November 19, 2025 • 28 mins
Join Jim and Greg for the Wednesday 3 Martini Lunch as they applaud ICE for rescuing 30,000 migrant children that the Biden administration lost track of, Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett absurdly accusing several Republicans of ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and lefties in Maryland pushing a $25 minimum wage that would make the cost of living even worse
First, they welcome Border Czar Tom Homan’s revelation that the Trump administration has located 30,000 of the 300,000 migrant kids the Biden administration lost and never tried to find. Jim also highlights a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2023 investigation showing migrant children being forced into labor for major U.S. companies. Why is there so little political or media outrage?
Next, they laugh and fume as Rep. Crockett accuses GOP lawmakers of taking donations from Jeffrey Epstein, only for it to be exposed that none of the contributions came from that Jeffrey Epstein. If Crockett runs for U.S. Senate in Texas and wins the nomination, it will be one of the greatest gifts the GOP ever received.
Finally, activists in Maryland want a statewide referendum in 2026 to impose a $25 minimum wage through a constitutional amendment. Jim and Greg explain why the policy would worsen the cost of living and argue that if a higher minimum wage were truly the path to affordability, why not raise it much higher?
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First, they welcome Border Czar Tom Homan’s revelation that the Trump administration has located 30,000 of the 300,000 migrant kids the Biden administration lost and never tried to find. Jim also highlights a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2023 investigation showing migrant children being forced into labor for major U.S. companies. Why is there so little political or media outrage?
Next, they laugh and fume as Rep. Crockett accuses GOP lawmakers of taking donations from Jeffrey Epstein, only for it to be exposed that none of the contributions came from that Jeffrey Epstein. If Crockett runs for U.S. Senate in Texas and wins the nomination, it will be one of the greatest gifts the GOP ever received.
Finally, activists in Maryland want a statewide referendum in 2026 to impose a $25 minimum wage through a constitutional amendment. Jim and Greg explain why the policy would worsen the cost of living and argue that if a higher minimum wage were truly the path to affordability, why not raise it much higher?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the three Martini Lunch.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
and Jim Garritty of National Review.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Free Martini's coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Really glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of
the three mar teeny Lunch. There are a lot of
topics we considered for it today, but we've got three
very very good ones. First of all, quick update from yesterday.
If you didn't already hear the vote on the release
of the Epstein files in the House four hundred and
twenty seven to one unanimous consent voice vote in the Senate,
so that should be happening now within the next few days. Also,
(00:35):
Chewey Garcia, who he talked about yesterday not a wookie,
was reprimanded. Small slap on the wrist, but even twenty
three Democrats though, voted to reprimand him for basically fixing
the Democratic primary, dropping out at the very last second
so only his chief of staff would be on the
ballot and the Democratic primary. And so now we're going
(00:56):
to be talking about what's going on today. First of all,
we're going to be taking a look at Maryland now
pushing for a twenty five dollars an hour minimum wage.
Some folks are trying to put that on the ballot
next year. Is a constitutional amendment. Will also be taking
a look at one of the other fallouts of the
Epstein saga. Members of Congress and others who have been
(01:17):
found to have associations with Jeffrey Epstein and some who
haven't but have been accused of it. Thanks a lot,
Jasmine Crockett out of Texas for you and your crack
staff for this story. That's going to be a lot
of fun. And we're going to be taking a look
at Tom Homan explaining the progress being made to find
those three hundred thousand missing kids that the Biden administration
lost track up, So Jim play.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
To talk about today.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
But you can always always depend on at least somebody
in Congress doing something ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, I just got to do a quick fact check, Greg,
is that her crack staff or her on crack staff.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Certainly certainly sounds like the latter.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
This is the potential senate candidate, Jasmine Crockett. We'll leave
that for the segment coming up.
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Oh yeah, there's a part of me that really wants
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start with the good Martini. It's kind of a depressing
and disgusting story where the Biden administration left the Trump
administration on this issue. But of course, from day one
the border was a sieve and millions upon millions of
(04:09):
people came in the peak was three hundred thousand in
a month, and now we're down to a few thousand
a month and virtually nobody getting in. But as Tom
Holman and others have talked about Tom Homan being the borders,
are three hundred thousand kids somehow went missing. Three hundred thousand.
That's a lot of kids, and apparently the Bide administration
didn't do much to try and find them. But Homan
(04:32):
was on Fox News last night with Jesse Waters. He's
fed up with the protests against ICE because of how
these guys are being demonized and the whole narrative is
being demonized. And then he talked about the kids, and
here's the progress they made.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It's just over and over again. They want to attack Ice.
They want to throw all these false narratives. Bottom line
is ICE is protecting their communities and all these people,
where were they when President o'bam was president and ICE
removed four hundred and nine people was a record at
the time. We're worthy, we're worthy of half a million children.
We're smuggling this country, and they lost track of three
(05:07):
hundred thousand them. You know what President Trump has done.
I was with AHHS today, Jesse. We already found over
thirty thousand these kids, you know, by three weeks ago,
we're at twenty four thousand. Now we're worth thirty thousand,
and we're going to keep working until we find every one.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Of these kids.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
President Trump, saving lives every day, most secure border history
of the nation, less fatanyl killing Americans, less sex trafficking
women and children. And we're finding children that Biden administration
wasn't even looking for. And we're the bad guys.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, it is disgusting. And he's right about the border
numbers too. It's not just the numbers, it's the reduction
and drugs coming in. It's the reduction and the sex
trafficking is the reduction criminals coming across into our country.
And so ten percent of the kids have been found.
Obviously a long way to go, but the motivation is
in the right place and hopefully they make even more progress.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Greg I want to take you and listeners back to
February twenty twenty three, right now, more than two years ago.
Handah Dryer, reporter for the New York Times, traveled to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota,
South Dakota, and Virginia for a story about the exploitation
of migrant children who'd come across the border, and some
of these children that had been lost, and it turned
out a lot of them were doing child labor in
(06:14):
factories places like well known brands like Cheetos and Fruit
of the Loom. This was an eye opening, shocking story.
I think you could argue as one of the best
articles in New York Times has written in years and stunning,
jaw dropping. This is, you know, people who are supposed
to be protected by our government. We don't want to
see them exploited for sex trafficking. We don't want to
see them exploited by large corporations putting them to work. This.
(06:35):
I can't say that this was a totally ignored story,
but it did not. I don't remember seeing a great
deal of discussion about it on cable news. This was
not on the cover of Time magazine or Newsweek or anything.
It won the Pulitzer right, so there was people in
journalism looked at this and said, Wow, this is an
extraordinary work of journalism. This is exactly the kind of
deep dive reporting looking for the exploitation of the most
(06:55):
vulnerable and the most helpless in our society. This is
what journalism is supposed to be and yet it's crickets,
you know, with very little response to this. Why did
they not get so much attention? I think because it
didn't fit the narrative. You know, the audiences for both,
you know, all kinds of publications, and you know, cable
news out there is like, well, the Biden administration is
good and kind and loves immigrants, and the Trump administration
(07:16):
was big and bad and scary and wants to you know,
oppress them. And here you have a situation in which
lack of enforcement has led to like what, large scale
exploitation of migrant children. Here we have the Trump administration
making an effort to fix this, and as you were recognizing,
still roughly two undred and seventy thousand kids out there
that are still lost. Like this is the there's still
a lot of work to be done. If I have
any quibble with this, And look, maybe you don't want
(07:37):
to have home and do this. I know he's you know,
already a lightning rod figure among Democrats, and everyone sees
him as Darth Vader and all that kind of stuff.
There are lots of people at ICE who come out
and simply recite these figures and point to these thirty
thousand kids that they found. And I also would say,
I don't know if you're trying to persuade people on
this issue. I don't know if the Jesse Waters audience
is the one that's really full of swing voters or people.
(07:59):
I think if you're watching Waters, you're probably know how
you feel about illegal immigration and how you feel about
the Trump administration. I'd love to see somebody from Ice
go on MSNBC and point to the stories of recovering
these kids and reuniting them with their families and saying, look, yeah,
you don't love everything we have to do. You might
have a very different perspective on how we should enforce
immigration laws. But the Biden administration, by refusing toforce immigration laws,
(08:19):
created this mess. We're in the process of messing this.
No matter what you think of the immigration issue, you
should support getting these kids out of child labor, out
of exploitation, out of sex trafficking, and reuniting them with
their families. And so I get this is a beautiful
thing the administration is doing. I just gona wish they
could sell it a little bit better to an audience
that I think probably ought to be more receptive to it,
and I would really wish we had did not turn
(08:41):
this into a black and white, red and blue, automatic
partisan issue. You could be the world's biggest proponent of
legal immigration and you could look at and say child
exploitation is wrong and it is good for the administration
to get trying to find these kids. So kudos Tom Holman,
Kudos Ice. This is what government's supposed to do. And
unfortunately still a lot of road had to travel.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, the Left and their allies in the media have
this fairy tale narrative about why people are coming and
what happens when they get here, and way too often
people are brutalized and fleeced and cheated along the way.
Sometimes they're in indentured servitude essentially because they're supposed to
pay off their debt, which you know, the cartels and
others who smuggled them never really let them off the hook.
(09:23):
And then you know, if you push the Democrats far
enough on the issue of immigrations, like well, hey, who's
gonna cut my grass, Who's going to clean my house?
And now I guess it's who's going to make my
cheetos and my socks and my underwear. They don't want
people to know about that. They want this. You know,
they're all valedictorians coming across the border, and it's just
not the case. People are being exploited. They are the
(09:44):
victims of the democratic policy, not the beneficiaries in many,
many cases, and so just maddening, absolutely maddening. But good
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(11:38):
It's got elements of crazy. It's good that this got
blown up in Jasmine Crocket's face. Politically speaking, so yesterday,
you know, we had the Epstein files vote, we had
the Chewy Garcia vote. Well, there was also a vote
as the GOP tried to censure the congressional delegate from
the Virgin Islands. Her name is Stacey Plaskets, and the
(11:58):
reason for that was because she was actually texting with
Jeffrey Epstein in twenty nineteen at a hearing I think
involving Michael Cohen, who had flipped on Donald Trump at
that point, and so that gets found out and so
the GOP tries to centerre her. The vote failed, but
as part of that debate, Jasmine Crockett, the outspoken congressman
(12:19):
from Texas and potential US Senate candidate in twenty twenty six, decided,
oh yeah, Jeffrey Epstein, well two can play that game,
and so she quickly had her staff dig into any
Republicans who got money from Jeffrey Epstein. And here's how
she presented on the house floor.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.
As I had my team dig in very quickly, Mett Romney,
the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George bush Win, Ray McCain, Palin,
Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear if this
(12:58):
is the standard that we gonna make, no gon'n expose
at all. And just know that the FC filings, they
are available for everybody to review.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, and apparently none of those people actually got money
from the same Jeffrey Epstein. These are all different Jeffrey
Epstein's Liezelton tweeting out yesterday. Yes, Crockett a physician named
doctor Jeffrey Epstein who was a totally different person than
the other Jeffrey Epstein donated to a prior campaign of mine.
No freaking relation, you genius, And some of these donations
that she mentioned came after Jeffrey Epstein died in prison
(13:27):
in twenty nineteen. So pretty hard to pull that up
anytime your statement starts with somebody named Jeffrey Epstein. And
my staff looked into this real quick. You might make
some mistakes, and now there's a lot of egg on
Jasmine Crockett's face.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
She got a whole omelet. There are two potential probably
one I looked up, so if there's a Rolling Stone
articles that says, according to one database, there are nearly
three hundred people named Jeffrey Epstein across the United States.
I look in the White Pages. I found ninety three
people across the United States, nineteen people named Jeffrey Epstein
in New York. If you are one of these unlucky men,
(14:04):
I'm really sorry to hear that. And maybe you want
to think about legally changing your name, because I don't
think anyone's going to say I suspect after like nineteen
forty six, if you were a German your name just
happened to be Adolf Hitler. You just you know what,
I'm changing my name, I'm Schmidt or something something much
more generic. I was never that attached to that name anyway.
(14:24):
So one possibility one is that she genuinely believed all
of these people were donations from Jeffrey Epstein. Her staff
didn't check the dates. It never crossed her mind that
there are other people in the United States named Jeffrey
Epstein and that she was just reckless and then stupid.
Like that's bad, that's very bad. But you notice she
does say somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, which indicates that she
(14:45):
has at least some doubt in her mind, some possibility
this is somebody else named Jeffrey Epstein, and that possibility
she knows she's smearing. She's smearing the donors because one
guy who was a dog. By the way, I understand
this doctor has like really good reviews online. If your
name is Jeffrey Epstein, and apparently he's down in Florida
right now where you know Epstein was down in Florida too,
(15:05):
And you work on people and they come aways saying, wow,
my doctor is excellent. I gotta recommend him. His name
is Jeffrey Epstein. Like that guy's a phenomenal doctor, right,
that's a really good job when people are confident saying, yes,
you gotta go see doctor Epstein. This guy hasn't done
anything wrong as far as we know, none of the
other dozens of Jeffrey Epstein's in the country have done
anything remotely. It's close bad to that, And there's nothing
(15:26):
wrong with taking a donation from somebody who has the
name Jeffrey Epstein. However, Jasmine Crockett because she's you know,
a rage a Hollick, and just decided to oh, oh,
they're gonna accuse my people of interacting with Epstein. I
gotta accuse your people of interacting with Epstein. She decides
to go and do this, knowing that this is probably
not the Jeffrey Epstein, in particular the donations that came
long after he was murdered. I'm sorry, we have committed
(15:48):
suicide in that prison set. Look, as far as we know,
it's prisons, you know, Like Rich Lowry did a fantastic,
very in depth one. It's a very ugly portrait of
the people who are running the prison. It was completely disorganized.
Everybody was very slow back on their jobs, but there
was no indication that was actually somebody got in there
and killed them. That's that was Rich's conclusion based after
really really in depth review. But I think she doesn't care.
(16:09):
And as I mentioned earlier, she's thinking of running for
Senate in Texas. That is not a high odds possibility
of getting a promotion there. But I think if you're
in the Democratic Party right now, they want anger, they
want a fighter, right, they're angry at Chuck Schubert because
there's not enough of a fighter. So basically they want
angry accusations and they don't really care if they're true
(16:30):
or not. And I think left, right or center, you
should care whether something is true or not. And if
somebody just has the really god awful luck to be
named Jeffrey Epstein, they should not be torred with being
a notorious sex trafficker if they are not a notorious
sex trafficker. And there's nothing wrong with taking donations from
doctor Jeffrey Epstein who is not a notorious sex trafficker.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine is
dating a guy.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Named Joel Rifkin.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was had the same name as a serial killer,
and so he leaves a tick for Kramer for a
Giants game at Giant Stadium, but there's a mix up
at the will call window, and so they got a
page Joel rifted in throughout Giant Stadium and everybody's freaking
out when it comes to that, and so this is
just typical. But you know who did actually reach out
to the real Jeffrey Epstein as it turns out, a
(17:17):
consulting firm working on behalf of Hakim Jeffries in twenty thirteen.
I don't know that there was ever any connection between
the two or that he ever donated with that Kie
Jeffries campaign.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But you know, interesting, let's point out two thousand and
eight was when he was the two thousand and eight,
two thousand and nine he pled guilty to solictening sex
from a minor, so like that, that's public record. You know,
if you were friends with him before that and you're like, oh,
I had no idea, maybe it's plausible after two thousand
and eight, nobody has any excuse, sorry Larry Summers, about
any of that. One observation, though, Greg, out of curiosity,
(17:48):
are there any notorious like Greek separatists named Corumbus.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
No, we're in good shape. If you ever see a
donation from anybody with my name, it probably was me
because my grandfather and his brother changed the Greek name
when they came to the US because there is no
C in the Greek alphabet, so it started with a
K and was longer and all that stuff. And so
if it's Corumbus, there aren't a lot of us and
so it's probably if it's not made somebody pretty darn
(18:14):
close to me.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So besides a liberal activist in Marin County who has
since passed away named Jim Garretty. One time I rented
a car in actually our honeymoon in Dublin in Iral.
We actually we're in not sl oh Galway. I cannot
return to Galway because I am a notorious person. We're
at the rent a car counter and they type in
my name and they're like fourteen James Garretty's in there.
(18:37):
And my belief after do ye when you when your name,
you know, people google your name a lot. Apparently one
of them was connected to the IRA. Now I've never
been stopped by this, but I've always just been prepared
for it that at some point somebody named Jim Garrett
is going to do something really terrible and I'm going
to end up getting dealing with that grief for the
rest of my life. So you know, God, you know,
my sympathy is to every Jeffrey Epstein out there, and
(18:58):
to the gentleman named Joel Riffke. And that's side fold
Upso like this is everybody's nightmare scenario is that you
know some other idiot with your name. It's it's Michael
Bolton in office space. Why should I change my name
when he's the jackass?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
So that sucks, Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Part of me really wants her to be the nominee,
not because I want her close to being one vote
away from the Senate, but I think if she was
the nominee, no matter who wins that Republican primary, I'm
pretty sure the GOP holds set.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know, slam dunk win. I would say she's a
Daily Coast kind of candidate, but the irony is great.
I don't think people I don't hear people talking about
Daily Coast anymore, so I don't know whether you'd say
Blue Sky or wherever the angriest lefty you know, vibes
are these days. That's that's what people are into these days.
And I don't think it's a good form Certainly not
a good winning formula in Texas, but I don't think
it's a winning formula in a whole bunch of states.
(19:45):
But we'll see how that shakes out from here.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Probably not, but she is the angerest to the bunch.
Beta will fake it if he runs, because he's always
trying to.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
By the way, did just say becho or beta beta,
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The proposal, led by the National Advocacy Group One Fair Wage,
(22:14):
would amend Maryland's constitution and eliminate exceptions for tipped and
youth workers as well, making it the highest statewide minimum
wage in the nation. Volunteers are fanning out across the
state this week, launching a signature drive aim at placing
the wage hike on the twenty twenty six ballot, and
so Jim Simple Economics area, If life's too expensive and
(22:37):
then you increase the minimum wage, those business owners are
going to have some options on how they're going to
cover those costs. They could not hire as many people,
they could raise prices. The one thing that's not going
to happen is lowering the cost of living.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Greg This is the dumbest idea since Gavin Newsom in
the state of California started sending out checks to everyone
to fight inflation. Let's increase the money. Let's put more
money in people's says, because that'll bring prices down. No,
actually does not do that all right, So let's say
you are you're an unskilled labor. Most of us start
life as unskilled labor, particularly like in our teenage years.
(23:13):
We don't have great abilities to you know, manage a
law firm or do medical work or something like that.
We enter life minimally skilled, which means we want to
get hired for a job. We don't have a lot
of competitive advantages over other potential workers out there. The
one advantage we have, particularly if you're a teenager, you're
(23:34):
living at home, you don't have to support yourself. You
can work cheap, and unfortunately, this is like part of
how you can negotiate to get a job, like when
people put out when people put out contracts for bids,
they want to get the most money they can, but
they also recognize that if they you know, their bid
is too high, then they're not going to get the contract.
That there's somebody else who can do the job for cheaper.
So you're always looking for the highest possible rate that
(23:55):
you can get that still makes you valuable to the
person who wants you to do the work. Unfortunately, if
you're a teenage. Now when you're trying to support people, say, oh,
minimum wage is not enough to support a family of four. Yeah,
it's not. You're probably not supposed to be working at
a burger flipping job if you have kids to support.
You know, hopefully at that point in life you've here.
Maybe you're a manager, right, Maybe you're doing something else
that involves you're supposed to eventually accumulate skills that makes
(24:17):
you more valuable to your employer. But I would then
say to these Maryland lawmakers, you've decided that because the
cost of living is high, and because people are having
a hard time making ends meet, we should raise it
to twenty five dollars an hour. Why not one hundred
dollars an hour? Why not one hundred and twenty five dollars
an hour? Why not two hundred? Like if that, if
just raising the minimum wage is all it takes to
make people wealthier, let's do that. Then let's let's you know,
(24:40):
unless this is not actually connected to how people's prosperity,
and the minimum wage is simply a way of saying
we're going to make labor more expensive and hope that
business can take the cost and not you know, pass
on the charges to customers. Guess what they do or
they put research into automation. Have you noticed my nearest
McDonald's they still have a cash register, but they also
(25:01):
have the big kiosks right. A lot of businesses at
CBS you or Walgreens or places like that, they have
the automatic checkout place right where you bag it, you
scan and bag it yourself. They still have a register.
They're always going to need to have some human being there,
but instead of having two, three, four people on the registers,
maybe they only have one and everybody else is doing that. Yeah, congratulations,
(25:22):
you've raised the minimum wage, You've made labor more expensive,
but you've eliminated jobs in the process. Right, You have
created a greater incentive for automation right now in this
era of artificial intelligence is going to take all of
our jobs. By the way, it's unrelated to our topics
of the day, but I just want to share this
with listeners. There was a cyber attack done by allegedly
Chinese state sponsored hackers that used AI. Do you know
(25:44):
what this means, Greg? It means that even malevolent Chinese
hackers are losing their jobs to AI. That's how bad
this is. Get so that's the third option. Then the
thing like, what let's make labor does it happen to
say what the current minimum wage in in Maryland is?
Right now?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's officially fifteen, but of course Montgomery County, which is
one of the most liberal counties, has it as high
as seventeen and sixty five cents an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, so let's take let's say seventeen dollars an hour.
Let's make labor more expensive by eight dollars an hour, which,
by the way, like that's more. Eight dollars an hour
is the rate of increase we're talking about here. That's
more than the minimum wage was when I was working
minimum wage folks. That's you know, I think it was
like six twenty five an hour. If that so about it?
I Ward food Town. I was a union member, so
(26:28):
those bastards of the labor unions took money out of it.
But anyway, that's another another story I've heard at the time. Kids,
welcome to how I met your mother, you know. But
now let's make labor much more expensive. Hey, what do
you think that's going to do to prices? And what
do you think that's going to do to jobs? It
is amazing that we keep seeing this over and over
again and it just never seems to get anywhere. So
(26:48):
it just is utterly infuriating. No matter how many times
raising the minimum wage ends up costing jobs and end
up making things more expensive. Nobody in the Democratic Party
could ever seem to understand this.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Not at all.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
And the organized labor groups are always for this because
if the very bottom of unskilled labor is twenty five
dollars an hour, well guess what they can argue for
the next time. They've got to go through collective bargaining
and so forth. And we just did this in California.
We gavinknewsoone was it twenty dollars an hour for fast
food workers except at Panera because he's buddies with the
guy at Panera. And guess what happened to the number
(27:20):
of fast food workers in the state of California.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It went down.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
It didn't go up because they can't afford it. And
the same thing's going to happen. The economy's going to
struggle even more. But the left never learns. They just
keep going higher. Remember Barbara Lee, in a Senate debate
a few years ago, was hiring for fifty dollars an hour.
Pretty soon, that's gonna be where the whole Democratic Party is.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
But not yet.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
If I wish I had some hope that this wouldn't
pass in Maryland, but I guarantee it will as long
as I get it on the ballot.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
So Greg, our crazy exaggerated concept of a Democratic parties
proposal today is tomorrow's real proposal. Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yes, yes, And the interval's getting much shorter between it
actually happening. So anyway, Jim, have a good Wednesday. I
will see tomorrow. See them are hell, Greg, Jim Garretty,
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Really glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of
the three mar teeny Lunch. There are a lot of
topics we considered for it today, but we've got three
very very good ones. First of all, quick update from yesterday.
If you didn't already hear the vote on the release
of the Epstein files in the House four hundred and
twenty seven to one unanimous consent voice vote in the Senate,
so that should be happening now within the next few days. Also,
(00:35):
Chewey Garcia, who he talked about yesterday not a wookie,
was reprimanded. Small slap on the wrist, but even twenty
three Democrats though, voted to reprimand him for basically fixing
the Democratic primary, dropping out at the very last second
so only his chief of staff would be on the
ballot and the Democratic primary. And so now we're going
(00:56):
to be talking about what's going on today. First of all,
we're going to be taking a look at Maryland now
pushing for a twenty five dollars an hour minimum wage.
Some folks are trying to put that on the ballot
next year. Is a constitutional amendment. Will also be taking
a look at one of the other fallouts of the
Epstein saga. Members of Congress and others who have been
(01:17):
found to have associations with Jeffrey Epstein and some who
haven't but have been accused of it. Thanks a lot,
Jasmine Crockett out of Texas for you and your crack
staff for this story. That's going to be a lot
of fun. And we're going to be taking a look
at Tom Homan explaining the progress being made to find
those three hundred thousand missing kids that the Biden administration
lost track up, So Jim play.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
To talk about today.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
But you can always always depend on at least somebody
in Congress doing something ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, I just got to do a quick fact check, Greg,
is that her crack staff or her on crack staff.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Certainly certainly sounds like the latter.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
This is the potential senate candidate, Jasmine Crockett. We'll leave
that for the segment coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh yeah, there's a part of me that really wants
her to be not the knave, but anyway, we'll get
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That's a lot of kids, and apparently the Bide administration
didn't do much to try and find them. But Homan
(04:32):
was on Fox News last night with Jesse Waters. He's
fed up with the protests against ICE because of how
these guys are being demonized and the whole narrative is
being demonized. And then he talked about the kids, and
here's the progress they made.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It's just over and over again. They want to attack Ice.
They want to throw all these false narratives. Bottom line
is ICE is protecting their communities and all these people,
where were they when President o'bam was president and ICE
removed four hundred and nine people was a record at
the time. We're worthy, we're worthy of half a million children.
We're smuggling this country, and they lost track of three
(05:07):
hundred thousand them. You know what President Trump has done.
I was with AHHS today, Jesse. We already found over
thirty thousand these kids, you know, by three weeks ago,
we're at twenty four thousand. Now we're worth thirty thousand,
and we're going to keep working until we find every one.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Of these kids.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
President Trump, saving lives every day, most secure border history
of the nation, less fatanyl killing Americans, less sex trafficking
women and children. And we're finding children that Biden administration
wasn't even looking for. And we're the bad guys.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, it is disgusting. And he's right about the border
numbers too. It's not just the numbers, it's the reduction
and drugs coming in. It's the reduction and the sex
trafficking is the reduction criminals coming across into our country.
And so ten percent of the kids have been found.
Obviously a long way to go, but the motivation is
in the right place and hopefully they make even more progress.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Greg I want to take you and listeners back to
February twenty twenty three, right now, more than two years ago.
Handah Dryer, reporter for the New York Times, traveled to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota,
South Dakota, and Virginia for a story about the exploitation
of migrant children who'd come across the border, and some
of these children that had been lost, and it turned
out a lot of them were doing child labor in
(06:14):
factories places like well known brands like Cheetos and Fruit
of the Loom. This was an eye opening, shocking story.
I think you could argue as one of the best
articles in New York Times has written in years and stunning,
jaw dropping. This is, you know, people who are supposed
to be protected by our government. We don't want to
see them exploited for sex trafficking. We don't want to
see them exploited by large corporations putting them to work. This.
(06:35):
I can't say that this was a totally ignored story,
but it did not. I don't remember seeing a great
deal of discussion about it on cable news. This was
not on the cover of Time magazine or Newsweek or anything.
It won the Pulitzer right, so there was people in
journalism looked at this and said, Wow, this is an
extraordinary work of journalism. This is exactly the kind of
deep dive reporting looking for the exploitation of the most
(06:55):
vulnerable and the most helpless in our society. This is
what journalism is supposed to be and yet it's crickets,
you know, with very little response to this. Why did
they not get so much attention? I think because it
didn't fit the narrative. You know, the audiences for both,
you know, all kinds of publications, and you know, cable
news out there is like, well, the Biden administration is
good and kind and loves immigrants, and the Trump administration
(07:16):
was big and bad and scary and wants to you know,
oppress them. And here you have a situation in which
lack of enforcement has led to like what, large scale
exploitation of migrant children. Here we have the Trump administration
making an effort to fix this, and as you were recognizing,
still roughly two undred and seventy thousand kids out there
that are still lost. Like this is the there's still
a lot of work to be done. If I have
any quibble with this, And look, maybe you don't want
(07:37):
to have home and do this. I know he's you know,
already a lightning rod figure among Democrats, and everyone sees
him as Darth Vader and all that kind of stuff.
There are lots of people at ICE who come out
and simply recite these figures and point to these thirty
thousand kids that they found. And I also would say,
I don't know if you're trying to persuade people on
this issue. I don't know if the Jesse Waters audience
is the one that's really full of swing voters or people.
(07:59):
I think if you're watching Waters, you're probably know how
you feel about illegal immigration and how you feel about
the Trump administration. I'd love to see somebody from Ice
go on MSNBC and point to the stories of recovering
these kids and reuniting them with their families and saying, look, yeah,
you don't love everything we have to do. You might
have a very different perspective on how we should enforce
immigration laws. But the Biden administration, by refusing toforce immigration laws,
(08:19):
created this mess. We're in the process of messing this.
No matter what you think of the immigration issue, you
should support getting these kids out of child labor, out
of exploitation, out of sex trafficking, and reuniting them with
their families. And so I get this is a beautiful
thing the administration is doing. I just gona wish they
could sell it a little bit better to an audience
that I think probably ought to be more receptive to it,
and I would really wish we had did not turn
(08:41):
this into a black and white, red and blue, automatic
partisan issue. You could be the world's biggest proponent of
legal immigration and you could look at and say child
exploitation is wrong and it is good for the administration
to get trying to find these kids. So kudos Tom Holman,
Kudos Ice. This is what government's supposed to do. And
unfortunately still a lot of road had to travel.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, the Left and their allies in the media have
this fairy tale narrative about why people are coming and
what happens when they get here, and way too often
people are brutalized and fleeced and cheated along the way.
Sometimes they're in indentured servitude essentially because they're supposed to
pay off their debt, which you know, the cartels and
others who smuggled them never really let them off the hook.
(09:23):
And then you know, if you push the Democrats far
enough on the issue of immigrations, like well, hey, who's
gonna cut my grass, Who's going to clean my house?
And now I guess it's who's going to make my
cheetos and my socks and my underwear. They don't want
people to know about that. They want this. You know,
they're all valedictorians coming across the border, and it's just
not the case. People are being exploited. They are the
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many cases, and so just maddening, absolutely maddening. But good
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It's got elements of crazy. It's good that this got
blown up in Jasmine Crocket's face. Politically speaking, so yesterday,
you know, we had the Epstein files vote, we had
the Chewy Garcia vote. Well, there was also a vote
as the GOP tried to censure the congressional delegate from
the Virgin Islands. Her name is Stacey Plaskets, and the
(11:58):
reason for that was because she was actually texting with
Jeffrey Epstein in twenty nineteen at a hearing I think
involving Michael Cohen, who had flipped on Donald Trump at
that point, and so that gets found out and so
the GOP tries to centerre her. The vote failed, but
as part of that debate, Jasmine Crockett, the outspoken congressman
(12:19):
from Texas and potential US Senate candidate in twenty twenty six, decided,
oh yeah, Jeffrey Epstein, well two can play that game,
and so she quickly had her staff dig into any
Republicans who got money from Jeffrey Epstein. And here's how
she presented on the house floor.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.
As I had my team dig in very quickly, Mett Romney,
the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George bush Win, Ray McCain, Palin,
Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear if this
(12:58):
is the standard that we gonna make, no gon'n expose
at all. And just know that the FC filings, they
are available for everybody to review.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, and apparently none of those people actually got money
from the same Jeffrey Epstein. These are all different Jeffrey
Epstein's Liezelton tweeting out yesterday. Yes, Crockett a physician named
doctor Jeffrey Epstein who was a totally different person than
the other Jeffrey Epstein donated to a prior campaign of mine.
No freaking relation, you genius, And some of these donations
that she mentioned came after Jeffrey Epstein died in prison
(13:27):
in twenty nineteen. So pretty hard to pull that up
anytime your statement starts with somebody named Jeffrey Epstein. And
my staff looked into this real quick. You might make
some mistakes, and now there's a lot of egg on
Jasmine Crockett's face.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
She got a whole omelet. There are two potential probably
one I looked up, so if there's a Rolling Stone
articles that says, according to one database, there are nearly
three hundred people named Jeffrey Epstein across the United States.
I look in the White Pages. I found ninety three
people across the United States, nineteen people named Jeffrey Epstein
in New York. If you are one of these unlucky men,
(14:04):
I'm really sorry to hear that. And maybe you want
to think about legally changing your name, because I don't
think anyone's going to say I suspect after like nineteen
forty six, if you were a German your name just
happened to be Adolf Hitler. You just you know what,
I'm changing my name, I'm Schmidt or something something much
more generic. I was never that attached to that name anyway.
(14:24):
So one possibility one is that she genuinely believed all
of these people were donations from Jeffrey Epstein. Her staff
didn't check the dates. It never crossed her mind that
there are other people in the United States named Jeffrey
Epstein and that she was just reckless and then stupid.
Like that's bad, that's very bad. But you notice she
does say somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, which indicates that she
(14:45):
has at least some doubt in her mind, some possibility
this is somebody else named Jeffrey Epstein, and that possibility
she knows she's smearing. She's smearing the donors because one
guy who was a dog. By the way, I understand
this doctor has like really good reviews online. If your
name is Jeffrey Epstein, and apparently he's down in Florida
right now where you know Epstein was down in Florida too,
(15:05):
And you work on people and they come aways saying, wow,
my doctor is excellent. I gotta recommend him. His name
is Jeffrey Epstein. Like that guy's a phenomenal doctor, right,
that's a really good job when people are confident saying, yes,
you gotta go see doctor Epstein. This guy hasn't done
anything wrong as far as we know, none of the
other dozens of Jeffrey Epstein's in the country have done
anything remotely. It's close bad to that, And there's nothing
(15:26):
wrong with taking a donation from somebody who has the
name Jeffrey Epstein. However, Jasmine Crockett because she's you know,
a rage a Hollick, and just decided to oh, oh,
they're gonna accuse my people of interacting with Epstein. I
gotta accuse your people of interacting with Epstein. She decides
to go and do this, knowing that this is probably
not the Jeffrey Epstein, in particular the donations that came
long after he was murdered. I'm sorry, we have committed
(15:48):
suicide in that prison set. Look, as far as we know,
it's prisons, you know, Like Rich Lowry did a fantastic,
very in depth one. It's a very ugly portrait of
the people who are running the prison. It was completely disorganized.
Everybody was very slow back on their jobs, but there
was no indication that was actually somebody got in there
and killed them. That's that was Rich's conclusion based after
really really in depth review. But I think she doesn't care.
(16:09):
And as I mentioned earlier, she's thinking of running for
Senate in Texas. That is not a high odds possibility
of getting a promotion there. But I think if you're
in the Democratic Party right now, they want anger, they
want a fighter, right, they're angry at Chuck Schubert because
there's not enough of a fighter. So basically they want
angry accusations and they don't really care if they're true
(16:30):
or not. And I think left, right or center, you
should care whether something is true or not. And if
somebody just has the really god awful luck to be
named Jeffrey Epstein, they should not be torred with being
a notorious sex trafficker if they are not a notorious
sex trafficker. And there's nothing wrong with taking donations from
doctor Jeffrey Epstein who is not a notorious sex trafficker.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine is
dating a guy.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Named Joel Rifkin.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was had the same name as a serial killer,
and so he leaves a tick for Kramer for a
Giants game at Giant Stadium, but there's a mix up
at the will call window, and so they got a
page Joel rifted in throughout Giant Stadium and everybody's freaking
out when it comes to that, and so this is
just typical. But you know who did actually reach out
to the real Jeffrey Epstein as it turns out, a
(17:17):
consulting firm working on behalf of Hakim Jeffries in twenty thirteen.
I don't know that there was ever any connection between
the two or that he ever donated with that Kie
Jeffries campaign.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But you know, interesting, let's point out two thousand and
eight was when he was the two thousand and eight,
two thousand and nine he pled guilty to solictening sex
from a minor, so like that, that's public record. You know,
if you were friends with him before that and you're like, oh,
I had no idea, maybe it's plausible after two thousand
and eight, nobody has any excuse, sorry Larry Summers, about
any of that. One observation, though, Greg, out of curiosity,
(17:48):
are there any notorious like Greek separatists named Corumbus.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
No, we're in good shape. If you ever see a
donation from anybody with my name, it probably was me
because my grandfather and his brother changed the Greek name
when they came to the US because there is no
C in the Greek alphabet, so it started with a
K and was longer and all that stuff. And so
if it's Corumbus, there aren't a lot of us and
so it's probably if it's not made somebody pretty darn
(18:14):
close to me.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So besides a liberal activist in Marin County who has
since passed away named Jim Garretty. One time I rented
a car in actually our honeymoon in Dublin in Iral.
We actually we're in not sl oh Galway. I cannot
return to Galway because I am a notorious person. We're
at the rent a car counter and they type in
my name and they're like fourteen James Garretty's in there.
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And my belief after do ye when you when your name,
you know, people google your name a lot. Apparently one
of them was connected to the IRA. Now I've never
been stopped by this, but I've always just been prepared
for it that at some point somebody named Jim Garrett
is going to do something really terrible and I'm going
to end up getting dealing with that grief for the
rest of my life. So you know, God, you know,
my sympathy is to every Jeffrey Epstein out there, and
(18:58):
to the gentleman named Joel Riffke. And that's side fold
Upso like this is everybody's nightmare scenario is that you
know some other idiot with your name. It's it's Michael
Bolton in office space. Why should I change my name
when he's the jackass?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
So that sucks, Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Part of me really wants her to be the nominee,
not because I want her close to being one vote
away from the Senate, but I think if she was
the nominee, no matter who wins that Republican primary, I'm
pretty sure the GOP holds set.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know, slam dunk win. I would say she's a
Daily Coast kind of candidate, but the irony is great.
I don't think people I don't hear people talking about
Daily Coast anymore, so I don't know whether you'd say
Blue Sky or wherever the angriest lefty you know, vibes
are these days. That's that's what people are into these days.
And I don't think it's a good form Certainly not
a good winning formula in Texas, but I don't think
it's a winning formula in a whole bunch of states.
(19:45):
But we'll see how that shakes out from here.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Probably not, but she is the angerest to the bunch.
Beta will fake it if he runs, because he's always
trying to.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
By the way, did just say becho or beta beta,
because like.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
He's beta yeah, beta yeah, freudi and slip yeah sometimes.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
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Speaker 3 (21:31):
All right, Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
There is definitely a lot of concern around the country
as it relates to the economy, and affordability is the
big word that the left likes to use, but just
cost of living is it's getting worse and it has
been for the last number of years. It's the inflation
rate is not growing as fast nearly as it was
a few years ago, but things have not gone down
and so budgets are stretched tighter even if you do
(21:54):
have rocket money. But there is now a statewide effort
to raise Maryland's minimum way. This is from ABC seven
in the DC area to twenty five dollars an hour,
and this movement is gaining traction, setting up what could
become one of the most significant wage debates in state history.
The proposal, led by the National Advocacy Group One Fair Wage,
(22:14):
would amend Maryland's constitution and eliminate exceptions for tipped and
youth workers as well, making it the highest statewide minimum
wage in the nation. Volunteers are fanning out across the
state this week, launching a signature drive aim at placing
the wage hike on the twenty twenty six ballot, and
so Jim Simple Economics area, If life's too expensive and
(22:37):
then you increase the minimum wage, those business owners are
going to have some options on how they're going to
cover those costs. They could not hire as many people,
they could raise prices. The one thing that's not going
to happen is lowering the cost of living.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Greg This is the dumbest idea since Gavin Newsom in
the state of California started sending out checks to everyone
to fight inflation. Let's increase the money. Let's put more
money in people's says, because that'll bring prices down. No,
actually does not do that all right, So let's say
you are you're an unskilled labor. Most of us start
life as unskilled labor, particularly like in our teenage years.
(23:13):
We don't have great abilities to you know, manage a
law firm or do medical work or something like that.
We enter life minimally skilled, which means we want to
get hired for a job. We don't have a lot
of competitive advantages over other potential workers out there. The
one advantage we have, particularly if you're a teenager, you're
(23:34):
living at home, you don't have to support yourself. You
can work cheap, and unfortunately, this is like part of
how you can negotiate to get a job, like when
people put out when people put out contracts for bids,
they want to get the most money they can, but
they also recognize that if they you know, their bid
is too high, then they're not going to get the contract.
That there's somebody else who can do the job for cheaper.
So you're always looking for the highest possible rate that
(23:55):
you can get that still makes you valuable to the
person who wants you to do the work. Unfortunately, if
you're a teenage. Now when you're trying to support people, say, oh,
minimum wage is not enough to support a family of four. Yeah,
it's not. You're probably not supposed to be working at
a burger flipping job if you have kids to support.
You know, hopefully at that point in life you've here.
Maybe you're a manager, right, Maybe you're doing something else
that involves you're supposed to eventually accumulate skills that makes
(24:17):
you more valuable to your employer. But I would then
say to these Maryland lawmakers, you've decided that because the
cost of living is high, and because people are having
a hard time making ends meet, we should raise it
to twenty five dollars an hour. Why not one hundred
dollars an hour? Why not one hundred and twenty five dollars
an hour? Why not two hundred? Like if that, if
just raising the minimum wage is all it takes to
make people wealthier, let's do that. Then let's let's you know,
(24:40):
unless this is not actually connected to how people's prosperity,
and the minimum wage is simply a way of saying
we're going to make labor more expensive and hope that
business can take the cost and not you know, pass
on the charges to customers. Guess what they do or
they put research into automation. Have you noticed my nearest
McDonald's they still have a cash register, but they also
(25:01):
have the big kiosks right. A lot of businesses at
CBS you or Walgreens or places like that, they have
the automatic checkout place right where you bag it, you
scan and bag it yourself. They still have a register.
They're always going to need to have some human being there,
but instead of having two, three, four people on the registers,
maybe they only have one and everybody else is doing that. Yeah, congratulations,
(25:22):
you've raised the minimum wage, You've made labor more expensive,
but you've eliminated jobs in the process. Right, You have
created a greater incentive for automation right now in this
era of artificial intelligence is going to take all of
our jobs. By the way, it's unrelated to our topics
of the day, but I just want to share this
with listeners. There was a cyber attack done by allegedly
Chinese state sponsored hackers that used AI. Do you know
(25:44):
what this means, Greg? It means that even malevolent Chinese
hackers are losing their jobs to AI. That's how bad
this is. Get so that's the third option. Then the
thing like, what let's make labor does it happen to
say what the current minimum wage in in Maryland is?
Right now?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's officially fifteen, but of course Montgomery County, which is
one of the most liberal counties, has it as high
as seventeen and sixty five cents an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, so let's take let's say seventeen dollars an hour.
Let's make labor more expensive by eight dollars an hour, which,
by the way, like that's more. Eight dollars an hour
is the rate of increase we're talking about here. That's
more than the minimum wage was when I was working
minimum wage folks. That's you know, I think it was
like six twenty five an hour. If that so about it?
I Ward food Town. I was a union member, so
(26:28):
those bastards of the labor unions took money out of it.
But anyway, that's another another story I've heard at the time. Kids,
welcome to how I met your mother, you know. But
now let's make labor much more expensive. Hey, what do
you think that's going to do to prices? And what
do you think that's going to do to jobs? It
is amazing that we keep seeing this over and over
again and it just never seems to get anywhere. So
(26:48):
it just is utterly infuriating. No matter how many times
raising the minimum wage ends up costing jobs and end
up making things more expensive. Nobody in the Democratic Party
could ever seem to understand this.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Not at all.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
And the organized labor groups are always for this because
if the very bottom of unskilled labor is twenty five
dollars an hour, well guess what they can argue for
the next time. They've got to go through collective bargaining
and so forth. And we just did this in California.
We gavinknewsoone was it twenty dollars an hour for fast
food workers except at Panera because he's buddies with the
guy at Panera. And guess what happened to the number
(27:20):
of fast food workers in the state of California.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It went down.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
It didn't go up because they can't afford it. And
the same thing's going to happen. The economy's going to
struggle even more. But the left never learns. They just
keep going higher. Remember Barbara Lee, in a Senate debate
a few years ago, was hiring for fifty dollars an hour.
Pretty soon, that's gonna be where the whole Democratic Party is.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
But not yet.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
If I wish I had some hope that this wouldn't
pass in Maryland, but I guarantee it will as long
as I get it on the ballot.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
So Greg, our crazy exaggerated concept of a Democratic parties
proposal today is tomorrow's real proposal. Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yes, yes, And the interval's getting much shorter between it
actually happening. So anyway, Jim, have a good Wednesday. I
will see tomorrow. See them are hell, Greg, Jim Garretty,
National Review. I'm Greg Corumbus of Radio America. Thanks so
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