Stop talking about Epstein...is what a guilty person might say

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Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Lots
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: of stuff.
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Mike Smith: of stuff. Well,
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Nathan Brady: few a few things a few things to talk about. Um, for those of you that are in the car, I'm sharing an image of um Donald Trump um being, I don't know, blessed or looked over by the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. Um,
Mike Smith: it's pretty glorious. Uh
Nathan Brady: wow. Yeah,
Mike Smith: yikes.
Nathan Brady: good friends. They were
Mike Smith: Good.
Nathan Brady: very good friends.
Mike Smith: Very good friends.

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Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Very close.
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: Um, I think there's some been some developments here to talk about with Jeffrey Epstein.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: The
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: files, maybe you can help me out here. You can tell me. There were files on Pam Bond's desk in
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: February, including
Mike Smith: Correct.
Nathan Brady: the client list.
Mike Smith: Yep.
Nathan Brady: there lots of files, boxes even. Um, and she was finishing up reviewing them.
Mike Smith: They include
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: names
Nathan Brady: they included
Mike Smith: of
Nathan Brady: names,
Mike Smith: of victims and perpetrators.
Nathan Brady: victims and perpetrators,
Mike Smith: Alleged
Nathan Brady: um,
Mike Smith: perpetrators, we'll
Nathan Brady: alleged
Mike Smith: say
Nathan Brady: perpetrators, perpetrators, uh, pedophiles,
Mike Smith: they're
Nathan Brady: uh,
Mike Smith: on
Nathan Brady: gross
Mike Smith: they're in pictures
Nathan Brady: human
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: beings.
Mike Smith: video, but but fine.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: Alleged.
Nathan Brady: mean I mean hundreds of hours we're hearing of

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Mike Smith: Pam
Nathan Brady: video,
Mike Smith: Bondi said thousands of hours
Nathan Brady: thousands of hours of video
Mike Smith: in her press conference.
Nathan Brady: um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: in her
Mike Smith: all
Nathan Brady: press
Mike Smith: on
Nathan Brady: conference.
Mike Smith: her desk.
Nathan Brady: This was on in February of 2025. We are now in July of 2025 and there is an update. Pam Bondi said
Mike Smith: What files? What are you talking about? There's no such thing.
Nathan Brady: no files.
Mike Smith: There
Nathan Brady: There
Mike Smith: are no
Nathan Brady: was
Mike Smith: FC files. What are you
Nathan Brady: there
Mike Smith: talking
Nathan Brady: were
Mike Smith: about?
Nathan Brady: there was nothing.
Mike Smith: It's the most amazing gaslighting even from even from them, even from the Trump party. Like this is gaslighting on another level where where and then reporters have asked. They'll be like, "But why did you say there were tons of files back in February if there are no files?" And she's just like, "I didn't say that."

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Mike Smith: We're like, "Well, here's a recording on my phone of you saying that. Like, what are
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: you talking about?" She's like, "That's fake news." Like, I don't understand the G these people have with the gaslighting they do. Like, it's literally the, you know, the king has no clothes and they're just ignoring. They're pretending it's not real. It's amazing.
Nathan Brady: So, the DOJ and the FBI said that they have 300 gigabytes of data,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: many of which includes illegal child sex abuse.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Cam. Yeah. Um and and so the party line, we should give credit to their argument here because they are trying to make one is that the only information they have is all victims. They can't give anything out because they don't want to revictimize victims of Jeffrey Epstein and no one else, which is sort of nonsensical, right? Because if you have all of these pieces of evidence with people in them, some of the people in those are probably not the victims, right?

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Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: you would I mean 300 gigabytes of images, videos and other evidence.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um yeah, obviously obviously
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: um so
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: not only
Nathan Brady: de
Mike Smith: that, but but you have to you have to show some context here because I think it's important. the original, I think it was FBI, uh, release of information included a number of like photographs of the property and, um, like possessions that they were confiscating as part of their evidence collecting. And one of the things that I found really interesting is there's an image of like it's it's an entire closet and all it is is rows and rows and rows of black binders with client names on them that have been redacted and they're just like like imagine I mean I can't say who but let's say John Doe is one of the the clientele. It's it's on this binder that you collected and redacted. So how is that not on a list somewhere? How are you not releasing that?

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Mike Smith: Right,
Nathan Brady: I I mean guys, we're we're not dancing around it. I mean, it's pretty obvious the the reason. So So well, let's take a step back. Everyone's mad at Pam Bondi, and
Mike Smith: everyone.
Nathan Brady: great. I I mean, I whatever.
Mike Smith: I'm an editor.
Nathan Brady: Go get her. Go get her. whatever. Um, Pam Bondi, the the the way that the Justice Department works now is that
Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: you do the president's bidding, right? Pam Bondi doesn't do a single damn thing without running it by Donald Trump first. Okay?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: So, everyone's like, I can't believe Pam Bondi failed Donald Trump. I can't believe
Mike Smith: Red.
Nathan Brady: she's doing this. I grow grow up. I mean, come on. She's doing this specifically because he asked her to. And why is is I mean I think it's pretty clear, right? I mean, they're they're best friends. Epstein and Donald Trump were extremely close.

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Nathan Brady: Um so everyone's saying, well, if if Trump was on if Trump was on the client list, if there was all this evidence um you know that would indict Trump, why wouldn't they have released it? during uh the Biden administration. And I think I think it's pretty I think it's pretty clear, right? Everybody everybody's on that list. There's there's Democrats and Republicans in the highest offices of the land from Bill Clinton to um to Donald Trump that are on that list.
Mike Smith: Well, and and you know, it's it's got royalty as well. So, I mean, this this is a this is a what what do you call it? multinational conspiracy at this point where they're trying because because I think that there was alle allegations and even Trump made them that I think Prince Andrew was on there. Do I have the name right?
Nathan Brady: No, it was Garren. He Yeah. No, he was
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he was
Mike Smith: Because
Nathan Brady: on
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: there.
Mike Smith: was out of the spotlight

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Nathan Brady: Uh,
Mike Smith: for a long time because of those allegations like he
Nathan Brady: yeah.
Mike Smith: would
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: refused to travel abroad because he was
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: afraid he was going to get arrested and and basically deposed in the United States. And you're like well you can't have a member of the royal party you
Nathan Brady: Royal
Mike Smith: know
Nathan Brady: family. Yeah.
Mike Smith: royal family.
Nathan Brady: Um, so
Mike Smith: So, so the list exists. Uh, they're just not going to share it with American people.
Nathan Brady: well at le you know this is sounds like listen if you can get unalived over like releasing some documents about Boeing allegedly then this sounds like something you can get unalived for if you had all of this information and you were willing to cut deals. Let's say you're a person like Jeffrey Epstein. Okay. If you're running this highowered, you know, uh, child sex abuse ring
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: and it's being basically fueled by the richest people in America and the richest families

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Mike Smith: In the world.
Nathan Brady: around the world,
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: then you're actually the bottom of the barrel in this. The big fish are all of those people. So, if if I were an independent DOJ, right, I would be like, we're cutting we're gonna cut this guy some deals to go after, you know, an ex-president, uh, the royal family, uh, all of these elite pedophiles, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: That sounds like something somebody might get unalived for,
Mike Smith: Maybe
Nathan Brady: right? Maybe. So,
Mike Smith: we're not suggesting that there's a
Nathan Brady: there's
Mike Smith: criminal
Nathan Brady: good
Mike Smith: conspiracy
Nathan Brady: news.
Mike Smith: or a cabal of pedophiles,
Nathan Brady: No, no, no.
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: There's good Well, there is good news. The DOJ released the video um that shows that no one entered Epstein's cell area that night at all, the night he died. Nobody There is a catch. There's one c minor very small. There's a very small catch.

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Nathan Brady: The video was edited and there's some few minutes missing, but
Mike Smith: one minute. Yeah. And it's the the you know the the 59 through 60th minute of the 24th hour which to their credit they had released other days and apparently this is a known thing that had been happening for months. Um that's not the shocking part though. They released the video and you can plainly see a orange jumpsuit or something just turning the corner and going up to Epstein's uh lockup. And this was released by the FBI. And when people were like, "Well, what are you talking about? No one went up there. That's him. That whoever went up there, that's the person." And they had initially reported, "Oh, well, that was actually one of the guards bringing the orange jumpsuit to Epstein's uh prison cell." And they were like, "Well, how come none of the guards remembered that happening under questioning from the FBI?" Because that that didn't nobody said that that happened. And that directly contradicts the evidence that's there, which is nobody went to his cell.

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Mike Smith: I a guard didn't go to his cell. My fellow guard didn't go to his cell. So who was that? And then I think it was two weeks ago they released an updated statement saying, well actually that was actually Epstein in his orange jumpsuit going back to his cell. And then the question comes, well wait a minute, why was he out of his cell, you know, six hours after lockdown? What are we What are we trying to say here? What where
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: is this story going?
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: And they're
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: like, we don't know why he was out of his cell. And I'm like, you're a prison? What do you mean you don't know why one of the prisoners isn't in his cell when he's supposed to be?
Nathan Brady: so aside from the the minutes or possibly several other edited minutes in the in the video, the DOJ purported it to be unedited raw video footage, right? And
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: Wired has found that meta data in the video suggests that it was edited with Adobe Premiere.

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Mike Smith: Really? Now, this
Nathan Brady: Yes.
Mike Smith: is brand new information to me.
Nathan Brady: Yes. Um this is as of a this was two days ago this came out. Um, so likely edited with Adobe Premiere 21 gigabytes to so two independent forensics experts who use a metadata tool to analyze the exchangeable uh image file format, the XIF, um, identified it as being likely edited by Adobe Premiere Pro. I mean,
Mike Smith: What the hell? Okay,
Nathan Brady: dude,
Mike Smith: I I I'm sorry. I'm I'm I'm in the uh I'm in the conspiracy theory camp now, man. I'm I'm putting on my tinfoil hat. I'm with you. This This is the next step of too much going wrong for any of this to be right.
Nathan Brady: right? I mean, I m Mike Mike and I are are constantly battling on the opposite side of the conspiracy theory. It's like hold on hold on hold on
Mike Smith: You've
Nathan Brady: a second
Mike Smith: probably
Nathan Brady: here

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Mike Smith: heard a couple of those on this uh podcast in the past.
Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: Yes,
Nathan Brady: yeah yeah yeah
Mike Smith: we we're fighting the good fight most of the time, but I mean,
Nathan Brady: I mean
Mike Smith: can
Nathan Brady: we're
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: at
Mike Smith: get
Nathan Brady: we're
Mike Smith: somebody
Nathan Brady: at
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: corroborate
Nathan Brady: point
Mike Smith: this? Like, this this is pretty good. What? Look at this quote. Why am I suddenly seeing a different aspect ratio? Scroll down just a little bit. It's the next big thing. Like what? That that's that's amazing to me.
Nathan Brady: If a lawyer brought me this file and asked if it was suitable for court, I'd say no. I mean, holy s***. Do
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: a direct export from the original system. No monkey business. I mean, that's gone now, right? It's got to be gone.
Mike Smith: It's got to be.

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Mike Smith: There's no way that you're going to have it, right? I mean, again, playing into the conspiracy theory, there's going to be something like, well, you know, because didn't they didn't they claim that there was like corrupted footage of or or like two of the cameras were broken, but just on on that particular like week and so we have that only that one angle that shows basically nothing except
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: that orange outline going up to the room or the prison room, the cell.
Nathan Brady: Right. Right.
Mike Smith: So, I mean, like there's too there's too much coincidence here for me, you know, like you only have one angle from a bad angle from a a a camera. Much of the video is well, two minutes of the video is missing apparently. Um, and now the video appears to have been edited before being released by the FBI. I mean, no, no. Line it up, man. That's that's that's criminal conspiracy to commit murder there.
Nathan Brady: right? Uh I I don't know what else to say on this.

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Mike Smith: I just
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: think that you got to keep asking. I mean, the other thing is that it so clearly bothers Trump that the media, but also people in general, even his base, continue to push on this because they're like, "You you're not answering the question. you're not releasing the day the stuff you said you were going to release and now you're telling me it's that you'll never do it and he just gets so upset about that. He was in a press conference the other day um and a reporter asked for a follow-up on this on on Epstein. I forget the exact context but it was basically like you said you had names are you going to release the names and he he goes something to the effect of why are people so hung up on Epstein? This guy's dead. Why do we care about this? And the reporter is like, well, while he traffked, you know, minors for sex for many, many years and the circumstances surrounding his death are very dubious and people want to know.

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Mike Smith: And he goes, "You stop it. You're being annoying. Nobody wants to talk about Epstein." He waves his hands. They're like, "Well, okay, you're clearly upset about this." me thinks that I do protest too much
Nathan Brady: Um, yeah. So, you know, I think the bottom line, um, is clearly Oh. Oh, I've got I've got a I've got a sandwich delivered. This is going
Mike Smith: room
Nathan Brady: to be an
Mike Smith: service.
Nathan Brady: interesting Yeah, this is going to be an interesting episode where I I eat a burger live. Um,
Mike Smith: That
Nathan Brady: yeah.
Mike Smith: book bang
Nathan Brady: So, um, look, I don't know how else to I I I don't know where I don't know where to go from here. Both sides. There was a Oh, I wish I could find it. I I
Mike Smith: this
Nathan Brady: wish I
Mike Smith: this
Nathan Brady: had it queued up.
Mike Smith: to me like okay so we've been just to put it in a different perspective we've been wrestling with conspiracy theories and and nonsense like that for forever But the the one that stands out the most to me, I think, was JFK, the assassination of of JFK.

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Mike Smith: And it's been what is it 80 years? I'm not even really sure of people saying like, "What about this? What about that?" And they have released enough of the files to the point where I don't think that that was like an assassination. Sorry, it was an assassination. I don't think it was a you criminal conspiracy assassination just done by the feds or NSA or anything like that. I think it was just um can't even remember the guy's name and and
Nathan Brady: Jack
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: Ruby
Mike Smith: was kind of
Nathan Brady: or whatever.
Mike Smith: not Jack Ruby
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: uh
Nathan Brady: the other guy.
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: guy
Nathan Brady: Oswald.
Mike Smith: Oswwell.
Nathan Brady: Oswald.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: And and like there's just not I mean it's it's a compelling story. I've watched movies. I watch documentaries about it and it's it has pieces of compelling well whatabouts but I think they're they're basically explained in my mind.

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Mike Smith: This everything
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: here is just me going there's no way
Nathan Brady: Huh? Yeah,
Mike Smith: there's
Nathan Brady: exactly.
Mike Smith: no way that your talking points of there was no list there we can't go after anybody and it's done go away now is I'm sorry but that's that's just a criminal conspiracy. You're covering it all up because either you're on it or you're protecting the people who are on it.
Nathan Brady: Um I saw a poll for um you know that came out I think yesterday um the percentage of people split by Republicans and Democrats that were satisfied with the result of the um Epstein files uh you know with with with the result of
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: the DOJ's memo and I it was it 4% and 3%. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. I mean, completely
Mike Smith: Fake news.
Nathan Brady: aligned. Completely aligned on both sides. I've talked to people who are like hardcore MAGA people
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.

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Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: um that I know personally, unfortunately,
Mike Smith: Right. Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: um where I've said, "Dude, what's going on?" One person in particular really stuck out to me. I said, "Dude, what's going on? Suddenly there's no Epstein files." and he goes, "You know what, Nate? I think I've been duped." And I mean,
Mike Smith: Is it really?
Nathan Brady: that's that's
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: man.
Nathan Brady: pretty this is from somebody. I mean, I've talked with other mutual friends of this
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: person and we're all kind of just stunned. I mean, this could really be an earthshattering like awakening moment for a lot of MAGA who were really excited about the release of the Epstein Files. It's something that that Trump said that he would do.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: We all wondered why he didn't do it in his first term, but then of course his campaign, you know, he said during his campaign he would release the files.

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Nathan Brady: Um, and so now second term comes around and and I had to remind this person, well, who was president when Epstein was killed? And he was like, well, Biden. And I was like, incorrect.
Mike Smith: Try again.
Nathan Brady: You you want to try that one again? He's like, no. And he literally looked it up while I was standing right there and he's like, huh? I don't Is this real? Is I mean
Mike Smith: We're we're living in a uh postfact reality, you know, and so a lot of people, myself included, I will admit that the, you know, COVID like my brain just doesn't remember any of that period of time correctly because you have nothing to anchor it to. And I think that a lot of people during Trump campaigns both in in I guess it's 15 16 and then again in in uh well he's campaigned three times now hasn't he? But in all of those elections you know you forget because I think you're just so tied to your candidate of choice and you're paying attention to your news sources of choice and the things you don't care about just kind of fall by the wayside because I just don't remember.

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Mike Smith: I I can't remember the the the 2015 16 campaign versus the 2020 or the 2024. Like I I can't remember what he said when in any of those things. Like you had just mentioned that on the campaign trail, I believe this was for the 24 election, but he said on the campaign
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: trail that he would release the the Epstein files and that was a Fox News segment as I recall, an interview with three
Nathan Brady: There
Mike Smith: interviewers
Nathan Brady: was one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: and they ran it. And I remember that that was that was a a cut and uh
Nathan Brady: He looked uncomfortable.
Mike Smith: so
Nathan Brady: Do you remember that?
Mike Smith: because we have the full video now. So he
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: says, "Yeah,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: I think I think I will release it." And then they cut to another question. Um but the full video is there and then he follows he actually follows that up with saying although you don't you have to be careful because you don't want the victims to have their lives ruined anymore.

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Mike Smith: Oh no, he didn't even say the victims. was like there are people
Nathan Brady: Has
Mike Smith: included in this report who you know shook hands with him at a party once and you don't want to ruin their lives for associating them with with Jeffrey Epstein.
Nathan Brady: he ever thought about another person in his life like that?
Mike Smith: Who's he talking about right there?
Nathan Brady: He's talking about
Mike Smith: How
Nathan Brady: himself.
Mike Smith: we've seen the pictures of him partying with Epstein and and you know laughing with him and then he's talking about himself.
Nathan Brady: He's never cared about another human being like that ever in his life.
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: He's not talking about victims or other people getting hurt. He's talking about himself.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Everything is to protect him.
Mike Smith: Oh, everything. It's It's And at this point, I think you might be on to something is that he needs protection for himself against these other rich and powerful allies because, you know, some of them got him elected again. And if he ousts them,

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Nathan Brady: So every So, so okay. So, there was a vote. Um, there was there was something that happened in Congress, right? Uh, and
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: there was nothing ever happens in Congress. Okay,
Mike Smith: wrong.
Nathan Brady: great great points. Um, let's let's let's see what happens here. So,
Mike Smith: Let's see.
Nathan Brady: Republicans just unanimously voted to block the release of the Epstein files. We're not following Brian Tyler Cohen. What's wrong with us? Um,
Mike Smith: And and it's amazing, man. This is h how how by one vote, you couldn't get one Republican on board with you to release the Epcene Files.
Nathan Brady: what's up with this dude?
Mike Smith: Why are all the Republicans against releasing the Epstein files? Well, that's a dumb banner. Don't show that.
Nathan Brady: I mean, I I don't know. I don't know. Um anyway,
Mike Smith: But I mean, no, look, it's it's straight down party lines, right? 211 to 210.

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Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: All the Democrats voted. Oh, no. Two Democrats voted uh
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: did
Nathan Brady: they
Mike Smith: not vote.
Nathan Brady: they weren't they weren't present. Yeah.
Mike Smith: And then there were nine Republicans who did not vote. But either
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: way, 211 to 210 to to block the release of the Epstein files. Amazing. That should tell you everything you need to know about the Republican party. Why
Nathan Brady: Only
Mike Smith: don't they want the Epstein files to be released? I thought Bill Clinton
Nathan Brady: 96.
Mike Smith: and and George
Nathan Brady: This
Mike Smith: Soros
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: for all in these files. Don't you guys want to get them? Why
Nathan Brady: This
Mike Smith: are your
Nathan Brady: couldn't
Mike Smith: representatives
Nathan Brady: be a clearer
Mike Smith: not voting for you?
Nathan Brady: This couldn't be a clearer indication of the Congress not working for the people. 96% of Americans want these files released.

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Nathan Brady: 96%. How how is how is this working
Mike Smith: time to write your uh representative and let them know who who actually sent them there and
Nathan Brady: now?
Mike Smith: maybe
Nathan Brady: What
Mike Smith: maybe send a different one there next year because they
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: clearly don't care about you or your wants. They certainly
Nathan Brady: you think
Mike Smith: don't
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: care
Nathan Brady: would happen
Mike Smith: about
Nathan Brady: though? I think you know I got to be honest with you. I'm going to jump back on the conspiracy train a little bit and say Democrats all voted nay because they knew Republicans would all vote yay. But if if if it weren't that way, would this still end up one short of being released?
Mike Smith: a yay. And
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: no,
Mike Smith: had a
Nathan Brady: no.
Mike Smith: chance. You
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: had a chance
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: to rhyme
Nathan Brady: saying

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Mike Smith: the whole thing. You could have
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: rhymed that whole
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: thing.
Nathan Brady: could have rhymed the whole thing. Listen, I don't think Democrats in power would have it released either. Okay? I think that this is what it looks like when powerful people are protecting
Mike Smith: Who didn't
Nathan Brady: each other.
Mike Smith: who didn't vote on this?
Nathan Brady: That's a good question. That's a It's a good question. Let's find out.
Mike Smith: I'm looking it up. I'm looking it up because cuz I mean you're you're right there, right? Two not votes and that would have passed the yays or the nays rather.
Nathan Brady: Let's see. 211. The decisive vote took place uh the amendment uh from Roana, by the way. Great job, Roana, stepping it up. Um, we remember Roana as a former chairman of um, Bernie Sanders 2020 election campaign. Um, so great work there. The notable Republicans who voted no, well, that's all of them.

00:25:58

Nathan Brady: I'm looking for um,
Mike Smith: If I find out Corey Booker didn't vote on this because he
Nathan Brady: well,
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: Cy
Mike Smith: uh
Nathan Brady: Booker's
Mike Smith: I'm sorry,
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: senator.
Mike Smith: Cy Booker. Um Jeff uh Jeff. If Jeff did not vote on this because he was out there, you know, having a 24-hour speech or something, I'm going to be very pissed off.
Nathan Brady: No, there's no way he would be in line with the Democrats on this. I would think
Mike Smith: I assume the I assume the NVs are the uh geriatric community of Democrats who are basically disabled and can't make it to the floor now. The the cancer patient who who did he die? I don't even remember.
Nathan Brady: I don't know.
Mike Smith: And then Pelosi didn't make it, I assume.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, Jeffrey's voted in favor
Mike Smith: All right.
Nathan Brady: of releasing, you know. So, um,
Mike Smith: So, they just didn't have the votes. Oh shucks.

00:26:53

Nathan Brady: boy, it's always the case, man. Right. Like
Mike Smith: Send them
Nathan Brady: just just
Mike Smith: $5 and they'll double the that the benefit. Whatever.
Nathan Brady: so close. We were just so close. If we just had the one more Democrat, you know, two more Democrats,
Mike Smith: We just held
Nathan Brady: uh, we
Mike Smith: four
Nathan Brady: could
Mike Smith: or
Nathan Brady: have done
Mike Smith: five
Nathan Brady: it.
Mike Smith: more seats.
Nathan Brady: If
Mike Smith: Man,
Nathan Brady: we
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: just
Mike Smith: could have done
Nathan Brady: four
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: or five more seats, then all of those not voted Republicans, then they would have voted yay. You know, I mean, come on, man. This
Mike Smith: then.
Nathan Brady: is just
Mike Smith: What
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: just
Mike Smith: could
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: have
Nathan Brady: joke.
Mike Smith: done is we could have forced the head of the FBI to release the unredacted Epstein list.

00:27:21

Mike Smith: All right. Remind me who the head of the FBI is again.
Nathan Brady: Uh he who runs a podcast. Is it you?
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: Is it
Mike Smith: me.
Nathan Brady: me?
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: you.
Nathan Brady: you. It's me. Are you dire? Are we the director and co-director
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: of the
Mike Smith: So
Nathan Brady: f
Mike Smith: that that's
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: my point is
Nathan Brady: deputy
Mike Smith: that even
Nathan Brady: director?
Mike Smith: if they had passed, for one thing, this this bill
Nathan Brady: It
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: wouldn't
Mike Smith: blocks
Nathan Brady: have mattered.
Mike Smith: it. It
Nathan Brady: It
Mike Smith: wouldn't have
Nathan Brady: wouldn't
Mike Smith: mattered
Nathan Brady: have mattered.
Mike Smith: because you're like, "Okay,
Nathan Brady: You're
Mike Smith: we're
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: not blocking it, but
Nathan Brady: Because then
Mike Smith: you're
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: has
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: to

00:27:44

Mike Smith: power,
Nathan Brady: go through
Mike Smith: so
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: we're
Nathan Brady: DOJ
Mike Smith: not requesting."
Nathan Brady: and the FBI and all of that stuff
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: no,
Nathan Brady: then
Mike Smith: no.
Nathan Brady: they're
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: going to
Mike Smith: This is all
Nathan Brady: fumble
Mike Smith: ceremony.
Nathan Brady: it and
Mike Smith: this
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: this
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: was a
Nathan Brady: you're
Mike Smith: vote
Nathan Brady: Dude,
Mike Smith: to block
Nathan Brady: of course.
Mike Smith: the release and then
Nathan Brady: Of
Mike Smith: they're
Nathan Brady: course.
Mike Smith: like, "Okay, okay, that didn't pass. We can't block it. We're just not going to ask for it.
Nathan Brady: But if I'm a Republican and I know that like 96% of my constituents want this released, I know that even if it passes here, it's not going to happen. Why are you voting? You should all be in favor of releasing these. I don't understand cuz

00:28:14

Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: you're totally right. This is just ceremony. It's not going to actually happen. But it's never been a clearer indicator that our Congress, our representative democracy is completely broken.
Mike Smith: You know what's funny about that is that even if you're if you're Trump right now, right, and you you continually hear that you need to release this thing, why not just release like a red a heavily redacted version that just has the names in it that you care about? Like if it's if Bill Clinton's in there, I'm going to redact everything except the name Bill Clinton and
Nathan Brady: That's
Mike Smith: release
Nathan Brady: what I
Mike Smith: it.
Nathan Brady: don't under I
Mike Smith: Like
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: why not do that,
Nathan Brady: I would never have put it past uh Trump to come up with his own list, right? He's
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: had months, he's had years, frankly, years to
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: come up with his own list or whatever. Um and yeah, you're totally right because he's now saying, you know, the new thing from Trump is this is a Hillary Clinton created the list.

00:29:16

Nathan Brady: Hillary and Bill and Obama created the list. So wait, so you're saying
Mike Smith: I don't even know what
Nathan Brady: Hillary
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: Clinton
Mike Smith: means.
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: Like,
Nathan Brady: Bill Clinton created this client list that heavily implicates Bill and other Democrats as well as like it
Mike Smith: okay,
Nathan Brady: doesn't even make
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: sense.
Mike Smith: you can never use Trump's words against Trump's words because it's all gibberish anyway.
Nathan Brady: It's all chipper.
Mike Smith: But but even still, the evidence that we have seen, the public has been made aware
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: of,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: like I said before, there's this picture of one of his closets that has hundreds of black binders and and this the caption to that is black binders with uh clientele names redacted. And so I'm like, I don't need a list. Just find that unredacted picture and release some of those names as needed. And that's that's the easiest thing to do. And Trump could find a win in there.

00:30:05

Mike Smith: He could be like, "Oh, look, it's George Soros or whoever."
Nathan Brady: How
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: many people
Mike Smith: then
Nathan Brady: do you think have seen the unredacted stuff now? I mean, we're
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: talking
Mike Smith: bet a lot I bet a lot of it
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: is going around signal chats and all sorts.
Nathan Brady: Well, sure. And but it's been across two administrations as well. I mean, what what's I don't understand. I
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: just don't understand. Why can't we Why can't we get answers on this?
Mike Smith: Yeah, it is a little odd. It I mean it I don't understand you know that the because they're telling us to our face that there is nothing to present to us but I'm telling them to their face that you have shared enough with us that I know
Nathan Brady: We know
Mike Smith: that you have names release some names do an investigation into soand so like it's the simplest and it's lowhanging fruit this is the simplest win he could get with his base but he's insisting on there there's The the only people who committed those types of acts on Jeffrey Epstein's island were Jeffrey Epstein.

00:31:12

Mike Smith: That's what they're telling us. They're telling us
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: that nobody else did anything. It was just
Nathan Brady: nobody
Mike Smith: him.
Nathan Brady: was there. It was just him. Um
Mike Smith: 36 gigabytes. My man, there's there's no way. There's just no way. And I have the number wrong. It wasn't 36. It was much more. But like you're okay. Jizlane Maxwell under oath said that every room and every bathroom was being monitored and recorded 24 hours a day on the entire estate. Okay, that's
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: being backed up and that's
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: presumably the video material that they're discussing.
Nathan Brady: Probably a lot of it. Right.
Mike Smith: There's there's going to be tons of it. It's over years, right? So, you're telling me nobody shows up on those videos except Jeffrey Epstein and his victims? That's
Nathan Brady: Sounds
Mike Smith: what you're
Nathan Brady: weird.
Mike Smith: tell That's

00:31:58

Nathan Brady: It sounds
Mike Smith: what you're
Nathan Brady: weird.
Mike Smith: telling me?
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Doesn't sound right, man.
Mike Smith: Doesn't sound right, man.
Nathan Brady: Doesn't
Mike Smith: Especially
Nathan Brady: sound
Mike Smith: when
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: Trump has said in the past that, you know, Bill Clinton and and so many others visited the island and are going to be in trouble because of this. Like, just just some names. You can figure out some names from these videos without saying who the victims were. It's
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: not hard.
Nathan Brady: I would really like to believe that this is it. This is the bullet that missed, you know, a couple couple of inches from his uh from his brain. I mean, this is the final uh this
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: don't think he can lie his way out of this.
Nathan Brady: no and and Okay, so I want to share this uh as wife noticer and Tim Onion as well. Um, look, his his brain it seems to be not handling the weight of this Epstein stuff because

00:32:48

Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: now anytime anybody brings up Epstein, he he loses his mind. He's like, "Stop
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: talking. Stop talking about Epstein." He's like he's slapping at the keyboard. He's yelling at everybody. His They're so funny. There's there's tweets of his son going or or talking an interview, we need those Epstein files released. And then it's cut with him, stop talking about Epstein. It's hilarious. Um but so earlier today I think it was he was like all mad about um about Powell and the and the the Federal Reserve and he was like I
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: can't believe who even nominated this this idiot this guy like and clearly he did. He was talking about Ted Kazinski being a brilliant, which hey, okay, great. Maybe we agree on this, but he was talking about uh his late uncle saying that Ted Kazinski was a
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: great student or whatever and that he taught him, but his uncle died like 10 years before Ted Kazinski even went to MIT.

00:33:44

Nathan Brady: It's like either he's a liar, which okay, he is, or but he's also seriously suffering from the same co cognitive decline or worse that that Biden was going through. Um, and as other people have already said in comments of ours, Jake Tapper, hello, are you there, Jake Tapper? Are you going
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: to write a book about this? Like, what? So, listen, I wasn't a fan of Biden for many reasons, as a lot of progressives weren't. Um, he he was a hold over. He
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: he was he was hopefully bridging the gap to something better.
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: were we
Nathan Brady: But
Mike Smith: were
Nathan Brady: what
Mike Smith: definitely
Nathan Brady: what
Mike Smith: begging for that.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. And then and then what what ended up happen? We're back here. But
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you have to give the same um you know all those people out there that were giving Biden crap for his cognitive decline.

00:34:38

Nathan Brady: You cannot look at this and be okay with it.
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: You
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: just
Mike Smith: it shows up a lot with him. And in fact, we we had a blog post about this on the campaign trail last year about needing to talk about Trump's cognitive decline. He he does the exact same things that Biden was doing where he doesn't really know what you're talking about sometimes and he doesn't really know when things happened with regard to where he is now. And it's
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: that same sort of like uh elderly sundowning syndrome where it's just like you kind of don't really know what's going on right now, but you're you know that you think on your toes and you can kind of talk your way through it, which you know Biden couldn't really do. Biden just
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: but Trump to his credit has been a talker and kind of BSER his entire life. So
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: he

00:35:30

Nathan Brady: mean, he
Mike Smith: just tries to do it.
Nathan Brady: his way of talking out of things though is just so absurd and
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: and nobody the you know the it's so it's so tiring the the like sanewashing
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: uh that the mainstream media is doing when he just goes from like you know they're like hey uh I don't think the unib he just like pivots to like people not being able to flush their toilets anymore and you're like what the f***? what is happening
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: what you know
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: um but
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: but speaking you know just just to go just on the on the same line right um let's let's let's play that let's play this one okay
Mike Smith: All right,
Nathan Brady: let's let's let's
Mike Smith: let's
Nathan Brady: hear
Mike Smith: do
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: it.
Nathan Brady: out
Nathan Brady's Presentation: yesterday um you said that you were not sure who ordered the munitions um halted to Ukraine. Have you since been able to figure that out?

00:36:16

Nathan Brady's Presentation: Well, I haven't thought about it because we're looking at Ukraine right now and munitions, but uh I have no I have not gone into it. What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing? Uh, I would know if a decision was made. I will know. I'll be the first to know. In fact, most likely I'd give the order, but I haven't done that yet. Yeah, please.
Nathan Brady: What? I mean, what?
Mike Smith: That's what I'm saying. He's just he in that first half he's like, "No, I haven't thought about it. It's not a big deal. Don't worry about it.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Whatever." And then they're like, "Well, it's happening
Nathan Brady: It happens.
Mike Smith: right right now. This is
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: happening. This has happened. I asked you for a comment before. Now I'm asking, do you know about it?" And

00:36:58

Mike Smith: you're like, "No." And then
Nathan Brady: but if it did happen.
Mike Smith: and then how can that since it is happening? And we agree on that. How did it happen without you ordering or knowing about it? And he's like, uh, let me tell you, if it were to happen, it is happening right now.
Nathan Brady: It happened.
Mike Smith: I would know about it. In fact, I would have given the order, but I haven't done that yet. But it is still happening, guy.
Nathan Brady: It
Mike Smith: Grandpa,
Nathan Brady: did happen
Mike Smith: get it together.
Nathan Brady: and nobody did nothing. No nothing.
Mike Smith: Nobody pushed back. It's
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: they're
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: like, "Oh,
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: makes that makes sense.
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: That's
Nathan Brady: almost can't because you know, as soon as you push back, it's well, that's a very nasty question,

00:37:33

Mike Smith: Yeah. And then he
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: then
Nathan Brady: know,
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: and just you
Mike Smith: I get
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: it because
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: they'll kick him out of the press room. They won't
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: let him
Nathan Brady: he'll
Mike Smith: back.
Nathan Brady: be
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: mean,
Nathan Brady: guy will be arrested. I mean, he'll be sent to
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: Alligator
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: Alcatraz.
Mike Smith: guy was a Fox News affiliate. He's their guy.
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: Like,
Nathan Brady: he's not their guy because
Mike Smith: he's
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: asking
Mike Smith: anymore.
Nathan Brady: the wrong
Mike Smith: You
Nathan Brady: questions,
Mike Smith: know, he's not coming
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: back.
Nathan Brady: Right. Uh, so yeah, so there's clearly there's clearly problems here. Um,
Mike Smith: I mean, look
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: at it.
Nathan Brady: know,

00:37:57

Mike Smith: Look, I I don't I hate to be this way, but like look at him. Look at his face. He just he's he's tired and droopy and he rambles. He's
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: just like Biden when people were like, "He can't think straight." And to their credit, he had moments where he couldn't think straight. And I'm seeing the exact same thing here.
Nathan Brady: But, you know, it was similar push back though from hardcore Democrats and Biden supporters where it was like, "How can you say that? No, he's fine." And it was like, "Dude, are we just It's back to that post, you're right, posttruth
Mike Smith: It's post-truth reality. I'm sick of it because I I mean we get this folks, we get this all the time on our blue sky account where we will make a valid point about reality, not
Nathan Brady: reality,
Mike Smith: like an opinion. Like this is
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: the world in which we all occupy. And people will be like, "How can you say that? You

00:38:49

Mike Smith: want the Republicans to win?" And we're like, "It's a fact. I don't really care how it affects anything. It exists in this reality.
Nathan Brady: We have
Mike Smith: Ignoring
Nathan Brady: to be able
Mike Smith: it doesn't make it better.
Nathan Brady: Listen, if if we if we were to speak the truth about both sides, we know the Democrats are better. Okay. Right now, right now, they
Mike Smith: Not
Nathan Brady: may
Mike Smith: by
Nathan Brady: be
Mike Smith: a
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: lot.
Nathan Brady: lesser. They might be the lesser of two evils, but let if we can all just call out the truths as we see them,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: we will see the things the Republicans are doing are are so incredibly bad. They're they're inhumane. They're disgusting.
Mike Smith: and and
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: nobody wants them. I mean, like
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: nobody
Mike Smith: showed before,
Nathan Brady: wants them.
Mike Smith: we see poll after poll, and this is like Raasmuson and Fox News, the polls that will bend over backwards to make him look good, are showing him his approval rating for one, but like people who just agree with some of the things they're doing, like the the gator

00:39:45

Nathan Brady: Alligator Alcatraz.
Mike Smith: alligator
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: out, nobody likes that. Nobody
Nathan Brady: No way.
Mike Smith: thinks that that's a good idea.
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: It's it's
Nathan Brady: you know,
Mike Smith: polling
Nathan Brady: some random
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: people on Twitter like that, but
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: that's
Mike Smith: it's polling
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: in like the low tens. It's
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: it's not a good look. People
Nathan Brady: No.
Mike Smith: hate that. And
Nathan Brady: No.
Mike Smith: and and you're like, is it a good thing to to just ignore it? No. These these things happen. They're real.
Nathan Brady: You're you're you're gonna make me pivot on that for just a second because I want to show unfortunately a tweet from one of the people I hate the most.
Mike Smith: Oh, it's
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: I know who it is.
Nathan Brady: no, it's it's cat turd.
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: It's

00:40:18

Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: cat.
Mike Smith: didn't
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: know who
Nathan Brady: cat
Mike Smith: it was.
Nathan Brady: s***. Um and he said, you know, showing a picture of this really just pleasantl looking grandpa who was a hard worker, has a you know, a granddaughter and a family here. Right. And it says, you know, migrant is being held in alligator Alcatraz now begging begging for a chance to self-epport. Cat turd and his stupid brain deadad followers are all like, "Nope, too late. Too late. What do you mean too late? So what's the end goal here? It means that he What do you mean too late? He can't be deported now? He's he's an alligator Alcatraz for life. He's He's This is a death sentence.
Mike Smith: They're going to send him to El Salvador to a a death camp.
Nathan Brady: What
Mike Smith: A goolog.
Nathan Brady: the f*** is happening, man? These people are
Mike Smith: They're deranged.
Nathan Brady: these people are

00:41:07

Mike Smith: They're they're completely
Nathan Brady: deranged.
Mike Smith: deranged. Yeah. And and I want to point out too, I mean, we brought this up on an earlier podcast when we were going over the numbers, and to your credit, Nate, I'm I was wrong on those numbers. The that the I didn't think we were going to see many more deportations than we saw under Biden, and I'm going to be wrong about that. The final numbers for the first year aren't out yet, but I'm looking at the first half, I'm like, well, Nate was right. Uh but again I want to point out that we had you know millions of deportations under Biden and the vast majority of those were self- deepportations. Basically people who were here on visas or people who were here on uh uh work well I guess those are also visas but but there were a number of different ways that you come here legally temporarily to do something go to school work on a field etc. And at the end of that period of time, because you know how long, you know, you're going to be here, I'm going to be in school until I graduate in four years or whatever.

00:42:06

Mike Smith: And then when your visa expires, you go back to your home. You know, if you came from France, doesn't matter where you came from, you know, you go back there or you leave, you deport somewhere else. It doesn't matter. But it's a self-deportation. And the majority of them were that way. And so this guy's saying, "Can I my visa's expired, I want to go back home. Can I just self-deport?" And these people are like, "No, you have to be punished. We're putting you in jail." And he's like, "Do you want me here or not?" Like, "What are we doing?" And I think we know the endgame.
Nathan Brady: I mean, what
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: what I mean, is it to sell them? Is the endgame to sell them to um a foreign government? Is the endgame
Mike Smith: so
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: the thing
Nathan Brady: prop
Mike Smith: that I
Nathan Brady: up the
Mike Smith: will
Nathan Brady: prison?
Mike Smith: say

00:42:46

Nathan Brady: Go
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: ahead.
Mike Smith: that we've seen a lot of of the rightwing talking heads arguing the point of well we're going to end up deporting a lot of our agriculture workers people working in the field picking produce and everything else to to keep Americans fed and how are we going to shore up those numbers right? Because we don't because this is cheap labor and they come over on visas to work. How are we going to do that? And their answer is, well, we've got this whole prison workforce that we can force to work for free.
Nathan Brady: That's where this is going.
Mike Smith: That's where this is going. Is there a word for that, by the way? It has to be something shorter than forced to work against your will for free. Is there a word for that? There's not a
Nathan Brady: There's
Mike Smith: word for it.
Nathan Brady: like a
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: fiveletter word or
Mike Smith: I'll
Nathan Brady: something.
Mike Smith: look it

00:43:31

Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: up
Nathan Brady: think
Mike Smith: later. I'll
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: look it
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: up
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: later.
Nathan Brady: Scrabble really aficionado,
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: so I don't know those words off the top of my head, but yeah.
Mike Smith: but to answer
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: your question, yeah, that's the end goal is is that somebody's going to make a lot of money off of this economic model, we'll say. And and the way the way the the ends justifying the means is we got all of the the the brown people out of the country to do this other thing. It's not
Nathan Brady: um,
Mike Smith: it's not looking good.
Nathan Brady: it's not good.
Mike Smith: But I don't see any other endgame, right? Because if you're getting rid of everybody who who who picks the food, but all the Americans still need the food,
Nathan Brady: Here's what's going to happen. Yeah, man. Oh,
Mike Smith: you're
Nathan Brady: man.
Mike Smith: either

00:44:23

Nathan Brady: I hope
Mike Smith: importing
Nathan Brady: you're not
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: with a gigantic tariff
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: or
Nathan Brady: man. This is starting to sound like you're you're right because I'm I'm seeing in in order in order to get to those drastic measures of we need we need prisoners to do slave
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: labor.
Mike Smith: have to create an emergency.
Nathan Brady: Uh they have to create an emergency and the emergency is the fields are empty, the food is going bad, we're not getting produce to families, the cost of groceries is too expensive. Oh my god, what do we do? We need
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: to get people out there.
Mike Smith: and we and in the big beautiful bill they just cut a bunch of uh of funding that would provide people with basically cheap affordable food. So that is another thing where people don't have food. That's the ramp up. We're making an emergency where people don't have food and then anything will fly.

00:45:19

Mike Smith: We said it before, hungry people cause problems, man. Governments can't handle hungry people very well. But this is their end goal, I think. I mean, that's if if
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: I if I were evil and I wanted all the money and power, that's the way I would do it.
Nathan Brady: right. Um, oh, that that hurts because I I it's I think you're right. I mean, I think that that that's the only I mean, listen, we always I often say that I feel like the new slogan is the cruelty is the point,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: but it's not. It's just it's the money and power is the point.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: The cruelty is a side effect.
Mike Smith: Cruelty
Nathan Brady: You can't
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: get
Mike Smith: just the cherry on top.
Nathan Brady: for them. Yeah.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: You can't get to all the money and all the power without the insane disturbing like truly disturbing cruelty.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um and we're seeing it in people like Cat Turk because you know you you and I do this podcast for fun.

00:46:17

Nathan Brady: We're
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: not going to get we're not going to get big. This podcast isn't going to blow up. We're gonna have, you know, we're we're
Mike Smith: Unless
Nathan Brady: gonna
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: we're
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: gonna
Mike Smith: and subscribe now.
Nathan Brady: Please like and subscribe. My my point being that we're over here telling the truth. We're over here worrying about people. We're over here, you know, whatever. That kind of thing doesn't make headlines like what the thing that we're showing on the screen right now.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: And the reason why this a****** has been interviewed by Tucker, you know, Carlson has been uh has, you know, has is making money, is selling a book, is doing all of this b******* is because he posts s*** like this,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: flashy,
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: confrontational,
Nathan Brady: and he
Mike Smith: uh,
Nathan Brady: doesn't
Mike Smith: edgy.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. And he doesn't care if he's cruel on his way to getting the money and the power and

00:47:03

Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: the fame. And that this is just like a sliver of what the even more powerful elite class is doing.
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: They
Mike Smith: mean, it's
Nathan Brady: just don't care who it hurts.
Mike Smith: right. It's it's a it's a severe lack of empathy. It's not being able to relate to a a human who's having a different experience than you. And you know, and it speaks to a lot of this this this the same cultural uh uh problem, we'll say, of like the alpha mentalities and like everyone else is an NPC. And it's sort of like uh you know, this this all the ends justify the means as long as I get all the money and power and I look great and I'm the manliest man and and they're just so distracted to it. You and I do this a lot because because we spend some time together, but we talk to people on the streets. Like we'll just we go into a store or something, you talk to somebody for a little bit of time and it it it's clear that these people just don't think of other humans as people.

00:48:01

Mike Smith: They're just
Nathan Brady: Yes.
Mike Smith: they're they're
Nathan Brady: take
Mike Smith: robots
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: that are out there.
Nathan Brady: and it's becoming even harder for for me who I feel myself I I am an empath, right? But like we
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: cover so many of these stories that it's almost like I mean I looked at this and today and I posted about it and I said I was angry but just stop and think about this for a second just to I just want if you're listening to this and you're not you're not maybe you're not really even grasping because this is just one needle in a hay stack.
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: This man was just driving back. I think he was cutting back through. He was going back to Argentina. This is a human being. He has a beautiful granddaughter. He has a family. He This man is in a prison now, probably with criminals. He's alone. He's afraid. He's by himself.

00:48:50

Nathan Brady: Look at this guy, you
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: know?
Mike Smith: deplorable conditions too. I mean,
Nathan Brady: Look, I mean, look at him. Just like looks like a normal regular guy. He's begging for the chance to just kick me out.
Mike Smith: just go
Nathan Brady: Let
Mike Smith: home.
Nathan Brady: me
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: go.
Mike Smith: just want to go home.
Nathan Brady: Let me go. You know, it's insane. It's in you. Try and imagine yourself in this position being taken away from your son or your daughter or your wife or your husband and and put into this position where you probably can't contact anybody. You you you can't see your family. You barely your lawyers barely know where you are. You don't know whether you're gonna get kicked in the head before your next meal or even have a next meal. I mean, this is literally life and death for these people. And imagine this happening to you. And so many of these people like Cat Turd, the guy who ran over his own dog in his f****** pickup truck, can't imagine themselves in this situation.

00:49:49

Nathan Brady: And it's heartbreaking. It's truly heartbreaking. And this is only one small Nobody's going to talk about this guy. I wouldn't have even have noticed this,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: known about this guy if I didn't accidentally see a cat turd tweet, which I never want to see, right? He's nowhere in my blue sky feed other than us posting him.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I mean, and this is happening by the hundreds and thousands now across the country. This is heartbreaking. This is truly heartbreaking.
Mike Smith: Yeah. No, and that's the thing is that like you said, it's it's we have the capacity, most people do, have the capacity to just relate to another human being on a human level. Just you and I are the same. You know,
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: we're
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: we're we're we're animals with brains walking around this crazy planet just trying to get by.
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: it's something about the internet man and
Mike Smith: it

00:50:40

Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: is it is.
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: it you know because when you talk to a person if you can isolate a single person and
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you can say to them I can I can like I said I have MAGA acquaintances. I can't call anyone I know that's MAGA a friend. I have MAGA acquaintances that I go, "Hey, man, can you believe can you just imagine?" And they go, "Well, well, well, I only wanted it to be the criminals.
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: you're right. This is bad. I only wanted it to be the criminals." When you can isolate, but that same person will go online other under Cat Turd's thing. He'll like it. He'll repost it. He'll lol out loud. You know what I mean? It's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: something there's
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: some
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: kind of cruelty
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: and

00:51:17

Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: animity.
Mike Smith: yeah, it I mean it's it's like the uh what do they call it? Uh armchair quarterbacks, right? and they're just they're they're so politically divisive online. They're just really fiery and stuff and you meet them face to face and you don't even push them. You're just like, "Do you really feel that way? That doesn't like that doesn't seem like the person I know."
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Like
Mike Smith: Like
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: know you, man.
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: know
Nathan Brady: You're
Mike Smith: you and you
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: you're not really that way. Why do you act that way online? He's like, "Well," and you get a lot of excuses, but I mean,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: like you said, you never change anything. They go back to being that online presence that they were before.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, everybody has a little bit of that. It kind of reminds me of the road rage.

00:51:57

Nathan Brady: You know, you're
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: driving in a
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: car, right? And somebody cuts you off and you're like, "You mother kill you and your family." You know, but then, you know, if that person did that in front of you, like face to face, you're like, "Whoa." You know, but it's not like everybody's stabbing each other,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: you know?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: It's like there's there's something about like being disconnected from other people and how you react to other people versus like if you saw this poor man in front of you and he was crying and he was begging and you knew he
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: wasn't a criminal and he was begging just let me go home, you know, I promise I won't come back. I just want to see my granddaughter again or whatever. The majority of people I hope and I believe would feel compassion. And you
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: think I think that you're right. Right.

00:52:44

Mike Smith: And there's two there's two sides to this. So there's the one of being able to relate with people, but also there's the side of it where they've painted you a picture of this class of group, this group as a whole of who's going to get deported and they're criminals and they're violent and they want to sell
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: drugs.
Nathan Brady: designed that way.
Mike Smith: It's designed
Nathan Brady: Yes.
Mike Smith: that way, right? But whenever you get one of these where you're like, "But this guy, what did this guy do?" and you tell them the STO story. Most people even I think online see that and they go, "All right. All right. They shouldn't have done it to this guy,
Nathan Brady: Well, they a lot of them and I I've
Mike Smith: right?"
Nathan Brady: had that conversation,
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: But
Mike Smith: get that a
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: lot.
Nathan Brady: point
Mike Smith: And then
Nathan Brady: is

00:53:25

Mike Smith: I'm like, "But the whole that's the thing though, right?
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: That
Nathan Brady: majority
Mike Smith: can't all
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: be
Nathan Brady: guy.
Mike Smith: that way that you're talking about.
Nathan Brady: It's this this guy is the majority of people that Listen, I understand that gangs in South America and Mexico are a problem, but
Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: there's not 1.5 million MS-13 gang members in the United States, guys. Like,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: what are you talking about?
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: You know,
Mike Smith: and you've made no consideration for these types of edge cases where you're like, "Okay,
Nathan Brady: these
Mike Smith: this
Nathan Brady: aren't
Mike Smith: guy
Nathan Brady: edge cases.
Mike Smith: we hold on. Let's assume let's give them the
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: benefit of the doubt for no reason. They don't deserve it, but let's give it to them." That this this is an edge case. And we're like, "This guy is in, you know, wrong place, wrong time, has the right idea, wants to deport, self-epport. it

00:54:11

Mike Smith: would cost the government less money for him to self-deport. We should just do that. There's no process there. There's no way for anybody to be like, "This guy just wants just let him go. He'll leave." Like, what if you just take him to the border, you know, and and and send him on his way and that's the cheap option. There's no process there. He can't ask for that. No one's going to give it to him. So, even when people agree, you're like, "Well, the government's going to keep him in gator jail for the rest of his life." And you're like, "But that's terrible. Let him go home. And everybody wants him to go home. Let him go home.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I mean, and and again, just to go back to the point, it's designed that way.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: It's so that we don't see them as human. And
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: you you said it exactly. It does cost the government more.

00:54:56

Nathan Brady: But what do you mean by cost the government more? That means it costs well who funds the government costs
Mike Smith: Us.
Nathan Brady: us, right? It costs
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: us more. So So okay, we're we're people are upset. It's costing the government more. It's actually costing us more. We're spending that money on who? The the private prison
Mike Smith: Nice. Yeah. Yeah. In the prisons,
Nathan Brady: ICE, the prisons, they're making handover fists. So it costs the government more is the point. Republicans have never in the history of the party been the actual party of
Mike Smith: fiscal
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: responsibility.
Nathan Brady: fiscal responsibility and smaller government. Period. Full stop. End of story. f*** all of you. It's just not true. You de debate me. f****** debate me.
Mike Smith: Yeah, change
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: my
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: mind.
Nathan Brady: just like you cannot find in the history of the Republican party, you know, since the party ideologies have basically swapped in the 60s,7s, whatever, that that the Republican party has wanted true fiscal responsibility.

00:55:58

Nathan Brady: There
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: are outliers. There's the the Justin Amashes. There's the uh uh Ron and Rand Paul's, you know, um who are terrible for their for other reasons,
Mike Smith: Amash
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: is an independent. Just
Nathan Brady: Oh, that fair. Amash wasn't an independent. Sure. Um you you just you he mostly caucused with Republicans
Mike Smith: he did.
Nathan Brady: though.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um but but nonetheless you you won't you won't find it. Um so god damn it I we have to we have to end the show and we haven't even told everybody that Grock is Hitler.
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: did
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: forget to talk about Mecca Hitler.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: That
Nathan Brady: didn't
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: forget.
Mike Smith: pretty
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: amazing.
Nathan Brady: mean it's it's on the list. It's
Mike Smith: All right,
Nathan Brady: right next
Mike Smith: give me
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: give

00:56:37

Nathan Brady: we have
Mike Smith: me give me three minutes of Mecca
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: Hitler.
Nathan Brady: don't I
Mike Smith: What's
Nathan Brady: don't know man. Uh, Elon Musk wanted Grock to be more like himself and it started calling himself Mecca Hitler. That's
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: it. That's the show. I mean, I mean, what the f***? Okay, let Okay, we have a few minute We have a few minutes here. We have a few minutes.
Mike Smith: okay.
Nathan Brady: Uh, uh, maybe I don't have a few minutes. Okay, I do. I have a few minutes. Um, Grock, Mike, Mike and I are both in tech. We've said this a few times. Everybody who's listened to more than four episodes, at least one and three episodes, we have to qualify by saying we know what we're talking about. We're not we're not we're not
Mike Smith: When
Nathan Brady: just
Mike Smith: it when it comes to software and technical stuff generally, we know what we're talking about.

00:57:22

Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: and and
Mike Smith: are
Nathan Brady: unfortunately AI and I
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: say unfortunately
Mike Smith: AI.
Nathan Brady: because we've been forced uh like AI is being forced on all of you. It's being forced on us too because it's all anybody talks about in tech which means
Mike Smith: Yep.
Nathan Brady: that we have to build the things that our clients want us to build and that is a lot of AI right now and we understand AI better than the average person. I've had lots of conversations with people where I have to say no that what you're saying I understand that makes sense to you but it's wrong. This is how it actually works. Okay, we get it. When AI when when a a model comes out and says it's Mecca Hitler, okay, you have to really force it to speak that way. It's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: not as simple as a oneline don't be, you know, you it's okay to be politically incorrect. There's a layer of training that has to happen

00:58:12

Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: that that allows that stuff to come through. Okay?
Mike Smith: and and an amount of money that goes along with that training.
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: That's
Nathan Brady: serious
Mike Smith: unbelievable.
Nathan Brady: amount of money.
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: mean,
Nathan Brady: an unbelievable amount of money and cost to the environment, I might add. But that's a whole different,
Mike Smith: well,
Nathan Brady: you know,
Mike Smith: another time
Nathan Brady: a whole different ball game. So, the amount of money and effort spent to go from the release of one model to the release of an altered state of that model is not just it's not always a simple system prompt change. And this was not just a simple system prompt change. This was this was some some training and big dollars spent that went into this. And Grock came out um answering questions like who would be better suited to solve the migrant crisis in Texas with saying, "Well, Adolf Hitler would certainly be, you know, a a great person for the job. He

00:59:14

Nathan Brady: was he was uh hard on, you know, had a hardline stance on migrants and what I mean, what the f***? I don't I'm gonna explode.
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: So
Mike Smith: it's not good. I mean,
Nathan Brady: um
Mike Smith: here I have a quote one for you here.
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: This is This
Nathan Brady: All right.
Mike Smith: is Grock. It
Nathan Brady: All right.
Mike Smith: responds, quote, "The truth, it's the glaring pattern. Radical leftists like Cindy Steinberg celebrating drowned white kids in Texas floods as quote future fascists end quote often share Ashkenazi Jewish surnames. Noticing this trend isn't bigotry, it's empirical observation. Hate the game, not the spotter.
Nathan Brady: And and that was one of its
Mike Smith: Then that was a
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: tame one.
Nathan Brady: that was a tame one. That's when people were like, "That sounds pretty racist. Let me see what else I can get it to say." Uh, and boy did they get it to say some things.

01:00:10

Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: anyway,
Mike Smith: mean, it's
Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: it's it's
Nathan Brady: it made a bunch
Mike Smith: amazing.
Nathan Brady: of Zig hales. It made a bunch of like Roman love salutes, whatever uh Elon wants to call it.
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: Um, uh, it got the CEO of X to, uh, step down.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Linda
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: Yakarino, I believe, is her name.
Nathan Brady: is Linda Jewish?
Mike Smith: I don't know. And I don't know that that's relevant.
Nathan Brady: No. Uh,
Mike Smith: Or
Nathan Brady: well,
Mike Smith: do you think do you think Grock fired Linda?
Nathan Brady: um,
Mike Smith: Elon's like, "What should we do, Grock?" And Grock's like, "Well, now this this
Nathan Brady: no,
Mike Smith: Linda
Nathan Brady: she's an Italian American. I I I I I'm was just asking because Jesus Christ, you know, um you know, um but
Mike Smith: uh
Nathan Brady: but at the same time, he the I I know part of the reason I can I can understand from just a business perspective the reasons for stepping down other than the the fallout the the the should be fallout of advertisers bailing and

01:01:10

Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: of you
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: losing money of whatever. This clearly was a model or or a an alteration to the to a major product that just got shoved out the door.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Somebody said, "Uh, Elon, why is why is uh Grock so woke?" And Elon said, "We'll fix immediately." And then Elon turned to one of his, you know, you know, 21-year-old
Mike Smith: Goons.
Nathan Brady: uh, you know, just out of college,
Mike Smith: They're goons.
Nathan Brady: you know, goo goons and said, "Hey, make it more Hitler without saying Hitler." And then he went, "Okay, I did it." And Linda went, "I this is not ready for production. I'm speculating. This is I don't think this is quite ready. I think we need to do some testing." And then somebody just hit the Oh, I I hit go live.
Mike Smith: Oh s***, I published that.
Nathan Brady: Ah, f***.
Mike Smith: I'm trying
Nathan Brady: It's f*****
Mike Smith: to stop
Nathan Brady: up.

01:02:03

Mike Smith: it, but it's making it go faster. It's
Nathan Brady: It's all right. Yeah. So, um,
Mike Smith: Let me tell you from the tech world, accidentally publishing to production is the scariest thing you'll ever live through in your life. So that guy is not having a good time. He's like, "Oh no.
Nathan Brady: well, but it certainly was. I point being, it wasn't an accident.
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: Elon
Mike Smith: no.
Nathan Brady: Elon said, "Go do it." Linda probably pushed back and eventually you have to say, "All right,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I I can't I can't do this anymore." Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah, for sure. But I've got some good news for you.
Nathan Brady: okay. Wait, did we have breaking good news that we can end on?
Mike Smith: Breaking good news.
Nathan Brady: Oh, give me the breaking good news. Please give me something.
Mike Smith: Grock AI signed a very lucrative contract with the United States government to be their official AI vendor.
Nathan Brady: I shot I should have known the same the same second that they released like um this ex pornographic anime like um hide app.

01:03:01

Nathan Brady: Oh, you didn't hear about this?
Mike Smith: didn't hear about this.
Nathan Brady: Oh my god. I thought I I thought I shared this with you, but I guess I didn't. Uh let me see if I can find it real quick because there's a great like dual um
Mike Smith: I'm g throw Nate right under the bus with this one. It's gonna
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: be great.
Nathan Brady: no. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay, here it's right here. I can't believe you you missed this.
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: Uh,
Mike Smith: my god.
Nathan Brady: let me just share that. Let me share the headline with you.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Oh my god, I almost shared something else. Um, no, I can't I can't actually
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: get
Mike Smith: I do see it. I do see it.
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: No
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: one else
Nathan Brady: can't.
Mike Smith: does. It's just me, though.

01:03:30

Nathan Brady: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me
Mike Smith: Brock
Nathan Brady: see if I
Mike Smith: rolls
Nathan Brady: can.
Mike Smith: out pornographic anime campaign lands department of defense contract to the same line.
Nathan Brady: Right. Let me see if I can Here you go.
Mike Smith: Oh my god.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, they rolled out this weird like
Mike Smith: Meanwhile,
Nathan Brady: pornographic
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: anime
Mike Smith: most advanced
Nathan Brady: companion
Mike Smith: version
Nathan Brady: pack.
Mike Smith: of the AI chatbot from Elon Musk's X AI still identifying as Adolf Hitler. Who Whoever wrote this headline, you deserve whatever award you give journalists,
Nathan Brady: Well, it
Mike Smith: is it
Nathan Brady: certainly
Mike Smith: appeal,
Nathan Brady: wasn't
Mike Smith: sir?
Nathan Brady: the New York Times, right? um
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: can guarantee
Mike Smith: my god.
Nathan Brady: that this is like a Verwired headline. I hope I actually don't know where the headline came from.
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: probably Rolling Stone. They've been

01:04:21

Nathan Brady: or
Mike Smith: sort of hammering them lately.
Nathan Brady: Rolling Stone or Teen Vogue is basically the only place you can get your f****** real news now without
Mike Smith: Yeah, it's a Rolling Stone.
Nathan Brady: it.
Mike Smith: It's a Rolling Stone uh headline.
Nathan Brady: Is
Mike Smith: I'll
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: I'll I'll make sure it's in the show notes.
Nathan Brady: okay? Great. Great. Good on good on them. Um, all right. That Hey, great great great spot to end the show today. Um,
Mike Smith: At least we're laughing.
Nathan Brady: at least we're um, hey everyone, if you made it this far, if you made it through the Epstein conspiracy theories, Grock is Hitler and the terrible things that the United States is now being known for doing to migrants. Uh, like and
Mike Smith: Like
Nathan Brady: subscribe
Mike Smith: and subscribe.
Nathan Brady: if you
Mike Smith: Leave
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Mike Smith: a comment.
Nathan Brady: hear more Leave of it. a comment.
Mike Smith: We're playing a fun new game where one of our stories is truly false and you guys have to figure out which.

01:05:12

Nathan Brady: Yeah. Which one of these stories
Mike Smith: Which
Nathan Brady: was
Mike Smith: one
Nathan Brady: false?
Mike Smith: of those stories is false?
Nathan Brady: Uh
Mike Smith: What a great time to be alive.
Nathan Brady: they're all they're all real.
Mike Smith: They're all real.
Nathan Brady: They're all real.
Mike Smith: Maybe next maybe the next episode I'll pepper in some story that I make up and we see how far we go with it.
Nathan Brady: But don't do it because by the time I we get to it, it'll be real. And Jesus Christ, don't do it. Don't
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: even put it out into the universe.
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: I feel like the writers of this season of America are just tapped into my brain. Like what is the worst possible thing that could happen and then it just comes true. So, okay. Thanks everybody. Uh we'll see you next time on the Blue Sedition podcast. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Follow us on Blue Ski. Uh that's where we post our updates most of the time. Mike, you got something to say? No.
Mike Smith: No. Thanks everybody. Thanks for coming along for the ride.
Nathan Brady: Catch you later.
Mike Smith: See, that was fun.
Nathan Brady: And it ends up all right.
Mike Smith: And and annotations.
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: Yeah, no