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Michael Duncan (0:00)
To our larger point about the media, they literally are pushing this now because there is a host of Democrats in 2028 who stand to benefit from the old Democrats falling off the charts.
John Ashbrook (0:14)
Because this has become a shirts and skins exercise, a political partisanship thing. It's not even about justice for these poor women who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein.
Smug (0:22)
Democrats working with Jeffrey Epstein to try to go after Donald Trump.
Josh Holmes (0:25)
Yeah, think about it.
John Ashbrook (0:26)
And now, seven years later, doing the same thing.
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Josh Holmes (1:35)
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please.
Smug (1:39)
Keep the faith, hold the line and own the lids.
Michael Duncan (1:42)
It's time for our main event.
Josh Holmes (1:48)
Good Thursday to you. Welcome back to the ruthless variety program Epstein Edition. I'm Josh Holmes, along with comfortably smug Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook. Left to right, across your radio dial. Fellas, it's occurred to me that we might be in the dumbest era of American politics that I ever remember for a whole variety of reasons. We're going to contextualize that for all of you and give you a good indication of how we see the world based on a debate that has overcome the national media. And you wonder, you wonder why it is that for 20 long years Jeffrey Epstein has never been a national topic of conversation. Lots of discussion online, lots of discussion about COVID ups and who was involved and all these things, but never really broken through the national media. You remember ABC shelved a full segment back in the day, a full expose. At some point, I think it was like 2, 20, 15, 16.