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Welcome to the Friday edition.

The spotlight in Washington turned white hot as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a Senate hearing that was anything but routine. The questioning was relentless. The tone was sharp. The political theater played out in full view of the country.

At the same time, a hidden camera sting video surfaced showing a senior DOJ official caught in conversation about what really happens behind the scenes. The footage didn’t just hint at bias. It laid out, in the official’s own words, how the system can tilt the scales of justice.

These two moments … one under the bright lights of Capitol Hill, the other captured in secret on video … reveal the same unsettling truth. What was once whispered in back rooms is now spilling into the open for everyone to see.

When a Senate grilling makes headlines, that’s politics. But when a powerful insider is caught admitting how the game is played, that’s something else entirely. It is accountability arriving from the cameras nobody knew were rolling.

This edition pulls those threads together. The Kennedy hearing and the DOJ sting video may seem like separate stories, but they show how trust in government is cracking more each day.

For anyone paying attention, the message is impossible to ignore. These events cut through the spin and expose the raw reality of politics when the mask slips. It is not polished. It is not pretty. And it cannot be brushed aside.

This episode I take you inside both stories and the bigger questions they raise about transparency, accountability, and the future of the institutions that claim to serve the public.

And then I close out this episode with the latest News from the Edge of Sanity. Where the stories are unhinged but REAL.

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Episode Transcript

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This is a world gone mad.
This is a world gone mad, mad,mad, mad, mad.
This is a world gone mad.
I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe.
Welcome to the Friday edition,the part of the week where later
in my podcast I bring you newsfrom the edge of sanity and try

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to lighten the load a littlebefore you head into your
weekend.
News from the edge of sanity.
And try to lighten the load alittle before you head into your
weekend.
News from the edge of sanity,the kind of stories that make
you pause mid-coffee and sayyou've gotta be kidding me.
But first let's talk about thereal news.
Stories from the last 48 hourssometimes rival the bizarre ones

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.
Okay, here we go.
Friday, the Senate grilling ofRFK Jr went full meltdown, with
bipartisan sideshow energy sovolatile, even Kennedy's own
party is checking the ejectlever.
On September 4th, kennedy satbefore the Senate Finance

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Committee and got every bit ofthe roast.
Democrats called for hisresignation, accused him of
spreading vaccine misinformationand warned that Kennedy's
leadership is activelyundermining public health.
And that's just the start.
Then the Republicans piled ontoo.

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Senator Bill Cassidy,republican from Louisiana, and
Senator John Barrasso,republican from Wyoming, went
after Kennedy for choking offvaccine access, packing advisory
panels with skeptics andcutting half a billion dollars
in mRNA vaccine contracts, whilegutting the CDC's leadership

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credibility.
The hearing turned into one ofthe most combative Senate
sessions all year.
Rfk Jr pushed back hard, calledsenators dishonest and
dismissive, shouting over themlike it was some basement rant.
But all that fury justsolidified how dangerous he is
to the department he's supposedto lead.

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Things got hotter when SusanMonterrez, former CDC director
fired just weeks earlier, rippedinto Kennedy in an op-ed,
accusing him of politicizingscience.
She said.
Putting ideology over datarisks real lives.
So where does that leave us?

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This hearing didn't justspotlight a controversial health
secretary under fire.
It revealed a health secretarytearing down the department he
leads.
Democrats demand Kennedy go,republicans are warning he's
dangerously incompetent and evena growing number of GOP figures

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say he needs to be removed.
Senate walls probably need tobe lined with tinfoil fast.
Whatever he thought aboutKennedy before, today's
performance erased whatever wasleft of his credibility.
He spent more time defendingconspiracy theories than

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vaccines.
He dismantled science and heembarrassed the role on a
national stage.
If this were a television show,the producers would have
written Kennedy out by now.
Instead, he's still in chargeof health.
All right, let's talk about ourDepartment of Justice, the DOJ,

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because apparently they thinkthey are auditioning for a
reboot of House of Cards.
Project Veritas dropped a stingvideo of Joseph Schnitt, an
acting deputy chief at the DOJ,and what came out of his mouth
was not exactly inspiringconfidence, was not exactly
inspiring confidence.

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He was asked about the releaseof the Epstein files and his
response, which was caught onvideo, was jaw-dropping.
He said, and I quote They'llredact every Republican or
conservative person in thosefiles, leave all of the liberal,
democratic people in thosefiles and have a very slanted

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version of it come out.
He actually said that out loudon tape.
And if that was not enough, healso tossed in a little gem
about Epstein's lady friendMaxwell, suggesting she was
being offered something to keepher mouth shut.
You cannot write satire thatbleak.

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The man basically said justiceis optional and silence is
negotiable.
Now the DOJ scrambled.
Of course.
They rushed out the statementthat this was only his personal
opinion.
They apologized.
They distanced themselves likethe guy was radioactive.

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But here's the one thing Onceyou have someone in your shop
casually saying we are redactingRepublicans while throwing
Democrats to the wolves, allcredibility is gone.
You can apologize until themicrophones melt down.
The public trust just left thebuilding.

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Think about it.
Survivors of Epstein's abusehave been demanding transparency
for years.
They want names, they wantaccountability, they want the
full ugly list.
Instead, what they keep gettingis a magic trick.
Now you see the records.

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Now you don't Cut here, snipthere, redact, redact, redact.
And the man literally admittedthe scissors came out depending
on the party affiliations.
This is not just corruption,this is arrogance, the kind of

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arrogance that assumes theAmerican public is too dumb, too
tired or too distracted tonotice that justice is being
handed out like coupons at agrocery store One for you, none
for you.
Maxwell gets a mystery prize,survivors get a redacted PDF.

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So where are we?
The DOJ is trying to convinceeveryone they are serious about
disclosure, while one of theirown officials just blew the
whole game on camera.
You cannot walk that back.
It is not toothpaste yousqueeze back into the tube.
The stink is out there and itreeks.

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When the agency meant to defendthe rule of law starts sounding
like it's running oppositionresearch instead of justice, you
know the system is cracked.
And when victims have to watchthe government play blackout
bingo with the truth, truth isnot circling the drain.
Truth is not circling.

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The drain Truth has alreadybeen flushed.
All right, let's move to thesurvivors of Jeffrey Epstein,
because if you thought Congresswas going to ride in on a white
horse and deliver justice, thinkagain.
Last week, the House OversightCommittee dumped 33,000 pages of

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so-called Epstein documents.
Sounds huge, right?
Sounds like disclosure,accountability, names.
Except no Survivors torethrough them and said it was
recycled junk, old news, alreadypublic, a giant nothing burger
disguised as a file dump.
So now the survivors are sayingscrew it, if the government

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apparently, is going to redacteverything, if the government
won't give us the truth, we willbuild our own client list.
I love it.
Names, dates, hotels, flightlogs, all the filth they know
from firsthand experience.
The Epstein survivors werestepping in to do the job

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Congress pretends it's doing.
And let's just pause here.
Victims of sexual abuse are nowforced to become the
investigators of their own abuse.
This is not justice.
That is abandonment.
That is the government tossinga flashlight into a cave and
saying good luck, kids, go findthe monsters yourself.

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Think about the scale of this.
Survivors already draggedthrough hell are about to
crowdsource the accountabilitythat the Department of Justice,
the FBI, the Congress havefumbled for years.
They're gathering names thateveryone knows exist but no one

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in power wants to put in writing.
Meanwhile, politicians areholding press conferences,
patting themselves on the back,waving around binders of
redacted garbage, while actualwork of truth-telling is being
done by the very people who werevictimized.
That should make your bloodboil.
This is not some fringeconspiracy.

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This is survivors saying enough.
We will not wait.
We will not let this be buried.
We will not let the mostpowerful people in the world
escape into the shadows becausethe government can't get its act
together.
So here we are Congress playingbureaucratic theater, survivors

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playing detective and theAmerican people left wondering
if the rule of law has any pulseleft at all, when the Epstein
survivors are the only onesstill fighting for the truth.
You know, the system is notbroken.
The system is protecting itself, and that protection comes at

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the cost of justice.
And after these three newsstories, wolfpack listeners, you
deserve a break before yourweekend.
It's time for news from theedge of sanity, where the
stories are still insane, but atleast you don't need a stiff
drink to get through them.
Alright, let's take a quickcultural detour.

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Different countries havedifferent customs.
Here in America, for example,we've got backyard barbecues in
the suburb.
We've got Thanksgiving dinnerswhere half the family argues
over football and politics.
We've got Black Fridaystampedes where people trample
each other for half-price TVsand we've got retail stores who

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set up their holiday displaysfive months in advance of the
actual holiday.
It's beginning to look a lotlike Christmas.
No, no, it's not.
It's freaking summer.
Can we still get the holiday ofHalloween in before you put
Christmas displays up, walmart,please?

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Now in Japan they have atime-honored custom Poisoning
your relatives because you hatetheir snoring.
Not really, but you're going tothink it's the custom after
this story.
To think it's the custom afterthis story, because in Chiba

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Prefecture an 18-year-oldactually tried to kill his uncle
over snoring.
Not arguments about money, nota family feud, not some
inheritance fight.
Snoring Loud, obnoxious.
Keep you up all night, snoringloud, obnoxious.
Keep you up all night, snoring.
So what did this Japanese kid do?

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He didn't buy earplugs, hedidn't move into another room,
he went for the nuclear option,literally slipped oleander, a
toxic plant, into his uncle'smiso soup.
And yes, this is the sameOleander that shows up in every
crime.
Show as do not touch, do notingest.

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Uncle downs the miso soup andthank God he survives.
But when the police comeknocking, the kid doesn't even
play dumb, doesn't try to denyit.
He flat out admits I couldn'tstand my uncle snoring.
Imagine that interrogation room.
Why did you attempt murder?

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Because Uncle Hiroshi soundslike a samurai swinging wildly
with giant swords in the middleof the night.
And here's the kicker thiswasn't a crime of passion in the
heat of moment, this waspremeditated.
He had to find the oleanderleaves, grind them up, stir them

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in the soup, all while thinking, yep, this is the solution to
the snoring.
Now I get it.
Snoring is brutal.
You've got sleep apnea.
You shake the the house, youmake the dog cry.
I get it.
But there's a big leap betweenI can't sleep and I'm serving

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you poison ramen.
This is the kind of story whereyou don't know whether to laugh
, cry or double check what's inyour bowl of soup the next time
if you happen to visit thefamilies in Japan.
The uncle survived, the teenwas arrested and the rest of us
are left with the moral of thestory.
Buy a white noise machinebefore you reach for the toxic

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plants.
All right, let's head over toGermany, where one teacher just
put the phrase sick leave into acategory.
No HR department could everimagine.
Now I think all of us wouldagree, listeners.
We've had, you know, all takensick leave before a day, maybe a

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week, some of us a couple ofmonths for serious health
problems.
That's normal, that's life.
But for years this woman tooksick leave 16 freaking years, 16
years straight.
She's not worked a single dayin the classroom since George W

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was still in office, and everymonth her paycheck kept coming
in.
Almost after two decades, theschool system finally said
enough is enough.
They they ordered her to take amedical exam to prove she was
actually sick all this time.
And what did she do?
She sued the school yes, shesued to block the exam that

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could show whether she wasreally unfit for work.
The court took about fiveminutes to laugh that one out of
the room.
They tossed her case andordered her to show up for the
exam.
On top of that, they stuck herwith the legal costs.
Think about this 16 years offull salary without setting foot

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in front of a chalkboard in aclassroom, right, she has
basically turned sick leave intoa career path.
Forget tenure, forgetretirement, just call in sick
once and ride the gravy trainuntil the wheels fall off.
And what does it say about thesystem?
How does someone stay on thepayroll for 16 years without

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anybody raising a red flag Atsome point?
It's not just one teacherscamming the system, it's the
system scamming itself.
So now she's finally beingforced to prove she's actually
ill, which means the greateststreak of calling in sick and
modern history might finallycome to an end, and the rest of

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us are left shaking our headsthinking we've been doing this
whole damn work thing completelywrong.
All right, let's close with alibrary story.
Most of us have checked out abook from the library.
Most of us have forgotten toreturn one on time, maybe a week
late, you know, maybe a monthlate.

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Well, here's what happened inSan Antonio.
A book was returned.
The title was your Child, hisFamily and Friends.
It was checked out by a womanwho later moved to Mexico for
work and somewhere along the waythe book got packed up, shoved
aside and forgot.
You know things happen.
Her family eventually found itin Oregon and decided to send it

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back to the library, along witha note that said decided to
send it back to the library,along with a note that said
Grandma will not be able to paythe late fee.
Okay, stay with me, wolfpack.
Now here's the punchline.
Franklin Roosevelt waspresident when that book went
missing.
World War II was still raging.
It has been through the moonlanding Watergate, the Berlin

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Wall falling, the iPhone beinginvented, through the moon
landing Watergate, the BerlinWall falling, the iPhone being
invented.
The book was due back in Julyof 1943, and it finally showed
up in June 2025.
It was 82 years overdue and thelate fee the family joked about
.
San Antonio had eliminated latefees back in 2021, so instead

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of owing millions, the libraryjust said thank you and put the
book on display.
So the next time you panicbecause you forgot to return a
book to the library for a coupleof weeks, remember somebody out
there set the record at 82years.
That is not overdue.

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That is a Guinness World Recordin procrastination.
That was your news from theEdge of Sanity, now a regular
segment on Fridays, a friendlyreminder that while the
headlines are terrifying, thesidelines are completely
unhinged.
I'm not saying the world isunwell, but I just saw it wear

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socks in the rain and then itwalked around looking confused
why its feet were squishing allday.
Wolfpack listeners, drop me aline.
Tell me why your GPS alwaysthinks you live in a lake, or
why your leftovers taste betterat midnight than they ever do at
dinner.
Or just admit the last time youtried to pull on a push door

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going into plus someplace, youlost the battle and then
pretended you you were juststretching.
Whatever it is bizarre, pettyor perfectly human.
I want to hear it.
Email me anytime wolftalks atgmailcom, or call my 24-7
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We want the clown instead.

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This has been A World Gone Mad.
I'm Jeff Fallon Wolfe.
I'll be back Monday becausesomeone has to say the shit that
no one else will, andapparently that job's mine.
Until then, wolfpack listeners,stay skeptical, stay focused
and, most of all, stay hopeful.

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Thank you.