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Latest Epstein Files Release | Who Will Be the Next CA Governor? · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: On the air.
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  Speaker 2: Now, three million documents have been released by the Justice Department.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a lot of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 2: and foreign dignitories and tech titans and politicians and all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of very powerful men make appearances in this trove,
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  Speaker 2: and all of them have denied doing anything with his
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  Speaker 2: sexual abuse of girls and young women. Now Here is
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  Speaker 2: the problem with some of them. Some of them say
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  Speaker 2: that their friendship with Epstein, and Epstein was friends with
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  Speaker 2: everybody or even developed friendships. They have maintained that it
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  Speaker 2: was all done before two thousand and six, when publicly
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  Speaker 2: Epstein was well rat it out, if you will, for
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  Speaker 2: having sex with underage girls. And so there's pre two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and six and post two thousand and six, and
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  Speaker 2: there is the line post two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 1: It has problematic.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly post twenty nineteen gets really problematic, because that's when
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  Speaker 2: Epstein went to jail for a year. Sarah Ferguson, for example,
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  Speaker 2: who was the wife of Prince Andrew. She is in
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  Speaker 2: the emails, and she was broke, asked him to pay
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  Speaker 2: some bills that's Epstein and asked for advice before going
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  Speaker 2: on the Oprah Show. On top of that, Prince Andrew,
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  Speaker 2: he seems to be sort of the poster child of
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  Speaker 2: the personalities that were involved in Epstein. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: have the hardest time denying that. I mean, there was
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  Speaker 2: an interview that he did I think was at sixty
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  Speaker 2: minutes and he straight out denied it. I've never met
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  Speaker 2: this woman. I don't know who she is. And of
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  Speaker 2: course that infamous photo and this we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Guthrie, the young lady who.
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  Speaker 2: Wrote the book, committed suicide and was trafficked by Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: There's a picture of Andrew holding her his arm around
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  Speaker 2: her waist. Everybody is smiling. And I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 2: who disbelieves that Epstein is so involved in all of
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  Speaker 2: this that the King, King Charles has basically booted Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: No longer royal title.
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  Speaker 2: He can't be called he cannot be called a prince anymore.
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  Speaker 2: He is now Andrew Booby to his friends and family,
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  Speaker 2: no longer has title. Got kicked out of that house.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that house? He was on sixty rooms
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  Speaker 2: paid for by the government staff like crazy hot and
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  Speaker 2: cold running valets and maids and cooks and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Tell you who else is involved in all of this?
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  Speaker 2: Not involved in any of the sexual escapades, I think
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  Speaker 2: the only and by the way, even Andrew was not charged.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was charged.
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  Speaker 2: And does that mean that the government, the DOJ has
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  Speaker 2: simply ignored that and swept it under the wrong.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so, because this was during Biden where
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  Speaker 2: this information came out. It was during Obama where this
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  Speaker 2: information was public. No one has been charged. But I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you who is part of that group. And these
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  Speaker 2: are just famous ones. Keep in mind, there were hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of people that these files, the Epstein files talk about
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  Speaker 2: and relate to, And of all these hundreds, I think
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  Speaker 2: the only one close to criminality, as I said, is
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  Speaker 2: the former Prince Andrew, who is the brother of Charles who.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, did you know that Prince Andrew is
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  Speaker 2: a legitimate war hero. During the Falkland Wars, he flew
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  Speaker 2: a rescue helicopter in combat I mean being shot at
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  Speaker 2: because he was in the Royal Navy or the Royal
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  Speaker 2: Air Force at the time, and so he took quite
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  Speaker 2: a spill, to say the least in terms of a reputation,
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  Speaker 2: and so the issue here is the names that came
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  Speaker 2: out of those of the Epstein files, and part of
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  Speaker 2: the issue are dates. Two thousand and six is a
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  Speaker 2: very big date because that's when the investigation started about
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  Speaker 2: Epstein and his assaults, rapes, trafficking of minors. Twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 2: he went to prison for a year, So it's post
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. Pre twenty nineteen really is the magical dates.
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  Speaker 2: So what you have is these huge names, all of
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  Speaker 2: them denying that it was any wrongdoing, and there's no
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  Speaker 2: proof that there was.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody has been charged.
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  Speaker 2: But in the case, the most interesting one, of course
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  Speaker 2: is Donald Trump. He was mentioned more than one thousand times.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's the biggest player, and this guy is the president,
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  Speaker 2: so you would imagine he would be and he did
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  Speaker 2: have a relationship with Donald Trump, I mean with Epstein,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't seem to be anything even approaching the womanizing.
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  Speaker 2: We saw video of Trump and Epstein with a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of women, but that's how many videos do you have?
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  Speaker 2: How many pictures you have with Donald Trump involved with
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  Speaker 2: taking pictures with women? I mean, everybody who's a womanizer,
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  Speaker 2: never a youngster, never anybody as a minor.
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  Speaker 1: So let me go through some names that are part
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  Speaker 1: of these files.
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  Speaker 2: How about a guy named Elon Musk who shows up
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  Speaker 2: at least a few times email exchanges between twenty twelve
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  Speaker 2: and twenty thirteen. Again, this is before twenty nineteen when
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  Speaker 2: Epstein went to prison. And I don't even know if
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  Speaker 2: that first investigation was public. Certainly the criminal complaint was,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly him going to jail. Who was a plea
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  Speaker 2: bargain in which Epstein got away. He got a slap
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  Speaker 2: on the wrist effectively. So Epstein and Muska discuss visiting
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  Speaker 2: Epstein's Caribbean island compound.
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  Speaker 1: Not clear if the visits took place.
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  Speaker 2: Musk has maintained he repeatedly turned down Epstein's overtures, his invitations,
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  Speaker 2: and posted in twenty twenty five Epstein tried to get
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  Speaker 2: me to his island.
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  Speaker 1: I refused.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Branson a lot of emails Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Record,
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  Speaker 2: that's Branson. In a twenty thirteen exchange, Branson invites Epstein
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  Speaker 2: to his Caribbean island and I think it's Necker Island
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  Speaker 2: and hosts conferences and it's just a private.
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  Speaker 1: Island owned by somebody in this case.
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  Speaker 2: Branson in another message, this is must suggesting that Epstein
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  Speaker 2: rehabilitate his image by convincing Bill Gates to tell the
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  Speaker 2: public how Epstein had been a brilliant advisor to him.
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  Speaker 2: Gates and had more than learnt your lesson regarding Epstein
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  Speaker 2: and has done nothing against the law. Since that is problematic.
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  Speaker 2: But again this is just Branson noting this that he
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  Speaker 2: was in trouble, Epstein was in trouble, and say here's
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  Speaker 2: what you can do again, any allegation wrongdoing? No Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump over thousand we talked about that and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of uncorroborated stories.
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  Speaker 1: The Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 2: Man, did they come out and come up with the
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  Speaker 2: stories that the FBI were told the tips and said,
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  Speaker 2: this absolutely is these are uncorroborated at all. Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 2: occasionally flying on Epstein's private jet, having Epstein visit him
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  Speaker 2: at the White House. Clinton denies any knowledge of Epstein's wrongdoing,
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  Speaker 2: and Clinton's President of Clinton's representatives say that the former
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  Speaker 2: president broke off all relations with Epstein during the first
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  Speaker 2: round of criminal charges in twenty two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 2: and the file includes photos of Clinton other famous people
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  Speaker 2: that Epstein kept in his home in New York. Messages
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  Speaker 2: investigators received from members of the general public demanding to
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  Speaker 2: know why Clinton wasn't being investigated. Stephen Tish, New York
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  Speaker 2: Giants co owner, meant more than two hundred times. In
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  Speaker 2: one exchange in twenty thirteen. The subject line is Ukrainian girl,
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  Speaker 2: and Epstein encourages Tish to contact a particularly woman pro
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  Speaker 2: or civilian. Tish asks. Tish, by the way, is the
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  Speaker 2: inheritor of the Loews Corporation. He is a beneficiary. Casey
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  Speaker 2: Wasserman is one and he was the president. He is
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  Speaker 2: the president of the committee for the twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: Summer Olympics. Emails with Epstein and Julaane Maxwell, who we know.
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  Speaker 2: I think the most interesting one is Howard Lutnik, who
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  Speaker 2: is now the Commerce Secretary, visited Epstein's private island with
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  Speaker 2: his family at least once. And here's what he said
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  Speaker 2: prior to these emails going out. He said that he
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  Speaker 2: cut ties with Epstein decades ago, and he called him gross.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is is that there are emails after that
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  Speaker 2: that clearly show.
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  Speaker 1: That Lutnick and Epstein continued.
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  Speaker 2: An email relationship, and the Commerce Department comes back, doesn't refute.
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  Speaker 2: It simply says Lutnick had limited interactions with Epstein and
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  Speaker 2: the presence of his wife and has never been accused
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  Speaker 2: of any wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 1: Completely deflects.
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  Speaker 2: The issue of the timing of the timing of the email.
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  Speaker 2: Sergey Brinn, billionaire co founder of Google. Steve Bannon, who
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  Speaker 2: we know. So the list goes on. These are just
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  Speaker 2: a smattering of the big time names. And again there
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  Speaker 2: is I want to point this out, especially in the
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  Speaker 2: case of Donald Trump, there is no allegation of any wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 2: There are no photos like Andrew. They have one of
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  Speaker 2: Andrew just came out and he's there's a gall on
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  Speaker 2: the floor and he is over her and it is
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  Speaker 2: just I mean, yeah, and they have the clothes on
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  Speaker 2: and everything, but it's just absolutely disgusting. As far as Andrew,
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  Speaker 2: do you have any doubt that Andrew knew these underage girls.
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  Speaker 2: I think he specifically asked for underage girls. So he
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  Speaker 2: is done. So it's no longer Prince Andrew. I still
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  Speaker 2: think he gets a house that Charles gives him as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to being kicked out. He got kicked out of
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  Speaker 2: the big one with sixty rooms, and now he has
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  Speaker 2: a smaller home. But I still think he has staff.
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  Speaker 2: I still think he's being treated like a prince.
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  Speaker 1: All Right.
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  Speaker 2: The race for governor is coming up, and for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in twenty five years, we don't have a
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  Speaker 2: charismatic character candidate that's breaking out, no clear front runner,
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  Speaker 2: and keep in mind we're five months before the June
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  Speaker 2: primary election. Dan Schnorr, a political communications professor who looks
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  Speaker 2: at this, says, this is.
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  Speaker 1: The most wide open governor's.
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  Speaker 2: Race we've seen in California in more than a quarter
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  Speaker 2: of a century, and no precedent in the modern political
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  Speaker 2: area here in California for a campaign that is this crowded.
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  Speaker 2: Why well, voters are undecided or they're coalescing behind a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of different prominent candidates, and so no candidate has
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  Speaker 2: a really huge front runner status. Katie Porter, former representative,
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  Speaker 2: leads the pack with twenty one percent of respondents. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Former US Health and Human Services sucre Harry Javier Besserra.
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  Speaker 1: I know him, we do. It's a big name. Former
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  Speaker 1: news commentator Steve Hilton, who was on Fox. No idea
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  Speaker 1: who he is? He has fourteen percent. Riverside County Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: Chess Bianco yeah, I know who he is, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know anything about him. The point is there is
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  Speaker 2: nobody there. We've had big name personalities Arnold Schwarzenegger, eBay billionaire,
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  Speaker 2: Meg Whitman who ran and lost, Jerry Brown who ran
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  Speaker 2: and won. He's a son of Governor Pat Brown. Gavin Newsom,
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  Speaker 2: of course, huge name. He vaulted into the national spotlight.
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  Speaker 2: Actually he's become I would even argue the front runner
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  Speaker 2: on the Democratic side right now for the presidential run.
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  Speaker 2: He won big time in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: and there was a recall at him that he wiped out,
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  Speaker 2: and so he's got some creds in terms of voter backing.
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  Speaker 2: And so Porter said, Look, we've had celebrity governors. We've
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  Speaker 2: had governors who are kids of other governors. We've had
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  Speaker 2: governors who look hot with slick back hair and barn jackets.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell's a barn jacket? I have absolutely no idea,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly Newsome wears them.
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  Speaker 1: I guess in California right.
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  Speaker 2: Now is the center of a lot of stuff coming
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  Speaker 2: out of the Trump administration, the detention and deportation of
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  Speaker 2: illegal migrants. That's overshadowed the gubernatarian race. We had the
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  Speaker 2: wildfires and again the immigration raids. We've got that battle
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  Speaker 2: about redrawing congressional districts. On top of that, names that
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  Speaker 2: would instantly get major, major recognition just said no. Kamala Harris,
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm not going to run. Alex Padillo. Senator Alex
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  Speaker 2: Paddeo said no, I'm not running. Attorney General Rob Bonta,
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  Speaker 2: who has sued the Trump administration more than any other
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  Speaker 2: attorney general in the country.
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  Speaker 1: He said no.
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  Speaker 2: Rick caruse So, who ran for mayor, very well known,
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  Speaker 2: he said no. So the critical question is who the
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  Speaker 2: donors are going to decide to back, because California is
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  Speaker 2: not only the most populous state in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: and the economy you've heard many times, were the fifth
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  Speaker 2: largest economy on the planet relative to countries. Only four
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  Speaker 2: countries have bigger economies than ours, and there are forty
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  Speaker 2: million people, and it gets really expensive to run for
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  Speaker 2: governor or any statewide ballot measure. And so either people
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  Speaker 2: have to be billionaires and use their own money Rick Caruso,
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  Speaker 2: Meg Whitman, or have incredible name recognition and a donor base.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're going to need well hundreds of millions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars to run for governor, and so the donors have
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  Speaker 2: to be contacted, and there is front runner. There is
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  Speaker 2: nobody out there at this point. So you got the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic and Republican conventions approaching Republicans no one's paying attention
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  Speaker 2: to because it won't be a Republican. But it's unlikely
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  Speaker 2: that a Democrat is going to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: the nod at the convention at this point because so
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  Speaker 2: many candidates are in there now. The other thing that's
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  Speaker 2: happening is, here's what the party does. There are some
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  Speaker 2: Democratic candidates who don't have much money, little name identification,
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna be pressure to drop out, saying here,
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  Speaker 2: whatever donor base you have, move it over to this candidate,
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  Speaker 2: and also your endorsement. Not that it's going to do anything.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be an interesting race, to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: And is Gavin Newsom going to be the kingmaker here
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  Speaker 2: who he endorses?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: People are split pretty widely in terms of looking at
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  Speaker 2: Gavin U. I'll tell you where everybody, every single person
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  Speaker 2: agrees is he's got great hair and he slicks it down.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed that does he use bear grease to
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  Speaker 2: slick down his hair? And I don't know the answer
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  Speaker 2: to that. Looks like it doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the same slobber that comes out of
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  Speaker 1: his mouth when he talks that comes up and over right,
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  Speaker 1: what's bear grease? You know?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: It's grease from bear. It's you cook bear up and
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  Speaker 2: the grease that comes out, it's like bear fat. It's
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: like chicken fat. Instead you use bear fat. It's like schmaltz.
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  Speaker 2: You can look that up. Okay, Okay, look up Schmaltz.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I'm looking up bear grease. Oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think Schmaltz is much better. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Moving on to teenage boys gambling, and this has become
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  Speaker 2: a big, big deal. There's new research from common Sense
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  Speaker 2: Media nonprofit and that finds that gambling is a lot
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  Speaker 2: more common among adolescent boys than their parents realize. And
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  Speaker 2: how do they get into it Video games that's the
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  Speaker 2: most frequent way. In more than one in three boys
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  Speaker 2: from eleven to seventeen say they have gambled in the
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  Speaker 2: last year. This is a survey of more than one
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  Speaker 2: thousand boys across the US, and a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: boys encounter gambling like mechanics before they ever place a bet,
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  Speaker 2: a traditional bet.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the scary part.
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  Speaker 2: It is they don't gamble with money per se, although
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  Speaker 2: quickly moving into that and the games.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the games you.
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  Speaker 2: Do pay money for additional characters, but you're not gambling.
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  Speaker 1: Except what the study says is that this is a.
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  Speaker 2: Gateway to gambling, and it's a real game way, unlike
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  Speaker 2: marijuana that was always deemed a gateway to hard drugs.
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  Speaker 2: I remember my dad when he caught me smoking when
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  Speaker 2: I was a teenager, and he literally thought, as I
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  Speaker 2: put the joint down, I pick up a syringe full
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  Speaker 2: of heroin and injected directly into my eyeballs. It can
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  Speaker 2: do cocaine before or after you did pop? Oh way after.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't start doing cocaine. No, you know what was
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  Speaker 2: the gateway drug? The bar exam was my gateway drug,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: taking the bar because I was working full time taking
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  Speaker 2: the Bar review course, and it was so I had
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  Speaker 2: to stay awake because I was up for twenty hours
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  Speaker 2: a day.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, different story.
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  Speaker 2: In any case, this gambling business is really problematic in
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  Speaker 2: this story. This study shows early exposure kids are sensitive
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  Speaker 2: to rewards, risk taking, peers, influence.
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  Speaker 1: That's what these games are about.
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  Speaker 2: And even though no money per se changes hands, what
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  Speaker 2: this is is a precursor.
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  Speaker 1: It teaches the boys.
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  Speaker 2: How to gamble without gambling, and so the move into gambling,
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  Speaker 2: the move into spending money is a very easy.
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  Speaker 1: Shot, and boy, the numbers prove it out one.
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  Speaker 2: So most by the time they're actually gambling gambling have
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  Speaker 2: already spent real money because the systems don't look like
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  Speaker 2: gambling to the kids. But they rely That's how sophisticated
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  Speaker 2: it is. They rely on the same psychological hooks, chance, anticipation,
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  Speaker 2: and reward. These are not just games that are thrown
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  Speaker 2: up there. People who develop these big games are in
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  Speaker 2: fact very cognizant of what they're doing. And again the
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  Speaker 2: boys are saying, now, the ads don't push them to
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  Speaker 2: gamble because a lot of ads on top of.
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  Speaker 1: What they're looking at.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have ads from sports betting and video
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  Speaker 2: game gambling and online gambling and casino games.
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  Speaker 1: These are casino games.
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  Speaker 2: These are just thrown at you peer to peer, and
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  Speaker 2: traditional games are there. I mean, fan duel, DraftKings, bet
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  Speaker 2: MGM are used constantly and it's interspersed and they're designed
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  Speaker 2: to get guys kids gambling, and parents don't really realize
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  Speaker 2: it because it becomes a slippery slope.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's just a game.
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  Speaker 2: My daughter plays these games and she buys characters to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: dive deeper into the games. And when I go, why
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: would you do that? It's just a game. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: I can play it more in a more sophisticated way.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I can play it longer, I have more avenues, they
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  Speaker 2: have different ways of doing it. Dad, can I use
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: your credit card? So I am not overly thrilled with
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: those games. I see these credit card bills now, the
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: average adolescent it's only fifty four dollars a year is
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: what they spend, which is still real money, but you
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: add that up, it becomes real money. And it's these
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: games are designed to get young kids or young adolescent boys,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: particularly into the gaming world, and they're just starting to
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: realize how crappy that is. And again, that's the Internet
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: on the other side, that's the evil part of the Internet.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened in mankind.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: It's going to go down as literally one of the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: greatest influence that humanity has ever had. Fire is one
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: the wheel is another computers, and I think the Internet
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: and computers are going to be combined historically. But can
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: you imagine that's the importance of this stuff. And then
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: you have the negative. You have the body shaming where
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: people kill themselves. You have AI where we don't know
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: what the truth is anymore. On the Internet, we have
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: conspiracy theorists. I've said many times it used to be
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the only way you ever listened to a conspiracy theorist
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: is outside of your office building, some guy with a
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: bullhorn screaming on the corner. That was your conspiracy theorists.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Today you just describe John Cobel you are a rude bastard.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: That's so true, well said.
• 24:37
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• 24:43
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