Welcome back to Pod State of the World, I'm Tommy Mitur.

I'm Ben Rhodes. Ben, did you hear that four of the

gold bars found at Bob Menendez's house have been directly linked to the guy accused of

bribing him? It's a weird coincidence, right? This is like one of the most

open and shut cases in the history of true crime, you know. We should do a crooked

podcast like a true

crooked true crime podcast on the Bob Menendez bus, you know. But it's just two and a

half minutes and we're like here's the deal a businessman named Fred Davies.

Apparently this guy was there was an armed robbery, this guy Fred Davies, this

businessman who allegedly was doing these corrupt deals with Menendez and

bribing him.

Davies got the gold bar stolen from him. He had to register their serial numbers with the cops to get them back, which means there's a very clear chain of custody of these gold bars from this businessman Fred Davies to Bob Nindez his like closet or wherever they were?

And he's still in the Senate, right? He's still in the Senate Farm Relations Committee,

still getting briefings, you know?

Did you see John Fetterman trolling him with George Santos Cameo?

Yeah, that's good.

It was good.

It was really good.

Well done, sir.

You're on the road, you're in the UK now?

Yeah, I'm telling you though, I was in Bratislava this morning and that is someplace you need to check

out. Tell me more. You posted an Instagram with a caption that made me think you were leaving to become a travel blogger because you seem very charmed by the place.

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