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The Epstein Ranch Inquiry and the Question of Political Influence in New Mexico (5/21/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and the
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  federal government, I think it's pretty clear that we can't
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  trust them to do the right thing. And that's why
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  I think that it's time for the states where these
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  crimes occurred to get more active. And one of the
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  states that's actually doing that is New Mexico, and on
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  June first, they're going to have their first public meeting.
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  And what they're doing with this Truth Commission is not
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  only going after people that might have committed crimes, but
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  the people who facilitated it, people in power who might
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  have let it happen, people in power who might have
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  went along with it, people in power who look the
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  other way. And I don't think there's been enough of
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  that when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes,
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  because if we want to get to the bottom of it,
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  we have to get deep, and you're not going to
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  do that by surface level, nonsensical meetings and hearings like
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  we see with Congress, especially considering how politically charged all
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  of that is. But when we bring it to a
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  local level, it's a different story. And I would really
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  love to see New York follow suit and do the
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  same thing that we see in New Mexico, because if
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  you want to go to a place where there was
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  a lot of crimes committed, a place where a lot
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  of people were involved financially immigration, otherwise, New York's a
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  great place to go. And down in Florida, well, they
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  should get rid of the NPA and reopen that investigation
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  as well. Unfortunately we haven't seen any movement towards that.
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  But in New Mexico it's a whole different story. So
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  today we have an article from KOAT and the headline
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  new Mexico Epstein Truth Commission holding its first public meeting
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  on June first, and I love that it's public. Everything
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  should be public. One of the biggest issues is that
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  they haven't been transparent throughout this whole entire affair, and
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  it's caused a lot of people to not believe the
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  Justice Department and the federal government itself, and those are
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  self inflicted wounds. And what's wild about it is you
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  would think that after all of this, after they've seen
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  how bad it is when it comes to keeping things
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  private and hidden, that they change their tune. But the
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  federal government. They're just going to keep on keeping on.
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  And when you look at what's going on federally, why
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  would they change. Nobody in the GOP has the stones
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  to stand up to Trump, and if you do, he
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  sends some knucklehead the primary you and before you know it,
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  we're just gonna have a bunch of loyalists to Trump
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  running the country. And if that's what you want, great
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  me personally, I prefer not to be robbed. This article
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  was authored by John Ruppolo. A bipartisan commission in New
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  Mexico is investigating allegations of criminal activity at Jeffrey Epstein's
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  or O Ranch, marking the first review of the alleged
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  crimes since the state halted a twenty nineteen investigation. And
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  remember it was the federal government that made them halt
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  that investigation. I wonder why. I'm sure the federal government
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  had nothing to hide, right, nothing at all. There was
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  nothing weird going on at Zoro Ranch. It wasn't a
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  way station for the CIA. Oh come on, what all
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  kinds of communication equipment that was military grade? Jeffrey Epstein
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  was just looking for aliens. The guy was eccentric. He
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  wasn't part of any kind of intelligence apparatus. Just ask
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  Alan Dershowitz. Virginia Roberts, before she died by suicide, allegedly
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  said that she was forced to give massages to then
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  New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson at Zoro Ranch. She also
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  claimed that Bill Richardson raped her. Okay, can we just
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  call it what it is? And I can tell you
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  that as a fact because I heard Virginia say it.
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  Bill Richardson was credibly accused of taking part in the abuse,
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  and at the time, nobody gave a damn. All these
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  people that make pretend they care about Virginia. Now, all
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  these people that make pretend they listen to her, where
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  were you when it mattered? The Epstein Truth Commission, composed
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  by four bipartisan lawmakers and a legal team with subpoena power,
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  is tasked with uncovering whether harm went unchecked and whether
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  local and state officials appropriately investigated prior allegations of criminal
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  activity at the ranch. Well, if this is a real investigation,
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  the answer is no. Jeffrey Epstein was propped up, protected,
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  and lauded in the state of New Mexico, and just
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  about all the powerful people at the time were involved.
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  So I really hope that they're going to do what
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  they say and hold those people accountable. The members of
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  the public, of the public who were a part of
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  this story for so many years, who have a lot
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  of information, have already been coming. The chairwoman of the
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  commission said, do you think that you know people were
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  paid off, whether to be through you know, direct payments
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  or contributions to turn the other way? The chairwoman said,
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  I think so. I definitely think so. Now proving it
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  is going to be difficult. Do we have the paper trail?
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  Are we going to be able to get those records
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  from the DJ? I would hope that the state could,
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  but I have my doubts. Remember the forces that were
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  up against and remember what just happened to Thomas Massey,
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  and remember what happened to Marjorie Taylor Green, and look
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  at what's happening to Bobert. You can't come out against Trump,
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  not when it comes to Epstein. So why would is
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  DOJ play ball if a state has an investigation going.
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  My guess is they wouldn't, and instead they do everything
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  in their power to gum it up. We know there
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  are records of a number of different contributions made to
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  different campaigns, including one to our Santa Fe sheriff at
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  the time, I understand that was returned. She said. The
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  commission will evaluate information from shelters, law enforcement, and other
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  sources across New Mexico. YO. There are so many women
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  and girls who have been abused in New Mexico, Epstein
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  related or otherwise, that it's hard to really wrap your
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  mind around it. The amount of girls that are missing
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  in New Mexico, especially the girls of Native American descent,
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  It's sickening, and I have a hard time believing that
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  Epstein and is adjacent buddies have nothing to do with
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  any of that at all. I have a hard time
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  believing it. Are you going to subpoena past and present
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  law enforcement in Mexico New Mexico, the chairwoman asked, will
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  be looking at our first jurisdiction, which is across New Mexico.
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  We've heard from a number of everything from shelters to
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  law enforcement that they had information potentially on things that
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  were going on there. She said, Look, people were reporting
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  this and it was being buried. Nobody wanted to touch it.
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  Do you think that people like the Kings and Bill
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  Richardson didn't know what Jeffrey Epstein really was. You think
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  they thought he was just a lone predator, a rich,
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  eccentric guy who had a bunch of connections and a
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  bunch of friends and this fucking forward operating base for
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  the CIA in New Mexico. Do you think they all
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  believe that? No, I know these people are dumb, but
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  they're not stupid. They didn't believe that, and guess what,
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  neither do you. The investigation could lead the charges if
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  wrongdoing is uncovered, and that's the proper way to go,
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  and not just for the people that were abusing people.
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  It has to be about the people that allowed it,
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  the people that enabled it. Anybody that was in an
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  official position that gave Jeffrey Epstein help in any way
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  for any reason needs to be investigated. That doesn't automatically
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  mean that people are guilty. But how about just a
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  base investigation? Is that too much to ask? I guess so.
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  A prior investigation secrets of Zoro Ranch, revealed that New
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  Mexico's laws at the time were favorable to Epstein. The
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  state lacked human trafficking laws, and Epstein was not required
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  to register as a sex offender. Don't think for a
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  minute that New Mexico wasn't by design, it was. Everything
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  was perfect for Epstein. There the laws, the people that
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  were making the laws, and the secrecy that that ranch provided.
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  That's what he needed, That's what he craved, and that's
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  why I've always told you that Zoro Ranch is the
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  bigger crime scene than just about anywhere else, and I
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  truly believe that. I think that what happened that Zoro
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  Ranch is unconscionable, and the fact that they've been able
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  to hide it for so long is crazy. Can we
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  go back to look at the laws of New Mexico
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  to figure out what it is that we can do
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  to bring justice to survivors and to ensure this never
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  happens again. The chairwoman said, well, I don't know if
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  you can ensure it never happens again, But I think
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  that if you prosecute people and bring people to justice,
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  it sends a message, and that message is not in
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  our state now. If the rest of the country the
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  federal government wants to do something different, that's up to them.
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  But New Mexico should go full bore here, all gas,
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  no break, and they should open up a sweeping investigation
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  that brings everybody in, people from different districts, different jurisdictions,
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  different countries. Anybody that has information about Zoro Ranch in
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  any capacity should be brought in. And it's crazy to
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  think that we have to talk about this at the
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  state level. You would think the federal government would do
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  their job, but of course not for that to happen,
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  Donnie Diddles would have to not be involved. But since
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  he is, forget it. And it's a sad state of
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  affairs when the states themselves have to open up investigations
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  that the federal government should have been managing. But instead
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  of managing an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the federal government
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  has been managing the cover up. All the information that
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  goes with this episode can be found in the description box.