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I want to lead with
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A really, really fascinating wrinkle that has just emerged
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In the epstein documents saga
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Yesterday evening, newly unsealed court documents show
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That donald trump called the palm
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Beach police chief about jeffrey epstein in 2006.
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So this is before he was ever arrested
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For pedophilia or for sex trafficking minors.
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Yeah. or.
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Well,
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We should be precise about what it is
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Because we don't how he described that phone call.
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What we have is we have a police
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We have in 2019, not even that we have in 2019.
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The fbi interviewed michael, writer,
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Who had been the palm beach police chief at that time,
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And he apparently told
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And this has even blacked out the documents.
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But the miami herald is reporting
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That was this guy, and he spoke with the fbi
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And then told them that this is how it unfolded.
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So there is a chain here.
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This is from the memory, the recounting of the then palm
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Beach police chief.
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But he does say that in july 2006,
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That's just
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When epstein
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Is coming under investigation, i think before he's even been
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Indicted. yep.
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Trump calls palm beach police
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And he basically tells them, yeah,
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You guys should investigate this guy.
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He's a creep. he's disgusting.
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But glenn maxwell is the really he calls her evil.
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He says she's the evil one and is doing bad stuff.
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And he says people in miami know about it.
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And people in new york know about it.
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And it doesn't seem like he gave them anything specific,
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But that he was encouraging them to look further into it.
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Yeah, because he knows,
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He said that everybody knows what he's been doing.
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So this is pic 322.
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The image displays a page of redacted testimony
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Or statements related to jeffrey epstein.
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Epstein mentioning interactions
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With donald trump and ghislaine maxwell.
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Trump was
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One of the very first person as revealed by this document.
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Again, it is from 2019.
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It was a recollection
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Of the 2006, interaction with president trump
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That trump was one of the very first people to call
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When people found out
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That they were investigating epstein in 2006, president
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Trump is quoted as saying
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He threw epstein out of his club,
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Called the police, and people in new york
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Knew epstein was quote unquote, disgusting.
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Sounds like president trump.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's one of his favorite.
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That was what that's like right around
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When he was going, he, he would do this.
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Rosie o'donnell.
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He would like attack on entertainment tonight.
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Yeah. rosie o'donnell is disgusting.
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She's a slob.
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She talks like a truck driver.
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Trump also reportedly stated that maxwell was epstein's
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Operative and quote unquote, evil.
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Advising to focus on her.
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So here's an image.
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323 palm beach country club.
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This is a quote from it is a jewish country club.
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A lot of wealthy people are there and they flock
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Together. mar-a-lago is a mixture of everyone.
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Donald trump told redacted that he threw epstein
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Out of his club.
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Trump called the palm beach police department
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To tell him thank goodness for, stopping him.
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Everyone has known he's been doing this end quote.
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So that's the first part.
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Now, yesterday we also got, video from glenn maxwell
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Pleading the fifth again and again and again before,
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It was comber and andy biggs.
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So that was, we've got this clip here.
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It's worth it's worth showing just for fun here.
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Because it's interesting seeing them in their,
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In their native habitat, you know what i mean?
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It's it's, a fascinating clip is that guys.
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Miss maxwell, were you a close friend
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And confidant of jeffrey? i've seen.
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I would like to answer your question,
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But on the advice of counsel,
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I respectfully declined to answer this question.
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And any related questions?
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My habeas petition is pending in the southern district
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Of new york.
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I therefore invoke my right to silence
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Under the fifth amendment to the us constitution.
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Let the record reflect that miss maxwell
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Has invoked the fifth amendment against self-incrimination.
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So chairman komar confirms this.
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326 expected, the name maxwell took the fifth
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And refused to answer any questions.
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This is obviously very disappointing.
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We had many questions
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To ask about the crime she and epstein committed,
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As well as questions about potential coconspirators,
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But it looks like
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This is a little game of negotiation that's going on
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Behind the scenes with the lawyers.
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Rep andy biggs, who's running for governor here
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In the great state of arizona, is going to be
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The next governor of the great state of arizona,
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Said that maxwell's
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Lawyer, quote, said that
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She has no indication and would say so, that neither
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Presidents trump or clinton are culpable of any wrongdoing.
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And that's one thing they said in this opening statement.
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So, komar said that maxwell, as attorney, said
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She would, quote, answer questions
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If she were granted clemency by the president.
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So horse trading, going on behind the scenes,
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That's tough
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Because when you make it that obvious, like certainly
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Just from the political calculation,
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Regardless of what actually happened,
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If if that's the deal, unfortunately,
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Anyone who's sold on there being wrongdoing
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Is not going to buy that because they'll just say,
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Basically she sold that story in return for a pardon.
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Correct.
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Which makes it very tough
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Regardless of what truly happened. yeah.
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But you know, what's great here is you've got these newly
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Unearthed documents from the fbi, from the palm
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Beach police chief saying that trump was calling him,
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You know, warning about evil, disgusting
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Epstein and ghislaine
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Maxwell in 2006, which is funny because trump,
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I think that's worthy of note is in 2019, president
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Trump was saying he had no knowledge of anything
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Epstein was doing, and so, you know, you do wonder
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What caused him to frame it that way.
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I wouldn't be surprised
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If maybe it was like he just didn't want to.
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Maybe he just didn't want people
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To think he was a narc or something.
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Well, i will tell you.
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I mean, palm beach,
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If anybody knows the palm beach area, it is.
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It's like high school for rich people.
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They all talk and they all know.
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They all hear the rumor mill.
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And so it's possible that president trump just
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Didn't have direct evidence or direct knowledge.
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Yeah, he might have.
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He had he had heard
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All of the stuff that was going on, wanted them to step in.
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Also, president trump has been very clear about this.
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You know, i think virginia
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Guthrie was, working at mar-a-lago.
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I think in the spa there or whatever.
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And jeffrey epstein poached her from his club.
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He didn't like that.
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And i think he was trying to do that
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A lot of times, with more, more staff than just virginia.
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And so listen, if you're a business owner
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And another business is trying to keep,
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You know, poaching your, your staff, you don't like that
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And you're going to put your foot down on it.
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So i do think some of
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It was sort of a business related thing.
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Some of it was, rumor mill.
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This guy's disgusting.
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And it seems to be that epstein held on to this grudge
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For years and kept trying, as mentioned,
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Thousands of times in the files in one form or another.
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But he doesn't pop up the way others are
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Where they're emailing epstein all of the time.
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He's just this peripheral figure.
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And i think a very real phenomenon is,
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My honestly, i suspect that epstein himself
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Probably believed
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That donald trump might have been the guy
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Who essentially ratted him out to police.
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Like may have been the guy who brought him down.
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Well, and then he runs for president in 2016, 2015,
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2016 becomes uber uber important and famous.
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Jeffrey epstein then becomes even more
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Fixated on him, wants to know how
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He can get him, how he can take him down.
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And kind of, you know, i think it's behind this.
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I think it's just so funny that obviously president
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Trump took a lot of heat for he was skeptical of saying,
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You know, we don't need to release more of this stuff.
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It's going to tag a lot of people.
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And it caused
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All these people to say,
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Oh, well, the president is hiding something.
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He's like, he's the president.
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And then they finally like, they dig in
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And they get this released and oh, it's this unreported.
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Previously unreported
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Report of president trump calling the police on in 2006.
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Like pretty truly is like the cleanest man ever.
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When you think of the amount
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Of effort to bring him down and what they ultimately find,
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Whether it's business or whether it's this,
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And i just want you guys
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In the audience to marvel in one thing.
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The left is losing their mind about this revelation.
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They hate this.
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So it's a good day.
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It's a good day when the left's upset.
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But we'll be right back.
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But we'll be right back.
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This whole jeffrey
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Epstein thing is a big, huge, giant story
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Because we all sort of sense that children are being abused.
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We all sort of sense that children are being
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Taken advantage of.
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They're being sexualized at a younger age.
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They're getting online.
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They're you know, by the way, we go back to this
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Meta google hearing that's happening in california today.
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There there was a huge story that broke
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Where they were people, you know, these pedophiles,
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These perps were soliciting minors on these platforms
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On meta, like, so facebook, instagram,
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They were doing it kind of an open site.
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So there's
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These sites have been used for distribution
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Of child pornography.
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It's a huge problem.
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And you can look at hollywood the way that they glorifies
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The sexual ization of young people.
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I mean we all kind of sense that this is happening.
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I think sometimes it gets sensationalized,
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But there is a real problem here. go ahead. blake.
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Well, i know the wheels turning.
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I well, it's just, it's bad, although, no,
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No, i mean, it is bad.
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Like, there's a lot of bad stuff, i think.
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I still feel i'm, i, you know, me.
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I lean more towards our guests last week, they.
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Beacher. yes. beacher.
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Who i do feel like we have
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I think this trump thing is revealing, which is that
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The president was basically correct.
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He was warning a lot of people are going to be
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Smeared by what comes out in these files
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When there's not going to be a lot of evidence against them.
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And like so far, that's been borne out.
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What's come out of these files has been interesting.
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It's been really embarrassing for some people.
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It's been embarrassing for bill gates
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Has been embarrassing for larry summers.
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It's been very embarrassing for noam chomsky,
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Which i'm very happy about
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Because he's a deranged leftwing academic.
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But it hasn't been really revealing of,
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I think, what a lot of people were hoping
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That would get revealed by this.
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You and i,
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You and i were very much in agreement
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On that, that it was going to be like
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Underwhelming for people.
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Yeah,
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There's a lot of crazy stuff in the epstein files,
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By the way,
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And you might see one person covering it
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And making a huge deal about it,
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And then you'll go and look deeper
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And you realize that it's been debunked.
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Or some, like rando
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Emailing jeffrey epstein about a dead body buried in the
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In the desert.
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But it literally there's no fbi investigation.
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There's no nothing.
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There's no so so literally and we can attest this.
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We get like so many crazy emails
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At freedom at charlie kirk.com.
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Like the craziest stuff.
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It doesn't mean it's true.
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It doesn't mean that there's any, you know, veracity to it.
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But people will email sometimes crazy things.
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So you.
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So anyways, the point is
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You got to take everything with a grain of salt.
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You got to dig deep, you got to do your own research.
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But another person that is in these files are is elon musk.
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And that was a little bit embarrassed.
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And we're we're fans of elon.
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We want elon to support
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The heck out of our gop going into the midterms.
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But you know, he kind of framed it that he was
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He was rebuffing epstein's advances to him.
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A lot of people have done this.
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And then yeah, it's in the files.
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And it's basically it's the classic thing.
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He's like, when are you having a wild party?
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I want to go to it. but he didn't want to
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Go with his wife.
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He and i didn't even.
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And even if he didn't, it's like
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In a lot of the emails they're saying is like, oh,
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There will be women under 25 there.
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Well, a lot of rich people
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Want to get with women under the age of 25.
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And that is different from literal pedophilia.
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Yeah,
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It behooves me to mention it, but it behooves it's humorous.
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It's like it's unseemly. it's.
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But it is legal.
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Dirty old man, dirty old man.
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But listen, here's what i here's here
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Would be my one note to our good friend ellen
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Is that there is a porn problem
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And a child porn problem on x,
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I think if you what what would be a great outcome
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From all of this
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Is that you would clean up just banned porn
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And everything gets about
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A hundred times better on that site.
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Just ban it because there is garbage on that.
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There's been numerous reporting
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On the fact that there is child porn on that site.
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And and if they want
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Examples of this, like we can have a whole team
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Send you what you need because it's gross
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And you have to sort of like the filters
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Don't really work that way that well.
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But listen, like
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There has to be some sort of clean up on until five here.
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When it comes to these social media platforms,
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And i think x should get cleaned up.
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Honestly,
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I think it would be a much better platform
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If they if they got rid of that stuff
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For some reason it it's still on there.
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It's got a bot problem.
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Should probably make money.
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Well and that's it's just not worth it.
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Don't make a deal with the. no it's not.
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Got to clean it up. make the site better.
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Get rid of the porn.
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Get rid of the.
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And you know again this is from reports.
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Thank goodness i haven't seen it but there
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The reports say that there is child
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Porn on that site and and that's despicable.
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And i just i think all resources need
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To be flooded into x make it clean, make it better.
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And then you get to be on the right side
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Of this issue in multiple different ways.
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It would be helpful because in europe
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Right now, i know they're making a push to ban x.
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It's a very real one.
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And it's the real reason they want to do it
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Is because it has free speech on it.
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And so they want to ban people who oppose mass immigration,
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Who highlight grooming gangs by, you know,
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Muslim rapists and all of that, but they see excuses for it.
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And to some extent, a lot like in the uk,
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They're they're using the fact that, like, you can use
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Grok to change people's photos so that they're in a bikini,
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Which frankly, i think grok should be allowed to do,
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Because you can already do that with a photoshop editor.
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And it's also like not illegal to do that with like
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In a bunch of other ways,
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But it would probably be easier out
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If you couldn't use it to make actual smut.
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It would make that attack harder to do.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Well, and listen, i just want to be clear.
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This is not an attack on elon.
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I think he inherited this problem.
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The problem it was preexisted.
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And it's a massive platform
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With hundreds of millions of users on it.
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There's going to be a lot of bad actors.
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But if you put your foot forward and you draw a line
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In the sand and say,
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Hey, this needs to be cleaned up, then listen,
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You're going to generate a lot of goodwill.
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And the the platform will be much improved.
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So that is my request.
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I think it would be a very, very solid
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Step in the right direction. okay.
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Next up i'm very excited about this.
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So, bar owner out of it.
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Well, bar manager in tampa
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Went viral yesterday in a video
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For standing up to a deranged lunatic who didn't like that.
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The turning point
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Usa halftime show was on the tvs at the bar.
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We have him next.
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You're not going to want to miss it.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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Very excited about this.
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Next guest, frankie bianco.
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He's the general manager
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For of the zoo sports club in tampa, florida.
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And, he went viral.
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Not by any choice of his,
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But just because of the way he handled himself.
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I thought it was brilliant.
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Let's play the clip and then we'll bring in frankie. 307.
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Why are you playing bad bunny at the halftime show?
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Because i put this halftime show on.
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Because this is what
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The majority of you filming me for the movie.
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Why are you do you want to play down?
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Because
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You don't want to pay for.
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This is what i got.
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It is why i said no, i gotta pay first.
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But i'm asking you to be one.
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I'm gonna pay first.
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Yeah, i shouldn't pay
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For the full experience.
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I came here for the super bowl.
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You kind of know super bowl halftime show.
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This is not the halftime.
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It's the halftime show before the halftime show.
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I want to put this on social media.
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There you go, baby. good. all right.
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Are you serious?
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You're telling me you have
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You had
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To lose a lot of company because you might look like a
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Little fake.
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All right, i guess
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The reason i'm sorry
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You came here for the super bowl experience.
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Just not okay.
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I was not promoted. so don't come back.
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Well handled. well handled.
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Frankie bianco, general manager of the zoo sports club.
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Welcome to the charlie kirk show.
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Good to have you.
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Thank you for having me, guys.
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I'm honored to be here.
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Well, i'm sorry that you had to go through this experience.
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But, you know, to me, when i see that clip,
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It was it was like capitalist capitalism in action,
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You know, you were just like, hey,
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Our people want this show.
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What do you what do you want me to do?
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Tell us what happened there and, why you chose to handle it
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The way you did, sir?
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Again, really, for giving me this opportunity,
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I, i really do appreciate it, because i honestly can't
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Believe that it's to this point so, so quickly.
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And it's silly to me, but, honestly,
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I can't tell you what happened sunday without telling you
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From the very beginning about who we are.
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The zoo sports club
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Started out as the zoo private club.
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We were going to be a private member's only club.
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It was designed that way.
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And, we built our systems and the building
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And the decor all around that business model.
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But in september of 2024, we had back to back
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Hurricanes hit here in, the tampa
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Saint pete area for the first time in decades.
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And it wiped out our beaches.
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It wiped out what is very, very important to those
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Who live here.
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Too many lives were were negatively impacted.
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And we started hearing from those people.
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We started hearing from employees,
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Restaurant and bar employees who didn't have a job.
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We started hearing from the bands
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That didn't have a place to play.
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We started hearing from the community
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That they didn't have a place to go to gather, to, to meet
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And to to just enjoy, and have fun.
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So we as, as a group, myself and the owners, met
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And decided that we were going to pivot,
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A 90 degree turn and open up
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To the community, offer them
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Everything that we have planned on being a private club.
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Now we're going to be a open to the public club.
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We're going to give them an opportunity
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To come in and play pool or throw some darts
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Or watch some of the incredible local bands.
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And it didn't take long for us to realize
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That this was the right decision, that that we have
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Formed a really great community based establishment
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For everybody to come in and enjoy.
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There were no rules to who can come in.
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There were only rules on how to act once you're there.
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And it's worked out very well and we're very proud
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Of what we built.
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So that brings us to sunday,
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Where,
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You know, it wasn't a political decision.
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It wasn't a personal decision.
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My personal beliefs and political,
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Side of the aisle i sit on had nothing to do
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With any of the decisions i make. it work.
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It wasn't
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Left or right.
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It wasn't red or blue.
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It was green.
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It was money.
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And i had about 250 people in the, club
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And, around 240.
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Some odd wanted the all-american halftime show.
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So that's what i put on.
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I, the gentleman who videoed me
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There was a friend of his with him.
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And once he walked away, the friend came over to me
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To continue to try to talk to me about it.
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And i explained to him, i said, you know, when when it comes
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To business, the simple rule is majority rule.
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The needs of the many, so to speak.
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He understood. he shook my hand.
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He went back to his seat
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Of borrowing and enjoyed the rest of the the evening.
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So, you know, business is business. and
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That's what i base my decisions on when i run my club.
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I think that's really well said, frankie.
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And and so you're just basically saying.
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So we had this private club.
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A lot of those people are still your core.
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Your core, customers.
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They made a decision.
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They said the vast majority, it sounded like it sounded like
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95, 98% of them were like, hey, we want to take.
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Yeah, yeah, we want to watch the all-american halftime show.
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So you gave the people what they wanted,
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But there was a few,
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You know, riffraff in there that wanted to cause a stir.
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And this is what it's, you know, so
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This was a business decision that makes perfect sense to me.
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You're being a good capitalist.
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You're serving your customers well.
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And i also like the way that you handled that.
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You said, don't don't film me,
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Which is just
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Such a rude thing to do in this day
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And age that
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People got their cell phones out
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And they want to
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They want to make you internet famous in a bad way.
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But i think, you know, you're you're going to be rewarded one
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Because of the way you handled this.
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You haven't been petty.
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You handled it like a gentleman.
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You were strong and firm. he was rude.
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And then thirdly, i think i think you're going to
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To find that,
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Like you said in the video, you're going to get customers
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Out of this because there's a lot of people
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In the saint pete tampa area.
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They're going to appreciate the way you handled that.
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And you stood firm on on your line.
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Have you got what is the feedback been?
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I know your phone's been blown up.
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I know your emails have been blown up.
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What's the feedback been from your local customers and
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Your local community?
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It has been from 98% support.
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Wonderful.
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Which is obviously.
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Yeah, yeah, it's been wonderful.
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And yeah,
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I can't say anything negative about that
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Because it really has been wonderful.
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Our core, group of customers
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Have been screaming, support.
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My staff, i am so beyond
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Blessed, with my, my team
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Who in the video, you can see they're all there.
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They all came.
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They have my back.
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I have their back.
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And,
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They've been incredible
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With this because they're being impacted.
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It's it's just unfortunate.
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And and really, i spoke to, you know, the owners obviously
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A lot lately,
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And i just want us to get back to doing what we're doing.
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I don't need to be famous.
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I don't need to be looked at as anything more or less
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Than i am.
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I just want us to get back to to what we do.
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You know, we have a lot of fun at the club.
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We have live music and games
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And great people come and visit us.
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And that's.
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I just want to get back to that.
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And i just, that's what i was hoping to accomplish.
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By coming on your show.
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Because i'm hoping the message gets out
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That we're still who we are.
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You know, i know who i am.
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I know who the owners are.
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I know who my staff is.
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And at the end of the day, i can lean on that comfortably
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And believe that it's just going to.
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It's just going to work out the way it should.
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Listen, i thought you did a great job.
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Congratulations.
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I think you're going to be rewarded
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Richly and blessed from this room.
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Remember five minutes outrage and people know who you are.
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I think your character shine through. so god bless you man.
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God bless you guys.
00:23:22.778 --> 00:23:23.879
Thank you very much. that that's really kind to say.
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Frankie Bianco: February 11, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

February 11, 2026 | 23:28

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