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Epstein Victim Reportedly on Deathbed—Still No Files (Ep.172) · V

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Speaker 1: Virginia Jeffrey, the most prominent victim of Jeffrey Epstein, who
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Speaker 1: accused Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her at 17, says
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Speaker 1: that she has days left to live. Virginia, a now
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Speaker 1: mother of three, was hit by a bus, she says,
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Speaker 1: and is now suffering from kidney failure after the crash
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Speaker 1: she wrote in a post. I am ready to go,
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Speaker 1: just not until I see my babies one last time.
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Speaker 1: But you know what they say about wishes in one hand,
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Speaker 1: shit in one hand and wish in the other. And
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Speaker 1: I guarantee it's going to be shit at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day. Now, Virginia Joffrey was trafficked by Jeffrey
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Speaker 1: Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell starting in 2000 when she was
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Speaker 1: 16 years old. Virginia says that she was recruited by
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Speaker 1: Maxwell while working as a spa attendant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
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Speaker 1: Club in Florida. And this was under the pretense of
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Speaker 1: becoming a massage therapist for Jeffrey Epstein. Of course, that
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Speaker 1: is not what happened at all. Virginia asserts that she
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Speaker 1: was then sexually abused by Epstein and Ghislaine and coerced
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Speaker 1: into a trafficking scheme where she was flown to various
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Speaker 1: locations all across the world, Jeffrey Epstein's private island, New York,
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Speaker 1: New Mexico, and other parts to be exploited by Epstein
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Speaker 1: and his wealthy associates. And she was instructed to please
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Speaker 1: these wealthy associates as part of an organized sexual abuse operation.
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Speaker 1: Here is Virginia accusing Prince Andrew of being one of
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Speaker 1: these powerful associates of Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 2: I was so young. Ghislaine woke me up in the
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Speaker 2: morning and said, you're going to meet a prince today.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know at that point that I was going
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Speaker 2: to be trafficked to that prince. And then that night,
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Speaker 2: Prince Andrew came to her house in London and We
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Speaker 2: went out to Club Tramp. Prince Andrew got me alcohol.
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Speaker 2: It was in the VIP section. I'm pretty sure it
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Speaker 2: was vodka. Prince Andrew was like, let's dance together. And
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Speaker 2: I was like, OK. And we leave Club Tramp. And
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Speaker 2: I hop in the car with Ghislaine and Jeffrey. And
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Speaker 2: Ghislaine said he's coming back to the house. And I
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Speaker 2: want you to do for him what you do for Epstein.
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Speaker 2: I just couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that even
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Speaker 2: royalty were involved.
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Speaker 1: Now, Prince Andrew denies all of these allegations he has
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Speaker 1: for many years. And he actually enthusiastically denied the allegations
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Speaker 1: with remarkable openness back in 2019. In November of 2019,
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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew sat down for an interview with the BBC.
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Speaker 1: And this is an incredible interview. I highly suggest that
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Speaker 1: everybody at the end of the show... go and watch
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Speaker 1: the full Jeffrey Epstein 2019 interview with the BBC. It's
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Speaker 1: an insane interview. I've never seen anything like it. He
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Speaker 1: makes these bizarre excuses for why he didn't abuse Virginia,
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Speaker 1: and he refuses to sympathize with the victims in a
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Speaker 1: very bizarre way. If you think if you did nothing wrong,
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Speaker 1: you'd be like, well, of course. I'm so sorry that
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Speaker 1: this happened to these women. This was completely wrong. I
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Speaker 1: don't want any part of this. I had no part
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Speaker 1: in it. There would be some sort of sympathy for
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Speaker 1: the people who were verifiably abused by Jeffrey Epstein. And
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Speaker 1: he just had no sympathy whatsoever. And he actually said
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Speaker 1: that he didn't know Virginia, which is a little weird
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Speaker 1: because there's a photo of Virginia and Prince Andrew together
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Speaker 1: with Glenn Maxwell just on the side. Do we have
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Speaker 1: that photo, Michael? He's going to pull it up for us.
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Speaker 1: But it's, I mean, this is pre-AI that this photo
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Speaker 1: was circulating the internet. It was very clearly Prince Andrew
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Speaker 1: and and Virginia together. And he wouldn't say, well, I
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Speaker 1: don't think I knew her. I don't think I've ever
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Speaker 1: met this woman. It's like, if you've never met her,
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Speaker 1: then just say you've never met her. But obviously he's
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Speaker 1: not saying that because there's a picture of them together.
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Speaker 1: Here is Andrew refuting Virginia by claiming at the time
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Speaker 1: of his alleged encounter with her that he was incapable
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Speaker 1: of sweating. Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: She described dancing with you and you profusely sweating and
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Speaker 3: that she went on to have bath possibly.
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Speaker 4: There's a slight problem with the sweating because I have
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Speaker 4: a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don't sweat
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Speaker 4: or I didn't sweat at the time. And that was, oh, actually, yes,
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Speaker 4: I didn't sweat at the time because I, I had
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Speaker 4: suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline
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Speaker 4: in the Falklands War when I was shot at. And
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Speaker 4: I simply, it was almost impossible for me to sweat.
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Speaker 4: And it's only because I have done a number of
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Speaker 4: things in the recent past that I'm starting to be
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Speaker 4: able to do that again. So I'm afraid to say
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Speaker 4: that there's a medical condition that says that I didn't
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Speaker 4: do it, so therefore.
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Speaker 1: Is it possible? There he is. There's Prince Andrew. In Virginia,
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Speaker 1: with Ghislaine, right in the side. There's the operator of
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Speaker 1: this whole trafficking ring, standing right there to the side.
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Speaker 1: Can you guys believe that? Well, I wasn't capable of sweating,
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Speaker 1: so that can't be true. It couldn't have been me
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Speaker 1: dancing with her and sweating profusely as he's in that
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Speaker 1: interview sweating. You just see it. And on numerous occasions
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Speaker 1: in public events, you can see throughout the years, Prince
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Speaker 1: Andrew sweating. He's definitely capable of sweating. The whole excuse
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Speaker 1: is bizarre and insane. Absurd that he even thought regular
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Speaker 1: people would buy this lie. And it's like a movie.
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Speaker 1: I said it's like a movie. And in fact, they
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Speaker 1: actually did make a movie just about this interview. It's
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Speaker 1: called Scoop. It's on Netflix. It's a good movie. I've
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Speaker 1: seen it. But really, the real thing you should watch
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Speaker 1: is this full 2019 interview because it is.
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Speaker 2: Insane.
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Speaker 1: It's insane. I mean, it makes sense why they made
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Speaker 1: a movie about it, because it was just too insane
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Speaker 1: to even make up. And frankly, I think that Prince
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Speaker 1: Andrew is not the sharpest tool in the shed. That
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Speaker 1: kind of plays into it as well, that he thought, hmm,
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Speaker 1: it'll be a good idea for me to sit down
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Speaker 1: in an interview and actually dig into this and get
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Speaker 1: asked tough questions by the BBC. I think he thinks
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Speaker 1: that he's a very smart individual, and he obviously is not,
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Speaker 1: because at the end of this interview, which was a
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Speaker 1: dumpster fire, it went horribly for Prince Andrew. He actually
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Speaker 1: gave the journalist a tour of the palace. He was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that was a great little conversation we had. Here's a
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Speaker 1: tour of the palace. He is dumb. He's an idiot.
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Speaker 1: That interview was horrendous. And Prince Andrew, understandably, had a
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Speaker 1: lot of backlash after it came out. And he was
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Speaker 1: subsequently forced to step back from royal duties because the
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Speaker 1: regular people in America and in the UK and just
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Speaker 1: across the world were disgusted by him. It was very
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Speaker 1: obvious that he was lying. And he hasn't faced... any
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Speaker 1: real consequences for his partnership with Jeffrey Epstein and potentially
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Speaker 1: the accusations of him being involved in sexually abusing young women,
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Speaker 1: young girls. The royal family has refused to cooperate with
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Speaker 1: the FBI. They've refused to force Prince Andrew to cooperate
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Speaker 1: with the FBI. He's just being protected by the UK,
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Speaker 1: by this ally of America. Oh, the UK, they're such
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Speaker 1: an ally of the... No, are they an ally of
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Speaker 1: the US? Because their prince... was part of a sexual
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Speaker 1: trafficking ring of children, and still no accountability from him.
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Speaker 1: He still won't go meet with the FBI, to the
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Speaker 1: point where the FBI in New York actually had to
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Speaker 1: shelve their investigation into Prince Andrew because they have no leads,
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Speaker 1: because he refuses to cooperate. Again, the UK is supposedly
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Speaker 1: an ally of the US, are they? In addition to
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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew, Virginia has accused Victoria's Secret's founder, Les Wexner
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Speaker 1: and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson of taking part
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Speaker 1: in Epstein's sex trafficking ring, among others. Again, all of
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Speaker 1: these men denied taking part in Epstein's child trafficking, sexual
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Speaker 1: trafficking ring. And there have been, there's been zero accountability
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Speaker 1: for any of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual blackmail ring participants. And
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Speaker 1: now apparently Virginia is going to die. Apparently, she says.
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Speaker 1: And my question is, where are the Epstein files? Where
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Speaker 1: are they? Somebody made a comment, because you guys already
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Speaker 1: knew where I was going with this show. Somebody made
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Speaker 1: a comment at the beginning of the show. Well, you know, Evita,
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Speaker 1: she's just too obsessed with this case, and they have
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Speaker 1: to build a case if there's going to be anything happening,
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Speaker 1: and we have to just wait. We have to give
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Speaker 1: them time. Virginia accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually exploiting her
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Speaker 1: in 2009. 2009. Jeffrey Epstein wasn't even arrested yet. until
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Speaker 1: like a decade later. Prince Andrew didn't respond to anything
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Speaker 1: until 2019 because he didn't have to, because there were
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Speaker 1: no law enforcement investigations. Nobody was doing anything. Everybody was
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Speaker 1: ignoring her and calling her crazy, as well as other
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Speaker 1: victims of Jeffrey Epstein. And now we've shelved the case.
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Speaker 1: We're just asking for the files. We just want to
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Speaker 1: know the truth. There's no ongoing investigation that's been announced
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Speaker 1: by the Trump administration that And I'm not slamming the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration here. I mean, we don't know what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen. That's true. But I'm telling you, there's been
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Speaker 1: no public announcement that anyone's building a case for anything
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Speaker 1: related to Jeffrey Epstein. And I'm not even asking for
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Speaker 1: that at this point. I'm just like, I just want
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Speaker 1: the truth. I just want the files. We need to
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Speaker 1: know who was involved in this. We need to have
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Speaker 1: the videos that the FBI collected and then never released
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Speaker 1: to the public. We need to know who was involved
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Speaker 1: in actually orchestrating the sexual trafficking ring because it wasn't
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Speaker 1: just a trafficking ring. It was a blackmail ring. That's
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Speaker 1: very obvious that it was a intelligence blackmail ring. And
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Speaker 1: we need to know the truth about who was behind
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Speaker 1: the intelligence blackmailing. And I'm sure that the United States
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Speaker 1: plays a role in it and they probably want to
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Speaker 1: protect themselves, but this is a new admin and we
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Speaker 1: were promised disclosure. And I think we deserve disclosure. We
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Speaker 1: need the Epstein files, not just for justice, but for
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Speaker 1: the soul of this country. Virginia and so many others
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Speaker 1: bravely came forward and for years, no one listened. And
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Speaker 1: she was telling the truth about Jeffrey Epstein. And she
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Speaker 1: will probably die without any kind of justice. And I
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Speaker 1: really don't want to see that happen. For these files
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Speaker 1: to never be released would be an unforgivable failure. So
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Speaker 1: we need to know that princes and billionaires and governors
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Speaker 1: and major financial Jeffrey Epsteins of the world are not
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Speaker 1: above the law. We need to show victims that their
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Speaker 1: pain is not invisible and to remind the world that
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Speaker 1: the truth does matter. And silence in the face of
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Speaker 1: evil is complicity. I think we need to reinitiate discussions
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Speaker 1: with the UK. I hope the Trump admin does that.
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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew has to be compelled to cooperate with the US.
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Speaker 1: The UK is supposedly a US ally. Well, they should
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Speaker 1: act like it. This doesn't look good for transparency when
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Speaker 1: we are still waiting on these files after Bindergate and
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Speaker 1: everything else that we've been promised by Pam Bondi. We
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Speaker 1: want to know that There is real disclosure and real
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Speaker 1: justice in this country. So we need to know who
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Speaker 1: ran the blackmail operation. We need to know who exactly
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Speaker 1: was involved and who was involved in abusing children. And
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Speaker 1: we need accountability beyond just Ghislaine Maxwell. This is an
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Speaker 1: entire trafficking ring. There are more people involved, clearly, who
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Speaker 1: have skirted any kind of accountability for years now, and
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Speaker 1: it needs to stop.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: we're going to keep talking about the UK because I
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Speaker 1: have a lot of problems with that country today. Few
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Speaker 1: stories that make me really angry at the UK and questioning, again,
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Speaker 1: why we are considering the UK a US ally. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they are. We'll be right back. Speaking of
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Speaker 1: the UK, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday met with
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Speaker 1: the Netflix creators of the film Adolescence. And we've covered
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Speaker 1: Adolescence before, but if you don't know, It is this
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Speaker 1: famous new Netflix miniseries. It was number one on Netflix
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Speaker 1: for a few weeks, might still be number one. And
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Speaker 1: it is about a working class little white boy, he's 13,
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Speaker 1: and he gets red pilled on the internet, becomes right wing,
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Speaker 1: and then he stabs a little girl to death in
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Speaker 1: his class. That's the synopsis, that's the story. You become
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Speaker 1: red pilled online, you listen to man influencers, then suddenly
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Speaker 1: you'll stab little girls in the streets. That's the message
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Speaker 1: of adolescence. The Starmer said that he is welcoming and
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Speaker 1: moved by Netflix to make the series available to screen
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Speaker 1: for free in secondary schools in the UK. And then
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Speaker 1: he wrote on X after this meeting, as a father
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Speaker 1: watching adolescence with my teenage son and daughter hit home hard,
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Speaker 1: we all need to be having these conversations more. I've
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Speaker 1: backed Netflix's plan to show the series for free in
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Speaker 1: schools across the country. So as many young people as
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Speaker 1: possible can see it. And we talked about this before,
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Speaker 1: but the question to the chat is, is there an epidemic?
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Speaker 1: of little white working class boys killing little girls? The
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Speaker 1: answer is no. But now I guess the UK is
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Speaker 1: going to be driving policies around this complete and utter
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Speaker 1: work of fiction. What are people saying, Michael?
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Speaker 3: No, no.
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Speaker 1: Leave the kids alone. Yep, the chat knows. We've covered
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Speaker 1: this before. You guys know what's going on. It is absurd.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, Netflix has not made a miniseries
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Speaker 1: on real problems in the UK. like the Pakistani rape
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Speaker 1: gang that targeted over a thousand working class white British
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Speaker 1: women and girls, or the rise of female genital mutilation
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Speaker 1: in parts of the UK with heavy Muslim concentrations, Muslim
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Speaker 1: migrant concentrations, I should add. I want to play for
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Speaker 1: you all a clip from adolescence, blaming the Tate brothers,
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Speaker 1: Andrew and Tristan Tate, for the fictional murder that this
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Speaker 1: young boy committed. Take a listen to this. No, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what that is. What is it?
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Speaker 3: It's the involuntary celibate stuff.
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Speaker 2: It's the Andrew Tate.
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Speaker 1: Oh. Hell.
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Speaker 2: I've heard the boys talking about him.
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Speaker 1: Okay. The dumbest part of that clip Andrew Tate does
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Speaker 1: not support incel culture. He's not supportive of men involuntarily
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Speaker 1: becoming celibate. The guy is a polyamorous Muslim who tells
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Speaker 1: men to get a job and work out so they
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Speaker 1: can sleep with as many women as possible. That's the
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Speaker 1: Andrew Tate ethos, not incel. Completely different situation. Not very Christian,
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Speaker 1: I should add, but in fact, Andrew Tate is not Christian.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, he is a Muslim man, but he
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Speaker 1: is part of the manosphere. What I mean by the manosphere,
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Speaker 1: I'm It's this just sort of right-wing ecosystem of male
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Speaker 1: influencers who are speaking to disaffected young men. And this
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Speaker 1: gets at, that clip gets at the heart of what
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Speaker 1: this movie is about. It isn't commentary on a real
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Speaker 1: social issue. It is a targeted political attack on red-pilled men.
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Speaker 1: Here in the U.S., Gen Z men swung 30 points
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Speaker 1: to the political right over the last four years. 20-year-old
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Speaker 1: white men currently dislike Democrats more than 75-year-old and over
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Speaker 1: white men. And this is thanks to the manosphere. It's
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Speaker 1: not thanks to these little think tanks and outreach organizations
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Speaker 1: for youths that have been gobbling up cash for years
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Speaker 1: and years and years and have done nothing. No, it's
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Speaker 1: the manosphere. Guys like Andrew Tate who preached about resisting
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Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns and working out and being assertive. And I
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Speaker 1: don't even agree with everything Andrew Tate says, but I
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Speaker 1: can tell you that the manosphere is why the right
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Speaker 1: is having inroads with young men. That's the reason. Like
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Speaker 1: it or not, that's the reason. And I don't even
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Speaker 1: want to discuss the merits or even the sick crap
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Speaker 1: that Andrew Tate has said and done in the past.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of irrelevant to this conversation. I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: why adolescents mentioned him outright. Jack Posobiec has a clue.
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Speaker 1: He wrote on X yesterday. The goal of adolescence isn't
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Speaker 1: just to vilify young white men. It's to create a
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Speaker 1: bed of support for censorship of conservatives online. This is
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Speaker 1: the fake YouTube pipeline to extremism narrative that has no
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Speaker 1: real examples, so they make a fictional show. And Jack
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Speaker 1: is right. There is indeed a political shift underway right now.
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Speaker 1: Young men are leaving the left in droves and embracing democracy. traditionalism.
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Speaker 1: They're embracing populism and masculinity. And oftentimes with men like
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Speaker 1: Andrew Tate, that's a gateway into this right-wing traditional populist
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Speaker 1: red pill movement. And these young men, they're rejecting globalism.
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Speaker 1: What's happened in the U.S.? Five million, over five million,
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Speaker 1: mostly male manufacturing jobs have been lost in the last
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Speaker 1: two decades. You have DEI, the social disarray. They're taking
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Speaker 1: back the West. And this is terrifying because to illiberal
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Speaker 1: elites across the West. So the institutional left wants to
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Speaker 1: justify preventing men from speaking online. This is 100% a
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Speaker 1: pretext for online censorship. We have to stop voices like
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Speaker 1: Andrew Tate. We have to stop other voices in the
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Speaker 1: manosphere in order to make sure little girls aren't getting
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Speaker 1: stabbed in the middle of the street. But that's not
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Speaker 1: even happening.
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Speaker 2: It's not happening.
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Speaker 1: It's not about little girls getting stabbed. It's about protecting
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Speaker 1: the political interests of a liberal elite that wants to
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Speaker 1: maintain power in the West. So they're creating this fake
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Speaker 1: narrative that little boys are killing little girls and it's
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Speaker 1: not happening because they supposedly listened to Andrew Tate. This
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Speaker 1: is transparently about stifling the male driven right wing vibe
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Speaker 1: shift that is taking back the West. And we need
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Speaker 1: men to stand up and defend the homeland. And I'm
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Speaker 1: really perplexed, frankly, by all of the right wing voices
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Speaker 1: who are joining in on the left and piling on
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Speaker 1: Andrew Tate and piling on the Manosphere and saying, we
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Speaker 1: need better influencers.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Why don't you then contribute? Why don't you then join
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Speaker 1: the Manosphere and try to have a Christian voice in it?
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Speaker 1: And by the way, there are Christian voices in the Manosphere.
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Speaker 1: By piling on and saying, we have this problem with
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Speaker 1: men being influenced by other male influencers that are not
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Speaker 1: perfectly aligned with traditional conservative values, you are adding to
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Speaker 1: the voices of the left who are again demonizing the influencers,
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Speaker 1: but also the men who listen to them as a
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Speaker 1: pretext for censorship because they don't like the vibe shift
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Speaker 1: that is objectively good for conservatives. So why are conservatives
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Speaker 1: piling on? I don't understand. I will never join this movement.
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Speaker 1: It's so stupid. It's moronic to join this movement of
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Speaker 1: leftists who are trying to demonize the young men to
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Speaker 1: take back the West and stand up for themselves. And
19:43
Speaker 1: there is a war on populism. This is part of
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Speaker 1: a broader movement. It's not just about Andrew Tate and
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Speaker 1: the manosphere and speech censorship and young men. This is
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Speaker 1: much bigger than that. Yesterday, Marine Le Pen, a prominent
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Speaker 1: French politician, political figure, was convicted of embezzling European Union funds, supposedly.
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Speaker 1: She has been sentenced to two years in prison and
20:06
Speaker 1: banned from holding public office for five years. And this
20:11
Speaker 1: ban disqualifies her from running for the 2027 French presidential election,
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Speaker 1: even if she appeals the sentence. The conviction has sparked,
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Speaker 1: of course, international reaction. People are all discussing this because
20:26
Speaker 1: this really is, again, another example of fear of the people.
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Speaker 1: It's about populism. Because what's the real issue in, say,
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Speaker 1: the UK? Right, it's mass immigration. This is the cause
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Speaker 1: of the social upheaval. Anytime you flood a nation with,
20:43
Speaker 1: and I say UK, but I mean the entire European Union,
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Speaker 1: you flood a nation with migrants who share nothing in
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Speaker 1: common with the host country, then there's going to be unrest.
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Speaker 1: This is just natural. This is just what happens when
20:54
Speaker 1: you orchestrate social chaos. So they have to make a
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Speaker 1: movie about a fake issue in order to demonize the
21:01
Speaker 1: people interested in addressing the real issue. And again, this
21:03
Speaker 1: is happening all across the US. They are trying to
21:07
Speaker 1: squash nationalism. They are trying to squash populism. So Marine
21:11
Speaker 1: Le Pen was convicted supposedly of embezzling these funds. She's
21:14
Speaker 1: been disqualified. And she is, well, before this happened, she
21:20
Speaker 1: was leading in opinion polls for this 2027 election in France.
21:26
Speaker 1: And again, guys, this is a pattern. So she's doing great.
21:30
Speaker 1: She's probably going to win. And then they say, oh yeah,
21:32
Speaker 1: we're going to convict you of something that prevents you
21:34
Speaker 1: from even being allowed to hold public office. And the
21:39
Speaker 1: circumstances of this conviction, very suspect. Nobody is really buying it.
21:42
Speaker 1: And as Mike Benz pointed out, it's Marine Le Pen
21:45
Speaker 1: in France, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Imran Khan in Pakistan, Matteo
21:49
Speaker 1: Slavany in Italy, Donald Trump in America, Colin Georgescu in Romania.
21:54
Speaker 1: The illiberal Western elite will wage lawfare against any populist
21:57
Speaker 1: candidate who threatens their power. This is the playbook. They
22:00
Speaker 1: could care less about democracy and They're literally just banning
22:05
Speaker 1: their opponents from holding public office. They do this across
22:09
Speaker 1: the West. It is that simple. Here is Mike Benz.
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Speaker 5: In the months after Trump's election in 2016, they were
22:19
Speaker 5: making the argument that maybe democracy was a mistake because
22:21
Speaker 5: it leads to outcomes like Donald Trump and Brexit. And
22:25
Speaker 5: at the time, NATO, its biggest fear was free speech
22:28
Speaker 5: on the internet because it's allowing the rise of Marine
22:30
Speaker 5: Le Pen in France, and Pennsylvania in Italy, to the
22:32
Speaker 5: Vox Party in Spain, AFD in Germany, so we would
22:34
Speaker 5: have Frexit, Brexit, it'll exit, spags it, the entire EU
22:37
Speaker 5: would come undone, which meant NATO's commercial arm comes undone,
22:40
Speaker 5: which means NATO comes undone, which means there's no enforcement
22:43
Speaker 5: arm for the IMF and the World Bank. It would
22:45
Speaker 5: be like the ending scene from Fight Club where the
22:47
Speaker 5: credit card companies all crash down just because you're allowed
22:50
Speaker 5: to speak your mind on the internet.
22:52
Speaker 3: This is so sick.
22:57
Speaker 1: We think we've won with President Trump. And we have won.
23:04
Speaker 1: for four years here in America. But the answer really
23:08
Speaker 1: truly is that this fight is global and it matters
23:11
Speaker 1: what happens in Europe. And Robbie Starbuck said that there
23:15
Speaker 1: should be a blanket, there should be blanket economic sanctions
23:19
Speaker 1: on the elite leftists in France until this stops. And
23:22
Speaker 1: I think he's right. We can't just be thinking about ourselves.
23:25
Speaker 1: And I, I tend to be very America first, prioritize America,
23:29
Speaker 1: think about just America. But I also think that there
23:33
Speaker 1: is an argument to be made that we need to
23:35
Speaker 1: save Europe from itself. I want America to put America first,
23:40
Speaker 1: but even J.D. Vance will say we have an interest
23:43
Speaker 1: in Europe not becoming totally undemocratic. They're like our big brother,
23:49
Speaker 1: but we have to say to them, you know, stop
23:52
Speaker 1: acting like tyrants. You need some tough love because it
23:56
Speaker 1: affects us too. The fight is not over. I want
23:58
Speaker 1: you to take a listen to what the president of
24:01
Speaker 1: the George Soros Open Society Foundation just admitted that they're
24:05
Speaker 1: working behind the scenes to do?
24:06
Speaker 3: It really is. It's a moment in the world where
24:11
Speaker 3: we're being called on to redesign the world. All of us,
24:15
Speaker 3: in whichever space we occupy, this is a time where
24:20
Speaker 3: what we do now will shape the next 50 years.
24:23
Speaker 3: And so the design school is the best place to
24:27
Speaker 3: have a discussion about the state of the world, even
24:29
Speaker 3: though it wouldn't have been obvious at first glance.
24:33
Speaker 1: I just want to address some of your commenting and saying, no,
24:35
Speaker 1: we need to get rid of Europe, decouple ourselves from
24:39
Speaker 1: the EU. We're not in the EU. But I think
24:42
Speaker 1: what I'm saying by that is let's sanction countries that
24:47
Speaker 1: are doing evil things. That doesn't mean that we're going
24:49
Speaker 1: to put boots on the ground in France. That's ridiculous.
24:53
Speaker 1: So I think it's more punishing them for bad behavior.
24:56
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by getting involved, by saving Europe
24:59
Speaker 1: from itself. Now, let's talk about that video, what she said.
25:03
Speaker 1: Redesign the world. With what? What does the Open Society
25:09
Speaker 1: Foundation do? Installing DAs who purposely allow violent criminals to
25:14
Speaker 1: terrorize Americans? That's what the Open Society Foundation does. They
25:18
Speaker 1: fund NGOs to house illegals, fueling the open border crisis.
25:22
Speaker 1: They fund trans insanity in schools and BLM and Antifa.
25:25
Speaker 1: They actually fund Antifa. They fund opposition campaigns to nationalists
25:30
Speaker 1: across the West and put CRT in the classrooms. These
25:33
Speaker 1: people didn't take a pause from reimagining the world after
25:38
Speaker 1: Trump got elected. Yeah, they're stifled a little bit by
25:41
Speaker 1: President Trump by cutting USAID funding and just signaling that
25:47
Speaker 1: America has a new ethos. But all this is to
25:50
Speaker 1: say that it isn't just about Marine Le Pen. It's
25:53
Speaker 1: about every ordinary citizen in the West who dares to
25:55
Speaker 1: speak up against the machine. It's about whether democratic systems
25:59
Speaker 1: will belong to the people or whether they've been hijacked
26:01
Speaker 1: by unelected globalists who continually weaponize the judiciary, the press,
26:06
Speaker 1: the NGO industrial complex to enforce their will on the people.
26:10
Speaker 1: The same network that works to destabilize Europe are the
26:13
Speaker 1: ones flooding American cities with crime and chaos and engineered demoralization.
26:18
Speaker 1: If the will of the people can be erased with
26:20
Speaker 1: a courtroom pen, then voting is no longer governance. It's
26:24
Speaker 1: just cedar. And they tried to do this to Trump
26:27
Speaker 1: here in America. They tried. Do you guys remember the
26:30
Speaker 1: lawfare that he faced before the election? This is global.
26:36
Speaker 1: And we have to look outside of our borders and
26:40
Speaker 1: see what's happening and make decisions accordingly. We are really
26:44
Speaker 1: the world leaders right now. The populist movements across the
26:47
Speaker 1: West are looking to us for guidance. They're looking to
26:49
Speaker 1: us for hope. And that's a big responsibility to bear.
26:52
Speaker 1: And I think that we have to bear it. I
26:55
Speaker 1: have more UK insanity for you all. Again, this is Europe,
26:59
Speaker 1: just civilizational suicide, I guess, over there. The UK government
27:03
Speaker 1: is proposing taking a staggering 9% of England's farmland just
27:07
Speaker 1: out of production to meet climate and environmental targets. Now,
27:11
Speaker 1: so far, the plan has been flying under the radar
27:16
Speaker 1: on purpose, of course, because this is terribly unpopular. But
27:19
Speaker 1: the new land use framework, that's what it's called, talks
27:23
Speaker 1: all about balancing housing and nature goals and energy and
27:26
Speaker 1: even new towns. all at the expense of, of course,
27:29
Speaker 1: food security, because what happens when you just say, yeah,
27:32
Speaker 1: 9% of farmland, it's gone? Well, it's going to be
27:35
Speaker 1: a big, dramatic decrease in the amount of food production
27:38
Speaker 1: that the UK has. And at a time when farmers
27:41
Speaker 1: are already stretched thin by rising costs, regulatory pressures, political uncertainty,
27:47
Speaker 1: this seems like a very stupid move. The government insists
27:50
Speaker 1: that it will target only the least productive land, but
27:52
Speaker 1: any farmer knows that even marginal land can be vital
27:56
Speaker 1: for grazing and rotations, long-term sustainability. So all this, of course,
28:00
Speaker 1: echoes the deeply controversial policies that ignited the Dutch farmers protests.
28:05
Speaker 1: And we're seeing this across the West. Again, this is
28:07
Speaker 1: not just, this is not about environmental stewardship, but this
28:10
Speaker 1: rise of a new ideological regime that we all call
28:14
Speaker 1: the climate cult. Again, this is something that we have
28:19
Speaker 1: seen under the United States and in Europe in the
28:26
Speaker 1: Netherlands or just all over the place. And these climate cultists,
28:31
Speaker 1: these adherents of this net zero goal, it really does
28:36
Speaker 1: have a religious component to it that I don't think
28:38
Speaker 1: it's talked about enough. It's like a gospel. Like carbon
28:41
Speaker 1: is a sin. Bureaucrats are these priests. The destruction of
28:45
Speaker 1: food producing land is treated like a sacred sacrifice to
28:50
Speaker 1: appease the earth. In this worldview, There is no room
28:53
Speaker 1: for any kind of balance, no reverence for human livelihoods,
28:57
Speaker 1: and certainly no respect for the farmers who are consistently
29:02
Speaker 1: undervalued here and across the world. Policies like the land
29:07
Speaker 1: use framework represent really Western suicide. Systemically dismantling our own
29:14
Speaker 1: ability to feed ourselves in the name of this utopian
29:17
Speaker 1: climate dogma, all while handing over power to unelected technocrats,
29:22
Speaker 1: who've never set foot in a field. All of you
29:28
Speaker 1: guys thought I was done with the UK, and I
29:29
Speaker 1: wish I was done with the UK, but I'm not
29:31
Speaker 1: done with the UK because this next story is, well,
29:34
Speaker 1: it's UK-US story. Beloved UK writer and intellectual C.S. Lewis's
29:40
Speaker 1: kids book series, Narnia, is currently being turned into a
29:44
Speaker 1: Netflix show, another horrible Netflix show that we're going to
29:47
Speaker 1: talk about. And everything that we've learned about this new
29:50
Speaker 1: Narnia adaptation is just, it's bad news.
29:53
Speaker 6: Bad news.
29:54
Speaker 1: So first we found out it was going to be
29:56
Speaker 1: directed by feminist Barbie director Greta Gerwig And then we
30:00
Speaker 1: learned that the series is going to be rock and
30:03
Speaker 1: roll themed, I guess. And that the Kamala Harris brat singer,
30:08
Speaker 1: Charlie XCX, could be playing the White Witch. And now
30:12
Speaker 1: we've learned that Meryl Streep is rumored to have been
30:15
Speaker 1: offered the role of Aslan. Can the chat tell me
30:20
Speaker 1: what is the problem with Meryl Streep playing Aslan? Does
30:23
Speaker 1: anybody know what the problem is with Meryl Streep playing Aslan?
30:25
Speaker 1: I think I can feel this one. Yeah, what's the answer, Michael?
30:28
Speaker 5: She's a girl.
30:30
Speaker 1: She's a girl. She is a girl. And what does
30:33
Speaker 1: Aslan represent? Michael, what does Aslan represent?
30:37
Speaker 6: God.
30:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, Aslan represents God himself in Narnia. So this would
30:41
Speaker 1: be purposely distorting the theological symbolism underpinning the entire show,
30:48
Speaker 1: underpinning the entire book. It is undermining the incarnational reality
30:53
Speaker 1: of Christ's maleness, which is essential to Christian doctrine and
30:57
Speaker 1: which is essential... to the Narnia series. It is turning
31:01
Speaker 1: that sacred allegory into just left-wing gender politics, which we
31:06
Speaker 1: kind of expected them to do. They did this with
31:08
Speaker 1: Amazon's Lord of the Rings, the Ring of Power series
31:10
Speaker 1: that I did not watch, but Michael watched and he
31:12
Speaker 1: said it was horrible. To be fair though, no one
31:16
Speaker 1: asked if Meryl Streep is a woman. That's true. She
31:20
Speaker 1: could be identifying as a man, but that would almost
31:21
Speaker 1: be worse if she was identifying as a man. I
31:24
Speaker 1: guess the point you guys is all good parts of
31:28
Speaker 1: Western Christian civ need to be destroyed because those traditions
31:34
Speaker 1: represent fixed truths, moral order, transcendent meaning. These are ideas
31:39
Speaker 1: that clash with the left's emphasis on relativism, on self-expression
31:44
Speaker 1: and perpetual revolution. Christian values like objective morality, the sanctity
31:49
Speaker 1: of life, the natural family, the authority of God over
31:51
Speaker 1: man pose a direct challenge to ideologies rooted in materialism
31:55
Speaker 1: and identity politics and state supremacy. Art that promotes authentic
31:59
Speaker 1: Western values reminds us that we are not gods ourselves,
32:05
Speaker 1: but creatures with purpose, limits, eternal destinies. And the left
32:10
Speaker 1: can't have that sticking culturally. They just can't. That would
32:13
Speaker 1: be that this is counter to their political social goals.
32:18
Speaker 1: Think about the most famous book in the series. Michael's
32:22
Speaker 1: showing some photos of it. The Lion, the Witch, and
32:24
Speaker 1: the Wardrobe, where Aslan dies willingly. in Edmund's place to
32:28
Speaker 1: fulfill the deep magic from the dawn of time, which
32:31
Speaker 1: is unmistakably an allegory for Christ's atonement for Lucy, for
32:37
Speaker 1: the sins of mankind. And then you also have Lucy
32:39
Speaker 1: and Susan who do not fight in the final battle.
32:42
Speaker 1: And then instead they bear witness. So they kind of
32:44
Speaker 1: honor distinct gender roles of men and women and God's design.
32:48
Speaker 1: And then Peter is called to kingship, not because of power,
32:51
Speaker 1: but because of virtue and obedience. This also reflects Western
32:54
Speaker 1: ideals of just rulership under God. So there's just a
32:57
Speaker 1: lot of themes in the original storytelling that actually the
33:01
Speaker 1: Disney movie did a really good job of portraying. And
33:05
Speaker 1: Netflix is just like, we're done with that. We're going
33:07
Speaker 1: to purposely redo this whole show to be in the
33:12
Speaker 1: image of the political left. And Netflix rumours plans, right,
33:16
Speaker 1: the gender swapping of Aslan, the narrative through this feminist
33:19
Speaker 1: post-colonial lens, it undermines the truce. It replaces the divine
33:23
Speaker 1: order with modern ideology. I want you guys to watch
33:26
Speaker 1: this scene from the Disney iteration of Prince Caspian. Like
33:30
Speaker 1: I said, I actually think Disney did a good job
33:32
Speaker 1: with these, the three Narnia movies that they came out
33:35
Speaker 1: with in the early 2000s. In Prince Caspian, Narnia has
33:39
Speaker 1: fallen under a foreign rule, the Telmarines. And the old ways, right,
33:44
Speaker 1: Aslan and Talking Beast and the true history of Narnia,
33:47
Speaker 1: they've all been erased. I think this is a really
33:50
Speaker 1: interesting scene for what is actually happening with the Narnia
33:54
Speaker 1: series right now. Take a listen. I spent half a
33:57
Speaker 1: morning on that soup. What are you? You know, it's
34:03
Speaker 1: funny that you would ask that. You think more people
34:06
Speaker 1: would know a badger when they saw one? No, no,
34:09
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not onions.
34:11
Speaker 2: They're supposed to be extinct.
34:15
Speaker 1: Sorry to disappoint you. So Caspian's people, the Telmarines, unbeknownst
34:20
Speaker 1: to Caspian, banned stories of Aslan. They denied the existence
34:24
Speaker 1: of magic and talking beasts. And they just rewrote the
34:26
Speaker 1: history to suppress truth and tradition of Narnia. It erased
34:31
Speaker 1: the trinity of Narnia so much that it got to
34:33
Speaker 1: the point where even the Narnians forgot who they were.
34:36
Speaker 1: And the talking beasts became just beasts and the trees
34:40
Speaker 1: stopped being sentient. And how many of us have forgotten
34:43
Speaker 1: who we are by this erasure of our history and heritage?
34:45
Speaker 1: I think sometimes it's obvious. like the tearing down of monuments,
34:50
Speaker 1: George Washington in 2020, or vandalizing Plymouth Rock, but other
34:53
Speaker 1: times it's less obvious. Historical revisionism in the school system,
34:58
Speaker 1: like the mass adaptation of the 1619 Project, or the
35:00
Speaker 1: reimagining of foundational Western stories like Narnia. This is all
35:07
Speaker 1: part of that, what Narnia actually touches on in that scene,
35:12
Speaker 1: the erasure of a people and an identity. George Orwell
35:16
Speaker 1: explored this extensively in in 1984. It's really chilling how
35:21
Speaker 1: easily this kind of erasure happens, not only through force,
35:25
Speaker 1: but through silence, forgetfulness, and cultural drift. When stories stop
35:30
Speaker 1: being told, the names are stripped from maps or textbooks,
35:34
Speaker 1: and when symbols of our past are recast as shameful,
35:37
Speaker 1: we begin to forget who we are. And that's what
35:39
Speaker 1: happened in Arnia. The beast stopped speaking, the trees went quiet,
35:43
Speaker 1: and even the faithful started to doubt Aslan was real.
35:46
Speaker 1: They doubted God. control the past, you control the future.
35:50
Speaker 1: And it's not just memory. It is about identity. And
35:53
Speaker 1: when people forget where they come from, they become easy
35:57
Speaker 1: to reshape. And this brings me to my next story.
36:02
Speaker 1: Modern movie studios are stripping away raw mythic power of
36:07
Speaker 1: stories in favor of these more sanitized, inoffensive surfaces. But
36:12
Speaker 1: something else is doing that too. It's not just conscious
36:15
Speaker 1: actions by movie studios. There's something else that is erasing
36:22
Speaker 1: this mythic power of storytelling, even the human emotion, human experience,
36:27
Speaker 1: and that is AI. Do you guys know how people
36:31
Speaker 1: started turning images, real images, into Japanese anime studio Ghibli
36:36
Speaker 1: versions in chat GPT? Can we throw up some examples
36:40
Speaker 1: of this, Mikey, if we could, so people know what
36:41
Speaker 1: I'm talking about? Well, this is perfect. Just leave that
36:45
Speaker 1: up there. So one example is the famous distracted boyfriend meme.
36:49
Speaker 1: If you don't know what I'm talking about, look it up,
36:51
Speaker 1: distracted boyfriend meme. If you're listening, you will see what
36:54
Speaker 1: I mean. It's this iconic photo where it humorously captures
37:00
Speaker 1: the guy, the boyfriend, distracted by another woman. And then
37:05
Speaker 1: it shows the woman, his girlfriend, obviously outraged by the
37:09
Speaker 1: single glance of her boyfriend looking at another girl. And
37:13
Speaker 1: when this image was recreated Ghibli style by ChatGPT, the
37:16
Speaker 1: core dynamic of this exchange is lost. The man no
37:20
Speaker 1: longer looks with desire. He's sort of shocked and unhappy.
37:25
Speaker 1: It doesn't really make, and he's looking at his girlfriend.
37:28
Speaker 1: It doesn't really make a lot of sense. And then
37:30
Speaker 1: the woman in the red is rendered sort of innocent
37:33
Speaker 1: and sexless. And this shift is not accidental. It's not
37:37
Speaker 1: just that that's the style of Studio Ghibli. It's actually
37:40
Speaker 1: reflecting OpenAI's internal safety protocols, which censor depictions of attraction,
37:45
Speaker 1: power dynamics, and certain emotional tones. And at K.M. Optimal,
37:51
Speaker 1: I don't know his real name, he uses a pseudonym,
37:53
Speaker 1: he had a great sub-stack on this entire phenomenon. And
37:58
Speaker 1: he argues in a three-part essay that these safety layers
38:03
Speaker 1: neuter emotional meaning. The eyes no longer lock, power dynamics vanish,
38:09
Speaker 1: sexual tension dissipates. And the result is a world of
38:13
Speaker 1: pretty but hollow images, decorative, sanitized, devoid of like, I
38:19
Speaker 1: would call it animal heat. That's what he called it.
38:21
Speaker 1: And it makes the scene feel a lot less alive.
38:25
Speaker 1: But this isn't just about aesthetics. It is political because
38:28
Speaker 1: the author contends that AI suppression of these primal cues
38:32
Speaker 1: reflects a broader ideological regime, a sanitized moralistic worldview that
38:37
Speaker 1: fears not just harm, but intensity. So especially when that
38:41
Speaker 1: intensity comes from gender or sexual dynamics that violate progressive norms,
38:45
Speaker 1: it has to be censored. So in this system, the
38:48
Speaker 1: erotic is flagged as dangerous, not because it's pornographic, but
38:52
Speaker 1: because it is powerful. It conveys too much human emotion,
38:57
Speaker 1: too much human presence. And these instincts, what the author
39:00
Speaker 1: calls holy animality, aren't vulgar or outdated. They are sacred, ancient,
39:07
Speaker 1: and essential to humanity. We are wired to read human expression.
39:12
Speaker 1: And stripped from art and imagery isn't protection. It is erasure,
39:17
Speaker 1: a lobotomization of human visual culture. And we hear all
39:20
Speaker 1: the time about fears of doctors and engineers using AI
39:25
Speaker 1: to cheat their way through school. And that's definitely concerning.
39:28
Speaker 1: You're going to have buildings falling down, and people are
39:30
Speaker 1: just going to be getting sick left and right by
39:32
Speaker 1: the chat GPT-educated engineers and doctors. Say that again, Mikey?
39:38
Speaker 1: Who would do that? Yeah, Michael likes to use chat
39:41
Speaker 1: GPT anytime he needs to write something. He can't write
39:44
Speaker 1: for the life of him. There's a lot of people
39:47
Speaker 1: like that. But the point I'm trying to make is
39:50
Speaker 1: that there's a huge problem when you leave art up
39:53
Speaker 1: to AI. I find that to be equally as concerning
39:59
Speaker 1: as leaving engineering and doctoring up to AI. And Hayao Miyazaki,
40:05
Speaker 1: the founder of Studio Ghibli, famously said that before any
40:08
Speaker 1: of this happened, He had said that his animation style
40:11
Speaker 1: being used in AI is an insult to life itself.
40:15
Speaker 1: That's the quote from him. And he expressed really a
40:18
Speaker 1: deep discomfort in the idea of removing human intention and
40:22
Speaker 1: emotion from animation. And I can imagine why. You just
40:25
Speaker 1: look at these images. The digital world is increasingly the world.
40:30
Speaker 1: And in the digital world, we are sterilizing our shared
40:34
Speaker 1: visual language. We're losing the most ancient instinctive ways that
40:39
Speaker 1: we understand each other. And I think just how like
40:41
Speaker 1: Narnia conveyed deep spiritual archetypal truths through visceral, hierarchical, and
40:47
Speaker 1: emotional charge storytelling, only to be stripped by Netflix, AI
40:52
Speaker 1: is now erasing primal signals and replacing the sort of
40:56
Speaker 1: mythic human intensity. I think both of these cases highlight
41:00
Speaker 1: the loss of a force that gives stories their truth
41:04
Speaker 1: and danger and residence in place of really progressive and
41:09
Speaker 1: sanitized morals that I don't think anybody wants. By the way,
41:12
Speaker 1: speaking of progressive morals, this story is from the Daily Mail.
41:17
Speaker 1: I just had to share it with you guys. This
41:19
Speaker 1: is the headline. An unfaithful wife used to be a
41:23
Speaker 1: husband's greatest fear. Now it's the fantasy of every man
41:28
Speaker 1: I meet. In this article, the author, a female, uncovers
41:34
Speaker 1: the truth behind the sex trend posh couples love. So yes,
41:38
Speaker 1: I guess they are trying to make cuckoldery vogue or something.
41:42
Speaker 1: And the article begins with the writer recounting how in
41:44
Speaker 1: the pandemic era, she went on a date and it
41:47
Speaker 1: started off pretty chill. And she and her match were
41:51
Speaker 1: sipping wine out of paper cups by a river, and
41:54
Speaker 1: they were socially distancing. But then things started to sort
41:58
Speaker 1: of escalate as they were talking about their sexual fantasies.
42:01
Speaker 1: And then her date said that actually his ultimate kink
42:05
Speaker 1: was the hot wife fantasy where he wanted to be
42:07
Speaker 1: with a sexy woman and then watch her sleep with
42:10
Speaker 1: another man, all while feeling like she is still his.
42:14
Speaker 1: And at first, this woman said she was taken aback
42:17
Speaker 1: by this because most men that she's met weren't exactly
42:20
Speaker 1: into this idea of sharing her. And the more that
42:23
Speaker 1: he described it, the more that she was apparently into
42:25
Speaker 1: the idea too. And before long, they ditched the COVID
42:29
Speaker 1: rules and they embraced this fantasy. And so she describes
42:32
Speaker 1: the experience as insanely liberating and empowering. Some guy comes over,
42:37
Speaker 1: her boyfriend watches, very strange. And like I said, she feels,
42:42
Speaker 1: she said she felt like she was fully in control.
42:45
Speaker 1: Like she felt she was the star of the show
42:47
Speaker 1: with two men desiring her. And, you know, people, I
42:54
Speaker 1: think people will say to us, you know, oh, you're lying, Evita.
42:57
Speaker 1: This is, you're reading too much into that adolescence movie
43:00
Speaker 1: about the demonization of men in society or the neutering
43:05
Speaker 1: of men in society. And what I'll just say is
43:07
Speaker 1: I read that article and I'm like, okay, now do
43:09
Speaker 1: you believe me? Now do you believe me that the
43:11
Speaker 1: culture wants men weak and gay? Like, obviously that's what
43:14
Speaker 1: this is. Explain to me what this article is about.
43:18
Speaker 1: Who is having this fantasy and why are we saying
43:20
Speaker 1: that that was like super vogue to want to be
43:22
Speaker 1: a cuck? I don't understand. I'd like to go on
43:25
Speaker 1: record saying I'm not cool with that. Yeah, Michael's not
43:29
Speaker 1: cool with it. I wouldn't be cool with it either.
43:31
Speaker 1: I wonder if these articles are real. Sometimes I wonder,
43:34
Speaker 1: is this a real person or are these just demons
43:37
Speaker 1: who hate normal relationships and they want everybody else to
43:40
Speaker 1: be deeply unhappy? And again, like I said, weak and gay.
43:44
Speaker 1: Everything now is just shock values and it's cheap thrills.
43:47
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is not female empowerment as
43:50
Speaker 1: it was being described. It is degradation dressed up in
43:55
Speaker 1: wine-soaked feminism. And we've reached the point in our society
43:58
Speaker 1: where a woman can write I want to be shared,
44:01
Speaker 1: and then we're all supposed to clap for it. She's
44:03
Speaker 1: out here bragging about being passed between two men like
44:06
Speaker 1: a party favor, and we're supposed to call it liberation.
44:09
Speaker 1: And the most jaw-dropping part is how she describes her husband.
44:13
Speaker 1: He's not really her husband. He's just some guy that
44:15
Speaker 1: she met on a dating app. She describes him grinning
44:18
Speaker 1: while watching her, quote, getting railed by someone. This is
44:22
Speaker 1: what feminism has produced. Women convincing themselves that being degraded, exposed,
44:27
Speaker 1: and used is somehow a badge of honor And let's
44:29
Speaker 1: come back to the men for a second, because the
44:31
Speaker 1: normalization of cuckoldry isn't just a niche fetish. It's not
44:35
Speaker 1: something that's being normalized and vogue and awesome. It's the
44:38
Speaker 1: logical conclusion of a cultural project aimed at neutering men
44:43
Speaker 1: and upending the natural order of relationships. Progressive morality, which
44:47
Speaker 1: cloaks itself in the language of liberation and consent, has
44:50
Speaker 1: in many cases become a Trojan horse for emasculation before
44:55
Speaker 1: a man's fear of... If you think about what were
44:59
Speaker 1: men like before the 21st century, what were the morals
45:04
Speaker 1: and just standard behavior for men? And men, I think
45:09
Speaker 1: their fear of infidelity reflected an innate protective instinct, a
45:13
Speaker 1: drive to guard your family, to guard your lineage, to
45:16
Speaker 1: have this sacred bond of intimacy. Today, those instincts are
45:20
Speaker 1: ridiculed as possessive or as patriarchal. So men are encouraged
45:26
Speaker 1: to find empowerment in literal humiliation, to grin passively as
45:30
Speaker 1: their wives or their girlfriends are shared. This isn't evolution.
45:34
Speaker 1: This isn't progress. It's inversion. And the very concept of masculinity, again,
45:38
Speaker 1: is being hollowed out and repackaged as submissiveness and voyeurism
45:43
Speaker 1: and detachment. And again, it's not just about sex. It's
45:45
Speaker 1: about a culture that increasingly teaches men to abdicate their
45:49
Speaker 1: roles as protectors, as as leaders in society to just
45:53
Speaker 1: be cheerleaders for their own destruction. And again, what we're
45:56
Speaker 1: calling a progress. What we're seeing is not liberation of women.
45:59
Speaker 1: It's not liberation of men. It's just slow erasure of
46:02
Speaker 1: human dignity rebranded as freedom. And honestly, the whole thing
46:07
Speaker 1: just feels kind of immature. The article feels like it
46:09
Speaker 1: was written by just an emotionally stunted woman influencing other
46:13
Speaker 1: people to make the same mistakes that she does because
46:16
Speaker 1: that would make her feel better about her life. And
46:19
Speaker 1: it makes sense. to, I think it makes sense in
46:23
Speaker 1: this day and age. There's a lot of damaged people
46:26
Speaker 1: out there. There's a lot of deeply immature people out there.
46:31
Speaker 1: And that brings me to my next story because a
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Speaker 1: new study found that in 2024, adults purchased more toys
46:38
Speaker 1: than any age group, including preschoolers. In 2024, adults accounted
46:43
Speaker 1: for 28% of global toy sales, making a 2.5% increase
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Speaker 1: since 2022. A 2023 report found that in the 12
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Speaker 1: months ending June 2024, U.S. adults spent over $ 7 billion
47:00
Speaker 1: in toy purchases. And a lot of people are arguing, well,
47:03
Speaker 1: this is no big deal. Who cares? It's just toys.
47:06
Speaker 1: And young adults, they just want to embrace nostalgia. They
47:09
Speaker 1: want to connect with the past and ground themselves. You
47:11
Speaker 1: guys know the argument. But I think there's something more
47:15
Speaker 1: concerning happening here, more concerning that people aren't letting on.
47:18
Speaker 1: In Japan, they've had this problem for a long time.
47:21
Speaker 1: It's kind of the prototype for these trends. After the
47:25
Speaker 1: economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japan entered what's
47:29
Speaker 1: called the lost decade and then what was called the
47:32
Speaker 1: lost generation. Because many young people, disillusioned by a stagnant economy,
47:37
Speaker 1: retreated from traditional markers of adulthood, so stable jobs, marriage, children,
47:42
Speaker 1: and instead they turned toward kawaii culture, cute aesthetics, characters
47:47
Speaker 1: like Hello Kitty, Sanrio and calming childhood iconography. Hello Kitty
47:52
Speaker 1: really was kind of the theme here. It was very
47:56
Speaker 1: emblematic of this stunted adulthood because she has no mouth.
48:02
Speaker 1: She doesn't speak. She doesn't grow. She's permanently childlike. And
48:06
Speaker 1: she offers sort of an emotional safety, like a fantasy
48:10
Speaker 1: of peace and permanence and innocence in a world that
48:13
Speaker 1: feels unpredictable and lonely and demanding and especially when you
48:17
Speaker 1: feel like you have no future. If you could show
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Speaker 1: a picture of Hello Kitty, Mikey, that'd be great. Maybe
48:21
Speaker 1: some people don't know Hello Kitty. This is Hello Kitty. Now,
48:25
Speaker 1: the same emotional and societal currents have reached the U.S.,
48:29
Speaker 1: but in our own distinct way. Also, Mikey, if you
48:31
Speaker 1: could show some of those photos of the women. Yeah,
48:34
Speaker 1: I mean, these are Japanese women obsessed with Hello Kitty
48:37
Speaker 1: and this kind of childlike way of dressing. It's a
48:42
Speaker 1: thing in Japan, and it wasn't always a thing. It
48:45
Speaker 1: really grew out of the lost generation. Now, in the US,
48:51
Speaker 1: part of it is that adults are using toys and
48:53
Speaker 1: Legos and action figures and plushies as a way to
48:56
Speaker 1: soothe anxiety in a chaotic world. The world we live
48:59
Speaker 1: in makes young people yearn for simpler times, or at
49:02
Speaker 1: least the illusion of simpler times. And more people are
49:05
Speaker 1: delaying marriage and normal adult milestones. And as a result,
49:09
Speaker 1: they feel devoid of traditional milestones with consumer rituals, identity-forming
49:13
Speaker 1: hobbies that echo childhood. And of course, Millennials are the
49:16
Speaker 1: first generation to do this. And they are also the
49:20
Speaker 1: first generation to be worse off than their parents in America.
49:24
Speaker 1: So I think in many ways, millennials are a lost
49:27
Speaker 1: generation here. And all these quirky habits, they're symptoms. And
49:33
Speaker 1: they're symptoms of a hunger for meaning in an automized world,
49:37
Speaker 1: in a world where there's less economic opportunity, less stability.
49:42
Speaker 1: And I think about that AI segment I did. And
49:45
Speaker 1: instead of community and ritual and human interaction expression, we're
49:49
Speaker 1: getting algorithms. I don't think that this problem is going
49:51
Speaker 1: to continue to, is going to get better. There's a
49:54
Speaker 1: reason that the sales for toys have gone up in
49:59
Speaker 1: the last two years. I think it's going to continue
50:00
Speaker 1: to go up because everything we consume is cognitively numbing.
50:05
Speaker 1: We are a society that is stuck extending adolescence indefinitely,
50:10
Speaker 1: not due to laziness, but because I think the structures
50:13
Speaker 1: that once helped people transition into adulthood, religion, economic stability, family,
50:19
Speaker 1: community rights, they're all being eroded. So if the U.S.
50:24
Speaker 1: is seeing adults buy toys at record rates, it's not
50:26
Speaker 1: just a commercial trend, it's a warning. And some people,
50:30
Speaker 1: and it's not to say if you collect Legos, I mean,
50:33
Speaker 1: does that necessarily mean that you are an immature person.
50:38
Speaker 1: You have no life. You're just completely incapable of being
50:43
Speaker 1: an adult human being. That's not necessarily true. But generally,
50:47
Speaker 1: there seems to be a delay of adulthood that is
50:51
Speaker 1: being seen among many, many young people, millennials, Gen Z.
50:56
Speaker 1: That is not a good sign. It's not a healthy
50:59
Speaker 1: sign for society. It suggests that many people are not
51:02
Speaker 1: just stressed. They are untethered. And they are using childhood
51:06
Speaker 1: as kind of this life raft, but it's a fragile raft.
51:10
Speaker 1: Toys and plushies can offer comfort, but they can't replace
51:14
Speaker 1: purpose and they can't replace meaning. And that is really
51:17
Speaker 1: ultimately very tragic. And it calls for more than just
51:19
Speaker 1: mockery and hand-wringing. It calls for rebuilding the adult world
51:23
Speaker 1: to be worth entering. And I do think that we're
51:25
Speaker 1: doing that. I think Trump is mounting a true counter-revolution
51:29
Speaker 1: against the entrenched left-wing order that has dominated American politics
51:33
Speaker 1: and culture for decades. I rag on the Trump admin.
51:38
Speaker 1: I think we need the Epstein files. I think we
51:39
Speaker 1: need more disclosure. And at the same time, we can
51:41
Speaker 1: recognize that this admin is revolutionary. Past GOP presidents would
51:48
Speaker 1: just tinker around the edges, cutting taxes or slowing government growth,
51:52
Speaker 1: but they're not really doing much. And Trump is just
51:55
Speaker 1: really uprooting the system itself. Balance the budget, close the border,
51:59
Speaker 1: stop the endless wars, restore energy independence, dismantle DEI orthodoxy,
52:02
Speaker 1: Roll back the cultural revolution that has redefined basic truths
52:06
Speaker 1: about sex and citizenship and national identity. Trump's approach is
52:08
Speaker 1: not just incremental, but radical and urgent, and it's driven
52:12
Speaker 1: by the belief that America is in a state of
52:14
Speaker 1: civilizational decay. And if my last story is proof of anything,
52:18
Speaker 1: it is that we are in civilizational decay. The institutional left,
52:22
Speaker 1: embedded in media and tech, academia, the bureaucracy, is so
52:25
Speaker 1: powerful that any attempt to confront it head-on invites extreme resistance. Lawfare,
52:31
Speaker 1: smear campaigns, judicial sabotage. We're seeing it in France, seeing
52:36
Speaker 1: it all across the West, including here in America. And
52:38
Speaker 1: yet Trump has been willing to absorb these attacks as
52:41
Speaker 1: a moral necessity and act in just political bravery. And
52:46
Speaker 1: so the stakes are clearly existential. They're clearly high. We
52:50
Speaker 1: need a rebirth of an adult, ordered, and sovereign America.
52:54
Speaker 1: But I do think that it's possible. I really do.
52:57
Speaker 1: And so that is all I have for you guys today.
52:59
Speaker 1: I hope that was a positive note to end on
53:01
Speaker 1: so I'm not all doom and gloom all the time.
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53:26
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53:29
Speaker 6: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
53:32
Speaker 6: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue. That is it.
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