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The World Moves Different When You Are The Queen's Son · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: On tonight's program. Obviously, we're going to continue talking about
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  Speaker 1: the lawsuits settlement between Virginia Roberts and Prince Andrew. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all of the terms are still unclear. There has been
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  Speaker 1: reports out there. Some people were speculating when it first
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  Speaker 1: broke that it would be about ten million dollars. I
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  Speaker 1: said that was a little light. So today there are
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  Speaker 1: reports out that are saying that the settlement is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more significant than that ten million dollar mark. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I figured it would be around fourteen to seventeen million
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  Speaker 1: American US dollars good coal, hard cash, and the reports
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  Speaker 1: are coming out today and it's falling right around in
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  Speaker 1: that range. It looks like. Now obviously the terms of
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  Speaker 1: the deal are not disclosed as per the agreement, but
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  Speaker 1: that is what the rumor mill is talking about, and
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  Speaker 1: that is right around the number I would expect because
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  Speaker 1: it would take something monstrous right to knock Virginia off
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  Speaker 1: of her perch to come to the table and settle
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  Speaker 1: with Prince Andrew. But you know that behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 1: her people were negotiating with his people. It wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: some kind of like standoff, right, That wasn't happening. That's
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  Speaker 1: not how this works, and they came to agreement, an
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  Speaker 1: agreement behind the scenes. Obviously that was acceptable to Virginia
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  Speaker 1: and to her team. Now, Prince Andrew, he was in
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  Speaker 1: a no good situation no matter how you chop it
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  Speaker 1: at this point, and the fact that he pumped this
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  Speaker 1: and pushed this for so long and dragged this out
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  Speaker 1: did nothing but hurt him. And for all of the
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  Speaker 1: money he was paying, all of those people over in
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  Speaker 1: the UK blocks him and the rest of them, he
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  Speaker 1: should ask for a refund because if it wasn't for
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  Speaker 1: Brettler and the council he got from Lavely Singer Dudeen,
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  Speaker 1: he'd have been sunk one hundred percent goose cooked because
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  Speaker 1: the people who were advised him over in England obviously
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  Speaker 1: do not know their ass from their elbow. I'm certainly
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  Speaker 1: not a lawyer or a crisis evaluation manager, but I
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  Speaker 1: know when you're not reading the temperature of the room,
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit of common sense. And the way
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  Speaker 1: the dude went about it was completely ridiculous. He is
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  Speaker 1: really lucky that he had Bretler and hired Bretler to
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  Speaker 1: step in, because at least he got his money's worth there.
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  Speaker 1: Because the people over in England, the people in the
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  Speaker 1: UK that were advising him, they absolutely derailed this dude. Now,
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  Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I'm sure he is his own
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  Speaker 1: worst enemy, right he's the one that makes the final call.
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  Speaker 1: But his advisors should have told him and been very
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  Speaker 1: firm with him that this was a losing proposition from
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning, and then to come out with the
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  Speaker 1: whole entire scorched earth policy like he's Jengis Khan all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden is ridiculous going to win. So them
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  Speaker 1: settling and him settling was the only option at this point.
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  Speaker 1: But it is very harmful moving forward, for obviously him,
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  Speaker 1: but for the whole Royal family. Make no mistake about that.
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  Speaker 1: There was a point in time where something like this
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  Speaker 1: was not even imaginable. It was unimaginable, right that the
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  Speaker 1: Royal family, someone from the Royal family could be caught
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  Speaker 1: up in a scandal such as this. But here we
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  Speaker 1: are and they're being exposed. And really, folks, what it
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  Speaker 1: comes down to is they're just regular people like the
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  Speaker 1: rest of us. They're not special. What because they were
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  Speaker 1: born in a certain bloodline, they're special. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: breaking news at the end of the day, the Kings,
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  Speaker 1: the queens, and the ponds, well, we all go back
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  Speaker 1: into the same box. And it's about time that these
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  Speaker 1: people remembered that. And for Andrew, and for the whole
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  Speaker 1: entire nonsensical charade he was putting on for this whole time,
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  Speaker 1: he should be embarrassed. Honestly, he won't be, but he
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  Speaker 1: should be dragging his mom through this, dragging the nation
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  Speaker 1: through this, dragging the people of the UK through this.
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  Speaker 1: And now, of course the question is going to be,
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  Speaker 1: how's he going to pay for all of this? Obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Queen's going to step in and throw him a
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  Speaker 1: couple bucks. And we all know that the royal family
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  Speaker 1: has a bunch of benefactors out there that would step
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  Speaker 1: in in a second to pay this bill, to get
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  Speaker 1: the spotlight, if you will, off of the Queen. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm very interested to see how this goes down as
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  Speaker 1: far as the payment, and I would hope that not
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  Speaker 1: one single dollar of public money is used here, because
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  Speaker 1: that would be something else. I mean, I can't even
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  Speaker 1: imagine the uproar if tax dollars are used to pay
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  Speaker 1: for a to settle a rape case for the Prince
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  Speaker 1: of England, yeah, I think that cause quite the uh,
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  Speaker 1: quite the Maelstrom. All right, So tonight we have an
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  Speaker 1: article from the Independent and the author is Omid Scobie. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: Prince Andrew did what only the privileged elite can do.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone will suffer for it. And it's a fact, right,
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  Speaker 1: none of us can pay to get our way out
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  Speaker 1: of trouble. If you get into trouble, every single dollar
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  Speaker 1: you have is going to go to your lawyers. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're in America anyway. If you're paying for a lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be in quite the whole to start out.
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  Speaker 1: Even so, we can't afford to, you know, pay people off.
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  Speaker 1: But people like Prince Andrew, this is the lifeblood of
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  Speaker 1: these disgusting sons of bitches. Back in October, Prince Andrew's
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  Speaker 1: lawyers unleashed in an aggressive move usually only seen during
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  Speaker 1: the heated final days of a US presidential election, and
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  Speaker 1: appo dump, the technique usually performed by flailing policy titians
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  Speaker 1: seeking to undermine their opponents as swiftly and brutally as possible,
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  Speaker 1: is a classic, if all else fells move of releasing
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  Speaker 1: information and igniting a narrative on an opponent to try
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  Speaker 1: and discredit or weaken them. Sounds familiar, right, That's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what Prince Andrew did. Him and his team. They unleashed
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  Speaker 1: that scorched earth policy like I told you was coming.
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  Speaker 1: How long have I been saying it? Because it was
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  Speaker 1: all they had, right, and they painted themselves even deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the corner if you could believe it. Their target
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  Speaker 1: was the Prince's accuser, Virginia Roberts, and they hoped it
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  Speaker 1: would result in her claim that the Duke of York
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  Speaker 1: had sexually assaulted her three times at the age of
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  Speaker 1: seventeen coming into doubt. See what they forgot, though, was
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  Speaker 1: Virginia had been through all of this already. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think that Prince Andrew is more shrewd than Jeffrey Epstein?
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  Speaker 1: And as great as Brettler is over there at Lovely
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  Speaker 1: and Singer, he's certainly not an under handed scuzball like Dershowitz.
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  Speaker 1: So Virginia Roberts has been through the ringer already, dealing
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  Speaker 1: with people like this, dealing with all sorts of allegations,
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of people trying to demean her character, all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of people dragging her name through the mud. You
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  Speaker 1: think the Joe exotic of the Windsor family is going
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  Speaker 1: to make her fear stepping up to the plate here,
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't going to happen. And when they figured out
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  Speaker 1: that they weren't going to be able to bully, that
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  Speaker 1: the narrative that they were being certainly wasn't going to
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  Speaker 1: be bought by the general public, they knew that it
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  Speaker 1: was time to eject. Time to pull up a pin
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  Speaker 1: and eject right out of this mofo, because this plane
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  Speaker 1: is going down. And when your number one surrogate is
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  Speaker 1: somebody who's out there talking about all kinds of weird
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories as it is Lady Victoria Hervey, then you
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  Speaker 1: know you're in big trouble. She was. Andrew's lawyers described
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  Speaker 1: a payday chasing attention seeker that the Prince had never
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  Speaker 1: even met. Her lawsuit, they said was completely baseless. Pretty funny, huh,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he was asserting. Now, fast forward to today
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  Speaker 1: and he's in the hole for about, oh, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen seventeen million dollars, looking like an absolute asshole, because remember,
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  Speaker 1: innocent people aren't paying not this kind of money. Innocent
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  Speaker 1: people don't do and act the way Prince Andrew acted,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's got nobody who's innocent is doing that. And now
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  Speaker 1: with all of that nonsense he put in that letter,
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  Speaker 1: even just recently, he never met her. It was completely baseless.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're ponying up all this money. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: sure looks real good. So it came as somewhat of
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  Speaker 1: a surprise to see just one hundred and nine days
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  Speaker 1: later the Queen's son tail between his legs, stating that
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  Speaker 1: he had never intended to malign Miss Roberts's character and
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  Speaker 1: that he accepts she has suffered as a victim of abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Oh isn't that nice? The good old Prince, the hugger
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  Speaker 1: of widows, the friend to orphans, the man of the people,
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  Speaker 1: is going to accept that she has suffered abuse as
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  Speaker 1: a victim. I mean, really, we can all just stop
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  Speaker 1: our lives now because Prince Andrew has decided to accept reality.
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  Speaker 1: More importantly, the Duke's words were delivered alongside an out
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  Speaker 1: of court settlement just shy of twelve million pounds. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so there you go. In this article, it's talking about
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  Speaker 1: that twelve million pound mark two and that would not
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  Speaker 1: get into that range. The fourteen seventeen. It came with
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  Speaker 1: no further denial or admission to Robert's claims, just the
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  Speaker 1: meek promise of supporting the fight against the evils of
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficking. Yeah, I don't. You're not welcomed, honestly, guy
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  Speaker 1: like that that has no business acting as an advocate
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  Speaker 1: for sex trafficking victims. Are you kidding me? Right now?
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  Speaker 1: This dude needs to go and retire on whatever piece
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  Speaker 1: of land that his family deems proper for him to
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  Speaker 1: have and have zero to do with the public ever again,
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  Speaker 1: for as long as he lives. The mountain of cash,
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  Speaker 1: a significant portion of which came from the Bank of
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  Speaker 1: Mummy Dearest to be donated to Robert's anti sex trafficking charity,
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  Speaker 1: was so high the accuser couldn't possibly say no. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what they did, right. It came down to the
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  Speaker 1: Prince and his team having to throw a boatload of
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  Speaker 1: money at Virginia. And that's really the result that you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for in a settlement, right, what's the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: bringing a lawsuit against somebody if you're not looking for
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  Speaker 1: damages to be paid at the end. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get damages paid, you have to make sure
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  Speaker 1: it really rocks them right, make sure it hurts them
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  Speaker 1: in the pocketbook, And this kind of claim and this
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  Speaker 1: kind of payout certainly does that. Obviously, it takes away
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  Speaker 1: a bit of the sting when you're already stinking rich
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  Speaker 1: and you have Mummy Darius showing up to help pay
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  Speaker 1: the bills. But still it's a real bad look for
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  Speaker 1: Prince Andrew, and it validates everything Virginia had to say
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  Speaker 1: about this. Dude, you mean to tell me you're paying
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  Speaker 1: out all this money, suffering all of this shame if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't do anything stop it. I don't believe that
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  Speaker 1: over ninety percent of civil cases filed in US federal
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  Speaker 1: court result in a settlement, so it was almost inevitable
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  Speaker 1: that Robert's lawsuit would boil down to a pre trial payout.
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  Speaker 1: Fact always figured that this was something that could happen. Right,
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  Speaker 1: if the number was monstrous, and Prince Andrew would be
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  Speaker 1: willing to meet them at a place that is Everest High,
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  Speaker 1: then certainly this would be the outcome. But I always
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  Speaker 1: was wondering if Andrew would be able to come up
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  Speaker 1: with those kind of finances. Where's he getting all that money? Unless,
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  Speaker 1: of course Mummy is stepping in, and we know that
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  Speaker 1: to be the case now, but given out furiously, Andrew
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  Speaker 1: had denied the allegations. It was a curious move to
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  Speaker 1: settle with a woman. His staff at once briefed the
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  Speaker 1: journalists as having doctored a photo of the two together
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  Speaker 1: just to make her story more convincing. Yeah, sounds about right. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what he did. Him and his team tried
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  Speaker 1: to paint it like Virginia's out here working for Adobe Photoshop,
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  Speaker 1: like Virginia created Adobe Photoshop, and then the insanity to
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  Speaker 1: drag other survivors into it, talking about this one's emailing
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  Speaker 1: this one. What an absolute ridiculous narrative his surrogates were pitching.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking q Ann level bullshit, folks, the
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff that Alex Jones will look at and say, oh, listen,
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  Speaker 1: Cursy's dirt. Andrew was less than four weeks away from
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  Speaker 1: a deposition with Robert's low layers. Didn't you want to
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  Speaker 1: use that moment to fight for his innocence, a final
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  Speaker 1: chance to prove he didn't do the heinous things he
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  Speaker 1: had been accused of. I know, if faced with the
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  Speaker 1: same predicament, I would, and the author is not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: How long have I been saying that real men don't
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  Speaker 1: run from shit like this. Real men step up to
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  Speaker 1: the plate and they deal with the issues, and if
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  Speaker 1: they caused mayhem, and they've caused a mess, they clean
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  Speaker 1: it up. But Prince Andrew isn't a real man. Real
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  Speaker 1: men don't have the hired help come running up the
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  Speaker 1: stairs to fix the curtains. Real men don't make the
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  Speaker 1: kind of comments he made to those massage therapists. That's
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  Speaker 1: somebody's mother, somebody's daughter, somebody's wife, and you're out here
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  Speaker 1: running your fat, stupid mouth like you're a tough guy.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of shit that gets you that three
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  Speaker 1: piece combo with a soda where I'm from. While much
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  Speaker 1: of the media coverage has focused around Andrew's statement, a
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  Speaker 1: sympathetic narrative is already starting to emerge from the boot
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  Speaker 1: liquors of the Royal Press Corps and its orbit of
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  Speaker 1: commentators had attempts to explain Andrew's decision not to clear
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  Speaker 1: his name because he shivals chival chival It shiver chivalrously
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  Speaker 1: wanted to prioritize protecting the Royal institution and his ninety
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  Speaker 1: five year old mother from the further shame. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. He's just so so magnanimous,
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  Speaker 1: such a chival chivalrous guy, that he's going to get
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  Speaker 1: out here and he wants to protect mom's name. So
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  Speaker 1: he's stepping up to the plate. Now here's an idea.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you do that in the beginning. Why didn't
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  Speaker 1: you step up to the plate in the very beginning
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, look, this is my part in this.
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  Speaker 1: I was around Jeffrey Epstein, I had no idea these
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  Speaker 1: were underage girls, and I want to help the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: And still to this day, let's remember, he has not
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  Speaker 1: helped the investigation one single bit, not at all. The
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  Speaker 1: quick settlement, royal sources have added, has been a huge
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  Speaker 1: relief for the family. With the platinum jew Beleieze so close,
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  Speaker 1: how hard it must have been for them. Oh imagine
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  Speaker 1: the difficulty of all of this as they swim around
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  Speaker 1: in their money wearing the crown jewels of the royal family.
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  Speaker 1: You know, is that difficulty The people who were abused
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  Speaker 1: by Jeffrey Epstein, those people, they've had a difficult life.
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  Speaker 1: Not Prince Andrew, not any of these people. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: have zero empathy for any of these people who were
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  Speaker 1: born into great privilege, great wealth and squandered it on
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  Speaker 1: bullshit hanging out with people like Jeffrey Epstein and Galainne Maxwell.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is, no matter how you try to polish it,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way to hide the fact that HRH less
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  Speaker 1: Andrew continues to swan around, taking no responsibility for his behavior.
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  Speaker 1: Taxpayer funded security team still at his beck and call,
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  Speaker 1: and how is that even right? And I try not
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  Speaker 1: to get too involved in any of that. Obviously I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a subject of the Queen or a citizen of
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  Speaker 1: the UK, but I find it ridiculous that this guy
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  Speaker 1: is using public money to have a security detail. Hire
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  Speaker 1: your own security detail, Bro, You're charged with all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of disgusting allegations. But the dude who moved to America
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  Speaker 1: in his chick they got to pay for their own security.
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  Speaker 1: So leaving the royal family is more of a sin
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  Speaker 1: than being involved with Jeffrey Epstein. Huh, that's the message
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  Speaker 1: you want to show. While we are unlikely to hear
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  Speaker 1: Roberts speak about the civil case for the foreseeable future,
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  Speaker 1: flicking away her claims with his gilded checkbook won't change
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  Speaker 1: the very real fact that the royal enjoyed and invested
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  Speaker 1: in close friendships with two sex traffickers who destroyed the
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  Speaker 1: innocent lives of Roberts and countless other children and women
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  Speaker 1: in the hundreds. That's this dude's legacy. That's the legacy
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  Speaker 1: he's going to leave, a legacy of absolute embarrassment for
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  Speaker 1: the whole entire family. It also doesn't change the fact
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  Speaker 1: that even after Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty for procuring persons
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  Speaker 1: under eighteen for prostitution, Andrew saw no problem in returning
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  Speaker 1: to the pedophile billionaires New York home in twenty and
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  Speaker 1: ten to hang out and allegedly receive foot massages from
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  Speaker 1: models of a similar age to his two daughters. And again,
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  Speaker 1: it just goes to show you the kind of guy
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  Speaker 1: we're dealing with. He has no shame, no moral compass.
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  Speaker 1: He's been given everything his whole life totally. Everyone around
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  Speaker 1: him has been a yes man or a yes woman,
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  Speaker 1: and he's never known any sort of repercussions when he's
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  Speaker 1: fucked up. You think this dude is getting grounded. I know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: when I was younger, if I got out of line,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and I swerved out of the lane. Forget it. Forget it,
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  Speaker 1: zero chance that it was happening again. This dude, he
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  Speaker 1: just feels like he can do whatever he wants, and
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  Speaker 1: finally he's getting some repercussions. Finally he is going to
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  Speaker 1: have to at the very least suffer and go down
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  Speaker 1: in history as somebody who settled a sexual assault case
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to try and clear his name. If Andrew
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  Speaker 1: really cared about rape survivors, like his statement claims, there
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  Speaker 1: also wouldn't still be a material witness warrant for him
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  Speaker 1: in the US more than two years since he promised
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  Speaker 1: to speak to the FBI about Epstein. How long have
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: we been talking about that here on the podcast? And
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  Speaker 1: when I say me, all of us, everybody who's following
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  Speaker 1: this case, it's been a huge point of contention. If
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  Speaker 1: you really want to help, and you're this guy who's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be doing the honorable thing, step up to the plate,
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  Speaker 1: talk to the FBI, do the right thing. The dark
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  Speaker 1: legal clouds that Andrew's mess threatened to cast over celebrations
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: for the Queen's Jubilee may be passing, but as the
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  Speaker 1: funds for Robert's payout are prepared to transfer. The Royal
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: family is not shining bright. No, they're glowing, all right,
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  Speaker 1: They're glowing with nuclear fallout. It's like Fukushima over there
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  Speaker 1: at Buckingham Palace right now. Though it's understandable that a
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  Speaker 1: parent may want to help a desperate and often broke
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  Speaker 1: son in need, Andrew convincing our head of state to
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  Speaker 1: privately cover close to half of the settlements some in
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  Speaker 1: a civil rape case has resulted in a stain on
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  Speaker 1: his mother's legacy in one of the most defining years
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  Speaker 1: of her seven decade reign. Yikes, that's pretty powerful stuff
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  Speaker 1: here from the author, and it's not wrong. Imagine if
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  Speaker 1: you were the queen and you had this dunce of
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  Speaker 1: a son ruining this for you. I don't I mean unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And again it cracks me up that people close to
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  Speaker 1: the queen or monarchists or whatever are so worried about
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  Speaker 1: the stain it's going to hang over the jubilee celebration.
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  Speaker 1: Well what about the stain hanging over those survivors' lives
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of their lives. Guess what, There's no
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: jubilee celebration for them. It also raises the question that
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  Speaker 1: if there's so much disposable private wealth hidden behind palace walls,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: why should people of this country, many of whom are
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: struggling to heat their homes this winter, continue to dish
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: out an annual contribution to the royal establishment. Good question,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, you got people starving in the streets. I'm
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: sure it's going the same over in England. Meanwhile, the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Queen is shelling out dough to help Prince Andrew quash
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a rape case. It is absolutely absurd. With the Sussex
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Sussex is gone, and Andrew permanently benched. There are fewer
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: working Royals than ever, Yet the sovereign grant that funds
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the royal family continues to grow year on year. So
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: even as the royal family shrinks, the bank accounts grow. Huh,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: must be nice they continue to get rich while the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: rest of us get poor. Seems about right. The bunting
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: in street parties this June will serve as a nice distraction,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: but at a time when the value and purpose of
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the monarchy post Queen Elizabeth is coming under growing scrutiny
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: by the public. This, unlike Andrew's problems, won't be a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: problem that can be silenced with money, and it's a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: fact this is going to hang over the royal family
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: for quite some time, folks, And I don't know if
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: this stain will ever go away. Once the Queen is
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: gone and she passes on the scepter of rule to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: her son, are the people going to be as willing
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to accept nonsense from the royal family. I think a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: lot of the sentiment that you see from some people
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is specific to the queen and it has nothing to
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: do with the royals overall. And when she's gone and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: her son is in control, I think it's going to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: be real tough sledding for the monarchy moving forward. And
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: if you take a look at how the other royal
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: families around Europe have been pared down or done away
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: with overall, you can see the writing on the wall
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: for the English monarchy as well. So it's going to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: be interesting to see how that all breaks, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: in the coming years and weeks or whatever. But it's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: certainly showing that there are serious problems and the public
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: is not going to stand for it. The fact that
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Prince Andrew was able to avoid scrutiny for so long
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: is something that is really just a gigantic stain on
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: not only him but the Queen because she enabled that right,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: she could have forced the issue a long time ago,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: so we have to remember that as well. But here
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: we are finally to a point where Prince Andrew is
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: basically admitting that he can't provide evidence to prove his innocence,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: so he's going to settle out of court for a
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: gigantic eye popping sum that will not only dran his
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: bank account, but we'll cast a dark shadow over the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: royal family for years to come. All right, folks, that's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: gonna do it. For tonight's update, we'll be back tomorrow
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: morning following the story, still seeing where it goes, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: until then, obviously some context episodes are on the way.
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  Speaker 1: Hope everybody has a great night. If you'd like to
• 23:28
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