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Epstein Files and UFO Disclosure

From Overtime – Episode #733: David Sedaris, Ian Bremmer, Hagar ChemaliJun 16, 2026

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Overtime – Episode #733: David Sedaris, Ian Bremmer, Hagar ChemaliJun 16, 2026 — starts at 0:00

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Gemini and Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online makes sense? There's no place like Chrome. Check responssees setup required compatibility and availability varies eighteen plus Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late mononth series Real Time with Bill Maul sayays the land and it itss people, there Sadaris. He's the president and founder every She's the co founder of the Lebanon and Israel Peace Allies and host of YouTube's O My World Q the The real questions. firstirst one is for you. In your book, you had Chat GBT imitate your writing style. Bro yeet. Do you think there will come a day when AA can truly capture your voice? No.ome Somebody else at put told Chat GBT to write something in my style. And so the biggest laugh in the book is I rewrote what it wrote And just because it can't be dirty right now, and maybe it'll change, but it can't surprise people with violence and dirt the way I like to Do you think it was programm two woke Everything sounds like it was put through HR. Yeah Exactly. I right. U okay Oh elf, little elf. I mean, you don't get that from Chat GPT. What? Oh little elf. Oh. Yeah. You remember that? That was his best. Yeah. It was so good. The Macy's thing. I mean, you know, it's one hundred pages of pure like ibbald uncontrollable humor. Ribbald? Yes I thought it was Rebald. Is it Reibald? I think it is Reibald. But. Let's ask Chat she B here te here There are words like that like flaxid is really flacid No, which is it? It's flaxid. No, but it's actually flaxid. Yes, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. a judg Flaxid Venus. Yes. If you're having a night that's too rybald, you get flaxid. All right, how does the How does the Israeli Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon complicate Trump's negotiations with Iran? Well, a lot. Yeah. It complicates it a lot, unfortunately because the Irani regime wants Hezbollah to survive because it's its main proxy. It's right next to Israel. So anytime they fight for a ceasefire and on top of it, that their Irani regime is doing it on behalf of Lebanon It's a gift to Hezbollah. And Trump, he's not negotiating in a principled manner. Even though I believe that it's a Nobel Peace Prize on a platter and that we know that he wants that, is he's willing, if the Iran regime says, there's no talking unless there's a ceasefire in Lebanon, he's willing to sell Lebanon to Iran. And that's a big problem, especially because there's so much progress being made between Lebanon and Israel. So sell Lebanon to Iran or Israel? Sell Lebanon to Iran Doesn't Iran already have Lebanon? No. And I mean they Ezbollah in there, but there's real effort to separate the two. Okay, well, what if the United States had a separate army like Hezbollah is that was controlling the southern half of our country away? No I mean, you know, everybody always blames Israel. I always say, you know what, stop attacking Israel. The whole thing will end. I mean, Hezboah been on their border attacking. Now what Israel is doing is it's basically putting in a buffer zone. This is what it did in the Golan heights with Syria We stop attacking us and we won't need these buffer zones. But as long as you do, we have to have an area You know, G we can go and fight and keep our people out of this. Is that not fair I think it's fair personally. I think it's fair. I think that Israelis should only withdraw when certain terms are met and that that Lebanese armed forces control the area. They don't give up. Hes boy I didn't give up Hamas doesn't give up You know? don't, they just don't. 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Disney and Pixar's hoppers is now available on Disney plus, raded PG Well What do you make of Trump nominating a new director of National intntelligence? Oh, yes, we did this last week, Bill Polte, he's one of his stooges. But now he's not You know, the Republic, you know Look I to live in the present moment. I mean, nobody was more afraid ten years ago that this is going to become an authoritarian government. I'm still afraid of it. And yet I have also seen more pushback than I thought would happen This guy's not going to be the head The Republican partarty itself finally kind of drew a line. They kind of threw a shit fit about this guy And now he's not and he's not getting a slush fund either The one point eight billion weapons is not actually happening. Right. IEPA tariffs all over the world right the whim of the president for an emergency turns out the Supreme Court said, no, no, no, we're not doing that. Even the Trump Kennedy center Turns out you're gonna go there. It's just gonna be the Kennedy Center you talk about this, the less likely it's going to happen. So just Please quiet until june twenty ninth after each time Let me get my one fucking award. We want your. S of fucking anxiety over. seventy five percent of Americans say the federal government is hiding information about Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Are they right Well, you know, They just make it look so bad. The fact that they've said how many times that they're releasing the Epstein files? And then I think, oh, well they releaseed the Epstein fil. And then like two months later, we gott to release the wait, you didn't? I thought you did. Likes gooneted egg. They just yeah, they're just Endless amounts of Epstein files and I guess there's still Epstein files Oh yeah. Yes. Someone here at this table is in the Epstein files. I'm in the Epstein files You want to explain yourself. Yeah It was Jeffrey Epstein sent an email and it was a copy of a New York Times article from two thousand four about a bookstore in Paris and people who'd read at the bookstore And I was in there Some in the other biles People treat me a lot differently after lear But you learn on the plane No Non You were not on the island, wereere you? No, but I mean Or were you I'm in the fire. You what? I'm in the Epsteene fire. Yeah, ye. No I could see you're're very proud of that. I see that, you know, he did actually kill himself. We learned that Right? We don't know that. Well, I mean they're not talking about it. The conspiraciess have moved on. It turned out there was a lot of, right? We got a letter. We actually. Well, I bet you if I polled the audience, it would hurt I bet if I asked the audience, how many people think I bet it' be our fif. How many people think it was a suicide that he killed himself in prison? No, but I There was one person right there. saw I saw I saw So just you and this other person. That's something. Okay, but you know. You gota build from there. All right. So why do you think it wasn't a foul play? Well, one because there'd be so many folks that would be aware of some piece of that that we'd hear about from now. We've got none of it. All we've gotten is crazy people that just spout off nonsense. that We never really got the truth about the Kennedy assassination, did we? Did we I mean, they put out a whole bunch of stuff later on and we didn't end up learning anything, nothing super secret that came out of it. You believe that Oswald acted alone in the Kennedy assassination? I haven't spent the time to study that to give you that answer. Oh, I have not. Holy second old okay. I believe the moon landing, I believe the vaccines actually work. All of these things to me are not conspiracies. I tend to go with science and evidence until you give me something else. Okay Let me go back to you haven't had time to look into it from This happened in nineteen sixty three. H haven't you even been busy? I know' I heard about the magic bullet theory the bullet that went in one guy, out the other guy, came around here, this here and through his wrist. I mean, it just it seems like it really could not have just been the one guy. I mean back the back into the right, rememember that video of like you know U Well pererfect for you. The Pentagon just released a new batch of UFO files. See, I do believe. But that's scientific. I mean, I think it's actually less scientific to think we are alone in the universe. That to me mean doesn't do. And also, many of the people in the military now are saying this. It's not just crazy farmers out there getting anally probed, it's very serious people . And the Spielberg movie opens. I'm sure that's going to be something. Is this the government's attempt to slowly disclose that aliens are real? Wouldn't it be funny if Epstein was in this file? R us mning about anal probic. Anyway, Pentagon just released UFF. Yeah, I do. I think that this is they're slowly trying to, you know get us so we don't freak out when they say, yeah, they're here, they're queer, get used to it. They're waring us up to it. They're waring us up to it believe that? Well, I mean, it's hard to see where the government is going with it. I do believe, I think very it would be very narcissistic of us to think that we are the only life form in this universe. or in the galaxy. And I'm by no means an expert on this at all. They did not pvy me Nos in government. but years to research this. I should have. know I years You're right. What do you think about it? Yeah, I'm not going with UFO's until someone shows me UFO's. That's true.. Interesting. And she agrees with me that one woman. And you? I never think about them. You know, I never. never crossed my mind whether they exist or not. No never think about it. And you know, I don't understand either. Like I lost interest in Jeffrey Epstein so long ago. Like years ago, I felt like, I't he didn't capture my imagination. And I was curious why how much do you think his being good looking has to do with him capturing people's imagination? He was good looking I don't think' was good looking. I I think he wass good looking. show of hands? Money no That is the weirdest conspiracy theory out.. All right, we're gonna to wrap it up. Thank you very much.

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