July 29, 2025 • 55 mins
Episode 196, released on July 29, 2025, I discuss two recent horror films: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and A24’s Bring Her Back, highlighting their critical and commercial success, as well as standout performances. The conversation then transitions to current events, including the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein case and the Justice Department's claim that no "client list" exists, alongside speculation about Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal. I also examine Hunter Biden's recent public interviews and the legal ambiguities surrounding the revocation of presidential pardons signed with an autopen, particularly in light of the Fort Knox gold reserve audit controversy. Finally, the episode covers a tragic shooting connected to mental health issues and the historical context of mental institution closures, a local news "oddity" concerning an elderly man's sexual assault attributed to "long COVID," and the cessation of federal funding for PBS and NPR due to alleged political bias.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is the Soapbox Champion podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
She's right, It's Tuesday, July twenty ninth, twenty twenty five.
This is the episode one ninety six of the Soapbox
Champion podcast Coming do You Live Once? Once Live? I
guess from FEMA Region five Just in case. My name
is Craig Delaney. I hope everyone's week was good. Mine
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was all right. Hotter than hades, but all right. Yuh,
right out of the gate here. I watched a couple
movies and both were outstanding. Both happened to be in
the horror genre, and both need to be shared. H
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The first was a very pleasant surprise because.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I probably wouldn't have I would have passed it up.
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The trailer didn't do it for me, I guess, But
that's because the trailer, come to find out, really isn't
able to tell you everything. It's not allowed to show
everything because that's the genre magic, I guess, and that
would be lost if that showed you too much. So
I get it now that I watched it. I'm so
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glad I did, and I can't I can't even tell
you much more than that. I want to talk about
this movie a lot, but I really can't. So why
don't you watch the trailer say.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Hmm, I've been all over this world. I've seen me
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and die ways. I don't even know it as possible.
Lave your brother, be careful. I will with all the
things that I've seen. I ain't ever seen no demons
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nor ghosts you imagine.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Till now they get back inside.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Let me have MAT's some words that're going on out here.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Because you keep dancing with the devil.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
About it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Forgot one day he's gonna follow you home.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Bam Sinners from twenty twenty five earlier this year. It
was a genre defying and defining American film, directed, written,
and produced by Ryan Coogler. Set in nineteen thirty two
in the Mississippi Delta, it blends Southern Gothic supernatural horror,
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a little bit of period drama, and musical elements. The
stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as twin brothers
Smoke and Stack Okay, okay, forget it. When they returned
to their hometown of Clarksdowne, Mississippi to escape their troubled
pasts as bootleggers and former soldiers. When they get back,
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they encounter supernatural evil revealed to be well, I'm not
gonna tell you, but it disrupts their attempt to start
anew by opening a new juke joint. That was their idea,
to open this juke joint on the country in an
old building and try to, you know, start a new life.
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The film explores themes of redemption, black lineage throughout the movie,
American racism. It's not that bad, you guys. It doesn't it,
Sure it does. It depicts it, but it depicts everything
you know. And the music is as cultural and spiritual
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as you know. The supernatural in the film, but notable
focus on the historical connection between the Choctaw nation and
the Irish of all people.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Released in middle.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
April this year, after delay from March seventh due to
post production needs, Centers grossed forty eight million dollars just
in its opening weekend, exceeding projections of thirty to forty
with forty five percent of ticket sales from premium format.
It's like Imax. It's got a ninety eight percent of
rotten tomatoes in an a cinema score. Those scores are
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rare in the horror genre. Guys. Currently Centers the streaming
on HBO Max and that's how I watched it, and
available for purchase or rent you know, everywhere else. It's
rated R strong, bloody violence, some sexual content and language,
running for just over two hours. Yes, Michael B. Jordan
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plays both brothers, and I forgot while watching the movie.
He did such a fantastic job. Uh do they look
the same? Yeah, but Jordan was able to spend their mannerisms,
I guess you'd say, in a way that made them
feel entirely different. And it's not a distraction at all.
It's just a great, great performance. That is just about
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all I can say. I don't want to ruin it.
It's a movie you've seen at that times, but I
bet you've never seen it like this, and I highly
recommend it. And I'll just say this before you write
it off. Jordan playing twins has nothing to do with
anything in the plot other than that's just who they are.
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It's not it's not a twist. It's not part of
a twist. It's not a reveal, it's not it doesn't
define this movie whatsoever. They just happen to be twins,
you know, as characters in the movie. I thought that
was gonna be something. It was absolutely not. So it's
just nothing. So if you think you know what's going
on this movie, probably don't. Sinners Free on HBO Max
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right now. Yeah, I'm free as in you know if
you got Max. The other movie, it's one from A
twenty four Studios. Everything from them is just gold.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I think.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We're gonna watch this trailer in a minute. I'm gonna
show it to you. Gotta find it. Bring Her Back
And like I said, A twenty four just keeps putting
out absolute superior films, especially in the horror genre, and
the movie Bring Her Back is absolutely no exception. Also
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came out this year. It's an Australian supernatural psychological horror
film directed by Danny and Michael Philip Howe or Philip
who whoever, known for their debut Talk to Me, another
A twenty four film, Another good one, not nearly as
good as this one, though also written by Danny and
Bill Hensman. A star as Billy Barrett as Andy, Sarah
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Wong as a fourteen year old girl named Piper, Jonah
Wrenn Phillips as Oliver, and Sally Hawkins as Laura, their
foster mother. The plot follows orphan step siblings Andy and Piper, who,
after their father's death, are sent to live with Laura,
an eccentric former counselor and weirdo. They uncover a terrifying
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occult ritual tied to Laura's grief over her deceased daughter Kathy,
involving demonic possession and brutal violence. Now what I just
described is every horror movie you've ever thought, you've seen
and hated. Right, Ah, that description is not fair. This
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movie is terrifying, but it's more than that. It's original,
it's unique. And why don't you watch the trailer for that.
Let me get this set up here. We'll get it.
We'll get it. This is the trailer for bringing Her Back.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
How did you cope with Jasy Beeple?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I didn't h was this the new sister and brother? Alliver?
Alliver lost his family just like you guys. He need
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someone to get keeping special care. Listen, I got a
little your secret.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Sat job job.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
It just beautiful things. He listen, just listen, listeners. Some
people believe the spirit stays in the body fro months
after day. We can bring it back.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yes, absolutely fantastic, absolutely horrifying. The film released on May
twenty ninth, in Australia by Sony Pictures and May thirtieth
in the US by A twenty four just gross twenty
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three million worldwide against a modest budget, outperforming it's five
to seven million dollar opening weekend projection with seven point
one million, so better than what they thought it would do.
For a horror, you know, that's an odd genre.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
To make money. And it's earned eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Percent Rotten Tomatoes score and from two hundred and fifteen critics,
and it B plus Cinema score, praise for US intense atmosphere,
Absolutely Hawkins her performance. You totally believe she is that character.
You believe it, You suspect her in your mind, and
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you don't like her for real. Everyone everyone put forth
outstanding performances in this movie from start to finish. The
film an hour and forty four minutes. Rated R for strong,
bloody violence, grizzly images, graphic nudity, say graphic nudity, and
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on the surface it sounds like a porno, but it's not.
They're just two times where you see a nude man
who fell down and died in the shower. Okay, it's
not crazy. There is depiction of underage drinking but it
fits in the storyline and makes it creepy. It not
glorifying it, it's actually you know it's not right when
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you're watching it. And language shot with Aaron mcliskey's cinematography
that emphasizes psychological dread over jump scares, and that's what
it just does.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So well.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
There's grief, there's trauma, foster care abuse, it's got it all.
Standout elements, like I said, include Hawkins portrayal Laura, she's
just unhinged, you'd say, and the siblings bond and I
mentioned Soa Wong. She plays the younger sister of the
two foster kids. This was her acting debut, not her
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first major film or her first you know, a blockbuster
or whatever, not her first film in theaters. This was
her very first role ever. Go on IMDb type in.
Sora Wong known for and there's one thing on there,
and it's Bring Her Back Wild. She's a fourteen year
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old Austrolian actress who plays Piper, a blind teenage girl,
a role she was drawn too because her own visual
impairment due to congenital conditions. Wong had no prior professional
acting experience at all, having only performed in one school play.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know, you know I did that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I'm here, I am before landing the role after her
mother found a casting call on Facebook for a visually
impaired actress. She nails it. She is outstanding. She felt real.
They all do in this movie. But she felt like you.
She felt authentic. You know, you believed her, You believed
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that character. You thought that was real. And I think
it's because she she hadn't acted before. She puts for
the Innocence of a fourteen year old girl. Well, because
she's an innocent fourteen year old girl with no acting experience,
you see, I expect to see more from her. I
bet she pops back up in an A twenty four film.
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I hope so. But the entire cast was outstanding in
the movie, which is spectacular. I have to bring something
up before we move on. There is a scene, and
you'll know it. There's no way you won't know it.
It's so unsettling, so terrible, so painful, so utterly uncomfortable.
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I couldn't stop thinking about it. When I was almost certain,
I thought I knew what was about to happen during
this scene, I threw a blanket over my head and yelled, no, okay.
I had to pause the movie and compose myself. Oh
it's not like you know. This is my first horror movie.
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I've seen grosser. I've seen more violent. I've seen more
outrageous and ridiculous. I've seen more over the top. I've
seen it all. But I've never seen a scene like that.
And I can't say anymore. I'll just tell you beware
when you see a camel hope. Okay, I know, I know,
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I know. Silly you'll see and good luck bring her back.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's from Studio A twenty four. A twenty four is an.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
American independent entertainment company founded into twenty twelve by Daniel Katz,
David Finkel, and John Hodges. Headquartered in New York City,
it focuses on film and television production, distribution, and financing.
Known for its bold projects that prioritize artistic vision over mainstream,
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mainstream appeal. A twenty four has become a cultural tape
maker in the horror genre. That's what I'm telling you.
Often described as a brand synonymous with innovative, genre defying
storytelling and high quality content. Absolutely, I haven't seen an
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A twenty four movie that hasn't been spectacular at least
again in the horror genre. I think that's that made
them known. You guys, okay, you probably know them from Hereditary.
That was absolutely that was a watermark in horror in
the last ten, fifteen to twenty years.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
In my opinion.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I've seen it three times, I will see it again,
and you should see it. Hereditary and more recently the
film Talk to Me. Both are amazing films. Watch Bringer
back and then watch all the other A twenty four films.
You know, if you like one, you're gonna like them all.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
So now let's get into the dumb, serious real.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
News and topics. I hate to I hate to you,
but we got to. As of July twenty seventh, centers
on the US Department of Justice and FBI's findings that
no Epstein client list exists, contradicting long standing conspiracy theories
that a DOJ MIMO released July seventh stated that after
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reviewing over three hundred gigabytes of data, investigators found no
incriminating client list and no evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent
individuals or that he was murdered, confirming his twenty nineteen
death ass suicide. The memo also noted no evidence to
support investigations against uncharged third parties. Okay, but remember Attorney
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General Pambondi February claimed a client list was under review,
later clarifying she was referring to Epstein's broader files, including
unreleased child pornography videos. This shift drew criticism from just
about everyone, including me, who accused the dog DOJ of
a cover up, and on July twenty third, reports surface
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that Bondi informed President Trump in May that his name
appeared in the Epstein files, though described as containing unverified hearsay. Okay,
of course, Trump dismissed related questions as old news and
actually sued The Wall Street Journal for defamation over a
report in twenty In a two thousand and two birthday card,
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he sent Epstein weird that you would send him a
birthday card. A House panel voted in July to subpoena
additional Epstein files, reflecting ongoing public and political pressure for transparency.
Earlier in January, about forty five hundred pages of court
documents from Virginia Guphrase twenty fifteen defamation lawsuit against Glenn
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Maxwell were unsealed, naming associates like Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton,
Donald Trump, but revealing no new major allegations. Remember, these
documents contained a list of associates, not clients, and there
is difference. Epstein's former attorney, David shown and others, including
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Alan Dershowitz, have referred that have reiterated that no formal
client list exists, only redacted affidavits from accusers. Deputy Attorney
General Todd blanche Blanchett, whatever the hell's name is, met
with Maxwell. Now, this is this is key, and this
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is weird, and this is going to kick off more
conspiracies for me and everyone else. Deputy Attorney General met
with Maxwell on July twenty fourth and twenty fifth this
year as part of the Justice Department's efforts to find
additional information related to Epstein case. These meetings were confirmed
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by Maxwell's attorneys, her attorney, David Oscar Marcus, who stated
that her legal team is in discussions with the government
and that Maxwell will testify truthfully. The visits have sparked
speculation and more confusion. In my opinion, all I'm saying
is Gallaine Maxwell's in prison found guilty on child sex trafficking.
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You aren't found guilty unless you did in fact traffic
a child? Who was that child traffic too? That's what
we want to know for starters. And there's been online
and I know that's not credible rumors that Trump might
pardon Maxwell. And I found in the last week and
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a half that these came out of nowhere, these rumors,
and I repeat, that's not credible info, Absolutely rumors and conspiracy.
Right now, I've only heard speculation online, but it bothered
me and still bothers me, and I'm trying to wrap
my head around it. How despicable, right, how dare he?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
He must be on the list?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You know, that's what they're saying. Unless I thought a
pardon is what Maxwell's asking for from the government for
behind the scenes, in exchange for all the client information
to bust out the conspiracy noise, and I've done that
in a while. Would Trump be so bold to do
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such a thing to prove he wasn't a client? If
there's any truth to any of this, I think that's
one hundred percent Maxwell's idea. And even then, I'm not
so sure. She's only serving twenty years. You guys, that's
not a live sentence. I know that sounds like a lot,
but with any kind of reduction in the future for
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whatever reason, she may not even so twenty years inside, honestly,
So where does that leave us up? I'm not sure.
I'm not even sure she would even want a deal
like that, remember rumors, unless there is in fact a
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client list out there and it incriminates her further and
she's trying to shore herself up for future chargers, you see,
Because let's face it, this, this is not gonna die soon.
It's not Something will become of the list. It may
be huge, it may be nothing, but it'll be some
kind of confirmation whether true or false, you know, fake
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or made up or legit. It may be taken out
by Congress and burn for all I know. I don't know,
but something has to happen, you know. So keep an
ear out for rumors of Trump pardoning Maxwell. I think
that's where this is coming from, and especially now, as
in this morning. Maxwell and her attorneys have asked the
Supreme Court to overturn her convention or conviction. They claim
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she's immune to prosecution due to the deal with Epstein.
Her attorneys say she was improperly prosecuted by federal officials.
She contends her case shouldn't have gone on saying, a
plea agreement Epstein signed in two thousand and eight to
resolve allegations that he molested dozens of girls prohibits charges
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against potential co conspirators. You know, there's one way to
you know, get to the bottom of this. Just go
look at the damn plea agreement and read it, be
done with it. The Justice Department recently said that widely,
and it widely criticized Epstein's plea agreement, which was signed
in South Florida, governed potential prosecution only in that specific
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district and did not extend in York, where Maxwell was indicted.
You see, so that might not be an out for her,
and maybe that's why she's talking to the government now.
The ficiest part of all this, I just think it's
the timing. I don't know. And speaking of pardons, Hunter
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Biden made the news in a big strange way last week.
Hunter came out of his hole and gave a series
of high profile interviews released last week, marking his first
major public appearances in years. The most notable was a
three hour expletive leyden interview with Andrew Callahan on YouTube
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outlet channel five, released on July twenty first. In it,
Hunter addressed his addiction legal troubles in the twenty twenty
four presidential election, strongly defending his father in criticizing prominent
Democrats like George Clooney, Ancy Pelosi, and other political consultants
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David Axelrod James Carville for urging Joe Biden to drop
his reelection bid. He also denied involvement with cocaine found
in the White House in twenty twenty three, asserting he
has been sober since June twenty nineteen, and commented on
his father's prostate cancer diagnosis, describing it as advanced but treatable.
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Another interview with former DNC chair Jamie Harrison on the
podcast At Our Table, released around the same time, focused
on Hunter's belief that the Democratic Party's lack of loyalty
to Joe Biden led to their twenty twenty four election loss.
He praised Vice President Kamala Harris, but accused party elites
of undermining her candidacy. Ah that may be true, but
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she lost in the public is what happened. These interviews
got a lot of media coverage and mixed reactions. Democrats
expressed frustration frustration, feeling Hunter's timing distracted from their focus
on Donald Trump's controversies, including the Epstein case, while Republicans
used his comments to keep Biden family issues in the spotlight.
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It's all distraction, you guys. It's all this is. But
to me, it's wildly odd these interviews. Dude, Hunter, you're
scott free, you were pardoned, you were on the ropes
and headed to prison. Probably, why the hell are you
bringing all this up now? Unless he's been advised to
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go back on his defense because his pardon may be revoked.
Conspiracies are hot and heavy this week. The question on
whether a pardon can be revoked is unsettled in US law.
Historical cases like ex parte Garland from eighteen sixty six
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suggests that once a pardon is issued accepted, it is
generally considered final. However, some legal scholars argue revocation might
be possible if the pardon was obtained through and this
is important for or issued an error. Though there's no
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such case that's definitely that's been definitively educated because of this.
But the Supreme Court has not ruled explicitly on revocation.
So what I heard there was fraud or error. Do
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we think that Joe Biden autopin controversy might have spooked
Hunter's legal team and advising him to get out there
and start defending himself again. I mean. President Trump has
been saying since March that Biden's pardons, including those for
members of the House committee investigating the January sixth Capitol
riot and family members like Hunter Biden, were void because
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they were signed with an auto pin, alleging Biden was
unaware of these actions. Trump ordered a White House investigation
in June, led by White House Council David Warrington and
Attorney General Pam Bondi, to examine where Biden's aids used
the autopen to cover up his alleged cognitive decline. The
probe involves reviewing over twenty seven thousand documents from the
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National Archives. House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer,
are investigating Biden's autopen use as part of a broader
inquiry into his health and mental fitness during its presidency.
The probe intensified after New York Times reported suggested Biden
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did not individually approve each name in categorical pardons, raising
questions about who authorized the signatures. Comer and others, including
Representative Brandon Gill, have called it a major scandal, alleging
AIDS may have made decisions without Biden's full awareness. Now
this this has to go somewhere. I want it to.
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There has to be something on the books that addresses
this exact thing for the future autopin use and pardons.
Am I a fan of the autopin? I don't know,
I'm I'm indifferent. Really, I don't care. But if I
had a thousand signatures to sign, you know, I'd probably
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be a fan. I think the president should use the
autopin if it saves time and effort government efficiency. Remember,
until it comes to presidential pardons. Now there's where. There's
where I think it stops. These are a big deal.
It's like playing the reverse card in real life, and
there's nothing anyone could do about it. This should absolutely
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and positively require much thought and at the very least,
a real signature by hand. We don't need to get
in the habit of rubber stamping things so important and rare.
I mean, if you're going to pardon your entire family
for seemingly no reason, the very least I expect is
for you to take a minute or however long you
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need and put a real signature on it. It's important, okay,
But it doesn't matter what I think. It matters what
the law thinks right now. The law isn't sure, but
it's working on it. And I bet that explains why
Hunter came out of his cocaine cave to curse at
everyone about his addiction in legal troubles out of nowhere?
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What other reason would he have? Let me know when
a voicemail at eight one two six one zero nine
zero zero five, or send an email to the podcast
info dot soap Box Champion at gmail dot com. Short
attention spans am I right. Fort Knox, officially the United
States Bullion Depository, is a heavily fortified vault located in
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Fort Knox Army Post in Kentucky. It's one of the
most secure facilities in the world, primarily used to store
a significant portion of the US government's gold reserves. Built
in nineteen thirty six and operational since nineteen thirty seven,
the Depository was designed to securely store gold bullion, protecting
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the US economy gold backed currency during the Great Depression.
It also holds over other precious items like historical documents,
and primarily its primary role.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Is gold storage. At least.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
At least that's what they want you to think, because
what I'm saying, so I'm getting at you, guys. As
of the latest reliable data, Fort Knox holds approximately one
hundred and forty seven point three million troy ounces of gold,
that's about four five hundred and eighty three metric tons,
valued it roughly three hundred and fifty billion dollars at
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current market price. This represents a significant portion of the U. S.
Treasury's total gold reserves. The exact figures can vary slightly
in reports. Of course, the depositories protected by multiple layers
of security, including a twenty two ton blastproof door, twenty
four to seven armed guards, advanced surveillance in an entire
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military base that surrounds it. The building is constructed with
granite steel concrete designed to withstand attacks. Access requires multiple
combinations held by different individuals, and no single person knows
the full entry protocol. Fort Knox became a symbol of
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wealth and security, famously depicted in popular culture with John
James Bond film Goldfinger. During World War II, it temporarily
stored the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and foreign gold
reserves for safe keeping.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
The gold is stored.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
As one hundred ounced bars, melted and refined from various sources.
The depository operates under the US Mint, part of the
Treasury Department. While some advocate for returning to the gold standard,
the gold at Fort Knox's primarily a reserve asset, not
directly tied to currency circulation today. That's four thousand, five
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hundred and eighty three metric tons of gold, or is there.
The last full public audit of Fort Knox gold occurred
in nineteen fifty three, seventy two years ago, with partial
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inspections in the seventies and the eighties. In twenty twenty,
the US Mint reported that one hundred percent of the
gold was accounted for, but public skepticism persists to this day.
In fact, only one US president has been confirmed to
have entered the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
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That was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who visited in nineteen forty
three to inspect the gold reserves. In early twenty twenty five,
President Trump repeatedly expressed interest in auditing the gold reserves
at Fort Knox, raising questions about whether the gold was
still there. Between February and March of twenty twenty five,
Trump mentioned plans to visit the depository to quote make
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sure the gold is there end quote, describing it as
a fabled Fort Knox and suggesting he might go with
Elon Musk, who also fields speculation about the gold status.
For example, Trump stated on Air Force One, We're going
into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there,
and if the gold isn't there, we're going to be
very upset. Busk proposed a live stream to walk through
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of the vaults and asked, who's confirming the gold wasn't
stolen from Fort Knox. It seems President Trump lost interest
in March, with no visit, no new audit conducted. Treasury officials,
including Scott Bessont, reaffirmed the gold's presence. That's not enough.
Just reassurance is not enough sight unseen if you ask
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me or did Trump find out what he needed to
know and drop the subject. There's always been the conspiracy
that most of the gold has been replaced with zinc bars,
as zinc has almost the same weight as gold, but
there's almost zero chance of that happening by anyone other
than the US government, and there lies the conspiracy. The
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United States officially abandoned the gold standard in August of
nineteen seventy one when President Nixon announced the Nixon Stock,
suspending the dollars convertibility into gold. This ended the Bretton
Woods system, which had tied the US dollar to gold
at thirty five dollars per ounce since nineteen four, with
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their other currencies pegged to the dollar. Since then, the
US has operated on a fiat currency system, where the
dollars value is based on trust and government backing rather
than a physical commodity. See see how thin the US
dollar is razor thin off the gold standard since nineteen
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seventy one and then inspections a few years later. Sounds
like the government needed to know exactly how much gold
was available to start spending, right, But what do I know,
I'm just a podcaster. Shane Devon to Murrah. Twenty seven
year old Las Vegas resident killed four people, including a
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New York Police Department officer, before dying by suicide. This
took place yesterday in Manhattan at three forty five Park Avenue.
It's a building housing the NFL headquarters and other corporate offices.
Timurraw had been documented as having a history of mental
health issues, including two mental health crisis holds in Nevada,
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one in twenty twenty two and the other in twenty
twenty four, which allowed for up to a seventy two
hours detention if deemed a danger to himself and others.
A suicide note found in his pocket yesterday expressed grievances
against the NFL, claiming he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy
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or CTE. It's that brain disease linked to repeated head
trauma often associated with football players. The note included statements
like you can't go against the NFL, They'll squash you,
and a request to quote study my brain. I'm sorry, FYI.
CTE cannot be diagnosed in a living person, and it's
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unclear if he had a formal diagnosis or suspicion based
on symptoms. But one things for sure, there is a
mental health crisis in this country. Go on X for
more than two minutes. World Star exists. It gets lost
in all the distractions, but mental illness is the cause
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of most of the distractions. President Reagan was responsible for
shutting down mental institutions across the country, When Reagan became
president in nineteen eighty one, he significantly influenced mental health
policy through budget cuts and legislative changes Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
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Act of nineteen eighty one. Reagan signed this act, which
repealed much of the Mental Health System's Act of nineteen
eighty passed under President Jimmy Carter. The nineteen eighty Act
had aimed to expand federal support for community mental health services.
The Omnibus Reconciliation Act slash federal funding for mental health
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programs by about twenty five to thirty percent, shifting responsibility
to states through block grants. The Reagan administration consolidated mental
health funding into block grants to states, giving them more
control but less federal oversight and funding. Many states facing
budget constraints didn't have adequate funding in their communities to
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provide mental health health services anymore, leading to gaps and care.
While Reagan did not directly shut down mental hospitals, you know,
he didn't go there and lock the doors. The reduced
federal funding and shift to state controlled accelerated the closure
of state run psychiatric facilities. Between nineteen fifty five and
nineteen ninety four, the number of state hospital beds dropped
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from about five hundred and fifty eight thousand to under
seventy thousand, was significant declines during the eighties. Guys, it's
time to bring back these mental health facilities and build
them bigger. If there are so many mentally ill people
walking around, then where are they, Craig, Oh, they're here,
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They're there everywhere. Now they're homeless, they're in jail or
walking into office buildings and shooting random people because they
have headache. You can see this, all of it and
more on social media twenty four hours a day. Maybe
the budget allocated for gender studies abroad could be funneled
back into health.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Now, I got a local what I would call an
oddity news story for you, not out of nowhere. It
also involves mental illness and COVID somehow. From wevv dot
com dated July twenty second headline man sexually assaults waitress
and bathroom of a Newburg restaurant.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Deputy SA A.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Man now wait for it kickers at the end. A
man is facing a felony sexual battery charge in Warwick County, Indiana,
after authorities say he had admitted to assaulting a waitress
deputies responded to the Nellies restaurant in Newburgh to investigate
a report of a waitress that was sexually assaulted by
a man in the women's restroom. When authorities arrived, they say,
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the victim told them she was in the women's restroom
looking in the mirror when seventy eight year old Michael
Roth grabbed her from behind and did a quote unquote
hip thrust into her. Deputies say Roth was pointed out
by the waitress and was sitting at the table closest
to the restrooms. When deputies approached Roth and asked him
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about the situation, They said he admitted to it and
told them he wanted to quote penetrate her end quote gross.
They say, also, he told them that he's banned from
Golden Corral for the same thing. This is not funny,
but for the guy, this ugly piece of shit guy,
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to say that is funny. Deputy say Roth's wife, who
was with them, made several statements about his cognitive decline
and how he's been treated for it.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
They say both.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
The Roth's the husband and the wife blamed his behavior
on long COVID. Roth was arrested and booked into the
Warwick County Jail on one count of felony sexual battery. First, Guys,
Nellie's is a great restaurant. You hardly ever get sexual
assaulted there, and we think they make one of the
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best burgers in the area. No joke, great restaurant. I'm
not talking about little smash burgers either, big fat burgers
with lots of toppings. I like their mushroom and Swiss burger.
I haven't had one better. It just has the perfect
ratio of burger mushroom bun.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
The old timers packed the place for breakfast almost every day.
I just haven't eaten there for breakfast, but I'd like
to second long COVID is this a thing. It refers
to a condition where individuals experience persistent symptoms or new
health issues following a COVID nineteen infection, lasting for weeks
or months after the acute phase. Symptoms. Common symptoms include fatigue,
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brain fog, shortness of breath, chest pain, joint or muscle pain,
heart palpitations, loss of taste or smell, and mood changes
like anxiety or depression. These can fluctuate are worsen with
physical or mental exertion, But does that result in the
desire to sexually assault may be the result of anxiety
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and depression, but just to blanketly blame long COVID or
COVID at all. Or is this just something an insane
person would say after sexually assaulting a young woman in
a restaurant restroom. If only there had been an actual
fashion vaccine for COVID, right, maybe none of this would happen. Hey,
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who's upset about PBS and NPR losing their federal funding?
Speaker 3 (45:06):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Both PBS and NPR lost the federal funding as of July.
On May first, President Trump signed Executive Order fourteen two
ninety directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and federal agencies
to cease funding PBS and NPR, citing biased news coverage.
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PBS and NPR have sued the administration, arguing this violates
the Public Broadcasting Act the First Amendment, but no ruling
has reversed the cuts yet. The impact is expected to
hit smaller station the hardest, potentially leading to downsizing for closures,
though PBS plans to explore alternative funding. But I'm all
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for it, and I want to remind you of something
Both PBS and NPR have slowly been pissing me off
for like twenty years. They're federal funded, and that federal
funding was you. The government has no money of its own.
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Every cent is yours in my tax dollars. And if
we're honest, both PBS and NPR were both very biased
when it came to political reporting. You could hear it
in their voices and the subject matter and how they
approached it. And it doesn't matter if the current president's
public approval ratings sits it two percent. Neither organization was
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allowed to be biased. Yet they continue to be over
and over again. And the worst part of both of them,
they're constantly begging for you to donate money to keep
them going. What they want more of my mine? They
already received millions in our tax dollars that we didn't
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have a say in, and they want us to give
them more. Nope, I never gave them a dime, and
that was before I got my head out of my
butt when it comes to politics and how they covered it,
and especially after twenty twelve in the Smith Modernization Act,
which literally made it legal for the US government to
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use propaganda on his own citizens. What better propaganda tools
than an entire television network that broadcasts from six am
to one am every day, and an entire radio network
that broke broadcast nearly twenty four hours a day and
federally funded. No thanks, I will never donate to propaganda,
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and neither should you. Now it's time for sports. You've
heard of the miracle on ice, I'm sure, but there
was another one I bet you don't know about. During
the Iron Man outdoor curling tournament in Winnipeg. It was
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some time after two thousand and two. A team found
themselves battling not just their opponents, but the river itself.
The game was played on the acid Boyne River, and
that year the ice had frozen with a dramatic tilt
toward the river bank. Every stone that was thrown veered
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off course and slid helplessly into the snow. Frustration mounted,
not a single rock landed.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
In the house.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Then their skip had a wild idea. He stood on
the neighboring sheet told his teammates to aim in his broom,
but throw the opposite turn. No questions, just do it.
And they did, and like magic, the stones curved perfectly,
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landing near the button. Every time the team scored, they won,
not just against the other curlers, but against nature itself.
And that's gonna do it for this week in sports?
What does that? What's that buzzer?
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Was that the beginning or aftime? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Ah? Now hold on for quote of the week. I
like this quote, of course I like it. I made
it Quote of the week. And it is success is
not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage
to continue that counts. Winston Churchill said that it's a
powerful reminder that every moment is a step, not a
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finish line, and now a powerful reminder that it's time
for sugar. Earlier, the term scott free was on this
podcast when I'm talking about Hunter. I bet you've said
that at least once in your life. I know this
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wasn't my first time using the phrase, But where the
heck did it come from? The saying scott free? And
that's scot free often misspelled us. Scott means to escape
punishment or consequences entirely. Its history traces back to medieval England,
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rooted in Old English and Scandinavian linguistic influences.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
The term derives from the.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Old English word skte or Old Norse scote skot meaning
a tax payment a contribution. In medieval times, scott referred
to a communal tax or share of expenses, such as
a levee for local upkeep or a tavern bill split
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amongst a group.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
The free part.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Indicates exemption or release from this obligation. To be scott
free originally meant avoiding payment of the tax, either due
to privilege, evasion, or not being able or not being
part of the liable group. The phrase first appeared in
written English around the thirteenth century. For example, at twelve
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hundred's legal tax references somebody being scot free free of
tax literally means, reflecting its early assossination association with financial relief.
By the sixteenth century, the phrase expanded beyond taxes to
signify escaping any penalty or harm. Shakespeare used a variation
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in Henry the Fifth from fifteen ninety nine, with a
character noting if he not be no, I don't do Shakespeare.
If he be not scott free, let him be whipped.
There you go, indicating freedom from punishment. The expression became
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in English speaking regions, particularly in legal and colloquial context,
as a way to describe getting off without consequences. The
spelling scott free. S cott free emerged later as a
phonetic misinterpretation, though scott free reminds the remains the historical
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accurate form with one t. Today scott free is widely used,
as seen on social media and in everywhere in life.
Its mediaval tax origin is less recognized, but the concept
of unearned escape persists. No significant shifts in its meaning
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have occurred as of now. I don't expect it to
in the future. The evolution reflects a linguistic journey from
fiscal exemption to the general reference of impunity, shaped by
centuries of English usage. And that's why the scott free
is this week's sugar. And that wraps up Episode one
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ninety six of the Soapbox Champion podcast. Thanks for listening
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Speaker 3 (53:59):
Four free. That's right free. What else is free these days?
Almost nothing? That number is nine at eight. You can
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Take care of yourself in one another no matter what
their political affiliations. Remember and we'll talk again next Tuesday.
I'll see it.
Speaker 6 (54:25):
The Urbs Ten Things You Never Knew ten. The entire
film was shot on a Universal Studios backlot, using iconic
houses from Leave It to Beaver and The Munsters.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
Nine.
Speaker 6 (54:36):
The animated Universal logo transition into the cul de Sac
was created by Industrial Light.
Speaker 3 (54:40):
And Magic and was innovative for its time. Eight.
Speaker 6 (54:44):
Queenie the Poodle also played Precious in Silence of the Lambs.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
Seven.
Speaker 6 (54:48):
Corey Feldman brought Michael Jackson's chimp Bubbles to set, until
the chimp was banned for flinging pooh.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
Six.
Speaker 6 (54:53):
The film was produced by Ron Howard's then new Imagine Entertainment,
helping launch the company's rise. Five Universal tram tours constantly
interrupted filming, and Jaws ride screams were picked up. In
early takes four, A box of Gremlin serial appears as
a nod to director Joe Dante's earlier film Gremlins Brie.
Tom Hanks initially hesitated to join the cast because he
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didn't want to play a father two. Much of the
film's dialogue was improvised due to the nineteen eighty eight
Writers Guild strike, including Hanks's gurney dive one. The original
ending had Ray die, but it was changed after Hanks
was cast to avoid killing off a beloved lead. Bonus fact,
the film was originally titled Bay Window, which sounds more
like a home improvement show than a dark comedy.
This is the Soapbox Champion podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
She's right, It's Tuesday, July twenty ninth, twenty twenty five.
This is the episode one ninety six of the Soapbox
Champion podcast Coming do You Live Once? Once Live? I
guess from FEMA Region five Just in case. My name
is Craig Delaney. I hope everyone's week was good. Mine
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was all right. Hotter than hades, but all right. Yuh,
right out of the gate here. I watched a couple
movies and both were outstanding. Both happened to be in
the horror genre, and both need to be shared. H
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The first was a very pleasant surprise because.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I probably wouldn't have I would have passed it up.
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The trailer didn't do it for me, I guess, But
that's because the trailer, come to find out, really isn't
able to tell you everything. It's not allowed to show
everything because that's the genre magic, I guess, and that
would be lost if that showed you too much. So
I get it now that I watched it. I'm so
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glad I did, and I can't I can't even tell
you much more than that. I want to talk about
this movie a lot, but I really can't. So why
don't you watch the trailer say.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Hmm, I've been all over this world. I've seen me
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and die ways. I don't even know it as possible.
Lave your brother, be careful. I will with all the
things that I've seen. I ain't ever seen no demons
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nor ghosts you imagine.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Till now they get back inside.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Let me have MAT's some words that're going on out here.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Because you keep dancing with the devil.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
About it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Forgot one day he's gonna follow you home.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Bam Sinners from twenty twenty five earlier this year. It
was a genre defying and defining American film, directed, written,
and produced by Ryan Coogler. Set in nineteen thirty two
in the Mississippi Delta, it blends Southern Gothic supernatural horror,
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a little bit of period drama, and musical elements. The
stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as twin brothers
Smoke and Stack Okay, okay, forget it. When they returned
to their hometown of Clarksdowne, Mississippi to escape their troubled
pasts as bootleggers and former soldiers. When they get back,
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they encounter supernatural evil revealed to be well, I'm not
gonna tell you, but it disrupts their attempt to start
anew by opening a new juke joint. That was their idea,
to open this juke joint on the country in an
old building and try to, you know, start a new life.
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The film explores themes of redemption, black lineage throughout the movie,
American racism. It's not that bad, you guys. It doesn't it,
Sure it does. It depicts it, but it depicts everything
you know. And the music is as cultural and spiritual
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as you know. The supernatural in the film, but notable
focus on the historical connection between the Choctaw nation and
the Irish of all people.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Released in middle.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
April this year, after delay from March seventh due to
post production needs, Centers grossed forty eight million dollars just
in its opening weekend, exceeding projections of thirty to forty
with forty five percent of ticket sales from premium format.
It's like Imax. It's got a ninety eight percent of
rotten tomatoes in an a cinema score. Those scores are
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rare in the horror genre. Guys. Currently Centers the streaming
on HBO Max and that's how I watched it, and
available for purchase or rent you know, everywhere else. It's
rated R strong, bloody violence, some sexual content and language,
running for just over two hours. Yes, Michael B. Jordan
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plays both brothers, and I forgot while watching the movie.
He did such a fantastic job. Uh do they look
the same? Yeah, but Jordan was able to spend their mannerisms,
I guess you'd say, in a way that made them
feel entirely different. And it's not a distraction at all.
It's just a great, great performance. That is just about
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all I can say. I don't want to ruin it.
It's a movie you've seen at that times, but I
bet you've never seen it like this, and I highly
recommend it. And I'll just say this before you write
it off. Jordan playing twins has nothing to do with
anything in the plot other than that's just who they are.
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It's not it's not a twist. It's not part of
a twist. It's not a reveal, it's not it doesn't
define this movie whatsoever. They just happen to be twins,
you know, as characters in the movie. I thought that
was gonna be something. It was absolutely not. So it's
just nothing. So if you think you know what's going
on this movie, probably don't. Sinners Free on HBO Max
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right now. Yeah, I'm free as in you know if
you got Max. The other movie, it's one from A
twenty four Studios. Everything from them is just gold.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I think.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We're gonna watch this trailer in a minute. I'm gonna
show it to you. Gotta find it. Bring Her Back
And like I said, A twenty four just keeps putting
out absolute superior films, especially in the horror genre, and
the movie Bring Her Back is absolutely no exception. Also
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came out this year. It's an Australian supernatural psychological horror
film directed by Danny and Michael Philip Howe or Philip
who whoever, known for their debut Talk to Me, another
A twenty four film, Another good one, not nearly as
good as this one, though also written by Danny and
Bill Hensman. A star as Billy Barrett as Andy, Sarah
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Wong as a fourteen year old girl named Piper, Jonah
Wrenn Phillips as Oliver, and Sally Hawkins as Laura, their
foster mother. The plot follows orphan step siblings Andy and Piper, who,
after their father's death, are sent to live with Laura,
an eccentric former counselor and weirdo. They uncover a terrifying
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occult ritual tied to Laura's grief over her deceased daughter Kathy,
involving demonic possession and brutal violence. Now what I just
described is every horror movie you've ever thought, you've seen
and hated. Right, Ah, that description is not fair. This
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movie is terrifying, but it's more than that. It's original,
it's unique. And why don't you watch the trailer for that.
Let me get this set up here. We'll get it.
We'll get it. This is the trailer for bringing Her Back.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
How did you cope with Jasy Beeple?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I didn't h was this the new sister and brother? Alliver?
Alliver lost his family just like you guys. He need
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someone to get keeping special care. Listen, I got a
little your secret.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Sat job job.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
It just beautiful things. He listen, just listen, listeners. Some
people believe the spirit stays in the body fro months
after day. We can bring it back.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yes, absolutely fantastic, absolutely horrifying. The film released on May
twenty ninth, in Australia by Sony Pictures and May thirtieth
in the US by A twenty four just gross twenty
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three million worldwide against a modest budget, outperforming it's five
to seven million dollar opening weekend projection with seven point
one million, so better than what they thought it would do.
For a horror, you know, that's an odd genre.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
To make money. And it's earned eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Percent Rotten Tomatoes score and from two hundred and fifteen critics,
and it B plus Cinema score, praise for US intense atmosphere,
Absolutely Hawkins her performance. You totally believe she is that character.
You believe it, You suspect her in your mind, and
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you don't like her for real. Everyone everyone put forth
outstanding performances in this movie from start to finish. The
film an hour and forty four minutes. Rated R for strong,
bloody violence, grizzly images, graphic nudity, say graphic nudity, and
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on the surface it sounds like a porno, but it's not.
They're just two times where you see a nude man
who fell down and died in the shower. Okay, it's
not crazy. There is depiction of underage drinking but it
fits in the storyline and makes it creepy. It not
glorifying it, it's actually you know it's not right when
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you're watching it. And language shot with Aaron mcliskey's cinematography
that emphasizes psychological dread over jump scares, and that's what
it just does.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So well.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
There's grief, there's trauma, foster care abuse, it's got it all.
Standout elements, like I said, include Hawkins portrayal Laura, she's
just unhinged, you'd say, and the siblings bond and I
mentioned Soa Wong. She plays the younger sister of the
two foster kids. This was her acting debut, not her
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first major film or her first you know, a blockbuster
or whatever, not her first film in theaters. This was
her very first role ever. Go on IMDb type in.
Sora Wong known for and there's one thing on there,
and it's Bring Her Back Wild. She's a fourteen year
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old Austrolian actress who plays Piper, a blind teenage girl,
a role she was drawn too because her own visual
impairment due to congenital conditions. Wong had no prior professional
acting experience at all, having only performed in one school play.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know, you know I did that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I'm here, I am before landing the role after her
mother found a casting call on Facebook for a visually
impaired actress. She nails it. She is outstanding. She felt real.
They all do in this movie. But she felt like you.
She felt authentic. You know, you believed her, You believed
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that character. You thought that was real. And I think
it's because she she hadn't acted before. She puts for
the Innocence of a fourteen year old girl. Well, because
she's an innocent fourteen year old girl with no acting experience,
you see, I expect to see more from her. I
bet she pops back up in an A twenty four film.
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I hope so. But the entire cast was outstanding in
the movie, which is spectacular. I have to bring something
up before we move on. There is a scene, and
you'll know it. There's no way you won't know it.
It's so unsettling, so terrible, so painful, so utterly uncomfortable.
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I couldn't stop thinking about it. When I was almost certain,
I thought I knew what was about to happen during
this scene, I threw a blanket over my head and yelled, no, okay.
I had to pause the movie and compose myself. Oh
it's not like you know. This is my first horror movie.
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I've seen grosser. I've seen more violent. I've seen more
outrageous and ridiculous. I've seen more over the top. I've
seen it all. But I've never seen a scene like that.
And I can't say anymore. I'll just tell you beware
when you see a camel hope. Okay, I know, I know,
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I know. Silly you'll see and good luck bring her back.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's from Studio A twenty four. A twenty four is an.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
American independent entertainment company founded into twenty twelve by Daniel Katz,
David Finkel, and John Hodges. Headquartered in New York City,
it focuses on film and television production, distribution, and financing.
Known for its bold projects that prioritize artistic vision over mainstream,
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mainstream appeal. A twenty four has become a cultural tape
maker in the horror genre. That's what I'm telling you.
Often described as a brand synonymous with innovative, genre defying
storytelling and high quality content. Absolutely, I haven't seen an
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A twenty four movie that hasn't been spectacular at least
again in the horror genre. I think that's that made
them known. You guys, okay, you probably know them from Hereditary.
That was absolutely that was a watermark in horror in
the last ten, fifteen to twenty years.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
In my opinion.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I've seen it three times, I will see it again,
and you should see it. Hereditary and more recently the
film Talk to Me. Both are amazing films. Watch Bringer
back and then watch all the other A twenty four films.
You know, if you like one, you're gonna like them all.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
So now let's get into the dumb, serious real.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
News and topics. I hate to I hate to you,
but we got to. As of July twenty seventh, centers
on the US Department of Justice and FBI's findings that
no Epstein client list exists, contradicting long standing conspiracy theories
that a DOJ MIMO released July seventh stated that after
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reviewing over three hundred gigabytes of data, investigators found no
incriminating client list and no evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent
individuals or that he was murdered, confirming his twenty nineteen
death ass suicide. The memo also noted no evidence to
support investigations against uncharged third parties. Okay, but remember Attorney
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General Pambondi February claimed a client list was under review,
later clarifying she was referring to Epstein's broader files, including
unreleased child pornography videos. This shift drew criticism from just
about everyone, including me, who accused the dog DOJ of
a cover up, and on July twenty third, reports surface
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that Bondi informed President Trump in May that his name
appeared in the Epstein files, though described as containing unverified hearsay. Okay,
of course, Trump dismissed related questions as old news and
actually sued The Wall Street Journal for defamation over a
report in twenty In a two thousand and two birthday card,
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he sent Epstein weird that you would send him a
birthday card. A House panel voted in July to subpoena
additional Epstein files, reflecting ongoing public and political pressure for transparency.
Earlier in January, about forty five hundred pages of court
documents from Virginia Guphrase twenty fifteen defamation lawsuit against Glenn
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Maxwell were unsealed, naming associates like Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton,
Donald Trump, but revealing no new major allegations. Remember, these
documents contained a list of associates, not clients, and there
is difference. Epstein's former attorney, David shown and others, including
(20:22):
Alan Dershowitz, have referred that have reiterated that no formal
client list exists, only redacted affidavits from accusers. Deputy Attorney
General Todd blanche Blanchett, whatever the hell's name is, met
with Maxwell. Now, this is this is key, and this
(20:42):
is weird, and this is going to kick off more
conspiracies for me and everyone else. Deputy Attorney General met
with Maxwell on July twenty fourth and twenty fifth this
year as part of the Justice Department's efforts to find
additional information related to Epstein case. These meetings were confirmed
(21:03):
by Maxwell's attorneys, her attorney, David Oscar Marcus, who stated
that her legal team is in discussions with the government
and that Maxwell will testify truthfully. The visits have sparked
speculation and more confusion. In my opinion, all I'm saying
is Gallaine Maxwell's in prison found guilty on child sex trafficking.
(21:28):
You aren't found guilty unless you did in fact traffic
a child? Who was that child traffic too? That's what
we want to know for starters. And there's been online
and I know that's not credible rumors that Trump might
pardon Maxwell. And I found in the last week and
(21:50):
a half that these came out of nowhere, these rumors,
and I repeat, that's not credible info, Absolutely rumors and conspiracy.
Right now, I've only heard speculation online, but it bothered
me and still bothers me, and I'm trying to wrap
my head around it. How despicable, right, how dare he?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
He must be on the list?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You know, that's what they're saying. Unless I thought a
pardon is what Maxwell's asking for from the government for
behind the scenes, in exchange for all the client information
to bust out the conspiracy noise, and I've done that
in a while. Would Trump be so bold to do
(22:37):
such a thing to prove he wasn't a client? If
there's any truth to any of this, I think that's
one hundred percent Maxwell's idea. And even then, I'm not
so sure. She's only serving twenty years. You guys, that's
not a live sentence. I know that sounds like a lot,
but with any kind of reduction in the future for
(22:57):
whatever reason, she may not even so twenty years inside, honestly,
So where does that leave us up? I'm not sure.
I'm not even sure she would even want a deal
like that, remember rumors, unless there is in fact a
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client list out there and it incriminates her further and
she's trying to shore herself up for future chargers, you see,
Because let's face it, this, this is not gonna die soon.
It's not Something will become of the list. It may
be huge, it may be nothing, but it'll be some
kind of confirmation whether true or false, you know, fake
(23:39):
or made up or legit. It may be taken out
by Congress and burn for all I know. I don't know,
but something has to happen, you know. So keep an
ear out for rumors of Trump pardoning Maxwell. I think
that's where this is coming from, and especially now, as
in this morning. Maxwell and her attorneys have asked the
Supreme Court to overturn her convention or conviction. They claim
(24:04):
she's immune to prosecution due to the deal with Epstein.
Her attorneys say she was improperly prosecuted by federal officials.
She contends her case shouldn't have gone on saying, a
plea agreement Epstein signed in two thousand and eight to
resolve allegations that he molested dozens of girls prohibits charges
(24:24):
against potential co conspirators. You know, there's one way to
you know, get to the bottom of this. Just go
look at the damn plea agreement and read it, be
done with it. The Justice Department recently said that widely,
and it widely criticized Epstein's plea agreement, which was signed
in South Florida, governed potential prosecution only in that specific
(24:45):
district and did not extend in York, where Maxwell was indicted.
You see, so that might not be an out for her,
and maybe that's why she's talking to the government now.
The ficiest part of all this, I just think it's
the timing. I don't know. And speaking of pardons, Hunter
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Biden made the news in a big strange way last week.
Hunter came out of his hole and gave a series
of high profile interviews released last week, marking his first
major public appearances in years. The most notable was a
three hour expletive leyden interview with Andrew Callahan on YouTube
(25:26):
outlet channel five, released on July twenty first. In it,
Hunter addressed his addiction legal troubles in the twenty twenty
four presidential election, strongly defending his father in criticizing prominent
Democrats like George Clooney, Ancy Pelosi, and other political consultants
(25:47):
David Axelrod James Carville for urging Joe Biden to drop
his reelection bid. He also denied involvement with cocaine found
in the White House in twenty twenty three, asserting he
has been sober since June twenty nineteen, and commented on
his father's prostate cancer diagnosis, describing it as advanced but treatable.
(26:10):
Another interview with former DNC chair Jamie Harrison on the
podcast At Our Table, released around the same time, focused
on Hunter's belief that the Democratic Party's lack of loyalty
to Joe Biden led to their twenty twenty four election loss.
He praised Vice President Kamala Harris, but accused party elites
of undermining her candidacy. Ah that may be true, but
(26:34):
she lost in the public is what happened. These interviews
got a lot of media coverage and mixed reactions. Democrats
expressed frustration frustration, feeling Hunter's timing distracted from their focus
on Donald Trump's controversies, including the Epstein case, while Republicans
used his comments to keep Biden family issues in the spotlight.
(26:56):
It's all distraction, you guys. It's all this is. But
to me, it's wildly odd these interviews. Dude, Hunter, you're
scott free, you were pardoned, you were on the ropes
and headed to prison. Probably, why the hell are you
bringing all this up now? Unless he's been advised to
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go back on his defense because his pardon may be revoked.
Conspiracies are hot and heavy this week. The question on
whether a pardon can be revoked is unsettled in US law.
Historical cases like ex parte Garland from eighteen sixty six
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suggests that once a pardon is issued accepted, it is
generally considered final. However, some legal scholars argue revocation might
be possible if the pardon was obtained through and this
is important for or issued an error. Though there's no
(28:03):
such case that's definitely that's been definitively educated because of this.
But the Supreme Court has not ruled explicitly on revocation.
So what I heard there was fraud or error. Do
(28:25):
we think that Joe Biden autopin controversy might have spooked
Hunter's legal team and advising him to get out there
and start defending himself again. I mean. President Trump has
been saying since March that Biden's pardons, including those for
members of the House committee investigating the January sixth Capitol
riot and family members like Hunter Biden, were void because
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they were signed with an auto pin, alleging Biden was
unaware of these actions. Trump ordered a White House investigation
in June, led by White House Council David Warrington and
Attorney General Pam Bondi, to examine where Biden's aids used
the autopen to cover up his alleged cognitive decline. The
probe involves reviewing over twenty seven thousand documents from the
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National Archives. House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer,
are investigating Biden's autopen use as part of a broader
inquiry into his health and mental fitness during its presidency.
The probe intensified after New York Times reported suggested Biden
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did not individually approve each name in categorical pardons, raising
questions about who authorized the signatures. Comer and others, including
Representative Brandon Gill, have called it a major scandal, alleging
AIDS may have made decisions without Biden's full awareness. Now
this this has to go somewhere. I want it to.
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There has to be something on the books that addresses
this exact thing for the future autopin use and pardons.
Am I a fan of the autopin? I don't know,
I'm I'm indifferent. Really, I don't care. But if I
had a thousand signatures to sign, you know, I'd probably
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be a fan. I think the president should use the
autopin if it saves time and effort government efficiency. Remember,
until it comes to presidential pardons. Now there's where. There's
where I think it stops. These are a big deal.
It's like playing the reverse card in real life, and
there's nothing anyone could do about it. This should absolutely
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and positively require much thought and at the very least,
a real signature by hand. We don't need to get
in the habit of rubber stamping things so important and rare.
I mean, if you're going to pardon your entire family
for seemingly no reason, the very least I expect is
for you to take a minute or however long you
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need and put a real signature on it. It's important, okay,
But it doesn't matter what I think. It matters what
the law thinks right now. The law isn't sure, but
it's working on it. And I bet that explains why
Hunter came out of his cocaine cave to curse at
everyone about his addiction in legal troubles out of nowhere?
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What other reason would he have? Let me know when
a voicemail at eight one two six one zero nine
zero zero five, or send an email to the podcast
info dot soap Box Champion at gmail dot com. Short
attention spans am I right. Fort Knox, officially the United
States Bullion Depository, is a heavily fortified vault located in
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Fort Knox Army Post in Kentucky. It's one of the
most secure facilities in the world, primarily used to store
a significant portion of the US government's gold reserves. Built
in nineteen thirty six and operational since nineteen thirty seven,
the Depository was designed to securely store gold bullion, protecting
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the US economy gold backed currency during the Great Depression.
It also holds over other precious items like historical documents,
and primarily its primary role.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Is gold storage. At least.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
At least that's what they want you to think, because
what I'm saying, so I'm getting at you, guys. As
of the latest reliable data, Fort Knox holds approximately one
hundred and forty seven point three million troy ounces of gold,
that's about four five hundred and eighty three metric tons,
valued it roughly three hundred and fifty billion dollars at
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current market price. This represents a significant portion of the U. S.
Treasury's total gold reserves. The exact figures can vary slightly
in reports. Of course, the depositories protected by multiple layers
of security, including a twenty two ton blastproof door, twenty
four to seven armed guards, advanced surveillance in an entire
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military base that surrounds it. The building is constructed with
granite steel concrete designed to withstand attacks. Access requires multiple
combinations held by different individuals, and no single person knows
the full entry protocol. Fort Knox became a symbol of
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wealth and security, famously depicted in popular culture with John
James Bond film Goldfinger. During World War II, it temporarily
stored the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and foreign gold
reserves for safe keeping.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
The gold is stored.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
As one hundred ounced bars, melted and refined from various sources.
The depository operates under the US Mint, part of the
Treasury Department. While some advocate for returning to the gold standard,
the gold at Fort Knox's primarily a reserve asset, not
directly tied to currency circulation today. That's four thousand, five
(34:27):
hundred and eighty three metric tons of gold, or is there.
The last full public audit of Fort Knox gold occurred
in nineteen fifty three, seventy two years ago, with partial
(34:47):
inspections in the seventies and the eighties. In twenty twenty,
the US Mint reported that one hundred percent of the
gold was accounted for, but public skepticism persists to this day.
In fact, only one US president has been confirmed to
have entered the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
(35:08):
That was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who visited in nineteen forty
three to inspect the gold reserves. In early twenty twenty five,
President Trump repeatedly expressed interest in auditing the gold reserves
at Fort Knox, raising questions about whether the gold was
still there. Between February and March of twenty twenty five,
Trump mentioned plans to visit the depository to quote make
(35:33):
sure the gold is there end quote, describing it as
a fabled Fort Knox and suggesting he might go with
Elon Musk, who also fields speculation about the gold status.
For example, Trump stated on Air Force One, We're going
into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there,
and if the gold isn't there, we're going to be
very upset. Busk proposed a live stream to walk through
(35:55):
of the vaults and asked, who's confirming the gold wasn't
stolen from Fort Knox. It seems President Trump lost interest
in March, with no visit, no new audit conducted. Treasury officials,
including Scott Bessont, reaffirmed the gold's presence. That's not enough.
Just reassurance is not enough sight unseen if you ask
(36:17):
me or did Trump find out what he needed to
know and drop the subject. There's always been the conspiracy
that most of the gold has been replaced with zinc bars,
as zinc has almost the same weight as gold, but
there's almost zero chance of that happening by anyone other
than the US government, and there lies the conspiracy. The
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United States officially abandoned the gold standard in August of
nineteen seventy one when President Nixon announced the Nixon Stock,
suspending the dollars convertibility into gold. This ended the Bretton
Woods system, which had tied the US dollar to gold
at thirty five dollars per ounce since nineteen four, with
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their other currencies pegged to the dollar. Since then, the
US has operated on a fiat currency system, where the
dollars value is based on trust and government backing rather
than a physical commodity. See see how thin the US
dollar is razor thin off the gold standard since nineteen
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seventy one and then inspections a few years later. Sounds
like the government needed to know exactly how much gold
was available to start spending, right, But what do I know,
I'm just a podcaster. Shane Devon to Murrah. Twenty seven
year old Las Vegas resident killed four people, including a
(37:43):
New York Police Department officer, before dying by suicide. This
took place yesterday in Manhattan at three forty five Park Avenue.
It's a building housing the NFL headquarters and other corporate offices.
Timurraw had been documented as having a history of mental
health issues, including two mental health crisis holds in Nevada,
(38:08):
one in twenty twenty two and the other in twenty
twenty four, which allowed for up to a seventy two
hours detention if deemed a danger to himself and others.
A suicide note found in his pocket yesterday expressed grievances
against the NFL, claiming he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy
(38:30):
or CTE. It's that brain disease linked to repeated head
trauma often associated with football players. The note included statements
like you can't go against the NFL, They'll squash you,
and a request to quote study my brain. I'm sorry, FYI.
CTE cannot be diagnosed in a living person, and it's
(38:54):
unclear if he had a formal diagnosis or suspicion based
on symptoms. But one things for sure, there is a
mental health crisis in this country. Go on X for
more than two minutes. World Star exists. It gets lost
in all the distractions, but mental illness is the cause
(39:17):
of most of the distractions. President Reagan was responsible for
shutting down mental institutions across the country, When Reagan became
president in nineteen eighty one, he significantly influenced mental health
policy through budget cuts and legislative changes Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
(39:39):
Act of nineteen eighty one. Reagan signed this act, which
repealed much of the Mental Health System's Act of nineteen
eighty passed under President Jimmy Carter. The nineteen eighty Act
had aimed to expand federal support for community mental health services.
The Omnibus Reconciliation Act slash federal funding for mental health
(40:00):
programs by about twenty five to thirty percent, shifting responsibility
to states through block grants. The Reagan administration consolidated mental
health funding into block grants to states, giving them more
control but less federal oversight and funding. Many states facing
budget constraints didn't have adequate funding in their communities to
(40:25):
provide mental health health services anymore, leading to gaps and care.
While Reagan did not directly shut down mental hospitals, you know,
he didn't go there and lock the doors. The reduced
federal funding and shift to state controlled accelerated the closure
of state run psychiatric facilities. Between nineteen fifty five and
nineteen ninety four, the number of state hospital beds dropped
(40:48):
from about five hundred and fifty eight thousand to under
seventy thousand, was significant declines during the eighties. Guys, it's
time to bring back these mental health facilities and build
them bigger. If there are so many mentally ill people
walking around, then where are they, Craig, Oh, they're here,
(41:09):
They're there everywhere. Now they're homeless, they're in jail or
walking into office buildings and shooting random people because they
have headache. You can see this, all of it and
more on social media twenty four hours a day. Maybe
the budget allocated for gender studies abroad could be funneled
back into health.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Now, I got a local what I would call an
oddity news story for you, not out of nowhere. It
also involves mental illness and COVID somehow. From wevv dot
com dated July twenty second headline man sexually assaults waitress
and bathroom of a Newburg restaurant.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Deputy SA A.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Man now wait for it kickers at the end. A
man is facing a felony sexual battery charge in Warwick County, Indiana,
after authorities say he had admitted to assaulting a waitress
deputies responded to the Nellies restaurant in Newburgh to investigate
a report of a waitress that was sexually assaulted by
a man in the women's restroom. When authorities arrived, they say,
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the victim told them she was in the women's restroom
looking in the mirror when seventy eight year old Michael
Roth grabbed her from behind and did a quote unquote
hip thrust into her. Deputies say Roth was pointed out
by the waitress and was sitting at the table closest
to the restrooms. When deputies approached Roth and asked him
(42:38):
about the situation, They said he admitted to it and
told them he wanted to quote penetrate her end quote gross.
They say, also, he told them that he's banned from
Golden Corral for the same thing. This is not funny,
but for the guy, this ugly piece of shit guy,
(42:59):
to say that is funny. Deputy say Roth's wife, who
was with them, made several statements about his cognitive decline
and how he's been treated for it.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
They say both.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
The Roth's the husband and the wife blamed his behavior
on long COVID. Roth was arrested and booked into the
Warwick County Jail on one count of felony sexual battery. First, Guys,
Nellie's is a great restaurant. You hardly ever get sexual
assaulted there, and we think they make one of the
(43:33):
best burgers in the area. No joke, great restaurant. I'm
not talking about little smash burgers either, big fat burgers
with lots of toppings. I like their mushroom and Swiss burger.
I haven't had one better. It just has the perfect
ratio of burger mushroom bun.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
The old timers packed the place for breakfast almost every day.
I just haven't eaten there for breakfast, but I'd like
to second long COVID is this a thing. It refers
to a condition where individuals experience persistent symptoms or new
health issues following a COVID nineteen infection, lasting for weeks
or months after the acute phase. Symptoms. Common symptoms include fatigue,
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brain fog, shortness of breath, chest pain, joint or muscle pain,
heart palpitations, loss of taste or smell, and mood changes
like anxiety or depression. These can fluctuate are worsen with
physical or mental exertion, But does that result in the
desire to sexually assault may be the result of anxiety
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and depression, but just to blanketly blame long COVID or
COVID at all. Or is this just something an insane
person would say after sexually assaulting a young woman in
a restaurant restroom. If only there had been an actual
fashion vaccine for COVID, right, maybe none of this would happen. Hey,
(45:00):
who's upset about PBS and NPR losing their federal funding?
Speaker 3 (45:06):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Both PBS and NPR lost the federal funding as of July.
On May first, President Trump signed Executive Order fourteen two
ninety directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and federal agencies
to cease funding PBS and NPR, citing biased news coverage.
(45:30):
PBS and NPR have sued the administration, arguing this violates
the Public Broadcasting Act the First Amendment, but no ruling
has reversed the cuts yet. The impact is expected to
hit smaller station the hardest, potentially leading to downsizing for closures,
though PBS plans to explore alternative funding. But I'm all
(45:55):
for it, and I want to remind you of something
Both PBS and NPR have slowly been pissing me off
for like twenty years. They're federal funded, and that federal
funding was you. The government has no money of its own.
(46:16):
Every cent is yours in my tax dollars. And if
we're honest, both PBS and NPR were both very biased
when it came to political reporting. You could hear it
in their voices and the subject matter and how they
approached it. And it doesn't matter if the current president's
public approval ratings sits it two percent. Neither organization was
(46:41):
allowed to be biased. Yet they continue to be over
and over again. And the worst part of both of them,
they're constantly begging for you to donate money to keep
them going. What they want more of my mine? They
already received millions in our tax dollars that we didn't
(47:05):
have a say in, and they want us to give
them more. Nope, I never gave them a dime, and
that was before I got my head out of my
butt when it comes to politics and how they covered it,
and especially after twenty twelve in the Smith Modernization Act,
which literally made it legal for the US government to
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use propaganda on his own citizens. What better propaganda tools
than an entire television network that broadcasts from six am
to one am every day, and an entire radio network
that broke broadcast nearly twenty four hours a day and
federally funded. No thanks, I will never donate to propaganda,
(47:45):
and neither should you. Now it's time for sports. You've
heard of the miracle on ice, I'm sure, but there
was another one I bet you don't know about. During
the Iron Man outdoor curling tournament in Winnipeg. It was
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some time after two thousand and two. A team found
themselves battling not just their opponents, but the river itself.
The game was played on the acid Boyne River, and
that year the ice had frozen with a dramatic tilt
toward the river bank. Every stone that was thrown veered
(48:28):
off course and slid helplessly into the snow. Frustration mounted,
not a single rock landed.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
In the house.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Then their skip had a wild idea. He stood on
the neighboring sheet told his teammates to aim in his broom,
but throw the opposite turn. No questions, just do it.
And they did, and like magic, the stones curved perfectly,
(48:57):
landing near the button. Every time the team scored, they won,
not just against the other curlers, but against nature itself.
And that's gonna do it for this week in sports?
What does that? What's that buzzer?
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Was that the beginning or aftime? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Ah? Now hold on for quote of the week. I
like this quote, of course I like it. I made
it Quote of the week. And it is success is
not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage
to continue that counts. Winston Churchill said that it's a
powerful reminder that every moment is a step, not a
(49:44):
finish line, and now a powerful reminder that it's time
for sugar. Earlier, the term scott free was on this
podcast when I'm talking about Hunter. I bet you've said
that at least once in your life. I know this
(50:04):
wasn't my first time using the phrase, But where the
heck did it come from? The saying scott free? And
that's scot free often misspelled us. Scott means to escape
punishment or consequences entirely. Its history traces back to medieval England,
(50:25):
rooted in Old English and Scandinavian linguistic influences.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
The term derives from the.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Old English word skte or Old Norse scote skot meaning
a tax payment a contribution. In medieval times, scott referred
to a communal tax or share of expenses, such as
a levee for local upkeep or a tavern bill split
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amongst a group.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
The free part.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Indicates exemption or release from this obligation. To be scott
free originally meant avoiding payment of the tax, either due
to privilege, evasion, or not being able or not being
part of the liable group. The phrase first appeared in
written English around the thirteenth century. For example, at twelve
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hundred's legal tax references somebody being scot free free of
tax literally means, reflecting its early assossination association with financial relief.
By the sixteenth century, the phrase expanded beyond taxes to
signify escaping any penalty or harm. Shakespeare used a variation
(51:39):
in Henry the Fifth from fifteen ninety nine, with a
character noting if he not be no, I don't do Shakespeare.
If he be not scott free, let him be whipped.
There you go, indicating freedom from punishment. The expression became
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in English speaking regions, particularly in legal and colloquial context,
as a way to describe getting off without consequences. The
spelling scott free. S cott free emerged later as a
phonetic misinterpretation, though scott free reminds the remains the historical
(52:22):
accurate form with one t. Today scott free is widely used,
as seen on social media and in everywhere in life.
Its mediaval tax origin is less recognized, but the concept
of unearned escape persists. No significant shifts in its meaning
(52:44):
have occurred as of now. I don't expect it to
in the future. The evolution reflects a linguistic journey from
fiscal exemption to the general reference of impunity, shaped by
centuries of English usage. And that's why the scott free
is this week's sugar. And that wraps up Episode one
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ninety six of the Soapbox Champion podcast. Thanks for listening
to everyone or watching, which you can do on the
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Speaker 3 (53:59):
Four free. That's right free. What else is free these days?
Almost nothing? That number is nine at eight. You can
even text it nine at eight.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Take care of yourself in one another no matter what
their political affiliations. Remember and we'll talk again next Tuesday.
I'll see it.
Speaker 6 (54:25):
The Urbs Ten Things You Never Knew ten. The entire
film was shot on a Universal Studios backlot, using iconic
houses from Leave It to Beaver and The Munsters.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
Nine.
Speaker 6 (54:36):
The animated Universal logo transition into the cul de Sac
was created by Industrial Light.
Speaker 3 (54:40):
And Magic and was innovative for its time. Eight.
Speaker 6 (54:44):
Queenie the Poodle also played Precious in Silence of the Lambs.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
Seven.
Speaker 6 (54:48):
Corey Feldman brought Michael Jackson's chimp Bubbles to set, until
the chimp was banned for flinging pooh.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
Six.
Speaker 6 (54:53):
The film was produced by Ron Howard's then new Imagine Entertainment,
helping launch the company's rise. Five Universal tram tours constantly
interrupted filming, and Jaws ride screams were picked up. In
early takes four, A box of Gremlin serial appears as
a nod to director Joe Dante's earlier film Gremlins Brie.
Tom Hanks initially hesitated to join the cast because he
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didn't want to play a father two. Much of the
film's dialogue was improvised due to the nineteen eighty eight
Writers Guild strike, including Hanks's gurney dive one. The original
ending had Ray die, but it was changed after Hanks
was cast to avoid killing off a beloved lead. Bonus fact,
the film was originally titled Bay Window, which sounds more
like a home improvement show than a dark comedy.
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