Sex In The Senate

We are sure you've heard about the video that leaked out of the Senate where two male staffers were "making love" on Amy Klobuchar's chair. Is porn the new norm? What planet are we on?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was angry, says Senator Ben Carden, when he found
out a staffer on his staff had filmed himself having
a romantic encounter with a I don't know if they're
in a relationship. Is about to say boyfriend, but it
might have been two ships that pass in the night.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
No, he claimed it was his love. It's his love, Okay, cool.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, he said he's you know, he basically came out
and said, I'm being raked over the calls because of
who I love.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Right, Yeah, I got that quote, which I want to
dissect a little bit coming up. Maryland Senator Ben Cardon
has said he feels betrayed by the since fired staffer
who filmed himself again it says, having sex here in
a congressional office building. I've just seen a little bit
of the video. I mean, you see the back of
a shirtless man, and it appears that he's helping the

(00:48):
man over a table or a chair or something.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
He wasn't just picking up papers or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
It turns out that he was bent over Senator Kobacher's
chair there in the hearing room. If you remember her,
she ran for president cycler two ago, Democrat from Minnesota
so she is going to want to get that steam
cleaned or something probably.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Lighted on fire. There is no reviving that porchair.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
I was angry and disappointed, the eighty year old Democrat
told Fox News.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
God, you're eighty years old.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
You didn't think that this sort of thing was ever
going to happen in your lifetime where there would be
video of one of your staffers doing this in the Senate.
Like I said yesterday, I guarantee you all kinds of
crazy sex has happened in the Capital over the years, oh,
by all kinds of people, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of times. So acting like nobody would ever do this

(01:42):
is silly. It's like when you hear this story about
Willie Nelson smoking dope sitting on top of the White
House with somebody back in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, lots of things go on, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
If anybody was going to sit on top of the
White House smoking dope, it would be Willie Nelson's sense u.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I was angry and disappointed, he said in his first
comments about the twenty four year old aiden I can't
pronounce his last name, who admitted the raunchy session while
crying about being a victim, which we'll get to a
little bit. It's a breach of trust in all of
the above, he said, it's a tragic situation. Tragic seems
to overstate it to me. I think that's a little
much's it's rude, it's you know you're gonna get fired

(02:19):
if it happens at any work police.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
But tragic.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Let's save tragic for like things that are actually tragic. Tragic,
I like tragi. Cardon said he only learned about the video,
which was filmed inside a locked hearing room, over the
weekend when he became aware of the video, and I
made sure that he was separated from our staff immediately.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Okay, fantastic.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
This is tragic to him because he got busted right
This would probably be happening right now again if this
video hadn't leaked.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
No, he wasn't gonna stop doing this.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
To the young man who was making sweet love to
perhaps his soulmate. The former staffer admitted that he had
shown poor judgment making the film yeah, but complained that
he was a victim of unwarned attacks from those outraged
that is on camera sex session. I've been attacked for
who I love to pursue a political agenda.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, you are being attacked for bending him over in
the Senate, that's why.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
And it would be exactly the same response if it
had been a woman, exactly the same response, don't you think?
I think absolutely. And then this, this is my favorite part.
I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace.
I feel like that's a lie.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I feel like that has already happened.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I feel like you're stating the opposite of what is
clearly true and on videotape. I would never disrespect my workplace.
You soiled Senator Klobacher's chair.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, that's a major form of disrespect.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
She's she's Minnesota nice and you've, uh, you've she's got
a covert in plastic.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Just sit down today.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
She's Minnesota nice. That is a different kind of nice.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
No charges have been filed against the young man. I
don't know what the chargers would be, but he may
have exposed himself to the legal trouble. Staffers have access
into such rooms. But the question is whether the unofficial
use that's unofficial, would you would constitute trespassing? Okay, whatever,
we don't need to go down that road. That's been
the legality stuff. Do we know, though, I feel like

(04:27):
it's not completely known yet how it ended up out,
how that video got out.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
So what I'm seeing here is that this video leaked
after it was shared in a private group that is
for gay men in politics. So this was posted within
what was I guess to be assumed a private server
right that they were using to share this kind of content,
and somebody saw it and probably went are they doing

(04:57):
that in the in the actual and then they it
leaked right Like I said yesterday, stupid game, stupid prizes.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, I can see how, uh you would think that's
a cool experience, and maybe you want to have the
videotape as a I don't know, to show your friends
or whatever. I can see how that would happen. Man
posting it to any sort of group thing and hoping
that people are going to keep it secret. It seems
like a bad idea. It's like that woman that is

(05:25):
running for office who was doing a porn with her husband,
remember that story from a fellow weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
I actually ended up watching some of that.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I didn't realize I was linking to the actual video
in a news story, but I saw the actual.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Video Alexandra Hunt.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
She's on OnlyFans, right, and she and her husband and
I saw some of the video. I mean, it's flat out,
straight up porn, and they're online and they take contributions
and if you tip them one hundred dollars, they'll do
this on camera for you. And it's clearly her and
she's not trying to hide you. So again, I don't
under how you having this stuff in a public forum

(06:02):
and think we're all in on this crazy sex.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
There's nobody here that possibly, under any circumstances would leak
this out.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Come on people.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I really think Only Fans has done a lot to
the stigma of what we consider to be porn because
it's so easy to make your own because you used
to you know, porn used to be something you kind
of had to find and it was sneaky to get.
Now there's basically a Facebook page for porn that anyone
of age can make an account and distribute it, and
so many people are doing it it's almost normal.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
I wonder if maybe you are onto something. I wonder
if culturally we're moving toward Look, everybody does this. I mean,
it's let's not pretend we don't and so well, for
whatever it's on video. If you don't like it, don't
watch it. I wonder if that's where we're headed. Maybe
we are, and maybe that's a good thing. I'd have
to think that over.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, in the amount of money that people are making
doing things like this, and there are women that come
out all the time and say, check this, I just
made thirty eight thousand dollars last month on only fans
putting my feet in pads of utter. You know, it's weird,
but people are doing it.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
For people that are into that sort of thing, right, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Sitting on balloons or whatever. Yeah, I've heard about that stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, and is there a reason why that shouldn't be
available if you want.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
I don't know. I have to think this over a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Takes us back to clip of the Year Jack. Things
are getting weird, getting weird fast.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
They're getting weird fast. Yeah, weird, and they're getting weird fast.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
The normalization of that sort of thing, and hey, everybody
does it behind closed doors.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
We all know.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Why would we act like we don't. Okay, maybe that
is the future.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
We'll see Armstrong and Getty