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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
What we've got here is failure, Milky.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past and didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You know, may not have even known that.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
You know, America firsters pac Madison Square Garden in nineteen
thirty nine and a pro Nazi Germany.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Rally, you said over the weekend referring to it, there's
a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Mid nineteen thirties that Medisine Square guardedge.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You only garbage ice floating out there is his supporters.
His demonizational scene is unconstable.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
And you can put half of Trump's supporters into what
I call the basket of deplorables.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Now that's a little bit old, that shart, that charts
a couple of months old. And if you want to
really see.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Something, that said, take a look at what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We bleed the.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Same blood, we share the same home, and we salute
the same great American flag. We are one people, one family,
and one glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims
and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining
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our colors and large numbers, larger than anyone has ever
seen in this country before.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Larger than they've ever seen in any country.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And the Republican Party has really become the party of inclusion.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And that's something very nice about.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Sometimes I will give voice to what the left says,
but only to prepare you in your conversations with people
who ask you to explain it.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So here goes.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
After Colbert is gone, and now Kimmel, the left is
crying about free speech. The cancel culture is crying about
free speech. Start with the premise that whatever they say
is a lie, and whatever they say is hypocrisy. Whatever
they accuse you of. And I learned this from Rush,
who said it often, who the first person I ever
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heard of say it. Whatever they're accusing you of is
what they are doing or have been doing. So here
is a Democrat Congress Congress critter named Robert Garcia. He
was on CNN calling the firing of Jimmy Kimmel an
attack on free speech.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
When you see that Jimmy Kimmel is gone, because because
of that, does that even hit harder home to you? Look,
I'm honestly this is very concerning. I think, first, Jimmy
Kimmel is a late night host, He's a comedian. We
have the First Amendment in this country. Folks have the
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right to say what's on their mind, and certainly in
a monologue on a late night show. And I think
anyone that's going to listen and watch that clip, I mean,
it's pretty clear that this is a direct attack.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
On free speech.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
And it's one thing for all of us to unite
and talk about political violence and denouncing political violence. It's
another now to target people who you may not agree
their opinion with, or that you don't like what they
have to say. What's happening right now in these attacks
on universities, attacks on people in their job because we
don't like what they say, or we're policing every word.
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This is an extreme example now and another direct attack
on the medium. And I think one thing is important
to be said at this moment. Donald Trump has been
in a systematic way attacking the media, causing harm, impacting
the way people believe in interact with the new with news,
gathering what people are saying, and he continues and continues
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to tear media and media institutions down.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
So, first of all, I want to make sure you
understand this. This is very important to understand. This clown
says Jimmy Kimmel has a right. He's a late night
talk show host and a comedian. He has a right
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to say what he wants. That's not true. Actually, it's
important to understand this. He doesn't have a right say
what he wants. Well, I'll get to that in a moment.
He had no rights violations. For instance, I have a
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right to record an album. If you're new to the show.
I can't sing, I mean I really really can't sing,
but it doesn't stop me. I have a right to
go stand out in the street and say come one,
come all. Michael Berry will croon for you. But nobody's
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compelled to listen. The act of standing on a stage
with camera crews grips lights the whole thing. That is
a financial transaction. It is an undertaking, It is an event.
Costs a lot of money to do that. The people
who put up that money have decided that they're not
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going to pay you to be part of this production.
Their reasoning is, I suspect that they're getting pressure from
people who are supposed to care marry what you have
to say, because they don't like what you have to say.
And they have a right, a First Amendment right. Believe
it or not, they have a right of free speech
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to exercise their free speech.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
See it is.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Also free speech to spend your dollars. In fact, Citizens
United was a case to determine that the ability to
contribute to a political campaign is a free speech right.
A lot of people will complain about the influence of
money and politics, and for good reason, but they also
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won't give ten cents to a candidate. I don't know
how people think that campaigns are going to be financed
if they won't give a dollar themselves. I don't know
who they think is going to finance it, because they
also don't want the government to finance it, nor should it.
The ability to give of what you make and share
that with a candidate is a way to express your
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support for that person and to give this to empower
them to run a better campaign.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You don't have a right to be liked. You don't
have a right to be loved. You don't have a
right to be popular.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Jimmy Kimmel was a business failure and the people who
were necessary. You cannot compel people to do business with you.
And this really is a big, big breakdown. This is
when we don't battle enough. You can't make people do
business with you because you think you want them to
attack on free speech that you don't.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Want Jimmy Kimmel any longer.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
That coming from the party that created a Disinformation Governance
Board to silence the rest of us. Do you remember
person they put in charge of it, Nina Jenkowitz.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Hovering is really quite for icious. It's when it helps
to take some lies and make some sound fricase, saying
the little congress or this information's origins or slightly.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Loss of atrocious. It's how you haide a delighted lie.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
It's how you had a little lightled lie.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's how you had a little lightled lie.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
And Rudy Juliani shared that in ts Ukraine or when
TikTok confluence to say COVID can't talk pain, they're wandering
discinfol when we really should take notes and not support
their lives with our walted.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Voice or votes. Oh, information hondering is really quite ferocious.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
It's wana has to take some mind and make them
sound precocious by saying.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Them in Congress.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
For me, sumut that to this inflamation's origins seem slightly.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Lots of trocious. That was real.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
She wanted to take away your ability to express your
opinion on anything if she didn't like your opinion.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's hateful, it's dangerous.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
We can't allow doctors to go public with the fact
that they're watching their patients die from the COVID shot.
That might keep other people from getting the COVID shot.
And how will Fiser get rich off that?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
How will the.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Dominance of the pharmaceutical industry continue. We can't allow people
to learn that some vaccines the studies are showing might
be contributing to autism. They might not get all the vaccines.
And if we're heavily invested in vaccines, or we've received
money from people who have, we can't have people learning
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things like this. We can't have people finding out about
the murder rates of black on white versus white on black.
We can't have people finding out where all the money,
the USAID money is going. This is misinformation, it's hateful,
it's harmful. You must be silenced. She was going to
be the head of the Department of Homeland Securities Disinformation
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Governance Board. Throughout history, authoritarians always claim the power to
determine truth. This is Orwellian exhibit number one. If you
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have the ability to control the speech and the language,
if you have the ability to say, this is a
topic that will not be discussed and it's punishable by death.
If you do, you control that issue, You control the
conversation about it, You control the exchange of information and ideas.
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But there was so much uproar over the Disinformation Governance
Board that the Biden administration after three weeks, just pretended
they'd never brought it up. It wasn't the first step
to censorship they ever tried. It was just that the
latest at that moment they had been working behind the
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scenes to censor speech. And this goes back a long
way the Twitter files. Remember Matt Tayebe and that whole
project exposed that if Elon doesn't buy Twitter and open
the coding to allow it all to be exposed, think
how much we currently know we would not otherwise know.
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It doesn't mean it didn't happen, we just wouldn't know
about it. So how many other things happen that we
don't know about within big pharma companies, within the State Department,
within the embassies, within the universities.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The Twitter files exposed.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
How the Biden campaign and his administration had an open
channel to pull down tweets that they didn't like on Twitter.
They canceled my Facebook account, they locked it up. They
declared it was hateful because I would show pictures that
Hunter Biden had posted publicly on his account. I would
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post those pictures on my account, not doctored, not with
anything changed, but somehow, And.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That really tells you a lot, doesn't it. Hunter was
so bad.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
That just replaying what he had done was that embarrassing
to him. This was Nancy Mace questioning former Twitter employees
about the censorship that had occurred there.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
Did the US government ever contact you or anyone at
Twitter to pressure Twitter to moderate or sensor certain tweets?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yes or no? We have a program.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Did the US government ever contact you or anyone at
Twitter to censor or moderate certain tweets? Yes or no?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
We receive legal.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
Demands to remove content from the platform from the US
government and governments all around the world. Those are published
on a third party website. Anyone can thank god for
Matt Tayeb, thank God for Elon Moss for allowing to
show us in the world that Twitter was basically a
subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real
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expertise that put real Americans lives and danger because they
didn't have that information.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
We received subpoenas and orders from the government. We were
just taking orders. Maybe learned to say that in German.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And snap.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
One heel to the next. When you do it, we'll
get you some real big blousey. We'll get you some
olive colored mc hammer pants and you can tie them.
You can tuck them into real high riding boots. Yeah,
that'll be nice. We were just following orders. We were
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silencing free speech on a platform. We were silencing opinions,
people who took time to share their opinions with other
people on a site that is protected as a platform,
not a publisher, which is a very powerful protection, legal
protection on a site that has those protections because it
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doesn't moderate content. We chose to moderate some content and
to censor it. But we're not bad people because it
was dangerous content. You know, it's really dangerous stuff, Like, Hey,
maybe we shouldn't be spending all our money, sending all
our money to Ukraine. Maybe we should pull back from that. Hey,
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maybe we shouldn't be forcing people to get shots. Hey,
maybe we shouldn't be requiring a mask when it doesn't work. Hey,
maybe the three foot rule is toupid or six foot
or whatever it is. Maybe that was made up and
it was Hey, maybe ivermectin would work.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And the ventilators won't. Yeah, we're sorry.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
We got it all wrong and people died, but we
were just following orders.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
Show podcast is sexy, sexy.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I'm not sure what it says about America that you
could shut down Facebook and Twitter and you could manage
to diminish communication among patriots to such an extent as happened,
But at that moment in time, it was true you could.
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It was like shutting down the phone system when I
was growing up. It's like shutting down network television, except
the difference was those were content creators that pushed television
and radio pushed content out to people. The social media
sites allowed people to engage and interact. It allowed you
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the truth. Didn't have a lobbyist, a pack and institute,
a think tank, a coordinator, a media relations person. People
just started coming up with the truth on their own.
Everybody knew somebody who had died from the COVID shot.
Everybody was hearing things and seeing things and sharing things,
and that was being shared in ways that it was
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hard for those at the top in the authoritarian regime
to be able to control or to access. This was
like a whisper campaign, like the French Revolution or the
Polish Resistance. One of the most admirable underground revolutionary acts
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of all time, the Polish underground. The polls are such
proud people, proud people, and the German occupation was brutal,
and the Polish people during World War Two were so
incredibly brave, the men and the women, the able bodied,
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the feeble, the elderly, the children. There are so many stories.
I will I will pull a couple of books and
give you if you'd like to read more about it.
In fact, Enigma the whole, the whole decoding of German
transmissions coded transmissions was conducted in England using Polish developments
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and technology and Polish scientists, and once they once they decoded,
once the enigma came about, they had the Allies had
advanced notice, and so that turned out to be a
huge asset in the war. They knew the the Nazi
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playbook before they ever call the plays and it allowed
them to get people out of areas where they needed to,
or to put more forces where they needed to to ambush,
to attack, to cut off supply lines. But when you
look at the ways in which communications occur, and that's
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how thoughts are developed, that's how movements are developed. At
a unique place in time, Twitter and Facebook were by
far the most influential. So by shutting them down by
the government, the Biden administration literally saying close off, Michael Berry,
close off, Glenn Beck, close off, Sean Hennity, close off,
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Jesse Kelly, close off, Martin Levin close off, and just
going on and on down the line. It had an
absolute chilling effect. I think back to the twenty twenty election.
It was October of twenty twenty. The New York Post
reported on Hunter Biden's laptop that laptop was the smoking gun.
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I can't think of a better example of a smoking
gun that proved the point than that. The New York
Post reported on it with a link to their story.
They reported on Twitter they had far more Twitter followers
and Twitter action than they did readers of the magazine.
So that's what they used to push you to their platform,
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which was the newspaper to read the article. Twitter took
the story down. They didn't allow the story to appear.
After the election, one in six voters who voted for
Biden said if they had been aware of that, they
would have voted for Trump. One in six, way more
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than necessary for Trump to win even with cheating. It
wasn't just Twitter, they were using Facebook as well. In
twenty sixteen, the FBI, which was still under the control
of Obama, they wanted Facebook. There was a story about
about Hunter Biden's laptop that had been left at a
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repair shop, and Mark Zuckerberg would now recently tell Joe
Rogan that the FBI showed up to his offices to
warn him of this. Remember what they called it, Russian disinformation.
Russian disinformation was the new vast right wing conspiracy.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
How do you guys handle things when they're a big
news item that's controversial, Like, there was a lot of
attention on Twitter during the election because of the Hunter
Biden laptop story, the Neo.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
Yeah, so you guys censored that as well.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
So we took a different path than Twitter. I mean,
basically the background here is the FBI I think basically
came to us. Folks on our team. It was like, hey,
just so you know, like you should be on high alert.
There was we thought that there was a lot of
Russian propaganda in the twenty sixteen election. We have on
notice that basically there's about to be some kind of
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dump of that's similar to that, so just be vigilant.
So our protocol is different from Twitter's. What Twitter did
is they said you can't share this at all. We
didn't do that. What we do is we have if
something's reported to us as potentially misinformation important misinformation, we
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also have this third party fact checking program because we
don't want to be deciding what's true and false. And
for the I think it was five or seven days
when it was basically being being determined whether it was false.
The distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still
allowed to share it, so you could still share it,
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you could still consume it.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
So we'll say the distribution has decreased.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
It got shared Basically, the ranking and news feed was
a little bit less, so fewer people saw it than
would have otherwise. So it definitely by what percentage, I
don't know off the top of my head, but it's meaningful.
But I mean, but basically a lot of people are
still able to share it. We got a lot of
complaints that that was the case. You know, obviously this
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is a hyper political issue, so depending on what side
of the political spectrum, you either think we didn't censor
it enough or censored it way too much. But we
weren't sort of as black and white about it as Twitter.
We just kind of thought, hey, look if the FBI,
which I still view as a legitimate institution in this country,
it's a very professional law enforcement, they come to us
and tell us that we need to be on guard
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about something that I want to take that seriously.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Did they specifically say you need to be a guard
about that story? You know, George Sorow's hoping the Nazis
as a Jew in Hungary, such a weasel of a
human being.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
I view Mark Zuckerberg as an salute weasel of the
George Soros celeven.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Wonder where Jimmy Kimmel will end up. Where will he
be in ten years?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to a very special night here
at the Lions Club Bingo of ball room. We have
somewhat of a celebrity bingo. Call it this evening. You
may remember him for his late night show before it
got canceled into his pure stupidity. Ladies and gentlemen, please
put your hands together.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Mister Jimmy Kimmel be nineteen. How about that Donald Trump?
More like Donald Trump? Am I right? This guy's still
going with the Trump Jones. It's like it's his own
le shtip. What does Donald Trump say when he can't
find his biactor? The direction is right? Carl oh sixty two? Hey,
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where's he go? It looks like he's leaving this his whoopee.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Now, Jimmy, for the last time, I told you the
view doesn't do men.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now stop calling me.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
He didn't tell me.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
What it is like to be you know, a real man.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
I have never met someone so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I call him rich.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
The Marco Berry, Houston based strip club group RCI Hospitality
Holdings accused in scheme to avoid paying taxes in New
York by bribing tax auditor with lap dances and trips
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to various strip clubs. Five executives of RCI Hospitality Holdings
are accused of sending a New York State auditor on
at least thirteen free trips to Florida, lavishing him with
lap dances in Miami in an effort to avoid paying
millions in taxes. Prosecutors say the chief executive, chief financial
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officer and three colleagues provided the trips to clubs, hotels,
and restaurants in Florida and New York to bribe the
official of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.
Their scheme was laid out in text messages and emails.
In exchange for the favors, RCI settled audits for less
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than it OWEDE in total, avoiding eight million dollars in taxes.
The sixty six page indictment Walden State Supreme Court in
Manhattan charged six men, five executives and the auditor, and
three RCI owned strip clubs in Manhattan with seventy nine
crimes between twenty ten and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
The clubs are Oops Cabaret.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
And Sports Bar Rix Cabaret in New York and Vivid
Cabaret Vivid.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Doesn't that just.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Sound like the stupid kind of name people would come
up with for.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
This needs to sound elegant. How about vivid? It is vivid? Oh, Vivid.
That's yeah, that sounds elegant because it is a gentleman's club.
It's for the gentlemen over the years.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
The indictment said, the executives are falsified business records to
conceal the bribes, recording cash payments to the auditor as
promotional expenses for the clubs. The company is based in
Houston and has a portfolio that includes subsidiaries that own
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and operate more than sixty night clubs and sports bar restaurants.
According to its website, the company's shares have lost about
half their value this year, and its market capitalization was
about two hundred and fifty one million dollars on Tuesday.
You know they're a public company, which is hilarious. The
executives arraigned on Tuesday were Eric Langan, the chief executive,
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Bradney Shay at c hh Ay, the chief financial officer,
Ahmed anukar On Nukar, the director of operations, Sean m Kevlyn,
a regional manager for Rick's New York City strip clubs
and later its assistant director of nightclub operations, and Timothy Winata,
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rci's controller and accountant. As of Tuesday, the auditor had
not been arraigned and his name was not publicly released,
and a security is an Exchange Commission filing. Last month,
the company disclosed that in May of twenty twenty four
search warrants were executed at its Houston headquarters and the
three Manhattan clubs, and on the phones of two executives
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and another employee. According to the Attorney General's Office, the
defendants openly discussed using trips to their clubs to win
over the auditor. How does that first conversation go right?
Because if it goes badly, it can cause you even
more problems. Does that first conversation go Does somebody with
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RIX say no, I understand y'all y'all.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I mean y'all think we owe nine million dollars.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
I'd love for you to go to one of the
clubs and see for yourself how great it is I mean,
our expense, and.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Then you wait or or is it a more.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
Cryptic h we work something out. I mean, here you
are busting your ass or the state of New York
and they're just gonna waste the money. I mean, have
you ever been to one of our clubs? You want
to check it out? Or does the auditor? Does he
broach the subject, because you got to figure when he first,
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when you first, whoever first lays it out there has
to do it in incremental steps such that if the
other person says what in the hell.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They can go what what.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
I'm not suggesting it, I'm just somebody. One of the
two of them had to lay that on the table,
and then the other one says I would absolutely do that,
and the first one says, are you serious? Well, yeah,
if you're serious, I mean I was joking around, But
I mean, if that's if that's something that you're we
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couldn't tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
We couldn't tell anybody would have to it would have
to be uh. Ramon just brought me.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
A note which says I didn't realize it was a
publicly traded company. Upon investigation, I found other strip joints,
Moon Depot, Breast Western, and chick fill Lay.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So what's going through this auditor? I'm sorry, We're gonna
pull it together.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
What's going through this auditor's mind when he's getting dressed
to go to the strip club.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yep. You know a lot of people are like, oh,
you're just a lowly auditor. You're nobody. You're Willie Lowman,
You're nothing. This is like Glengarry Glenn Ross and I'm
Jack Lemon. We're gonna tell you what, who's got the
last laugh?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, how about this. Marty Goldstein High.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
School valedictorian said, I'd never amount to anybody. Yeah, you
ought to show up to the Breast Western and see
how the ladies treat me.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh yeah, yes, see how I turned out. I'm sure,
thank you and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
What we've got here is failure, Milky.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past and didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You know, may not have even known that.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
You know, America firsters pac Madison Square Garden in nineteen
thirty nine and a pro Nazi Germany.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Rally, you said over the weekend referring to it, there's
a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Mid nineteen thirties that Medisine Square guardedge.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You only garbage ice floating out there is his supporters.
His demonizational scene is unconstable.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
And you can put half of Trump's supporters into what
I call the basket of deplorables.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Now that's a little bit old, that shart, that charts
a couple of months old. And if you want to
really see.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Something, that said, take a look at what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We bleed the.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Same blood, we share the same home, and we salute
the same great American flag. We are one people, one family,
and one glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims
and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining
(01:51):
our colors and large numbers, larger than anyone has ever
seen in this country before.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Larger than they've ever seen in any country.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And the Republican Party has really become the party of inclusion.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And that's something very nice about.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Sometimes I will give voice to what the left says,
but only to prepare you in your conversations with people
who ask you to explain it.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So here goes.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
After Colbert is gone, and now Kimmel, the left is
crying about free speech. The cancel culture is crying about
free speech. Start with the premise that whatever they say
is a lie, and whatever they say is hypocrisy. Whatever
they accuse you of. And I learned this from Rush,
who said it often, who the first person I ever
(02:40):
heard of say it. Whatever they're accusing you of is
what they are doing or have been doing. So here
is a Democrat Congress Congress critter named Robert Garcia. He
was on CNN calling the firing of Jimmy Kimmel an
attack on free speech.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
When you see that Jimmy Kimmel is gone, because because
of that, does that even hit harder home to you? Look,
I'm honestly this is very concerning. I think, first, Jimmy
Kimmel is a late night host, He's a comedian. We
have the First Amendment in this country. Folks have the
(03:19):
right to say what's on their mind, and certainly in
a monologue on a late night show. And I think
anyone that's going to listen and watch that clip, I mean,
it's pretty clear that this is a direct attack.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
On free speech.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
And it's one thing for all of us to unite
and talk about political violence and denouncing political violence. It's
another now to target people who you may not agree
their opinion with, or that you don't like what they
have to say. What's happening right now in these attacks
on universities, attacks on people in their job because we
don't like what they say, or we're policing every word.
(03:53):
This is an extreme example now and another direct attack
on the medium. And I think one thing is important
to be said at this moment. Donald Trump has been
in a systematic way attacking the media, causing harm, impacting
the way people believe in interact with the new with news,
gathering what people are saying, and he continues and continues
(04:15):
to tear media and media institutions down.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
So, first of all, I want to make sure you
understand this. This is very important to understand. This clown
says Jimmy Kimmel has a right. He's a late night
talk show host and a comedian. He has a right
(04:41):
to say what he wants. That's not true. Actually, it's
important to understand this. He doesn't have a right say
what he wants. Well, I'll get to that in a moment.
He had no rights violations. For instance, I have a
(05:04):
right to record an album. If you're new to the show.
I can't sing, I mean I really really can't sing,
but it doesn't stop me. I have a right to
go stand out in the street and say come one,
come all. Michael Berry will croon for you. But nobody's
(05:25):
compelled to listen. The act of standing on a stage
with camera crews grips lights the whole thing. That is
a financial transaction. It is an undertaking, It is an event.
Costs a lot of money to do that. The people
who put up that money have decided that they're not
(05:50):
going to pay you to be part of this production.
Their reasoning is, I suspect that they're getting pressure from
people who are supposed to care marry what you have
to say, because they don't like what you have to say.
And they have a right, a First Amendment right. Believe
it or not, they have a right of free speech
(06:10):
to exercise their free speech.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
See it is.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Also free speech to spend your dollars. In fact, Citizens
United was a case to determine that the ability to
contribute to a political campaign is a free speech right.
A lot of people will complain about the influence of
money and politics, and for good reason, but they also
(06:37):
won't give ten cents to a candidate. I don't know
how people think that campaigns are going to be financed
if they won't give a dollar themselves. I don't know
who they think is going to finance it, because they
also don't want the government to finance it, nor should it.
The ability to give of what you make and share
that with a candidate is a way to express your
(06:57):
support for that person and to give this to empower
them to run a better campaign.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You don't have a right to be liked. You don't
have a right to be loved. You don't have a
right to be popular.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Jimmy Kimmel was a business failure and the people who
were necessary. You cannot compel people to do business with you.
And this really is a big, big breakdown. This is
when we don't battle enough. You can't make people do
business with you because you think you want them to
attack on free speech that you don't.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Want Jimmy Kimmel any longer.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
That coming from the party that created a Disinformation Governance
Board to silence the rest of us. Do you remember
person they put in charge of it, Nina Jenkowitz.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Hovering is really quite for icious. It's when it helps
to take some lies and make some sound fricase, saying
the little congress or this information's origins or slightly.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Loss of atrocious. It's how you haide a delighted lie.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
It's how you had a little lightled lie.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's how you had a little lightled lie.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
And Rudy Juliani shared that in ts Ukraine or when
TikTok confluence to say COVID can't talk pain, they're wandering
discinfol when we really should take notes and not support
their lives with our walted.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Voice or votes. Oh, information hondering is really quite ferocious.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
It's wana has to take some mind and make them
sound precocious by saying.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Them in Congress.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
For me, sumut that to this inflamation's origins seem slightly.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Lots of trocious. That was real.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
She wanted to take away your ability to express your
opinion on anything if she didn't like your opinion.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's hateful, it's dangerous.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
We can't allow doctors to go public with the fact
that they're watching their patients die from the COVID shot.
That might keep other people from getting the COVID shot.
And how will Fiser get rich off that?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
How will the.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Dominance of the pharmaceutical industry continue. We can't allow people
to learn that some vaccines the studies are showing might
be contributing to autism. They might not get all the vaccines.
And if we're heavily invested in vaccines, or we've received
money from people who have, we can't have people learning
(09:27):
things like this. We can't have people finding out about
the murder rates of black on white versus white on black.
We can't have people finding out where all the money,
the USAID money is going. This is misinformation, it's hateful,
it's harmful. You must be silenced. She was going to
be the head of the Department of Homeland Securities Disinformation
(09:50):
Governance Board. Throughout history, authoritarians always claim the power to
determine truth. This is Orwellian exhibit number one. If you
(10:10):
have the ability to control the speech and the language,
if you have the ability to say, this is a
topic that will not be discussed and it's punishable by death.
If you do, you control that issue, You control the
conversation about it, You control the exchange of information and ideas.
(10:35):
But there was so much uproar over the Disinformation Governance
Board that the Biden administration after three weeks, just pretended
they'd never brought it up. It wasn't the first step
to censorship they ever tried. It was just that the
latest at that moment they had been working behind the
(10:55):
scenes to censor speech. And this goes back a long
way the Twitter files. Remember Matt Tayebe and that whole
project exposed that if Elon doesn't buy Twitter and open
the coding to allow it all to be exposed, think
how much we currently know we would not otherwise know.
(11:19):
It doesn't mean it didn't happen, we just wouldn't know
about it. So how many other things happen that we
don't know about within big pharma companies, within the State Department,
within the embassies, within the universities.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The Twitter files exposed.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
How the Biden campaign and his administration had an open
channel to pull down tweets that they didn't like on Twitter.
They canceled my Facebook account, they locked it up. They
declared it was hateful because I would show pictures that
Hunter Biden had posted publicly on his account. I would
(11:59):
post those pictures on my account, not doctored, not with
anything changed, but somehow, And.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That really tells you a lot, doesn't it. Hunter was
so bad.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
That just replaying what he had done was that embarrassing
to him. This was Nancy Mace questioning former Twitter employees
about the censorship that had occurred there.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
Did the US government ever contact you or anyone at
Twitter to pressure Twitter to moderate or sensor certain tweets?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yes or no? We have a program.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Did the US government ever contact you or anyone at
Twitter to censor or moderate certain tweets? Yes or no?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
We receive legal.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
Demands to remove content from the platform from the US
government and governments all around the world. Those are published
on a third party website. Anyone can thank god for
Matt Tayeb, thank God for Elon Moss for allowing to
show us in the world that Twitter was basically a
subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real
(13:13):
expertise that put real Americans lives and danger because they
didn't have that information.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
We received subpoenas and orders from the government. We were
just taking orders. Maybe learned to say that in German.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And snap.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
One heel to the next. When you do it, we'll
get you some real big blousey. We'll get you some
olive colored mc hammer pants and you can tie them.
You can tuck them into real high riding boots. Yeah,
that'll be nice. We were just following orders. We were
(14:01):
silencing free speech on a platform. We were silencing opinions,
people who took time to share their opinions with other
people on a site that is protected as a platform,
not a publisher, which is a very powerful protection, legal
protection on a site that has those protections because it
(14:23):
doesn't moderate content. We chose to moderate some content and
to censor it. But we're not bad people because it
was dangerous content. You know, it's really dangerous stuff, Like, Hey,
maybe we shouldn't be spending all our money, sending all
our money to Ukraine. Maybe we should pull back from that. Hey,
(14:45):
maybe we shouldn't be forcing people to get shots. Hey,
maybe we shouldn't be requiring a mask when it doesn't work. Hey,
maybe the three foot rule is toupid or six foot
or whatever it is. Maybe that was made up and
it was Hey, maybe ivermectin would work.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And the ventilators won't. Yeah, we're sorry.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
We got it all wrong and people died, but we
were just following orders.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
Show podcast is sexy, sexy.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I'm not sure what it says about America that you
could shut down Facebook and Twitter and you could manage
to diminish communication among patriots to such an extent as happened,
But at that moment in time, it was true you could.
(15:38):
It was like shutting down the phone system when I
was growing up. It's like shutting down network television, except
the difference was those were content creators that pushed television
and radio pushed content out to people. The social media
sites allowed people to engage and interact. It allowed you
(16:03):
the truth. Didn't have a lobbyist, a pack and institute,
a think tank, a coordinator, a media relations person. People
just started coming up with the truth on their own.
Everybody knew somebody who had died from the COVID shot.
Everybody was hearing things and seeing things and sharing things,
and that was being shared in ways that it was
(16:26):
hard for those at the top in the authoritarian regime
to be able to control or to access. This was
like a whisper campaign, like the French Revolution or the
Polish Resistance. One of the most admirable underground revolutionary acts
(16:48):
of all time, the Polish underground. The polls are such
proud people, proud people, and the German occupation was brutal,
and the Polish people during World War Two were so
incredibly brave, the men and the women, the able bodied,
(17:13):
the feeble, the elderly, the children. There are so many stories.
I will I will pull a couple of books and
give you if you'd like to read more about it.
In fact, Enigma the whole, the whole decoding of German
transmissions coded transmissions was conducted in England using Polish developments
(17:40):
and technology and Polish scientists, and once they once they decoded,
once the enigma came about, they had the Allies had
advanced notice, and so that turned out to be a
huge asset in the war. They knew the the Nazi
(18:00):
playbook before they ever call the plays and it allowed
them to get people out of areas where they needed to,
or to put more forces where they needed to to ambush,
to attack, to cut off supply lines. But when you
look at the ways in which communications occur, and that's
(18:21):
how thoughts are developed, that's how movements are developed. At
a unique place in time, Twitter and Facebook were by
far the most influential. So by shutting them down by
the government, the Biden administration literally saying close off, Michael Berry,
close off, Glenn Beck, close off, Sean Hennity, close off,
(18:43):
Jesse Kelly, close off, Martin Levin close off, and just
going on and on down the line. It had an
absolute chilling effect. I think back to the twenty twenty election.
It was October of twenty twenty. The New York Post
reported on Hunter Biden's laptop that laptop was the smoking gun.
(19:06):
I can't think of a better example of a smoking
gun that proved the point than that. The New York
Post reported on it with a link to their story.
They reported on Twitter they had far more Twitter followers
and Twitter action than they did readers of the magazine.
So that's what they used to push you to their platform,
(19:27):
which was the newspaper to read the article. Twitter took
the story down. They didn't allow the story to appear.
After the election, one in six voters who voted for
Biden said if they had been aware of that, they
would have voted for Trump. One in six, way more
(19:49):
than necessary for Trump to win even with cheating. It
wasn't just Twitter, they were using Facebook as well. In
twenty sixteen, the FBI, which was still under the control
of Obama, they wanted Facebook. There was a story about
about Hunter Biden's laptop that had been left at a
(20:12):
repair shop, and Mark Zuckerberg would now recently tell Joe
Rogan that the FBI showed up to his offices to
warn him of this. Remember what they called it, Russian disinformation.
Russian disinformation was the new vast right wing conspiracy.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
How do you guys handle things when they're a big
news item that's controversial, Like, there was a lot of
attention on Twitter during the election because of the Hunter
Biden laptop story, the Neo.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
Yeah, so you guys censored that as well.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
So we took a different path than Twitter. I mean,
basically the background here is the FBI I think basically
came to us. Folks on our team. It was like, hey,
just so you know, like you should be on high alert.
There was we thought that there was a lot of
Russian propaganda in the twenty sixteen election. We have on
notice that basically there's about to be some kind of
(21:14):
dump of that's similar to that, so just be vigilant.
So our protocol is different from Twitter's. What Twitter did
is they said you can't share this at all. We
didn't do that. What we do is we have if
something's reported to us as potentially misinformation important misinformation, we
(21:35):
also have this third party fact checking program because we
don't want to be deciding what's true and false. And
for the I think it was five or seven days
when it was basically being being determined whether it was false.
The distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still
allowed to share it, so you could still share it,
(21:56):
you could still consume it.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
So we'll say the distribution has decreased.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
It got shared Basically, the ranking and news feed was
a little bit less, so fewer people saw it than
would have otherwise. So it definitely by what percentage, I
don't know off the top of my head, but it's meaningful.
But I mean, but basically a lot of people are
still able to share it. We got a lot of
complaints that that was the case. You know, obviously this
(22:22):
is a hyper political issue, so depending on what side
of the political spectrum, you either think we didn't censor
it enough or censored it way too much. But we
weren't sort of as black and white about it as Twitter.
We just kind of thought, hey, look if the FBI,
which I still view as a legitimate institution in this country,
it's a very professional law enforcement, they come to us
and tell us that we need to be on guard
(22:42):
about something that I want to take that seriously.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Did they specifically say you need to be a guard
about that story? You know, George Sorow's hoping the Nazis
as a Jew in Hungary, such a weasel of a
human being.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
I view Mark Zuckerberg as an salute weasel of the
George Soros celeven.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Wonder where Jimmy Kimmel will end up. Where will he
be in ten years?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to a very special night here
at the Lions Club Bingo of ball room. We have
somewhat of a celebrity bingo. Call it this evening. You
may remember him for his late night show before it
got canceled into his pure stupidity. Ladies and gentlemen, please
put your hands together.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Mister Jimmy Kimmel be nineteen. How about that Donald Trump?
More like Donald Trump? Am I right? This guy's still
going with the Trump Jones. It's like it's his own
le shtip. What does Donald Trump say when he can't
find his biactor? The direction is right? Carl oh sixty two? Hey,
(23:44):
where's he go? It looks like he's leaving this his whoopee.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Now, Jimmy, for the last time, I told you the
view doesn't do men.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now stop calling me.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
He didn't tell me.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
What it is like to be you know, a real man.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
I have never met someone so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I call him rich.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
The Marco Berry, Houston based strip club group RCI Hospitality
Holdings accused in scheme to avoid paying taxes in New
York by bribing tax auditor with lap dances and trips
(24:25):
to various strip clubs. Five executives of RCI Hospitality Holdings
are accused of sending a New York State auditor on
at least thirteen free trips to Florida, lavishing him with
lap dances in Miami in an effort to avoid paying
millions in taxes. Prosecutors say the chief executive, chief financial
(24:49):
officer and three colleagues provided the trips to clubs, hotels,
and restaurants in Florida and New York to bribe the
official of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.
Their scheme was laid out in text messages and emails.
In exchange for the favors, RCI settled audits for less
(25:09):
than it OWEDE in total, avoiding eight million dollars in taxes.
The sixty six page indictment Walden State Supreme Court in
Manhattan charged six men, five executives and the auditor, and
three RCI owned strip clubs in Manhattan with seventy nine
crimes between twenty ten and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
The clubs are Oops Cabaret.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
And Sports Bar Rix Cabaret in New York and Vivid
Cabaret Vivid.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Doesn't that just.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Sound like the stupid kind of name people would come
up with for.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
This needs to sound elegant. How about vivid? It is vivid? Oh, Vivid.
That's yeah, that sounds elegant because it is a gentleman's club.
It's for the gentlemen over the years.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
The indictment said, the executives are falsified business records to
conceal the bribes, recording cash payments to the auditor as
promotional expenses for the clubs. The company is based in
Houston and has a portfolio that includes subsidiaries that own
(26:31):
and operate more than sixty night clubs and sports bar restaurants.
According to its website, the company's shares have lost about
half their value this year, and its market capitalization was
about two hundred and fifty one million dollars on Tuesday.
You know they're a public company, which is hilarious. The
executives arraigned on Tuesday were Eric Langan, the chief executive,
(26:56):
Bradney Shay at c hh Ay, the chief financial officer,
Ahmed anukar On Nukar, the director of operations, Sean m Kevlyn,
a regional manager for Rick's New York City strip clubs
and later its assistant director of nightclub operations, and Timothy Winata,
(27:17):
rci's controller and accountant. As of Tuesday, the auditor had
not been arraigned and his name was not publicly released,
and a security is an Exchange Commission filing. Last month,
the company disclosed that in May of twenty twenty four
search warrants were executed at its Houston headquarters and the
three Manhattan clubs, and on the phones of two executives
(27:38):
and another employee. According to the Attorney General's Office, the
defendants openly discussed using trips to their clubs to win
over the auditor. How does that first conversation go right?
Because if it goes badly, it can cause you even
more problems. Does that first conversation go Does somebody with
(28:04):
RIX say no, I understand y'all y'all.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I mean y'all think we owe nine million dollars.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
I'd love for you to go to one of the
clubs and see for yourself how great it is I mean,
our expense, and.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Then you wait or or is it a more.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
Cryptic h we work something out. I mean, here you
are busting your ass or the state of New York
and they're just gonna waste the money. I mean, have
you ever been to one of our clubs? You want
to check it out? Or does the auditor? Does he
broach the subject, because you got to figure when he first,
(28:45):
when you first, whoever first lays it out there has
to do it in incremental steps such that if the
other person says what in the hell.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They can go what what.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
I'm not suggesting it, I'm just somebody. One of the
two of them had to lay that on the table,
and then the other one says I would absolutely do that,
and the first one says, are you serious? Well, yeah,
if you're serious, I mean I was joking around, But
I mean, if that's if that's something that you're we
(29:23):
couldn't tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
We couldn't tell anybody would have to it would have
to be uh. Ramon just brought me.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
A note which says I didn't realize it was a
publicly traded company. Upon investigation, I found other strip joints,
Moon Depot, Breast Western, and chick fill Lay.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So what's going through this auditor? I'm sorry, We're gonna
pull it together.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
What's going through this auditor's mind when he's getting dressed
to go to the strip club.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yep. You know a lot of people are like, oh,
you're just a lowly auditor. You're nobody. You're Willie Lowman,
You're nothing. This is like Glengarry Glenn Ross and I'm
Jack Lemon. We're gonna tell you what, who's got the
last laugh?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, how about this. Marty Goldstein High.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
School valedictorian said, I'd never amount to anybody. Yeah, you
ought to show up to the Breast Western and see
how the ladies treat me.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh yeah, yes, see how I turned out. I'm sure,
thank you and good night.
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