Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – We Put the Epstein Files in the Warehouse with the Ark of the Covenant

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

We have a fun scandal where a billionaire tried to buy a Billy Madison experience in professional tennis. Then we talk about FEMA’s efforts to keep Central Texas flood victims from turning to sellin...g their bodies (their words), before we get into the continuing fallout from whatever the administration is doing with Schroedinger’s Epstein Files.Support the show

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Starting point is 00:00:00 what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's uh july 15th 2025 as you're watching this we're recording this monday july 14th at 1.30-ish p.m. on the left coast that's where we're at in the universe and time and space i'm trey and that's mark and this excuse how you doing mark good man just reading about how the doD has signed a contract with grok to do some like the little week after the fucking stupid
Starting point is 00:00:35 chat bot called itself mecha hitler with all in on starting the second holocaust and became obsessed with raping one guy did you see this story? Yeah yeah yeah uh what's his dad uh yeah Will Stansell yeah
Starting point is 00:00:48 he ran for state house in Minnesota like a like an internet punitive but like it's just like oh god I don't know what anybody's doing anymore. But also, didn't that, what's that mean about the, you know, because it's also not very long after Trump went on his little diet, you know, Trump and Elon had the little bitch fest.
Starting point is 00:01:07 And part of which was Trump saying, well, you know what? Maybe we'll just take all these contracts. And Elon being like, fucking take them. I don't give a, see if I give a fuck, you know, or whatever. Like, that just happened. Yeah, yeah. And Elon, like, we're talking about the fallout from the Epstein shit because it's fucking hilarious.
Starting point is 00:01:22 And it's like, we ain't in it. They never fight. We can just talk about it. Like, so, like, Elon's all in on calling Trump, like, the head of the pedophical bottom. And, like, they're just giving him more con. And I can't make any sense of it. Right. So, before we get to the show, I want to talk about some goings-on in New York City,
Starting point is 00:01:37 or New York City residents at least. So Eric Adams, apparently, who's running as an independent to get re-elected because he was so improperly. You didn't bother running in the Democratic primary. And someone apparently told him that Zora Mondami was good at the Internet, that he should try being on the Internet. So he made one of those IG like morning routine videos. Do you know what I'm talking about? Of course I do.
Starting point is 00:01:59 I'm sure you've seen the big huge Jack Black guy who went viral for having the most egregious morning routine video of all time. Well, it's not the second most egregious. Okay. So Matt's called up this first freeze frame that we got where it says 8.57 a.m. where he's getting ready. And the clock on the wall, if you can't read it, it's probably too small. And our viewer says five minutes to 11. that's hilarious man and then because he's doing a fake routine where he's like pretending to brush his teeth and shit and like whatever so they're just chopping it up so the next screen grab says 9 a.m. but the clock on the wall says 11 so he's done he's taking him five minutes to do 10 seconds worth of work to pretend it's three minutes later yeah two hours later in the actual day also right because he
Starting point is 00:02:53 doesn't live in the place he's pretending to be in it's like he just woke up he fucking woke up with the place he actually lived and went to the apartment he pretends to live in in the city it's like that whole fucking thing like I'm gonna miss him when he's gone dude just gonna miss him so much so it's obviously I like I'm sure he does get up early in the morning and does whatever but it's like this just makes it obvious that they like had the idea to capitalize on a you know social media trend or they're like you know if you see those morning routine videos we should and then you know clearly they just attempted to fake the whole thing but completely
Starting point is 00:03:23 incompetently in a way that would like, you know, fit in on an episode of the office or something, the fucking clock in the background right under the caption of the time is almost too much. So it, hanging over all this, all right, is like the billionaires in New York have decided they're going to try to, like, buy this election, right? And the head billionaire who's like so mad about Mondami's nomination is Bill Ackman, who I'm not familiar with this whole thing. He's a billionaire hedge fund guy who was a longtime Democratic donor until he got, like,
Starting point is 00:03:51 radicalized in being a Trump guy by the campus protest. after October 7th. Like I said, they're trying to throw out, they want to buy the mayoral election for either Adams or Cuomo, but they haven't decided which one they want to light their money on fire for yet. So over the weekend, Bill Ackman got involved in a pretty funny fucking,
Starting point is 00:04:08 like a sports scandal where he, so he played this minor doubles tournament. Well, I say minor, like my understanding of tennis, I don't really watch tennis, but there's like three basic levels, right, of professional tennis. You got the major tour. You got one beneath it.
Starting point is 00:04:23 Then you got the one Bill Ackman played in at a tournament at the Tennis Hall of Fame over the weekend, okay. He played in this. It was called the Hall of Fame Open. He played doubles with a guy named Jack Sock, who is 32 years old and retired and now plays professional in pickle, pickleball. All right. Bill Ackman's 59 years old. What it looks like he happened, because Sock was a former pro, he was eligible to get a wild card entry. So Ackman seems like he paid him to be his partner so he could plan to fulfill his childhood dream of playing professional tennis for like one day.
Starting point is 00:04:53 oh so this isn't this it's not a pro-am thing it's like an actual uh yeah it's like double a baseball yeah yeah okay this it's a lower tier of men's tour it's focus the whole point this this this this like tour is to give younger people or aspiring players an opportunity to progress their careers in her 59 year old bill actman bought himself a spot in it it's like a make-a-wish program except there's nothing wrong with him he's just a fucking moron yeah super rich moron though right and they get to make wishes all the time yeah and erotic was asked about oh we talked about on his podcast of the former world number one uh former champ he said quote you don't give a wild card to someone who 50 players on my club are better than is it really central watching this so the american tennis
Starting point is 00:05:39 the ATP uh was contacted by cnn sports they pointed to the rule in wild cards and here is their response there's i was like hey what's up with bill acman on this and they came back spontaneously with players may not receive compensation and players may not offer compensation in exchange for rewarding of a wild card. They weren't asked about compensation. They just said that. Also involved in this,
Starting point is 00:06:01 the people they were playing were clearly taking it easy on ACMA. They won in straight sets, but only about a couple of points. Everyone involved knew they were babying him, so obviously he paid off his opponents too. And Ackman went on Twitter because it's a fucking social media addict and said that the fact they took it easy on him
Starting point is 00:06:17 actually made it harder on him because it, quote, it made it more difficult as he had too much time to think. Trane, he literally said because they had the ball slower at him, it made it confusing for it. Right. Yeah. Yeah, these people, dude, they just can't admit any kind of, like, weakness or whatever, however you want to put. Like, their egos are just so out of control, you know. It's like, yeah, I know everyone's, I acknowledge everyone can tell they're taking it easy on me, but what you don't understand is that actually makes it much more impressive the way I perform
Starting point is 00:06:43 because it's far more difficult that way. Yeah. For reasons you wouldn't understand. Yeah. I'm such a high-level athlete who's a 59-year-old who's never played professional tennis that these people take it easy on me, just threw me off my game, right? Anyway, after all this criticism all weekend, being accused of bribery, he made a $10 million donation to the Tennis Hall of Fame.
Starting point is 00:07:03 So, after being accused of bribing his way into getting to play professional tennis for one afternoon, he tried to bribe his way out of people being mad at him for it. Well, I mean, that's, you know, that's what it's about, you know, when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail or whatever. That's how he's the only way he knows how to approach things. It's just throwing money at it. It usually works. Yeah, Bill Hattman, I just want to say,
Starting point is 00:07:26 I will stop making fun of you for $10 million as well. Yeah. Yeah, all right. Producer Matt is with us. This is weekly skews. Before we continue, of course, I got my weekly reminders. First, if you want to see me do stand-up, comedy live and in person. And you should go to Treycrouter.com and check out my upcoming tour dates.
Starting point is 00:07:43 I'm going to be in La Jolla, California. That's down there in San Diego. as anyone who would come to those shows already knows. At the Comedy Store this weekend with my buddy Caleb Signing, who's also hilarious. Then after that, we got Omaha, Des Moines, Kansas City, Indie, Austin, St. Louis, and a bunch more coming up in the fall,
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Starting point is 00:08:38 Either way it works. $5 a month to get you access to two full-length bonus episodes, just additional episodes of this show, although sometimes like right now we're in the middle of doing a skew and a we call them when we answer your burning questions so support the show get some more of it in the process sign up on patreon okay as for this week's episode we're still talking about as light of the country is the uh the the going zone surrounding the epstein files and uh the backlash to the handling thereof from trump and his DOJ uh and trump you know who seems pretty upset about everyone's refusal to just you know think about things that really
Starting point is 00:09:14 matter and let this guy die and move on for once. He would prefer that. And so that's not what we're going to do. We're going to talk about it a little bit later. But first, the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Knights of D.D. Joe Biden's FEMA for turning the residents of
Starting point is 00:09:34 Mao. The situation in Lahaina was so bad that one and six survivors were forced to trade sexual favors, other favors for just basic supplies. at the second one after So For the first watch
Starting point is 00:09:50 I was like At least she's being gender inclusive But then in the second watch She's just referring to women But like so like The layers of fucking insanity She's addressing FEMA staff here Trey This is an internal fucking meeting
Starting point is 00:09:58 Like Zoom meeting Right So that's what I was about to ask Because she's She's saying on that as a criticism of FEMA Right? The way FEMA handled it And Joe Biden
Starting point is 00:10:07 What is her position? Because obviously We're in the Texas floods And everything It took the current The Trump iteration of FEMA and the current director, like, a week to show up or whatever. He was like AWOL. So, like, what is her position on fame, you know?
Starting point is 00:10:24 That's what she's doing there is being like, well, at least we aren't as bad as Joe Biden because nobody in Central Texas is given blowjobs for bottle of water. All right. So, like, but like, okay, so these people's, like, picture of humanity is so fucking bleak. Forget the idea that women would have to do that. Imagine being the guy with the bottle water who's demanding a hand job in exchange. for it? Right. Do you have, like, what is, who do they imagine? Like, fuck. So, what she's doing
Starting point is 00:10:50 there, there was a real study. Like, she's misrepresenting a real study by an advocacy group that interviewed 70 Filipino migrant workers about the status of their life after the wildfires. They lost all their work and stuff. So, uh, they interviewed 70 women. So one in six means 11 women. And the question
Starting point is 00:11:06 was, was worded vaguely enough that could have been like an awkward hug from a landlord or something. Right. So like she's, it was not any way, it never intended to represent every resident of Maui or in any way, shape, or form was turning to sex work. It's absolutely fucking insane. But I think what she did, there's like
Starting point is 00:11:22 this old, it's apocryful story in Hawaiian history. We're like, when John Cook air quote discovered Hawaii, I crashed landed out there because of a storm, that like his, the guys on his ship were trading nails from the ship for sex with the natives. So she boss believed there's something innate
Starting point is 00:11:38 to the Hawaiian spirit that they love trading butt stuff for sundries. Um, So going back to their actual flood response Um Fuck goddamn There's like a call center for people to call for help Not for like emergency help but for like middle term stuff
Starting point is 00:11:57 Like we need water here power yada yada yada yada A bunch of contractors at the call center were laid off in the middle of the fucking response Because gnome didn't green like the renewal of their contract So the result of this was That's what I was about to ask about the famous is it like more about like doge you know fucking axe handles smashing government cuts type shit or incompetence under trump where they just fuck everything up so bad or like a combination of of both you know so like she didn't renew their contract but just because she sucks at the job
Starting point is 00:12:33 and meant to do it and just didn't or because they're you know they're still doing their like government efficiency stuff and purposefully let the contract expire she has to personally approve every expenditure of over six figures so like nothing can happen without her green without her say so right like they like can't even gas up the emergency choppers for like less than 100,000 so like there's nothing can move this is like this is like stories you hear about the Soviet reunion like the Chernobyl response um so like the basic math numbers here so that uh according to the york times or july in july 11th only two thirds the calls the disaster assistance hotline and when unanswered.
Starting point is 00:13:10 And answer rates dip to 35% to last 6th and 15.9% until last 7th. So, yeah, hundreds of contractors got fired. She didn't renew these contracts until July 10th. So right in the middle of all this, like, so to walk you through this, so it was renewed five days after they expired and six days after the flooding. We're going to come back to this flood response a second, but I just want to note here that Quistianome is quietly becoming one of the most insane. liars in America, even for this government.
Starting point is 00:13:41 Here's another clip of her talking about immigration last week. Third day, I was talking to some marshals that have been partnering with ICE. They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home. And while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself. And they had to clean off and give him medical attention. These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our street. I mean, what? Like, is that?
Starting point is 00:14:09 you said earlier, it's like she's misrepresenting a study that was actually about this. Is there a version of that here that she, or is that just like, yeah, like God only knows, yeah. I don't know. It's wild. You said she's becoming one of the most insane liars in America. It's crazy because she was already one of the most insane, like
Starting point is 00:14:25 I don't want to call her a truth teller, but I'm saying she told the truth about killing her dog and all that stuff. Like she admitted to insane shit also when she should have lied about it, maybe, or just obviously not done it to begin with. And then now lies about, you know, insane shit
Starting point is 00:14:41 when you don't even need to. There's no reason to tell a lie about a guy eating himself in a fucking on an airplane. We're assuming she was honestly said she shot her dog, but she also, after that said she never read the book and her ghostwriter made up that story
Starting point is 00:14:53 about her shooting her dog. Right. So, this whole flood response, just like reeks of that kind of steady professionalism. You mentioned the acting administrator of FEMA, a guy named him and David Richardson. He's the guy that did not know
Starting point is 00:15:06 there was such a thing as hurricane season. And that leaked, he said he was joking. Like, you just joke around to the staff of female, about being surprised at such thing as a hurricane season. He finally visited Texas Hill Country on Saturday, you know, more than a week after the flood. Here's what he showed up wearing, if you got this picture, Matt. Jesus fucking Christ. That looks like my, one of my best friends growing up, his alcoholic divorced dad when he would, like, be heading out, trolling for ass on the weekends or whatever, when he was home from driving his tugboat on the Mississippi River.
Starting point is 00:15:37 That's how he used to dress. I can almost smell his fucking, like, brute, cologne, or whatever it is through this picture right here. Also, if you're just listening to the podcast, Pia, I'm sorry, rest of peace to your buddies, yeah. So, like, he's wearing like a short sleeve shirt with the sleeve sleeves still rolled up, but it's unbuttoned down below his nipples. It's easy trying to bag fresh widows after the flooding or what the fuck are you doing. Right, yeah, yeah. Was, also, what's that, what's the, is that some kind of chain? Is that dog tags or something?
Starting point is 00:16:05 Or is that like, it looked like dog tags to me. Yeah, I don't know his background. So, lost in all this, like, the stuff they're defunding, like, FEMA is like a, like a support organization, right? But, like, the majority of, like, disaster responses are local agencies or volunteers. And you and I both grew up pretty rural. So I think we know that a lot, there are a ton of volunteer firefighters in America, but I didn't realize it was this many. Roughly 85% of fire departments across the country are volunteer or mostly volunteer, according to the database run by FEMA. FEMA runs the National Fire Academy that trains all these people for free.
Starting point is 00:16:40 So these are people who are willing to risk their lives for free to save their neighbors. All they're offered in exchange for it is a free plane ticket to go to some training. And FEMA's like, no, fuck you drown. Right. Yeah, it's, I don't know, man. It's all fucked up. Again, it's like I think that people, people just don't think about how things happen or get done, you know what I mean? Or the necessity of it.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Like we talked about recently, it's like they think that things that they do like or that everyone like, you know, when something's on fire, you want firefighters to show up, but they don't think about how that actually happens or what the government's role might be in it, you know, even with volunteer departments, the fact that they train them for free or whatever, it's like, you know, shit just gets taken for granted and then, uh, fucked up by. Yeah. My, my first job, jobs loose. I get paid $5 cash the end of the night, but I was like eight, nine years old. I was like hanging, hanging targets for a turkey shoot at the fire department. There was how they raised money for their, A lot of their operations, just like, basically it's gambling where you shoot at a target with a shotgun. Yes, yeah. Yeah, I think they're called them, I think it's called them meat shoots in Solana, but it was the same thing. Yeah, yeah, you basically gamble, he shoot at a shotgun target, and then the person with the closest, with a shot made a whole closest to the center of target wins like meat or wheel of cheese or whatever, right? That would like, or they would, the guys would get together and cook a big, like, a huge cauldron of stew and sell plates of it for like $5 or $10.
Starting point is 00:18:03 dollars like that's how you keep the community afloat in places like we're from right and and all they all they're asking for for the federal government is some training and trump's like no uh so a little bit of a fun dystopian side note to this this thing is happening where people all over this country i think it happened in florida too this story's out of oklahoma are trying to damage local tv stations weather equipment yeah i think it controls the weather i just came back from Tulsa and I looked up, I was in Tulsa this weekend and I do this everywhere I go. I look up like
Starting point is 00:18:36 you know, Oklahoma News or whatever, whatever state I'm in, just see what's going on since there's something I can talk about. And I saw this story of this dude who was the leader of something. It was pretty funny because they said they like, I'm assuming it's the same guy you're talking about, but they were like, his group, his anti-government militia group
Starting point is 00:18:52 or whatever was like targeting weather radars and the Oklahoma news station had like reached out to the guy and interviewed him and had asked him like, is it true you're talking and he was just like just completely unapologetic he's like yeah we're gonna do a hell a lot more than that too all right because i know what's going on here you're defying fucking you're playing god and fucking causing but just absolute lunatic who thinks that and they also interviewed a meteorologist who was like okay just everyone's clear these are how we know
Starting point is 00:19:19 when like tornadoes are going to happen this is how we know when things are bad which you would know if you were causing them trey right yes right but this guy's like we're using them too make tornadoes or whatever for god only knows what reason but yeah it's fucking and that dude oklahoma's maybe the worst place for something like that to happen by the way right but it also makes sense if you're a lunatic because that's where the weather is the worst you know so you're gonna think that's where they're going the hardest with their weather machines i guess but yeah tornadoes have the shortest warning of any weather thing that i can think of outside of maybe monsoons and like so like like yeah you need the most alerts there and they're just absolutely not going to do it so you're talking
Starting point is 00:19:58 about a guy named Michael Lewis, Arthur Meyer, who's a head of a group called Veterans Zone Patrol. And yeah, News Channel 9 asked him if you were, the Veterans on Patrol was classified by, as an anti-governed militia, according to the Southern Poverry Law Center. And his quote was that you were just alluded to is they were asked, Mayor was asked if Veterans of Patrol was responsible for this guy who damaged the weather station. And he said, Veterans on Patrol is responsible for a lot more than that, so they're going to do the Oklahoma City bombing, but of clouds.
Starting point is 00:20:25 Right. no. But yeah, the guy that actually got arrested or got Char's his name's Anthony, Tyler Mitchell, he's 39 years old. And here's him. He damaged the camera after they got his picture. That's pretty poetic. It makes sense coming from these people. What I did, I didn't bring up that story specifically because I know I mean the crowd would have heard it already or whatever, but why I did talk about was like, I realized like it's why this is actually a good sign of how truly insane are the times we're living in are is this, right? Because it's like, you can't even bring up the fucking weather anymore without, you know,
Starting point is 00:21:00 perhaps inciting a fight with some lunatic in your family or causing some big argument. Like, that used to be the goat. If you didn't know what to talk to a person about this, you know, the cliche was you just bring up the weather and that's always going to be fine. But it's like now, you know,
Starting point is 00:21:14 you'll be at Thanksgiving. It's like just wherever you do, do not Brent mentioned the weather to your uncle Randy because he's got, he's really on one about the weather right now. And it's like, that's fucking, that shit is wild. Yeah, so that's where we're at right now is like a guy who is mad at the weather at a different state is destroying a TV station's radar systems, doing stochastic terrorism, and a dog t-shirt.
Starting point is 00:21:39 It looks like he bought at the gas station. Yeah, so let's talk about some contradictions being heightened. Absolutely. So this helps you shit, man. Like, as this is an anthropologist of fucking this like online fascistic movement. it's like fucking fascinating i think we've reached the limits of how much you can you can lie to people especially about a truly insane dumb issue but dumb is like dumb because they misconstrued it not because there weren't real victims or whatever not that they're on real concerns but like
Starting point is 00:22:10 this is an issue they care deeply about right and they're just straight up being fucking gas lit about it and they're going goddamn insane that the rest of us have been doing for 10 years yes right yes 100% that's what because like unlike i feel like a lot of things where it's like you know we're talking about like how do people in my hometown justify the shit that Trump does that fucks over towns like mine very explicitly and it's like well they don't they blame the Democrats or whatever they don't see it that way or they don't know about it and they get different information but it's like with this story in particular they've been like heavily bought into it for so long it's been a huge priority for them and their whole
Starting point is 00:22:49 position has been you know it's because this is going to blow the whole thing wide open on the, you know, the evil Democrat-led global cabal of pedophiles, you know, with ringleader Bill Clinton and whoever else. And Trump is going to be the one that shines the fucking, you know, incandescent light of justice on the whole thing or whatnot. And so in this particular case when Trump, even though he's their guy, when he's, you know, when he says to them like, no, everything's fine. It's not a big, you know, to shut up, stop worrying about it.
Starting point is 00:23:16 They're having more trouble than usual with just, you know, with just being like, oh, Yes, sir. You're right. And moving on. And it is like, you know, it's interesting. I have no expectations for these people at the end of the day. I'm sure they'll find their way back to, you know, toe in the line or whatever. But it is, this is the first time I can ever remember something like this really happening. This is the first time there's ever been a Trump-related controversy that has his own base pissed at him. Right. Exactly. Yeah. In 10 years, I can't ever remember another time that this has happened. So it is interesting for sure. Yeah, and you can't like, you're like trying to lie to the QAnon types and hardcore anti-Semites about like the nature of Jeffrey Epstein and what might be in the case files is like trying to lie to you, try to like lie to you about the layout of your house. Right. Like they know this shit front and back. Right.
Starting point is 00:24:07 And there's a lot of deeply weird stuff right, Epstein. And you're saying like, oh, there's nothing there is like it reads like, you're literally like if you're pissing in my mouth and telling me that it's raining. You know what I'm saying? It's like, just, but it's just like, the way Trump bumble-fucked this, because like, the last, last week's show, we came on here, and they put up the statement saying there was no, it actually was no Epstein list. And we joked about it for a minute, then we moved on. But the next day, they had that big cabinet beating where Trump yelled at a reporter for asked him about it, and that's really what jumped all this off, right? It's just like a crisis PR bumble-clucking, bumble-fucking master class. Check out this graph of the Google search results for Trump versus Trump at Epstein. It's went up like 350% in the core of the course the last. week. I feel like Charlie Daniels here, Benghazi ain't going away, but like Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:24:54 So that got everybody mad at him. Then on Saturday, he posted a statement on his own social media platform, true social. He got ratioed on his own social media platform that's exclusively for his supporters.
Starting point is 00:25:08 It's like getting booed at your own birthday party. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And it's like, it's the first time anything like this has happened with them because they're just like, you know, they're the most
Starting point is 00:25:18 fucking bootlick and true believers there are generally for the most part but now this is like we thought this whole time it's like is there a bridge that's too far for these people it's like maybe there even isn't and there still might not be but it's like this seems like perhaps at least some of them
Starting point is 00:25:36 have reached the proverbial bridge too far on this subject I'm not saying there's like some great political realignment but here happening here but like there were a ton of people who thought they'll vote for Trump was a vote against the corrupt elite deep state. And then for the past month, you've got Iran, the budget, Epstein. So maybe they'll be realized they've just voted for a standard-issue Republican.
Starting point is 00:25:56 And for the health of society, redistributing the lunatics across the political spectrum would be really helpful. Yeah. Because you're not going to have a society with no lunatics. Right. Yeah, no. We need to be divided up among like the Democrats, Republicans, libertarians, non-voters, alien people. Yeah. Spread them out, right?
Starting point is 00:26:16 But although some of them, and I'm sure you've saying. some of the truest of true believers they've already like moved on meaning like Corey put some in our group chat or whatever like some guys on X just say just literally saying like listen I think at this point it's pretty clear that Trump was probably involved with the Epstein stuff and is yeah maybe you know molested some children or whatever but he's still a great man and a great president and as Christians we must find it in our heart to forgive him because there are more important things than being a child predator or whatever
Starting point is 00:26:49 and it's just like, it's wild to have a person whose brain works enough to go like, well, look, I can't deny any of this. This looks pretty bad. You're right. I have to acknowledge that. But also, I'm totally okay with it.
Starting point is 00:27:02 Like, it's weird to have a person who can do both of those things, you know? The wildest one Corey is saying with somebody's like, what if it happened to your daughter? And the guy was like, well, Jesus says to forgive. So I guess it'd have to.
Starting point is 00:27:13 Like, Jesus Christ. Right. So, Joe Biden tried to help him out this. Joe Biden, I have no idea why he's doing interviews anymore. But this is controversy bubbling on the right about, like, him using an auto pin to sign a bunch of stuff, including pardons. And so he gave an interview where he admitted they used the autopin a lot, which is like legal. Presidents do it all the time.
Starting point is 00:27:32 But they did the Magistphere, it gave them something to complain about. But like, they basically want Dr. Fauci's pardon to not be enforceable so they can execute Dr. Fauci. So, Fox News this morning did, like, Like, they mentioned Joe Biden 46 times and Epstein Zero. So they found, they gave them a morning off. But I don't think this is going to be enough to get them through. But the funniest response is, is Mike Lawler on CNN earlier today? It might have been yesterday.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Michael Lawler was a Republican congressman from New York. And as I said, if somebody did something, if there is evidence of a crime committed, and possible to them. In the absence of that, what are we talking about? you say there's a lot of nonsense a lot of nonsense from whom what do you think explain to me what you think the nonsense is well frankly the fact that you're even covering this i mean i don't even understand frankly what uh why we're spending a lot of time on geoffrey epa okay okay because the president made a central campaign plank to a large
Starting point is 00:28:38 chunk of his base and then is talking about it in the white house the uh the uh the uh the uh FBI director used to go on Q&On podcast and talk about the Epstein files. The second command of the FBI had his own podcast. We talked about the Epstein files. Pam Bondi said she was about to release the Epstein list, a client list. She does no longer exist. These people made a new, like I don't like you live in a fucking culture right now where we spend a lot of our political discourse talking about billionaire pedophiles.
Starting point is 00:29:02 I don't think that's fucking sane or helpful. But like, I didn't do this. Yeah, I mean, yeah, no, I know they've, again, they do this type of shit to themselves all the time. I feel like, you know, getting in messes that they themselves made, but, you know, just, as we've already said, it's just different this time because it's like, usually that doesn't matter. Like, usually they do that. And then when they say, why are we talking about this? And then everybody, all the magabase, just like, yeah, why are we talking about this? And then it's over.
Starting point is 00:29:31 And while the rest of us on the other side are like, this is fucking crazy, you know, and they're like, I get over it. That's normally what happens. But they did, they somehow didn't realize that this specific issue was, was, was. you know, different for them. Yeah. It's like, you know, telling the Boston Red Sox fans that the 2004 title has been vacated or something. So, let me call him Matt Walsh, conservative, very popular conservative hate monger, influencer,
Starting point is 00:29:56 okay? The attorney general said she had the client list on her desk. The White House made a big show of giving binders Mark Epstein files phase one to a bunch of influencers. Now they tell us there is no list and we should stop talking about it. Well, why did you say there was a list? Why did you pull that stunt with the influencers? Why did you call it phase one?
Starting point is 00:30:11 obviously implying that there were more phases to come. Like, they're paying themselves in the weirdest corner because now they're only two options to defest up to having misled the supporters for the last decade or be seen as part of the cover-up. There's not really a third option here. Right. And by the way, I mean, why did they do that stuff? I know that the one thing, she got, like, we showed it on here with that lady at breakfast with like a hidden camera or something, asked her about it. And she kind of got put on the spot and said some shit about, oh, they're on my desk. we're going to be working through them or whatever.
Starting point is 00:30:42 And it's like, that's one thing. But all this stuff that Matt Walsh just pointed out, like, I mean, why did they do that? You know, here's phase one. Like, where would, where did they think it was going? They're just trying to get to the next five minutes with a lot. That's everything all the time, right? So, like, like, I don't understand, like, people, people hate being played for fucking dupes about anything. It doesn't really matter the stakes of it.
Starting point is 00:31:07 And it's like, the real, the question is, like, are Trump's. minions covering it up, or did they export the sexual abuse of children to help get their guy elected? The third option, the only person I've seen go with this is a normal QAnon thing. Scott Adams did this, the Dilbert guy. He was like, this is still part of the plan. Trump's winking at us, tell us, like, don't pay attention. Like, the real answer is coming later, which is what Trump has to hope happens is the Q&O instincts come in. This is all just part of it.
Starting point is 00:31:31 The funniest part of Trump's statement was saying that the Epstein files, whatever's in there is an Obama, Hillary Biden plot against him. Um, whatever Epstein was doing, he's been doing it since the 80s, and the original cover-up of the first criminal investigation that's initiated with West Palm Beach Sheriff's Office and up with the FBI, that happened under the George D. Bush presidency. So, in my opinion, it's bad tradecraft for Obama, Hillary, and the deep state to generate fake Epstein files, but then forget to implicate anyone in MAGA and these fake files, which they therefore do not release, which Trump has seen also won't release. Exactly. I was about to say, it's like, hey, him saying that implies that's like almost like a tacit admission. Yeah, yeah, I am in them. Yes.
Starting point is 00:32:17 But, you know, but it's Barack's bullshit is all it is. But then, like you said, but they, Biden, Biden was in there for four years. Obama's boy, you know, they had, the Epstein was fucking long dead by the time that even happened. Like, if that was true, why did they not, they had him, you know what I mean? If they orchestrated the whole thing to frame Trump and these Epstein. files or whatever, why would they not take him down while Biden was in the White House or during the campaign or whatever? Like, why would they just fucking sit on them? And if they had a reason to sit on them because it wasn't going to work in their favor, then why would Trump then sit
Starting point is 00:32:55 on them when he gets in office, you know, if it could exonerate him or whatever? Like, it just, none of it makes any fucking sense at all. And it really is this dumb. We were tough to parse Trump's like, because Trump talks in meandering ways or whatever, but if you blow it down his case it's essentially these three points okay there are no files i am not in the files that don't exist and also the fake files are fake right and also if i am in the fake files that are fake it's because they you know you know that it's a frame job that but i'm not at them but if i am that's why and also there's no files but if there are files then those yeah so yeah so you can tie yourself in knots about all this shit like you screw your brain into a fucking mass a jumbled mass of nothing but like
Starting point is 00:33:38 if you want to keep it simple if trump were over seeing a cover-up on behalf of the rich buddies he just gave a tax cut to, what would look at you different? Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying? So, um,
Starting point is 00:33:49 the funniest part of this, they've released a cut of the video feed from, from the prison where Epstein killed himself or Eric will kill himself depending on, I think it's more likely not he killed himself,
Starting point is 00:34:00 but like whatever. No, I agree with you. It's like we talked about before. It's like the, that doesn't really even change as much as people act like it does. Like it's still, you know, it.
Starting point is 00:34:10 Right. So they released the video and there was like a minute missing, but Pam Body's excuse was funny. It's funny to me because I know no one's going to buy it, but it's sort of expensive how government computers work. But she's saying like they don't have enough room to store everything. The system resets every night at midnight. So from midnight to 1201 every night, it's missing in every night.
Starting point is 00:34:28 That seems stupid enough to be plausible to me. Do you understand? But it also creates, if you're watching enough heist movies, like that's the minute when you would do the killer. Of course, yeah, right? Yeah, right. Yeah, that feels like a contrived, like, you know, weakness in the security system in a hoist movie that they can, you know, that someone uncovers that they can exploit or whatever.
Starting point is 00:34:49 If you watched it, you'd be like, well, why would it work like that? That's pretty convenient, you know. So it'd be funny if it actually did. It's the wamp rat-sized hole in the Dust Star. Yeah, right. So, but they did release, the video files they released, besides I've been missing minute, the metadata shows that have been edited. it. Now, I don't know anything about metadata, but obviously now it is the Doge intern who fucking
Starting point is 00:35:12 edited this video clip, because you would not, there's ways to cover it up that I'm not smart enough to do that they did not do. So I don't think this is conspiratorial, but it's obviously stupid. It's going to rile up the conspiracy. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, but why on the subject to data, I do think it's deeply funny. Wired magazine got a whole, they, they bought some data packets from commercial data brokers and we're able to track location data for a bunch people that went to Epstein's Island, all right, and figure out, they didn't, they did not publicly say if they had suspicions over who any individuals were, right? But they did know where they're coming from.
Starting point is 00:35:47 It's mostly people from, like, what do you call it, Martha's Vineyard, Southern Florida, and Central Texas, okay? Okay. But there were zero phones going to Epstein's Island from Europe, but we know that, like, there were French girls that were traffic there, and that Prince Andrew hung out there. And it's like, the best guess. Yes, is because Europe has better data privacy laws. What I'm saying is, if we let the elites know that unless they give us better data
Starting point is 00:36:14 protections, we will know when they go to the pedophile island, we might get better data privacy laws. Right. Yeah, there you go. That's a, that'd be nice. I'm sure they'd just find a way to make it only apply to them somehow, but, uh... Right. So, the whole reason Trump put out that statement on Sunday, on Saturday was because the entire
Starting point is 00:36:32 MAGAM movement was turning on Pam Bondi, and he wanted me, call it from his statement. They're all going out to attorney general, Pam Bondi who's doing a fantastic job this is after the reason they're madder is because Dan Bongino number two at the FBI took a mental health day on Friday because he was so upset over the Epstein stuff
Starting point is 00:36:48 that's so hilarious oh my God so they're like fire Pam keep Dan right but Bondi is the least implicated person here right not run for higher office slamming Jeffrey Epstein yes but she is not a woman
Starting point is 00:37:06 and also a convenient scapegoat or whatever. I'm kind of just surprised that Trump even went to bat for her, like, at all. Because of that, unless it's, you know, because she can make things more, you know, difficult for the whole thing. If he does and, you know, that turn on her at this stage. Yeah, right. She's never going to come clean because she's a thoroughly corrupt person. I'm saying, like, I'm not defending her. She is a piece of shit.
Starting point is 00:37:28 I'm just saying, like, she didn't grift off the I've seen stuff, nor did she, nor was she implicated in any of it. She was attorney general of Florida, but not until 2011. after the first Epstein case was already resolved, right? But Cas Patel, man, we've got to watch this clip of him in 2023 and remember that this current moment, presently, he is the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Who has Jeffrey Epstein? I look at that book, yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:58 But who? That is, I mean, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI. just like the manifesto Yeah, it's so funny Because he is the director of the FBI Uh-huh Here's a tweet, cash posted I think it was Thursday or Friday
Starting point is 00:38:17 The conspiracy theories just aren't true Never had been It's an honor to serve The President of the United States And I'll continue to do so For as long as he calls on me If these guys want to testify to Congress They were just making this stuff up
Starting point is 00:38:28 For years and years to explain And then explain why I thought that was a good idea Then go ahead But otherwise, fuck off yeah i don't understand how stuff i'm always we've brought that we this has come up before because things like this happen all the time with these people there's like there's always a clip of themselves from you know earlier years for days gone by where they directly either implicate themselves or you know
Starting point is 00:38:52 highlight how hypocritical they are contradict themselves or whatever and i just it's just wild to me the level of like shamelessness you have to have because we all know the era we live in you know like he was on a fucking glenbeck When he says that, you know what I mean? Like, he knows what he used to say. He knows he's full of shit now. He knows that there's direct physical evidence of all of it, but he's still, well, you know, what choice does he have? He still just has to say with a straight face, you know, act like none of that ever happened
Starting point is 00:39:21 and just, you know, try to Jedi mind trick people into thinking that they never saw you do that or say that. And I just don't feel like I have the capacity as a person to even, whatever the, like, leftist version of that could even be. I don't think I could do that either because it would just I don't know I'd go crazy trying to fucking do that chance you probably need a mental health day
Starting point is 00:39:43 from your job as number two at the FBI so you got to put yourself in the mind of Q and on people for a second here with the hardcore MAGA people with the Groypers and shit like
Starting point is 00:39:54 they're being deprived with the ending of their movie right we talked before about how like Americans are thoroughly movie-brained but Q and not people are like that on fucking steroids. Right. They literally talk about getting a popcorn and watching a show.
Starting point is 00:40:10 Like, at least the crackers from a shitty movie. All this stuff is from shitty movies. The, uh, the, they get prepared for the storm or whatever is from the line from a movie. All their expressions where we go one where we go all is from a fucking movie. And they've been promised by themselves and bunch of mega influencers a climax, like a big reveal where a bunch of Democrats, rhinos and deep state people are led away in chains to be executed. Right. And it means so much to them, too, because it's like they believe it so hard. It would be so thoroughly vindicating for them. Like, they fantasize about that moment. You know what I mean? When that happens. And they could be like just how, how righteous they can feel and validated and vindicated to all their fucking, you know, all the people that said they were crazy or whatever else. They could be like, oh, see, I knew it. I fucking knew it. I tried to tell you all, you know, like they all, that's how much it means to them, you know. They think their strange families will have to apologize, and then this Christmas they'll get to see the grandkids for the first time in years.
Starting point is 00:41:09 Right. That's what they think. That's what they think they're being deprived of here. And, like, this conspiracy canon that I have so wrong, once it gets turned on you, I'm not sure how you get it off you, because, like, there's this meme among, like, this is part of what Grock was doing when I went a full of Nazi last week. It kept using the white supremacist's meme noticing. Are you familiar with this, Trey?
Starting point is 00:41:30 Noticing? Uh-uh. They frame a lot of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories where they piece them together as like noticing connections. A lot of noticing is just noticing someone has like a Jewish surname, right, involved in something. So, but like there are a lot of conspiracy theorizing is just noticing connections, all right? So like, and piece them together in a way that sort of makes reality makes sense or the reality rarely makes sense. So going back like to June 6th, when Elon and Trump are hardcore fighting the first time, when Elon posted Trump was in the Epstein files.
Starting point is 00:42:06 Later that day, Trump released a statement from a lawyer named David Schoen, who represented Epstein for nine days before his death. Okay. So this guy represented him just long enough hypothetically to help set up the murder. Okay. And Schoen said in this statement, I can authoritatively, unequivocally, and indefinitely say he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked that.
Starting point is 00:42:26 So this guy has version of stories. He specifically asked his client, do you have dirt on the president? Mm-hmm. And then Epstein said no. And then now he's violating an attorney-trial-client privilege to vindicate Donald Trump, who he went on to represent as a second impeachment hearing. So what do you do once you notice that? Right.
Starting point is 00:42:45 Yeah, you had another thumbtack to the court board, you know, a red string out. So all these mega-influencers basically to choose between Trump are pissing off their audiences. And their choices have been fascinating so far. So, like, you talk about audience capture, man. Even if he guys believe Trump, they can't really say so because then they lose their audience. They have to fucking get a real job.
Starting point is 00:43:05 I don't think that's going to happen. So, Betty Johns and his pick, his viewer's side. Scott Adams, I told you, said this is part of the plan. Charlie Kirk said he's not going to, Trump called him and yelled at him, so he's not going to talk about Epstein anymore. So he's just basically choosing the middle path of, like, no resistance to anybody. One of the reasons Trump might have called Charlie Kirk to yell at him
Starting point is 00:43:27 is turning points USA. Charlie's organization had an event this weekend. that Tucker Carlson spoke at and here's a clip of Tucker speaking at Charlie's event. The earnest of it drives me crazy and it's particularly going in the case of Jeffrey and the whole
Starting point is 00:43:42 constellation people around Jeffrey Ep all of whom seem to be getting away with Sam. How do you know they're getting away with stamps? I'll tell you how people they're useless and they're rich. He's still in my bitch, right? He's still in my fucking bitch. Most useless people with no actual skills
Starting point is 00:44:00 become billion. I mean, you're like, yeah, you'll get, don't get me wrong, I hear you, Tucker, but like, uh, yeah, but where is that coming front or that, you know, just, again, shows you just how wild this whole situation is, but he's, uh, he goes on to lay into our tennis buddy, Bill Ackman for like five straight fucking minutes there. Just rip him apart the point where Sacks had to post like an hour long Twitter screen in defense of himself, but how he's a self-made man. not really but so as what the Democratic says this like
Starting point is 00:44:34 I think what I would do I saw a clip with John Osop this this weekend where he basically just made fun of it where he's like oh he really thought
Starting point is 00:44:40 this sex pest was going to release Epstein files the audience laughed and just moved on and that's probably all you can do here
Starting point is 00:44:46 Rokana says he's going to introduce the bill as an attachment to the Genius Act the crypto bill that'll demand to release the
Starting point is 00:44:54 Epstein files and I got to say man the reason I would go with Osop's line is Trump did break a campaign promise. That's probably what I'd go after him for here. What Roe Con is doing is trying to peel off the Q&N types
Starting point is 00:45:08 by going back to promising them a conclusion to their story. Right. You're picking up Trump's campaign promise and trying to carry the ball forward. That feels really stupid to me. Yeah. Because like... But he also...
Starting point is 00:45:23 I feel like they do this a lot. You know, they say a lot of things about, like, I'm going to introduce this. if I could call it, while knowing that, like, well, no, you ain't. Or not that, no, you ain't, but it ain't going to amount to anything or whatever. Do you know what I mean? But it gives you, like, a good sound batter, like, a leg to stand on when you, you know, shit you can say. Or, like, you know, so it could also just be that because that's one thing that's like, we just all know that's never going to happen.
Starting point is 00:45:49 Like, even if he does do that, they're not, Congress is not going to, like, actually pass a, also, even if they did. Trump would have to sign it, right, if it was a bill, so then he'd have to refuse to sign it, and so that's part of it anyway. If it sabotaged the passing of this crypto bill, then that would be good, I guess. Oh, yeah, there you go. So, but also, like, what if they released the files
Starting point is 00:46:13 and Trump isn't personally implicated at all? Like, have you thought about that? Because it's very possible, like, Trump, Trump and I've seen were close friends until about 2004 when they had a falling out over a real estate deal, okay? Yeah, but do you think that, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:46:29 Why would, Trump is the most, you know, narcissistic and selfish person alive. If he genuinely wasn't implicated, why would he put himself through all this? Because of all the friends he has who are implicated, who, whatever, he owes money to or whatever, they've got other shit on him or something. And they've demanded that he not do it, even though he himself is, right. Yeah. I mean, no, sure. But I just still can't. I feel like at a certain point, he would just tell them to fuck off if that was the case.
Starting point is 00:46:59 Yeah, without knowing, there's also, they might have just like, this is going to be this, this is the stupidest first of reality, but they might have just relented to the fact that it is an intelligence thing and the deep state made a good case for them to why these facts should not be put out there in a public record because it would have been dangerous shit or something? I don't fucking know. But like, I do know that I don't think Trump would have like had a falling out with a guy over money who had blackmail material of him having sex with children. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, like, that's the part, this is the part where you get in, like, to be fair to Democrats, like, I don't know how, like, it's really difficult to talk about Jeffrey Epstein and sound safe. Right. Yeah. Yeah, because I'm already, you just said that. It does make sense, but it's also like, it's possible at that point in time he didn't know, none of them knew, you know, they were all doing it. They were all going and partying there and they all knew it was going down or whatever. Maybe they didn't know that he was stupid to not assume he was keeping some kind of receipts or whatever. But either that they didn't, they didn't know at that time he was doing it or that it was like, well, it ain't just me. It's literally. every powerful person in this fucking, you know, sphere right now in his orbit. And so, you know, he ain't going to burn all of them.
Starting point is 00:48:03 And I don't know. There's just, you can always, like you said earlier, you could just think your fucking, you know, you can think your brain into fucking pretzels.
Starting point is 00:48:11 Right. Trying to make sense of all this or decide what's really going on. Right. Like, because it's like, you just start describing it and you think,
Starting point is 00:48:18 like, people, like, like you just straightforward did like a paragraph long explanation of what Jeffrey Lepstein's whole deal was, people would walk away from me at a party. Do you know what I'm saying? Like it doesn't, you sound like a lunatic. He's a billionaire sex trafficker who hangs out of presidents and Prince Andrew and Saudi Emirates on his private
Starting point is 00:48:34 island, which features a temple and a giant sundial. Show these pictures, Matt. These are the pictures are from NBC News. This is not from the dark web or some shit, if you guys aren't familiar. I don't know why you have a giant sundial. I guess it's a cool art piece, but like when you factor in, there's also the temple here. Show this blue temple, Matt. No, they're doing weird shit around that. Right. So this could be, like, this could be anything. But here's the part that's even weirder about this fucking thing that's on his island.
Starting point is 00:49:06 It's like, whatever the governing authority is over the building permits for, like, unincorporated, like, U.S. Virgin Islands that are privately owned. Whatever he, the paperwork he filed to build in that spot, it was supposed to be a music pavilion. So he misled the local government in order to build that thing, which is what the fuck. you know it's like it's also like it's hard not to talk about Epstein stuff like also without sounding vaguely anti-Semitic because his name's Epstein and when we get to the Epstein as a spy stuff everyone's best guest or second best guest who he worked for is Mossad but he's also like good friends with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak who wrote his plane 30 times he was heavily invested in the Israeli tech did defense tech industry Epstein was but like I just I'm the last person the world is going to talk about Israel as a country
Starting point is 00:49:58 and not as a religion and like Israel as a country they does spy on us a lot because they've been caught doing it in a bunch of high profile scandals
Starting point is 00:50:03 they stole the nuclear program from us so if we don't talk about Israel like it's like Russia and the P-tape as opposed to a blood libel for a second
Starting point is 00:50:11 yeah yeah pretend it's like French intelligence like the DGSC they're running honey pot schemes and they're in their country
Starting point is 00:50:19 where they can say to consent when like 15 years old okay if you're not super familiar with the Epstein stuff. Everything I'm talking about here is like in the public record triple sourced reported
Starting point is 00:50:30 facts, okay? I'm not like, I'm not conspiracy theorizing here. Epstein's inexplicable workwife who didn't have a job, Gleyn Maxwell, her father was a double agent from Mossad in the UK and when
Starting point is 00:50:44 he died mysteriously, naked drowned off the side of his boat. Israel gave him a state funeral. All right. There's also like the level impunity Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to operate at going back to the fucking 70s
Starting point is 00:50:59 he just felled up constantly Right He got a teacher A job was a teacher At a elite Manhattan private school While having no college degree Or teacher certification He got fired for being bad at his job
Starting point is 00:51:12 For hitting on the underrated students Then he got hired at Bear Stearns Because the father of one of the kids Who went to his school liked him The guy named Ace Greenberg ran Bear Stearns But Ace Greenberg also lent a bunch of money to Trump, if you want to go back that far at the level of their personal connections. Then, Trubb, Epstein got fired from Bear Stearns for SEC violations, then immediately started
Starting point is 00:51:34 his own firm with whose money, he can't be, he can't even a working class family. Right. And then he would tell people at parties and shared the early 80s, he worked for the CIA. Yeah, no, I know. It's, I've, yeah, it's all fucking super weird. It's always like, where did, he just has all this money and, you know, runs in the most elite circles on earth and everything. but it's like and that when you it's like okay whatever he's the party guy for those people
Starting point is 00:51:59 but like how did he get into that position to begin with you know like how did he get the money and get into like it's all it's weird as hell i mean same way get to Carnegie hall baby practice practice practice so going back to the this the brood crumbs that made people think he's a spy this is according to nbcc news and the daily beast during the 1980s Epstein possessed an Austrian passport that had his photo with a false name, and the passport said he was a resident of Saudi Arabia. In the 80s, one of Epstein's clients was a Saudi businessman named Adnan Khashoggi, who was the middleman in transferring American weapons from Israel to Iran as part of Iran-Contra.
Starting point is 00:52:38 So, Epstein's either a spy or a huge liar, which you can be both, or he's just completely amoral, which is the norm for working in international finance and money longer for all these all these different kinds of people, right? I do want to say, when he was briefly in prison, like, so the Florida court case, I think the sequence of events goes something like this. The West Palm Beach County Sheriff is investigating Epstein. They start with like a mom of a 14-year-old fondic complaint.
Starting point is 00:53:05 They round up 30-some victims. But the DA will not prosecute him. So they call him the FBI. The FBI, the U.S. attorneys, Alist Ocasta, who goes on to be Trump's Labor Secretary, gives him a sweetheart deal for 18 months. in prison for sexually assaulting 36 children. When he was
Starting point is 00:53:22 in prison, he got the Goodfellows experience. They put him in a private wing of the prison by himself with an office and a TV. He got work release after only three and a half months where he got six days a week, he got 12 hours a day out of prison. He would get picked up from the prison by a goddamn
Starting point is 00:53:37 limo driver. Dude, see? Like, I'm saying it... I want to know, man. Like, I want to know. I want to have answers to all this shit and make it all make sense, you know, like, let alone the fucking, you know, hardcore conspiracy theorists and stuff. It's no wonder they've dug into this so hard. It's, it's, it's wild.
Starting point is 00:53:59 It's like, you know, I don't know what's happening, but I do know I'm being lied to. Right, exactly. Yes. That's like the one thing everyone can agree on about it. I do want to say if he was a spy, he was pretty fucking bad at it. Like, like, possibly no one's considering here as he was a spy, but this, but the sex criminal stuff was a hobby. and not part of his professional operation which people fuck up at work
Starting point is 00:54:21 you know but like here's a magazine profile of him from 2002 I want to read from it was headlined Jeffrey Epstein International Money Man of Mystery 2002 was like four and a half years after Austin Powers came out
Starting point is 00:54:37 so the headline of this piece is basically saying Jeffrey Epstein spy he comes with cash to burn a fleet of airplanes and a keen eye for the ladies to say nothing of a relentless brain that challenges Nobel Prize winning scientists across the country
Starting point is 00:54:53 and for financial markets around the world. Ever since the post page 6th ran an item about the president's late September visit to Africa with Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker on his new benefactors customized Boeing 727, the question of the day has been, who in the world is Jeffrey Epstein? It's probably bad for a spy to be in a New York magazine.
Starting point is 00:55:14 I just want to say that. Also, the, the, the, the, government of Israel put up a statement today, they're forced to deny that Jeffrey Epstein never worked from Assad. And I got to see, like, the fact that the Ehou-Brock rode in his plane 30 times leads me to believe them, because that's a really, it's not exactly a fucking covert up. So, like, all this stuff is so stupid. And going back to Alex Acosta, Jeffrey Epstein was brought up when he was being interviewed
Starting point is 00:55:38 as part of his vetting process for Trump, to be in Trump's cabinet. He was, can quote here, I was told Epstein, quote, belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone, then it was a quote above his pay grade. Trump had transition team accepted that is enough and hired him to be Labor Secretary until he was fired from the more Epstein reporting came to light.
Starting point is 00:56:00 And Acosta, do you know what he's doing now, Tray? No. Nothing. He completely vanished from the limelight after the Epstein stuff came. It feels like telling to me he wasn't that old. These political psychos are super fucking ambitious. Which leads us back
Starting point is 00:56:16 to where we started the story, which was the cabinet meeting last Tuesday when the question that set Trump off to Pam Bondi was she was asked whether Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligent was a spy agency asset and she said we can get back to you on that I have no knowledge about that we can get back to you on that she could have said no yeah but she can't say yes right I think a maybe is a fucking yes yeah right no I know yeah it's like You know, she could have said no, and it's like, I mean, you know, unless she does know that it, you know, that she can't say no for whatever, you know, or it will make things worse or has the potential to in the future. Or she at least is aware of the possibility. And I don't know, man.
Starting point is 00:57:08 The whole thing is pretty nuts. I don't, uh, I don't know how I would talk about this if I was Democratic politician. or pundit or whatever, but I do know how, like, I don't know whether I would just make fun of it. I don't know where to call for anything. But our favorite congressman, Richie Torres, is cutting a third path, which is basically doing the meme for the Conan podcast.
Starting point is 00:57:28 The guy goes, my friend Jeff Epstein, the wealthy financier, he's Richie over the weekend. It's Jim Downey, by the way. Oh, yeah. Funny guy. Well, we've been clear that the Epstein controversy is a distraction of Donald Trump's own making
Starting point is 00:57:41 that he was fanning the flame of the Epstein conspiracy theory during the campaign. And so now he's essentially an arsonist pretending to be a firefighter. And there was no need for an investigation. The medical examiner had investigated the matter and found that Epstein died by suicide.
Starting point is 00:58:00 The same conclusions were drawn by the Bureau of Federal Prisons. There was no need for a new investigation unless the purpose was to legitimize a conspiracy theory. All right. So now we're going to conspiratorial here. I think what's happened on there is some low-key, like, anti-Semitism on like the scale of like saw bigotry of low expectations kind of thing so richie for context we've talked about about him before blake uh he's he's a black and
Starting point is 00:58:28 Puerto rican from the poorest district in america which is 85% black and Latino yet he spends a ton of time on Israel stuff I'm just presenting you with facts here Politico has described him as Israel's loudest supporter and uh he here's what he was tweeting on june 10th of last year he was he was talking about uh Israel um Uh, his number one individual donor last year was APEC. They gave him $536,000 per opensecrets.org. And he got $1.1 million from pro-Israel groups overall. And then today, like, I think he's doing, he's trying to say, hey, look, there's no conspiracy.
Starting point is 00:59:02 Epstein killed himself. Let's all forget about it. Because he thinks Israel did it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Because then today, somebody must have called him. Like, actually he's not a messab, bro. You don't have to do this.
Starting point is 00:59:12 Because here's what he tweeted today, Trey, after, after fucking, uh, doing it. that over the weekend. Dear Donald Trump and Pam Bondi, release the Epstein files. Whatever happened to promises me
Starting point is 00:59:21 promises his guy. Okay, so he got new marching orders obviously. Yes, he just went on TV popping off reflexively defending
Starting point is 00:59:30 Jeffrey Epstein trying to quiet this down because he thought it'd be good for whoever the fuck you thinks he works for and now he completely flipped. I'm like out of this
Starting point is 00:59:37 all this stuff will drive anybody insane. Fuck it. Just like Richie Torres, please get another line of work. Yeah. So I don't know. Who knows since we'll ever
Starting point is 00:59:44 be made of it and probably not likely to do it here, but we could cover it if and when it does happen. But in the meantime, it, you know, sure is interesting stuff. So we'll see how it all goes. But thank you guys for watching. And we'll see you next time. Oh, oh, yes, please go to traycrouter.com,
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