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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. Well, folks, it finally happened. Prince Andrew, the

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world's most unemployed aristocrat, just got pink slipped by the Crown.

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And not only that, but his bitch ass got booted

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from the royal lodge, stripped of every shiny trinket and

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meaningless title that used to let him pretend that he

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was somebody. The Duke of Disgrace is now just Andrew

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Mountbatten Windsor, a middle aged freeloader who finally ran out

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of excuses, connections, and tax payer funded hideouts. The only

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thing more unbelievable than his downfall is how long it took.

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The writing's been on the palace wall for years. It

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just took a bulldozer made a public disgust to make

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the royals finally read it. The man who once thought

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that his royal blood made him untouchable has finally discovered

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that even privilege has an expiration date, especially when your

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name's been dragged through enough scandals that it would make

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tabloid editor's blush. Remember this is the guy who used

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to strut around in a uniform that he barely earned,

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puffed up like a parade balloon, bragging about duty and

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service while cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein, the human embodiment

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of sleas in corruption. He wanted to be seen as

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a noble, gallant figure, a veteran, a statesman, while his

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friends were international predators and financial manipulators. He called it networking.

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The rest of us called it complicity. Andrew was in

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some innocent bystander caught in a bad crowd. He was

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the crowd, jet setting with the predator, hiding behind royal

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protocol and pretending not to notice the victims. Every handshake,

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every fake smile, every denial, it all reeked of privilege

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gon rotten. He used the royal crest like a shield,

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flashing titles instead of truth, and somehow thought the world

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would keep pretending not to notice. But you can't keep

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up the scharade forever when your entire reputation smells like

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cigar smoke, hush money, and bad decisions. And now the

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bills come due. The monarchy's problem child just got repossessed.

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Imagine the look on his face when he was told

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to pack up his precious teddy bears and get out

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of the royal lodge, the monument to denial, the last

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fortress of a man allergic to accountability. This is a

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guy who's been living like a squatter in a palace,

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refusing to leave while the world's discuss grew louder by

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the day. No more playing country squire on the public dime,

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no more pretending to be a royal one. The only

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thing royal about him is the scandal. Even the palace's

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pr machine couldn't spin this disaster anymore. They tried everything,

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the sympathetic interviews, the photo ops, the staged horseback rides,

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but the truth always broke through. It's like they finally

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realized you can't polish a dumpster fire, and that no

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amount of winds or window dressing can disguise rot this

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deep and look, the fall of Prince Andrew is in tragic,

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it's overdue. The man built his whole lass life entitlement, arrogance,

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and an unearned sense of immunity. Every bad headline was

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someone else's fault. Every scandal a misunderstanding, every consequence a

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misrepresentation that smugs what he denialed he tried to sell

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in that BBC interview became his entire legacy. He thought

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charm could outtalk accountability, but charm doesn't work when the

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receipts are this ugly. Now he's just a sad reminder

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of what happens when power shields rot for too long.

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The titles are gone, the doors are closed, and the

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mask has finally slipped underneath it all. He's not a duke,

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not a war hero, not a royal, just a man

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who sold his soul for proximity to perversion and thought

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his name would protect him forever. And look, I won't lie.

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There's something satisfying about watching someone who's dodged accountability this

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long trip over his own lies. For years, he hid

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behind Buckingham's walls, convinced that the rules didn't apply to him.

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But eventually the wall stop protecting him and started closing in.

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No spin, no ceremony, no redemption arc, just the hollow

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echo of a fallen prince dragging his bags out of

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a house he never deserved to live in. Somewhere you

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can almost hear Epstein laughing from the grave, knowing his

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favorite royal accessory finally got cut loose. The Prince of

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Nothing has finally become what he has always been, nothing

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at all. A man stripped bear, not by cruelty, but

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by his own arrogance, greed and decay. And for once

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the monarchy made the right call, even if it came

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twenty years too late. And now right on cue, here

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come the apologies, crawling out of the woodwork like clockwork,

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the same tired cast of royal siccophants, boot liquors and

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contrarian weirdos who seem to think defending Prince Andrew online

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is some noble act of rebellion. He's been treated too harshly,

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They say, he suffered enough. They whine, suffered enough. The

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man lived in a mansion, ran f or he shielded

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by tax pair of money, and hid behind palace gates

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while survivors live with scars he helped deepen. Getting evicted

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from your luxury lodge isn't suffering. It's finally facing a

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sliver of consequence after decades of hiding behind titles and

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tax payer funded privilege. Really, you moronic clowns too harshly?

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Why don't we play a game a reality check? Would

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you let him baby see your kids? Would you let

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your teenage daughter hang out with them unsupervised? I didn't

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think so. Because deep down even the most delusional royalists

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knows exactly who this man is. They can't say it

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out loud, so they dress it up with words like redemption,

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forgiveness or due process. But come on, spare us the

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sanctimonious bullshit. This isn't about mob justice. It's about long

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overdue accountability for a man who's been dodging it since

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the VHS era. If you find yourself defending Prince Andrew,

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it might be time to take a long, hard look

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in the mirror and ask what part of associated with

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a convicted sex trafficker still isn't clear to you. There's

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a time to be contrarian, sure, but this ain't it.

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You don't get points for taking the wrong side of

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history because you think it makes you edgy or objective.

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When someone's been accused of participating in the exploitation of miners,

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it's not really a debate topic. It's a moral line crossing.

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It doesn't make you enlightened, it makes you complicit in

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the gaslighting of survivors and bitch, this is in cancel culture.

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It's consequence culture, and if that makes you uncomfortable, maybe

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that says more about you than it does about Andrew.

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Defending this guy doesn't make you fair minded. It makes

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you a fool with bad taste and worse judgment. And

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spare us that he's been through enough routine. What he's

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been through is an embarrassment, public ridicule, the kind of

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social exile that comes from people finally seeing through your bullshit.

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It's not punishment, it's just life catching up, bro. The

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people who actually suffered were the young women whose lives

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were derailed by men like Epstein and protected by men

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like Andrew while they were fighting to be believed. He

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was hiding behind a press statement and a pack of

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royal lawyers. So no, losing his titles and his mansion

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is in cruel It's the bare minimum of what justice

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looks like when you're too rich to go to prison.

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And if you still think poor Andy deserves sympathy, then

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go ahead, swap places. Let him live your life for

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a month, Let him earn a paycheck, pay rent, take

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the bus, and face real consequences for once. See how

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quickly the royal arrogance crumbles without a taxpayer funded cushion

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under it. The world doesn't owe him understanding, compassion, or

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a comeback tour. What it owes him is silence, distance

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and the dignity of being forgotten, because the truth is

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the only thing harsher than how he's been treated is

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how softly he's been held for far too long. Today's

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article is from the Deli Mal and the headline boorish

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and entitled Andrew is now ordinary member of the public.

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King stripped his brother of prince title and ordered him

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to leave Royal Lodge after being consistently embarrassed. This article

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was authored by Eleanor Mann and John Brady. Andrew mount

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Batten Windsor was arrogant, borish and entitled, and his behavior

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consistently embarrassed Charles to the point that he had no

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choice but to excize him from royal life, a confident

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of the king has claimed. Jonathan Dimbley said he was

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in no doubt that the monarch has been consistently embarrassed,

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frustrated by and angry about his brother's behavior. Well, yeah,

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I can only imagine imagine being the King of England

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and having this anchor tied around your ankle as you're

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trying to get the monarchy going in the right direction.

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And not only that, but you're sick. You have cancer

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and you're probably on death's doorstep. Let's be real, and

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this is what your bitch ass, sorry, ass, scumbag brother does.

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How could anyone have any kind of compassion for Prince Andrew?

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And I've said it once and I'll say it again.

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He drove the Queen to her grave and he's going

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to drive the King to his grave too. Last night,

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King Charles sensationally stripped Andrew of his prince title and

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is throwing him out of the royal lodge where he

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had paid a peppercorn rent for decades, effectively banishing the

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disgraced dex Duke from royal life for good, I mean

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better late than never. They could have saved themselves a

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whole lot of trouble if they would have just jettison

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this idiot a long time ago. And look, do you

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really think it's a hoax? If it was a hoax,

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would it cost Prince Andrew his titles? Would it cost

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Glenn Dubin his company? Would it make Less Wexner step

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down from l Brands? What about Leon Black from Apollo?

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Or how about the fact that the banks paid out

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what close to half a billion dollars? Does that sound

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like a hoax to you and the people that want

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to call little hoax. All they have is some demeaning

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words about Virginia. Oh well, Virginia misremembered Alan Dershowitz. Hey,

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what else do you got for me? Is that the

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only evidence that you're bringing to the table. Because if

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that's the case, do everybody at favor and take all

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the seats, because what you're doing is trying to muddy

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the waters. You have no evidence to backup what you're saying.

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You have nothing that refutes the stacks of evidence that

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we have that are public, so they resort to bullshit

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personal attacks. Right, Oh, she's a liar, she's a prostitute,

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she's this, that, the other thing. And the reason they

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do that is because that's what the playbook calls for.

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But they forgot that this time around. There's a bunch

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of evidence that points at Prince Andrew being directly in

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the middle of all of this, and there's no amount

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of spin, there's no amount of misdirection, and there's certainly

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no amount of straw man argument you're going to make

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that's going to change people's perception of what's going on here,

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because you can save all the bullshit for somebody else.

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We follow the evidence around these parts wherever that takes us,

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even if it takes us places that goes against the

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narrative or against what we think, because what really matters

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is getting to the bottom of this and unearthing the truth.

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And a damn good way to do it is to

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start with accountability for people like Prince Andrew. But it

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can't stop there. We need to have the same kind

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of accountability right here in America as well. Now we've

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seen some people lose jobs, for sure, but there needs

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to be a robust investigation. And like I've said from

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the very beginning, that is all I've ever called for.

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I want them to treat this the same way that

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they would treat a situation involving their own kids. That's

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what I want. Is that too much to ask for?

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And then let the chips fall wherever they may. If

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people are guilty, they go to jail. If not, maybe

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they get their names cleared. Isn't that the whole point

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of what's going on here? Isn't that the whole point

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of an investigation? The problem is we've never had a

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real investigation. Have we a culmination of recent revelations, including

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that Andrew told his friend the file Jeffrey Epstein, that

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we are in this together, as exclusively revealed by the

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mail forced Charles's hand. Mister Dimbley told the BBC, well,

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I would say so. Could there be any doubt of

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their connections at that point? Could there be any doubt

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that they were close, that they were friends, that they

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were doing things together, whatever those things might be. You

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don't send that kind of email to somebody if you aren't,

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you know, palin around with them and getting up to

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some shit. We'll play more later. What in the ever

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living fuck do you mean by that? I suspect he'll

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be feeling a measure of relief. He said of Charles,

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his brother. This is not an easy thing for any

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brother to do, to be banished eternal imprisonment in a

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way on Sandringham estate. And I've been saying for years

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that it's only a matter of time before this dude

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gets exiled. Once the Queen died, it was only a

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matter of time before the rest of the family reevaluated

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Prince Andrew and is worth and how much he was

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dragging everybody down. And now we know that it's not

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just the king, but Prince William as well. William's had enough.

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Bro wants nothing to do with Uncle Touchy, doesn't even

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want to be his neighbor. He added. We know his

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brother was boorish, arrogant, entitled, that he made an awful

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lot of bad friendships, all sorts of questions about how

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he got his own money. There is a lot that

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will be discussed if there are further investigations, which I'm

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sure there will be into Andrew himself. The king himself

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will be quite separate from that, and more importantly, the

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institution of the monarchy will be detached from that. Well maybe,

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but what about all of the protection they gave him previously,

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What about the fact that they ate it and abetted

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this scumbag, and they helped him avoid even getting served.

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That conversation is going to have to be had at

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some point, because it played a huge part in Prince

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Andrew and the cover that he received for all these years.

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The family of Virginia Roberts, who claim to have been

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trafficked to and made to have sex with Andrew at seventeen,

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are now calling for him to face justice in the US,

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where he could potentially be extradited as an ordinary member

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of the public now that's interesting. Do I think it's

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going to happen. No, but it's certainly interesting. If Prince

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Andrew gets charged with something in America, they could start

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the extradition process. And now that he's been stripped of

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all of his titles and honorifics, he doesn't have diplomatic community,

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so that's certainly a new wrinkle. Are they going to

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be able to exploit it? I don't think so. Remember

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the investigations closed here in America, So what sort of

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justice is he going to face? So I have my

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doubts about Prince Andrew ever come into America to face

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any kind of justice. Today, the ex Duke of York

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wakes up as a commoner. Andrew Mountbatten winsor and ministers

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have suggested that he could be less protected from, for example,

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demands to testify in America. Haven't been stripped of his

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royal status one million percent, Like I just said, he

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loses all of that protection and all of that status.

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So if there is a prosecutor in America that wants

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to open a case, certainly a path that can go down.

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Will they That's another question. Trade Minister Sir Chris Bryant

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told BBC Breakfast. I think that, just as with any

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ordinary member of the public, if there were requests from

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another jurisdiction to this kind, I would expect any decently

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minded person to comply with that request. He added. What

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I'm basically saying is that I think that if Andrew

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was asked to do something by a Senate committee, then

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I would have thought that he would want to comply. Well, yeah, look,

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if you're trying to clear your name, don't you want

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to have your say. Don't you want to have a

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chance to get up there and defend yourself, your family

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and your behavior. And that's one of my biggest problems

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with Prince Andrew. He's never wanted to do that. He

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thought he was going to glide home in that BBC

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interview and steamroll Emily Maitliss. Well, Emily Maitliss. She might

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have softballdom, but she did a good job and she

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got Prince Andrew basically to admit he's a fucking moron.

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So please spare me the bullshit about Prince Andrew not

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being given a chance to have his say. He's been

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given many chances to have his say, and he's chosen

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to stay silent. He was able to get away with

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that before because he was a royal, because he had

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that shield of immunity, right, not anymore. Now that that's gone,

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things are different. The question is, does anyone in America

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have the courage to open an investigation into Prince Andrew?

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And remember, it could be a staatecase too. It doesn't

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have to be federal. If Prince Andrew was up to

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no good in the State of New York, then the

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State of New York, for all intents and purposes, can

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investigate what he was doing. And I certainly think that's

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a possibility, depending on what happens at the federal level,

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because I have a funny feeling that we have not

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seen the last of investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. This administration

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doesn't want to investigate anymore. But this administration isn't gonna

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be around forever, and this story isn't going anywhere, not

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until there's finality, not until there's some answers. All right, folks,

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we're gonna wrap up episode one right here, and in

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the next episode we're gonna pick up where we left off.

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