard to tell exactly
Speaker 3: what's going on. But it's too Colombian. It's from Epstein,
Speaker 3: and Columbia actually fired some people in their admissions department
Speaker 3: this week, so it obviously is true. But they because
Speaker 3: Epstein talked about donating a bunch of money to the
Speaker 3: college for some department. They let his girlfriend, who they
Speaker 3: previously had said was unqualified into the school for Epstein.
Speaker 3: And this is after his conviction, right, this is years
Speaker 3: after his conviction.
Speaker 1: Columb knock me down with a diploma. I can't believe it.
Speaker 3: Columbia University, who lectures us all about everything, like all
Speaker 3: the Ivy League schools do, was willing to overlook a
Speaker 3: billionaire capitalist. You hate that sort of thing, a sex
Speaker 3: perv who you believe in, like microaggressions and that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. And it's as bad as violence to say
Speaker 3: the wrong word to a woman or whatever. He got Epstein,
Speaker 3: who's committed all these crimes, taking money from him and
Speaker 3: letting his unqualified girlfriend into college. But how do you
Speaker 3: get to lecture anybody about anything after that?
Speaker 1: Right? Right?
Speaker 3: Well, And we're only finding out about this because of
Speaker 3: into the Epstein files in the way they came out
Speaker 3: in an untward way, and we probably shouldn't be learning
Speaker 3: about this at all. But how often does this sort
Speaker 3: of thing and go on? Yeah, a lot, I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, getting back to this piece by what's his face?
Speaker 1: In the New York Times. What is his face?
Speaker 3: Robert Draper, I'm going to reread a couple of sentences,
Speaker 3: then to add on to it, and on sparing detail.
Speaker 3: The documents lay bare the once furtive activities of an
Speaker 3: unaccountable elite, largely made up of rich and powerful men
Speaker 3: from business, politics, academian show business. The pages tell the
Speaker 3: story of a heinous criminal given a free ride by
Speaker 3: the ruling class in which he dwelled, all because he
Speaker 3: had things to offer them, money, connections, sumptuous dinner parties,
Speaker 3: private planes, included island and in some cases sex. If
Speaker 3: mister Epstein's goal was to build a wall of protection
Speaker 3: around his abuse by surrounding himself with the well connected.
Speaker 3: He failed in the end, but both before and after
Speaker 3: he was first prosecuted for abusing girls, his correspondence described
Speaker 3: a network of people whose high flying lives belied the
Speaker 3: struggles of ordinary Americans, and at the center of that
Speaker 3: network was a sexual predator, seemingly on top of the world.
Speaker 3: Then he goes into some of the trips around the
Speaker 3: world with Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey to African countries
Speaker 3: and Elon Musk correspondence put early on he had a
Speaker 3: friendship with Trump, and he dispenses favors to and rubs
Speaker 3: elbows with Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky, Kenneth Starr, the Independent
Speaker 3: Council and the Clinton investigation. Kenneth Starr, who's one of
Speaker 3: the straightest arrows ever to walk the earth. Katherine Ruhmler,
Speaker 3: the former Obama White House Council who on Thursday night
Speaker 3: resigned as General counsel of Goldman Sachs, which I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: Is a good gig.
Speaker 3: Steve Bannon, Deepak Chopra, the New Age Guru, the film producer,
Speaker 3: Barry Josephson, Lawrence H. Summers For former President of Harvard
Speaker 3: and Treasury Secretary Andrew mount Botton Windsor Ay Shay, the
Speaker 3: former Prince Andrew Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York,
Speaker 3: Crown Prince Matt Mariet of Norway in a cavalcade like
Speaker 3: everybody on Wall Street, every body that is really quite
Speaker 3: the collection of mean a diverse group. He really covered
Speaker 3: his bases Hollywood, politics, business, academia, just everything. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: and then I imagine once you get it started, it
Speaker 3: would be really hard to get going. But once you
Speaker 3: get it going, then it's probably easier to pull in
Speaker 3: people from different because you know Bill Clinton and Woody
Speaker 3: Allen and the president of Harvard. Then it's easy to
Speaker 3: get the business guy in. And then it just it
Speaker 3: all works together as you climb that mountain of knowing people.
Speaker 1: And if I take a producer and a director on
Speaker 1: my plane to the island and they put together a deal,
Speaker 1: now both of them are in a position where they're
Speaker 1: more than happy to do something nice for me.
Speaker 3: All about the college thing is a big one all
Speaker 3: across the country for movers and shakers like Epstein, I
Speaker 3: can get your kid into because we all know it's phony.
Speaker 3: It's all freaking phony, the whole Georgetown, Columbia, Harvard, all
Speaker 3: that stuff. It's just freaking phony. The fact that they've
Speaker 3: been able to lectures and still do about inequity and
Speaker 3: racism and all this crap when we now know that
Speaker 3: rich connected people all the time, almost always for probably
Speaker 3: white kids, call you up and say, yeah, I need
Speaker 3: you to do a friend a deal for this brand
Speaker 3: because they produced a documentary on my island.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. So can you get their kid in?
Speaker 1: Sure we will.
Speaker 3: I will keep hammering this until the world figures it out.
Speaker 3: A lot of those claims about equity and microaggressions and
Speaker 3: everything are fake.
Speaker 1: They know they're fake.
Speaker 3: It is weapons of capture, weapons of takeover of institutions.
Speaker 1: It is a specific.
Speaker 3: Strategy laid out by the neo Marxists of the critical theory.
Speaker 3: Crowd call people racists until they give you power, Call
Speaker 3: them homophotes, call them transphobes until they're so afraid of
Speaker 3: you you take control of the department of whatever or
Speaker 3: the board of directors.
Speaker 1: Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 3: We can compare and contrast the history classes at Havad
Speaker 3: in the forties and fifties with those of the modern
Speaker 3: day later on today, if you want. Let's do that
Speaker 3: combined with their new grading score, which I like, which
Speaker 3: they're only going to give out twenty percent as compared
Speaker 3: to what they were doing in the past, which is
Speaker 3: pretty interesting. We know those numbers too unbelievable. The whole
Speaker 3: elite university thing. I always hated it, just kind of
Speaker 3: somewhat reflexively, because you know, they wouldn't have men.
Speaker 1: It's down on us.
Speaker 3: Nobody likes to be looked down upon, true, nobody likes
Speaker 3: to be looked down upon. But the fact that you're
Speaker 3: beneath me, You're actually beneath me, not above me, is
Speaker 3: really really maddening.
Speaker 1: You had that kind of power for so many years.
Speaker 3: And I'm just so amused that I'll speak for myself,
Speaker 3: my naivete about that completely mediocre person we knew who
Speaker 3: gone to Was it Stanford and Oxford?
Speaker 1: Yes, and we just would we would have conversations. She
Speaker 1: doesn't seem that.
Speaker 3: Boy had a boss who went to Stanford and Oxford
Speaker 3: and they did not come off as smart at all.
Speaker 3: We just thought, well, it must be one of those
Speaker 3: people's like crazy book smart but a little shy or something.
Speaker 1: No, it's her daddy was rich and wrote checks.
Speaker 3: This person ended up going to jail for getting their
Speaker 3: kid into uh fancy universities and the.
Speaker 1: Writing checks correct, yeah, yes, and and fake.
Speaker 3: Which sucks for people like our good friend Gary Dietrich
Speaker 3: who went to Harvard the real way. It sucks for
Speaker 3: those that crowd, because I'm sure there are plenty of
Speaker 3: really really smart people, Lonnie Jen that go to these
Speaker 3: elite universities. But if you've ever known somebody that went
Speaker 3: to one of those universities and you thought, why they
Speaker 3: don't strike me as any smarter than me. That's why,
Speaker 3: m wow, we got a lot more on the ways
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 4: The two Navy vessels are about to lie, one of
Speaker 4: them sounding the corn is. The destroyer and the supply
Speaker 4: craft get closer and then impact. The supply ship manages
Speaker 4: to steer away as the USS truckst and destroyer appears
Speaker 4: to come to a stop. Another shift, the USS Gettysburg
Speaker 4: was also right there. The three of them were performing
Speaker 4: a complex side by side replenishment maneuver, which involves passing
Speaker 4: supplies between crafts at close quarters and at speed. The
Speaker 4: Navy tells us two people sustained minor.
Speaker 3: Injuries and a marine died yesterday, knocked off a ship
Speaker 3: doing some sort of training and drowned.
Speaker 1: And when I.
Speaker 3: First heard the story yesterday that a couple of Navy
Speaker 3: vessels there we're talking about the waters there near where
Speaker 3: we're getting ready to go to Warwick ran if that's
Speaker 3: what we're doing, crashed into each other. I thought, Oh,
Speaker 3: is this another one of these. You know, it's going
Speaker 3: to be a real blow to the Navy of incompetence
Speaker 3: like that. No, it sounds more like some really high skilled,
Speaker 3: delicate training that's not easy to do. And why is
Speaker 3: that happening? Is that because, I mean, is that how
Speaker 3: close we are to actual kinetic action, that we're like
Speaker 3: doing really difficult maneuvers right there getting ready for it.
Speaker 3: Obviously it's smart to do that, so you're not doing
Speaker 3: it for the first time, and that's why those boats
Speaker 3: are made of thick hunks of metal. But I'm glad
Speaker 3: nobody is hurt, you know. I actually saw that video
Speaker 3: and the one thing that bothered me a little bit.
Speaker 3: And maybe they were off duty, who knows, maybe they
Speaker 3: were civilian contractors. I don't know, but there were a
Speaker 3: couple of guys with their phones out taking video of
Speaker 3: the collision.
Speaker 1: That's not a cruise ship, it's a naval ship. Don't
Speaker 1: you have a job to do? I'm s and not
Speaker 1: loading up your gram with cool videos. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about the modern military. I'm just kind of surprised.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm kind of surprised you're walking around with
Speaker 3: your own personal phone at all.
Speaker 1: Really, but I don't know what they use them for.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3: Today, the Pentagon is sending the Navy's largest and most
Speaker 3: advanced aircraft carrier to the Middle East. We mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 3: The USS Gerald R. Ford is going to join the
Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln, so two aircraft carriers and nine other warships
Speaker 3: already operating in the Middle East. This is the part
Speaker 3: that I didn't know, as we are starting to build
Speaker 3: up the way we built up off of Venezuela in
Speaker 3: terms of and we all know how that went. All
Speaker 3: of a sudden, out of nowhere, we launch a major,
Speaker 3: major military operation, yank Maduro out by his mustache. Of course,
Speaker 3: Iran is not Venezuela. But epic feud threatens Mideast stability
Speaker 3: at a delicate moment. I remember talking about this years
Speaker 3: ago when I first became.
Speaker 1: Aware of MBZ.
Speaker 3: Not MBS of Saudi Arabia, but MBZ of the United
Speaker 3: Arab Emirates. And he is really the leader of all
Speaker 3: that crowd there, and everybody looks up to him and
Speaker 3: follows his rules. Well, there's now a feud between MBS
Speaker 3: and NBZ, and they've gone from working together and being
Speaker 3: super tight as a counter to Iran in a battle.
Speaker 3: According to David Ignacious of The Washington Post, that just
Speaker 3: started a couple of weeks ago, and that could be
Speaker 3: a major player in this whole thing that they're no
Speaker 3: longer cooperating. Then you get the Kataris. I'll tell you,
Speaker 3: I've been telling you for decades. Now all you have
Speaker 3: is temporary friends in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Learn that. Know that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: According to David Ignacious in the Washington Post, this dispute
Speaker 3: between these two men matters because Trump has placed his
Speaker 3: big bets on both countries working together and being United
Speaker 3: Gulf support as he threatens military action against Ara, and
Speaker 3: now their friendship is completely falling apart. Uh oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's something. This could be like an historic sort of disagreement.
Speaker 3: In terms of the timing, Saudi Arabia and the UAE,
Speaker 3: the two drivers of modernization in the Middle East, should
Speaker 3: be rejoicing together these days. Iran is weak, its proxies
Speaker 3: are on the run, and an American armada approaches the
Speaker 3: Persian Gulf. But instead they've stumbled into an epic feud
Speaker 3: that could polarize the region for a long time to come.
Speaker 3: That's really interesting stuff. You got sand, he's got sand.
Speaker 3: You've got oil and trillions of dollars in reserves. He's
Speaker 3: got oil and trillions of dollars. He gotta hear them.
Speaker 3: You gotta hear him. He's got a Bentley, You've got
Speaker 3: a Rolls. Can we all get along?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: I read the whole article and I heard something about
Speaker 3: it your whip dissidence, he cuts off their arms. There's
Speaker 3: plenty of common ground. We both like these things. We
Speaker 3: are on our heads. I was trying to understand this.
Speaker 3: I was reading about it in this article, and then
Speaker 3: something I heard yesterday. I'm thinking, it's just MBZ was
Speaker 3: kind of the leader, been around for a long time,
Speaker 3: and MBS is now old enough, thinking why why do
Speaker 3: I have to listen to you? Yeah, you ain't. You
Speaker 3: ain't all that.
Speaker 1: I could be a leader. I mean that's the classic.
Speaker 1: I mean nothing could be more classic than that. Indeed, hey,
Speaker 1: here's where I tie it all together. I got an
Speaker 1: Epstein angle for you.
Speaker 3: So, in spite of the narrative of earlier about how
Speaker 3: it's about sex, but it's also about.
Speaker 1: The rich and powerful.
Speaker 3: A scratch each other's backs and they laugh at the
Speaker 3: rest of us. But there is some unbelievable sex stuff.
Speaker 3: Epstein received an email from an associate whose name has
Speaker 3: been redacted, that said, in full quote, thank you for
Speaker 3: a fun night your littlest girl, was a little naughty. Ugh,
Speaker 3: and then there's a thing about sex toys. And then
Speaker 3: Epstein wrote to another undisclosed recipient No. Nine, who was
Speaker 3: identified on Wednesday in the House Hearing is salt Ahmed
Speaker 3: bin Sulium. Sulium, a powerful Emiadi businessman the UAE.
Speaker 1: Okay, where are you are you? Okay? I love the
Speaker 1: torture video. Ooh oof is right? What does that mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just so, mister, Epstein wrote him in twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: I ordered sweet young coconuts from Thailand for you today
Speaker 3: and they just arrived, just so you don't have to
Speaker 3: drink juices from I'm not even gonna finish that sentence.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of people making claims about code
Speaker 3: words and stuff like that that seem pretty far fetched
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: This one is not.
Speaker 3: That one's no, but it extended to your oil shakes
Speaker 3: of the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unbelievable. Is there any so?
Speaker 3: Is it possible he was just a guy that got
Speaker 3: that rich through real estate and was really good at
Speaker 3: networking and put these people together, or is there a
Speaker 3: bigger thing where he was He's an Israeli asset or something. No,
Speaker 3: I just think that he was what he seems to
Speaker 3: be is we've been describing it, and he was a
Speaker 3: real pig who liked really, really young women to the
Speaker 3: point that they were girls. And in the course of
Speaker 3: his partying and carryings on, he became aware of other
Speaker 3: men with that sort of taste. As I said before,
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, back in the day when it
Speaker 3: was all illegal, one pot smoker would find another pot smoker,
Speaker 3: And there are ways there. One gay guy would find
Speaker 3: another gay guy. But back when you didn't dare come out,
Speaker 3: one guy really really likes really young females, it finds
Speaker 3: a way to communicate that to somebody else, a bunch
Speaker 3: of sickos, And then you've got this underlying problem of
Speaker 3: we shouldn't know a whole bunch of this stuff because many, many, many,
Speaker 3: many of these people were talking about were never charged
Speaker 3: with anything. No, No, I am torn about all of that,
Speaker 3: I really am. And if we start releasing all kinds
Speaker 3: of grand jury information and testimony and documents even when
Speaker 3: nobody was charged, that's going to change the world, change America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, can't wait till my files come out. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got a lot to answer for.
Speaker 3: If you can do that against your enemies politically, like
Speaker 3: you get in charge and all of a sudden you
Speaker 3: can release any investigation ever.
Speaker 1: I mean you could damage a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Yikes, that's ugly anyway, if you missed a segment, get
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