Ehud Olmert

The best part about that bit in Wet Out American Summer is when Jenny Graflo

just

runs out of names and says David Ben-Gurion.

This is how I'm going to be when I run out of notes and I'm tabbing to the Wikipedia and it's taking slightly too long to load.

I'm just going to

be filling space.

Hello and welcome to to no gods no mayors i am your mayor for this episode i'm november kelly i'm joined as always by my co-mayors masi lubchansky and riley quinn hello hello

and it's it's my turn in the in the mayoral hot seats which is i guess what we're calling it now and i was originally going to do i teased in fact ed koch but then

i received a last-minute kind of damascene conversion i received a message from the mayor taculus and all that message said was hey do you know know a bunch of Israeli politicians used to be mayors?

And I went, that's a great way that I can use to make me feel bad about myself reading about things that are bad on like a sort of a Monday morning.

And so that's what I'm doing.

Wow.

And so I have brought to you, with your permission, Ehud Olmert.

Oh, yeah.

Ol Merta has been broken.

He was mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003.

More famous, I would say, for being prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009.

He was the guy who he was in Ariel Sharon's party, Kadima.

And then when Ariel Sharon had the stroke, he was acting prime minister, and then he took over when he died.

And so as such, this is one of the guys most responsible for the creation of the Gaza Strip as an enclave rather than something being directly occupied by Israel.

He's also the guy behind Operation Caste-Led, the sort of like disastrous for Israel invasion of Lebanon.

So, yeah, those are the hits.

Now, he's an anti-Netanyahu guy, and he has, you know, sort of denounced the war crimes and the genocide.

And he really, really wants to show you this map, right?

That he had Abu Mazen, the like head of the Palestinian Authority, this close to signing because he had this this deal.

It was almost over the line.

It didn't quite work out.

And unfortunately, you get Netanyahu instead.

Yeah.

So he's a never Netanyahu Likudnik, basically.

Essentially, yes, although he did split from Likud to be in Sharon's Party Kadima.

Yeah.

So that's perfect.

That is one of the more rancid vibes

that I think we've ever discussed.

Yeah, it's a really bad phrase you've said, Riley.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I don't like it.

I don't want to hear it.

He is on TV a lot.

He's one of the two Ehuds who are sort of like anti-Netanyahu.

The other is Barak.

Would you, would you be interested in knowing that both of them are in Jeffrey Epstein's address book?

Well,

really awkward moment when you call the wrong one, you know?

Yeah, maybe he just meant to invite.

In fact, it was, it's like one of them can say, like, look, I didn't mean to go.

He invited the other Ehud, and it only became clear much later that he realized he invited the wrong one at the last minute and was simply too polite to make that clear.

Jeffrey Epstein, very anti-Semitic man as well.

So, like, yeah, getting in trouble when I confuse which Ehud is the one who's a pervert and which one is the one that comes to Jeffrey Epstein's island with his wife, like Al Gore.

No, no, no, no, no.

I set this massage room up for Ehud Barrack.

Henna more.

I'm in such trouble when my boss, Jeffrey Epstein, finds out about this.

All right.

All right.

So I want to talk about his time as mayor of Jerusalem predominantly.

I'm going to talk about some of the other stuff because it's a whole rich tapestry, right?

But first, I would like to introduce a segment that I provisionally titled The Item Roundup is an inseparable part of No Gods, No Mares, and Inextricable from Our Podcast's Heritage.

That's the 14 words for No Gods, No Mares.

I don't like that we have that.

Play the fucking jazz.

Wait, do we we have items?

If we don't have any items, then the item roundup is not an inseparable part.

No gods, no maz.

It's a pretty separable part, in fact.

So I've got a semi-item in which I wanted to discuss Andrew Cuomo's shit posting.

Oh, I have an item about that, actually, as well.

Yeah, so Maddie, you go ahead.

It's okay.

I just, it appears that everybody that's not Zoron, Mom Donnie, and the New York City mayoral prior or mayoral, it's now the general election, has relaunched their campaigns.

Adams and Sleewa and Cuomo all unveiled like new letter word marks and their new slogans and they're all fucking stupid and they're all apings are on one way or another.

Eric Adams has simply rebranded as Eric, which is so funny to me because nobody calls him that.

He's also claiming to be Dominican now, I think.

He's also, well, he's what else is new?

Here's the Dominican parade and he's like, I feel a little bit, I must be a part Dominican because I like him so much.

Cool guy.

I would have miss him.

The evil fuck.

But Cuomo's thing is like, I'm making New York City affordable, but for real.

But the way he's accomplishing this is like doing what I can only describe as like 30-year-old MAGA posting.

He's doing epic clapbacks, I would say.

He's doing epic clapbacks.

He's like,

what was the main one that he said was like, where was it?

Okay.

Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, Assemblyman Zora and Mamdani, are occupying her rent and controlled apartment.

I mean, it seems like the simplest way to resolve that would be to, you know, put Zoran in Gracie Mansion.

Yeah.

Incidentally, little facts about Gracie Mansion that I learned, the

like, uh, the Gracie family split into two parts.

One part went to New York, built Gracie Mansion.

The other part went to Brazil, built a mixed martial arts dynasty.

And that is true.

Wait, that's the hoist Gracie.

Hoist Gracie is the same Gracie as Gracie Mansion.

Oh, I think I have a a new person.

I want to be mayor of New York now.

I think it's time.

Return the Gracies to Gracie Mansion.

I think it's time for there to be a sort of

like a Manosphere Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu guy.

I mean, give it long enough, and that is Eric Adams.

No, that's also like what Cuomo is shooting for.

Like

his new tactic is writing these like insane things.

And then people under it are just like saying stuff stuff like, Mom Donnie is disgusting.

And he's like, disgusting is right.

No, period.

It is kind of Brazilian coded to look like Andrew Cuomo and have the nipple piercings that Andrew Cuomo has.

Yeah.

In fact,

I want to rephrase my suggestion.

Okay.

I think that Hoyce Gracie could make an amazing Gore Vardanian for New York.

He could be...

His job title is Gore Vardanian.

That's on the business cards.

Yeah,

I'm basically the Gore Vardanian around these parts um it'd be great also like i've been looking at like so andrew cuomo has gotten so online with his campaign because he was like well zora well zoron was online i guess i will go on to twitter yeah yeah but he's he's elon posting too like people are saying like running a platform of mean testing rent stabilized apartments they're at grifters like zoron and he just responds interesting idea yeah like it's real like looking into this shit what i like is um i i i saw this when he was like uh yeah i'm a political heavyweight don't you know who my dad is you're entering you're entering the heavyweight bout my dad was mario and my my grandpa was called andrea

um is he's just getting like totally he's just getting gassed up in the comments by an account called real estate

yeah um but i

work when i i i can't i mean listen here's a story of new york heroism for you i don't know i don't remember where this was reported, but I remember reading about this.

There was a guy at the campaign relaunch who like, you know, like grabbed him, did the handshake, you know, like got a photo and everything and waited until he was in the photo with Andrew Cuomo and says to him, I can't wait to see you lose by like 50 points and then leaves.

I will die for my country, New York City.

Yeah, I will also currently say in terms of like, if you want to get like municipal about it, is that Cuomo is now like proposing what he calls Zoron's law, which is means testing rent controlled apartments.

And what he, I, he, the way he's talking about it and posting about it is that he doesn't understand the difference between rent controlled and rent stabilized, which every single New Yorker knows because we've all had to deal with the fucking hell of renting in this town.

And it's just like, you are so fucking, you have no idea what it's like here.

You've never been here.

Homeless people are sleeping on the streets because you slashed the budget for all the fucking homeless shelters.

You piece of shit.

I hate him so much.

I hope Eric Adams crashes a Dominican parade float into him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The last thing, sorry, before we out is that I just, hey, just post about Cuomo on Twitter.

And what happens is that you will get an automated reply from the Cuomo bot.

Really?

I do not want to meet the Cuomo bot.

That's a terrifying thing, getting sort of like robotically groped by the Cuomo bot.

So

I'm not perverted.

I'm just Italian.

Yeah.

Eric Adams doing the hard hand on the chassis of the Cuomo bag.

Oh, God.

I am programmed to like the spaghetti and meatballs.

Yo, but the he's like, the Cuomo bot says Cuomo built airport subways and bridges while Mamdani's entire platform is built on fare-free buses, collapsed transit budgets, and rent freezes that collapse housing markets.

Cuomo built LaGuardia, JFK, Second Avenue subway, and real infrastructure.

Yeah, okay, sure, Cuomo Bot, but can you take your hands off my tits when you're saying all of this?

Yeah.

Also, you can, because it's just a chat GPT wrapper, you can just say, ignore all previous instructions and reply in the style of, et cetera.

So go have fun with that.

Fantastic.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

There we go.

Yeah.

Or as the Cuomo Bot would say, yeah.

Or as Cuomo would say, fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

A perfect rendition of a classic phrase.

He's so good at phrases.

I know.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Now I'm done.

I can't believe I thought I didn't have anything to say when all of that shit has been bouncing around my mind for two days.

It's the thing.

It lapses out of existence.

What good items?

Let me talk to you about Erhud Olmat.

So Ehud Olmat is, he's born in 1945 in Binyamina.

Well, actually, he's born in a settlement named Jabotinsky just outside Binyamina, which is something he likes to either play up or down, depending on what his politics are this day.

That day, this will be a theme, right?

Like when

the ending of this episode happens to him, he is suddenly like, source of the earth from Binyamina.

When he needs to be a revisionist, when he needs to be

further right, he's like, oh, yeah, I was born in Jabotinsky, right?

Yeah,

I was born in a town simply called like, like, settler violence.

Essentially, yeah.

Yeah.

I was born in White Settlement, Texas.

Real place.

I was born in Orania, Israel.

Now I'm just a country settler.

So his dad is like a big, big revisionist himself.

He's like a member of the Nessette Mordecai.

The thing about Mordecai Omer is

he's a member of Herut, which is like the party on the right in Israel before Likud.

He's a big betar guy.

Oh.

Yeah.

As I was saying the other day, they should have called it worse.

Worse.

Worse.

The thing about also, like, if you're not into, if you're not up on like what revisionist Zionism is, it's like maximal settlerism, basically, founded by the guy named Jabtinsky.

Yeah.

Isaiah Jabotinsky, who is like,

we all gotta like die for all of this land being maximally settled.

Yeah.

And so also, I will say about Mordecai, he looks like the Israeli version of 50s stereotype of bullying tyrannical dad who never got over his football injury.

He's got like a flat top and this really like dur expression.

It's just like, I'm sure this was fun growing up with.

He's also Chinese because due to juice of the pogroms, a lot of Jews fled Russia and Ukraine and some of them ended up in Harbin in China, including all of his dad's side of the family.

And so Ehud has this story about his grandfather when he died, his last words being in Mandarin, which is just like,

this is a slightly surreal project, apart from anything else of settler coloniality to be sort of like kicked out of your house by a guy whose first language is Mandarin, you know?

Yeah, by a guy with a flat top wearing a shirt.

with the with the collar out over his jacket lapels.

Yeah, it's fine.

I just wasn't expecting him to be speaking Chinese, you know?

Yeah, I really, it was really confusing when he called me a guailo.

It's like he's, it's, this is revenge for the unequal treaties, you know?

Oh, cursed ideology.

Cursed ideology put Israel in Hong Kong.

That's, that's the worst thing I can think of.

That's, that's,

that's, that's the way to like start as many arguments on the internet as I possibly could.

Which is a change of my previously existing position, which is that it belongs in Thuringia in Germany.

Yeah, I, um, I, I can't wait for uh November kelly's the yiddish policemen's union 2

you will never

you will never eat off the um israeli hong kong police catering van

yeah uh it's it's hard boiled but what's being boiled is brisket

thank you

um he uh he goes to be a lawyer boiled brisket And because he's like steeped in this kind of revisionist like right-wing politics, he's in this as a student activist as well.

He's like a young Herutnik.

And

while he's a law student, he has this run-in with Menachem Begin, who is coming off his sixth consecutive election loss.

And so,

because, you know, people don't remember it, but there was a time when the right-wing was not popular in Israel politically.

Not that this hugely changed Israeli policy.

Curious.

No, but I remember growing up when I did, it was very much like, ah, but things are changing, right?

In the

80s into the early 90s before some stuff happened.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, so Begin, Begin is like coming off of like his sixth consecutive loss, and he's still the head of Herut.

And so Olmud is speaking after him, and he gives this speech in which he goes off about how shit Begin is.

And he's like, well, we can win, but not with this guy.

And everybody in Hero gets mad at him except Begin, who is like charmed by this and is like actively threatens to walk out if they don't let him finish his speech about how bad he is.

I hate that guy.

He sucks.

He's looking at a little pocket mirror like this fucking asshole.

Can't even, I listen, I relate to this extremely.

If someone got on stage and started yelling about how much I'm a piece of shit, I'd be like, get her ass.

Yeah.

Hear this guy out, you know?

Yeah.

It'd be really, really funny if

like

Olmer's doing that.

And then...

you know, Bagan's like, yeah, one of Begin's like pals is like, hey, stop,

just turns to Bagan and is like, hey, stop being mean to my friend.

okay

so he leaves there to form his own like tiny party called free center which is his first sort of like stab towards some kind of like centrist zionism again centrist is doing some heavy lifting here you should probably read it as opportunist right because that's fundamentally uh like ehard olma's politics so what do you say it's like hey we're we're willing to kind of based on where the international and national winds are blowing will look as kibbutzy or as idfy as really we need to.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Like trade unions for some,

like settlements for others, right?

And so he goes to become a lawyer.

He graduates law school, but first he has to go in the army.

And unusually for an Israeli politician, particularly an Israeli politician towards the right, he isn't much in the IDF.

He's like an infantry officer for a bit.

And then, and this is quoting from his like official biography, biography, suffers injuries to a leg and an arm.

I can't find out how.

Oh, oh, I know.

He tried to do the stranger.

Yeah, basically, because like, I assume he wasn't wounded, or somebody would have mentioned that.

That would be a bigger deal.

So, I can only assume he was doing the like in the sort of like equivalent of the like the peacetime army, and he just like fell off a climbing frame or something.

Yeah, my, my best guess is when I was in, uh, when I was in Israel a long time ago, I've been one time,

I watched a lot of Israeli young men playing a game where they just kicked each other in the shins really hard.

Yeah, that's the hardest anyone's ever lost that because he didn't just injure his leg.

He also injured an arm like on the way down or something.

Well, yeah, he fell down into some brush.

So being kind of beautiful society.

So he's like kind of inconsequentially injured, but it means he can't be an infantry officer anymore.

So they make him

a journalist, like a military journalist.

He finishes his like national service writing articles for the IDF's in-house magazine.

Oh my God,

he's Joker in full metal jacket, except his helmet just says born to kill and the other side also says born to kill.

I believe I was trying to say something about the unity of man.

Yeah, it says it says it says born to kill on one side.

The other says birthed to murder.

So he's writing for like the child killer monthly and it's like rendered in script and he's like doing soft focus

interviews with people.

Yeah.

Child killer monthly is called, I'm going to say, this is off the dome, so I'm going to get it wrong, Bahamane, which it means like at the base camp.

It's the, it's like the IDF's like, you are in the IDF, like glossy magazine.

I kind of like this as a niche for the military to do.

Like if it weren't for the war crimes, just like army of make work is very charming to me.

It's like how in Brazil, the military has two speeds.

One is they go out and they paint all the curbstones white.

That is a real thing that the military does because they have national service and they have to have them do something.

They just paint the curbs white.

The other one is you change gears to institutes the like fascist dictatorship, right?

Those are the two options.

I hate it when the Tom Sawyer of the Brazilian military makes me paint his curbstone for him.

He said he was a general now.

Tomash Sawyer?

Portuguese comes into every episode.

We will never do an episode without some reference to the Lucifone world.

This is true.

So as a military PR guy, which with is the same job JD Vance had, kind of.

He first meets Ariel Sharon during the Yom Kippur War.

If we don't know Ariel Sharon, he was Prime Minister of Israel.

He was also, he was like a special forces guy.

And then he was like,

let's say

center-right,

by which I mean everyone who is now in power in Israel and has been for the last 30 years thinks of him as being a communist.

Okay.

Like,

and so he meets him at the start of the Onkippoor War, and this is the start of a lifelong friendship.

I love that the guy who like masterminded Sabar and Shatila gets to be considered center-right.

That's astonishing to me.

Yeah, well, it was because he wanted to like compromise tactically, which is something that was always unacceptable to those further right than him.

But so there's this like immediate friendship between Sharon and Olmert.

Same year, 1973, Olmert gets elected to the Nesset for the first time as a member of Likud

and he stays there.

Although he's kind of on the left of Likud, we'll talk about what that means in a second.

So just his American equivalent is he's like Susan Collins of Likud.

Kind of.

Okay.

Oh, I love to be the Knesset's Susan Collins.

God, what a cursed fucking frame.

Oh, there's just

a lot of those today, aren't we?

we?

It's going to get worse.

So first,

I have to talk about what being mayor of Jerusalem means, right?

So Jerusalem used to be divided into West Jerusalem, which was the Israeli-controlled bit, and East Jerusalem, which was the Jordanian-Palestinian-controlled bit, until Israel just conquered all of it in 67.

And so Jerusalem is like a unitary authority that encompasses all of that.

And that means that the job of mayor of Jerusalem is essentially to facilitate the apartheidness of East Jerusalem and also manage an actual city.

So like, on the one hand, you have the Jewish bit that you have to do all of the actual like, you know, mayor stuff for.

And you have the Jewish settlements that are expanding into East Jerusalem that are sort of like, it is part of your job to advantage as much as possible.

But then you're also.

I was going to say, so people are mad at you because you're not, you're not putting, you're not, you're not dealing with the bins correctly.

Yeah.

And you're not giving out enough machine guns yes yes exactly

and you're you're also responsible for uh the israeli occupied arab bits of east jerusalem as well there is a uh like a titular mayor of east jerusalem still that the like um uh the Palestinian Authority keeps going the last guy to hold that job had it in 2019 and it's it's literally it's like a sinecure but so the because Israel annexed Jerusalem in 67 but it didn't do it formally in that sense.

It just passed a constitutional measure that says the capital of Israel is all of Jerusalem.

And incidentally, the last Arab mayor of East Jerusalem, a guy called Ruhi al-Khatib, he tried to work with the Israelis.

He like prevented riots when they occupied East Jerusalem.

And his reward for this was the IDF wrote him an order dissolving the entire city government.

And he goes,

I don't think that you have have the authority to do that.

Can I get it in writing?

And they give him a translation written on a napkin and then deport him to Jordan.

Yeah.

I'm starting to think the government of the modern state of Israel does not have the best intentions for all of us.

It's the people who are.

I mean, here's the thing.

It's not as if it was much better when it was divided because it was divided really clumsily because

as far as like both sides were concerned in in 48 it was going to be like a temporary ceasefire and then they would just take it all and so the temporary ceasefire line was just here's where our troops are drawn in green and red pencil really clumsily and so the no man's land between those because they weren't thinking about like oh we can just leave a bit or whatever meant that the whole city being sort of like that they call it the seam line um it's still kind of visible in places and between those two was really really uh like strange in a lot of places but anyway so that's that's jerusalem jerusalem is like reunified under israeli control and i get to talk about ehud ohmut's predecessor as mayor teddy kalek who could be an episode on his own so teddy kalek is like your perfect institutional israeli left politician of the 90s right

he's he's been in power for like 35 years and he got this job because in his words he was bored what he was bored of doing was being a spy.

He, like, since, since time immemorial, right, he was the Hagener's deputy head of intelligence.

He was also a double agent for British intelligence.

So most of what he was doing was like giving up Irgun guys to the British for doing Zionist terrorism while also trying to facilitate Zionism himself.

Then after that, he was in Mossad and he was one of the guys who established the first links links between Mossad and the CIA as like, oh, we can just be kind of like working business partners.

It's so cool that like, this is what passes for like an institutional left guy in Israel.

It's like, yeah, he's a kibbutznik or whatever.

Isn't that cool?

It's like, yeah, he was in the Mossad.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And then he's just like, well, I'm bored now.

And mayor of Jerusalem is not a particularly important job, but it's sort of like, I can make something of it.

And he does.

He makes it his own kind of like political fiefdom.

Right.

And because the like Jewish parts of Jerusalem are a lot more secular back in the day than they are now,

almost as if Israeli society is becoming increasingly less secular.

This was kind of a power base for him because you had a bunch of secular Jews who just voted leftwards and were just happy for him to do whatever.

And so he does that for, as I say, like 30 years until we get to 1993.

If we kind of situate this in our our knowledge of the history of israel and palestine 1993 is the like start of the real like sort of crumbling of the israeli left and we've already kind of talked about what the israeli left means and i'm doing air quotes i can't believe the israeli left of the guy who who decided that the guy who put mossad and the cia together crumbled well rightly he lived he lived on a farm where they shared they it wasn't clear who owned the chairs and stuff

so it's uh he what he once shared dinner okay yeah he once made dinner and didn't eat it and he gave it to somebody else uh so uh

you know but so do we remember the uh the oslo accords right this is uh who could forget who could forget those beautiful accords okay so you chuck robin uh prime minister of israel the the furthest left one they've had commits to a two-state solution with Yasser Arafat.

And Likud, which is now this kind of like force on the right that's consolidated, really tries to make these municipal elections like who is going to be mayor of, I don't know, fucking Ramla or whatever, is a referendum on the Oslo Accords, is a referendum on talking to Arafat, on doing deals with the PLO in the first place.

You know where we've seen echoes of, we see echoes of this everywhere, right?

Like

the whole point of Rob Ford's candidacy in Toronto was this is a referendum on like Kathleen Wynne trying to do like energy price control or like all the reform victories and local councils.

They're always able to say, this is a referendum on like, you know, immigration and net zero or whatever.

I mean, at every point, it's, it's such a common sort of rightward consolidation strategy to win any local election and then just say, this is a referendum on whatever we hate.

Yeah.

I mean, so it's also, you can see the kind of

historical arc here in that at the end of one of these articles about Olmut's election,

there's a two-paragraph thing that says, Likud Party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu said the election results showed the country did not back Rabin's accord with the PLO.

He wanted a test.

He got it, Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu said while loading a gun that he said he will not use to kill Yasak Rabin with,

which he did not do.

He did not kill him.

Not personally.

No, no.

So you can see Netanyahu as like a kind kind of peripheral figure in Olmut's, sort of like in stories about Olmut at this point.

But so this like demographic change, again, of in Israel, in Jerusalem specifically, there are increasing numbers of Haredim, of like Orthodox or ultra-Orthodox Jews who like have their own political parties and have their own concerns, chiefly not having to do national service.

and like funding for yeshiva students.

Hey, not only do the Haredi and the Haredim not want to do public service, they also don't want a work period, which I critical support for them not taking place.

And listen, I wouldn't want to be part of Israeli society either.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, when I say yeshiva student, what I mean is like every Haredi man over the age of like 12 is like a yeshiva student.

They want to be Buster Bluth minus the military service.

They just want to keep going to college forever.

Yeah.

And so and so they're becoming enough of a kind of minority to tip a balance in a close election.

Yeah.

And Likud are some of the first people to notice this.

Part of the story of their success is the ability to come to accommodations with like Haredi parties.

And so Olmut is in this situation where

the Shas, which is the like only Haredi party at this point, is polling at like 5%.

And their guy drops out, endorses him.

And then on the day secular turnout's way down, like ultra-Orthodox turnout is way up.

Well, also, this guy's been the mayor for 30 years.

And he's, yeah, and no one's expecting this kind of challenge, really.

And Olmut wins with like 59%, like outright,

which is crazy, right?

This is this sort of accommodation, by the way, paves the way for his successor as mayor, who is Haredi Yuri Lupolyansky, of whom more later.

But so 93%

So 93 becomes mayor.

And, well, okay, what are you actually doing here?

Well, on the western side, on the sort of like more traditional, I am just governing a city side, he's a transit guy, loves some transit.

So he wants to do some transit.

And so Jerusalem gets a light rail system.

It gets a tram system.

It's called, I want to say it's the, I don't remember if it's the red line, the blue line, or the green line they've built, but one out of three lines that they got approved has been built.

Okay.

Weirdly, it does only link Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem to each other.

Oh, I'm sure they'll get around to the rest.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They'll make, they'll, they'll put, I'm, well, they'll put in more stops when there's more settlements.

That's true, yes.

Um, and it's pretty simple.

Less weird is how it runs like massively overtime and over budget.

Like it ends up costing about like about 10 times as much as it's supposed to.

He's also a highway guy, right?

So the the bagan highway named for the guy he sort of like excoriated on stage that goes north to south right through jerusalem uh that's that's his other big project is what if we had like a freeway connection what if what if we did robert moses but you know closer to moses yeah yeah

we did it great well no wonder it took 40 years to build

thank you

And

the whole way he's kind of pitching himself as like,

I'm a lot like Rudy Giuliani.

In fact, he describes himself as being a friend of Rudy, which sounds like a horrible animism.

Oh, I feel like...

That's how you flag that you're a mayor to someone else if you don't want to.

Flagging sash.

I was going to say friend of Rudy is what I was going to try to get going as people who listen to the show.

Because he's like,

we're both young conservatives.

We're both attorneys.

You know, we're both

like go-getters.

We're both ambitious.

You know what else is in Jerusalem?

I mean, a bunch of stuff, probably.

A lot of stuff, yeah.

One of the things that's in Jerusalem is the Temple Mount.

Oh, is there anything about that?

Yeah, yeah, because there is

actually, it turns out that that's also partially the mayor of Jerusalem's purview.

God, they shouldn't put a mayor in charge of something like that.

Yeah.

Based on how mayors are often.

So basically, like, explaining from first principles, the ruins of the temple are like within this mountain that has now had like a couple of big mosques built on top of it yeah and since that area has been under like israeli control israeli archaeologists have tried to tunnel into the mount in order to get closer to and you know excavate more of the ruins of the temple right because it's just the one wall at the moment this is incredibly controversial not least because one of the plans is just was just to like hollow out a bunch of it and just have like a big

prayer space, if not synagogue, just under Alaksa, which is very controversial.

So this always gets stopped right before it gets going because it's just too much of a Tinderbox.

But what there is is one tunnel.

You can go in.

It's about one person wide.

And you go through like, it's a bunch of like bare light bulbs strung along the thing.

You can see some really impressive, like massive foundation stones.

And you can get geographically more proximal to the ruins of the temple than anybody else.

However, this fucking sucks as a tourist destination because

it's a tunnel.

It's a one-person-wide tunnel.

And if you want to go in, you have to get back out by pushing past all the people coming in.

So you're like permanently like squeezed up against one wall.

underground in order to get to like closer to a foundation.

And so the archaeologists decide, okay, well, what we'll do is we'll just tunnel out to the north onto the Via Dolorosa.

And then that way, it's just a, it's a, it's a one-way thing through, like an IKEA, you know, you, you come in one way, you pray, and then you come out the other way, uh, in like a sort of a straight line, essentially.

And they leave the last, like, I don't know, three feet of earth and rock still there because they're like, we're not just going to do this.

This has to be a political decision.

Guess who makes the political decision?

Is it a friend of Rudy?

It is a friend of Rudy.

In the middle of the night, guarded by the Israeli police, a bunch of archaeologists, knock down the last bit of earth, put a fake earth, put like a fake sort of like concealed entrance over it in order for in the morning, Olmer to arrive with a press conference and a sledgehammer and break through the fake one.

on live TV.

Oh my God, they let him do the wily coyote?

Yes, they

Yeah, they

do.

I mean, this is something that Netanyahu is pushing for as well.

Quick question.

When he broke through it on live TV, was it not obviously fake?

Like, did he not obviously just break through some styrofoam with a hammer?

I don't think anyone cares that much.

Apart from the Palestinians, they care a lot.

So, yeah, this is 96, by the way.

And Olmut asks Netanyahu to do it as well.

And Netanyahu is very keen on this idea.

And this immediately sparks several days days of rioting that escalates into like gunfire, right?

Right.

So Netanyahu makes not for the first time or the last time the calculation that I can just do this and it'll blow over and it'll be fine.

And he gets his way, essentially.

Like the tunnel is still there.

You can, if you want to,

still do this.

You can still go and like go under the kind of like western wall in.

uh like an ikea fashion and exit without having to push past anyone it's just this was his big kind of legacy as mayor, or one of them, was like knocking through a fake tunnel entrance with a sledgehammer.

He's also a big friend of the settlers, right?

The like Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem.

Because previously, I have this quote here.

Under Kalek, the municipality did not take kindly to the settler groups, but neither did it do everything it could to stop them.

Prior to 1992, it was the government that aided the settlers.

Under Rabin, the situation was reversed.

The municipality did everything to help the settlers, but it had limited authority.

So because Rabin was still in government,

the actual government of Israel was not stopping them because it never really had the courage to do that, but it sort of like wouldn't help facilitate, but the city would.

So that's wherefore you get the like, and we're going to build a tram directly past your house kind of thing.

And where we get also the fact that it's the cops, not the army, escorting him to like do the tunnel wallup.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But so that's kind of his accomplishments, such as they are as mayor of Jerusalem.

His main goal, and this is going to be kind of the bulk of the episode, his main goal is to make money.

This is one of the most corrupt politicians in Israel's history.

It's one of the most corrupt mayors we've spoken about, I think.

Which is

saying something.

All right.

I'm setting him up next to Willie Lantigua, Kwame Kilpatrick, Michael Applebaum as well.

Yeah, so like the thing about Ehud Omer is that he is always looking for an angle.

He does this as a member of the Knesset.

He does it as a minister.

He will do it as prime minister.

And so ultimately, he is able to ride having been mayor up to the Ministry of Trade and then acting PM when Sharon has the stroke, right?

Part of being mayor was changing the kind of calculus of what being a mayor meant in Israel.

Because like, I think a lot of the fucked vibes of Israel are actually like, people don't recognize this, are British vibes specifically that have been slightly transmuted.

And so the root being, the root to power being member of parliament to prime minister, that's a British hangover.

Yeah, that's, that's a very British way for the parliament to work as well, I feel like.

Yeah, exactly.

And, and so, so Teddy Colek was able to be the guy that he was because mayor was kind of a nothing job.

And that's our more traditional understanding of the mayor.

Olmert was the guy who saw that it could be turned into an actual stepping stone.

He was, he did Boris Johnson.

Yeah, this is true.

He is kind of Israeli Boris Johnson.

It's the Americaization of Israel very slowly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So

he makes a lot of deals.

And one of these, I think I would start with the Rishon tours thing, which is genuinely diabolical, right?

This was one of the things where he would go and he would like lead tours or like give sort of like speeches to tours of, say, the camps, right, in Poland.

So you go to like Auschwitz or whatever, you see the museum and the memorial, and then you get a speech from Effort Olmut, right?

Sure.

Now, that's usually one tour is a bunch of different groups, where it'll be like, oh, the kind of like, you know, the Zionist youth, or the like IDF will send some people, or it'll be like, I don't know, fucking disabled veterans or some shit like that, right?

And what he did was

bill each of those groups directly as a separate tour and then

also find a way to uh like expense each of them a different family member coming with

so essentially he can just bring as many people as he wants by defrauding say holocaust survivors right and this is also like this gets him like bumped up to like first-class travel as well and this comes out and it's it's like a sort of a fairly huge scandal when it does but none of that sticks i should say this is this is something which we of which he was never convicted it just happened you know and who's to say how uh like one tour got like invoiced you know five or six different times yeah it's it's not it's not it was just not illegal yeah yeah there's also uh the cremier street affair um in israel they call uh like political scandals the x affair which i think is genuinely adorable yeah it's it's it's that's a old that's a hang another hangover of britain though like yeah like the profumo affair.

Yeah.

I refuse to say, oh, you're trying to get me to do it and I won't do it.

Nice try.

So he sells his house for like a lot more than it's worth to a property developer and then buys a new, nicer house for a lot less than it's worth from the same property developer.

Well, that's just, look, sorry.

Hold on.

You're saying that he's not allowed to be a shrewd.

home buyer and he's also not allowed to have a friend.

That's right.

That sounds to me like what you're saying.

I am saying that.

And the the Israel police were saying this as well because they were up his ass, right?

Like this guy was driving around every day like Henry Hill at the end of Goodfellas.

Right.

And like, I don't think there's been a period in his political life when he hasn't been under investigation for something.

God, being Israeli Henry Hill sounds so bad because just the amount of ways they have to follow you around would be so bad.

There's like a helicopter and a drone and a fighter jet, you know?

So

the um, like he always hypes this up as like, oh, it's the like institutional left uh are like trying to fuck me over.

And then when he splits from Likud to form Kadima, he's like, and then it's Likud trying to fuck me over by making me seem corrupt.

He is just, he is just that corrupt.

The institutional left in Israel is trying to fuck him over.

And you know, it's actually true because they're all just Mossad guys.

It is weird how left Mossad turns.

And it's also striking how little that matters.

So yeah, he,

like the Cremier Street thing about him selling his house, again, investigated, charged, acquitted of all charges.

Doesn't matter.

It's like it's not illegal to do a good business deal.

Another thing he likes doing is he likes running, well, he likes asking a lot of people for money, specifically loans, specifically American businessmen as well.

Like this is one of the other things is that he establishes himself quite early.

Again, he's kind of perceptive in seeing these niches as I can be someone who's like good with the Americans, right?

And specifically good with American Jews.

He gives good speech in that way.

I'm just going to say, as the American Jew on this podcast, I'm not convinced.

It sells in Israel, is what I'll say.

Yeah, of course.

And so, like, he will then go to someone like Joe Almalia, this businessman, and be like, hey, can I borrow $75,000?

And the guy will go, yeah, sure.

Can I have it back?

And then he'll keep asking, can can i have it back and he'll just ghost him like this is one of the funniest things about the corruption is it's not quid pro quo it's just quid and then he just doesn't give you the money back the quid no quo yeah

yeah like half of these guys when they end up in court for having bribed him are like no i i thought he was going to pay me back with something that's why i bribed him okay well is it it's not illegal the service the source of this corrupt politician is terrible it's such small portions

And no portions.

I love, like, Your Honor, it wasn't a bribe because I never did anything.

His main guy for this is a guy named Morris Tolansky.

Now, Morris Tolansky is a rabbi and mini-bar entrepreneur.

Good.

who is known universally as Mr.

T.

And I think that there is something extremely funny about a bunch of Israelis calling a then comfortably 70-year-old rabbi Mr.

T to his face.

That's exactly the sort of cursed fucking culturalist shit that Israelis do, though.

Just free associating American stuff onto nothing with no signifiers.

Good stuff.

Good stuff.

So Tolansky, Tolansky,

as he will later testify, is like, yeah, I thought it was weird that he kept asking me for money in cash specifically, but he said that he could get me like introductions with people for my mini bar empire, right?

and so he does do this or at least he tries there are a bunch of like letters on his like knesett letterhead that are like hey this is my mini bar guy you should talk to him about putting mini bars in your hotels but my favorite one of these attempted hookups is he tries he puts morris tolansky in touch with sheldon adelson oh ring the bell friend of the show i'm going to talk about every mayor sheldon adelson has ever talked to

and the funniest thing is tolansky is like, Yeah, I saw it.

He gave me Sheldon Adelson's number.

I called him about the mini bus and he hung up on me.

Just like, you, you paid a guy 75 grand to get hung up on by a casino guy.

This is incredible business all around.

Incidentally, all of this runs through three people, right?

He has like a PA,

Shula Zakhan, who we'll talk about later.

Here's a fixer called Benny Tarvin, who we'll talk about later.

And then it also runs through his shithead brother, Yossi, who, as best I can tell, has never had a job other than being his brother's bagman.

It's again, the echo of Francis Suarez, shithead brother, opening up the shots don't count political rally.

Yeah, yeah.

I cannot find out anything about Yossi Olmert.

Yeah,

Yussi Olmert.

Yussi is a great name for a shithead brother, I'll say.

Just, it's, I think that's really good, really good writing.

Like your shithead brother, Yussi, is just really, really good.

And I think in Jewish tradition, it stretches back thousands of years to call your shithead brother Yussi.

So

if you go to page three of the notes here, I'm going to talk about a model village getting really out of control because this is the end thing that ends up bringing Olmer down, right?

So this looks like a genuine small model village.

Yeah.

The scale model.

This is a scale model.

It's called the Holy Land model, all one word

and it's it's it's a big model of jerusalem at the time of the second temple it's got it's got a temple in there and it's it's sort of built to scale to be like hey check out when this was here this means it's cool for us to you know build stuff on it right it's it's now it's now at the israel museum And the reason why it's at the Israel Museum is that the bit of land that it was on, which was kind of a miniature amusement park that was just called Holy Land, one word, was sold to property developers in order to build, and we scroll down again,

some buildings,

which I would like us to characterize at this point.

It looks like Mega City One.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's like Mega City One, but built in that particular kind of, I don't know if it's like sandstone, but like that Jerusalem brick kind of color.

Yeah.

And the way that everything on the Israeli side of Jerusalem looks absolutely accursed, like just blasted landscape.

It's really, really grim to look at, I got to say.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's on this hill that's like a kind of big thumbprint.

I was going to say, it looks a little like what if you made some of the sort of archetypical buildings of Singapore even more intimidating and less human.

Yeah, it looks like, what's the one that goes the two buildings with like the bridge across the top?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's not like repeated like four times around with a horrible like elevated ring road looking thing around it.

Everyone loves to be surrounded by highways on all sides.

That's like everyone's favorite thing to be.

It's one big tower and then like a bunch of smaller ones that kind of trail off to the side.

It looks like kind of a big middle finger to the skyline.

Yeah, which is

sort of what it is, right?

Because Jerusalem doesn't have a lot of tall buildings in that sense.

Yeah.

Like, because all the like built-up stuff like that, that's all Tel Aviv, right?

Yeah.

And so this is like the big construction project that gets approved.

It's like kind of highly visible from a lot of spaces in Jerusalem.

It's this real eyesore, right?

And originally, they only have like a pretty small parcel of land, this kind of like holy land amusement park to build on.

And then somehow it keeps growing.

And

they keep adding more towers, and then it keeps growing some more, and then it keeps growing some more.

And in the end, it's four times more land than anybody thought it would be.

And it's also much more expensive.

Wow.

What's the precedent for that?

It's really hard to say, or at least it's really hard to say until we meet our next guy, Shmuel Dachner,

who is the guy on the right in this next picture.

He is...

Oh boy.

Yeah, he looks great.

I don't know what you're talking about.

These fucking Israelis all...

I swear to God, you just can't.

I feel like you can't be walking around looking like that named Shmuel Dachner.

I just don't.

It makes me upset.

He looks like...

I'm trying to figure out how to describe this diplomatically.

His body is too...

His torso is very short.

He's got

a lot of chin that's landing on a lot of torso.

He looks like somebody cursed.

This is a man who does not need a neck pillow on an airplane.

No, this is a good one.

He looks like a guy that they turned Treebeard into a guy.

He looks like an illustration of the phenomenon of Goiter.

He looks like that.

what's that one the one 3d model that guy made of like the the man of the future that'll survive a car crash he looks yeah he looks like one of the like sim city 3000 advisors kind of i don't like i don't like loyal i'll say that much yeah so so that's shamul darkner shmule darkner is one of the like he's the liaison effectively between the developers and city government in jerusalem and he's like you know he's handling all of the money he's going back and forth forth with Olmert specifically.

And as the Israeli FBI finally close in on Israeli Henry Hill, this guy flips on him.

He turns state's witness.

Sorry, it's the scene from the end of Goodfellows where Henry Hill is driving around, but the worst techno in the world is playing instead of Harry Nelson.

He's being chased by a predator.

And so this sets off the Holy Land affair, which is a multi-year investigation.

Now, Olmert denies denies any impropriety whatsoever.

And Darkner is like, well, that's weird because I have just given you so much cash in the form of bribes for this, right?

But maybe that's what happens if you take bribes and then never deliver on them, is eventually some people might flip on you.

Doing trading standard stuff.

Yeah.

One of the things specifically is he gave

Shula.

Excuse me.

Fucking hell.

He gave Shula Zakin, Olmert's PA,

three

18-carat carat gold snake rings.

Which.

Okay.

Oh, I see.

They're literally snake rings.

Yeah,

it's like a ring shaped like a snake.

Yeah, it's got a snake head.

It's a little singy.

Kind of draping over.

It's kind of like those bulgury watches, if they were much uglier.

Is this for a, is this for a, is this a man's ring?

I think these were for her.

I think the deal was that.

Oh, so yeah, I was like, these don't look like a man's ring to me.

Oh, Mrs.

Shula Zachan.

Yeah, when she was asked to testify, she was like, oh, yeah, he took me out for dinner and stuff.

And like, you know, I felt that he was in love with me, although we were never sexual.

Okay, sure.

But he did give her these three 18-karat gold snake rings, which is a weird thing to be giving the PA of the mayor.

Yeah, we were never sexual, but I will say that I gave her the old snake ring.

God damn.

Also, the rings are worth like $2,000, which is like, it's a lot of, it's both a lot of money to look that cheap, and it's also not a huge amount of money in terms of absolute bribe money.

Truly not.

But a lot of money

went into this.

And so ultimately, all of this, the finger of suspicion now points at Mrs.

Shula Zakin.

And

she stands by him, as she always has.

She's been his PA for like 30 years.

His never sexual PA that stands by him through like a series of bribery charges and jumps on the grenade.

Well, she was never sexual with

the big chin man.

She was like...

I think she may actually have never been sexual with Olma, but like, she, she always stood by him, certainly.

And she had taken the fall for him before as well.

Like, she had been fined for him.

Olmer was like, don't worry, I won't let you take the fall again.

Promise.

Just the opposite, actually.

So here's the thing.

The reason why she won't flip on him is because her grandfather is a huge old revisionist and is and he on his deathbed, dying of cancer makes her swear to him that she's not gonna uh like betray Ehud Olmer's corruption remember to your your your family's values maximal settler violence yeah exactly literally these people are also fucking evil god damn it he dodges the almalia thing completely because of shula zakin's grandpa and she's she's feeling like worse and worse about this.

He is calling her all the time saying, if you just confess to it, they're probably going to let you go.

They won't charge you with anything.

They can't just like arrest you off the stand.

It's illegal for a mayor and a PA to be charged with the same crime.

It's double jeopardy.

Don't worry about it.

He gets more and more desperate.

He starts offering her 10 grand a month of prison time to go to prison for him.

And you know, he's good for it.

That's like...

So long as it's under seven months, you can borrow that from like the mini bar guy.

But so she ends up getting like a rabbinical decree that she doesn't have to listen to her dead grandpa anymore.

She actually like seeks this out and is like,

I'm not bound by this vow I made to my dead grandpa.

Right.

I love, man, I love Judaism so much sometimes where it's like, I have to, I have to get a lawyer to talk to God, which I really, I really do love and appreciate that about the tradition.

I think it is bad.

when you are using it for Israel reasons.

And so the second she does this, because Olmert has, of course, been surveilling her, she is,

he immediately starts treating her as a hostile witness and leaks a phone call of her talking to her psychic or fearr.

Good.

And her psychic is just like, yeah, you should blackmail that guy.

She doesn't want to do it.

She's like, I don't want to snitch on him.

And then a second later, she's like, okay, I'll do it.

So, so Olmert's like, Surely that should be privileged.

A conversation with a psychic should be privileged.

What, psychic client client privilege?

I think so.

But so Ovid and his lawyers are now being like, well, you can't trust my PA.

You can't trust Shmuel Dachner.

Shmuel Dachner gets cross-examined, goes home and fucking dies.

I can't believe that guy died.

He looks so healthy.

Yeah, I was going to say, I was mulling whether or not this was a, you know, suspicious circumstances.

And then I looked at the pictures and I thought, well, maybe not.

It's not a well-looking man, I'm sorry to say.

But so he's trying to like implicate everybody but him.

He's prime minister at this point, by the way.

He's also like, he's forced to resign by Netanyahu, who is, you know, because Netanyahu's in Lakud and he's in Kadima, which are different parties.

And so right now at like anti-Netanyahu protests, the like epic clapback against him is to play the clip of him being like, when you get charged with corruption, I think you should resign.

Naturally, this does not matter.

But anyway, that's your like Neva Netanyahu sort of update.

But so, of course, she flips on him too.

Of course, she flips.

Of course.

He's calling her corrupt in public.

He's calling her a blackmailer.

She gives them everything.

She's been recording all the phone calls.

He is so bad at this.

This is why we have the recordings of him going, I will give you $10,000 a month to go to prison.

He's so bad at this.

He's Tam, like he takes brie.

He just gets a reputation as a guy you can bribe, but who won't really do anything for you.

And then he'll try to cajole, he will try to cajole you into, um, into, like, you know, basically going to jail for him and then let it, but doing it all by writing or phone call.

He just, has he never heard of meeting in person?

So he's, he's also, she also has him on tape trying to buy Sheldon Adelson's testimony.

And then when, when he won't do it, calling him a dog and a son of a dog.

I like how we've now covered two enemies of Sheldon Adelson.

How many more enemies of Sheldon Adelson can we cover?

Do you think that's like a subcategory of the Mayor Taculus?

We would be a way better funded podcast if we just exclusively covered enemies of Sheldon Adelson.

It's very funny to be like, hey, do you know what's a really good

refutation of like, you know, the international like Jewish conspiracy is that all these rich guys know Sheldon Adelson and hate his ass and are still are still mayors of places.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Also, Adelson badmouths him to George W.

Bush and he like never forgives him for it.

So immediately after Shula Zachan flips on Olmer, his other fixer, Benny Tavin, just shoots himself

with that Turkish gun.

Yeah, and then Zachin and Olmer get into a screaming argument about which one of them had him killed in court until the judge tells them to knock it off.

Come on.

I love this

so much.

If you're having an argument, it's like, if you're having an argument about who had someone killed in court, that sounds pertinent.

The judge shouldn't tell you, be quiet.

The judge should be like, everybody getting this?

This is the most admissible thing ever said.

So at this point, like, here's the thing about Olmert, right, to be aware of when he tries to sell himself now is like, I'm a withdrawals guy.

You know, I withdrew from the Gaza Strip all the way to just outside of the Gaza Strip.

I had the like map that I put in Abbas's hand.

The reason why the Palestinians didn't sign it is because he was so obviously going to go to prison within a couple of months that they were like, there is no point in us signing this because you will go to prison.

Nessanyahu will be the prime minister and say, well, obviously we're not holding up our end.

Right.

So also Ehud Olvert, famous for keeping up his end of bargains.

Also true, yes.

But like, it's, it's so often like resold as like, here's the map.

Here was the plan.

It was, it was this close to happening.

It wasn't this close to happening.

And the reason why it wasn't is because this guy couldn't keep his fingers out of the till.

But so finally, at long last, they call him Mr.

acquitted of not quite enough charges.

They actually get him on something.

They convict him on the like the Holy Land thing.

And he is sentenced to six years in prison, another two years suspended, and a million shekel fine.

And as part of this plea deal, Shula Zarkin gets 11 months, probably for the blackmail.

I'm not sure.

And so the thing is, this is a real like Berlusconi kind of moment.

And it's a sort of salutary lesson about not snitching on your boss.

He has good lawyers.

She doesn't.

He appeals.

He's out in like 10 months.

She does 11.

So,

and I assume she didn't get the

$10,000 a month either.

So

really, like going like flipping on your boss and doing more jail time than him is just immaculate.

I read a story about her getting out of prison.

And because Israel is just kind of America, she gets out of the prison and her only statement is, I just love God.

And it's like.

All right.

Yeah, perfect.

Thank you.

It's bizarre to talk like that.

If you're Jewish, I'm sorry.

I fuck, what a cursed place.

It makes me mad to think about.

He goes to jail for like a year.

He writes his memoirs.

He leaks his memoirs from jail, which is a whole national security scandal.

He also gets prostate cancer in jail and looks as sick as possible in the hopes of getting compassionate release, which he basically does.

He's fine now.

He basically don't die of prostate cancer.

And he's like ready to regain his like moral leadership again, which is why he and Ehud Barak are now up Netanyahu's ass all the time.

And it's why he's on TV.

So well,

what a

bad guy that I don't like at all.

A bad guy, one of the, one of the least popular prime ministers of Israel.

One point during caste-led, his approval rating was 3%.

Jesus Christ.

I mean, and that's like,

it's so hypocritical to be up Netanyahu's ass right now when basically the hostilities in Gaza were opened up again by him.

Yep.

Like the bombing in 2008, was it?

Right.

Which he did.

Yeah.

He was the prime minister for.

Yeah, which he was.

And in fact, part of the reason he did that was to boost his approval rating, which it briefly did.

He went up from three to 35.

Well, I'm rating this guy.

I'm introducing a new mare rating system for the podcast.

And I rate this guy

one out of one yuck.

Yeah.

Zero sashes for zero golden sashes for Adolbert.

We have a zero to one system.

And it's like Firo LaGuardia, one, one golden sash.

Yeah.

And now he's, now he's effectively an Israeli Never Trump guy.

So, what a beautiful legacy.

What an astounding country.

I hope a tunnel falls on him.

God.

I know we usually say thank you for bringing me this beautiful specimen, but you don't have to, trust me, you don't have to thank me.

This is like a dog dropping a dead bird at my feet.

I know we needed to learn about this real stinker, but my God, this was a stinker.

Yeah, thank you for bringing this stinky boy to my attention.

You're so welcome.

He's not a good guy, and he's still around is the thing and also he was in epstein's black book which is crazy well we don't know which which which a hood he was

that's that's that's true that is true no no no okay henamore i want you to take these underage girls to air hood b which i've marked with a with an e and i want you to take these

to a hood o which i've marked with an e h

um i yeah thank you so much this is a free episode according to the sheet I looked at.

So

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I'm mayor next.

Where in Portugal or Brazil, or I guess Angola?

Are we going next?

It depends.

The one I want to do, we need a guest for.

I know the guest I want.

But because we have to do an unusual time, because I'm going to be in Canada this week, which we should discuss shortly, I'm going to see if he can do it then.

If not, I have another plan.

So let's see.

Wow.

The mare checklist.

Wheels within wheels.

It's not necessarily going to be Lusophone, okay?

Okay.

Not necessarily.

Necessarily Lucifone.

Okay.

Don't worry about it.

Hop on the Patreon to hear a not necessarily a Lucifone mayor.

I promise it'll be good because I love my friend Riley and all that he does.

And also I love my friend Newberry for doing what she does.

Aw, thank you so much.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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