Stolen diaries and air fryers (04-05-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:29] The Justice Department has asked a New York District judge to sentence Amy Harris to anywhere

[00:00:41] from four to 10 months in prison. Okay? Now, by the way, like she pleaded guilty like a

[00:00:51] couple of years ago, literally two years ago. So this, this is just sort of the latest

[00:00:57] development in this long running saga, which began, well, I mean, I guess it began years

[00:01:04] and years ago, but really came to the public for during the 2020 election. Not only did

[00:01:10] we have the Hunter Biden laptop story that got suppressed, we had the Ashley Biden diary

[00:01:18] story suppressed. So the, and the diary story was, I would argue more effectively

[00:01:25] suppressed than the Hunter Biden laptop story, because there was a sort of a Streisand effect

[00:01:30] that took hold and you had essentially a PR effort underway to try to censor it, right?

[00:01:37] And, and you know, there was like leaning on and pressure being applied. But there, there

[00:01:42] wasn't any kind of, you know, early morning raids on people's homes and the and the

[00:01:49] threat of criminal prosecution and people being arrested. There wasn't stuff like

[00:01:52] that going on with the laptop story in the month before the election. The Ashley Biden

[00:02:00] diary story, we did see this. So Amy Harris is one of the people who has pleaded guilty

[00:02:10] to the felony charge of conspiring to commit interstate transportation of stolen property.

[00:02:19] All right. And this is in connection with the theft of Ashley Biden's diary. Now, the story I

[00:02:29] remember hearing at the time was that Ashley Biden had left this diary along with other

[00:02:35] possessions at some sort of a halfway house or something or like a like a drug rehab place,

[00:02:42] whatever. However, that does not appear to be the case. One of the co conspirators, one of the other

[00:02:51] there are co defendant Amy Harris's co defendant. There was a part of the story here that indicates

[00:02:58] that the guy's last name is Kerlander. Harris's explanations to Project Veritas confirmed

[00:03:08] for Kerlander that Harris had stolen the victim's property. Okay. So Project Veritas was involved

[00:03:15] in this to remember not that they stole the project Veritas as far as I can tell didn't do

[00:03:20] anything wrong. They paid for the diary, but they never published it. And they say they could

[00:03:28] never confirm it. In fact, they have been attacked by the publication or the website,

[00:03:35] journalism outfit, national file, the national file and the reporter on this story, Patrick Howley,

[00:03:43] who I've interviewed in the past. He attacks Project Veritas as being part of the

[00:03:51] conservative Zionist cabal. And that they shut down any reporting on the Ashley Biden diary for

[00:04:01] Zionist reasons or something. I don't know, but I don't know that to be true.

[00:04:10] He says he has been bankrupted by because of his reporting on all of this and he was,

[00:04:18] national file, Patrick Howley, they were the ones that printed or published the passages of the

[00:04:25] diary. That's what got the publicity going and pictures, excerpts and all this. And that, my

[00:04:33] belief is that came from somebody inside Project Veritas that wanted to publish it, but James O'Keefe

[00:04:42] would not allow it to be published or somebody at Project Veritas, whoever makes the call on that,

[00:04:47] they would not publish it because they, according to them, they could not confirm

[00:04:51] that it was authentic, that it really was hers. And so they were not going to publish it until

[00:04:58] they could confirm it. And then of course they got raided by the FBI. They've never been charged,

[00:05:06] as far as I know, nothing has ever come of it against Project Veritas. So this is from the

[00:05:13] New York Post article, prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District

[00:05:18] of New York had initially sought a sentence of six months of home confinement, followed by three

[00:05:25] years of supervised release for Amy Harris. So that's what DOJ initially said, six months

[00:05:33] house arrest basically and three years supervised release. She pleaded guilty back in August

[00:05:39] of 2022 to conspiring to commit interstate transportation and stolen property.

[00:05:46] Harris has requested that her sentencing hearing date be moved. And she has done this now a dozen

[00:05:54] times. She keeps asking for the date to be moved. And the prosecutors say that these are excuses

[00:06:02] and they're part of an effort to improperly delay her punishment. And so therefore,

[00:06:08] the court should impose a stiffer sentence. Quote,

[00:06:13] the defendant has repeatedly and consistently engaged in tactics to improperly delay this

[00:06:18] proceeding, including by misleading the court with false information to justify

[00:06:23] belated and unmerited requests for adjournments, refusing to appear when directed, and

[00:06:30] ah, oh hang on, ah, sorry. It was an aunt walking across the,

[00:06:39] walking across the table here at me. Of course, killing him now probably released that

[00:06:44] pheromone or whatever it is and now there's going to be a bunch of morons that come over here

[00:06:47] probably. Sorry. Anyway, so they say that she has kept asking for adjournments, refuses

[00:06:56] to appear when she's directed to do so and fails to comply with court orders to disclose or produce

[00:07:02] certain information. And so now they want the court to come down and drop the hammer on her

[00:07:08] or the gavel as it were. Harris came across the diary of Ashley Biden, the first daughter's

[00:07:15] diary, as well as tax records, private family photographs and her cell phone in September

[00:07:25] of 2020 during a stay at a home in Delray Beach, Florida where President Biden's daughter

[00:07:32] had previously been living. So she, so Ashley Biden was living in this house? I don't understand

[00:07:41] this. Like I'm not clear as to how this all went down like, but Ashley Biden's living in

[00:07:46] this house and then moves out but leaves this information all these like tax documents,

[00:07:55] self, like you leave your cell phone? What do you, Hunter Biden here? I mean that's

[00:08:02] too soon. Yeah, probably too soon. Anyway, the diary contained highly personal entries.

[00:08:09] After stealing Ashley Biden's property, Harris then recruits co-defendant Robert

[00:08:15] Curlander to help sell it knowing that it belonged to quote an immediate family member

[00:08:24] of a then former government official who was a candidate for national political office.

[00:08:28] So Joe Biden, right? The duo sold the diary to Project Veritas. So again, she finds this

[00:08:36] in September 2020. They sell it to Project Veritas for $40,000. The outlet did not

[00:08:43] publish the contents. However, entries of the diary later emerged online from nationalfile.com.

[00:08:53] This woman, Amy Harris is scheduled to be sentenced on April 9th and prosecutors now want the book

[00:08:58] thrown at her. And they warn that if she fails to appear again, they may seek an enhancement now

[00:09:06] for obstruction of justice. Curlander, who also pleaded guilty in the case,

[00:09:11] has a sentencing hearing scheduled for April 12th. So if you go back to August of 2022,

[00:09:23] you get some more details about the Project Veritas role as well as what was in

[00:09:30] the diary entries. You can go to nationalfile's website as well. They've still got the story

[00:09:35] up there with photos. And it seems to me very clear that the diary did belong to,

[00:09:42] does belong to, Ashley Biden. Why it's in the news now is because the prosecutors are asking for

[00:09:49] a stiffer sentence, but also it is proof that the diary was Ashley Biden's, right? It is proof.

[00:10:01] The fact that the DOJ now wants more prison time, or yeah, they want a tougher sentence and

[00:10:07] they are asking for some jail time. It's proof that the diary was Ashley Biden's,

[00:10:13] which means that the reporting on it and what was in it was true. Which means

[00:10:21] we got a president right now who apparently was sharing with his daughter

[00:10:27] at an age that was not appropriate for her. I mean, well probably both of them, but mainly for her.

[00:10:34] Let me go back to this political piece in the wayback machine. 2022, August 25th.

[00:10:41] Two Florida residents pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic and stolen goods

[00:10:46] for selling a diary and other personal effects of President Joe Biden's daughter,

[00:10:50] Ashley Biden. Last November, so this would have been November of 2021,

[00:10:57] the FBI carried out search warrants at the home of the founder of Project Veritas, James O'Keeffe,

[00:11:03] and those of two of his colleagues in connection with this investigation. None of those individuals

[00:11:09] have been charged, but O'Keeffe has denounced the raids as an attack on press freedom.

[00:11:16] Harrison Curlander, the two defendants here, stole personal property from an immediate family member

[00:11:23] of a candidate for national political office. This according to the U.S. Attorney for the

[00:11:28] Southern District of New York. They sold the property to an organization in New York for $40,000

[00:11:34] and even returned to take more of the victim's property when asked to do so. Harrison Curlander

[00:11:43] saw it to profit from their theft of another person's personal property and they now stand

[00:11:49] convicted of a federal felony as a result. See the problem here was that they tried to sell it

[00:11:56] out of state. You always got to, you got to sell your stolen goods in state people.

[00:12:03] Keep the feds off your back. I'm kidding, but that is actually how they ended up with,

[00:12:08] you know, Southern District of New York coming after them and Project Veritas. The charging document

[00:12:15] says that Harrison Curlander, I'm sorry, Harris told Curlander what she had discovered

[00:12:21] and he texted her that they could quote, make a bleep ton of money off of the journal.

[00:12:29] The pair tried, he wasn't wrong, the pair tried to offer the diary to the Trump campaign,

[00:12:36] but an unidentified representative of the campaign turned them down and suggested they give the

[00:12:43] materials to the FBI because that's what one does, you see, when you are weaponizing

[00:12:52] the federal government against your opponent. Don't you see, right? Donald Trump weaponizing

[00:12:56] the federal government. The Trump campaign, they recommend, hey, you should take that to

[00:13:00] the FBI. Silly them, this was November 2021, I guess, right? They weren't aware of what the FBI

[00:13:11] was doing at this point. No, but think about that. Even after all of the stuff that the FBI has done

[00:13:20] to the Trump campaign, the people that are in the campaign, all the lies, all of the investigations,

[00:13:25] all of that stuff, and they still advised this woman, Amy Harris and Robert Curlander,

[00:13:34] to take this stuff to the FBI. So are they in on it? No, I'm kidding. But no, like that,

[00:13:42] there is this thing, like you want to believe that the FBI is going to do the right thing

[00:13:47] and you keep getting presented evidence that they're not, especially on these types

[00:13:53] of politically charged issues. Curlander texted to Harris, they want it to go to the FBI.

[00:14:02] There is no way Trump can use this. It has to be done a different way.

[00:14:09] James O'Keefe from Project Veritas has said his group was told that the diary and Ashley

[00:14:14] Biden's other effects were abandoned by her when she left a Delray Beach, Florida home

[00:14:20] where she had been staying. The group eventually turned the materials over to police.

[00:14:26] This is the daughter that Joe Biden had with Jill Biden. She's in her 40s now.

[00:14:32] And in that diary though, she talks about being sexualized at a young age with her

[00:14:37] cousin, I believe, Caroline. The showers with dad that occurred at an inappropriate age,

[00:14:44] which experts say is like three years old, but dad with daughter, like no,

[00:14:52] she should be bathing alone definitely by age four.

[00:14:57] And all of the drugs that she had been doing and personally identifiable information that was

[00:15:05] in there talking about Beau, by name, talking about Hunter, by name. And at one point

[00:15:12] says her own name, declares, you know, I, Ashley Brazer, Biden, blah, blah, blah.

[00:15:20] So like this idea that it's not her diary has never been believable.

[00:15:26] But it was denied that it was hers. And to this day, we still have never had anybody

[00:15:32] ask Joe Biden about the accusations that are in it about these inappropriate acts with his daughter.

[00:15:39] I'm sure they would avoid it if it was Trump too, right? If Donald Trump were to like hug his daughter

[00:15:45] for a little bit too long, like on a stage someplace, I'm sure nobody would ask any questions

[00:15:52] at all about that. The air fryer. Okay. First off full disclosure, I have an air fryer.

[00:16:00] I have not come to denigrate the air fryer. I'm simply here

[00:16:09] to, to disabuse people of misinformation.

[00:16:16] But the air fryer is a hoax. I was surprised as you.

[00:16:21] Okay. So here is the story from Maxwell Zeph at Gizmodo.

[00:16:29] Right. And as far as I understand, this website's pretty reputable when talking about the Gizmos.

[00:16:36] Then the air fryer is a pretty, it's a pretty new Gizmo, except it's not.

[00:16:43] Uh-huh. This has actually been around for, for a while. Okay. One of the many layers of

[00:16:50] the lies surrounding the air fryer. All right. So here's Maxwell Zeph. The air fryer is the

[00:16:57] hottest kitchen appliance in America right now. Many of us discovered them during the pandemic,

[00:17:03] as recipes went viral on social media claiming that you could fry without the oily mess.

[00:17:11] That's how it was sold to me. I mean, not by like a salesperson or anything,

[00:17:16] but that's what I remember it being like, oh, it's an air fryer. So it fries,

[00:17:19] but without the oil, like this is awesome. So it's now healthy for me to eat fried food

[00:17:24] because it's not fried, but it tastes like it is, but it's not. But it is, but it's not,

[00:17:29] but it's an air fryer, but it's not fried, but it is. Okay. So this brilliant new device

[00:17:36] seemingly popped up out of nowhere or did it? The idea that air frying is a new cooking technique

[00:17:45] is a myth. Okay. Your air fryer, my air fryer, it is a little convection oven.

[00:17:57] And you've already got one of those in your kitchen. It's a convection oven with a fan.

[00:18:04] That's it. That's all it is. It's a miniature version of a convection oven according to Kevin

[00:18:13] and engineering professor at the University of Guelph. Okay, wait a minute. This is,

[00:18:17] is this a real story? Oh, wait a minute. This is from April 1st.

[00:18:22] See, you can't trust these things. All right. So hang on a second. The first thing I need to do

[00:18:26] is look up is the university of Guelph. Is that even a place? University of Guelph?

[00:18:35] Okay. There is a university of Guelph. It's in Ontario. Okay. So Canada. Oh, okay. All right.

[00:18:43] So it's legit people. It's legit. The air fryer is a lie. And this guy studies food technology.

[00:18:55] So like this story is his Super Bowl, you know? Like think about it. This guy,

[00:18:59] he's an engineering professor and in all the things in engineering that you could do,

[00:19:04] he was like food technology. That's what I'm going to focus on. And so,

[00:19:10] like aside from writing for some restaurant publications or something, like in that trade

[00:19:16] industry, whatever, like I'm not sure like, okay, yes, also the foods that built America. He could

[00:19:21] be called upon to do like a sit down interview for that. But other than that, this is it,

[00:19:26] right? This is his moment. He says there's roughly five times faster air movement through an

[00:19:33] air fryer compared to a convection oven. Okay? So that's the deal. It's a convection oven

[00:19:40] with a souped up fan. It's a great design, but it is nothing new. So

[00:19:49] I did not know this was a thing. I have to acknowledge this too. I did not realize people

[00:19:53] were doing this. Do you put parchment paper or tin foil below your food in the air fryer?

[00:20:03] Do you do that? I guess that's to catch the drippings and whatever. Do you do that? No.

[00:20:09] No, I don't have one. Do you do that? No. Do you guys use air fryer?

[00:20:19] I can't hear you. So mine is part of a whole instant pot air fryer, rice cooker,

[00:20:25] slow it's like a 13 in one device. So I really honestly should put things under because

[00:20:32] I have got it for Christmas. It is a humble brag. Nothing humble about it. It's great.

[00:20:37] 13 in one air fryer, instant pot slow cooker and a bunch of other things. I think it makes like

[00:20:44] all all kinds of everything pretty much everything but only two portions of it

[00:20:48] in the air fryer. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The instant pot part makes like 70.

[00:20:53] Well, yes. So if you put and you do and neither one of you put the tin foil or the

[00:20:59] parchment? No. Right. Okay. Because if you do that, first off, I didn't even know anybody did that

[00:21:04] because that seems silly to me because it's super easy to clean out the baskets of the air fryer.

[00:21:11] But if you do that, you are blocking the airflow's direct path to your food

[00:21:16] which completely eliminates the most ingenious part of the air fryer, which is the movement

[00:21:20] of the air on all sides of the food. Because you're putting the bottom,

[00:21:25] you're blocking the airflow on the bottom side and now it's literally just an oven,

[00:21:30] which you already have. Also, the air fryer is not frying anything.

[00:21:39] It's not actually frying it. Same thing. It's just hot air.

[00:21:43] Right? Air fryers are just little windy ovens that sit on your counter

[00:21:49] but the industry has grown to be worth $760 billion globally.

[00:21:55] Air fryers have become the biggest kitchen appliance since the microwave.

[00:22:02] But we have been sold a lie here people. It's just an air oven.

[00:22:09] And also, like what's the deal with this like cult obsession that has grown up around the air

[00:22:16] fryer too? I don't understand that either. It's like you don't see that around blenders, do you?

[00:22:24] You don't see that around microwaves?

[00:22:28] I mean, I remember seeing like a cookbook from Betty Crocker that was on my mother-in-law's shelf

[00:22:35] for the crock pot because when they first had that in the 60s, they were like,

[00:22:41] look at this, you just throw everything in there and then it just cooks it all day long

[00:22:44] and you don't have to worry about it. So a cookbook of recipes for the crock pot.

[00:22:49] But other than that, but it just seemed like the whole air fryer, it's like a movement.

[00:22:54] I mean, it's not like scary cultish like vegans or Scientology or anything but

[00:23:00] I mean, it does kind of, it's a little unsettling to me.

[00:23:03] It's like the cup that you had the terverse and then the next thing and now the Stanley.

[00:23:07] Now it's the Stanley. Right. Which I don't think you should call the cup

[00:23:11] Stanley cup. Like how did they, Stanley already had something, right? Wasn't Stanley the name of

[00:23:19] something already? Stanley cup. Right. Stanley cup. But also the construction equipment and tools.

[00:23:30] Those are Stanley. What's the deal now I hear all these like these wine moms running on and

[00:23:36] on about their Stanley's and then like, what are you doing? Why are you appropriating

[00:23:44] from the male genre here? Anyway, there are several benefits to air fryers that make them a

[00:23:50] useful tool. Again, I have an air fryer. They're quicker to heat up. It's good for small portions

[00:23:57] because that's literally all that fits in there. And if you are intimidated easily by large

[00:24:04] cooking appliances, I guess, you know, this is a good thing for you. You could travel with them, right?

[00:24:13] The high velocity airflow translates to better crisping than a convection oven

[00:24:20] because it's high velocity air. So it's moving it around faster. So you get better crispiness

[00:24:26] than you would in a convection, a simple convection oven. But I think there's actually

[00:24:30] if you just get like one of those $10 crisping pans, that'll do the trick too for you, but whatever.

[00:24:39] The air fryer, this cult around it is very strong. You got recipe books and website blogs

[00:24:47] dedicated to air fryers. The culture just doesn't exist for other kitchen appliances like

[00:24:53] the microwave or the toaster oven. Yeah, with a toaster oven. Like what's up with that?

[00:24:56] How come there's no why is there no cult around the toaster oven?

[00:25:01] Maybe the messaging around air fryers just really resonates with people because we all love fried

[00:25:05] foods. But there's considerable difficulty and mess with deep frying in oil at home, right?

[00:25:15] Not to mention deep fried foods are really unhealthy for you. Baked foods are much healthier

[00:25:19] and easier to make. And air frying is really just baking, but it's sold to us as frying.

[00:25:26] And it's not. I mean, I'm not telling you to go eat deep fried food. I'm not telling you that.

[00:25:32] I'm just saying don't live a lie. That's all. Okay, if you're listening to this podcast,

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[00:26:28] The hellion says that the air fryer cult is almost like a cross fit like cult.

[00:26:36] That's almost like cross fit. And I had a message too as well that I have both a toaster oven and a

[00:26:46] convection feature as well as my main oven. I always thought that the air fryer was just great

[00:26:51] marketing like the Instapots, just basically a pressure cooker. Yeah, that's true.

[00:26:57] Look, I get it. They're very helpful. And oh, sorry, Russ says also being a university

[00:27:03] in Canada does not make it legit. Canada doesn't even exist.

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