1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:05,519 Speaker 1: Pretty pretty big article, pretty long article, And we're going 2 00:00:05,599 --> 00:00:10,679 to begin our exploration of the Maxwell family today and 3 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,279 we're going to start, obviously with the patriarch. We're going 4 00:00:13,359 --> 00:00:16,920 to start with Robert Maxwell today and we're going to 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:23,440 be hearing from the author John Preston, And the article 6 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:25,839 we're going to be sharing is an excerpt from his 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:31,120 book from Fall, The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell. 8 00:00:32,079 --> 00:00:40,200 So obviously, mister Preston has done the legwork, done the 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:45,920 deep dive, and has explored the history and past of 10 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:50,960 Robert Maxwell. So that's going to be our starting point 11 00:00:51,359 --> 00:00:55,039 for our conversation about the Manson family. I mean, the 12 00:00:55,079 --> 00:01:00,640 Maxwell family, Maxwell, Manson get it pretty much the same thing, 13 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:04,920 right with these crazy sons of bitches. So we're going 14 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:10,439 to begin our exploration of the Maxwell family and the 15 00:01:10,599 --> 00:01:14,359 deep dive that is going to follow it right here 16 00:01:14,719 --> 00:01:20,439 with this article from Town and Country Magazine courtesy of 17 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:27,719 John Preston. So we've talked about Robert Maxwell at length, 18 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:37,079 and we've discussed his various dealings, and I have definitely 19 00:01:37,879 --> 00:01:40,719 come to the point where I believe he was big 20 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,840 time involved in getting Elaine and Jeffrey Epstein together. Now 21 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,879 you all know how I feel about that relationship. I 22 00:01:50,879 --> 00:01:53,040 don't believe there was any love there. I don't believe 23 00:01:53,079 --> 00:01:56,799 there was ever any love there, and I think, certainly 24 00:01:56,959 --> 00:02:02,879 from Bob Maxwell's perspective, it was always a business deal. 25 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:05,599 And you know, like in the old days, when rich 26 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,879 and powerful families would have children and their daughters, they 27 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:14,159 would be used to cement alliances with other noble houses 28 00:02:14,759 --> 00:02:17,319 or other houses that they might be at war with. 29 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,000 And it's no different for these kind of people these days, right, 30 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:24,479 Robert Maxwell and the Maxwell clan looked at themselves as 31 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,080 some sort of you know, royal family, And if he 32 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,879 could pawn Gilain off to Jeffrey Epstein and increase his 33 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,840 wealth or his reach or anything like that, then he 34 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:42,159 wouldn't hesitate to do it. Gilaine Maxwell, to Robert Maxwell 35 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,960 was just another piece on the chessboard. Oh sure, he 36 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,000 liked that piece a little bit more than the others. 37 00:02:48,599 --> 00:02:52,080 But at the end of the day, he certainly would 38 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,599 have no problem sacrificing the queen to save the king. 39 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:05,439 The mist curious life and death of Robert Maxwell. Today, 40 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,240 Gilain Maxwell's father, Robert is remembered mostly for his death, 41 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,439 but in his prime he represented power, money and shocking deceit, 42 00:03:15,039 --> 00:03:20,319 and British society ate it all up. So again, when 43 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,759 I talk about the United States, that's the face for 44 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,240 the whole entire Western world because this is happening everywhere England, 45 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,759 the United States, France, Italy. It doesn't matter. These people 46 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:38,080 run a rough shot over All of the elected officials 47 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,439 used backroom chambers, backroom dealings, and they live their lives 48 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:46,879 like they're above the law, and Robert Maxwell certainly was 49 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:54,759 no different. Can scandal be hereditary? Gilaine Maxwell's involvement with 50 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:58,520 Jeffrey Epstein made her a household name, but her ongoing 51 00:03:58,599 --> 00:04:01,680 legal woes didn't art the first time her family had 52 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:05,159 endured the glare of the spotlight. And yeah, I think 53 00:04:05,159 --> 00:04:08,039 it can be hereditary. Right if you were raised at 54 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,159 good old daddy's knee and you were taught all of 55 00:04:11,199 --> 00:04:13,800 the tricks of the trade and the family business and 56 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:16,959 how to operate in the shadows, and you learned from 57 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:22,240 your pops, well, yeah, it could definitely be hereditary and 58 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,800 passed down. How many times have you seen it? In 59 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,160 organized crime, you have a mafioso who has a son 60 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:32,639 who ends up getting into the life and all of 61 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,279 that was because he spent so much time at the 62 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,800 social club with dad or at the bar with dad, 63 00:04:38,959 --> 00:04:42,720 and this becomes his life. It's the only life they've 64 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,439 ever known. So this is the life they choose, and 65 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,800 it's no different for Maxwell. In my opinion, she knew 66 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,319 that she wanted to be amongst the highest levers of power, 67 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,959 and she knew how to get there. All she needed 68 00:04:56,079 --> 00:05:00,399 was the proper tools. And my friends, there is a 69 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:04,879 tool for every job, and a job for every tool, 70 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:14,120 and the Maxwell's optimized that at every turn. When when 71 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,639 Gaillan's father, Robert Maxwell, died in nineteen ninety one, the 72 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,839 official cause of death was a heart attack, but not 73 00:05:20,959 --> 00:05:25,399 everyone was convinced. Rumors swirled that the larger than life 74 00:05:25,439 --> 00:05:28,839 newspaper baron, whose body had been found near the Canary 75 00:05:28,879 --> 00:05:31,680 Islands he was presumed to have fallen off his yacht, 76 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,319 had committed suicide in the face of financial ruin, or 77 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,600 had been assassinated by some shadowy intelligence agency. And was 78 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:42,879 it really any wonder? And you know what makes me 79 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,879 think about things is this guy's with his body was 80 00:05:47,399 --> 00:05:50,480 found floating around near the Canary Islands. You mean to 81 00:05:50,519 --> 00:05:54,959 tell me that the sharks didn't get them. I know 82 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,480 that there's a ton of sharks around the Canary Islands, 83 00:05:57,879 --> 00:06:02,160 and maybe Robert Maxwell was so and so disgusting that 84 00:06:02,199 --> 00:06:05,480 the sharks didn't even want to eat them. They were like, 85 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,639 you know what, this is obviously gonna give us adjita. 86 00:06:08,879 --> 00:06:11,560 We can't eat this shit. Let this dude float away 87 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,160 and that'll be the end of that, And the sharks 88 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:19,879 moved on to better tasting prey. How the hell does 89 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,519 this guy float around near his boat and not get 90 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,680 eaten by a shark or some other some sort of 91 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:33,079 aquatic animal. Throughout his life, Maxwell worked tirelessly to obscure 92 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,399 the truth about himself. Sound familiar, folks, sound familiar. This 93 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:41,480 is exactly what Gailan Maxwell has done. She has worked 94 00:06:41,519 --> 00:06:46,920 tirelessly to obscure the truth, tirelessly to make it seem 95 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,519 like she is just another so called member of polite 96 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:56,519 society getting on to get on. And that is a 97 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,959 tactic that these people love to use. They will high 98 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,240 in plain sight while being brazen about their activities, rubbing 99 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,000 everybody's face in it. And for the most part, they 100 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,639 don't have to worry because all of their buddies and 101 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,319 all of their friends that are running around at the 102 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:17,040 highest levels of politics and power are there to smooth 103 00:07:17,079 --> 00:07:20,279 things out for them the second it gets wrinkled up. 104 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,800 He changed his name, denied his religion, and played shell 105 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:30,800 games with vast fortunes, all in effort to storm first 106 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:36,279 the British aristocracy and later the international cabal of billionaires, 107 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,879 businessmen and power brokers. The plan worked, and there's no 108 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,240 doubt Robert Maxwell, Bob Maxwell, had his fingers on the 109 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:51,079 levers of power in many different places. There's a lot 110 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,560 of talk about his contacts in Russia. There's obviously his 111 00:07:55,639 --> 00:08:00,480 contacts in Israel, America, the United Kingdom, France. You know, 112 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,360 this was a very powerful man with a lot of reach. 113 00:08:04,279 --> 00:08:07,319 This is a guy who had it all, had all 114 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:10,279 the power in the world, had all the money in 115 00:08:10,319 --> 00:08:14,399 the world, and it was never enough. His greed is 116 00:08:14,439 --> 00:08:15,199 what drove him. 117 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:16,519 Speaker 2: His greed. 118 00:08:18,079 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: Is what continued to make him go and in the 119 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:26,560 end I suspect it was his greed that ended up 120 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:33,000 killing him. In his lifetime, Maxwell became a global publishing tycoon, 121 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,080 running such newspapers as London's Daily Mirror and the New 122 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:41,000 York's Daily News, a member of Parliament and a Bete 123 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:47,120 Noir for the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Margaret Thatcher. Again, 124 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,559 the levels of power that these people have infiltrated at 125 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:57,799 folks is the highest levels there is. And that's not 126 00:08:57,919 --> 00:09:02,200 hyperbole either, that's not trying to make the statement more impactful. 127 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:08,559 Look at the names of the people that guys like 128 00:09:08,759 --> 00:09:15,720 Bob Maxwell was covorting with, Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, the 129 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:23,799 list goes on. That's just a little taste. A guy 130 00:09:23,879 --> 00:09:29,639 like Robert Maxwell was wielding so much unchecked power for 131 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,360 so long, and to think or to act like the 132 00:09:34,399 --> 00:09:38,159 English authorities had no idea what was going on is 133 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:45,679 naive at best. How many of them English politicians were 134 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:51,639 being enriched by Robert Maxwell running their campaigns on his dime, 135 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:59,840 I'm sure a lot of them. There were also rumors 136 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,559 that he was a spy for Israel or Britain or both, 137 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,240 and I don't even know if like we can call 138 00:10:07,279 --> 00:10:10,440 it rumor at this point. And again I don't know 139 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,159 about spy either, though I think that's a stretch. I 140 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,759 believe he definitely was an asset, but a traditional spy 141 00:10:17,039 --> 00:10:21,039 in this sense of you know, somebody marking some chalk 142 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,000 on a park bench and leaving a message for their handler. 143 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,600 I don't believe that was the case, but I definitely 144 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:32,200 believe he was an asset of the Israeli intelligence apparatus, 145 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,799 the English Intelligence apparatus, certainly the CIA, and maybe was 146 00:10:36,799 --> 00:10:39,879 even being run by the KGB, or was dogwalking the 147 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:44,399 KGB for, you know, to to gain more money and 148 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,080 try and gain a little bit more access to more 149 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,720 powerful levers of power. Because we know that's what these 150 00:10:51,759 --> 00:10:55,679 people did. Look, they collected powerful friends like you or 151 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:01,000 I collected trading cards when we were growing up. In 152 00:11:01,039 --> 00:11:04,399 the new biography Fall, the Mysterious Life and Death of 153 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:09,440 Robert Maxwell, Britain's most notorious media baron, author John Preston 154 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:13,960 follows the story of Maxwell's life from a destitute childhood 155 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,360 in Czechoslovakia to the heights of fame and fortune. And now, 156 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:22,879 remember this is going to be our intro into Robert 157 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:27,039 Maxwell and then obviously to the rest of the clan, 158 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,039 but we're going to go into his the beginning of 159 00:11:32,039 --> 00:11:34,919 his life and all of that as well. I have 160 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,039 an episode that I'm working on, probably going to come 161 00:11:38,039 --> 00:11:41,960 out next Monday, where it's going to start at the 162 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,799 beginning of Robert Maxwell's life and work through from there 163 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,399 to try and build even more of an idea of 164 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,480 who he was and what his involvement was with people 165 00:11:54,519 --> 00:11:59,720 like Jeffrey Epstein. Preston definitely depicts how the trappings of 166 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,960 money and power can be used to obscure a lifetime 167 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,799 of secrets and lies. In this excerpt, Maxwell's uncanny ability 168 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,799 to deflect attention with abundance is on full display and 169 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,759 serves as a chilling reminder that the apple never falls 170 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,480 far from the tree. And again, I've said it from 171 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:26,360 the very beginning that I think that Maxwell Gylaane spent 172 00:12:26,519 --> 00:12:30,279 plenty of time at Robert Maxwell's knee, and of all 173 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,399 of the Maxwell children, was the most like dear old Dad. 174 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,320 She had the same chemical build up, she had the 175 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:46,000 same exact ideas, and she also had the same outlook 176 00:12:46,039 --> 00:12:49,279 on life after spending so much time with her dad 177 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:52,799 and being so heavily influenced by her dad and the 178 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:56,960 way Robert Maxwell conducted himself on a day to day basis. 179 00:12:59,279 --> 00:13:02,120 The Dinner Dad Is hosted by Robert and Betty Maxwell 180 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:07,200 at Headington Hill Hall were considered even by hardened partygoers 181 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,360 to be in a class of their own. The house 182 00:13:10,399 --> 00:13:13,320 itself was an ideal venue for a party. It had 183 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,360 been built in the early nineteenth century by a culture 184 00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:20,720 loving family of brewers, the Morrels. They too had been 185 00:13:20,799 --> 00:13:25,159 keen party givers. In eighteen seventy eight, Oscar Wilde was 186 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,559 among the three hundred guests at one of their fancy 187 00:13:27,639 --> 00:13:31,799 dress balls. For reasons that are not entirely clear, he 188 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:36,000 chose to come dressed as Prince Rupert of the Rhine. 189 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 3: So this house has a history, obviously of a place 190 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:46,399 where the so called elite of England come for parties. 191 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: And it's not a new place when it comes to 192 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,279 these people gathering and having whatever kind of weirdo billionaire 193 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,360 howl at the moon covered in blood type of parties 194 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,240 at these six Pe people have. And it shows you 195 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:08,080 the kind of power that Robert Maxwell had. He had 196 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,240 to have this kind of house, right, a house that 197 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:14,080 had some history, a house where you know there was 198 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:19,919 people before him who were established in society. You know, 199 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,519 it's a good dinner piece conversation. Yeah, you know, Oscar A. 200 00:14:23,519 --> 00:14:25,440 Wild used to hang out at my house. You know 201 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:30,799 how rich people have to floss about everything. Ever since 202 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,039 the Maxwell's moved into Headington Hill Hall. They continued the 203 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,840 tradition of throwing grand parties. I love it Headington Hill Hall. 204 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,639 All of these names are you know, like a name 205 00:14:41,679 --> 00:14:46,879 from Game of Thrones, right, Summer Hill Hall. And it 206 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,679 cracks me up when I read about these different locations 207 00:14:51,159 --> 00:14:54,559 and you reflect back on different fantasy books that have 208 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,840 come out, and the influence that England and London has 209 00:14:58,879 --> 00:15:04,159 had on the whole fantasy genre is just incomparable. All right, well, 210 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:09,200 I digress. But as guests soon discovered, Maxwell had his 211 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,120 own way of doing things. The writer and future Conservative 212 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,559 MP Giles Brandrith was a guest at one of their 213 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,960 parties in the nineteen seventies. At first, nothing struck him 214 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,639 as out of the ordinary. It was only when I 215 00:15:24,679 --> 00:15:27,600 went up to Maxwell that I realized he had this 216 00:15:27,799 --> 00:15:31,480 apparatus on There was an old fashioned microphone attached to 217 00:15:31,519 --> 00:15:34,159 the lapel of his jacket with a windshield on it. 218 00:15:34,519 --> 00:15:37,360 And on his belt was this large box the size 219 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,960 of all hardback book with a dial in the middle. 220 00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:43,559 This was somehow connected to the speakers in each of 221 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,399 the rooms, all right, so that explanation. For some reason, 222 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,000 in my mind I had the visions of data from 223 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,240 Goonies and all of his little contraptions that he wore, right, 224 00:15:55,399 --> 00:15:58,679 you know, the little belt contraption he had a contraption 225 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:01,799 for this for that, Who does Robert Maxwell think he 226 00:16:01,919 --> 00:16:08,320 is data from Goonies, A broken down wannabe Bruce Wayne. 227 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,960 I mean, really, with the apparatuses all over the belt 228 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:17,120 a windshield, I mean, what are you even wearing? You jackwagon? 229 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:24,279 Maxwell Brandreth realized was wearing his own personal PA system, 230 00:16:24,679 --> 00:16:27,960 enabling him to address people no matter how far away 231 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,639 they were. Talk about being an arrogant tool. You're walking 232 00:16:32,679 --> 00:16:35,559 around with a PA system on you, looking like Billy 233 00:16:35,679 --> 00:16:41,120 Blanks teaching a tybo class. Get a grip, Daddy serpent. 234 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,799 He turned the dial down when he was talking to you, 235 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,360 then as soon as he saw someone he wanted to 236 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,639 talk to on the other side of the room, he 237 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:53,159 turned it up again, and this disembodied voice would be 238 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:58,000 booming out of the speakers. I can only imagine this 239 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,240 idiot trying to get your attention from across the room 240 00:17:01,519 --> 00:17:05,319 with this stupid contraption he's wearing, looking like the world's 241 00:17:05,519 --> 00:17:11,599 biggest moron. For all the splendor of his parties, Maxwell 242 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,680 himself remained an oddly elusive figure. It was as if 243 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,279 there was kind of invisible mode around him. Brandreth recalls 244 00:17:19,559 --> 00:17:22,400 he was definitely a presence, but whenever he came into 245 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,440 a room, instead of the room being more crowded, it 246 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:30,000 always seems slightly emptier than before. Well, that's what happens 247 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,200 when a bipedal serpent walks in and sucks the air 248 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,240 out of a room, Right, Daddy's serpent comes strolling in 249 00:17:36,559 --> 00:17:38,960 on National Serpent's Day, by the way, that is what 250 00:17:39,039 --> 00:17:42,880 today is, and sucks all of the air out of 251 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:50,680 the room. I'm sure that Robert Maxwell was an absolute dickhead. Okay, 252 00:17:50,759 --> 00:17:53,880 let's just be let's just be honest, all right. I'm 253 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,799 sure he's one of those rich dickheads that makes you 254 00:17:57,839 --> 00:18:03,440 want to vomit in your own mouth. It is disgusting 255 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,519 the narcissism that we see on display with these people. 256 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:15,519 As Maxwell's fortune grew, the larger and grander the parties became. 257 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,599 Cabinet ministers would rub shoulders with captains of industry, leading 258 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,200 scientists with newspaper editors. Boy does that sound familiar, Almost 259 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,519 like the blueprint was taken directly from Robert Maxwell, hand 260 00:18:29,559 --> 00:18:34,559 it off to dear old little daughter Mini Serpent, and 261 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:39,400 then put into action with the help of Jeffrey Epstein. 262 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,920 It is the same exact playbook that was used. Get 263 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,200 close to all of these people of industry, scientists, newspaper editors, 264 00:18:50,519 --> 00:18:56,599 and then go to work shape the narrative. Build yourself 265 00:18:57,039 --> 00:19:03,480 a shield that encompass is all of these dumb idiots 266 00:19:04,279 --> 00:19:07,759 in so called polite society, in the so called realm 267 00:19:07,759 --> 00:19:13,079 of the elite, that gives you the cover to continue 268 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:19,599 your disgusting human trafficking. And that is exactly the blueprint 269 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:24,559 used by Jeffrey Epstein and Guilaine Maxwell, just like it 270 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:29,799 was used by dear old Dad. But the joint party 271 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:34,079 to celebrate Maxwell's sixty fifth birthday and the fortieth anniversary 272 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:37,720 of this company Pergamon Press in June nineteen eighty eight, 273 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,319 was confidently predicted to outdo them all in terms of 274 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:47,319 both opulence and pomp. Now we know that these mfors 275 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,759 like to spend a couple of bucks on their parties, right, 276 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,160 and it all makes sense right when you start looking 277 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,119 at it. Of course, they were willing to spend all 278 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,279 these moneys on parties and on opulence and on all 279 00:19:58,319 --> 00:20:01,519 other sorts of nonsense. Because it wasn't their money. They 280 00:20:01,559 --> 00:20:04,400 were laundering it, they were stealing it. It was a 281 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:10,079 Ponzi scheme. But meanwhile, even after Maxwell's fall, even after 282 00:20:10,279 --> 00:20:16,119 Maxwell was caught in the act, basically somehow, his children, 283 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,799 his ex wife, all of the Maxwell clan still have 284 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:24,200 a ton of money. Now, when normal people get caught 285 00:20:24,279 --> 00:20:26,920 up doing something like this, all of your money is 286 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,079 seized by the government. But when you're rich, well, you 287 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,759 find a way around that. Unfortunately, the crack dealer in 288 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:40,400 south central LA isn't afforded the same luxuries under our 289 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:45,160 two tiered system. No one, not even as many critics, 290 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,039 could deny that Maxwell was on a roll from Oxford 291 00:20:49,079 --> 00:20:54,240 to Osaka. His empire was booming, as he had boasted 292 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,119 just a few weeks earlier. The banks of US money, 293 00:20:57,279 --> 00:20:58,920 we have so much on deposit? 294 00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 3: Oh? 295 00:21:00,319 --> 00:21:02,599 Speaker 1: Is that so so much money on deposit? You mean 296 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,519 money that you were laundering, money that you were stealing, 297 00:21:05,839 --> 00:21:09,039 money that you were taking from other people. And how 298 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,640 much of that money and how much of that scam 299 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,960 was helped along the way by somebody like Jeffrey Epstein. 300 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,319 We know that Epstein was involved in this sort of thing, 301 00:21:19,759 --> 00:21:23,960 moving money around, hiding money, making money untaxable and untraceable. 302 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,240 At the same time, academic institutions were queuing up to 303 00:21:31,319 --> 00:21:35,400 bestow honors upon him. Maxwell had just been given a 304 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,359 Doctorate of Law by Aberdeen University, as well as an 305 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:44,359 honorary life membership in the University of London's Institute of Philosophy. 306 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,920 Now you see how academia is always involved with the 307 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,839 scummiest amongst us, it would seem. And yet these are 308 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,240 the people who think that it's a good idea for 309 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,000 us to send our children to them, to safeguard them, 310 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,759 to teach them, to show them the right way in life. 311 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,039 Academia should be ashamed of themselves and there should be 312 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:18,119 a much more forceful voice coming from every corner of academia. Unfortunately, 313 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:23,079 there's only a handful of strong, courageous people in that 314 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,160 world that have stood up, and doctor Stephen Delay most 315 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,240 certainly is one of them. But we need more people 316 00:22:30,319 --> 00:22:32,920 in that world to stand up, and they need to 317 00:22:33,039 --> 00:22:39,160 understand and admit how deep the problems run on their end. 318 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,240 So many guests had been invited, around three thousand that 319 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:48,000 had been decided to hold the party over three consecutive nights. 320 00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:52,680 Friday night would be white tie and decorations and Saturday 321 00:22:52,799 --> 00:22:56,119 night black tie, while the Sunday night party would be 322 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,000 a more informal affair for members of staff. In between, 323 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:03,599 there was a lunch party on Saturday. Oh if your staff, 324 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,799 you can't come to Friday or Saturday. No, no, no, 325 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,079 you know, that's for our real guests. That's like in 326 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,279 the Italian household, if you try and go and get 327 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:14,480 yourself a little bit of the entemens, your mom will 328 00:23:14,519 --> 00:23:16,160 slap you in the hand with a wooden spoon and 329 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:21,799 tell you that's for company. So basically, he would have 330 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,680 a little function on Sunday at the tail end of 331 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,279 it for his staff and for people that weren't worthy 332 00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:32,359 of running the halls with the rest of the serpents. 333 00:23:35,799 --> 00:23:39,039 Bob Maxwell and the rest of these people are some 334 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:45,200 of the most disgusting human beings. And I use that 335 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:54,079 word loosely that I have ever had the I don't 336 00:23:54,079 --> 00:23:56,640 even know what to say about it. Honestly, I've never 337 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:02,640 really researched people like this. The whole entire family is scummy, 338 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,640 one scummier than the next. In the days leading up 339 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,519 to the first party, vast marquees were erected around the house. 340 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,440 Two Florida ceiling windows were removed to improve access to 341 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,359 the main marquee. Legions of Floras came down from London 342 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,000 to create elaborate displays in the house, the marquees, and 343 00:24:23,079 --> 00:24:26,680 even the swimming pool. This involved them transporting the flowers 344 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,519 out to the middle of the pool and little dinghies. 345 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,400 Imagine having a pool so damn big you needed a 346 00:24:32,559 --> 00:24:35,799 dinghy to get out to the middle of it. I mean, 347 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,200 my parents have a junior Olympic sized swimming pool in 348 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,519 their backyard and that's the pool I grew up swimming in, 349 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,799 and it's big as hell. I can't even imagine needing 350 00:24:45,839 --> 00:24:47,920 a dinghy to get out to the middle of my pool. 351 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,079 A stage had been built at one end of the 352 00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:55,000 main marquee and a dance floor laid so the guests 353 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,240 could dance on the sound of the Joe Loss Orchestra. 354 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,839 Later on it would be disco. At the end of 355 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,519 the meal, the cast of the West End musical Me 356 00:25:04,599 --> 00:25:08,000 and My Girl would perform highlights from the show. So 357 00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:10,839 they had the whole thing going on here, right. They 358 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:17,680 had the orchestra, they had a dance floor, they had 359 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,480 it turned into a disco They had people that were 360 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:23,799 involved in plays doing little skits from those plays. So, 361 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:29,319 as you can see, it was your typical debased, Romanesque, 362 00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:36,440 deboucherous evening. To ensure that everyone enjoyed unimpeded views of 363 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,319 the entertainment, the dining area had been constructed on two levels. 364 00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:43,119 A mobile dark room had also been set up on 365 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,079 the grounds. Guests who had their pictures taken during the 366 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,359 evening by a team of six photographers would be able 367 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,319 to collect them as they left Wooie. I would love 368 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,759 to find out who those photographers were and what sort 369 00:25:56,799 --> 00:26:00,359 of pictures they still have up the Cuff'd to you 370 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,160 that there are a ton of pictures from this event 371 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,480 that are floating around and these six photographers, those would 372 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:13,119 be some interesting ass conversations. To mark the fortieth anniversary 373 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,680 of Pergamon, a special book of tributes had been compiled. 374 00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:21,160 Pergamon had grown into the world's largest scientific publisher, and 375 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,960 the editors of Maxwell's scientific journals, more than three hundred 376 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,599 in all, along with various Nobel laureates, extalled his virtues 377 00:26:29,839 --> 00:26:36,279 in extravagant terms. Again, you see the hooks that Bob 378 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,960 Maxwell had into the world of science and academia, and 379 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,799 that was passed down to Gilane the blueprint and to 380 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:48,200 Jeffrey Epstein. Obviously I don't have direct evidence of that, 381 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,480 but folks, I am convinced that that is how all 382 00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:55,279 of this came to be. If we just take a 383 00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:59,559 look at Bob Maxwell and his blueprint, and we bring 384 00:26:59,599 --> 00:27:04,279 that blue print over and put it on Jeffrey Epstein 385 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,319 and Gilan Maxwell's blueprint, it matches up almost to a 386 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,119 tea today. 387 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 2: What business needs most is creativity. So let's create new possibilities, 388 00:27:13,519 --> 00:27:16,720 from intelligent automation to security that hunts for threats in 389 00:27:16,759 --> 00:27:21,640 the wild. Let's create something that changes everything. IBM, let's create. 390 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,559 Learn more at IBM dot com. 391 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 1: Gie the editor of the international journal Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 392 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,400 noted everything Bob Maxwell touches turns to gold. You mean 393 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,880 fools gold, right, while the director of one of his 394 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,200 Japanese companies wrote, each time I have the pleasure of 395 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,799 meeting him, I am reminded of f Scott Fitzgerald's words 396 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,640 that a millionaire is no ordinary man. Yes he is, 397 00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:52,400 and f Scott Fitzgerald was completely wrong. They bleed the same, 398 00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:55,559 They put their pants on the same as us and 399 00:27:55,839 --> 00:27:58,400 guess what, They're no better than you because they have 400 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,960 a couple of bucks. Of most of them had, you know, 401 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:07,200 the fortunate luck of being born into it, and those 402 00:28:07,279 --> 00:28:10,079 that made their own millions, well, hey, good for you. 403 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,440 Right again. I don't have any problem with people being wealthy. 404 00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:15,319 I think it's a great thing. I think that we 405 00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:19,400 should all want to have a good amount of wealth 406 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,640 because if we all had wealth, then we could do 407 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,400 good things with it, help other people. You know, when 408 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,640 you see something that's wrong, you could jump in and 409 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,000 fix it. But it seems like everybody who has this 410 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,799 kind of wealth is nothing but a scumbag. Last night 411 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,359 during the live stream, I had a listener ask me 412 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:44,000 if I can name one billionaire that I thought was 413 00:28:44,039 --> 00:28:49,319 a good person, and folks, I honestly cannot. Now. I 414 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,039 know that I'm probably the wrong person to ask, considering 415 00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:54,119 how cynical I am when it comes to these people, 416 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,480 but I really truly believe that there's not one of 417 00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:01,599 one person that comes to mind that I can think of. Now. 418 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,039 I'm sure I'm missing somebody. I'm sure there's probably a 419 00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:06,319 billionaire or two out there that have done good things. 420 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,880 But when you start breaking it down and you look 421 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,759 at all of these hedge funge managers and all of 422 00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:14,799 these people who are in the financial sector. It seems 423 00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:18,799 like all of them have been fined or slapped with 424 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,200 some sort of penalty for stealing and cheating, all of them. 425 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,799 So how can I think and sit here and even 426 00:29:27,039 --> 00:29:29,519 begin to try and lie to you folks or gaslights 427 00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:32,000 you by saying, oh, yeah, well, this millionaire is a 428 00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:34,880 good guy, because honestly, I truly don't think that there 429 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:41,640 are any at this point. Arthur Barrett, editor of Vacuum, 430 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,599 recalled how his initial doubts about Maxwell had soon disappeared. 431 00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:49,960 I have to confess that quickly realizing his predatory and 432 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,480 entrepreneurial ambitions, I nonetheless took a great liking to him. 433 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,359 And there's no doubt he was a human predator, right, 434 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,759 definitely a predator, the kind of person that preyed on 435 00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:05,160 the less fortunate the week companies that were in peril. 436 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:09,960 You know, basically the same guy that's taking it in 437 00:30:10,039 --> 00:30:13,279 the shorts right now on Wall Street with the short 438 00:30:13,359 --> 00:30:20,559 of Game Stop, the same kind of scumbag. Among the 439 00:30:20,599 --> 00:30:25,079 congratulatory telegrams was one from the US President Ronald Reagan 440 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,160 as the Happy birthdays ring out Nancy. Nancy and I 441 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,039 are delighted to join in the course of appreciation. Isn't 442 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:39,400 that nice? Ronnie Reagan? Send your buddy there, Bobby Maxwell, 443 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,839 a nice happy birthday card. The leader of the free 444 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,880 world sending a nice happy birthday card to a scumbag 445 00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:52,200 like Bob Maxwell. You see, folks, Donald Trump wasn't the 446 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,519 cause of the problems. Donald Trump is a symptom of 447 00:30:55,599 --> 00:30:59,599 the problems. And I know it feels good and visceral 448 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:04,039 to last and blame him, but we have to dig deeper. 449 00:31:04,279 --> 00:31:08,000 We can't just dig under the little bit under the 450 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,039 surface and be like, all right, that's it. Where where 451 00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:12,960 we need to be? This goes back a very long time, folks, 452 00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:16,759 and the politicians that we elect and the people that 453 00:31:16,839 --> 00:31:21,880 have ruled over us for a very long time have 454 00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:29,240 straight up been evil. I'm sorry to say. The Prime 455 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,000 Minister Margaret Thatcher offered a somewhat sulipistic contribution of her own. 456 00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:37,640 Robert Maxwell has never made any secret of the fact 457 00:31:37,799 --> 00:31:41,160 that officially he is politically opposed to me. But to 458 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,000 tell the truth, I think he rather liked my approach 459 00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:47,200 to politics and government, a sense of direction and decision. 460 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,960 These are the very qualities that have taken him far. 461 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,640 Oh well, that's nice by the Iron Lady. Huh. You know, 462 00:31:54,839 --> 00:31:58,880 Robert Maxwell, he doesn't like me very much, but I 463 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,880 think that he likes my approach to politics and government. 464 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,119 Probably not the stamp of approval that you're looking for there, 465 00:32:05,359 --> 00:32:10,240 Iron Lady. These are the very qualities that have taken 466 00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:14,200 him far. As far as the Labor leader, Neil Kinnick 467 00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:18,519 was concerned if Bob Maxwell didn't exist, no one could 468 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:21,359 invent him. Yeah. He is one of those characters, right, 469 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,400 one of those characters that you think you'd only see 470 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,519 in a book. But he was a real life archvillain, folks. 471 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:34,160 That's what Bob Maxwell was, a real life bad guy. 472 00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:38,240 On the night of the first party, guests passed down 473 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,319 a receiving line where they were greeted by Maxwell, Betty 474 00:32:41,599 --> 00:32:44,400 and all seven of their children. Oh kind of like 475 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,599 when Robert Barrathian comes to Winterfel huh, and the Starks 476 00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:50,440 are all lined up to meet him and greet them. 477 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,079 These people truly thought that that's who they were. They 478 00:32:53,119 --> 00:32:55,759 thought that they were the modern day nobles. They were 479 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,519 royal houses. We were living in a feudal world, and 480 00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:02,640 we were still their serfs, and when they raise the banners, 481 00:33:02,759 --> 00:33:05,960 we have to come running. That's how these people truly lived. 482 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,759 Some of the guests arrived bearing birthday presents. The broadcaster 483 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,000 David Frost turned up with a five hundred pound bottle 484 00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:18,920 of wine, unaware of how much it had cost. Maxwell's 485 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,680 chef later tipped it into a beef stew. Imagine that 486 00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:26,000 five hundred dollars pound I mean five hundred pound dollar 487 00:33:26,079 --> 00:33:32,079 bottle of wine used in this stew. That's the sort 488 00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:34,599 of money we're dealing with. That's the kind of people 489 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,640 we're dealing with. A five hundred dollars pound bottle of 490 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,680 wine pays a lot of people's car payment and insurance, 491 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,920 half of their rent, food for a month. But these 492 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000 people are like, oh, we'll just pour this in the wine. 493 00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:53,119 I mean pour this in the beef stew. Here they 494 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:58,599 are so disconnected from reality, folks that when their crash 495 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:06,200 inevitably come forget Humpty Dumpty, because these pieces can never 496 00:34:06,319 --> 00:34:10,599 be put back together again. For the so called elite. 497 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:16,000 The toothpaste is out of the tube. As guests sip 498 00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:18,960 their drinks, the band of the Coldstream guards march back 499 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,079 and forth across the lawn before dinner started. Robert and 500 00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:26,199 Betty made their formal entrance into the marquee to an 501 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:30,440 announcement from the Master of Ceremonies, Ladies and gentlemen, would 502 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,159 you please welcome your host and hostess Robert and Elizabeth Maxwell, 503 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:40,199 and a fanfare of Harold Trumpeters. Like I said, they 504 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:44,719 truly believe that they're the modern day aristocracy, the ruling houses, 505 00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:47,800 and that we should all be out working their farms 506 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,760 as their serfs. And when it's time to go fight 507 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,119 in one of their endless, unneeded wars, well make sure 508 00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:59,239 you grab your hoe, make sure you grab your pickaxe, 509 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,360 because you're gonna be on the front line and you're 510 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,159 gonna be cannon fodder while the rest of us eat 511 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:10,360 our caviat and sip our bubbly Like bad religion says, 512 00:35:11,159 --> 00:35:16,559 We'll just let them meat war. Everyone stood to aplaud 513 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,880 along with a row of metals pinned to his black tailcoat. 514 00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:23,280 Maxwell was wearing a large white enamel cross on a 515 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,920 chain around his neck. Oh yeah, because yeah, I'm sure 516 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:32,239 Robert Maxwell was captain religious pants. What they do is 517 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:39,199 they wear these religious symbols from Christian religions or otherwise, 518 00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:44,599 and they do it as mockery. These people aren't religious. 519 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,159 These people are out, you know, howling at the moon 520 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,199 to Moloch and shit, that's what it certainly seems like. 521 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,119 So whenever you see them wearing some sort of religious apparel, 522 00:35:57,199 --> 00:36:01,119 like a cross or anything like that, it's in mockery 523 00:36:01,119 --> 00:36:05,239 in my opinion. This was the Order of the White 524 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,760 Rose of Finland, a decoration normally given to foreign heads 525 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:13,119 of state and recognition of outstanding civilian or military conduct. 526 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,119 Betty Maxwell wore a dress made of gold embroidered tull 527 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,440 over yellow ti fought Us silk. Boy, must be nice, 528 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:26,119 Must be nice, huh? A gold embroider and yellow Tafeta silk. 529 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:33,079 These people are living in a completely different world than 530 00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:35,719 the rest of us folks, and for a long time 531 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,119 they were allowed to exist there up in their so 532 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,960 called rarefied air, without none of us really paying attention. 533 00:36:43,519 --> 00:36:48,599 That shit is over. We are fully engaged now and 534 00:36:48,679 --> 00:36:53,960 you so called elites, you have our full, unadulterated attention. 535 00:36:56,639 --> 00:36:59,719 At one of their earlier parties in nineteen eighty eighty six, 536 00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:02,440 the speech had been given by a former Prime Minister, 537 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,400 Harold Wilson suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's. Wilson 538 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,760 had begun this speech brightly enough, but then clearly forgot 539 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,840 who he was supposed to be talking about. This time, 540 00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:17,159 nothing had been left to chance. The main speech was 541 00:37:17,159 --> 00:37:22,039 given by Maxwell's banker, Sir Michael Richardson, managing director of 542 00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:26,800 Rothchild's Bank and an economic advisor to miss thatcher boy, 543 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,639 those Rothchilds are just quality people as well. Huh. I 544 00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:32,559 mean they don't have their hands and all kinds of scumbaggery. 545 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,639 They haven't had their hands in all kinds of scumbaggeries 546 00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:40,880 since oh, I don't know, Waterloo. Do you think it's 547 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,960 just a coincidence, folks, that the same names happen to 548 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,920 pop up in these articles as we go through this. 549 00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:54,519 Do you really think that's just a coincidence? Betty and Bob, 550 00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:57,679 this must be the party of the decade. Richardson declared, 551 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,199 the shouts of here or here and another around of applause. 552 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,639 All of us are delighted to be here because we 553 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,760 believe you have made a major contribution to all of 554 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,840 our lives. But if she sat beaming away by Maxwell's side, 555 00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:16,079 Betty found herself wondering if the party might not be 556 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,960 too puffed up with self importance, if something vital might 557 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,159 not have been lost along the way. Oh, it's all 558 00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:25,719 about the face, right. We got to have the best party. 559 00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:30,159 Everything is about consolidation of power. It comes back to 560 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:34,199 that no matter what. And you see it in real 561 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,559 time with these articles as we read them, it is 562 00:38:38,599 --> 00:38:46,679 so apparent that these people are operating in a forget 563 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,519 a different world, a whole different universe than the rest 564 00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:55,679 of us. In particular, she had major doubts about the 565 00:38:55,679 --> 00:38:58,880 Harold Trumpeters. I thought it was really over the top, 566 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,360 but I managed to play my part for all its success. 567 00:39:02,639 --> 00:39:05,719 For me, it had lost the intimate quality that our 568 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:10,559 previous parties had had. It was just too vast. Oh please, 569 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,960 I'm sure that you know your husband felt the same. 570 00:39:16,119 --> 00:39:19,519 The party had to be vast. The more vast it was, 571 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,760 the more glitzy, the more glamorous, the easier it was 572 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,800 for Maxwell to sink his hooks into people. The easier 573 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,280 it was for Maxwell to use the so called rich 574 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:36,039 and elite to make his own reputation stellar and to 575 00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:39,480 give him access to these higher levels of power, the 576 00:39:39,559 --> 00:39:44,519 same way his daughter used the same blueprint to ape 577 00:39:44,519 --> 00:39:49,679 his behavior all of these years Later. That evening, the 578 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:54,480 economist Peter j found himself sharing Betty Maxwell's misgivings. It 579 00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:57,480 was as if people came because they wanted to see Maxwell. 580 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,599 It was a spectacle. And although they sucked up to 581 00:40:00,679 --> 00:40:04,079 him and enjoys this hospitality, you could see them raising 582 00:40:04,119 --> 00:40:07,679 their eyebrows at the same time. Oh yeah, I'm sure 583 00:40:07,679 --> 00:40:10,239 that they had such a big problem with it that 584 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,159 they ate all of his food and enjoyed all of 585 00:40:12,199 --> 00:40:16,079 his music and hung out with all of the other scuzzbags. 586 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,199 I love these people who are like, oh, our eyebrows 587 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,800 were raised as you stayed and continue to party and 588 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,920 suck down champagne on his dime, like that makes you 589 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,519 a better person, Just like the jackasses at the Reddit. 590 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:36,199 Well with the Reddit CEO when Maxwell was at the 591 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,599 party with all of them, and she comes out and says, oh, 592 00:40:38,639 --> 00:40:41,000 we all knew what Maxwell was. Then why are you 593 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,199 still at the party with her? Why didn't you leave 594 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,440 right away? And it comes down to at the end 595 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:51,360 of the day, these people don't give a damn. After 596 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,199 dinner was over and the cast of Me and My 597 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:57,079 Girl had finished performing, guests were asked to go back outside. 598 00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,159 There they were treated to a fireworks display, the culmination 599 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,639 of which was a huge flaming sign spelling out the 600 00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:10,440 words Happy Birthday, Bob across the Oxford skyline. Must be nice, 601 00:41:11,639 --> 00:41:15,199 big fireworks display, forcing everyone to come out and watch 602 00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:19,639 it in your honor. Nah, no narcissism here, folks. But 603 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,039 not all of the guests stayed to watch. Some of 604 00:41:23,079 --> 00:41:27,840 them them succumb to curiosity and went snooping. Mike molloy by, 605 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,960 now the editor in chief of The Mirror, was particularly 606 00:41:31,039 --> 00:41:34,280 struck by the decor of Headington Hill Hall. All the 607 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,480 furniture looked as if it had been bought from the 608 00:41:36,519 --> 00:41:39,679 sale of a second rate country house in the nineteen twenties, 609 00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:45,079 and the paintings were absolutely terrible. I've never seen a 610 00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:48,320 worse collection. I bet you those paintings were all fake. 611 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,800 He probably had his art collection stashed somewhere to hide it, 612 00:41:53,079 --> 00:41:54,960 make sure that he wasn't getting taxed on it. And 613 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,159 shit and the furniture, well, that doesn't shock me. It 614 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,119 seems to me that a lot of these people have 615 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,840 terrible taste when it comes to the interior decorations of 616 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,599 their houses. I mean, look at how bad Jeffrey Epstein's 617 00:42:09,599 --> 00:42:14,760 houses were decorated. Having inspected the art, Molloy peered into 618 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,079 Maxwell's drawing room. There were all these bookshelves with books 619 00:42:18,119 --> 00:42:20,719 on them, except when I looked more closely, I saw 620 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,800 they weren't real books. They were made out of cardboard. 621 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,239 I couldn't get over it. Here was this man who 622 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,519 had this fortune out of publishing, and yet there weren't 623 00:42:29,519 --> 00:42:32,960 even real books on his shelves. In fact, not all 624 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:38,159 the books were false, only those concealing Maxwell's stereo system. 625 00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:43,920 And it's just an overall look at Maxwell in general. 626 00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:47,159 His whole life was false. Everything about him was false. 627 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:52,320 The way he presented himself was false, and even the 628 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:58,440 books that he had on display were fake. While the 629 00:42:58,519 --> 00:43:01,639 dancing was going on, Maxwell asked another of the guests, 630 00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:06,400 Gerald Ronson, CEO of the property developers Heraan International, if 631 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,039 he would like to come into the house for a 632 00:43:08,119 --> 00:43:11,360 quiet drink. He waved his fat finger at me and said, 633 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,719 let's go into the library because I don't want to 634 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,440 talk to these people. They were Maxwell told him a 635 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,000 bunch of arseholes who would go anywhere if they were 636 00:43:20,039 --> 00:43:23,599 invited by someone important. Well, I can't disagree with Maxwell. There. 637 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,360 He's right about that. These people are a bunch of arseholes, 638 00:43:27,559 --> 00:43:30,559 and they would go anywhere if they were invited by 639 00:43:30,559 --> 00:43:33,639 somebody with power and money, and it doesn't matter how 640 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:39,519 scummy that person might be. Maxwell had something he wanted 641 00:43:39,559 --> 00:43:42,239 to show him. Bob said, you always thought I was 642 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,000 joking when I told you I had won the Military Cross. 643 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,559 He then opened up a large photo album and proudly 644 00:43:48,639 --> 00:43:52,239 pointed to one of the photographs, taken more than forty 645 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:56,199 years earlier. It showed Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery pinning the 646 00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,679 metal onto the uniform of a much younger, slimmer Maxwell. 647 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,039 Ronson laughed and held up his hands. I said, I 648 00:44:03,119 --> 00:44:05,360 take it all back, Bob. I'm sorry if I didn't 649 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:11,400 believe you, but you do tell so many stories. Well, folks. 650 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:16,960 That is the opening salvo into our exploration of the 651 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,480 Maxwell family, starting with Robert Maxwell. Now, this is just 652 00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:25,599 one instance, a bit of an overview, and it gives 653 00:44:25,599 --> 00:44:27,639 to show you a little bit of the opulence and 654 00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,280 the way that he lived his life. But as we 655 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,960 begin to dig deeper and go further down this rabbit hole, 656 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:39,239 you will see that his life was mainly based on stealing, 657 00:44:39,679 --> 00:44:45,880 consolidating power, and being a general all around scuzbag, just 658 00:44:46,079 --> 00:44:50,320 like Daddy's little girl. If you'd like to contact me, 659 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,639 you can do that at Bobby Capucci at protonmeil dot com. 660 00:44:54,679 --> 00:45:00,960 That's Bobby cap you Cci at proton meil dot com. 661 00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,760 You can also find me on Twitter at b O 662 00:45:04,039 --> 00:45:07,719 B b Y, Underscore c A p U C c I. 663 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,840 All of the links that go with this episode can 664 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,840 be found in the description box. All Right,