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Why Are a Housekeeper and Former Lawyer Challenging Virginia Roberts’ Heirs? · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. One of the most wild things that we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about in the last few days is the battle
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  Speaker 1: that has erupted over Virginia's estate and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we have a housekeeper and her ex lawyer vying for
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  Speaker 1: control of her estate trying to carve themselves a slice
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  Speaker 1: is just straight up disgusting, especially considering that they're going
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  Speaker 1: to court against her kids. As if there's any debate
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  Speaker 1: about who should get the lion's share of all of
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  Speaker 1: Virginia's estate, it is her children after the creditors are
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  Speaker 1: paid off. Nobody else should even show up to the
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  Speaker 1: table with a fork and knife thinking they're going to eat,
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  Speaker 1: because as far as I'm concerned, you can eat shit.
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  Speaker 1: This episode was published by ABC News and the headline
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  Speaker 1: sons of Virginia Roberts, who accused Andrew and Epstein see
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  Speaker 1: control of her estate. This article was authored by Rod McGirk. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a relatively short article, so we're just going
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  Speaker 1: to read through it and then I'll give you my
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  Speaker 1: opinion after that. Lawyers for two sons of Virginia Roberts,
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  Speaker 1: her housekeeper and her former attorney appeared in Australian court
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  Speaker 1: Friday in a case deciding who controls her estate. Roberts
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  Speaker 1: was the highest profile accuser of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: and she settled a lawsuit for an undisclosed sum in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two against then Prince Andrew now known as
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor after he was stripped of his royal
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  Speaker 1: titles over his association with Jeffrey Epstein. She died by
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  Speaker 1: suicide in April at the age of forty one at
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  Speaker 1: her farm in Western Australia State, without leaving a will.
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  Speaker 1: The only adults of her three children, Christian and Noah,
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  Speaker 1: filed a case in the State Supreme Court in June
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  Speaker 1: to gain control of their mother's estate, including property in
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  Speaker 1: Western Australia where she had lived for years and potential
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  Speaker 1: revenue from her memoir Nobody's Girl. The memoir, released last month,
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  Speaker 1: expands on her claims that she was sexually trafficked as
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  Speaker 1: a teen by the late financier to billionaires, politicians, and
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  Speaker 1: King Charles the Third's brother, Mal Batton Windsor categorically rejected
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  Speaker 1: the allegations and said he didn't recall having met her.
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  Speaker 1: The brothers want the court to appoint them administrators of
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  Speaker 1: their mother's estate. The brother's application is opposed by Virginia
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  Speaker 1: roberts former housekeeper and caregiver, Cheryl Myers, and her former
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  Speaker 1: Perth based attorney, Carrie Lowdin. The women want to be
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  Speaker 1: made administrators. Now, why would you want to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Here's an idea. Go find something else to do with
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  Speaker 1: your time. You've already been paid and if not, you
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  Speaker 1: can seek the money from the estate. But where in
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  Speaker 1: the hell do you get off trying to be the administrator.
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  Speaker 1: A temporary administrator was appointed this week to manage the estate.
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  Speaker 1: The first court hearing in the case was held Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and another will be scheduled next year. Lawyers on Friday
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  Speaker 1: discussed the range of issues, including whether Virginia Robert's daughter,
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  Speaker 1: who cannot be named for legal reasons, and her estranged
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  Speaker 1: husband should become parties in the case. Virginia Roberts separated
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  Speaker 1: from her husband and children this year. She had been
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  Speaker 1: charged with breaching a family violence restraining order over an
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  Speaker 1: incident in February, and died before she was to appear
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  Speaker 1: in court over the matter. All right, so that's the
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  Speaker 1: news now, let's get into what I think about all
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  Speaker 1: of this nonsense. Can someone, anyone explain to me how
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  Speaker 1: we got to a point where a former lawyer and
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  Speaker 1: a fucking housekeeper think that they're entitled to carve themselves
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  Speaker 1: a slice at a Virginia Roberts estate like they're lining
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  Speaker 1: up at a Golden Corral buffet. I mean, really, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting here trying to wrap my head around this level
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  Speaker 1: of delusion in greed, and my brain cells are staging
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  Speaker 1: a walkout. This woman spent her entire life fighting like
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  Speaker 1: hell against a cabala monsters, and now when she's gone,
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  Speaker 1: when the ink isn't even dry on the obituary, here
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  Speaker 1: come twiddled and tweedled dumbass waddling onto the scene like
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  Speaker 1: they're the rightful errors to the throne. And for what
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  Speaker 1: for being adjacent, for being in proximity, for vacuuming near greatness?
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  Speaker 1: Since when does dusting someone's end table give you a
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  Speaker 1: rightful claim on their life's work? Should I start sending
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  Speaker 1: invoices to every celebrity whose music I listened to in
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  Speaker 1: my car, because apparently if you're near something long enough,
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  Speaker 1: you're automatically owed half of it. What kind of warped
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  Speaker 1: ass carnival mural world is this. So let's start with
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  Speaker 1: Exhibit A. The ex lawyer. Oh yeah, the noble legal representative,
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  Speaker 1: defender of justice, champion of ethics, unless there's a payday involved,
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  Speaker 1: in which case strip away the scales of justice, and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly it's back alley auction and she's trying to liquidate
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  Speaker 1: the estate like she's running a scratch and dent warehouse.
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  Speaker 1: You'd think somebody who spend time writing legal arguments about
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  Speaker 1: victimization might have retained even a microscopic molecule of integrity.
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  Speaker 1: But nah, integrity packed it shit and left ten the
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  Speaker 1: second money hit the radar. And then of course we
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  Speaker 1: got the housekeeper, the fucking housekeeper. Really, really, this is
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  Speaker 1: where we are now as a species, the level of
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  Speaker 1: self importance it takes to think, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: deserve some of that estate money too, for doing chores,
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  Speaker 1: for flipping pillows and wiping down countertops. Since when does
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  Speaker 1: cleaning someone's house entitle you to inherit it. If that's
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  Speaker 1: the rule, now every single made in Beverly Hills is
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  Speaker 1: about to become a billionaire overnight. Meanwhile, all we should
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  Speaker 1: be talking about is the kids, you know, the ones
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  Speaker 1: who just lost our mother, the ones whose entire world
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  Speaker 1: has been turned inside out and upside down, the ones
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  Speaker 1: who should be grieving privately, without parasites crawling up from
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  Speaker 1: the sewer grate to see what they can extract. How
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  Speaker 1: in the actual hell does someone look at mourning children
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  Speaker 1: and think, yeah, let's shake them down. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be a moral corpse to land on that conclusion and
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  Speaker 1: don't even come at me with, well, they provided services,
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  Speaker 1: no shit, and they got paid for those services. That's
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  Speaker 1: how employment works. You do a job, you receive compensation,
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  Speaker 1: the transaction ends. You don't get to follow the family
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  Speaker 1: around like a vulture waiting for a body to cool off.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's handing out loyalty reward cards for proximity to tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: And look, this isn't even more, Lee Gray. This isn't complicated,
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  Speaker 1: This isn't nuanced. This is textbook read. This is what
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  Speaker 1: happens when money becomes oxygen. This is the kind of
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  Speaker 1: behavior that makes you wonder if we need to start
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  Speaker 1: licensing who's allowed to interact with other human beings, because
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  Speaker 1: clearly the screening process is failed somewhere. Imagine having the
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  Speaker 1: gall to step into a courtroom and declare under oath
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  Speaker 1: with a straight face, that you deserve part of a
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  Speaker 1: dead woman's estate over her own children. How do you
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  Speaker 1: not spontaneously combust from shame. I would dissolve into ash.
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  Speaker 1: I would apologize to the universe and crawl into a
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  Speaker 1: shame cave and never resurface. Not these two throughout here
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  Speaker 1: throwing confetti like they just solve world hunger. And what
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  Speaker 1: the hell the argument? Anyway? What's the legal stance, your honor?
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  Speaker 1: We dusted the mantle and therefore deserve half. I once
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  Speaker 1: send an email on our behalf, and shall now claim
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom? Are we doing medieval feudalism again? Should we
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  Speaker 1: knight the gardener while we're at it? And how disgusting
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  Speaker 1: is the timing? It's the fact that they waited until
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  Speaker 1: she was gone. They didn't dare try this while Virginia
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  Speaker 1: was alive because they know exactly how it would have gone.
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  Speaker 1: They would have been launched into orbit without a helmet.
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  Speaker 1: But now now they see grief and vulnerability and think jackpot.
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  Speaker 1: It's the moral equivalent of looting a house while the
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  Speaker 1: firefighters are still dragging hoses through the living room. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: no scratch that looters at least have the decency to
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  Speaker 1: do it quietly, and don't think for a second that
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  Speaker 1: the public isn't taken notes. People have had enough of
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  Speaker 1: opportunistic barnacles who treat tragedy like a sweepsteak's entry. These
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  Speaker 1: two geniuses have officially secured their legacy. They'll poster children
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  Speaker 1: for what happens when greed rots the brain like wet
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  Speaker 1: dry wall. You ever see someone trip on a sidewalk
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  Speaker 1: because they're so busy looking at their phone that they
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  Speaker 1: face plan into a bush. That's these clowns, except instead
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  Speaker 1: of a bush, it's national outrage. Instead of a scrape knee,
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  Speaker 1: it's the annihilation of their reputations. There is a special
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  Speaker 1: circle of hell reserved for people who pray on grief.
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  Speaker 1: They'll sit right between ticket scalpers and people who fake
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  Speaker 1: injuries for lawsuits. The only thing missing is a neon
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  Speaker 1: sign that says this is why people hate humanity. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: miss me with the But they're entitled conversation. They're entitled
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  Speaker 1: to a chair, a sandwich, and a long walk off
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  Speaker 1: a short pier. The only people who should receive one
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  Speaker 1: penny from the estate are Virginia's children, not the lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: not the housekeeper, not the ups guy, not the person
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  Speaker 1: who wants held the door open for her at Starbucks.
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  Speaker 1: Greed is a disease, and these two are in the
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  Speaker 1: final stage infection, terminal, no cure. And when this blows
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  Speaker 1: up in their faces, and it will, I hope they
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the sound of the door slamming shut on their
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  Speaker 1: own dignity, not that they had any to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you look at a dead woman's kids and
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  Speaker 1: see a target instead of a responsibility, you don't deserve money.
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  Speaker 1: You deserve exile. But unfortunately, I guess that's where we're at, folks,
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  Speaker 1: a world where a mother is barely in the ground,
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  Speaker 1: where her kids are staring down the barrel of a
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  Speaker 1: future they never asked for. And instead of compassion, instead
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  Speaker 1: of space to grieve, what shows up two opportunists crawling
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  Speaker 1: out of the drywall like termites with lawsuits in their teeth,
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  Speaker 1: trying to pry loose whatever scraps they can sink into,
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  Speaker 1: not because they need it, not because they deserve it,
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  Speaker 1: but because they smelled money, and their souls evaporated. If
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  Speaker 1: you ever wanted to see the purest most unfiltered form
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  Speaker 1: of greed. You're looking at it right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: usually we're talking about Wall Street bankers, or a hedge
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  Speaker 1: fund ghoul, or some billionaire cartoon villain twirling a monocle.
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  Speaker 1: But this time it's a lawyer and a housekeeper elbowing
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  Speaker 1: their way past children who lost their mother. That's who
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  Speaker 1: decided that there wants matter more than these kids needs.
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  Speaker 1: There's no lesson here, no moral arc bending towards justice,
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  Speaker 1: no grant reviewal just the same ass rotten truth we
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  Speaker 1: keep being force fed. When there's money on the line,
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  Speaker 1: humanity leaves the room and the scavengers come marching in.
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  Speaker 1: And if you ever wondered why people are so goddamn
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  Speaker 1: angry all the time, why nobody trusts anyone anymore, why
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  Speaker 1: cynicism is the fault setting now look no further, because
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  Speaker 1: if this is what we're calling normal, if this is
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  Speaker 1: up for debate, if this is even a conversation, we're
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  Speaker 1: already lost. All of the information that goes with this
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