Spies Like Us!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Okay, and a story that's getting some play here in
New York. I'm sure it's making a rounds around the
country as well. Is a version of Spies Like Us
twenty twenty four. You ever the movie Spies Like Us
was a mid eighties film. You had Chevy Chase and
Dan Ackroyd. Yeah, we got Spies Like Us twenty twenty four.

(00:42):
Chinese have been you know what they had? Who was it?
Eric Swallwell, was Fang Fang And then it was a
Barbara Boxer one of them. I don't know. I don't know.
But this one again, no, that makes any sense. The
narrative that they're throwing at us right now is patently absurd.

(01:03):
This is from the Wall Street Journal today. If there
are an American officials left who aren't on notice of
Chinese influence operations, they should read the indictment unsealed against
former Deputy Chief of Staff for New York Governor Kathy Hochel,
Linda's son pushed Beijing's agenda from inside state government while

(01:23):
taking millions and benefits from China. She pleaded guilty, as
did her husband. Now, something doesn't smell right here. I'm sorry,
they're telling us this is some sort of influence, some
sort of spy operation. This lady here, this miss son
and her husband live in a four million dollar plus

(01:46):
home not far from me in Manhasset here in Long Island,
very tony area. Fancy pants. They also have a house
in Hawaii. They also just bought a brand new twenty
twenty four Ferrari. She made one hundred and fifty thousand

(02:10):
dollars a year as Hokal's chief of staff. Her husband.
Her husband owns a liquor store in Flushing. Queen's. Yeah, okay,
this is where none of this makes any sense to me.
You can tell me that China's security apparatus influence operation

(02:31):
wouldn't be I don't know, yelling at these two for
going out and showing that type of money when you're
not showing it on the books. Now, granted, I listen,
I listen. I live on Long Island, and everyone say
heh yeah, we'll take cash for it. That happens all
the time over here. I know plenty of people that

(02:51):
are doing quite well, doing quite well, that are telling
the government they're making fifty sixty thousand dollars a year. Again,
the million dollar homes, I don't know. The IRS just
hasn't figured it out yet, neither here nor there. Okay,
it's everywhere, But this a four million dollar home, a
brand new ferrari, a house in Hawaii, liquor store in Flushing,

(03:16):
and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary working for
the government. Yeah, none of it makes any sense at all.
So no, am I buying what the narrative is right now?
Chinese influence operation, you, Chinese security, they had dumb what

(03:37):
is the version? I forget what the version is of
their their intelligence agency. I again, you know you remember
in Goodfellas, Yeah, they warned every don't go around, don't
show any money, don't do anything like that. And yeah,
as soon as they started showing some money that was
from the the idle what airport there, remember that JFK

(04:02):
that well idlewould now JFK. Yeah, people started disappearing after that. Again,
Spies like uh I mean, it just is haphazard. This
is stupid, It doesn't make any sense. But again, it's
the narrative. It's what the media is telling us. Watchdog
on Wall Street dot com