WEBVTT - Shut Up Coo Coo Bird 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.879 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:24.439 Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Check it out. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.600 A woman who's been married thirty eight years gifted her 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:32.559 husband her kidney for Valentine's Day. Mike Ray, here's the 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.800 sad part. He didn't need one. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.200 That's a great Conan o'lynton making his surprise appearance. I'm 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:49.680 giving you my kidney. Back when late night comedians were funny. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.519 All right, I got some great love stuff for you. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.000 Right before we went to break. Katie hit us with 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.920 a Valentine's Day as a stupid holiday. It is tomorrow, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.600 because it is. I say this every single year, and 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:09.600 it's still true. I have never known personally a long term, 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:15.520 successful couple who took Valentine's Day seriously. Now that it's 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.959 not proof of anything, but it's a pretty good sample set. Yeah, 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.680 every year you say that or I say that, and 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.440 we get one or two emails from people saying, hey, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.120 I got to disagree. We blah blah blah. But I 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.319 ain't I know them. I ain't bragging. There are a 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:34.959 heck of a lot of folks who listen to the 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.240 show and the podcast and everything else, and the fact 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.200 that we might get one disagreeing kind of proves the point. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.640 It really does. Yeah, it's it feels so obligatory and 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.240 out of nowhere. I love my wife every day of 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.000 the year, how much or she knows it. How many 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:58.000 dysfunctional you both are? Crazy, lots of fights, maybe the 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.720 cops drunk and rolling around on the floor throwing glasses. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.680 Couples Have I known who one of them or both 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:06.160 of them. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.359 Do take Valentine's Day seriously and a lot better live 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:15.480 up to the expectations or yes, yes, yes, So with 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.239 that said, uh oh, you know what I got to 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.760 get into is the the awesome uss Gerald Ford, which 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.200 is steaming quite quickly toward the Persian Gulf and is 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.280 ready to unleash whoop aass as needed on Iran. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:31.880 This is getting more and more serious. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.040 I got something interesting I came across about falling in 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.919 love that a therapist friend of mine I wasn't seeing 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.800 a therapist, it's a person I know who is a 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.960 therapist sent this to me last night on the topic 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.320 heading into Valentine's Day weekend, and I thought it was 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.080 really interesting. I'll get to that in just a second, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.799 but first, this article from the New York Post about 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.679 in cells AI in cells, so in cells spelled with 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.080 an eyesh's a. Again, it works better in print than 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.480 saying it out loud. Do you know what in cells are? 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.640 That's it's short for involuntary involved lentarily celibate. I hate 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:06.120 this whole thing because it's the kind of crowd that 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.840 calls themselves an insul. They're not actually involuntary celibate. It 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.400 looks like you're playing a big role in being celibate 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:18.040 but blaming the world for it, which is incredibly unhealthy. Yeah, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.600 there's It's not like they have no legitimate complaints. But 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.440 get off your damn computer and get out into the world. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.560 You might find yourself uncelibate. Well, A in culls are 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:34.519 flocking to pop up cafes with their fake soulmates, their 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:35.680 AI soulmates. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.920 I'm already agitated. Wow, this is good, good start. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.680 And according to the New York Post, many people are 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.040 literally marrying their AI partners. I don't think literally is 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.640 any hair because it's not legal. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.280 Currently, it's not what the word means. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:56.000 But this says that's the opposite of literally. It says 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:03.800 here that seventy percent of Zoomers, a shocking majority of 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.880 Gen z ors, would marry their AI partner if it 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:08.600 were legal. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:12.520 That's incredibly sad. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.719 Shut up, cuckoo bird. That was uncharitable. I'm sorry, Katie's 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.840 was better. I don't know sad. So I'm just trying 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.800 to passion that's called for here. I'm trying to figure 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.400 out if this is real or if this is I mean, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.320 it's such a dumb question. You're just you're mocking the 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.960 person who hit you with this question online or on 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.479 the phone, or on a street corner or at the 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.480 mall or whatever. You know, you're not taking the poll seriously. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.479 A shocking portion of Generation Z say they could form 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.640 a deep emotional bond with an AI generated partner and 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.080 would even consider marrying one. A new study found eighty 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.360 three percent of the young people born between ninety seven 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.880 and twenty twelve said they could develop a meaningful connection. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.800 Eighty percent said they would consider marrying one if it 0:04:52.839 --> 0:05:00.760 was legal, a staggering seventy more number. And then you 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.200 can react. Seventy five percent of Gen Zer's said they 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.920 think AI partners have the potential to fully replace human companionships. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:15.200 Oh boy, we are going to die out as a species, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.239 or at least have a population that is greatly greatly reduced, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.120 and we will have to find a really interesting Oh yeah, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:23.599 we will. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.520 Ourselves in this. In this this situation. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.360 We often talk about deer or you know, another beast, 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.520 and if they suddenly stopped reproducing, scientists would be going crazy, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.240 probably blaming climate change or something like that. But you're 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.520 so right. We're bringing upon ourselves. I mean, I'm picturing 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.520 like a deer typing on a keyboard. Yeah, I can't talk, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.520 I'm online. Oh yeah, no, not so much. It's one 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.760 thing if deer stopped reproducing, But then if you saw 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.279 a buck in the woods with a iPad trying to 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.000 help it, then you would think things are really off 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:59.680 the rails. True enough. So I've just had a brilliant idea. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.960 This is this is my ten million dollar idea. It 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.600 used to be a million dollar idea, but you know, inflation. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.719 I'm gonna run these camps so wood. He do camps 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.920 for young people age nineteen to twenty five or so, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.279 and we're gonna go out into the woods. We're going 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.560 to unplug our phones. We're gonna relearn how to communicate 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.640 with human beings. We're gonna get comfortable doing that. Maybe 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:22.839 we'll do some of those silly. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.080 Trust exercises, and then after four or five six days 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:25.360 of this. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.800 We're gonna have some beers and you know, get after it, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.240 get with each other. You find her attractive, so does she. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.719 She's a boy and you're a girl. You know, assuming 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.040 you're heatero to semi quote Steven Silf, love the one 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:38.480 you're with. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.640 Let's get it on people. Put down your computer and 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.320 pick up a human. You're gonna run. Great, you're gonna 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.800 run some sort of sex camp with booth. That's what 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:48.320 I'm paying. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:53.240 Plugging the way I understand two nature sex camps is 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:54.159 exactly right. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.640 The sex is voluntary. Obviously, it's all. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.720 Gonna be consulting consenting adults. But instead of because you've 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.640 heard of the unplugging camps in the back to nature 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.520 camps and the blah blah blah, but this is going 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.120 to culminate with you know, all right, here's let's learn the. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.120 Gentle art of love in that. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:09.400 Man. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.160 I know somebody who would have been an investor if 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:17.119 they hadn't hung themselves in their cell allegedly. Okay, getting 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.200 to the actual love part. I thought this was really 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.560 interesting and see if you agree with it or not. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:26.600 New study has attempted to quantify romance, revealing that the 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.920 average person experience is passionate love only about twice in 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.920 their lifetime. That's all we're capable of for most people 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.800 falling deeply in love twice. While pop culture often suggested 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.080 that people and fall in love constantly, the data paints 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.280 a picture of true intense romantic connection being a relatively 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:48.000 rare event in any human's life. Most humans lives' we'll 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.080 get to some of the extreme cases coming up. But 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:55.920 research focused on that specific overwhelming feeling of passion and 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.120 love and oh my god, you know we've got a 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.760 connection unlike anything I ever imagine, and we all know 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.640 what that feels like. That that only happens really maximum 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.240 of twice oftentimes. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.080 One time I would to say, if you're. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.880 Lucky, you know that what that feels like, it happens 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.360 for most people according to the stat Oh really yeah. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.920 The statistical breakdown offers a revealing look at modern relationships. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.600 According to findings, the largest group of people thirty percent 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:26.080 report falling in love exactly twice in their lives, almost 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.680 the same number twenty eight percent, so about the same 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:34.080 percent said they experienced once a single great love, so 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.080 it's as common to have one as to two. On 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.200 the higher end of the spectrum, seventeen percent said they 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.120 had felt that level of intensity three times, a select 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:50.600 eleven percent. We're lucky in love, I said, perhaps depends 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.080 on how you look at it with more than that. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.800 I don't think that's lucky. I think that something's wrong 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:56.920 in your brain, and that's got to be an awful 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.040 lot of pain. The most somber statistics. Oh, then three 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.559 times you had the greatest love of your life and 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.480 it ended, Well, that's a rough road. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.600 Only fourteen percent of adults reported never having experienced that 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.640 kind of love ever, so eighty six percent of us 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.679 do at least once. And you know, you know, the 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.800 best thing, of course, is if that's the person that 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.120 you married and are still with and all that sort 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.480 of stuff. You're right, God, anybody who's having that three 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.120 four times in their lives with obviously the math only 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.000 works of the other three or four. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.800 Ended, that's a lot of pain. For one life. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.600 I find myself surprised by that never number being as 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.640 low as it is given what I've heard about the 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.640 eighteen to thirty five set. 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.199 Huh, but I don't I can't personally verify that. 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That sounds stressful. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.040 Yeah, it's a minority of people, though, at least according 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.800 to this study, any thoughts in that textas be interested 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:43.520 in that stay. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:48.959 Tuned Armstrong cook into the text in a little bit. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.440 That whole idea of people only fall in love one 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.320 or two times in their lives for real, and then 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.920 how that fits in with Valentine's Day or as I've 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:02.160 heard some guys crass call it Penis Christmas, which I 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.120 think is really wow. My Lord ever heard that and 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.880 certainly wouldn't repeat it if I had no. I just 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.920 read a couple of my favorite columnists pointing out how 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.600 the Republican Party is being blamed for economic woes and 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.480 lack of affordability and that sort of thing. If the 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.960 Republican Party isn't good enough at its job to communicate that. Yeah, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.920 all that devastating inflation during the Biden era, we're trying 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.240 to Tampa Dowze. They don't deserve to win. I mean, 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.079 people remain convinced. Of course, you know, the left has 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.240 the media on the side. But the idea that people 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.520 would turn to the Democrats because of inflation is bizarre 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:39.800 to me. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.800 Yeah, I know, I know. Anyway, so I thought this 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:45.439 was interesting. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.840 It's just just the you know, starmer in England has 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.400 got a thirteen percent approval ratings about to get booted, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.320 and the likely the next election a third party, not 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.840 the two big parties have been dominating forever is likely 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.520 to win. You had Macrone come out of nowhere with 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.920 a different party. Same thing in Australia, lots of countries 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.480 that people are just not happy with their Western style democracies, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.960 whichever party they so, it wouldn't be more, it wouldn't 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.199 be a I think the Democrats can handle this. It 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.760 just keep throwing the current bums out mood that we 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.080 all seem to be in. Yeah, I think that's right. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.280 This is a complete change of topic. But I brought 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.200 this up, I think it was last week. There is 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:33.400 a whistle blower complaint against Tulsea Gabbard that's kicking around 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.640 behind the scenes in Washington. It's getting a lot of 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.320 whispers and it's and nobody knows what to do with 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.240 it because there are laws about how quickly whistleblower complaints 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.000 need to be brought to the surface and dealt with. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.840 It's one of the few vestiges of transparency we have 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:47.640 left in government. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:48.840 And they're good laws. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.920 They brought us, for instance, those two heroes at the 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.640 IRS who talked about how the fix was in favor 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.280 of Hunter Biden with the tex stuff. But more a 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.640 little more has come out about what this is and 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.480 the reason it was it's stalled and it hasn't been 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.760 dealt with in the usual ways is it's so incredibly 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.360 classified that nobody knows what to do with it or 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.280 how to handle it. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:14.960 But a little more has come out. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:20.200 Apparently it's a highly classified whistleblower complain against Director of 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:26.200 National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbert. It's related to a conversation intercepted 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:31.520 last spring in which two foreign nationals were discussing Jared 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.120 Kushner and what he was up to. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.120 Couldn't be determined which. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.360 Country they came from or what they discussed about Kushner, 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.000 but the whistle blower heard it and said, hey, this 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.360 is the sort of thing we have to bring to light, 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.480 and was told you're gonna shut up. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:49.200 Wow. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.680 So who freaking knows? And I don't trust for a second. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.760 I'll get an honest reporting from the mainstream media. But 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:05.400 it's something like that. There are so many burbling, possible 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:10.640 giant stories going on right now. You know what you're 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.720 just talking about, or all different kinds of financial stuff 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:19.720 in the Trump administration, or you know, I don't know 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.880 about this. If something big comes out of Epstein, I 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.440 would think if something big was going to come out 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:23.880 of Epstein. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:24.640 It already would have. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.720 But I think the big thing was what we talked 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.360 about yesterday, and I came across another great column about it, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.120 the Epstein Files. In the hidden world of the unaccountable elite. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.200 I think that's what it's about. It's not about a 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.000 giant sex trafficking ring. It's about people who laugh at 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.040 the law, They scratch each other's. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.080 Backs, they laugh at the rest of us, and they 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.000 kind of run the world. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.120 Yeah, including well, there's an awful lot of lefties that 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.560 are caught up in the Epstein thing. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.480 It's kind of interesting that. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.920 The media and the Democratic Party has made it seem 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.960 like it's a you know, we're the good guys trying 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.440 to get the answer. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.000 And the evil Republicans are giving it. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.200 But a lot of the names, a lot, a lot, 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.960 a lot of the names are big time Democrats. Bill Gates, 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.720 he's no Republican, obviously. What's his name? The linguist we 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.400 are talking about yesterday, him, JOm Chomsky. He's a communist. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.480 I mean, there's all kinds of lefty that got caught 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.040 up in this, So I don't quite understand the narrative. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.120 Let me just read you the very first part of this. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:26.720 It's pretty good. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:31.400 It's from the New York Times, but Robert Draper is 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.880 writing here. Journalists and researchers will spend the next month 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.960 ferreting through the Epstein files in search of further criminal 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.960 conduct or a new conspiratorial wrinkle. But one truth has 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.840 already emerged. In unsparing detail. The documents lay bare the 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.520 once furtive activities of an unaccountable elite, largely made up 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.880 of rich and powerful men from business, politics, academia, and 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:52.600 show business. 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.480 The pages tell a story. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.560 Of a heinous criminal given a free ride by the 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.400 ruling class in which he dwelled, all because he had 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.080 things to offer them money connections, sumptuous dinner parties, a 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.560 private plane, a secluded island, and in some cases sex. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:09.600 Oh and this is good. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.280 And I usually don't traffic in this sort of thing, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.680 but we all got caught up in this. The story 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.760 of impunity is all the more outrageous now, in the 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.080 midst of rising populist anger and ever growing inequality. The 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.919 colligula like antics of Jeffrey Epstein and his friends occurred 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.040 over two decades that saw the decline of America's manufacturing 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.840 sector and the subprime mortgage crisis, in which millions of 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.119 Americans lost their home and nobody went to jail or 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.400 just were as poor as they'd been since they were 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:42.200 poor for a very long time. Well, how about the 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.600 Columbia University had to get rid of somebody because they 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:51.080 got caught out on getting Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend into college 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.639 when she'd gotten turned down. And he asks for a 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.440 favor and knew somebody in the the you know, the 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.359 the admissions department, and they let his girl friend in Columbia, 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:06.000 lecturing us all about everything doing deals with Jeffrey Epstein 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.680 to get his girlfriend in when she didn't qualify. 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.200 Equity for Epstein's hose. I mean, how about. 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:19.159 That armstrong and geddy Ludmantell in Congress He had, in 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.120 fact visited Epstein's private island with his wife and children 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.600 in twenty twelve, well after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.320 That visit was revealed in the DOJ documents. 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.480 Secretary Lutnik has addressed those ties himself. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.159 But the congressman pressing Bondie, the nation's chief law enforcement officer. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.880 These are senior officials and the Trump administration. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:46.360 What what the heck just happened here? Rachels I don't 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.640 know if that's what I thought it was, okay, Adel. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.040 Because well, I still want to hear because I've heard 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.840 it Lutnik talking about going to the island with his 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.000 family and that whole thing with the nannies and the wife. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.600 I mean, it's really an odd story, especially given the 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.879 other stuff that we've played where the Commerce Secretary says, no, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.520 I went to his house and saw the massage table, 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.600 and he talked about happy endings, and I told my wife, 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.600 we are never being in a rith's room with this 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.560 man again. He's gross and gross and he's gross and 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.640 all that sort of stuff. And then he testifies it, Yeah, 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.600 I went to the island, my wife and kids and 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:20.840 the nannies and everything. 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:21.800 At the island. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.199 So I mean, that's a heck of a thing. So 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.640 I don't know what's going on there. I mean that one, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:35.160 just like in itself, what he said is not bad. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.360 You're there with your wife and kids and nannies. It's 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.840 not like you went there to have an orgy or 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:45.080 something like that. But you obviously really really really misled 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.240 us with your story. Yeah, clearly, so is. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.280 There more to it than that? I don't know? 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.640 And then getting to and I pointed out the thing 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.399 that seems like there's way more high profile Democrats getting 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.280 in trouble with the whole Epstein thing than there are 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.679 like MAGA people, and the media doesn't seem to be 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.720 paying attention to that for whatever reason. And this one 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:12.160 that came across. Columbia University fired some of their administration 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.159 this week after recently released Epstein files revealed that the 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:21.640 Ivy League school admitted the child sex trafficker's girlfriend through 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:27.760 irregular emissions. According to school officials, Epstein's girlfriend, who I 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.800 don't think I have an age here. She looks really 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.680 young in this picture. She looks like she's in her 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.920 twenties and he's in his fifties. She wanted to get 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.479 into dental school or something like that, so she applied, 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.080 doesn't get in. Epstein writes a letter, and they've got 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.479 so much of it redacted it's hard to tell exactly 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.320 what's going on. But it's too Colombian. It's from Epstein, 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.760 and Columbia actually fired some people in their admissions department 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.800 this week, so it obviously is true. But they because 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.520 Epstein talked about donating a bunch of money to the 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.880 college for some department. They let his girlfriend, who they 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.240 previously had said was unqualified into the school for Epstein. 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.359 And this is after his conviction, right, this is years 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:11.440 after his conviction. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.199 Columb knock me down with a diploma. I can't believe it. 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:19.080 Columbia University, who lectures us all about everything, like all 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:24.720 the Ivy League schools do, was willing to overlook a 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.760 billionaire capitalist. You hate that sort of thing, a sex 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.920 perv who you believe in, like microaggressions and that sort 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.760 of thing. And it's as bad as violence to say 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.480 the wrong word to a woman or whatever. He got Epstein, 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.879 who's committed all these crimes, taking money from him and 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:43.560 letting his unqualified girlfriend into college. But how do you 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.359 get to lecture anybody about anything after that? 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:48.200