Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith and he is robbie the fire bernstein we are back from uh key west where we woke up yesterday um back a bit north a bit colder than that but uh very excited to be back with all of you fine people uh hope everyone had a good uh weekend a good super bowl sunday um me and rob were both i think traveling during the game um but yeah from what i heard
That bunny really had a terrible halftime performance. That's why we turned over and watched Kid Rock over at Turning Point USA or something. It's amazing, dude. People love a fucking nonsense distraction. It is unbelievable. Listen, it's clearly a nonsense distraction, but I'm going to be honest. It annoyed me. Listen, I'm used to not liking the halftime show.
I'm an old man, so I like those years when they brought on the Who and the Stones and the classic rock guys. Most years when they have the modern day R&B people, I don't know who they are. And I get to sit there and judge it and be like, why does anyone like Lady Gaga? Why is this in the Super Bowl? But there was something that really irked me about.
Firstly, I think Spanish music is the worst genre of music. I listen to a pretty wide range of stuff. I used to be in Washington. Gasolina. I used to hate the sounds of that. And then the fact that there wasn't one word of English during the Super Bowl.
it's not even good music but it was just it was i don't know there was something that i i agree no listen i i agree like there's a reason why people fall into these distraction issues because they're they're like catnip like they are just and and look and i'm also with you it's crazy it's disrespectful it's weird you know there's this weird thing and i didn't really watch like i saw um a couple like other commercials on you know on on twitter or whatever but um
But I've talked about this for the last few years. There's this very weird theme with like Super Bowl commercials. It's true just with kind of like big corporate entertainment in general. But it's almost like everything is divided into like over-the-top woke insanity or over-the-top nostalgia, right?
Like, everything is either some crazy, you know, like, right, like, we're going to do a Super Bowl show that's not in English with, like, 17 different flags of different countries. And you're like, we're going to so shove it in your face that there is no such thing as America anymore, like, in some way.
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Chapter 2: What recent developments surround Thomas Massie and the Epstein files?
It's this weird thing where for one group, we'll give you the crazy woke shit, and for the other group, you get to remember a time when your country wasn't insane. Remember back when it used to be the way you wanted it to be? I don't know. I'm not alleging any conspiracy or something exactly with that element of it, but
it does seem like it's almost just intentionally designed to provoke, to, like, provoke a response. And I will say that you see...
well i guess i would just say that there it seems to me that a lot of like commentators a lot of people in podcasters and things like that who are the ones who are kind of on board with the agenda of the regime you know like the ones who support a war in iran the ones who support the the strikes in venezuela the ones who support trump blindly
they love jumping on these stories you know what i mean because it seems like it serves well because you don't have to talk about iran that he's not doing deportations that he doesn't want to look into the epstein files that the economy is not doing as well as he claims it so these are the great issues
Yeah, it's a way that guys like, you know, Benny Johnson or someone like that can like rally conservatives to get behind him because I'm going to really take my gloves off with this goddamn Spanish guy singing music. And I've got, you know, like it like and then it's like, all right, dude, but I don't know. Like we just we just got the Epstein files. So like, isn't that you know what I'm saying?
And then you'll watch people like. It is so funny to me, too, because I've seen like a like I know Ben Shapiro has like he's always like the best example of being the worst guy. But I know like he'll say things like like he's had a few videos. A few of them were going viral and not look. They didn't age very well. There's a few videos where it's like I have this Epstein things, a big distraction.
The Epstein thing is a big distraction. People don't really care. Douglas Murray wrote a piece about that too. Do people really care about Epstein? That's a giant distraction. But let me tell you something. If there's a dude in a dress anywhere, that's worthy of a whole goddamn show. You know what I'm saying? And so it is like a thing where you go like, wait a minute, hold on. I'm sorry.
I don't mean to be crazy here. I'm looking at the Epstein files. They're painting a picture of like, how power actually works at the highest level, a crazy degree of shadow diplomacy that's being conducted by this pedophile, where he's, I mean, he's the guy who introduces the head of Israeli security to Peter Thiel. Like, That's not a small, low-level intro to be making, right?
You're getting a glimpse into how power really operates. We're seeing all types of weird protections of very powerful people, seeing all types of weird language that seems to be talking about, like, little kids and really creepy stuff. But that's a distraction, right? That's a distraction, but, like, the Super Bowl halftime show is, like, the real issue of substance that we got to spend time on.
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Chapter 3: How did Ghislaine Maxwell respond to questioning?
You know, it's like demanding a vote on a spending bill is great, but...
demanding the release of you know the epstein files is gonna piss a lot more people off but he is really not relenting and i find this to be a very interesting story because he's furious that they've totally violated the law here and kept so much information back um he was in an interview the other day now today he's tweeted that today
He is going to the Justice Department to review the unredacted files. So, like, theoretically, and I'm sure Thomas Massey has been doing his homework here and has other people, has a team of people around him, but, like, he could go see that email we just mentioned and see, hey, who's that from? That's pretty interesting. Like, maybe it's a household name. Maybe not, but, like, maybe.
So we'll see what comes of that. Here, let's play the Thomas Massey clips because we got a couple clips from his interview yesterday.
I'm ready to do that if the victims want me to. They believe that the best way to get justice is to force the DOJ to release these names. I've already read one name in a committee with the FBI director there. That's Jess Staley. And again, he may or may not be guilty, but he's been accused by these victims, the lawyer tells me. And there are other names. I don't have them in my possession.
But if the victims want to give them to me, I've expressed that I'm willing to do that. But again, the best way is to force the DOJ to release those names on those 302 forms. I'm ready to do that.
So that's okay. So that's the first clip. And he's doubled down on this a few times where Thomas Massey is now saying like, and look, just to be clear here, right? What the Justice Department is alleging, and of course what Kash Patel and Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi have all said now, after telling the truth for a while, is that there are no co-conspirators.
Nobody else did anything with an underage girl or anything else with like you know, a girl could have been overage but was being held there against her will or was like, you know, they were violent with her. Their claim is zero. Nothing. None of that happened. We have no evidence to support any of that. Meanwhile, what they've already released so far is like,
He certainly was partying with a lot of people. A whole lot of people are talking about how wild that party was. People are talking about having withdrawals from Epstein parties. People are going, oh my God, you're the craziest guy ever. And the worst thing is I can't tell anyone about any of it. All types of coded language.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Epstein files for powerful individuals?
That's part of why I do this for a living. Like, it's like, I don't know. Don't you just want to know? Like, what really happened with Nixon? You want to know, right? What really happened on 9-11 or with JFK? Don't you want to know? And then here you are. We have this just kind of, like, this bombshell. Like, totally... Like I said, almost like an introduction into how this world actually works.
And then you have people who claim to be journalists who are actively trying to get you to not figure this out. That really says something about who can work at the New York Times. It's just unbelievable, dude. And that's their instinct when something like this happens. Discredit, cover it up, move on. Move back to the issue that you want. You know, whatever.
The Iranians are murdering people in the streets. We need another war over there. Something. I don't know. Anyway, find this all to be very, very fascinating. Yeah, I think anyone that's trying to say, hey, let's move on from this or we can't possibly find out the facts or we can't possibly find out the storyline is clearly for some reason invested in not unearthing the truth.
And with the amount of information that's come out, it clearly doesn't just go, hey, this was just made up. Yeah, yeah, that's right. If you guys want to put questions in, I'm interested in the live chat if you guys want to ask questions or give comments on any of this stuff.
Isn't it incredible that if Massey wasn't in Congress, we probably wouldn't even have this information, and they probably could have successfully have just completely suppressed the story? Isn't that just wild to think about? I mean, I guess Rocahan is working on it also. Maybe I just see more of the Massey content.
But without the two of them, the entire rest of the government was essentially on board with, hey, let's move on from this. Yeah, no, that's right. And and they're, you know, the essentially what Cash Patel and them were saying, they just would have kept saying it. Just saying there are no files. There is no thing. There's nothing for you to see here. Nothing of interest at all.
And, you know, that's at the very least, dude, if nothing else, what this is, what this is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt is that there are there are people like Jeffrey Epstein who.
who get connected into kind of like these financial crime outlets where they actually have tremendous leverage over governments and financial institutions and conduct diplomacy at the highest level and party with each other. And the fact that he was convicted of raping underage girls didn't...
stop anyone from wanting to with them like it wasn't even kind of like uh uh oh yeah man this guy's image has really been sullied people aren't going to do business with him anymore it was like no problem oh just keep working that in itself that alone it's a pretty big scandal um but man there is a lot more there's a lot more ifs and maybes connected to it than that and Yeah.
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Chapter 5: Why is there skepticism about the transparency of the Epstein investigation?
This makes no sense whatsoever. It's like, and you went through this and went, what? This is national security. We can't know who this is or what? You're protecting a victim. This isn't a victim here, right? So what are you saying? That you didn't wanna embarrass some guy I think we're at the point, like, let's embarrass some guys.
Let's embarrass the people who were, like, emailing sexual stuff to Jeffrey Epstein. I'm okay with that tradeoff. They can be embarrassed for us to maybe get to the bottom of some of this. I would accept that deal. All right. The other kind of interesting angle on this involves the ā
uh just lane maxwell pleading the fifth uh in her um uh when when she was being uh uh questioned by congress and then of course the clintons which uh i guess have been arguing about the manner in which they're gonna be uh uh deposed so here let's go let's go first to the the video today um of the announcement that just lane maxwell has uh she ain't talking
She's pleading the Fifth Amendment, invoking her constitutional right to not incriminate herself. Here, let's check out this clip.
She would answer questions if she were granted clemency.
by the president and that she went on to say about Clinton. And yeah, then he yeah, but he went on to expand that. The other thing is he he pointed out a number of times that she has a habeas corpus petition pending for a new trial and release. And that's why she is not going to answer questions.
Chairman, Mr. Chairman, I think it's before you take the questions. What I'm hearing here is essentially she's available to the highest bidder that she's willing. She's willing to squeal, but someone's got to make her a very nice offer. And no one's presented that offer yet. So for now, she's keeping her mouth shut.
Yeah, it was being reported like from her lawyers that she actually said or her lawyer actually said rather at one point that she can exonerate Donald Trump. if he grants her clemency well which is like sorry go ahead on that note this is uh conspiracy talk
But I believe she was moved to the nicer prison at Donald Trump's discretion for her earlier comments saying that I never saw Donald Trump do anything inappropriate. And I think she's already loosely played ball on, hey, I'm willing to protect Donald Trump. And that's why she was moved to the nicer prison. And I think they're still fishing for perhaps an even better deal.
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Chapter 6: How do cultural distractions relate to serious political issues?
Just kind of a crazy coincidence, if you want to call it that. Now, Bill Barr's dad was intelligence. He worked for the, not the CIA, I think, but the precursor to the CIA. But he was an intelligence agent. Then he goes to run this fancy school and brings in Jeffrey Epstein. Then the son, Bill Barr, former CIA guy,
gets made Attorney General by Donald Trump, and they're the ones who bring the case. They're the ones in charge of Jeffrey Epstein when he, you know, clearly commits suicide and a couple of cameras happen to malfunction and guards fell asleep. And so, like, again, yes, you can say that doesn't...
prove anything on its own but if you're an honest person I think you look at that and go uh this stinks I'm not saying we're down to the bottom of it but this smells awfully fishy um now I'm not sure if it's the first or second question here but I got another conspiracy coming sure
They would like them to be public. Is your understanding still that we're looking at those same February dates and they're going to be private?
Yeah, that's what they agreed to. And they will be public, just like this will be public, hopefully very soon.
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Chapter 7: What connections exist between Epstein and political figures?
We've released every transcript and every video and audio of every deposition we've done since I've been chairman of the committee.
Mr. Chairman, does the committee have any plans to subpoena Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick given the revelations?
We're gonna try to get these five nailed down. We've got a lot of very important people we're trying to bring in to answer questions. We don't want to do anything to jeopardize the five that we have on the book. So we'll see what happens here and we'll move forward.
OK, so this is where I just get very, very suspicious. Now, firstly, if you recall, Cormor was the guy who is running the charge on investigating the Biden criminal enterprise. And he had multiple press conferences. We found 20 million in payments, all this loony stuff. Nothing ever came of it.
now if i'm running a company and i'm looking for someone to lead the charge on an investigative effort i'm not hiring the guy who in his previous investigative effort didn't actually come up with anything now you might say that he put on a couple good shows i'm just saying that the conclusion of it i've worked in sales offices i've managed sales teams i'm putting my closer on if we have a good lead or something important i'm not giving it to the guys that didn't close previous deals
I'm just saying either this is just government bureaucracy where they're not very good at getting things done and so they don't care if you weren't good at a previous effort. I'm just saying he had one public effort just a couple years ago of investing someone's criminality, came up with zero. There was no prosecution of the Bidens. No one in the family got in trouble.
They never brought great information to the public.
Nothing.
Nothing.
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