1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:08,039 Epstein Chronicles. Watching Congress announce that it wants to speak 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:12,919 with Prince Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein is almost surreal. The 4 00:00:12,919 --> 00:00:16,120 optics alone are a masterclass in performance. A row of 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,079 serious faces framed by microphones, the cadence of officialdom, the 6 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:24,480 earth thick with moral gravity, cameras, flash statements are read, 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,320 reporters tweet in real time. It all feels consequential, as 8 00:00:29,399 --> 00:00:33,799 if justice might actually be reaching across borders. But underneath 9 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:38,600 that ceremony lies in an open secret. Everyone recognizes the request 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,159 holds no weight. Congress can make noise, it can posture, 11 00:00:42,359 --> 00:00:46,399 it can project outrage, but it cannot compel. The halls 12 00:00:46,439 --> 00:00:49,640 of Westminster don't answer to Washington, and no one in 13 00:00:49,679 --> 00:00:53,960 Buckingham Palace is losing sleep over a Congressional letterhead. The 14 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,960 two worlds, the American legislative theater and the insulated bubble 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,679 of British Royalty, run parallel but never intersect. So this 16 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:06,640 request is in a summons. It's a gesture, a public display, 17 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:12,040 meant a signal virtue rather than accomplished justice. Prince Andrew 18 00:01:12,079 --> 00:01:15,959 was in coming. He never was for years now, he's 19 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,959 treated accountability like an optional concept, something meant for other people, 20 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,640 never for him. Every time the walls of inch closer, 21 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:27,280 he slipped behind another layer of privilege, palace protocol, or 22 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:32,280 a carefully crafted legal language. His disappearance from public life 23 00:01:32,359 --> 00:01:35,760 is an exile. It's insulation. He's been allowed to live 24 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,200 in comfort, shielded by the machinery of the monarchy, protected 25 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,480 by lawyers and pr specialists who know how to turn 26 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:47,959 a scandal into background noise. When he does speak, it's disastrous. 27 00:01:48,359 --> 00:01:50,640 The BBC interview will go down as one of the 28 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,920 most tone deaf public appearances in modern history, a portrait 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,799 of a man so steeped in arrogance and denial that 30 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:02,239 he genuinely believed his absurd explanation would suffice. The I 31 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,840 don't sweat defense, the pizza express alibi, the vacant insistence 32 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,479 that he felt honor bound to stay friends with a 33 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:12,840 convicted sex offender because he was too honorable to end 34 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:18,280 the relationship. It wasn't just unbelievable, it was insulting. It 35 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,800 told the whole world everything it needed to know about 36 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,199 how he views accountability as something beneath him, something to 37 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,800 be dodged, not faced, and now Congress believes the same 38 00:02:27,879 --> 00:02:30,840 man will stroll into an American hearing room and submit 39 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:36,439 himself to scrutiny. It's almost quaint in its optimism. Listen, 40 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:39,960 the House of Windsor doesn't answer to Washington, and Andrew 41 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 knows it. He spent his entire life in a world 42 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:48,400 where the rules are suggestions and consequences are theoretical. When 43 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,800 the scandal broke, he didn't lose his freedom. He lost 44 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:55,000 his photo wops, he forfeited military honors, but until recently, 45 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,280 he kept his titles. He retreated from public duties, but 46 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:03,039 retained royal privilege. The monarchy quietly repositioned them not as 47 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,039 an exile, but as an embarrassment best kept out of you. 48 00:03:07,319 --> 00:03:10,719 The idea that Congress could pierce that cocoon, that a 49 00:03:10,719 --> 00:03:13,400 committee in DC could force open the gates of Windsor 50 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,520 is pure fantasy. It plays well for a few news cycles, 51 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,840 gives the illusion of justice inching forward, but in reality 52 00:03:21,039 --> 00:03:23,039 it's nothing more than a press release with the seal 53 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,039 on it. And unfortunately, what Congress is doing here isn't 54 00:03:27,039 --> 00:03:30,400 about expectation. It's about performance. It's an act designed for 55 00:03:30,479 --> 00:03:33,840 cameras and headlines, not for outcomes. They know Andrew will 56 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,479 never appear. They know their letters will be filed, their 57 00:03:36,479 --> 00:03:40,280 requests ignored, and their sound bites recycled for evening new segments. 58 00:03:40,879 --> 00:03:43,800 But that isn't the point. The point is to be 59 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,240 seen doing something, anything, that signals moral outrage in the 60 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:53,120 face of Epstein's legacy, because the truth is uncomfortable. Epstein's 61 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:57,080 crimes didn't flourish in some foreign vacuum. They thrived under 62 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:03,360 the watch of American institutions, prosecutors, intelligence agencies, banks, and billionaires, 63 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:06,639 who all found reasons to look away, and so to 64 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:10,520 avoid confronting that failure directly. This system finds, say, for villains, 65 00:04:11,639 --> 00:04:15,039 the disgraced Prince becomes a convenient symbol, an ocean away, 66 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,319 untouchable but photogenic. Targeting him is the perfect delusion. It 67 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,279 allows Washington to appear righteous without ever indicting itself. Even 68 00:04:25,319 --> 00:04:28,560 in the hypothetical world where Andrew agreed to cooperate, the 69 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,879 outcome would be the same hollow theater picture it a 70 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,680 sleek committee room, a line of lawyers sitting behind them, 71 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,160 each one ready to object at the first hint of 72 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,360 a real question. Every answer would be hedged, rehearsed, filtered 73 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,399 through legal semantics. I don't recall I was unaware. That's 74 00:04:45,399 --> 00:04:49,519 not my recollection, the same Stele evasions that have kept 75 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:54,480 the powerful insulated for decades. Maybe he'd offer another implausible antidote, 76 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:59,800 another technical impossibility masquerading as an explanation, and when it 77 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,439 was done, there would be applause for the effort. Headlines 78 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,720 would declare it historic. The transcript would circulate in the truth. 79 00:05:08,079 --> 00:05:11,720 The real, ugly truth about how far Epstein's reach extended 80 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,040 and who enabled it would remain untouched. So, yes, Congress 81 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:18,879 wants to talk to Prince Andrew. But let's not pretend 82 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,680 it's about getting answers. This is about being seen asking 83 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,600 the question. It's about Washington trying to wash its hands 84 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,000 of its own failures by pointing across the Atlantic. It's 85 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,920 about the illusion of oversight, the pageantry of accountability with 86 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,279 none of its substance. Because if they truly wanted justice, 87 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,480 they wouldn't just be looking at windsor they'd be looking inward. 88 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,920 They'd be calling people like Matthew Menchell, Missus Villa Fauna, 89 00:05:44,399 --> 00:05:48,519 mister Krisher, and their own agencies to account. The FBI 90 00:05:48,879 --> 00:05:52,839 that slow walk the investigations, the prosecutors who broker the deals, 91 00:05:53,079 --> 00:05:56,439 the power brokers who funded Epstein's lifestyle and kept his 92 00:05:56,519 --> 00:06:00,040 door open long after his conviction. But real accountability. But 93 00:06:00,079 --> 00:06:03,120 he is dangerous. It risks exposing not just a man, 94 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,279 but a system, and systems, unlike individuals, know how to 95 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:12,399 protect themselves. Meanwhile, across the ocean, the Prince remains unmoved. 96 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:15,839 The cameras can glare, the headlines can roar, and still 97 00:06:16,079 --> 00:06:19,480 he will say nothing. He will wait, as he always has, 98 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,759 for the outrage to subside, because that's the rhythm now, 99 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,000 the turn of modern outrage, the powerful, weighted out, confident 100 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,040 that attention will fade faster than accountability can catch up. 101 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,160 The institutions on both sides of the Atlantic understand this perfectly. 102 00:06:34,519 --> 00:06:38,279 They've built their survival around it. The truth is, this 103 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,279 congressional request was never meant to reach him. It was 104 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:44,399 meant to reach us. It's a signal flare, a reminder 105 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:47,800 to the public that justice is supposedly still alive somewhere 106 00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:51,680 in the machinery, that someone somewhere is still trying. But 107 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:55,399 what it really exposes is the opposite. How hollow those 108 00:06:55,439 --> 00:07:00,120 gestures have become a ritual perform for a delusion the 109 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,680 audience that already knows how the story ends, because in 110 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,399 the end, the same pattern always re emerges, the same faces, 111 00:07:07,519 --> 00:07:11,360 the same failures, the same slow fade into silence, And 112 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:13,839 when it's over, the world goes back to normal, and 113 00:07:13,879 --> 00:07:17,160 the people who should have spoken long ago remain exactly 114 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,439 where they've always been, above the law, beyond the reach, 115 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:23,800 and protected by the same old walls that were built 116 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,360 to keep the truth out. This article was published by 117 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,519 gb News and the headline Prince Andrew said to be 118 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,800 summoned to the US to give evidence on Jeffrey Epstein. 119 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:37,959 The author of this article is far non in sin. 120 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:42,360 Prince Andrew looks at to receive a request to appear 121 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:47,519 before American lawmakers investigating his connections with Jeffrey Epstein. A 122 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,759 prominent member of the US House Oversight Committee has expressed 123 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:54,399 keen interest in questioning the King's brother about his association 124 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:58,839 with Epstein. Yeah, good luck. There's a lot of things 125 00:07:58,879 --> 00:08:00,839 I want in life too that are not going to happen, 126 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,959 and unfortunately this is one of them. I don't think 127 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,800 there is any chance in hell that Prince Andrew, ever, 128 00:08:06,839 --> 00:08:10,360 gives any sort of information to the authorities about Jeffrey 129 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:12,959 Epstein and what he was up to, because doing that 130 00:08:12,959 --> 00:08:17,560 would implicate himself. Stephen Lynch, a Democratic congressman serving on 131 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,399 the committee, disclosed that legislators are extremely interested in obtaining 132 00:08:21,439 --> 00:08:24,399 testimony from the sixty five year old royal and we 133 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:26,839 heard the same thing from the DOJ the first time around, 134 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,240 and how did that work out. A guy like Prince 135 00:08:30,279 --> 00:08:33,480 Andrew of the Royal Blood has all kinds of different 136 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,679 protections that the rest of us don't have, and he 137 00:08:36,759 --> 00:08:39,799 knows how to manipulate the system to work for him 138 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,039 and not against him. And he knows, especially after that 139 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:50,559 BBC interview, just not to say a word. The committee 140 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,320 seeks to explore Andrew's involvement with the late convicted sex 141 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:59,240 offender as part of their broader investigation into Epstein. The 142 00:08:59,279 --> 00:09:03,879 congressman expt his confidence that such an invitation would be extended. However, 143 00:09:04,159 --> 00:09:07,080 as Prince Andrew is a British national, he cannot face 144 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,559 the poenas from US congressional committees, and there's really nothing 145 00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:13,840 or no one that could force him to talk to 146 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:17,399 the authorities. The King can't even get him to move 147 00:09:17,399 --> 00:09:19,519 out of that royal lodge. You think the King's going 148 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,600 to be able to make him come to America and 149 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,960 speak to the FBI or whoever wants to talk to him, 150 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,240 talk about Fantasyland, talk about a waste of time. This 151 00:09:30,399 --> 00:09:34,600 means any appearance would be entirely voluntary on Andrew's part. Yeah, 152 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,759 because he's such an honorable guy. That's what he's gonna do. 153 00:09:36,879 --> 00:09:39,919 Right He's hopping on that plane right now to come 154 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:43,039 to America to speak to Congress, to set the record 155 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,600 straight because he's been much maligned and people are lying 156 00:09:46,639 --> 00:09:50,240 about him. Is that what you would do? I know 157 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,559 that if somebody was saying this about me, if they 158 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,000 said it at eight, I'd be on a flight at nine, 159 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,480 because if you're innocent, this is not the kind of 160 00:09:58,519 --> 00:10:01,759 thing you want hanging over your head Breaking news. During 161 00:10:01,759 --> 00:10:05,759 his BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire yesterday, Lynch said 162 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,000 we would be extremely interested in hearing from Prince Andrew 163 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,799 regarding his involvement in all of this. Yes On Tuesday evening, 164 00:10:12,879 --> 00:10:16,679 a new poll revealed the overwhelming public backing for legislative 165 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,559 action to formally remove Prince Andrew's dukedom. The uk of 166 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,480 poll of almost sixty seven hundred British adults found that 167 00:10:24,519 --> 00:10:28,000 four and five respondents favor stripping the King's brother of 168 00:10:28,039 --> 00:10:30,720 his dukedom. Well, that means four and five people in 169 00:10:30,759 --> 00:10:35,360 the UK have their shit together, because who's the one 170 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:39,080 person saying nah, he should be able to be a duke? Still, Like, 171 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:42,440 if you're part of that camp, what is wrong with you? 172 00:10:42,759 --> 00:10:45,919 Even if you don't believe the Epstein stuff, This man 173 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,039 is somebody who is pilfered the wealth of the UK 174 00:10:49,159 --> 00:10:52,000 taxpayer for years. Isn't that enough for you to hate 175 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:54,879 them or at the very least dislike them very very much? 176 00:10:55,039 --> 00:10:58,279 Maybe hates a strong word, but dislike him very very much, 177 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,919 I would think so. Opposition remained minimal at six percent, 178 00:11:04,159 --> 00:11:09,679 with fourteen percent undecided. Prince Andrew voluntarily released his Duke 179 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,559 of York title last week. However, only parliamentary legislation can 180 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,159 officially revoke a dukedom, meaning the title remains technically in 181 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,879 abeyance despite his pledge. The King's brother's decision to give 182 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,360 up his titles came amid intense public scrutiny concerning his 183 00:11:25,399 --> 00:11:30,000 friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. However, 184 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,559 he will remain a prince as he is the son 185 00:11:32,759 --> 00:11:36,440 of the late Queen Elizabeth the Second with sources claim 186 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,240 that King Charles threatened to publicly stripped Andrew of his 187 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,120 royal titles if his brother did not give them up, 188 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,799 And that seems likely to me because the royal family 189 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,559 has to look like they're doing something right. Oh, we're 190 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,240 being active here. We're going to reprimand them, We're going 191 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,600 to spank them real quick and hopefully that'll get the 192 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:57,519 public to move on. But not this time. There has 193 00:11:57,639 --> 00:12:00,360 to be more. The people of the UK they're not 194 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:05,360 having it. They're done with this dude. The monarch felt 195 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,919 that the situation was intolerable for the rest of the 196 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,320 royal family. A source told the Male he thought of 197 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:14,200 him still continuing to use the titles and honors that 198 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:16,799 had been conferred upon him for another day, month, or 199 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,440 year while other options were explored, and an action was 200 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,480 intolerable for the sake of the wider family. Well, this 201 00:12:24,519 --> 00:12:27,960 should have been done years ago. Unfortunately for them, they 202 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,759 tried to hide it. They tried to protect Prince Andrew 203 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:33,360 when they should have just come clean. All these years 204 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:36,320 ago when these allegations were first coming out. So it's 205 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,720 a good thing that they're acting now, but they should 206 00:12:38,759 --> 00:12:41,759 have acted a long time ago. So if anybody thinks 207 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:43,919 that Prince Andrew is going to run in and save 208 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,759 the day and be the honorable man that he says 209 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:50,159 he is, you're going to come away sorely disappointed, because 210 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,039 there's about as much of a chance of Prince Andrew 211 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,559 coming to America to speak with Congress as there is 212 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:01,240 of him being honorable. All of the information that goes 213 00:13:01,279 --> 00:13:04,279 with this episode can be found in the description box. 214 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,360 What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 215 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,200 Epstein Chronicles. Yo, there truly might not be a bigger 216 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,759 clown walking upright on the planet than Andrew windsor the 217 00:13:14,879 --> 00:13:19,000 Joe Exotic of the windsor genetic experiment gone wrong, stumbling 218 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 through scandals like a drunk man trying to roller scat 219 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,639 on marbles. This dude was literally born into the Golden 220 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,559 cheat code of life, handed the world like a monopoly 221 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,679 board full of properties, and somehow still managed to land 222 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:35,879 directly in jail without ever passing. Go imagine being royalty, 223 00:13:36,159 --> 00:13:38,759 having everything handed to you on a silver platter. And 224 00:13:38,799 --> 00:13:41,279 still finding a way to fumble the bag bigger than 225 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,080 any public figure this side of OJ trying to sell 226 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:48,159 autographs in a casino hallway. You think royalty comes with 227 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,879 basic instructions like don't be photographed with traffic miners, don't 228 00:13:51,879 --> 00:13:55,720 hang around predators, and maybe, just maybe, don't globe trot 229 00:13:55,759 --> 00:13:58,600 with a convicted sex trafficker whose entire house was wired 230 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,559 up like the Pentagon. But nope, this dude treated common 231 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,159 sense like it was optional, like it was some private 232 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,759 school elective he could ditch to go jet skiing. Every 233 00:14:08,799 --> 00:14:11,279 movie made was like a tutorial on how not to 234 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,759 behave when you're surrounded by cameras, witnesses, and a public 235 00:14:14,799 --> 00:14:18,720 that hates your guts. The man's entire reputation is basically 236 00:14:18,759 --> 00:14:22,240 a blooper reel that never stops rolling, and each new 237 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,440 chapter is worse than the last. You would think that 238 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,080 even a C minus student in scandal avoidance would know 239 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,679 that sleeping at Epstein's house after Epstein got outed as 240 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,600 an international creep is not a good idea. But Andrew, 241 00:14:36,759 --> 00:14:39,600 being the visionary scholar he is, figured the thing to 242 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:42,519 do was double down, like he was playing black jack 243 00:14:42,559 --> 00:14:46,000 with Satan himself. You could show a raccoon ten minutes 244 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,759 of news coverage about Epstein, and even the raccoon would 245 00:14:48,759 --> 00:14:52,240 be like, yo, bro, this guy might be bad news. 246 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:56,360 Not Andrew, though he genuinely thought none of this would 247 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,679 stick to him because he was born into a family 248 00:14:58,759 --> 00:15:02,080 funded by armies of town pas and castles full of 249 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,159 stolen jewels. And now he's in panic mode silence, hoping 250 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,519 the public has the attention span of a fruit fly. 251 00:15:08,919 --> 00:15:12,879 Spoiler alert, bro, we don't look the insanity of Prince 252 00:15:12,919 --> 00:15:16,200 pizza alibi. Thinking he was too important, too iconic, too 253 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,120 royal to face consequences might be the funniest delusion ever 254 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,720 injected into the bloodstream of public consciousness. This dude genuinely 255 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:27,399 believed that saying he was eating pizza with his daughter 256 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,440 at some clown college pizza Express was going to be 257 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,000 the silver bullet that saved his crusty reputation from drowning 258 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,720 in the swamp. When he dropped that pizza alibi like 259 00:15:37,759 --> 00:15:41,200 it was a major revelation, the entire planet collectively split 260 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,320 out their drinks, like, are you shitting me right now? 261 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,360 My guy? This was the absolute best you had after 262 00:15:46,559 --> 00:15:50,440 months of silence, strategizing. You thought carbs and tomato sauce 263 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,240 were going to be the thing that kept you from 264 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,000 looking like Epstein's human paper weight. And then we get 265 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,279 to the sweating thing, which somehow became the comedic centerpiece 266 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,360 for every late night comic in the world, because this 267 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,080 titan of intellect thought saying he physically can't sweat would 268 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:10,600 magically erase photographic evidence, like yeah, sure, that's how that works. 269 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:14,480 Sweat disorders are known to nullify allegations of sexually abusing 270 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,039 traffic girls. It's going to be a hoot when some 271 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,399 future defendant tries that shit in court, like, sorry, judge, 272 00:16:20,399 --> 00:16:24,600 I'm innocent because my pores don't work properly. The fact 273 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:27,240 that he thought anyone would buy any of this nonsense 274 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,080 proves he's living in a bubble so thick it might 275 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,440 as well be a NASA test dome. There's delusion, and 276 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,360 then there's Andrew the Picasso of cluelessness painting an abstract 277 00:16:37,399 --> 00:16:41,600 portrait of denial. People with two functioning brain cells tied 278 00:16:41,639 --> 00:16:43,919 together with a twist tie could see the story was 279 00:16:43,919 --> 00:16:46,840 a flaming wreck from the start. It was like watching 280 00:16:46,879 --> 00:16:49,679 a slow motion train crash where the conductor is smiling 281 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:54,679 confidently and waving like everything's fine, and when the smoke clears, 282 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,600 he's still insisting it was just a minor technical error. 283 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,600 Absolute clownery of the highest order. And what kills me 284 00:17:02,639 --> 00:17:05,359 about this absolute goof is that he had the easiest 285 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,799 off ramp in the history of scandals, and he somehow 286 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:10,440 managed to drive straight past it like a drunk guy 287 00:17:10,559 --> 00:17:13,519 missing his exit on the freeway. All he had to 288 00:17:13,559 --> 00:17:17,200 say was that he was blackmailed by Epstein. Boom done 289 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,680 clean aes gay patch, next scandal please. Literally everyone would 290 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,400 have believed it too, because Epstein actually did blackmail everyone. 291 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,279 That was his whole entire business model, like Amazon Prime 292 00:17:29,519 --> 00:17:33,359 for a compromot. Andrew could have said that Epstein had 293 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,160 evidence threatened to use it, and the world would have 294 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,920 nodded like, yeah, that tracks for sure. It wouldn't have 295 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,000 made him look smart, but it would have made him 296 00:17:41,039 --> 00:17:45,039 look like a victim instead of a sweaty pizza denihilist. Instead, 297 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,880 he decided the best strategy was nope, deny everything, stick 298 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,920 to the world's stupidest timeline, and dig his hole deeper 299 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,519 until he reached the center of the whole ass earth. 300 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,799 It must be incredible to be that confident while being 301 00:17:57,839 --> 00:18:00,720 that stupid. Meanwhile, the rest of us us or watching 302 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,720 this human landslide bury himself alive and wondering how the 303 00:18:04,759 --> 00:18:08,759 hell his family survived ruling anything for centuries. There are 304 00:18:08,799 --> 00:18:13,000 house plants demonstrating better crisis strategy than this man. And 305 00:18:13,079 --> 00:18:15,079 of course, instead of playing the one decent card he 306 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,200 had left, he doubled down on the worst idea imaginable. 307 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,119 Go stay at Epstein's house again, Like, yeah, dude, perfect optics, 308 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,000 spend another night with the most notorious predator in the 309 00:18:25,039 --> 00:18:28,480 world after he gets convicted. That's definitely how you prove 310 00:18:28,759 --> 00:18:33,319 you're innocent. Fucking unbelievable. Look, you really have to marvel 311 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,960 at the sheer stupidity it takes to walk straight into 312 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,559 the mouth of scandal and act like it's a pleasant 313 00:18:38,559 --> 00:18:42,799 weekend get away. Andrew wasn't dragged there. He RSVP'd like 314 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:45,359 it was a fucking golf outing and brought his emotional 315 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,599 support delusion along with him. Normal humans see that kind 316 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,519 of smoke and assume there's fire, But Andrew sees that 317 00:18:51,599 --> 00:18:54,559 kind of smoke and figures it's just another harmless peasant 318 00:18:54,759 --> 00:18:58,279 burning cabbage in the street. It's like he's never encountered 319 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,960 the real world once in his entire life, floating around 320 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,559 in some fantasy bubble built from tax pair of money 321 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,160 and mommy's protection spells. And now that mummy is dead 322 00:19:08,319 --> 00:19:11,839 and buried, the training wheels ripped off, the castle, gates 323 00:19:11,839 --> 00:19:14,400 creaking shut. He looks like a toddler lost in a 324 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,559 department store. Watching bro scramble to avoid accountability is like 325 00:19:18,599 --> 00:19:22,720 watching a goldfish try to operate a smartphone. Awkward, useless, 326 00:19:23,039 --> 00:19:27,000 and almost sad if it weren't so disgusting. How do 327 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:29,839 you get caught photographed with a trafficking victim then keep 328 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,400 visiting the epicenter of global sex trafficking like it's your 329 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:37,440 favorite bed and breakfast. The arrogance is unreal, Like the 330 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,319 man genuinely thought the laws of reality didn't apply to 331 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,720 him because he was wrapped an ermine in privilege. Epstein 332 00:19:43,799 --> 00:19:46,039 must have been laughing his ass off watching this royal 333 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,440 pancake flip himself into deeper disaster. It's like Epstein handed 334 00:19:50,519 --> 00:19:54,359 him a shovel and Andrew enthusiastically asked for a back hole. 335 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,640 And now the cherry on top is how he keeps 336 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,880 dodging Congress like it's some kind of wartime general protecting 337 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,759 clear codes, instead of an overgrown child hiding from questions 338 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:07,880 he obviously can't answer. The deadline is coming, gone, and 339 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,359 Andrew is retreated back into whatever dusty castle chamber they 340 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,559 stuffed have been, like a malfunctioning at amatronic at a 341 00:20:14,599 --> 00:20:18,559 haunted museum, A grown ass man supposedly he raised, a lead, 342 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:22,079 supposedly trained for duty, still acting like he needs a 343 00:20:22,079 --> 00:20:25,799 permission slip to speak. The idea of accountability seems to 344 00:20:25,839 --> 00:20:27,920 scare on more than the idea of getting caught in 345 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,559 the first place, which tells you everything you need to 346 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,039 know about how this mfor rolls. It's like he wakes 347 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,799 up every morning, looks in the mirror, sees a reflection 348 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:41,240 of total failure, and says, brah, another flawless day. He's 349 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,839 not even attempting to craft a decent line anymore. He's 350 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,759 just banking on silence and waiting for the storm to pass, 351 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,920 like a raccoon under a dumpster lid. Maybe the old 352 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,039 plan was hide behind mom forever and hope she never dies. 353 00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:56,920 But bro time ran out, and now the world is 354 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,839 at the door with torches and instead of speaking up, 355 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:03,680 he's pretending he's too special to answer questions, because apparently 356 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,480 being born into incestuous royalty grants you the magical power 357 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,359 of disappearing when the shit gets real. The man avoided 358 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,720 sweat in his story, but he's definitely sweating now behind 359 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,720 those stone walls. He's probably pacing around the halls like 360 00:21:17,759 --> 00:21:23,279 an extra and a bad Shakespeare production, muttering about being misunderstood. Meanwhile, 361 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,640 Congress is like, hey, man, we know you're in there. 362 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,880 The jig is up, but he keeps hiding, like a 363 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,839 kid who thinks covering his eyes turns them invisible. It's 364 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:38,000 truly majestic stupidity. If Andrew had even one functioning advisor 365 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,480 not drunk off the Royal kool aid, they would have 366 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,599 grabbed them by his overpriced lapels, shaken them like a 367 00:21:43,599 --> 00:21:47,440 snow globe, and scream take the blackmail route, you absolute imbecile. 368 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,720 The entire world was practically begging him to take the 369 00:21:50,799 --> 00:21:53,519 victim card, because at least then there would have been 370 00:21:53,599 --> 00:21:56,720 narrative tension instead of a clown show. Even the most 371 00:21:56,759 --> 00:21:59,640 mediocre pr intern in the world could have cooked up 372 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,519 something better than pizza in sweat glands hell chat GPT 373 00:22:03,759 --> 00:22:08,319 version one would have drafted a more believable defense at random. Instead, 374 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,279 he sat down with the BBC like he was about 375 00:22:11,279 --> 00:22:15,079 to deliver an inspiring war speech, and instead gifted humanity 376 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,720 the most catastrophically stupid interview of the century. Watching it 377 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:22,480 felt like slow roasting your brain in a toaster, because 378 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:26,200 every sentence was more insane than the last. You could 379 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,319 see the interviewer trying not to fall out of her 380 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,279 chair laughing, while Andrew rambled like a malfunctioning GPS struggling 381 00:22:32,279 --> 00:22:35,599 to find a route to reality. The man was blinking 382 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,960 Morse code for I have no idea what I'm doing. 383 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,839 Somebody please unplug me. Look, watching Andrew try to maneuver 384 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,400 through the scandal is like watching a penguin try to 385 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,720 learn Parkore while the ground is on fire and everyone 386 00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:52,119 is screaming. Every movie makes his clumsy, misguided, and guaranteed 387 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,000 to end with him landing flat on his royal ass. 388 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,599 The dude legitimately thought that, being borne into the crown 389 00:22:58,839 --> 00:23:02,039 many could freestyle his way through the worst allegations imaginable 390 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,079 without a shred of planning or strategy. Meanwhile, any half 391 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,640 competent attorney would have told him to shut his mouth, 392 00:23:08,839 --> 00:23:12,720 apologize to someone, and never mention the words pizza Express 393 00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:17,160 again under any circumstances. Instead, he marched right into that 394 00:23:17,279 --> 00:23:20,440 interview like he was accepting an award, proudly ready to 395 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,680 share his genius reasoning with the world. The result was 396 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,920 the kind of cringe that should come with the medical 397 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:30,480 warning label, because watching it made people physically recoil like 398 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:33,160 they were witnessing a car crash in slow motion. He 399 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,559 had one job, do not incriminate yourself and don't sound 400 00:23:36,599 --> 00:23:41,359 like a jackass. He fell both tasks spectacularly, managing to 401 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,680 incriminate himself emotionally, ethically and intellectually. Within the first five minutes. 402 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,880 You could practically hear Buckingham Palace staff screaming internally the 403 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,960 entire time. They probably aged forty years during the broadcast, 404 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,480 watching the Queen's darling son absolutely destroy himself. And look, 405 00:23:59,519 --> 00:24:02,000 let's be real here, even if he wanted to pretend 406 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,880 that he didn't know what Epstein was, it's impossible to 407 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,799 swallow because Epstein wasn't exactly subtle about his whole operation. 408 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:13,279 You would have to be completely blind, deaf, dumb, numb, 409 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,839 and brain dead to miss the vibe of what Epstein 410 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,640 was doing. And Andrew is none of those things. He's 411 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:23,200 just incredibly passionately stupid. The man was surrounded by security staff, 412 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:29,079 intelligence briefings, advisors, press officers, and international oversight, yet he 413 00:24:29,079 --> 00:24:32,559 still wants us to believe he had no idea. Every 414 00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:36,559 powerful person who walked into Epstein's world understood exactly what 415 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,200 they were stepping into, and pretending otherwise is the dumbest 416 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:45,400 lie ever crafted. People talk, staff talk, victims talk journalist talk. 417 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,359 It wasn't some underground sewer operation. It was a playboy 418 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,680 mansion of human trafficking, with cameras in every wall and 419 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:56,960 rich morons lining up outside like it was Studio fifty four. 420 00:24:57,599 --> 00:25:00,799 And Andrew didn't go just once, kept going back like 421 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:04,000 it was his favorite vacation spa. This wasn't bad judgment. 422 00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:08,119 This was a lifelong subscription to stupidity. The fact that 423 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,319 he's still trying to gaslight the entire world is embarrassing 424 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,920 beyond calculation. And the funniest part is he thinks he's 425 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,160 sophisticated while doing it. And now where at the point 426 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,920 where the world is circling like sharks and he's bleeding 427 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,000 out in the water, pretending the ocean is fine. Every 428 00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:27,799 day that passes is another day closer to the truth. 429 00:25:27,839 --> 00:25:32,359 Hammer smashing through those stone walls. Epstein's dead, but his 430 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,279 network is not, and the world wants answers from every 431 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,920 last one of the elites who used that monster to 432 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,599 fulfill their darkest impulses. Andrew's name is cemented in that 433 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,480 list forever. There is no rewriting history, no elegant exit, 434 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,240 no graceful fade out. He is permanently branded as the 435 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:54,400 prince of Nothing, the royal failure, the Joe exotic of 436 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,960 the Windsor family, the man who threw away everything for 437 00:25:58,039 --> 00:26:02,319 the company of a predator. The irony is poetic. He 438 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,240 could have been remembered as a decorated veteran and a 439 00:26:05,279 --> 00:26:09,599 public servant. Instead, he'll be remembered as the dumbest man 440 00:26:09,759 --> 00:26:14,680 ever born into privilege. All of the information that goes 441 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,680 with this episode can be found in the description box.