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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You all.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Oh my goodness, we're all excited out with aren't you excited?
I know you are. Albert is here repping the giants,
look at you with you. Yeah, And Kim is here,
she reps all that is goodness and niceness in the world.
That's right, she is. I blame you, miss positivity. I
blame you, I know. And it's gonna be a great day,
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I promise you. Even though we are going to talk
about the fact that the economy is slowly listing to
its side, it is without question a Trump economy. I
don't mean to lay it all at the feet of
the president. I don't mean to make it all about
Trump all the time, but he is the dude who
runs things. He did want the tariffs, he did want
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his big bill, it made it through. He does want
this deportation of all the people who work on all
the stuff that's important in America, from construction to agri culture.
So on some level, the guy's got to own it.
And then we'll talk about that. But I want to
make this point. I know many of you are on
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the Epstein story. I am too. We are. Also, we've
got big Epstein revelations today, So we'll share those. Also
a social media post that was lengthy. Wouldn't you call it?
I'd call it maybe one of his longest from the
President of the United States. He loves the social media,
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you know, and he was on his social media platform
and I guess he was just running hot. You know,
the guy's got a lot to get off his chest.
He was. That would be another word you could use,
the word rambling. I think that's fair, and so in
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looking at it, we thought, well, can we read it?
It's a long post. Kim came up with the just
suggestion that we bring on JL Covan to do it. Yes,
the Trump Whisper, and he will be along and it'll
be part of our whole Epstein package. Will give you
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chapter and verse on all of that. I wanted to
mention something pretty pretty big has happened here at Mark
Thompson Show Central, and I want to I guess it
falls into the category of a major announcement. And I
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haven't told any of the staff this, but I do
have a major announcement to make. And the announcement is
the new beginning, which is our merch store has been
a wild success and perhaps my favorite merch item just
(02:58):
arrived today it is the Mark Thompson Show socks. And
if you are repping the socks, you are really repping
the show. So now really literally from head to toe
with the hat that you can see behind me. They're
also black hats as well, if you like, kind of
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that musky and you know the Elon went with the
he went black Maga, remember when he was still mega.
Now he's anti Maga or something. Yeah, but these socks
are really something special and I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Know what I have done my whole life without them.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know what, Kim, No, I sent some mockery that
was really.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I feel like I can finally breathe now.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know what, Kim, that's the mockery that doesn't serve anyone. Okay,
maybe you should think about that later. Now, maybe I
was a little too full of mockery when I was
talking about the Mark Thompson Show socks.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Thought of having your name around my ankles, I mean,
I just can't. I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's not my name, it's the show that you're part of.
You're not getting it, Kim. You you really you don't.
You don't get it, Kim, you don't look anyway. I
wanted to make that, and it's a get Markmarch dot com.
All the merch has been re animated, reimagined. We've got
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some really cool stuff for the summer, some T shirts
for summer and fall.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Cardigan sweater's pretty.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Cool cardigan sweater. But and there's also stuff that just
is more in the protest kind of category. I think
you'll find if you look at the T shirts, it's
sort of been that category. The economy is beginning to
show the signs of Trump's fingerprints on it, with tariffs,
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with the immigration raids and what will be unprecedented deportations
at least we're on track for that, and deportations from
parts of society that are integral to the economy. I
was talking about construction, talking about agriculture, etc. But I'll
get to that in a moment. The Epstein thing is
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remarkable because it really seems to be something that politically
grows in intensity, and even within Donald Trump's own party,
a party that's showed utter fealty to him, right there
are cries to release all information, all files, all videos,
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and all information on the Jeffrey Epstein case. And so
in that spirit, let's get into exactly what's happening and
the latest cause. Now, just to remind everyone, Maga Nation
was playing this for a long time, as you're all aware,
as a Democratic plot. The Epstein thing was an attempt
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to pin a bunch of stuff on Jeffrey Epstein. Then
it became there's the cover up associated with the Democrats.
They're trying to cover it up because they're all over
Jeffrey Epstein, this sex trafficking, all of the heinous aspects
of Jeffrey Epstein's life were all about democratic involvement Bill Clinton,
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who was on his plane, who was on his island, etc.
So that served them well when they were on the outside.
Look at how the government is covering the asses of
everybody who was a powerful Democrat. The donors, they're all
Democratic donors. They're all getting favors by this Biden administration.
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Now I'll remind you though, when Jeffrey Epstein died, Trump
was president, then Biden became president. Now Trump's president again,
and we still seem to see a more active example
of covering somebody's rear. So Donald Trump was asked about this,
and let's show a little bit of the backpedal that
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Donald Trump is doing. And then we'll bring on our
special guest to read his truth social post.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh, mister President, your daughter in law said that the
truth that there should be transparency in the Epstein case.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You agree with her, sir.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
The Attorney General's handled that very well. She is. She's
really done a very good job.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
And I think that when you look at it, you'll
understand that I would like to see that also, but
I think the Attorney general the credibility is very important,
and you want credible evidence or something like that, and
I think the Attorney.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
General has handled it very well.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
On the d and FBI, what on the on what subject.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
There are a few other files, very very quick briefing.
Did she tell you what?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Did she specifically your name appeared?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
No, she's she's given us just a very quick briefing.
And in terms of the credibility of the different things
that they've seen. And I would say that, you know,
these files were made up by Komi, they were made
up by Obama, they were made up by but the
Biden from you know, uh we and we went through
years of that with the Russia Russia Russia hoax, with
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all of the different things that we had to go through.
We've gone through years of it, but she's handled it
very well and it's going to be up to her.
Whatever she thinks is credible, she should.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Release there It is blaming the Democrats. Really, this is
all part of like a Russia Russia Russia hoax. So
if that's true, then there should be no issue releasing
these materials. But the truth is that based on the
based on the hour, members of the administration, including Pam Bondi,
who she seems to have a special relationship with Donald Trump,
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she seems to, you know, kind of want to sing
from the hymnal. But by the same time token she
sort of strayed going on Fox News and in multiple
interviews indicating that she had a file on Jeffrey Epstein
sitting on her get desk, et cetera. And even in
saying we're not going to release anything, she did refer
to a file. There's no there there, and the calls
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for the file to be released are now coming from
even places less likely than the Dan Bongino's of the world,
the Cash Betels of the world. But Bongino and Patel,
when they were outsiders, of course this was their jihad.
Now they're insiders and they're trying to walk in step
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with their president. The president loves his truth social posts.
That is his platform, and that's where he really lets
his freak fly. And we saw one of the longest
truth social posts we've seen from him. And the only
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person we felt who could bring it to life is
dear friend of the show, brilliant comedian and brilliant thinker.
But his Trump and his riffs on Trump are without peer.
How about it? For jl CoV.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Everybody you know with a little bit of a as
you noticed is it's summer started showing off a little
bit of the upper pack.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
They call it.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Uh, can I just can I speak? You done with
your very deep bear tone trying to intimidate me.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I'm excited speaking. Yeah, okay, now now now you're going
Are you going to read the posters?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I would like to read my beautiful truth social post.
I may add lib so if people follow alone, you know,
I like to we quote the weave so I can
be speaking from my post. But then sometimes a random
foot will hit me, sort of like the dog up
You ever see that dog when he goes it squirrels.
That happens a lot to me because I'm like a
human golden retriever except a sexually assault people. Okay, are
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you ready? The radical left Democrats have hit me dirt again,
just like with the fake and fully discredited Steel dossier.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
I don't say dossier, that's French. In this week they.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Steal dossier, the lying fifty one intelligence agents, the laptop
from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia.
Now it came from Hunter Biden's bathroom where I heard
he didn't flush because he's rude. And even the Russia
Russia Russia scam, it's off a totally fake and made
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up story used in order to hide crooked Hillary Clinton's
big loss in the twenty sixteen presidential election. She loves
so bad Mark that she got two point nine million
more votes than me. That's how bad she lost. How
about that? That is a horrible list. These scams and
hoaxes are all. The Democrats are good. It's all they
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have other than you know, the New Deal, the Great Society, Obamacare,
a good economy. But I'm adding right now, excuse me,
I'm taking their belief they have nothing besides all that
they are no good at governing. I should know, because
if anybody knows bad governing. It's me no good at
policy and no good at picking winning candidates. Also, unlike Republicans,
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they stick together like glue.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
You know. Just look at Mamdani and how.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Together the Democrats are with him in the Bursmar point.
Their new scam is what we will forever call the
Jeffrey Epstein hoax. And my past supporters have brought into
this bullshit hook line and sinker. They haven't learned their
lesson and probably never will, even after being conned by
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the lunatic left for eight long years. I have had
more success in six months than perhaps any president in
our country's history. And all these people want to talk
about with strong prodding by the fake news and the
success stud then is the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. Let these
weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats where don't even
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think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success because
I don't want their support anymore. Thank you for your
attention to this matter. Make America great again. I now
have to go take my meds.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
This is.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Don't you think it worth a moment? With that post,
essentially flushing a lot of his supporters, sort of saying,
if you're on the bus. You're on the bus. Otherwise
you're under the bus and we're done with you.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah, Mark, I'd like to I'm gonna retweet this soon,
but I just I have to toot my own horn,
as I do only nine to twelve times a day.
During his first term, Trump's first term, I tweeted and
it had like one like because I wasn't the thought
leader that I am now, and it said Donald Trump's
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end will happen like scar at the end of the
lion King. It won't be the good guys that get him.
It will be the hyenas who followed him, who turn
on him and eat him. That's the only way, because
when you go after Trump as a left of center person,
you make him stronger.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It validates. It's like, no matter how correct.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You are, if you go after him from the left,
they reflexively double down and you know, protect their king.
But from the right, from the lunatic, psycho right, that
prodded him up like a three legged stool. It was
the greedy, the racist, and the psychotic. And right now
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the psychotic leg of the Trump stool is wobbling. And
I'm fascinated to see this because it speaks poorly of
our country.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That it's like, what can bring Trump down? The racism, the.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Horrible policy, the sexism, the sexual assault, the embarrassments, the
myriad of embarrassments on the world stage. Now him being
friends with Jeff Epstein and hiding the evidence, and imagine
the intellectual and social bubble you must live in to
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be Wait, wait a second, Trump was friends with Epstein
who knew except just about everyone.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh no, that's like me.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
That would be like me, going, did you did you
happen to know that Joe Biden lying was the president?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
He is Barack Obama's vice president. Can you believe it?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
This guy goes way deeper into democratic circles than we fought.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
There are two things that you just said that just
really strike me. A. You're right the revelation associated with
the association between Trump and they were best friends for decades,
you know, and they were just international playboys. That's kind
of still what Trump is, I think, you know. But
now he's an international playboy with power and ways to
enrichment stuff. But the other thing is that nothing cuts
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through like a sex scandal. Nothing, I mean, it still
is the thing that everybody can get their head around
it's easy to understand, you know, and you even saw
Mike Johnson. That's the part of things here that I
think gets to change, maybe the playing field. Mike Johnson,
who is you know, the most dutiful member of the
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choir out of that Congressional leadership post asking.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
For Pence is too much of a rebel? May I
offer you some Mike Johnson.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, for everyone who can't take the rebellion of Mike Pence,
here's Mike Johnson. So bad boy.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Mike Pence is just is shaking is shaking the boat
too much?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I mean Mike Johnson is just a perfect example of
voting I believe against releasing it and then going on
Benny Johnson and going, well, I think it should be
It's like you can't there are you know, jellyfish who
honestly have stronger backbones than Mike Johnson.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah. He but I think the fact that and you
kind of just said it right when you kind of
said he does one thing with a vote, and he
said another thing on the podcast rhetorically, So he's kind
of covering his ass both ways, I think a bit.
And there's going to be more of this. Even Trump
kind of wavering on. I think he should that this
is nothing. You know, I can't believe they're making a
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big deal out of this. This is all a democratic thing.
But I told her to release it. If she wants
to release it, she'll release it. I have total faith
in Pam BONDI she'll of course, you know, he's telling her.
I don't want it released under any circle.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
And mark you know the old saying from Truman, the
buck stops with my inadequately prepared fifth choice attorney general.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It is stunning.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
And I have said this about Trump from the beginning,
and the I don't want to say the mastery, but
the Jedi mind trick is to let Trump and his
supporters feel simultaneously like the most powerful important group and
the biggest victims.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And that cognitive Schrodinger's Trump.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
You know, I am simultaneously the biggest victim and the
most all powerful.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Hero at the same time. You can't lose. You can't
lose with that heads heads I win, tails, you lose.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
If he is a metaphor, he's a ninja with that. Yeah,
he's he's been able to do that effectively. But this
really may be I mean, I want to say it's
his waterloo. You know, I don't know how, but we're
going to discuss this more as to you know, how
damaging it will be. Obviously in the days to come.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
It's his Ivanka's wedding day. Like, let's make it the
worst thing that ever happened to him. You know, his
nine to eleven is watching his daughter marry another man.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
She was off the market.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You know, some wounds never heal.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
All right, I want you to check out Jay. Yeah,
we were watching your stuff last night. It was late
last night. Here's where you can see him bricks you
got it, Albert. You can see him on the YouTube
channel all of his stuff. We were watching you last
night in the kitchen. It was like twelve thirty in
the morning and we were watching some of your stuff.
It was just so funny.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
And now that was obviously Tahiti time. What time was
that for us working stiffs to live in? You know,
just humble, humble abodes.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
JL likes to make fun of the fact that I'm
always at some exotic port of called Brick City Comedy Review.
He is part of this lineup August first, and as.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
There's one gig missing there for some reason.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
My website guy is really pulling a Pam Bondie on
this one. But April August ninth, I am doing a
full Trump show in a story of Queens, so that
will be up.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
That will be up soon on the website.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
The full Trump Riff, which is unbelievable to watch JL
just riff as Trump for an out for all of
his time on stage as Trump. It's unreal and funny
as hell. He went to Canada and did it, and
it's so terrific because the Canadian audience, of course now
has a special relationship with Trump, having been you know,
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st on over and over again by Trump. We love you, pal,
please come back and that's special.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I will contact you when that's special. Will probably be
up on my YouTube sometime by the end of the month.
The full Canada show is seventy five minutes of me
basically delivering a speech and then doing an hour of
Q and A with Canadians. And it was one of
the highlights of my career.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah to you to see you take audience questions as Trump,
and it's just it's a riff master I mean, it's
a it's a masterclass. It's terrific. Come to the FuG.
It sound Area says CBD. Penny says, j L needs
a mug. You need a Mark Thompson's show mug.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Well, I do like the mug that God blessed me with.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That Oay, come back and promote that show when it's
about to drop and and and stay in touch. Thanks
for being you know, we put the that beam up
and you you showed up. Thanks all lot for that.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Well, when you're when you're so successful that you were
accessible and available twenty four hours a day, three hundred
and sixty five days a year.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You know that's what happens.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We love you, JL Coven, thank you. Hi. All right,
So yeah, that was a treat. That was a treat.
He is just so great. I love hey. And if
you I mean really, if you want to treat. He's
got some shorts out, YouTube shorts out, but you see
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him taking questions in the audience and it's it's really
terrific stuff. Albert. As long as we're on the Epstein trail,
I thought we'd quickly jump on some other videos related
to this Epstein thing. It's a significant story because politically
it seems to be full of ramifications for the rest
of Trump's presidency. Some would say, we'll talk to John
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Rothman in a few minutes about that, and at minimum
it may undercut John his power, Trump's power politically, he
has tremendous power and tremendous grip on this party. But
if they see weakness, and they see a scandal that
is engulfing the White House, it may affect his ability
to get things done. We'll see. He's a very very
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strong personality politically, and he is feared just to be
blunt about it by his party. You've heard everyone from
Mitt Romney to Lisa Murkowski talk about this. But that said,
he's not impervious to all of this. So go ahead, Albert,
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what else do you have? I wanted to share a
couple of other Here is again he's being pounded by
these questions on the tarmac. Here's another little round.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Why do you think.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Your supporters in particular have been so interested in the
Epstein story? I don't know, upset about how it's been handled,
why they would be so interested. He's dead for a
long time. He was never a big factor in terms
of life. I don't understand what the interest of what
the fascination is.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
I really don't.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
And the credible information has been given. Don't forget we
went through years of the Muller witch hunt and all
of the different things, the steel dotsier which was all fake.
All that information was fake. But I don't understand why
the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody.
It's pretty boring stuff. It's sorted, but it's boring, and
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I don't understand why it keeps going.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I think really only pretty bad people and slowly fake
news want to keep something like it like that going.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
But credible information, let him give it. Anything that's credible,
I would say, let them have it.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So that's who is the guy right next to him? Yeah,
I mean it's unbelievable. He's his amen corner and Ludnik
is also. I can't believe Ludnik's a billionaire. He strikes
me as somebody who just I don't get it. He's
like this, Uh, I don't He's like a little puppet
that like just dances around, and he's he's clearly a
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bright man. Otherwise I don't think he could build that fortune.
But maybe maybe look maybe I don't know, But anyway,
that's Howard Lenning, you know. Yeah, yeah, that's comeback lefting laughing.
Next to him is Howard Lenning says, d spirit. So
now he's suggesting that if you're asking for the release
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of the Epstein files, you're a bad person. You know,
it's the Democrats who covered this up because they were
the ones who are implicated in the Epstein files. Right,
That's what what the original message was from all of magnation,
from Joe Rogan, from others. And now it's well, if
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you're asking for those files to be released like we
have been doing when we were saying the Democrats were
covering it up and we were demanding that the files
be released, Now if you're asking for the files to
be released, you're a bad person. To use the words
of Donald Trump, Albert play a little bit more. This
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is Joe Rogan from his show now in this space
where he's trying to somehow make order of the disorder
associated with the Epstein revelations.
Speaker 11 (26:36):
Or you had the FBI director sitting here telling you
there was nothing right. She said something about that there
was like thousands of hours of tapes of people doing
horrible crime.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
There is and didn't the FBI dude say that there
was nothing?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Cash Betelsa, there's nothing you look for.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
Oh okay, okay, I mean, what am I gonna do?
I'm gonna push back, No, of course, obviously, I'm just
saying what he has to say. Right, Street rounds the
Jeffrey Epstein files after Bondi claims tens of thousands of videos.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Tens of thousands, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
The comment meant made the reporters of the White House,
days after a similar remark to a stranger with a
hidden camera, raised the stakes for President Donald Trump's administration
to prove it has in its possession previously unseen compelling
documents or just bomby Ram and everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Forgets just bomby Ran. Yeah, everybody forgets about it. Yeah.
So there's the wag the dog moment that Rogan talks about.
So Rogan big supporter of Trump and the manosphere, you know,
that whole rogan esque world of podcasters. They are disillusioned
not only with Epstein, right, They're disillusioned with Trump being
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this man of peace. Everything's going to be calmed from
the standpoint of international relations roiling with hostilities Ukraine, Russia,
Middle East, and then he bomb Zran. That's what that
was a reference to. And so these two things, at
minimum are things that have now bothered manosphere leaders like
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Joe Rogan. Will they penetrate all of this MAGA support
for Trump? Probably not completely, but you can see the
beginnings of an erosion of those that were sort of
independently minded and moved over to Trump. D Elliott says
Lutnik lived right next door to Epstein ended up buying
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his place as well. I didn't know that, no, so
I guess everybody's got a connection to Epstein. And Kelly
says Trump's involvement goes way further than just being a
client on a list. I'll say one thing about this,
and then I'll bring on John Rothman to comment on
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some of these things. But the idea somehow that Jeffrey
Epstein could have the most expensive property in Manhattan, could
have his own island, could have other residences as well.
There's a place in Paris. I think there's a place
in London. He was an insanely wealthy guy. It's unclear
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he was a stock manager, a stock picker, a money manager,
what was he? What he certainly was was wealthy and
connected to very powerful people. And it appears I don't
think you need some sophisticated arithmetic to do it, to
see that a lot of this was about sex and
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the trafficking of these women, underage girls to many of
these places I just mentioned. I mean, it was a
pretty disgusting racket, but it was a pretty effective racket,
it would seem. But now to the point, you can't
have all of those holdings, you can't have all of
those incredibly money drenched trappings without there being more of
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a paper trail than seems to be indicated. Meaning he
wasn't a one man band. Jeffrey Epstein had more in
the way of connective tissue to many, many people, many
powerful people, many finance related people, Wall Street related people
had to be You can't have that big an empire
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without it being the case. I mean, Madeoff had more
people connected to him. That's another empire built on a fraud,
different kind of thing going on. But it wasn't just
made Off Mark Gauci. So the more we dig, the
more we find corruption surrounding billionaires. It's almost like it's
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really hard to legally become a billionaire without the middle
and lower taxes paying your tax share. Yeah, I don't
know that all billionaires are corrupt. But there's a lot
of corruption that's legal at the highest levels of the
American economy. I'd certainly say that before I bring on Rothmann,
play meet a little Cash Pattel. When he was on
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with Joe Rogan.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
Here we go of people coming in and creating fictions
about this.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
By the way, I'm sorry, Albert, you can start again
from the beginning. Let me just set this with one
ten second set up, and that is this is Cash Pattel.
Just to give you the vintage, this is Cashptel now
going out with Joe Rogan, not before when he was
saying reveal, reveal, show it. FBI's got it, all of
the tapes, all the files that right there on the
(31:40):
FBI head's desk. You've got to reveal that Democrats are
covering it up. This is Cash Battel now now that
he's in charge of the FBI telling Joe Rogan there's
nothing to see here.
Speaker 13 (31:51):
Of people coming in and creating fictions about this that
doesn't exist. Where's the videotape of an FC island of X,
Y and Z committing these fronts? Why haven't you given
it to us? Do you really think I wouldn't give
that to you if it existed.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I absolutely think you wouldn't give it to us. Yeah,
in fact, I think you're not giving it to us.
So that's the state of the state. From the officialdom
that was on the outside calling for the reveal. Now
they're on the inside and they won't reveal, and they
are in a lock box together. And the Bongino, I'm
(32:31):
going to quit yelling at Bondi. That appears to have
blown over. And now Bongino, at least realizing maybe he
hasn't a lot of high ground, is staying within the administration.
Although we have Kim on Bongino Watch and so she is.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Updating her He's still He's still on.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
The job, updating his status every hour. Kim is so
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a student of the Middle East, author, lecturer, our former
colleague from KGO Radio, John Rothman, and everyone, how do
you square this whole Epstein thing?
Speaker 12 (33:25):
It is the unraveling of Donald Trump, and I will
speak about that at great length on my podcast tomorrow.
I want people to know that there is one sound
so important, and that is Donald Trump blaming Comy, Biden
and Obama for all of this business about Epstein. It
(33:46):
is the most ludicrous thing I have heard from an
American president in my life. And I can only tell
you that what is happening now is shameful and there
is no doubt. Uh, he has a problem, Donald Trump with.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
His own base.
Speaker 12 (34:03):
Can you imagine he's now attacking his own base? Can
you imagine that?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So what John is talking about is what we were
playing you a bit of a video about when he's
saying that if you're still interested in this Epstein thing,
you're you're what he said was your did you say
you're it's stupid? Or what did he actually say? John?
We ran the video just a minute ago. Do you remember.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
It?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
And if you're still interested in it, you're a You're
bad person.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You're a bad person.
Speaker 12 (34:38):
But he also anybody who anybody who disagrees with Trump
is a bad person.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
But but what did he call his followers, Kim.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
He called his followers weak, and he said, if you're
interested in the Epstein case, I don't need your support anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting to have a president turn on
his supporters like that, though, isn't it general political figure
at all? President or otherwise?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Sure?
Speaker 12 (35:00):
It is what I'm going to call it, the unraveling
of Donald Trump. His own hubris is going to bring
him down. He look at the picture you have now
on the screen. He was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein's.
He traveled on Jeffrey Epstein's plane. There is no doubt
of their connection, and for him to dismiss it the
way he has is astounding. Now the question is will
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his base accept it. Most important thing you said today
is the speaker Johnson, a man with whom I disagree
on virtually everything, is saying just let it all out.
Reminds me of what Barry Goldwater said to Richard Nixon.
Just tell the truth, Just tell the truth. And I
have a feeling that Donald Trump is incapable of telling
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the truth in this case.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
When you said it it's the unraveling of his presidency,
can you just run that out for us a little bit.
Speaker 12 (35:51):
Sure, he's got Pam Bondi, his attorney general, who he
says is just brilliant, just marvelous and who, by the way,
got the job because she defended the idea that Trump
really won the election of twenty twenty. He's got her
on the line. He's got Dan Bongino, our former colleague.
He appeared on talk radio he actually, believe it or not,
(36:12):
was on KGO before the Ultimate Demise, who is now
battling over that very issue. And I believe that the
unraveling takes place when you attack your base, when you
have a problem with your own nominees, and when you
cannot tell the truth yourself. So my expectation is I
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always remember in Watergate, it was not that Nixon authorized
to break in at the Watergate, it was a cover up.
And I believe what Donald Trump is doing now is
covering up. And by the way, blaming Comy, Biden and
Obama for Epstein is ludicrous and should be viewed that way.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
But that's a that's kind of his go to move.
Randy says, why does Trump need it? Magabase At this point,
he's a lame duck president who controls Congress, and as
a supportive scotis Trump's going to get as much possible
for him in the next three and a half years.
Speaker 12 (37:09):
No, I'm gonna tell you very respectfully. Richard Nixon won
he's stunning victory in nineteen seventy two, and yet once
his base and the people around him and the leaders
of the Republican Party felt that it was a losing proposition,
he lost support. And I have to tell you I
believe with all my heart. I have to believe it.
(37:30):
I know you and I have disagreed on this, Mark
enough that you and I would ever disagree, But I
have fundamental faith in the American people.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
They will see the reality, of course. But let me
just follow up on Randy's point, john which is simply
that this control of Congress, that he has even control
of Scotus, although you're saying, you're saying you're seeing cracks
in that control of Congress.
Speaker 12 (37:54):
About that, Yeah, Peaker Johnson is the best example. But
you're also seeing other Republicans coming forward who have been
staunched Trump supporters. What is the first rule of politics, Mark,
It's to win the next election. If people begin to
see Donald Trump as somebody who will bring them down,
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they will desert him. But even if they don't, I
have a philosophy. I try to tell the truth when
I talk. People may disagree with me, but I'm a
truthful person. Have you ever seen any more disgraceful? But
what Donald Trump is doing now and his vicious I
don't I don't know where to start with the disgrace.
(38:36):
I mean, I think that there's so much disgraceful that
you could and it's a festival of disgraceful as ours.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I'm concerned. I don't know exactly what disgrace you're talking
about almost, I mean, are you speaking.
Speaker 12 (38:46):
I mean, let me put it very bluntily. The man
accepts no blame. The man has a war going on
in his own administration. The man is proving every single day.
But there's a problem. Look, I have to mention the
fact that in Ukraine we have a major disaster on
our hands. The attack last night was just so outrageous,
(39:11):
so egregious. I made a proposal today to a group
of people as well as on my own podcast. What
we need is a Geneva conference. We need to have Russia,
the United States, Ukraine, on all the Eastern and Western
European nations sitting at a table describing the horror. And
I want to use that term again, horror that is happening,
(39:33):
and people must understand that Donald Trump is at the
root cause of this tragedy. Why because he promised he'd
solved the problem. Mark, Oh, I'll do it even before
I'm elected president. But you can also talk and I
know you're going to talk about it later on. Later
on Donald Trump's decision that even the basic information on
(39:56):
weather climate change that NASA has been he is forbidding
that to be distributed. In the midst of the horror
of what happened in Texas, the unraveling disaster that is
taking place in terms of our weather, it is something
to behold, and you have to believe, or I have
(40:16):
to believe that in the end, the American people will
wake up and say enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
And all I would say even if that's true, and
as you know, we disagree about whether or not it's true,
but it's possible because I think the ashes of America
will maybe be so manifestly clear to everyone by the
time that there's an next another election that maybe it
is true that the populace will rise up on some level.
But the damage done just in the last six months
and sort of the first horrific Trump presidency is so
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complete it's horrific.
Speaker 12 (40:45):
And the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court's complicity in allowing
Trump to do these firings mass firings is astounding.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
So talk to me about these mass firings and the
dismantling of the Partment of Education, for example. I mean,
you've been in Washington, You've worked in Washington. You know
a bit of how government works. Explain to me how this,
first of all, can be done. They fast tracked this
dismantling of all of these different departments, from USAID to
(41:17):
the EPA to even Department of Commerce. They've done it
at Social Security, done it at IRS, and now Department
of Education. Speak to me about that.
Speaker 12 (41:27):
Well, he's been given a free reign by the Supreme
Court to do these mass firings, and the Supreme Court,
by basically a six to three margin, is making clear
that it's going to support Trump. Question becomes when he
is so outrageous and egregious, when real harm is perceived,
(41:51):
maybe that will make a difference. But I can tell
you that he cannot continue to blame Comy, Biden and Obama.
You said it best a few minutes ago, and that
is that it is now Trump's economy Trump owns it.
And look, may I also make a comment, you heard
what happened this morning in Syria where the Israelis are
(42:12):
doing everything they can now to protect the Drus, who
are a religious minority. The Drus, we should point out,
live in throughout the Middle East, but they are based
primarily in Syria, in Israel and on the Goal On Heights,
which is now Israeli territory, and they're being slaughtered. And
I have to tell you, Donald Trump is giving the
(42:35):
assent by saying, don't go into the Israelis, don't do anything. Well,
the Israelis really have no choice. Their own citizens, including
the Druz citizens of Israel, are demanding that somebody go
in and protect the Drus. So one of the reasons
that Trump is so concerned about this is because he
wants to be able to pull some big stunt in
(42:56):
the Middle East and make peace. He's not going to
make peace, there's no way. And a cease fire. Let
me underline this and use exclamation points. A ceasefire is
not peace. And I think that this is a serious
issue for all of us to deal with. I mean,
there's no question, now.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 12 (43:17):
If Speaker Johnson and the Republicans in the House are
willing to stand up on the Epstein matter, which, by
the way, is only an indication. It's not the problem.
It's the indication of the unraveling of Donald Trump. And
I'm going to use that term again and again and again.
You can see it in his statements. The question is
will people who support him, will his base now that
(43:40):
he has attacked them, will they wake up and say,
we got a problem here and nobody talks about it.
But take a look at Jadvance. He is the man
who would be president of the United States if anything
happens to Donald Trump. And people need to understand what
jd Vance is advocating. He's advocating that is of Ukraine,
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among other things.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Right or complete isolationism. Essentially, that's exactly right.
Speaker 12 (44:07):
And so I mean, let me tell you, Mark, I
want to use a term that I don't like use using,
and that's impotence. Aside from my podcast and aside from
the public addresses which I give too many to mention
here and appearing on your program, in a sense, I
feel impotent because I've always believed that if I raised
(44:30):
my voice, if I spoke eloquently, if I were able
to reach masses of people that it would make a difference.
Now that might mean my ego speaking, but that has
been my life experience. People are exhausted by this. People
are at the limit of what they can stand. And
so we now have to deal with the stark reality
(44:53):
that the Republicans are going to have to stand up
to Trump. They're going to have to and whether they
will or not.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
But I don't know.
Speaker 12 (45:00):
The other question, of course, is with Trump's random attacks
on people who have no bearing on the situation, like
Komy Biden at Obama, will ultimately his followers say gee,
but this all happened on your watch.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Mister president. Yeah. I mean maybe there'll be moments of
revelation like that. It's interesting. I think there is sort
of a sense and I get it even in our
conversation and your remarks. And I don't know the answer
to this and psychologically how it works with this group
of people who have been in the thrall of this guy,
Donald Trump. But I would say that just for example
(45:39):
what you just said, like there's a moment where they go, oh,
wait a minute, this all happened on your watch. You
were president when Jeffrey Epstein was killed for example. Of
just on the Epstein thing, you were president when you
put these tariffs in and prices started to go up.
I mean, you can't blame Biden. And I don't know
if there are moments of revelation life like that. I
(46:00):
think it becomes a weight of things. Life gets more
the drudgery of life becomes more difficult, with inflation becoming
more of a factor in American life. It has now already.
And then on the Epstein thing, there are people like
Laura Lumer even, I mean, she is the Trump whisperer,
(46:23):
and she is turning on him. She feels as though, hey,
she's got her own reasons. The Katari jet was her thing.
How can you take a jet from the kataris? This
is I guess what I'm trying to say is magination.
And even those the highest profile members of magnation all
have their own little things. John, you know, and I
don't know what one thing is going to affect the populace,
(46:47):
affect his allies in Washington. But to Randy's point, he's
got a lot of power. And to your point on Scotis,
Scotus has said, hey, do what you want, dude, You've
got total immunity. And so you begin to see that
Trump politically might be in trouble John from a traditional
political perspective, that is to say, midterms, et cetera. But
he can still get his agenda through because he's got
(47:07):
my biggest piece of agenda through.
Speaker 12 (47:09):
You're right, I gave I got in trouble on your
program and on my own podcast for giving Donald Trump
an a. The a was in the effective use of
presidential power. And there is no president since Franklin Roosevelt
who has more effectively used the power of the presidency
against all odds. But I want to just point out
(47:31):
to you there are two price area three price areas
that I'm looking at.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Eggs.
Speaker 12 (47:37):
He promised that price of eggs would come down. It's
gone up. Coffee and Coachella coffee. I will be interested
in their comments on this. The price of that's a
plug for your sponsor. The price of coffee is going
up because of Donald Trump's personal war on Brazil. And
(47:58):
let me point out orange juice. I am an orange
juice addict. I admitted fresh orange juice in everything.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I love it.
Speaker 12 (48:07):
Well, look at the price of oranges and orange juice
now going up. I'm saying in the end, perhaps what
will affect the American people will be the price they
are paying now in the grocery store, in the market
for things that we have taken for granted. So I
an optimist, because if I weren't an optimist, I couldn't
(48:29):
get out of bed every day.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
I get it, and I'm I'm a realist, And so
I would say some of what you're saying, of course,
is true in a sense. That's what I was saying
before when I said the drudgery of life is made
worse when you're having to pay more for everything and
you begin to go, hey, I need a change. And
I'd suggest, though, that the price of eggs became a
(48:53):
thing on which to hang support of Donald Trump that
might have been informed by everything from a cultural issue.
Trans writes all these sorts of things that really don't
have much to do with daily life, but became things
that were associated with How come the wokeness is something
(49:13):
that I have to deal with every day while the
price of eggs goes up. If you see my point,
it was it's an excuse for a vote.
Speaker 12 (49:22):
I don't disagree with you, but I have to believe,
and I say this with all sincerity, that the American
people will wake up. We have the greatest huckster. I
call him the Elmer Gantry of American politics.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
And tell everybody who Elmer Gantry was.
Speaker 12 (49:38):
Those of you who haven't seen the movie with the
Burt Lancaster or the Wonderful Novel. He was an evangelist
who fulled the nation until he was humbled and destroyed
by his own hubris. And that is what's going to
happen with Donald Trump. It's happening now. I'm riveted to
the news, absolutely riveted, because every day there is a war,
(50:00):
an unraveling of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
This is from John Watson, and I agree with him.
They won't be able to reject Trump until there can
be a way for them to quote save face for
supporting him all these years. Here's why I really agree
with John Watson on this. He was one of our viewers.
Thank you for that. I believe that there's a lot
of ego in the choice for Trump. There's a lot
of our identity that's in our choice for Trump in
(50:27):
this case. And so if I voted for Trump, I
have a lot invested. I know this, a lot from
the world of You know, when you try to get
plant based vegan, non vegan people become defensive about changing
the way they eat. You know. Yes, the worst thing
is they don't want to hear about how there are
good reasons to maybe change the way they eat. They
don't want to hear about good reasons why you should
(50:49):
let go of your allegiance to Trump. They don't want
to hear it. You work to find a way to
let their identity let loose of that hold it has
on Donald Trump.
Speaker 12 (51:03):
Let me just say to you, the toughest thing a
person can do is to dmit their own errors. Nobody
likes to admit that they're wrong. That's a big problem,
there's no question. But I can tell you that I
learned a lesson from Richard Nixon. You can win an
overwhelming election victory, which Nixon did Trump did not. But
when you betray your base, or when your base begins
(51:24):
to desert you, when Republicans like Barry Goldwater, Hugh Scott,
and John Rhodes who went down to the White House
and said to the President in August of seventy four,
enough is enough. When you have Speaker Johnson and others
coming forward on the right and in the center of
the Republican Party and just saying it's enough that hopefully
(51:48):
will have an impact. Otherwise there is no hope until
the midterms.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
All right, now, let me talk about the economy, sir, quickly,
because I think the economy, as we've sort of alluded
to cheval times here, can dictate a lot of allegiances.
That is to say, you can let go of an
allegiance when economic news gets to be so grim that
life gets tougher. So let me just quickly speak about
the economy, because the effects of trump Ism and the
(52:15):
Trump economy there are being a felt, and there has
been a chaotic rollout of tariffs, as you're aware, there
is a jobs report that's beginning to be weighed down
by some of his economic strategies, to call him that.
And the thing that really threw the market into a
(52:36):
wild tale spin today is the talk that's gotten louder
and more explicit about replacing Jerome Powell, the FED chair.
Speaker 12 (52:44):
And he said that to the members he met with
members of Congress, he said, how would you feel about
my firing Powell? And he says, unanimously around the table,
they agreed and What are the grounds on which he
could fire him? It has to be some sort of
malfeasance or personal action.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Yeah, explain that. Explain that because it's not the president,
it's a term. It's a four year term. That Powell
would serve.
Speaker 12 (53:11):
The new FED building with huge cost overruns, and Donald
Trump is saying that proves is ineptness. But there is
a war going on now. And you saw it when
the market earlier this morning believe that Donald Trump was
going to fire the head of the FED, Jerome Powell,
the market started its dissent. He backed off because he
(53:36):
understands that if Jerome Powell is gone, the market will
be affected and he will suffer the consequences. I don't
think he calls Jerome Powell a fool. He says, you know,
he's not competent.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
And John, just explain. I mean, I know most people
are aware, but I just want to be clear. The
reason he's pressuring Jerome Powell is what straight to do?
What he wants to cut three points right? And he
why why does he want that?
Speaker 12 (54:05):
John, because he believes it will prove his point about
revitalizing the economy will go ahead. And he's wrong, of course,
he's wrong, and that kind of dramatic cut would have
I think a negative impact. But let me just kick
out one word.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Well, it would have one huge impact to make the
price of money cheaper. What would that impact be? Sure?
Speaker 12 (54:25):
Well that inflation inflation? Absolutely, and you have inflation, you're
in trouble. But let me point out what is his
war with Brazil? Because Bolnaro, the former president, has been
indicted and is being challenged on corruption charges, and Donald
Trump is now leaping to his defense because he views
(54:47):
himself as analogous to the former president of Brazil. It
is can you imagine Mark imposing tariffs because you don't
like the way the president of Brazil is being treated
by his own judiciary. I mean, can you imagine how
ludicrous that is and how unpresidential it is? So I
(55:09):
want people to understand when Trump does something right, I'm
prepared to applaud him, and there are things he has
done in certain areas where I agree with him. But
the corruption of Donald Trump, the corruption in this administration
is so overwhelming. I always point out Governor Sherman Adams
(55:29):
of New Hampshire, who is a brilliant White House chief
of Staff under d White Eisenhower had to leave because
he accepted a gift a vicoona coat that had.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
No real bad point. And that's how far we've come.
Speaker 12 (55:45):
And there must be in the end when Trump is gone,
and he will go eventually, either he'll go well, however
he goes, there has to be a sanity restored to
what we're doing, because otherwise, what you have maintained and
which I have resisted, is that the American system is
(56:08):
not working, and that Mark would be a disaster for
all of us.
Speaker 2 (56:12):
And let me just to reiterate, I mean, I think
John does state it right. I mean, my position is
that the American system is a fine system. The institutions
of America, I think are well thought out, but they're
populated by people, and people are flawed, and people are corrupt.
And if you get enough corruption to the core that
(56:33):
is taking over the entire system, so that the entire
system is populated with corrupt people, then you no longer
have a system that works. That's my position. It's not
that's what we have that doesn't work. It's the that's
what we are working within the American system that don't work.
Speaker 12 (56:48):
That's what we have in the Trump administration. And sadly
what we are seeing among Republicans in Congress. I have
to tell you I can't wait for next week because
the drama that we are now witnessing every hour. I
I begrudge you the fact that I've had to turn
off the news to do this podcast with you. I
(57:08):
spend an hour with you on Wednesdays.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
Oh wait, wait, I have to Only it only seems
like an hour, John, It's only a half hour. All right.
Speaker 12 (57:16):
I know I'm listening, I really listened. But I know
you're selling your socks.
Speaker 2 (57:21):
I just you know again you can mock the socks.
But just came in to the merch store at dot
com and Mark, to.
Speaker 12 (57:30):
Remind you are when Richard Nixon appeared on television and
it was socket to me, you remember, was on the
socket to me, A nice job, all of your mugs,
all the rest. I must say, the socks have really
(57:51):
taken off.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
The socks are don't play play all right, John Rothman.
You find him on Around the World with John Rothlan,
around the political or John Rothman is his right, for
heaven's sake, Around the political world with John roth And
let me just say, Mark and the American people don't
real end. That is that the Voice of San Francisco,
(58:17):
Voice of San Francisco, And there it is John Rothman's
podcast Around the Political World with John Rothman and the
Voice s F dot Org. Love you John, Thank you,
thank you, good stuff. The Mark Thompson Show.
Speaker 14 (58:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (58:33):
I always loved my time with John Rothman.
Speaker 3 (58:36):
I feel like I feel like I just ran a marathon.
After you guys get done.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
He does a lot of stuff. And if I may
just adds, it's John and all the time. Trumbor Starr
in Hollywood points out he does love that conjunction statement.
And if I just may add John stuff. Comparing Nixon
to Trump, one is a megalomaniac sociopath and the other resigned.
(59:01):
Says Louise, Yeah. I mean the reason he does pick
Nixon is because prior to Trump, Nixon was sort of
viewed as the high water mark for a corruption abuse
of power. You know, you had an enemy's list. I mean,
the seeds of all the toxic stuff of government were
sewn on some level with the cover up that Nixon
(59:25):
was pursuing during his administration. And you're right, though, Louise,
this administration makes the Nicks administration look like a day
at the beach. There's no question about that. I mean,
you have it right out of the first hour of
the American presidency when Donald Trump took a million dollars
per person in the form of contributions from Jeff Bezos,
(59:52):
the Google guys, Zuckerberg, all of the wealthy tech bros
who realized, if you can't beat them, join them. They
all fell in with a million dollars per person and
then attended his inauguration. All of that million went into
the Trump coffers for the inauguration. There have been immense
(01:00:16):
corrupt contributions to this administration. The Katari jet is the
one that flies, but the others are associated with the
crypto donations. Him starting his own crypto platform, that World
Liberty Platform, whereby you can buy the meme coin, the
(01:00:38):
mean coin again of no intrinsic value. The coin is
worth nothing. You can't buy anything with it, you can't
transact in any way with it. But they have it.
It's collectible and if you want it, you have to
buy it, and you can buy it there on the
World Liberty Platform, which is owned by the President of
the United States. So in governments, I mean, look this up.
(01:01:02):
Everything I tell you google it, it's all true. Buy
the meme coin. These are the ones we know about it.
And when I say buy the meme coin, again, they're
investing in nothing. It's just a donation, it's a payoff,
and they buy the meme coin for hundreds of millions
of dollars or more. Donald Trump and Trump Inc. Make
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the money on the platform on which the transaction occurred,
because they own that platform, and they get the money
for selling this thing that doesn't exist. It's a meme coin.
It's a digital currency that can't be used for buying it.
It's like a collect It was like buying a San
Francisco Giants jersey, and you can't go into any store
(01:01:47):
and use the jersey to buy anything. But if enough
demand is there for the jersey, then it goes up
in value. Well, the demand is completely artificial, it's created.
So all I'm trying to say is when you compare
this administration, just on the corruption level to Nixon. I
mean again, Nixon was mister Rogers neighborhood compared to this.
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So you've got these guys in power, and then of
course you have policy. You have an immigration policy that's aggressive,
that's chaotic. They move troops into Los Angeles, they go
to home depot, they go to lows, they go to
high school graduations. I mean, it's disgusting. They go to
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places of worship. We told you the story was it
yesterday about the healthcare worker childcare worker. She has special
needs kids of her own, and she works with autistic children.
She's been in this country for many years. She's the
best of America. Yes, she is in the country undocumented,
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but she was following all the legal processes that have
been laid out for her to remain in this country.
And she went to the courthouse. They arrested her, and
they deported her and her mother. To me, that's an
immigration policy that is desperately in need of a soul. Also,
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it's desperately in need of a knowledge of how important
these people are to the American economy. Everything from construction
to agriculture, to childcare, restaurants and more. They're a part
of the fabric of the economy. So when you start
jerking around with Jerome Powell and I'm looking to replace him,
and how would you guys feel about replacing him? And
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all the Republicans are, Oh, I think it's a great idea, sir.
I think it's a great idea because that's the only
thing they can do. Otherwise they'll be called out in
a high profile way by Trump, and then that royals
the markets, and then you slap these chaotic tariffs on everything,
and that royals the markets and has an inflationary spiral
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that's already begun, and you deport all of these people. You,
in addition, past this huge piece of legislation which on
the one hand, SAPs medicaid. Fine, I mean you may
not care about that. Hey, you know, I'm fine. That's
for red state people who need it, rural hospitals. I
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don't care about them. Okay, if that's your view, I
would disagree. I think that's an important part of the
fabric of America. Again, but look at the tax base
that's going to be undercut. With that tax cut, you
have tax revenue that's not coming in to US coffers.
So you're bloating a debt this while you increase the
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ice budget by what is it, forty five billion dollars,
you get more ice agents and more of these detention
centers and concentration camps, the Alligator Alcatraz crap, that also
exists in California, and they're going to be building these
things across America because it's all a privatize setup, and
they're going to try to privatize everything that has been
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the game since the beginning. When you add it all up,
it's a grim picture for the economy moving forward. And
it's a grim picture for the morality that used to
on some level underpin a lot of the decision making
in America. And I just feel like the morality has
left the building. I really feel as though I can't
find it anymore. And it's sad. So cut to Jeffrey
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Epstein and this weird story about this guy and a
sex scandal. But it's more than a sex scandal. It's
this global human trafficking thing with this incredibly powerful and
mysteriously powerful guy. He's become so wealthy, has the biggest,
most expensive residence in all of Manhattan, his own island,
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a place in London, and these private jet rides that
everybody from Bill Clinton to Alan Dershowitz to Donald Trump
are on all the time. It makes you wonder what
the connective tissue is here. Prince Andrew, the Royals dropped him.
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I mean he's got ten foot pole marks all over him.
Nobody wants anything to do with the guy because the
information was so damning. I mean, the British Intelligence Service
looked at it and they saw how damning it was.
So there's a lot to this story. And it's just odd.
I mentioned this all in sort of one breath because
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it's odd that that thing could be the thing to
undermine Donald Trump's administration because in my view, there have
been so many deliberate missteps, self inflicted wounds. The chaotic
tariff's thing is one thing. The doge thing is another.
Dismantling government. Now you have chaos in Washington, You're having
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to hire back a bunch of people. We'll tell you
about the damage to science, to health. This is an
abomination what's happened in the first six months of this presidency.
It's a political firestorm that Epstein has created in his
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death in the cover up. But the actual policies that
are being instituted by this administration are scary bad. And
Project twenty twenty five is being executed almost to the letter,
and it is scary bad. Also, Kim's News and I
also have Belinda Weymouth coming through with it's the planet escape.
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Finally she is back. I'm still riding high, guys. I
know I seem like about the socks. I'm just so
excited with the socks. They're there and get markmarch dot Com.
I know you're all. I don't know how much they are.
Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
Does it matter?
Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
We don't really does it matter exactly? Thank you? You
just exactly where are those stocks? Baby? This is all
the stuff at get mark march dot com. And we're
not pushing the march because we get any more. You know,
I told you price this stuff at the lowest level,
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How much are they thirty five dollars for fifteen bucks?
Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
I love it?
Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Fifteen dollars for a pair of socks. Yeah, you know
you're going to lose one of them anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
You know what, Kim I am.
Speaker 9 (01:08:35):
You just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
You don't.
Speaker 9 (01:08:38):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
You don't. I really don't. I don't get money. I
don't get Kim, I don't. I don't. Yeah, all right,
the Mark Thompson Show.
Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
It.
Speaker 15 (01:08:56):
Would you we could try ignore this, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
You cannot say you love your country?
Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Where am I? We've smokers at stay.
Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
At home and get baked py Art.
Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
It's George Santos here. I may send George Santos a
pair of our socks. I was going to send them
to Kim, but I'm gonna send him to George Santos
now because.
Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
A lot of people are telling me you're a liar.
Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
We have to have all the same socks at my house,
because if you don't have the same socks, if you
have like an interesting pair of specialty socks like that,
one's gone, one's gone, you have one left.
Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
I'm going to gift Kim a pair of And by
the way, I have to pay the same. I have
to pay the fifteen buck whatever it is, fifteen dollars.
I have to pay the same everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
As to how long I actually have the pair of socks.
Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
I just don't exactly. It doesn't use me. She really
wants them. It's like, I don't know. I don't Sometimes
I don't get if Kim even wants anything. I don't.
I don't know she happens to have. I have to
say this because I often think of this and it
seems like something I would just say, but it's actually true. Oh.
I often think about how amazing your daughter is. I
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think she is amazing, and I use that word specifically.
She's back from Europe, she is, and she's back from Amsterdam.
Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
She's back from Amsterdam and Germany where she toured with
the local youth orchestra.
Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
Smokers are okay, then she's not. That's not what she
was doing over there? Does she have great stories to tell?
Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Must speaking of weed smokers, she was very frustrated because
she couldn't go into the coffee shops there because coffee
shops are also weed places. We have a certain age
to go in. So she had to go into and
not a coffee shop. There's a there's a differentiation there.
Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Nothing anyway, She's awesome and really you should be very proud.
And I it must be a reflection on you. I
don't see how it happens. But I don't get the connection.
But all right, d Elliott says, Mark, you must have
watched Texas Paul today. He talked all about that. I
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don't know what that is. I don't know who Texas
Paul is? Is that bad? Who is he? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
If I'm if I'm thinking correctly, it's this guy who
does these podcasts on YouTube that usually point out some
type of hypocrisy where a Trump voter is you know,
now affected by cuts or you know, is going on
a tirade, and then he'll comment on that. I think
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that's the same guy.
Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
I don't know Texas Paul, so I wasn't watching him.
But it's interesting if you were saying that same thing.
I mean, I gotta be honest. A lot of us
in this world say a lot of the same things.
Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
I try to be as original as I can. But
I mean, I don't mind it. I mean, it's it's fine.
But I note this pro tip from D Spirit. If
you had marketed the socks as limited edition, you might
bump in sales. Oh that's suit. It's such a good idea,
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D Spirit. I want to put D Spirit in charge
of our merch. Yeah, why not. It's the limited edition
Mark Thompsons Show socks. Absolutely smart. Yeah, you're right. Well,
maybe we will limit it. Yeah, maybe we'll limit everything, Kim,
and maybe you won't be able to get anything. You know,
you who mock everything. I need a minute, I really do.
(01:12:33):
I need a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Let's do some news and you can take a deep breath.
Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
I think that is a good idea. I do hope
when I get a quick cup of coffee, time to
spark up the HERB says, all right, Kim's News, smash
the like buttons, but your iron rod. Yeah, with your
iron rod like a boss. Kim's News still have Blinda Head,
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will do some environmental stuff. Noah, Scientists, of course, all
being shown the door in Washington. We don't need science.
We have religion. And I used to think the two
could coexist, but I guess under the new administration, not
so much. This is the Mark Thompson, The Mark Thompson Show.
Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
On the Mark Thompson Show, I'm Kim McAllister. This report
is sponsored by Coachella Valleycoffee dot com. Well, Dan Bongino
watch apparently chaos. It seems he's still working at the FBI,
and we have video. Caitlin Collins with CNN is also
a watch and she's checking it out. Here's what she
(01:13:47):
told I Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
This is fascinating. This has been going on now.
Speaker 5 (01:13:54):
It is a clear rare Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino.
Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
His career is headed to No.
Speaker 16 (01:14:01):
It's not clear even to White House officials Anderson who
were texting each other and texting me this morning asking
you know whether or not they had figured out if
he had shown up to work today, because it was
still an open question in Washington this morning if he
was going to be back at the FBI today, And
of course he did eventually show up. We were told
he had spent the weekend in Florida after not going
(01:14:21):
there on Friday. But when it comes to what you
just mentioned there about the relationship being untenable with the
White House, he is staying in the job for right now.
He is still the deputy director of the FBI right now,
and he hasn't resigned or been fired. But the relationship
has deteriorated so much that there are officials inside the
White House who have not spoken to Dan Bungino in days,
(01:14:42):
even though of course the question of whether or not
he was still going to be employed by the federal
government was still a big one for officials over the weekend,
and I was told the President was very angry with
Dan Bungino and also a the FBI director cash hotel
to a degree, which is why you saw Patel put
out that statement over the weekend saying he had no
plans to resign and was going to work for Trump
as long as he as he would have him. Obviously,
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right now they're trying to basically just get their arms
around the story and control it and stop the fallout
from continuing, as it's only continued to grow and their
base has only gotten angrier about not getting answers to
the questions that they were told they were going to
get answers to. And so, yes, Dan Bongino based day
in the job for right now, we have no indication
that he's left, but there's a real question of the
future of that relationship, especially given the ultimatum he made
(01:15:27):
over the Attorney General Pam Bondi after she confronted him,
and also just the fact that he's not speaking to
a lot of people, whether that's in the White House
or Evan pres was told earlier he had not spoken
to anyone at Justice Sartment leadership since last Wednesday, And
obviously that is a key relationship for the Deputy FI
Director to have and one that has just really deteriorated
at this point.
Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Thank you. Yeah, So Dan Pongina is still on the job,
but things are a little shaky, and President Trump is
going after his supporters who have criticized the handling of
the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Trump, asked about the late sex
track for her in the Oval Office today, said he
was surprised that some quote stupid Republicans got duped and
(01:16:06):
followed the Democratic playbook of going after him with false stories.
The President again standing by Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying
she only released what she thought was credible from the
Epstein files. President Trump denying reports that he is close
to firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. In the Oval Office,
Trump was asked about reports that he communicated with Republicans
(01:16:28):
about removing the Fed chair. The President confirmed the reports,
but said it's highly unlikely that he'll fire Powell. Then
he went on to criticize Powell's job performance. A bill
aimed at cracking down on fentanyl will be signed by
President Trump today. The Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl
Act was recently passed by Congress. It will classify all
(01:16:51):
fentanyl related substances as Schedule ion drugs under the Controlled
Substances Act. The Department of Homeland Security is resum dooming
Third Country Deportation slights DHS, sending five immigrant detainees from Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica, Cuba,
and Yemen to the very small nation of Aswatini. The
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landlocked country is located between South Africa and Mozambique. It
occupies an area slightly smaller than New Jersey and While
it's not clear if the men are in law enforcement
custody in Aswatini, according to local to social media posts
from the DHS spokesperson, the men all have criminal backgrounds
ranging from murder to sexual assault. Apparently now they're Aswatini's problem.
Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Oh my god, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
As Wati. Have you ever heard of that country before?
Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
I don't. It's fantastic. I don't. I'm not familiar with it.
I have to say, I've not seen any brochures on it.
Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
Maybe, uh, Albert can find it on the on the
mart show a map, but I do not.
Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Apparently there's a chance if you get deported you're headed
straight to Eswatini.
Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
I mean, yeah, it is crazy that this said that,
these aggressive deportations. Now, these guys are violent criminals. I
guess they've been adjudicated as such. But here is Albert
showing us where Eswatini is. You can find it there
sort of toward the tip of Africa, the huge conton
and as Kim was mentioning, you said it was between
Mozambique and South Africa Africa. Yeah, yeah, Well I'm I'm
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sure it's lovely this time of year, but I don't
think you necessarily want to be transported if you're one
of those guys.
Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Now to speaking of immigration, two thousand California National Guard
troops deployed to Los Angeles not last month, are now
being pulled back, the Pentagon announcing the move yesterday, with
Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell stating, the lawlessness in Los
Angeles is subsiding you feel better over there.
Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Oh, it's so, It's so. The lawlessness was always something
I just really did. The lawlessness that exists in Los Angeles,
the National Guard is not going to help you through.
You know, we have you know, the crazy homeless nut
jobs that exist in San Francisco, in Chicago, in New York,
in Dallas, in Denver, in Sacramento. So National Guard ain't
(01:19:25):
in that business. So they still have two thousand National
guardsmen here, as you said, so they're not all gone.
Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
At Alita Grihalva is projected to win the Democratic primary
in Arizona's blue seventh Congressional district. That according to Decision
Desk HQ, which also projects that Daniel Birez will win
the Republican primary. Grihalva hoping to succeed her father, late
Representative Raoul Grihalva, who's passing earlier this year, prompted a
(01:19:53):
special election to fill his seat. Real estate investors from
China are the largest group of foreign buyers of residential
property in the United States. According to the National Association
Association of Realtors, Chinese clients purchased nearly fourteen billion dollars
worth of homes in the United States between April of
twenty twenty four and March of this year. That is
(01:20:16):
an eighty three percent jump from the previous year, and
California tops the list of states with thirty six percent
of all residential transactions completed by Chinese nationals, more than
any other foreign group.
Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
That's wild, isn't it. That's really it is.
Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
San Francisco's efforts to get the unhoused into living situations
and off the streets continues. Board of Supervisors yesterday approving
a plan that would make it illegal to park our
vs and other large vehicles on city streets for more
than two hours. That's it, not twenty four hours too.
The new rule also sets up a permit system where
people could continue to live in their RVs, but only
(01:20:57):
in certain areas and only for a up to six
months while they continue to look for housing. Supporters say
the step will get rid of r V blyight in
neighborhoods around San Francisco. Opponents say it's just going to
push more homeless people onto the streets. President Trump, speaking
of mortgages, President Trump is accusing Senator Adam Schiff of
mortgage fraud. Yesterday, Trump claimed Shiff is lying about his
(01:21:21):
primary residence in a truth Social post who he really
got into it? On True Social Yesterday, Trump says Shiff
is a scam artist who received a mortgage for a
home in Maryland more than fifteen years ago. He says
Shiff declared that home as primary residents while actually living
in Burbank. He claims Shiff did this to get better
(01:21:41):
rates and terms from the mortgage company. A Democratic lawmaker
and former Burbank congressman strongly denying these allegations, calling it
a baseless political attack. Los Angeles County paying more than
fourteen or not more than exactly fourteen million dollars to
a man who was wrongfully convicted of the Los Angeles
(01:22:01):
County Board of Supervisors awarding the money to Alexander Torres
settling a federal civil lawsuit. Torres spent more than twenty
years in prison for a murder that he did not commit.
A judge found he was factually innocent in April of
twenty twenty two, allowing him to go free. Households across
California could lose their landline phone services. A new bill
(01:22:24):
will allow AT and T to stop providing traditional landline
phone service and let AT and T stop maintaining those
old copper lines. Fans got to see their first swing
off in the MLB All Star Game last night. I'd
never heard of a swing off. The swing off tiebreaker
rule implemented in twenty twenty two as a means of
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avoiding drawn out ties and to add some excitement to
the annual game. When the game was tied at nine innings,
each side picked three players to take part in a
home run derby style. Swing Off's Kyle Schwerber named the
All Star Game MVP for clubbing three homers to lead
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the National League win. And lastly, this is a creepy
story sent to me by Albert last night. A renowned
paranormal investigator died in Pennsylvania over the weekend while traveling
with a so called haunted doll. What Dan Rivera was
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found dead at his hotel Sunday night after hosting multiple
sellout events during his three day stop in Gettysburg. At
the time of his death, Rivera was on tour with Annabelle,
the infamous doll from the Conjuring movie franchises. Rivera was
fifty four years old.
Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
That's not fake.
Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
He died on what happened? Yeah, there's Albert.
Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
Do you have any creepy he thoughts about this is
this is a guy who's the paranor is part of
what he does.
Speaker 17 (01:24:02):
Right, Yeah, I'm tuning in on this one. We just
talked about baseball the last story. But no, it was
very It was very coincidental that he's I don't know
if I'd be traveling with the doll, but he is
very nefaarious. I don't know what happened. This is like
a classic. We can't wait to find out the details.
Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
I wonder if this uh is going to overtake the
Epstein scandal and uh, you know, Maga demanding to know
the truth about what's happened with this untimely death and
its apparent proximity to this haunted doll. It's between this
and the there she is.
Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Like they keep her in a little box with a
cross on the top. There's a sign warning positively do not.
He was traveling around with this doll and now he's dead.
Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
It's just a I don't know what the I don't
know what the answer is here. I mean I have
to say it's it's eerie. Isn't it really eerie? Albert?
Can you stay on this one?
Speaker 3 (01:25:07):
I mean we could try ignoring it, sir, super creepy
on that one.
Speaker 17 (01:25:13):
And he didn't find his uh you know.
Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
No, there is the.
Speaker 5 (01:25:22):
Do not.
Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
Yeah. By the way, as long as you as long
as we have Albert here, I want to ask you
on this All Star game last night, they did something
I really liked, Albert. Can you guess what that is?
The robops? That's correct. They it wasn't quite robo amps, right,
there was, but they it's they they're setting the table
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for robo amps.
Speaker 17 (01:25:45):
Yeah, they had they had the system in place. I
did like the the Homer Off, but I did think
that it was weird that since there's so many All Stars,
and once you in baseball, once you get removed from
the game, you're completely removed removed from the game. I
would have liked to see the best hitters from both
sides hit in the in the homer Off. It was
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missing show Hey O Taani, it was missing Aaron Judge,
it was it could have been. Just like in baseball,
I feel like they're so close to doing it correctly
and then they just kind of get in their own way.
And I think with nothing else going on, having your
top stars hitting all those homers would have been great,
but we just had some. I guess you're learning some
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more new players, but I think everybody aren't tuning in
to those players.
Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Well. I just like the fact that if you had
a question about a ball or a strike, you could
challenge it. They then went to the video and they
actually wrung up a batter when I was watching based
on a challenge, Umpire blew the call. I think they
should go robo umps, as Albert has mentioned. Albert obviously
as the commissioner of sports on this show, he has
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some other changes he'd like to see in the All
Star Games. I'm sure that'll all be in his end
of month report, but it is a it's an exciting
period in baseball that they're finally maybe embracing some technology.
Speaker 17 (01:27:04):
Yeah, I like to see the Like we'll never agree
on this one, but I want to see the I
love people complaining about balls and strikes. It could happen
to me too, So yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
I Becky e agrees with me. They do it in
Triple A baseball exactly. That's where they've kind of rote
tested it, Albert. The last thing I just want to mention, commission.
Did you see how Donald Trump in the White House
they have purloined which is a ding word. They have
taken that to FIFA Cup trophy. Did you see it's
now in the White House.
Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
I did see that.
Speaker 17 (01:27:36):
There's a lot of things sports related in the White House.
We have that trophy. They're trying to announce a UFC
at the White House, I believe. So I guess Trump
is still trying to hone in on those the NLK
boys eighteen to thirty four demographic.
Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
I feel like he claims Trump does that he was
gifted the trophy, so Apparently he is saying, hey, you
guys gave it to me and it's not coming back anyway.
Nice job.
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but they have instructions on how to do it all too.
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Richard Cousin Eerie says Epstein was a big deal to
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his victims. Trump can't see any sexual victim of any
age as a person. That's a definition of a sociopath.
He's mentally ill, says cousin Eerie. I think it's true.
The victims are lost in all of this. By the way,
the documentary film on on Epstein is pretty powerful. I've
mentioned it to you before and it's streamable, so you
should check it out. Joan Hollywood says he needs his
(01:34:29):
base because the base supports Republicans in Congress. Yeah, he does,
but the base is asking some serious questions, so we'll
have to see anything else. Richard Delemator again, everything they
say is cruel and rude. The rich get richer and
the poor gets screwed. Kashmir is more than a sweater.
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Debbie says, Dan Bongino was off having a temper tantrum. Yeah,
he's a kind of mia at the moment. Interesting, Debbie says,
the Idaho Falls truckers have ended their ties with the
homer Off and people love it. So they end their
tie games the same way that Major League Baseball ended.
(01:35:15):
And she's saying it's a big hit in Idaho.
Speaker 15 (01:35:20):
It's a lot of.
Speaker 17 (01:35:20):
Cool, interesting ideas. I know there's also an also game
in Korea. I believe they have a bunt off. Oh
that's in the game, but instead of like a home
run derby, they have precision bunting, which is really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
That is is a really cool idea. Yeah, anything else
I need to Murphy says, I'd wrap the hell out
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were stealing. Francine Smith says jd Vance and the ad
I'm betting she's gonna she means ag are going to
prison for stealing front and maybe not Martin.
Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
We haven't. We haven't really talked a lot about want to.
Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
Do that right now? Yeah, exactly so. Anyway, but Francine
is talking about is the fact that they successfully Senate
Republicans did advanced a bill to claw back if you
want to think of it, nine billion in spending that
was already approved. Okay, so this is a money that
(01:36:35):
was going into foreign aid programs, going into public television
and pr and Senate Republicans last night advanced this request
to cancel nine billion in this approved spending. They call
it recision. So these recissions were designed to help impoverish
(01:36:58):
people worldwide. And also again, as I say, fun public
radio and television, and particularly important is NPR and PBS
in a lot of these rural areas not served by
a lot of other media. You may view it as
unnecessary because you're saying they're streamers, but I think NPR
(01:37:21):
and PBS actually serve very important purposes because there is
a quality of not being profit driven, and for that reason,
you get a lot of homegrown shows out of the
PBS world. I mean, I'm thinking of, you know, historically
Sesame Street Electric Company, these kinds of kid shows, Door
(01:37:43):
the Explorer, all of that stuff started in that world.
Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
And already in the San Francisco Bay Area, the public
broadcasting station is KQED, and already yesterday they said based
on that they are reducing their work forced by fifteen
percent because of the lack of funding.
Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Yeah, so, I mean there are closures related to this
anticipated lack of funding. It's been threatened for many years,
but it looks like it's actually going to happen, and jd.
Vance broke that tie. It was the procedural vote allowing
the measure now to go to the House, and there'll
be another vote before it goes to the President's desk
(01:38:25):
for his signature before a Friday deadline, and they will
claw back that nine billion dollars. That is the plan,
all right, but thank you for mentioning it, because it
is a well, you can put it on the pile
of things that are offensive that this administration is doing.
(01:38:48):
I feel the clawing back of that nine billion, especially
when you're running up the kind of tabs they are
for everything from ice to the Pentagon. This bloated deficit
now with this super charged tax cut and deficit forecast
that over the next decade is just staggering. It's hard
(01:39:09):
to imagine that they would spend time crawing back nine
billion dollars designated for impoverished nations and for public broadcasting.
But that's where we are. So Mark Thompson Show, I
just see that she has arrived, so we will do
it on Wednesdays. We like to take a look at
(01:39:31):
what's happening on the planet around the globe, in the environment,
the embattled, imperiled environment. This is it's the planet stupid,
the planet Earth.
Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
Some call me nature.
Speaker 15 (01:39:45):
I am very passionate about the planet Earth, a.
Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
Living, breathing planet capable of sustaining whatever life forms we
see fit to deposit on it.
Speaker 14 (01:39:54):
Spot.
Speaker 7 (01:39:54):
Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe
we have her on.
Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
It's the planet stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:40:00):
Now, it's the planet stupid.
Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
Our guide for it's the planet stupid. Eco journalist Belinda
Weymouth back from Hiatus Hi.
Speaker 15 (01:40:10):
Hi, everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
How are you you are traveling?
Speaker 15 (01:40:13):
Yes?
Speaker 18 (01:40:13):
Yes, to some fantastic, unbelievable places.
Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
Tell me she's quite echoy today, is Belinda? Huh uh?
Maybe you can sneak. You have to get you a
microphone or something that's a little bit.
Speaker 15 (01:40:26):
I have my microphone on. I'm not sure why.
Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
I think you have to have it selected in your
little audio you know selection thing you have to that
is to say on your computer you have to go to.
I don't know what kind of computer you're running.
Speaker 17 (01:40:40):
I don't think it sounds too bad, Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:40:42):
Oh it doesn't. Okay, No, it's not worth bogging the
show down further talking about it is what you're saying
in a sense.
Speaker 17 (01:40:48):
Yes, I'll just watch the levels.
Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
So I just turned something you just like touch the
microphone a second ago. It would be great anyway, all right,
but any caay, So where were you? Where were you traveling?
Speaker 18 (01:40:59):
Well, we to Turkey first, and Turkey is unbelievable, And
I've sent a couple of photos because i want to
show you this one site we went to. You and
I have a mutual friend, j Johansson. He's really into
ancient sites, and so we had to go see gobec
Le Tepe. It's in the southeastern part of Turkey. It's
(01:41:23):
about one hundred miles north of the Syrian border, which
felt a little like, oh.
Speaker 15 (01:41:29):
Yeah, it's really crazy. So this place, this is.
Speaker 18 (01:41:33):
What it looks like recreated in a museum. But here's
what's really super super important and really interesting. If we
have any archaeology, anthropology sort of civilization nerds on the show,
this one is for you. So Qebeca Tepe is a
temple and it's eleven and a half thousand years old,
so so far, this is the oldest temple that we
(01:41:55):
have found in the world, and it really turned our
whole paradigm of what we've thought about civilization and human
beings on its head, because what the consensus was among
archaeologists and anthropologists was that it was our technological advancements
that once we had to get us settled and we
(01:42:17):
had to domesticate crops and animals, and we had to
be farmers before we could open up our artistic and
spiritual impulses and give them free rate. But what go
back to TECHNI shows us is this was hunter gatherers
who eleven and a half.
Speaker 15 (01:42:33):
Thousand years ago.
Speaker 18 (01:42:34):
It was their spiritual and their artistic impulses. They built
this temple, they worshiped their pagan religion here. They met
it several times over the years to do this. It
lasted for about two hundred years. But what this.
Speaker 15 (01:42:50):
Meant was that so first of all we.
Speaker 18 (01:42:52):
Were artistic and spiritual beings and then we became technological
beings because we had built the site, and how did
we protected how did we stay there? When what we
actually did was, you know, follow migrating animal herds. We
went to places where plants were maturing and we ate
those This hunt togethers Now we needed to feed ourselves
(01:43:15):
in one spot. So actually it was this spiritual and
artistic expression that's Jake and I there. I actually thought
that Jake would cry when we got to the actual
site is.
Speaker 15 (01:43:29):
Oh, he just yeah, he loves this stuff.
Speaker 18 (01:43:31):
And so you can see it's got this big top
on top of it to protect it from the elements.
It's really hard to do that because there are still
birds in there, and the birds are pooping on these,
you know, these stones that have been excavated. You'll see
there are big totems down there. The totems are amazing.
They're twenty feet high. And you know this is people
without any kind of machinery, you know, getting these huge
(01:43:53):
stones upright. What archaeological evidence shows is about five hundred
people would meet there. That's the main and all that
you can see down in the middle, and then there
are all sorts of you know, there are statues in there,
there are beautiful relief carvings. There are ducks and animals
on all of them. They had yeah, there are the duckies.
(01:44:14):
They had water systems so they could get water in there,
and it's it's just amazing. I mean, Turkey is full
of places like this. You know, you hear of the
ancient city of Troy and you think, well that's just
a myth. Well, no, Troy is an actual place that
you can go to. And we went to Ephesus, which
is the oldest Roman city in tat Roman city in
(01:44:36):
the world.
Speaker 15 (01:44:37):
We walked on a cobbled street.
Speaker 18 (01:44:38):
That Cleopatra and Mark Anthony walked on, you know, I mean,
so it was sort of every day what blowing our mins.
Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
Wow, So let me get back to sort of what
this says about human development. What the significance of this is.
You're saying, prior to the discovery and the analysis of this,
our notions about how far religion went back, or when
(01:45:09):
religion was founded, like the polytheistic religions went and became
you know, a singular god and the paganism which is
sort of reflected here, isn't it. I mean absently this
agriculture and you know environment, that's where you're talking to
the ducks and all the animals that are represented there.
(01:45:31):
How they informed more of what was worship. This kind
of redefines that timeline. Is that what you were saying, Yeah.
Speaker 18 (01:45:39):
Because this was so it was found in the nineteen
nineties and up until the nineteen nineties, what the belief
was it was that we got sedentary. We moved from
being hunt together as to being sedentary to growing crops,
and that technological sort of advancement was what then gave
us time free time to have artistic and spiritual expressions
(01:46:02):
and sort of lives. That we needed to be sedentary
to have this, uh a food source that was constant,
that was you know, just outside the back door, and
then we were able to become these incredible sort of
artistic and then you know, spiritual beings. And what Gobeca
Tepe is showing us is no, we were actually doing
this as hunter gatherers. We did this, and so what
(01:46:24):
actually happened first was that we were spiritual and artistic
beings before we were technological beings, and it was that
that then it was our artistic and spiritual lives that
made it necessary to become more technological and grow crops
so that we could protect a site like Gobeca Tepee,
that we could stay there and not have to be
(01:46:46):
out in the world following the migrating animals or you know,
different plants as they became ripe in different areas.
Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
So this is fascinating. Yeah, you're saying that, I'm repeating
just so that I understand. Yeah, no, no, no, So
it's the nomadic nature of human development was really informed
by where the food was or where they could set
up safely in some place. And you're saying that a
(01:47:15):
lot of what is discovered here is that the relationship
between humans and some sense of the world around them
or the spirit around them that produced the world, made
them want to set up a society. Really, is what
you're talking about. That that allowed them the protections and
(01:47:39):
the food stuffs and the sustenance that is associated with
an ancient society.
Speaker 5 (01:47:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (01:47:45):
Yeah, And what they what they think is is that,
you know, we were driven more by this artistic spiritual nature.
And what happened was you create a place like gobec
le Tepe, well, you are going to need to stay
there if you want to protect it.
Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
The artistic first is.
Speaker 18 (01:48:05):
Yeah, yeah, So it's the artistic, it's not it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
That they're they're not following, So that's the that's wrong.
What I was saying that the yah.
Speaker 18 (01:48:14):
It's the it's the spiritual and the artistic expression that
then forced us to get more technical, whereas what we
always and to grow crops so we could be sedentary,
so we could domesticate plants and animals and be in
this one place. And what the archaeological and sort of
anthropological paradigm had been up until the discovery. The reason
(01:48:35):
why go back Letepe is so important was it what
they believed was that first and foremost where technological beings,
that it was our technological no how and now the
way that we were able to innovate and plant crops
and then be in one place, that that enabled us
then to go, oh, you know, we want to be
uh you know, we want to build a temple and
(01:48:55):
be religious, and we have this idea of this, you know,
all these different you know odds that it's really the
chicken or the egg kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
Well, which God was the real gud Blinda did.
Speaker 15 (01:49:08):
Yeah we did.
Speaker 18 (01:49:09):
Yeah, we didn't go there weren't any archaeological There wasn't
any archaeological evidence.
Speaker 15 (01:49:14):
Telling us you know who we really should Yeah, yeah
it is.
Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
It is what a fun and fascinating trip. So Jake
Joe Hanson is well steeped in this history and was
aware of this, and so for him this was like
the Monolith in two thousand and one Space Artists here
or something heard all the chorus of discovery.
Speaker 18 (01:49:38):
Yeah, yeah, No, he's really into this stuff. He loves it.
It's really super fascinating to him, and so we had
already thought about Turkey, but but he really wanted to
go there, particularly to go seek a beecka Tepe. And
we had this wonderful guide who was an archaeologist who
was able to you know, sort of explain things and
(01:50:00):
take us to other sites that are also of the
same era. There's another one on another mountain, pepe Is Mountain,
and we went to this place, karan Hahn, Pepe as well,
where they're starting to excavate and there are also temples
in that mountain that are eleven and a half thousand
years old. I mean, you know, you're near the Crescent,
(01:50:21):
you know, the Triangle, the you know, the Mesopotamia. I
mean you're sort of right there where everything, you know,
civilization was happening and where agriculture started. So it really
feels like the birthplace of so many things. That's the
thing also that you know, really blows your mind about it.
Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
Well, welcome back to the prominent European informed experience of America.
Speaker 15 (01:50:47):
Yeah, we know.
Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
Best it might have started over there in Mesopotamia or
whatever country you're talking about or place you're talking about
Middle East, but we then refined it, and we've decided
here that among the refinements we're making under the new
administration is we don't need science climate science, technology, weather technology,
(01:51:12):
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. I don't need to know how
warm it's getting. I don't need to know that the
hurricane is coming. I don't need to know all of
this stuff. Those people and scientists shown the door. The
latest climate science report has been erased, deleted, will not
be released to the public on the orders of the
(01:51:35):
President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (01:51:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (01:51:38):
Insane, completely insane. I mean we had this, you know, Noah,
you know, the Northern Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was just
about to release that. It's called ATLOS fifteen, and it
was going to be this incredibly there are two volumes
of it, and it gives this really really detailed information
about floods and flood risk, and it's going to be
(01:52:00):
so important. I mean, look what we just saw happened
in New Jersey and New York on Monday night. Look
what just happened in Texas. I mean, these terrible floods,
all these lives lost, and the ability to predict those to.
Speaker 15 (01:52:10):
Get you know, to prepare for them. That's going out
the window.
Speaker 18 (01:52:15):
And you know, we have organizations that you know, could
be giving us all this you know, important important, uh,
you know, predictive information, and it's not going to be coming.
It's it's it feels criminal, really.
Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
What happens now As a practical matter, where do farmers look?
Where do I think I have the answer? But which
is of course, what the endgame is in all of
these situations. There are two things going on here. I'd suggest,
I guess I'll just provide this and you can tell
me whether I'm right or wrong. But it seems to
me that there is a political agenda. There is a
(01:52:51):
you know, the woke democratic They're into science, they're into
this climate technology. They get through a lot of stuff
like alternative energy and things that we don't want to
throw money behind, and we actually want to disincentivize it.
We're going to tax it, and we're going to provide
incentives for fossil fuel technologies, coal burning. I mean, it
seems backward, but that is part of it, okay. And
(01:53:13):
then the other part of it is that I think
they just want to move away from anything that's government
funded toward things that are private industry funded. So if
you want the weather forecast, you want the severe weather
technologies that can help you make a plan, you can
(01:53:35):
still have them, but you'll have to pay for them
from private industry. It's an attempt to privatize everything.
Speaker 18 (01:53:44):
Yes, I think you're right on that. I think yes,
it's a way to privatize it. It's a way to
cut down government spending, to give tax breaks to people
who you want to give them to, but not to
take care of your everyday citizens. So you're not taking
care of your farmers, you're not taking care of you know, American.
Speaker 15 (01:54:02):
The people who voted you into office.
Speaker 18 (01:54:04):
I mean, you know, as elected officials, your job is
supposed to be to take care of your constituents. But
they are sort of washing their hands of that. I
mean the story that you sent me, Kim about the
pesticide you know, and what's happened with the pesticides, and
when you really delve into you know, the EPA and
our laws against pesticides, they're super weak. You know there
(01:54:26):
they're in the hands of industry. But what that does
is it puts Americans in danger. It puts us in
danger from climate fuel because these these storms and these
floods are climate fueled. You know, they would not be
as bad. The atmosphere would not hold as much water,
and you wouldn't have these deluges like you do unless
the atmosphere was as warm as it is. Because, as
(01:54:47):
we've talked about the show before, warm air holds more moisture.
That's why there's you know, I mean, people were surprised
by what happened in New York and New Jersey and
you know, in Texas and these others that have flooded,
but it's you know, one plus one equals too.
Speaker 2 (01:55:03):
So I just want to just round out what you
were talking about. Blinda's referring to a huge story that
suggests that the illegal use of toxic pesticides is something
that is running a muck with illegal pot farming.
Speaker 18 (01:55:21):
I think, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So there are two stories.
There are two stories. Let me just talk about that
because one is really important, and this is about actual
regulations and how weak we are in regulating pesticides. So
we're using pesticides, we're using something on crops here that
pesticides that are banned not only in the UK and
the EU, but also in China. So glyphosate was this
(01:55:43):
big thing that everyone was going nuts about that was
part of Roundup, And finally, finally, after years of saying, hey,
this is bad for us, this is bad for us,
it got replaced and on the shelves. You know, last
year round Up went back onto the shelves with this
stuff in it called day quot. I call it daiko,
might be pronunced it incorrectly. So it's replaced it. But
dyke what they call it. It's it's called a regrettable
(01:56:07):
substitution when you substitute one baddy for another baddie. But
dyke what is not just as bad as guy pollos say.
It's some people say two hundred times worse. I mean
it's linked to organ failure, to killing of gut bacteria.
I mean, some studies link it to Parkinson's. It's a castinogen,
it's a neurotoxin. It's so bad. Also banned in China,
(01:56:31):
the EU and the UK, and the EPA here has
these very the pesticide laws.
Speaker 15 (01:56:38):
They're just weak.
Speaker 18 (01:56:39):
Like in twenty twenty two they banned claw pirafus now
for pirafuse super super bad. Also banned in these other countries.
It took years to get that one, you know on
the legal books that got banned. Well, it got taken
to court, the industry sued and the EPA back down
and it's back on the market. And what they they
(01:57:00):
say with dy quot, which is you know, so bad
and now it's you know, it's being used on vineyards
and orchards, but it's about to be rolled out to
more crops, is that the advocates who are fighting these
bad pesticides, they're so busy with this sort of you know,
kind of list of other ones they haven't ever gotten to.
Speaker 15 (01:57:17):
Dye what yet.
Speaker 18 (01:57:17):
But but the EBA almost have this attitude like, you know,
these toxic pesticides are necessary evil, but not when they're
linked to all these health problems. I mean, this is
you know, this is crazy. And the fact that all
these other Western countries and then China as well aren't
using them, I mean, why would we be using them?
Speaker 15 (01:57:39):
You know, we're only using.
Speaker 18 (01:57:40):
Them because we don't have strong enough laws against toxic pesticides.
Speaker 15 (01:57:44):
And that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
And that's to me, that's the capture. You know, it's
regulatory capture, right, you have those industries being regulated, they
capture the government agencies that's supposed to regulate them, when
you end up with die quad and things like that
and toxins like that. So but I mean, you know,
this is another thing. I think the illegal pot farms,
(01:58:11):
they're associated with a lot of stuff like the use
of water on a level that's just criminal, the use
of resources generally and there and so when you uh
have these toxic pesticides, in a sense, they fall onto
this mountain of stuff that's already going on illegally with
these pot farms. And I mean pot's just such a
(01:58:33):
powerfully cash crop winner that you end up with. I mean,
it's really Mobville up there. I mean in California in
the illegal potforms. I mean it is dangerous even for
the FEDS to go close them down.
Speaker 18 (01:58:50):
Yeah, you know they're saying, you know, this is an
international organized crime network situation. You know, not only are
you dealing with, you know, environmental destruction.
Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
You know.
Speaker 18 (01:58:59):
The sheriff and I think I'm saying it correctly siski
U County where they say there's just this toxic, poisonous smoke.
And I'll just describe to our listeners what happens. So
they take an aluminum can and they take something that's
like sawdust, and they stuff it in these cans and
then they fill it. They drench it with all these insecticides, fungicides,
(01:59:22):
i mean, herbicides, really toxic, nasty stuff. They then light
these things on fire and they put them in these
enclosed cannabis growing structures. So you've got this awful I mean,
just conglomeration of this toxic poison. I mean, I can't
imagine what it's like for the workers there. But Siskiu County,
(01:59:42):
so it's in the Shasta Cascade region. It's where tourists go.
Forty six thousand people live in this county. The supervisors
there are calling on you know, Governor Newsom, you know,
please help us.
Speaker 15 (01:59:55):
This is, you know, really awful.
Speaker 18 (01:59:58):
Residents can see this toxic, thick, poisonous smoke coming out
of these growing structures. It's really dangerous, you know, as
you're saying, if the FEDS, even you know, are brave
enough to go up there, you know, you've so you've.
Speaker 15 (02:00:10):
Got law enforcement, but then you've got.
Speaker 18 (02:00:13):
First responders and firefighters. I mean, firefighters are already on
the front lines in our state and in Oregon. This
is just below the Oregon border with fires that are happening.
We already know that all the flame retardant we put
on stuff is making you know, firefighting a huge health.
Speaker 15 (02:00:29):
Risks to first responders.
Speaker 18 (02:00:31):
But now if there's a fire up there and you've
got all these you know these awful herbicide and sex
side fungicide, you know sort of basically it's a you know,
it's a toxic you know, fire bomb that they're fire
bombs that they're using. You're making it dangerous for them.
But the sheriff is saying, look, you know we've got
you know this, uh, you know, these transnational crime networks.
(02:00:53):
We've got environmental destruction, we've got human trafficking. The people
who are working there. You know, this is a man
this is not good.
Speaker 2 (02:01:01):
Right.
Speaker 18 (02:01:01):
Added to what we've got, the EPA amowing to happen,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the in the best of times,
you have you know, complicity on the part of the
the EPA with for a lot of these toxic agents.
S Grenache is saying, I used to do field work
for Humboldt County. So many of the gross sites we
came across were more like the little super fun sites.
Over use of sprays baits fertilizer, all to protect weed crops.
(02:01:27):
Be aware, says the guy that invented roundup said he'd
drink a glass of it. It's harmless. Then someone gave
him a glass and he refused to drink it.
Speaker 18 (02:01:36):
Yeah, yeah, no, you know what, of course he didn't
drink it.
Speaker 11 (02:01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:01:42):
I don't know. Look, it's a real contemporary concern, and
as you say, it affects a tourism and affects a
lot of other aspects of life up there. And I
don't know that the government has the the will or
the power really to go up as you say, against
these cartels that are in control of I mean, they
(02:02:02):
talk about how tough they are and how they want
to root out violent criminals, and that's all part of
you know, their immigration plan, but they don't actually go
after the real illegal growing that's going on in northern
parts of California.
Speaker 18 (02:02:19):
Well, I have to say this, this show of force,
this sort of ridiculous, ridiculous spectacle that we've had at
MacArthur Park and down here at Los Angeles, send them
up there. I mean, really, you've got them down here
pulling people off, you know, out of gardens where they're
working people who have you know, papers and children and
their life here. I mean, yeah, go after the real
(02:02:39):
criminals like you're saying. I mean, if you want a
big show of force, it's just it's sort of just,
you know, much of posturing down here. But they could
actually do something that would be worthwhile.
Speaker 2 (02:02:48):
That was exactly what I'm saying. So you can find
Belinda Weymouth across social media. Belinda Weymouth w A Y
M O U T H. Welcome back, best to Jake.
Glad you guys had a great trip, and thanks for
the education. I didn't know. I didn't know anything about
that that special spot in Turkey. Yeah, yeah, I look
(02:03:10):
forward to to maybe someday making a visit as well.
All right, Slinda waymath, thank you, Blinda. That's it's the
planet stupid for today. More it's the planet stupid. No, no, no,
it's the planet stupid next time only on a Mark
Thompson show. I see this Jimmy and says petrochemical lobulus
(02:03:34):
want organic farms stopped. That's interesting. I didn't even think
about the push against organic farms. You know. There it
makes sense, is a push against them, but it's already
(02:03:54):
very expensive and heard to run an organic farm. You
know how it works. I mean, in order to get certification,
you have to not only not use pesticides, but you
have to have the ground certified such that you're like,
you can't just on this crop, we're not going to
use any pesticides and therefore it's organic. No, it has
to go through a certain period during which no pesticides
(02:04:14):
were used, et cetera. It's a it's a. It's really
it's really tricky. But thank you, Belinda, says Tammy. Uh yeah,
thank you. Indeed, I'm uh take care of Belinda. Awesome
as always, These are the cobbuts come again live. We
are live, everybody, And here's another live kabbot. Mark the
(02:04:36):
way Belinda annunciates aluminium should make it a ding word.
I agree, let's ding ding ding. Are you many a?
Are you many a? Are you many of amen? I
studied English at Trump University, says Jim Eaton. I said,
because that was what say? Yeah, it was, uh miss punch.
(02:04:58):
Roundup is in the core carnals corn oil in every product,
and isn't that what's great about roundup? Yep? It's in
your system. Kids. Beat it to your family and let
the cancer growing begin. Citizen Morgan says, they're killing our planet.
That's me commenting on the MAGA crazies. She says, I mean,
(02:05:21):
it's hard enough before MAGA got in charge of the world.
It was hard enough with an EPA, as we've talked
about before, talked about it during the Biden administration. It
was it was regulatory capture. There are just too many
big interests AG, big AG, these pesticide interests. Therese are
chemical companies. They have tremendous control of, tremendous lobby leverage
(02:05:44):
in Washington. It was just too hard to push back
against them completely. That's why the Roundup trial was so important.
These legal judgments against them are so important, and so
now you're right on some level, you don't even have
a party in power that has a disposition that's sympathetic
to the environment. You have a party in power that
(02:06:06):
wants to erase any mention of the environment. They want
to supercharge coal plants and the dirtiest fuel on Earth.
They want to get rid of, erase, disincentivize any alternative energy,
clean energy. You can tell me about nukes. Nukes will
get you know, nuclear power fifteen years minimum to get
(02:06:27):
them online. We could do the smaller ones quicker. Great.
Do you want regulation of any kind with those smaller ones,
because if you do, this is the wrong crew. Well,
you want some kind of regulation, I mean, because if
there is a release of that radioactive material, it could
kill a lot of people and could create a health
hazard for the rest of time. I mean health hazard
(02:06:50):
is a polite way to put it. Releasing all these
carcinogens into the environment. That these will give you cancer
like in an hour. So you'd want some regulation on
those small a nuclear reactors. You've seen them that you
talked about. You've seen them talked about here in the chat,
and so that would be quote clean energy. But all
of a sudden, you're now building those reactors without regard
(02:07:12):
to any kind of regulation because regulation is bad, right, Yeah,
Let business just decide they're great corporate citizens. So you
end up, really, I think, flirting with danger, societal danger
as a result of ignoring these environmental toxins and ignoring
(02:07:33):
these changes in the global climate that we know are coming.
It's just a really sad situation right now and bleak
situation when you look at the short and medium term future,
which we can control the long term future. We may
have very little control of. So why did I quit
(02:07:53):
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Speaker 3 (02:08:17):
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And then I saw the brilliant suggestion to make them
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Speaker 2 (02:08:55):
It's the show that's wrapped, not just me.
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It's not like it's almost like a gentle caress just
from you.
Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
It's a I thought you couldn't fire the FED chairman,
says ya Yo Susa. You can't, but you can that's
not true. You can't fire the FED chairman unless you
have what cause. And so if Trump wants to fire
the FED chairman, he can find cause. In this case,
(02:09:25):
it's this redo of the FED building and the cost overruns.
And he can argue in competence, he can argue criminality,
whatever he wants to be, he can argue cause. And
that's how he gets rid of him. So you're right.
I mean, by constitutional mandate or legislative mandate, you can't
(02:09:46):
fire the FED. But he can find his way. Bongino's
reputation is gone. Him returning to public life with the
podcast is only realistic if he leaves now. If he
stays his job, opportunities will be ruined forever. That's from
d Spirit, who I think also was guy who suggested
making the socks limited edition. De Spirit is a very
smart guy. Thank you, Mark, have Texas Paul on. He'll
(02:10:09):
have a good chat with you. I think you'll love him.
That's from Mobius ninety one. Let's try to get it organized.
We'll try to reach out to him. And Murphy said,
I'd wrap the hell out of those socks. I love that. Yeah,
if you do get any of the merch do send
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(02:10:31):
rest of the Mark Thompson Show universe. Tomorrow. Wow, do
we have a lot to talk about with David Katz,
the former federal prosecutor, joins us tomorrow and we'll discuss
everything from Epstein to the constitutionality of changes that Donald
Trump wants to make and the immigration system, the deportation
(02:10:55):
of many of these detainees to third countries. We've seen
it now permitted by Scotus. Also the Supreme Court decision.
There have been several that will affect American life day
to day. I've been pushing all of these too. Davidkatz going,
I want to discuss this. I want to discuss this,
so we'll get to it all tomorrow and more developments
(02:11:19):
in the Epstein trial or case show Stevens for the
Mark Johnson can't really try him. He's dead. Bye Ba.
That is it for us, Kim, thank you, Albert, thank
you Until tomorrow, everyone.
Speaker 14 (02:11:33):
Bye bye.
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