WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.500 Welcome to the deep dive. So this is where we 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:05.839 take a heavy stack of source material. We're 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:09.279 talking legal briefs, political claims, financial 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:11.800 histories, and just, you know, cut through all 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:13.820 the noise. We really want to give you the essential 00:00:13.820 --> 00:00:16.800 insights, the context you need to actually understand 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:18.780 what's going on. And our sources this week, they 00:00:18.780 --> 00:00:20.940 touch on these surprisingly connected themes. 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:23.820 They really do. It's all about accountability, 00:00:24.219 --> 00:00:29.250 influence and how cold, hard financial realities 00:00:29.250 --> 00:00:31.949 can just change history. The goal is to make 00:00:31.949 --> 00:00:34.390 those connections really clear for you. OK, so 00:00:34.390 --> 00:00:37.090 we are tackling three major areas today, plus 00:00:37.090 --> 00:00:39.210 a really fascinating little historical footnote 00:00:39.210 --> 00:00:41.770 at the end. We're going to start with a massive 00:00:41.770 --> 00:00:45.369 legal win in the Nevada fake elector case. Then 00:00:45.369 --> 00:00:48.140 we have a multi -part. hypocrisy report, which 00:00:48.140 --> 00:00:49.920 covers some pretty high ranking political figures. 00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:51.439 Then you're going to get into some previously 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:53.899 unexamined details from the Jeffrey Epstein email 00:00:53.899 --> 00:00:56.600 releases. These focus less on the headlines and 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:59.259 more on his enduring global influence. And we 00:00:59.259 --> 00:01:02.520 wrap it all up with a quiet official end of a 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:05.480 233 year old piece of American history. OK, let's 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:08.680 unpack this. Let's do it. So we begin with legal 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:11.680 accountability. a really significant moment in 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.900 the Nevada fake elector battle. Now, for those 00:01:14.900 --> 00:01:16.959 of you following the news, you know that after 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:20.420 the 2020 election, Trump -affiliated individuals 00:01:20.420 --> 00:01:23.400 tried to cast fraudulent electoral votes in a 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:25.620 few swing states. Right, and in a lot of those 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:27.879 states, the cases have just stalled out. Totally. 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:30.299 I mean, you've got procedural arguments in Georgia, 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.180 a really slow -moving process in Arizona. And 00:01:33.180 --> 00:01:36.180 the judges ruling in Michigan, which was... Interesting. 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:38.359 It was. But Nevada was different. The primary 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:40.519 fight there wasn't really about the crime itself, 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:42.579 but about jurisdiction. Where the trial should 00:01:42.579 --> 00:01:44.799 actually happen. Exactly. The state attorney 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:47.359 general, Aaron Ford, he brought the case in Las 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.640 Vegas. Which makes sense. That's where a lot 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:51.780 of the plotting happened. And you're likely to 00:01:51.780 --> 00:01:54.519 get a more, let's say, neutral jury pool. But 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:56.920 the defense, they fought back hard on this. They 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.780 argued the whole case belonged 400 miles north 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:02.079 in Carson City, the state capital. Because that's 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.239 where the signing happened. Precisely. They claimed 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.000 the court crime was forgery and that it was committed 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.680 right there in Carson City when they signed the 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.599 fake electoral certificates. A lower court even 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.800 sided with them at first. Yeah, that was a huge 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.159 blow to the prosecution. But they appealed to 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.620 the Nevada Supreme Court, which came back with 00:02:21.620 --> 00:02:25.919 a unanimous 6 -0 ruling in Ford's favor. Unanimous. 00:02:26.460 --> 00:02:28.680 And the court's decision, according to the sources, 00:02:29.020 --> 00:02:32.259 was just brilliantly simple. It rested on a point 00:02:32.259 --> 00:02:36.030 of law that defines when a crime is actually, 00:02:36.030 --> 00:02:37.870 you know, complete. Okay, so walk us through 00:02:37.870 --> 00:02:40.030 that logic. If the defense is saying the crime 00:02:40.030 --> 00:02:42.189 was finished the second the pen left the paper 00:02:42.189 --> 00:02:44.710 in Carson City, what was their fatal flaw? Well, 00:02:44.729 --> 00:02:47.009 the fatal flaw was their whole definition of 00:02:47.009 --> 00:02:48.889 forgery. The Supreme Court basically said, look, 00:02:48.909 --> 00:02:50.930 you can forge documents all day long in your 00:02:50.930 --> 00:02:53.550 basement. And it's not illegal. Not yet. Forgery 00:02:53.550 --> 00:02:56.909 only becomes a crime, legally speaking. The moment 00:02:56.909 --> 00:02:59.069 you attempt to pass those forged documents off 00:02:59.069 --> 00:03:01.430 is real to someone else. Oh, I see. So the signing 00:03:01.430 --> 00:03:03.949 in Carson City was just the prep work. Exactly. 00:03:04.449 --> 00:03:06.310 The prime itself didn't actually happen until 00:03:06.310 --> 00:03:08.930 the documents were delivered and received. The 00:03:08.930 --> 00:03:11.229 goal was to defraud the courts and the judges. 00:03:11.469 --> 00:03:15.150 Who were in Las Vegas. Precisely. So the injury, 00:03:15.750 --> 00:03:18.090 the actual attempt to pass off the forgery, that 00:03:18.090 --> 00:03:20.210 didn't occur until the documents were received 00:03:20.210 --> 00:03:23.419 in Las Vegas. The court just affirmed that Nevada 00:03:23.419 --> 00:03:26.580 law lets you bring charges in any location where 00:03:26.580 --> 00:03:29.319 a crime unfolds across multiple jurisdictions. 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:31.460 So that technical argument from the defense just 00:03:31.460 --> 00:03:33.539 got completely neutralized. Crashed and burned. 00:03:33.860 --> 00:03:37.539 So what does this win really mean for you, the 00:03:37.539 --> 00:03:40.439 listener? It means the prosecution is back on 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.039 track in Las Vegas and the sources are noting 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.860 that the defendants who created a quote paper 00:03:45.860 --> 00:03:48.659 trail a mile wide. are getting pretty nervous. 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:50.659 Well, especially since some were apparently hoping 00:03:50.659 --> 00:03:53.360 for a presidential pardon if Trump were to be 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.560 reelected. And that right there is the key takeaway. 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:57.780 It's the absolute key. If you're charged with 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:00.539 a state crime, a US president cannot pardon you. 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.000 It's just not in their power. Nevada's justice 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:05.560 system is totally independent of federal pardons. 00:04:05.860 --> 00:04:08.180 So this breakthrough pretty much ensures that 00:04:08.180 --> 00:04:10.680 the Nevada case, unlike a lot of the others, 00:04:11.020 --> 00:04:14.629 has a very high probability of being. the first 00:04:14.629 --> 00:04:17.889 and maybe the only fake elector case that actually 00:04:17.889 --> 00:04:20.290 gets before a jury. Okay, moving on. Let's shift 00:04:20.290 --> 00:04:23.170 gears to our hypocrisy report. This is where 00:04:23.170 --> 00:04:26.110 we highlight those profound contradictions where 00:04:26.110 --> 00:04:28.470 powerful figures seem to have one set of rules 00:04:28.470 --> 00:04:30.470 for themselves. And a totally different set for 00:04:30.470 --> 00:04:32.949 everybody else. Yeah. So we can start with immigration. 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.839 Specifically, the rhetoric versus the actual 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.939 labor practices. Okay. Donald Trump, as we know, 00:04:39.420 --> 00:04:41.899 built his political brand on some very strong 00:04:41.899 --> 00:04:44.279 anti -immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric. Right. 00:04:45.069 --> 00:04:47.449 The sources confirm that last year the Trump 00:04:47.449 --> 00:04:52.170 Organization received 184 H -2A and H -2B temporary 00:04:52.170 --> 00:04:54.290 worker visas. That's the highest number they 00:04:54.290 --> 00:04:56.310 have ever received. And just to clarify for you, 00:04:56.470 --> 00:04:58.850 H -2A is for temporary agricultural work and 00:04:58.850 --> 00:05:01.910 H -2B is for seasonal non -ag work. The very 00:05:01.910 --> 00:05:04.009 kind of jobs that his rhetoric often portrays 00:05:04.009 --> 00:05:06.480 as being stolen by immigrants. And that number, 00:05:06.540 --> 00:05:09.540 the 184, that's on top of the nearly 400 workers 00:05:09.540 --> 00:05:12.139 they have with permanent resident visas. So the 00:05:12.139 --> 00:05:14.699 total figures are up something like 40 percent 00:05:14.699 --> 00:05:18.120 since 2017. The irony is, well, it's unavoidable. 00:05:18.339 --> 00:05:21.079 OK, so from immigration to the justice system. 00:05:21.180 --> 00:05:23.560 Yeah. Let's pivot that contradiction into pardons 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.220 and political attacks. The sources point out 00:05:26.220 --> 00:05:28.779 that Republicans often use these tragic violent 00:05:28.779 --> 00:05:31.660 crimes committed by people released under Democratic 00:05:31.660 --> 00:05:34.620 policies. We all remember cases like Willie Horton. 00:05:35.019 --> 00:05:37.379 or more recently, the murder of Lake and Riley. 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.100 Exactly, those become central points in political 00:05:40.100 --> 00:05:44.240 campaigns. So, the source material offers a counterpoint. 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.459 A man named Jonathan Braun. Okay, who's Jonathan 00:05:47.459 --> 00:05:50.600 Braun? Braun was convicted of some very serious 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:52.560 crimes, money laundering, drug trafficking back 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.300 in 2019. He was then pardoned by Donald Trump. 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.560 And the reason for the pardon? According to the 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.680 source, it wasn't for compassionate reasons or 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.199 new evidence. It was because Braun's family are 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:04.180 personal friends with Jared Kushner's family. 00:06:04.339 --> 00:06:06.360 A political connection. And the results of that 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.319 pardon have been frankly devastating. Since his 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.040 release, Braun has allegedly assaulted his wife, 00:06:12.339 --> 00:06:14.660 his 75 year old father -in -law, a three year 00:06:14.660 --> 00:06:17.100 old boy. He also attacked his nurse with an IV 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:19.860 poll. allegedly molested his kid's nanny and 00:06:19.860 --> 00:06:23.500 ran a predatory loan -sharking scheme. He's now 00:06:23.500 --> 00:06:26.399 headed back to prison for years. So the contrast 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.600 is just incredibly stark. It is. Between how 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.319 a case like this based on connections is handled 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.819 versus those used for political attacks. OK, 00:06:34.819 --> 00:06:37.500 next up is political data and claims of fraud. 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:40.459 Right. So in Tennessee, the Secretary of State, 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.759 Tree Hargett, referred 42 non -citizens to the 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:48.000 FBI for allegedly illegally voting. The intention 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.439 was to show that systemic fraud was a real problem. 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.399 But the number itself tells a different story. 00:06:52.500 --> 00:06:55.399 It really does. Because that number 42 people 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:59.660 represents .00001 % of the total voting population 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:02.300 in Tennessee. So if the goal is to prove widespread 00:07:02.300 --> 00:07:05.100 systemic fraud. This number actually documents 00:07:05.100 --> 00:07:08.240 how infinitesimally small the possible problem 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.740 is. The data becomes its own contradiction. And 00:07:10.740 --> 00:07:12.420 the sources suggest that was maybe the point. 00:07:12.569 --> 00:07:15.209 The goal was never to prove systemic fraud, but 00:07:15.209 --> 00:07:17.250 just to get the number of alleged instances out 00:07:17.250 --> 00:07:19.089 there no matter how small. It's the implication 00:07:19.089 --> 00:07:21.610 that matters. Precisely. And the final piece 00:07:21.610 --> 00:07:24.550 here, it involves a shocking reversal on special 00:07:24.550 --> 00:07:26.769 prosecutors. Right. So the context for you is 00:07:26.769 --> 00:07:29.529 that the Trump defense team is arguing in court 00:07:29.529 --> 00:07:32.050 that Jack Smith's appointment to the classified 00:07:32.050 --> 00:07:34.709 documents case was illegal because he wasn't 00:07:34.709 --> 00:07:37.500 properly confirmed by the Senate. But the sources 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:40.300 reveal that the very same administration, when 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:41.980 they were trying to prosecute people they saw 00:07:41.980 --> 00:07:45.100 as political enemies, like James Comey or Letitia 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:48.360 James, they used an unconfirmed appointee. Her 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.560 name was Lindsay Halligan. Her background was 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:52.800 mostly in insurance law. And when her legitimacy 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.399 was challenged, the government quickly used a 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.180 backup step, appointing her as a special prosecutor. 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.519 So the contradiction is? Blatant. Smith's appointment 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.300 is illegal. But Halligan's was not only legal, 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.639 but necessary. So what happened in the courtroom? 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.519 It got pretty dramatic. The sources detail this 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.699 exchange where the judge asked the Doje attorney 00:08:11.699 --> 00:08:13.980 to explain the difference between Smith, who 00:08:13.980 --> 00:08:16.620 has decades of high -level experience, and Halligan. 00:08:16.699 --> 00:08:19.399 And what did he say? He claimed that Smith did 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:21.240 not meet the qualifications to be appointed, 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:23.949 but that Halligan did. The career prosecutor 00:08:23.949 --> 00:08:26.930 is unqualified, but the insurance lawyer is. 00:08:27.110 --> 00:08:29.829 You can imagine the reaction. The sources say 00:08:29.829 --> 00:08:32.509 there were audible gasps in the courtroom. It 00:08:32.509 --> 00:08:34.769 just shows that in this particular arena, the 00:08:34.769 --> 00:08:37.870 legal argument often seems to come second to 00:08:37.870 --> 00:08:40.230 the political goal. OK, let's shift now. Let's 00:08:40.230 --> 00:08:41.909 explore the details coming out of the Jeffrey 00:08:41.909 --> 00:08:44.539 Epstein email releases. The headlines always 00:08:44.539 --> 00:08:47.519 grab onto the celebrity stuff, but the real insights 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.639 are about his continued influence after his conviction. 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:53.139 Yeah, he remained incredibly connected. Post 00:08:53.139 --> 00:08:55.620 -conviction, the sources show he was meeting 00:08:55.620 --> 00:08:59.500 or emailing with just a stunning list of global 00:08:59.500 --> 00:09:03.029 power players. Peter Thiel, former UK Prime Minister 00:09:03.029 --> 00:09:05.809 Gordon Brown. Scholar Noam Chomsky, then former 00:09:05.809 --> 00:09:09.509 Israeli PM Ehud Barak. And even the then current 00:09:09.509 --> 00:09:11.950 president of Mongolia. He was not hiding out. 00:09:12.190 --> 00:09:14.330 No, not at all. He was still operating as this 00:09:14.330 --> 00:09:17.389 power broker, this intellectual advisor, giving 00:09:17.389 --> 00:09:20.049 financial counsel to people like Larry Summers, 00:09:20.309 --> 00:09:22.529 members of the Rothschild family, unnamed Middle 00:09:22.529 --> 00:09:26.529 Eastern sheiks. And an unnamed There's also this 00:09:26.529 --> 00:09:28.190 personality detail that comes through in the 00:09:28.190 --> 00:09:30.490 emails. That he was a highly self -regarding, 00:09:31.230 --> 00:09:34.909 almost pompous ass. Yes. Constantly sending articles 00:09:34.909 --> 00:09:37.870 on science and psychology, writing these long 00:09:37.870 --> 00:09:40.649 essays on his own theories to friends like Chomsky, 00:09:41.090 --> 00:09:43.389 he clearly thought he was the smartest person 00:09:43.389 --> 00:09:46.830 in any room. And the emails also get into the 00:09:46.830 --> 00:09:48.970 volatile dynamics around Bill Clinton. Right. 00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:51.279 Both Clinton and the Gores were adamant they 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.840 had never been to the island. And at some point 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.279 before 2016, the relationship between Epstein 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.919 and Clinton clearly soured. Massively. Epstein 00:09:59.919 --> 00:10:02.659 started calling Clinton a friend killer. And 00:10:02.659 --> 00:10:05.419 one of Epstein's email confidants went even further, 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:08.320 calling Clinton very close to being a psychopath 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.480 with no conscience and scary because of his ability 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:13.860 to lie. Which is a pretty heavy charge. It is. 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:15.720 But then there's this one moment of what seems 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.179 like humility from Epstein. In an exchange, he 00:10:18.179 --> 00:10:20.340 admits he was humbled, and that his friend was 00:10:20.340 --> 00:10:22.120 right about something related to Clinton. As 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.200 if even he had been surprised by something the 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.340 former president did. Now, we do have to address 00:10:26.340 --> 00:10:28.940 this very niche and difficult political reference 00:10:28.940 --> 00:10:32.259 that came up in the emails. We do. In an exchange 00:10:32.259 --> 00:10:34.759 with the journalist Michael Wolff, Wolff asks 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:38.820 about a reference to Nussbaum Foster, which relates 00:10:38.820 --> 00:10:42.580 to some old, dark, fringe conspiracy theories 00:10:42.580 --> 00:10:44.960 from the 90s. And Epstein replies at the line, 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:47.460 Hillary Clinton doing notties with Vince Foster. 00:10:47.710 --> 00:10:50.539 and it is so important to emphasize here. just 00:10:50.539 --> 00:10:53.299 as the source material does, that this is purely 00:10:53.299 --> 00:10:56.360 a claim made in a private email. Right. And the 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:58.299 nature of the Noddies, whether it's a video, 00:10:58.419 --> 00:11:01.539 a picture, a drawing, it's not specified or verified 00:11:01.539 --> 00:11:03.860 at all by the source. It just documents the kind 00:11:03.860 --> 00:11:06.080 of speculative material being shared between 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:08.620 them. It does. And on the Republican side, the 00:11:08.620 --> 00:11:10.679 connections were there, too. He spent time in 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:12.919 Palm Beach with all the Trump boys in December 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.580 of 2016. And his correspondence with Steve Bannon 00:11:15.580 --> 00:11:18.139 started in 2017, and they became, quote, close 00:11:18.139 --> 00:11:21.440 friends by March 2018. The influence really did 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:23.759 span the entire political spectrum. It did. And 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.759 then there's this final, truly bizarre, alleged 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:29.700 claim from the emails. About pictures of Trump 00:11:29.700 --> 00:11:32.779 blowing Bill Clinton. Which Putin may possess. 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:34.919 And the commentary from the source on this is 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:36.860 actually pretty insightful. I thought so too. 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.759 It argues that even if the act were consensual, 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:43.220 it only becomes politically compromising because 00:11:43.220 --> 00:11:45.860 of the embarrassment, which is compounded by 00:11:45.860 --> 00:11:48.399 Trump's choice to align himself with political 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.840 homophobes. So the compromise is basically self 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:53.320 -inflicted. Exactly. It's about using shame as 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.960 a political weapon, even in the most outlandish 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:59.240 of scenarios. OK, let's transition now to a final 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.480 and pretty surprising fact. Today, in numismatics, 00:12:02.940 --> 00:12:07.519 after 233 years, an era has ended. It has. The 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:10.220 U .S. Mint produced its very last penny in Philadelphia 00:12:10.220 --> 00:12:12.460 this week. And this was really just an exercise 00:12:12.460 --> 00:12:15.059 in financial common sense. Or a lack thereof 00:12:15.059 --> 00:12:17.980 until now. For years, the cost of making a single 00:12:17.980 --> 00:12:20.059 penny had risen to about four cents per corn. 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.539 Four cents to make one cent. Yeah. Keeping the 00:12:22.539 --> 00:12:24.659 penny in circulation was costing the U .S. government 00:12:24.659 --> 00:12:27.820 over 50 million dollars a year. Its financial 00:12:27.820 --> 00:12:30.340 relevance in an age of electronic commerce has 00:12:30.340 --> 00:12:32.639 just plummeted. The sources note the last time 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:34.620 the U .S. actually retired a coin was the half 00:12:34.620 --> 00:12:37.279 cent, all the way back in 1857. Which brings 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:39.220 up a really interesting linguistic question, 00:12:39.379 --> 00:12:43.200 right, about language versus currency. Will phrases 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:47.100 like, a penny saved is a penny earned, or a penny 00:12:47.100 --> 00:12:49.840 for your thoughts survive? Where do they have 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.759 to evolve now? A nickel for your thoughts. It 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:55.460 doesn't have the same ring. It doesn't. But language 00:12:55.460 --> 00:12:57.740 is incredibly resistant to change. I mean, think 00:12:57.740 --> 00:13:01.740 about, penny -wise, pound foolish. That phrase 00:13:01.740 --> 00:13:03.940 has survived for centuries, even though the US 00:13:03.940 --> 00:13:07.639 hasn't used pounds sterling in, well, forever. 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.200 The symbolism outlives the currency. It often 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:12.600 does. And on a historical note, Lincoln was put 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:15.919 on the penny back in 1909 specifically to emphasize 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:17.879 his role as the president of the common man. 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:20.740 And now he's just on the five dollar bill. George 00:13:20.740 --> 00:13:23.460 Washington is the only president left who appears 00:13:23.460 --> 00:13:26.120 on commonly circulating paper money and coins. 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:28.820 The sources did mention some interesting conceptual 00:13:28.820 --> 00:13:31.210 discussions around coinage. like if Washington 00:13:31.210 --> 00:13:33.029 were ever removed from the quarter. Who would 00:13:33.029 --> 00:13:35.250 replace him? One suggestion was Theodore Roosevelt, 00:13:35.710 --> 00:13:38.049 the argument being he's arguably the best president 00:13:38.049 --> 00:13:39.909 who doesn't have his own coin. That's a good 00:13:39.909 --> 00:13:42.330 point. And another really thoughtful suggestion 00:13:42.330 --> 00:13:46.029 was Rosa Parks, which creates this powerful historical 00:13:46.029 --> 00:13:50.149 parallelism. She paid a 15 cent bus fare in 1955, 00:13:50.610 --> 00:13:52.490 which she likely would have paid with a quarter. 00:13:52.750 --> 00:13:55.289 and gotten a dime back. Exactly. And that connects 00:13:55.289 --> 00:13:58.250 so nicely to the Roosevelt dime, which was created 00:13:58.250 --> 00:14:00.269 because of his support for the March of Dimes 00:14:00.269 --> 00:14:02.919 charity. OK, so let's synthesize everything we've 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.419 covered. Right. So we saw law defining accountability 00:14:05.419 --> 00:14:08.460 in Nevada, ensuring justice finds its intended 00:14:08.460 --> 00:14:12.179 venue. We saw how self -interest exposed these 00:14:12.179 --> 00:14:14.980 massive contradictions in political power through 00:14:14.980 --> 00:14:18.080 the hypocrisy of visas, pardons and selective 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.139 legal arguments. And we looked at how global 00:14:20.139 --> 00:14:22.340 influence and information brokering continued 00:14:22.340 --> 00:14:24.720 for Jeffrey Epstein way outside the spotlight. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.200 And finally, we saw how the simple economics 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.519 of commerce dictates change with the end of the 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:31.830 penny. The key takeaways for you are pretty numerous. 00:14:32.070 --> 00:14:34.149 There's that specific legal definition that the 00:14:34.149 --> 00:14:36.590 crime in the Nevada forgery case was completed 00:14:36.590 --> 00:14:39.669 upon receipt, not signing. The massive increase 00:14:39.669 --> 00:14:41.669 in foreign workers at the Trump Organization, 00:14:42.330 --> 00:14:44.250 which contrasts so sharply with the political 00:14:44.250 --> 00:14:46.690 rhetoric. The shocking fact that a dangerous 00:14:46.690 --> 00:14:49.429 criminal received a pardon based purely on his 00:14:49.429 --> 00:14:51.909 family's connection to the Kushners. And of course, 00:14:52.049 --> 00:14:54.850 the official start of a new era of American currency 00:14:54.850 --> 00:14:57.289 without the cent. So here is a final provocative 00:14:57.289 --> 00:14:59.009 thought for you to consider. We learned that 00:14:59.009 --> 00:15:01.549 the cost of keeping the physical penny in circulation 00:15:01.549 --> 00:15:05.289 was over 50 million dollars a year. So now that 00:15:05.289 --> 00:15:07.590 the physical penny is gone, will the historical 00:15:07.590 --> 00:15:10.769 and symbolic value of that phrase, a penny saved 00:15:10.769 --> 00:15:13.909 is a penny earned, finally be upgraded by a culture 00:15:13.909 --> 00:15:16.409 that increasingly values dollars and cents over 00:15:16.409 --> 00:15:19.169 history and symbolism? Will the language of our 00:15:19.169 --> 00:15:21.470 personal finances evolve now that the smallest 00:15:21.470 --> 00:15:24.269 denomination of our physical wealth is just gone? 00:15:24.450 --> 00:15:26.350 Something to think about. Food for thought indeed. 00:15:26.809 --> 00:15:28.289 Thanks for joining us for this deep dive.