Latest / INSPIRE STORY / #0242_ STORY INSPIRE: Ben Owen & Ryan Dalton — Unpacking the Biggest Theories About Jeffrey Epstein
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Ben Owen.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Sean Ryan.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Welcome back, man.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, dude.
- 0:09Speaker 1: What's 777?
- 0:11Speaker 2: So, 777 is the address of what is going to
- 0:15Speaker 2: be our treatment center. 777 South Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Oh, shit.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Perfect number, isn't it?
- 0:21Speaker 1: It is, man. I just love it. That's awesome.
- 0:23Speaker 2: A direct result of our last episode.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Is that the school?
- 0:29Speaker 2: No, so it actually was opened up as a brewery
- 0:32Speaker 2: right after World War II. And then it was a
- 0:35Speaker 2: bunch of recording studios, like some pretty big names that
- 0:38Speaker 2: recorded there. I mean, it's in Memphis. And the couple
- 0:41Speaker 2: that owns it had a son die from a fentanyl overdose.
- 0:45Speaker 2: A dear friend of theirs, who happens to be a
- 0:48Speaker 2: cop in Memphis, saw our episode, came out, started volunteering.
- 0:52Speaker 2: We got to know him really well. He told the
- 0:54Speaker 2: couple about us. We got to know them really well.
- 0:55Speaker 2: And they're like, hey, we got this building that you need.
- 0:58Speaker 1: And so.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Now we have it.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Congratulations.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:02Speaker 1: So yeah, I haven't heard from you in, what, about
- 1:04Speaker 1: a year? And then all of a sudden I get
- 1:08Speaker 1: a text of you on what looks like a little
- 1:11Speaker 1: John boat that says you got arrested for trespassing on
- 1:17Speaker 1: Epstein Island. That's right. What the fuck? What?
- 1:24Speaker 2: Oh, gracious.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Give me a brief summary and then I'll intro you.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Uh, so a brief summary.
- 1:31Speaker 1: All right.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Well, uh, as brief as I can make it, you
- 1:37Speaker 2: have a lot of really cool people that watch your show. Uh,
- 1:41Speaker 2: and after our episode, a lot of those really cool people,
- 1:44Speaker 2: most of them in law enforcement started reaching out to me. Um,
- 1:47Speaker 2: we can get into the details of what all has
- 1:50Speaker 2: transpired since then, but one of the results of that
- 1:54Speaker 2: episode was that, uh, this dude, Ryan Dalton, former state
- 1:57Speaker 2: department diplomatic security special agent who is behind the website.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Epstein isn't dead.org was made aware of who we are
- 2:06Speaker 2: and what we do. He had this idea to go
- 2:08Speaker 2: down to Epstein Island to get eyeballs on it again,
- 2:11Speaker 2: to raise awareness. Um, and he hit me up. Actually,
- 2:15Speaker 2: he hit me up before he had the idea of
- 2:17Speaker 2: Epstein Island, just wanting to know if we would be
- 2:20Speaker 2: willing to help him, uh, run the open source intelligence
- 2:25Speaker 2: investigations tied to his website. And, you know, for context,
- 2:29Speaker 2: I'm not convinced Epstein's alive. I'm definitely convinced he didn't
- 2:33Speaker 2: leave that jail cell a dead man. I don't know
- 2:36Speaker 2: that he's still alive. I am convinced his network is
- 2:39Speaker 2: very much alive and operating. You know, something that large
- 2:42Speaker 2: doesn't just die because they say he died, you know,
- 2:46Speaker 2: and one person got arrested. Like, that's how this works.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Is it weird.
- 2:51Speaker 1: That one person got arrested? Biggest sex trafficking, most elite
- 2:55Speaker 1: sex trafficking ring in the world.
- 2:57Speaker 2: With two arrests. One incarceration, yeah.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Just Lynn Maxwell.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Well, now three.
- 3:02Speaker 1: I got arrested.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Not for sex trafficking.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Hold on, let me correct you.
- 3:08Speaker 2: Just to be clear on that, I got arrested for
- 3:10Speaker 2: trespassing on Pedophile Island, which is weird because nobody's been
- 3:14Speaker 2: arrested for being a pedophile on that island.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Well, you know, they're all being protected by the President
- 3:19Speaker 1: of the United States.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Yeah, or somebody.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Or somebody that's controlling him.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely some weird stuff going on, man. So, yeah,
- 3:29Speaker 2: I told Ryan, look, I'm always down for crazy ideas.
- 3:32Speaker 2: You know this about me. I wanted to go down there.
- 3:35Speaker 2: I wanted to plant a We Fight Monsters flag on
- 3:39Speaker 2: that beach and, you know, kind of symbolically reclaim that
- 3:44Speaker 2: property for good purposes. I was under the impression that
- 3:47Speaker 2: a billionaire, Stephen Decoff, had bought the island and was
- 3:50Speaker 2: going to turn it into a resort beaches can't be
- 3:53Speaker 2: private in the Virgin Islands, so going on that beach
- 3:56Speaker 2: was an allowable thing to do, and I thought we
- 4:00Speaker 2: would go down there, plant our.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Flags, call it a day.
- 4:05Speaker 2: We got a little excited on the way in. We
- 4:06Speaker 2: saw his temple, which everybody's seen Epstein's temple on that island.
- 4:10Speaker 2: We saw that and kind of forgot that you're not
- 4:14Speaker 2: allowed to go beyond the beach.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Oh, man. All right, we'll get into the rest in
- 4:18Speaker 1: a minute. Let me give you an intro just for
- 4:20Speaker 1: anybody that didn't see the first episode. Ben Owen, you
- 4:25Speaker 1: are the CEO of Once American, a Memphis-based AI and
- 4:31Speaker 1: digital forensics company whose Intel Foundry platform supports law enforcement
- 4:36Speaker 1: and federal partners in OSINT targeting and counter-trafficking operations. Alongside
- 4:44Speaker 1: your wife, Jessica, you co-founded We Fight Monsters, a nonprofit
- 4:48Speaker 1: working at the intersection of anti-trafficking efforts, community violence intervention,
- 4:54Speaker 1: reentry support, and survivor housing. Together, you've raised biological, foster,
- 5:00Speaker 1: and adopted children, including your Afghan daughter, Erezo, who we
- 5:05Speaker 1: spoke about in your last interview. You also lead Owen Army,
- 5:09Speaker 1: Flanders Fields, and Black Rifle Co., and have been involved
- 5:14Speaker 1: in disaster response efforts across the country, from the Uvalde
- 5:18Speaker 1: school shooting to the Lahaina fires to Hurricane Helene and beyond.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Most recently, you made headlines after traveling to Little St. James,
- 5:30Speaker 1: a part of the Epstein Isn't Dead campaign, to investigate
- 5:35Speaker 1: the Epstein criminal network. Just for context here, Little St. James...
- 5:41Speaker 1: is Epstein Island.
- 5:43Speaker 2: That is Epstein Island.
- 5:46Speaker 1: During your escape from the island, you say you were hogtied,
- 5:49Speaker 1: unlawfully restrained, kidnapped, and assaulted by Epstein's property manager before
- 5:55Speaker 1: later being charged with misdemeanor trespassing. You are currently out
- 6:00Speaker 1: on bond. Welcome back to the show. How much was
- 6:03Speaker 1: your bond?
- 6:04Speaker 2: 500 bucks.
- 6:06Speaker 1: 500 bucks, that's it? That's it. That's it, which.
- 6:10Speaker 2: It's kind of weird.
- 6:11Speaker 1: If she had called me, I could have posted that one. Oh,
- 6:13Speaker 1: I was prepared.
- 6:14Speaker 2: I took bond money with me.
- 6:15Speaker 1: It would have been an honor.
- 6:16Speaker 2: You got to think about what we do. I've always
- 6:18Speaker 2: got bond money in my backpack. I never expected it
- 6:21Speaker 2: to be for me.
- 6:22Speaker 1: Old habits.
- 6:22Speaker 2: Yeah, right. My bond was 10 times the maximum fine
- 6:28Speaker 2: for trespassing. So they were definitely trying to make an
- 6:31Speaker 2: example out of me, I think. Yeah, it's a $ 50
- 6:34Speaker 2: fine for trespassing. Now, they can give you up to
- 6:37Speaker 2: 30 days in prison for it. I did not know that.
- 6:41Speaker 2: But hopefully that didn't happen. I'm out on bond.
- 6:44Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't try to cut you up in
- 6:46Speaker 1: pieces and throw you down the trash chute into the
- 6:49Speaker 1: ocean or do any ritualist satanic blood rituals.
- 6:53Speaker 2: I was waiting.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Like, I didn't expect to get kidnapped. You know, once
- 7:00Speaker 2: I realized we had progressed beyond the beach, I knew
- 7:03Speaker 2: that trespassing, I was trespassing.
- 7:04Speaker 1: I knew I was.
- 7:05Speaker 2: And so I expected that.
- 7:08Speaker 1: Uh, let's, let's back up. Let's go. Yeah. Before we
- 7:11Speaker 1: get into all these different rabbit holes. So you got approached.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Where did you guys, where did you sail from?
- 7:19Speaker 2: Where did you go from Memphis? We met, uh, on St.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Thomas.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Um, we, we got a ferry from St. Thomas over
- 7:28Speaker 2: to St. John and chartered a boat.
- 7:31Speaker 1: Just for context, for anybody that doesn't know where this
- 7:34Speaker 1: island is, it's just a little due East of Puerto Rico. Right. Right. Yep.
- 7:39Speaker 2: It's closer to Venezuela than it is the mainland United States.
- 7:42Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Down in the Caribbean. I mean, it's paradise. It's like
- 7:45Speaker 2: heaven on earth down there. Just absolutely beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
- 7:51Speaker 2: So we chartered a boat from St. John and took
- 7:55Speaker 2: that to Little St.
- 7:57Speaker 1: John. What kind of boat?
- 7:58Speaker 3: I don't even know.
- 7:59Speaker 2: Like a fishing boat, you know. Nothing fancy.
- 8:02Speaker 1: How far was the?
- 8:03Speaker 2: 20 minutes.
- 8:05Speaker 1: That's it? Yeah, it's close, dude.
- 8:08Speaker 2: And that's the thing. Like, I did not expect that
- 8:12Speaker 2: island to be as surrounded by people and other islands
- 8:16Speaker 2: as it was. Like, it's not some secretive enclave that
- 8:19Speaker 2: you can't see, you know. There's like helicopter tours.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Going on all the time.
- 8:24Speaker 2: It's right out.
- 8:25Speaker 1: There in the open. Wow. Yeah.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Did not expect that. So I guess you want me
- 8:32Speaker 2: to walk you through that day?
- 8:33Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. How many of you guys were there?
- 8:36Speaker 2: So there were five of us in total. Three of
- 8:39Speaker 2: us went on the island.
- 8:40Speaker 1: What did the other two do? Boat. Took care of
- 8:43Speaker 1: the boat. Okay. Yeah.
- 8:44Speaker 2: Had to have somebody.
- 8:45Speaker 1: I don't know if you like beached it or.
- 8:47Speaker 3: No.
- 8:48Speaker 2: So that was the thing. That was like our plan
- 8:51Speaker 2: was to, you know, beach the boat and. Like, run up,
- 8:55Speaker 2: but there were too many rocks.
- 8:57Speaker 1: I'm a little upset I didn't get an invite. I'm sorry.
- 8:59Speaker 1: I'm a fucking frog, man. I've done this shit a
- 9:02Speaker 1: time or two.
- 9:03Speaker 2: You know, hindsight's 20-20. Next time, it's going to be me.
- 9:07Speaker 2: There might be a next time. Not on that island,
- 9:09Speaker 2: but maybe somewhere else, right?
- 9:10Speaker 1: We'll go find another. Yeah, we'll do it the right way.
- 9:13Speaker 2: It'll be me, you, Scott, man, Travis, Peter. We'll have
- 9:15Speaker 2: the right team together next time. This time, it was
- 9:19Speaker 2: like the Memphis A team, right?
- 9:24Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Couldn't get the boat up to the beach because of
- 9:27Speaker 2: the rocks. So we realized we're going to have to swim, uh,
- 9:31Speaker 2: which we knew was a possibility. I'm not a great swimmer.
- 9:34Speaker 2: I'm not going to drown, but I'm also not a
- 9:35Speaker 2: great swimmer. So we had to swim.
- 9:37Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 9:37Speaker 2: I was like 50, a hundred yards. And our plan
- 9:41Speaker 2: was still to plant the flag. So I'm swimming with
- 9:43Speaker 2: this 20 foot collapsible flagpole and boots. And I'm already
- 9:47Speaker 2: not a great swimmer. So by the time I get
- 9:50Speaker 2: to where I can even stand up, I'm done. Like
- 9:52Speaker 2: it's over with. And, uh, Like I've still got 20
- 9:56Speaker 2: yards from where I was able to stand up to
- 9:58Speaker 2: walk across this rocky reef. to shore and like i'm
- 10:01Speaker 2: just my legs are not working they're rubber at this
- 10:04Speaker 2: point um definitely need to do more cardio i hate
- 10:08Speaker 2: cardio but the need was made very apparent if i'm
- 10:11Speaker 2: gonna go out there and do hood rat shit i
- 10:13Speaker 2: need to be a little bit better shape on the
- 10:16Speaker 2: cardio side. So we finally get to the beach and like,
- 10:19Speaker 2: I can barely stand up. We got a 400 yard
- 10:22Speaker 2: near vertical climb to get to this temple.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Right.
- 10:25Speaker 2: And for people unaware of Epstein's temple, just Google it.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Like it's this little cube up on a cliff. And
- 10:33Speaker 2: while Epstein had it, it was like painted to look
- 10:35Speaker 2: like a Muslim temple. It's like, you know, blue and
- 10:37Speaker 2: there's gold, it's got stripes.
- 10:39Speaker 1: It looks like something.
- 10:40Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:41Speaker 2: It looks like something you would see.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Israel colors. Yes, yes.
- 10:47Speaker 2: That's actually a very good point. And currently, it's all
- 10:54Speaker 2: painted gray and boarded up. And I want to be
- 10:57Speaker 2: very explicit about this. We had no intentions of trying
- 11:00Speaker 2: to go inside the temple. We were not there to
- 11:02Speaker 2: enter any dwellings. We just wanted to get pictures with
- 11:06Speaker 2: our flags in front of the temple and stick a
- 11:09Speaker 2: 20-foot flagpole in the ground, which we never ended up
- 11:12Speaker 2: doing because we got caught.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Did you see any activity on the, on the way up? Yeah. Yeah.
- 11:18Speaker 2: You could see them running around and we thought they
- 11:20Speaker 2: were golf carts. They were ATVs. Um, so you, you
- 11:23Speaker 2: definitely see people on the Island. And at this point
- 11:25Speaker 2: I'm assuming, you know, it's like crowns keepers, this deck
- 11:29Speaker 2: off billionaire guy is turning it into a resort. So
- 11:32Speaker 2: those must be his employees. Um, later find out that
- 11:36Speaker 2: wasn't the case. Uh, so, uh, we, we made it
- 11:40Speaker 2: to the temple, uh, We got our pictures, you know,
- 11:43Speaker 2: with our flags up there. Sean, I brought you the flag.
- 11:50Speaker 1: Get the fuck out of here. I brought you the flag, yeah.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Holy shit. This is the flag you brought to Epstein Island?
- 11:57Speaker 2: This is the flag that went to Epstein Island and
- 12:01Speaker 2: was in front of his temple. And Laura's got the pictures.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Holy shit, dude. Now that's for you.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I accidentally left it in Georgia. Oh, you know what?
- 12:14Speaker 2: I need to get a picture. You hold that. I
- 12:17Speaker 2: actually accidentally left it in Georgia. And so my business
- 12:20Speaker 2: partner had to go to my house yesterday and overnight
- 12:23Speaker 2: that to y'all's PO box at the UPS store. Thank
- 12:26Speaker 2: God it made it. That was a panic attack. So
- 12:30Speaker 2: we get up there, you know, we take our pictures
- 12:31Speaker 2: of the flags and like, you can see the ATVs
- 12:35Speaker 2: come in and they're coming deep. There's like four of them.
- 12:37Speaker 2: And like, you can just tell by the way they're driving,
- 12:39Speaker 2: they're pissed. And so I was still unable to breathe
- 12:45Speaker 2: or really stand. So I'm thinking in my head, like, yep,
- 12:51Speaker 2: I'm about to get a misdemeanor charge. How long did
- 12:55Speaker 2: it take you to get up there? 15 minutes, maybe.
- 13:00Speaker 3: Maybe 10.
- 13:00Speaker 2: I don't know. And, you know, the two guys that
- 13:06Speaker 2: were on the island with me, they don't have criminal backgrounds.
- 13:10Speaker 2: They're former feds, you know, and so if anybody's taking
- 13:13Speaker 2: a charge today, it's going to be me. I don't
- 13:17Speaker 2: know how many misdemeanor convictions I have, but adding one
- 13:20Speaker 2: more to the mix isn't the end of the world
- 13:22Speaker 2: for me. So they were able to get back to
- 13:26Speaker 2: the boat. I was definitely not. I ended up collapsing
- 13:30Speaker 2: like on this hillside full of cactuses. Bro, I was
- 13:33Speaker 2: pulling cactus thorns out of my leg for two weeks.
- 13:36Speaker 2: It was so bad.
- 13:37Speaker 1: So sorry.
- 13:42Speaker 2: I sit down. Uh, I mean, I didn't have any choice.
- 13:45Speaker 2: Like I physically could not continue. Uh, so I sit
- 13:47Speaker 2: down and, and basically I'm, I'm the bait at this point.
- 13:50Speaker 2: All of the security guys are coming to me while
- 13:55Speaker 2: the other two guys make.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Their way back to the boat.
- 13:58Speaker 2: And, uh, like they're, they're helping, they're being nice. Uh,
- 14:02Speaker 2: I can tell by the accents that I could hear
- 14:03Speaker 2: them talk to each other. They're Haitian. You know, I
- 14:05Speaker 2: heard him speaking Creole. Uh, we worked, uh, some Haitian
- 14:08Speaker 2: refugee stuff a few years back. So I'm, I don't
- 14:11Speaker 2: speak Creole, but I definitely recognize it. And so when
- 14:15Speaker 2: I realized they were Haitian, I was like, I can probably,
- 14:18Speaker 2: you know, make buddies with them, just tell them some
- 14:19Speaker 2: stories about the work we did in the refugee camps
- 14:21Speaker 2: and stuff. But I couldn't breathe enough to talk at
- 14:24Speaker 2: this point other than asking for water. So I hadn't
- 14:26Speaker 2: started that process of trying to make friends out of them.
- 14:29Speaker 2: But that's where my head was. So they finally get
- 14:32Speaker 2: me up. And after multiple times of falling back into cactuses,
- 14:36Speaker 2: trying to get up this hill, I finally make it
- 14:39Speaker 2: to the trail up top. They told me, you know,
- 14:42Speaker 2: we'll get you some water. And I'm thinking, okay, you know,
- 14:44Speaker 2: here comes my misdemeanor charge. It's everything's fine.
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- 16:43Speaker 2: When we get to the pathway, another ATV pulls up
- 16:48Speaker 2: and it's this black female driving it and there's water.
- 16:51Speaker 2: And I'm like, thank fucking God, dude, because I thought
- 16:53Speaker 2: I was about to die.
- 16:55Speaker 1: And so I grab a water.
- 16:56Speaker 2: She knocks it out of my hand. I mean, like
- 16:59Speaker 2: violently knocks it out of my hand. And then she
- 17:02Speaker 2: grabs the rest of the waters in the ATV and
- 17:04Speaker 2: throws them down a hill. And I was like, I
- 17:07Speaker 2: might have a problem now. It became quickly apparent that
- 17:11Speaker 2: she's calling the shots and everything those guys had just
- 17:13Speaker 2: told me is bullshit. So I go to sit down
- 17:19Speaker 2: in her ATV, which she told me to sit down.
- 17:21Speaker 2: And then she tells the Haitian dude behind me to
- 17:23Speaker 2: tie me up. I'm like, well, this is odd. That's
- 17:28Speaker 2: not normally what happens when you're, you know, trespassing. Do
- 17:34Speaker 2: they have guns? No, they didn't have guns, but like
- 17:37Speaker 2: I was so gassed. There was no resisting, even if
- 17:39Speaker 2: I wanted to, man. And plus there's, you know, six,
- 17:41Speaker 2: seven of them and one of me. So even if
- 17:43Speaker 2: I had energy to resist or flee, I don't think
- 17:47Speaker 2: I'd have done it at this point. I also had
- 17:48Speaker 2: no idea what was about to happen, you know, if
- 17:51Speaker 2: I had known what was coming, I would have found
- 17:54Speaker 2: the energy to somehow resist or run. Um, so the
- 17:59Speaker 2: Haitian that tied me up was the one I had
- 18:01Speaker 2: started trying to make buddies with. He's sitting behind me
- 18:04Speaker 2: and he's, you know, through the little gap in the seat,
- 18:07Speaker 2: just puts a rope kind of loosely around my hands. Um,
- 18:10Speaker 2: and then, so I'm like thinking, you know, it's sitting
- 18:13Speaker 2: the end of the world. It's no big deal, whatever
- 18:15Speaker 2: I'm going to, you know, wait on the police to come.
- 18:18Speaker 1: No big deal.
- 18:19Speaker 2: And so, She drives us down to the dock. And
- 18:24Speaker 2: I know now who she is. Her name's Emery Polion.
- 18:27Speaker 2: I'll explain more about who she is here in a bit.
- 18:32Speaker 2: They drive us down to the dock. Once I'm at
- 18:35Speaker 2: the dock, this Hispanic dude comes up and tightens the
- 18:40Speaker 2: ropes on my wrist behind me. And then they tie
- 18:43Speaker 2: me to a pole on the dock. And then he
- 18:45Speaker 2: ties my feet. And I'm like, this is getting weirder
- 18:49Speaker 2: and weirder, right? But In my mind, I'm sitting on
- 18:53Speaker 2: this dock waiting on the police because the police have
- 18:55Speaker 2: to come to the dock to get me, right? And
- 18:57Speaker 2: I'm expecting, you know, police to come, give me a
- 18:59Speaker 2: misdemeanor citation. I'm trying to figure out, like, well, how
- 19:02Speaker 2: am I going to get back to St.
- 19:03Speaker 1: John?
- 19:03Speaker 2: I don't have a phone. I've got nothing. I have
- 19:06Speaker 2: absolutely nothing on me. I've got boots and my We
- 19:09Speaker 2: Fight Monsters bathing suit. I didn't even have a shirt.
- 19:12Speaker 2: And it was hot.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Like, I was roasting.
- 19:15Speaker 2: Um, Emery gets a phone call about this time. Um,
- 19:20Speaker 2: I've probably been Emory, the black female that was driving
- 19:24Speaker 2: the ATV. So I've probably been tied up for about
- 19:29Speaker 2: an hour, maybe 30 minutes at this point.
- 19:33Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 19:33Speaker 2: Time was elusive. I was definitely, you know, heat exhaustion
- 19:37Speaker 2: was setting in. I was dehydrated as hell. I inhaled
- 19:41Speaker 2: a bunch of seawater on the way up. And then
- 19:43Speaker 2: obviously that huge physical exertion trying to get up there
- 19:46Speaker 2: and then get away. She gets phone calls. and she
- 19:50Speaker 2: answers on speaker and calls the woman on the other
- 19:52Speaker 2: end mom and I'm like that is very strange what
- 19:56Speaker 2: is going on and mom tells her to duct tape
- 20:03Speaker 2: me and put me in the dungeon and I'm thinking
- 20:06Speaker 2: in my head that what an awful choice of words
- 20:10Speaker 2: For somebody who works for a billionaire trying to rebrand
- 20:14Speaker 2: this island from what it used to be. Why would
- 20:16Speaker 2: you call it the dungeon? That is a strange thing
- 20:19Speaker 2: to say. And.
- 20:22Speaker 1: That's strange.
- 20:25Speaker 2: Her mom.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Right.
- 20:27Speaker 2: Her mom. And I'm thinking in my head like this
- 20:32Speaker 2: lady's just trying to scare me.
- 20:35Speaker 1: And.
- 20:36Speaker 2: You know, they're taking pictures of me the whole time,
- 20:38Speaker 2: and I was not about to let them know I
- 20:39Speaker 2: was freaked out. So I would smile at them, like,
- 20:41Speaker 2: and I'm trying to irritate them a little bit, but
- 20:44Speaker 2: also let them know, like, I'm good. You might remember
- 20:47Speaker 2: from the last time we talked that this was not
- 20:48Speaker 2: the first time I've been kidnapped. And so I'm trying
- 20:54Speaker 2: to stay as calm as I possibly can. I actually
- 20:56Speaker 2: was pretty damn calm at this point. You know, no
- 20:59Speaker 2: big deal. I'm getting a misdemeanor citation.
- 21:01Speaker 1: I just got it.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Sit through this bullshit while these people harass me until
- 21:05Speaker 2: the police get there.
- 21:09Speaker 1: Can you see your buddies?
- 21:12Speaker 2: No, they were long gone.
- 21:13Speaker 1: They were long gone. They had to be. Okay.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Because of their backgrounds and the lines of work they're
- 21:19Speaker 2: in today, a trespassing charge is going to harm their livelihood,
- 21:23Speaker 2: I would suspect. You know my background. You think I
- 21:27Speaker 2: care about another misdemeanor?
- 21:29Speaker 1: I really do.
- 21:29Speaker 3: No.
- 21:31Speaker 2: Thank God I'm not a felon, and I knew I
- 21:33Speaker 2: wasn't facing any felony here, but a misdemeanor, who cares, man?
- 21:36Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking at the time. I didn't realize
- 21:39Speaker 2: in that moment that the Virgin Islands can actually give
- 21:41Speaker 2: you 30 days in prison for misdemeanor trespassing.
- 21:43Speaker 1: I thought it was a citation. I was wrong.
- 21:45Speaker 2: So hindsight being 20-20, I probably should have researched that
- 21:49Speaker 2: a little bit more. So she gets off the phone
- 21:56Speaker 2: with Mom. And the Haitians and the Hispanic dude go
- 22:00Speaker 2: to look for duct tape, which they can't find. But
- 22:03Speaker 2: they did find flex cuffs. It's like the third red flag.
- 22:07Speaker 2: Why the fuck do you have flex cuffs on Epstein Island?
- 22:10Speaker 2: So they put me, you know, the zip tie me.
- 22:12Speaker 2: I've got flex cuffs, half inch zip ties and a
- 22:15Speaker 2: rope at this point. And they tell me to go
- 22:20Speaker 2: to the ATV. Well, this dog's like, I don't know,
- 22:23Speaker 2: 50 yards long.
- 22:24Speaker 1: And I'm hobbled.
- 22:26Speaker 2: And they make me start hopping down this dock to
- 22:30Speaker 2: the very last ATV in line to transport me somewhere else.
- 22:35Speaker 2: You remember monkey fuckers that you used to have doing PT?
- 22:39Speaker 1: No.
- 22:41Speaker 2: Let me demonstrate.
- 22:42Speaker 1: The monkey fucker.
- 22:44Speaker 2: That's basically what I'm doing for 50 yards down this dock.
- 22:49Speaker 2: I've got like, I don't know, a foot between me
- 22:52Speaker 2: and this row of ATVs of dock to hop on
- 22:56Speaker 2: and the ocean on the other side of me. And
- 22:57Speaker 2: I'm positive I'm going to fall in. And she starts,
- 23:00Speaker 2: Emery starts joking, you know, maybe they should just kick
- 23:02Speaker 2: me in since I'm so thirsty. And I'm like, these
- 23:04Speaker 2: motherfuckers about to try to make me drown. So I'm
- 23:08Speaker 2: still hardly able to breathe, like terribly dehydrated. Like all
- 23:13Speaker 2: I can think about is wanting water. And I'm having
- 23:16Speaker 2: to do monkey fuckers down this whole ass dock to
- 23:20Speaker 2: get to their ATV so they can take me to
- 23:22Speaker 2: wherever they're going to take me. To the dungeon, is
- 23:25Speaker 2: what they called it. And, again, I'm still thinking they're
- 23:28Speaker 2: just trying to scare me. Well, we get to the dungeon,
- 23:31Speaker 2: and I quickly realized, like, they weren't trying to scare me.
- 23:35Speaker 2: They legit have a dungeon. I think we gave Laura
- 23:39Speaker 2: a sky view, a satellite view from Google Earth of
- 23:42Speaker 2: this thing. It's like this door in the middle of
- 23:44Speaker 2: a hillside. The roof is grass, you know. And inside,
- 23:49Speaker 2: it's like this 10 by 20 dungeon. Like there's nothing.
- 23:52Speaker 2: It's just a cement room. The optics I'm thinking at
- 24:00Speaker 2: this point in time.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
- 24:04Speaker 2: But see, I had no idea at this point who
- 24:05Speaker 2: these people were. So none of this is clicking in
- 24:08Speaker 2: my head really. Like I know I'm on Epstein Island. Um,
- 24:12Speaker 2: I know the history, uh, but I wasn't nearly as
- 24:16Speaker 2: freaked out as I should have been.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Right.
- 24:18Speaker 2: Um, They throw me in this room. It's like 120
- 24:22Speaker 2: degrees in there. And they come add duct tape now
- 24:27Speaker 2: to my ankles, my knees. Mom calls again and they
- 24:32Speaker 2: keep answering this bitch on speakerphone. I'm positive they're trying
- 24:37Speaker 2: to like sigh at me and terrify me even more.
- 24:40Speaker 2: And she tells them to make sure I'm in the
- 24:42Speaker 2: corner of that room so that the breeze from the
- 24:44Speaker 2: doorway cannot reach me. And I'm dreading that happening because
- 24:49Speaker 2: the breeze felt like the only thing that was keeping
- 24:51Speaker 2: me conscious. She tells them to continue denying me water.
- 24:56Speaker 2: I hear her say over the phone, if it was
- 24:59Speaker 2: up to me, I would just shoot every one of
- 25:00Speaker 2: these motherfuckers. The Haitians keep referring to the woman on
- 25:05Speaker 2: the other end of the phone as the owner, the owner,
- 25:07Speaker 2: the owner. Emery leaves. I'm trying to talk to the Haitians, like,
- 25:10Speaker 2: please get me some water. Please give me some water.
- 25:13Speaker 2: And they're like, look, if you think this one's bad,
- 25:16Speaker 2: just wait till the owner gets here. So repeated references
- 25:19Speaker 2: made to the owner. So I'm, I'm still thinking like
- 25:22Speaker 2: the owner is Steven Decoff and maybe they're talking about his.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Wife or something.
- 25:27Speaker 2: Um, I don't know how many hours have passed at
- 25:29Speaker 2: this point, but it was a bunch. Um, finally the
- 25:35Speaker 2: owner shows up, uh, who I later figured out was
- 25:39Speaker 2: mom who was on the phone with Emory every time
- 25:42Speaker 2: she comes, like, Emery had come back and given me water.
- 25:47Speaker 2: Like I had been trying to work, you know, my
- 25:50Speaker 2: magic on human connection with her and the Haitians this
- 25:53Speaker 2: whole time. And I think it finally started paying off
- 25:55Speaker 2: a little bit because she did come back with ice
- 25:57Speaker 2: cold water. And, you know, she poured it in my
- 26:01Speaker 2: mouth for me. And it was like a different persona
- 26:04Speaker 2: than the Emery that had had me down there, you know,
- 26:07Speaker 2: near the beach. Like you could tell she was angry
- 26:10Speaker 2: as shit.
- 26:10Speaker 1: In the beginning. So....
- 26:14Speaker 2: Mom gets there. Now I know who mom is today.
- 26:17Speaker 2: I did not at that moment. Her name is Ann Rodriguez.
- 26:21Speaker 2: And she is Emery Polly on the mother. Um, she
- 26:25Speaker 2: gets there furious just, and I don't understand why she's
- 26:29Speaker 2: so mad. Uh, like all I'm, I was just going
- 26:32Speaker 2: to take a picture and leave the island. We weren't
- 26:35Speaker 2: even trying to interact with people. They were hundreds of
- 26:37Speaker 2: yards away, uh, until they saw us and came to us. Like, uh,
- 26:42Speaker 2: I know, uh, I was trespassing. I'm aware of that.
- 26:45Speaker 2: But the level of vitriol coming from this woman towards
- 26:48Speaker 2: me made zero sense to me at the time.
- 26:52Speaker 1: Is she the legit owner? I don't know. I don't know.
- 26:55Speaker 1: We'll get there.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Well, no, let's get there now. I'll tell you who
- 26:59Speaker 2: she is. She was Jeffrey Epstein's property manager.
- 27:04Speaker 1: In other words. How do you know that? The files.
- 27:08Speaker 2: The Epstein files.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Oh, shit.
- 27:09Speaker 2: If you search her name in there. It returns 23,000 results.
- 27:13Speaker 1: 23,000? 23,000 results.
- 27:14Speaker 2: You know, a lot of emails with her calling Jeffrey Bossman.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Emails of her handling flights and lodging for females. Like,
- 27:27Speaker 2: she was managing logistics and maintenance, security. To say that
- 27:34Speaker 2: in a different.
- 27:35Speaker 1: The whole fucking thing and she's just running around out there. Right.
- 27:38Speaker 2: To say it a different way.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Not detained... Nothing. Fuck, man.
- 27:43Speaker 2: And apparently kidnapping people. So, the Haitians, she blindfolds me.
- 27:49Speaker 2: And at this point, I do get, I start getting
- 27:51Speaker 2: a little scared. You know, I may have watched an
- 27:54Speaker 2: ISIS beheading video or two too many. Because when the
- 27:57Speaker 2: blindfold went on, I was like, fuck, I'm about to
- 27:58Speaker 2: get executed.
- 27:59Speaker 1: You know? And....
- 28:03Speaker 2: More time passes. At this point, panic sets in because
- 28:06Speaker 2: I'm convinced they're going to kill me. I still don't
- 28:08Speaker 2: know what I just told you. I don't know that
- 28:10Speaker 2: she's Epstein's property manager. I don't know that Emery Pellion,
- 28:14Speaker 2: I don't know any of that at this point. I
- 28:16Speaker 2: just know I'm tied up in a room that this
- 28:18Speaker 2: lady calls the dungeon. Side note, the woman that ran
- 28:24Speaker 2: the island for Jeffrey Epstein called that the dungeon.
- 28:27Speaker 1: That's scary. That's scary.
- 28:31Speaker 2: So I don't know how much time has passed. Several
- 28:32Speaker 2: hours I've been in this dungeon. I hear the door open.
- 28:38Speaker 2: I hear a camera start clicking. And now I'm convinced
- 28:41Speaker 2: here comes the beheading. You know, they're going to record
- 28:42Speaker 2: it in 4K. And hand goes in the back of
- 28:47Speaker 2: my head, rips my blindfold off. I'm like, yep, here
- 28:49Speaker 2: it comes. They're going to take my blindfold off and
- 28:50Speaker 2: just cut off my head, you know. And instead of
- 28:53Speaker 2: that happening, I'm looking at a Virgin Islands Police Department
- 28:57Speaker 2: detective with an evidence camera and I just got the
- 29:01Speaker 2: biggest shit ending grin on my face. I was like,
- 29:03Speaker 2: I am so glad to see you. Like knowing I'm
- 29:06Speaker 2: probably about to get arrested, but God, I was glad
- 29:08Speaker 2: because whatever has been happening is finally over. So I thought,
- 29:14Speaker 2: I hear a lot of commotion outside the dungeon. The
- 29:17Speaker 2: cop of the evidence camera has stepped out asking somebody,
- 29:20Speaker 2: can they come cut me loose? And this dude charges
- 29:24Speaker 2: into the dungeon, young black male, and just runs up
- 29:27Speaker 2: to me and smacks me on the side of my head,
- 29:29Speaker 2: closed fist.
- 29:31Speaker 1: I'm lost.
- 29:32Speaker 2: The police are here. This dude's hitting, like, what is
- 29:34Speaker 2: going on? So I got all these thoughts going through
- 29:37Speaker 2: my head. Like, oh my God, are the cops in
- 29:38Speaker 2: on it? Like, what is actually going on? right now, instead,
- 29:43Speaker 2: the cops grabbed him, dragged him out, all right, I
- 29:47Speaker 2: hear Emery screaming outside, it wasn't him, it wasn't him,
- 29:51Speaker 2: I thought she's talking about the dude that just hit me,
- 29:54Speaker 2: she's actually talking about me, because what I forgot, was
- 29:57Speaker 2: that I heard her screaming over the radio earlier that
- 30:01Speaker 2: somebody had pushed her down on the beach. Now, I
- 30:03Speaker 2: didn't see that because I was detained by the Haitians,
- 30:06Speaker 2: and we've actually got the receipts. I don't think anybody
- 30:09Speaker 2: pushed her down. But Paul, who was apparently her boyfriend,
- 30:15Speaker 2: thought I was the one who pushed her. She's pregnant.
- 30:19Speaker 2: I'd have hit me, too. I'd have hit me in
- 30:21Speaker 2: front of the cops, even, you know? So when they
- 30:23Speaker 2: finally cut me loose, I go out there, I see
- 30:25Speaker 2: Paul in handcuffs on the back of one of these ATVs.
- 30:27Speaker 2: And I straight up tell the cops, like, if that
- 30:28Speaker 2: kid's in handcuffs right now because of what just happened
- 30:31Speaker 2: to me, please take him out. Like, I don't want
- 30:32Speaker 2: to press charges.
- 30:33Speaker 1: I'm good.
- 30:33Speaker 2: You know, I'm fine. Everything's cool. Uh, if he thought
- 30:37Speaker 2: I pushed his pregnant girlfriend down while trespassing on her island,
- 30:39Speaker 2: I'd have, whatever, I'd have beat the hell out of me,
- 30:42Speaker 2: you know? So I'm trying to get him out of trouble. Um,
- 30:47Speaker 2: And that's when it dawned on me that the cops
- 30:49Speaker 2: are a lot more concerned about this than I was.
- 30:52Speaker 2: They told me, we're not taking anybody at handcuffs until
- 30:55Speaker 2: we figure out who hogtied you. And then the gravity
- 30:58Speaker 2: of what is going on starts setting in. There's 15
- 31:01Speaker 2: or 20 cops out here. And they're much more interested
- 31:07Speaker 2: in why I'm hogtied than they are in the fact
- 31:09Speaker 2: I was trespassing. I hear the Haitians and Ann Rodriguez talking.
- 31:17Speaker 2: A reference was made to, you know, this is the
- 31:20Speaker 2: seventh time this has happened.
- 31:23Speaker 1: And I'm like, what the fuck?
- 31:26Speaker 2: This is the seventh time? Like, what's actually going on here? So,
- 31:33Speaker 2: the cops take us down to their fast boats. They've
- 31:35Speaker 2: got two of them there. I'm still not in handcuffs.
- 31:40Speaker 2: Paul still is. And they take us all back to
- 31:44Speaker 2: saint thomas um they let us get out of the
- 31:48Speaker 2: boats uh and one of the detectives that had been
- 31:54Speaker 2: asking me all these questions i didn't want to give
- 31:55Speaker 2: a statement i just wanted it to be over with
- 31:58Speaker 2: you know and i didn't think i was getting arrested
- 31:59Speaker 2: uh i was just gonna let bygones be bygones like
- 32:03Speaker 2: you know whatever you hog tied me you kidnapped me
- 32:06Speaker 2: but i trespassed we'll call it even that kind of
- 32:08Speaker 2: thing um i don't stress too much about things Well,
- 32:12Speaker 2: one of the detectives comes over and tells me that
- 32:15Speaker 2: Ann is insisting on doing a citizen's arrest. I'm like,
- 32:18Speaker 2: what does that mean? Like, technically, for a citizen's arrest,
- 32:21Speaker 2: she needed to tell me she's placing me under citizen's
- 32:23Speaker 2: arrest back on the island. Like, this is, like, way
- 32:25Speaker 2: too late at this point. But the cops are kind of,
- 32:28Speaker 2: their hands, they feel like their hands are tied. They're
- 32:30Speaker 2: going to have to go ahead and charge me. So
- 32:33Speaker 2: they take me back to the station. And, you know,
- 32:36Speaker 2: I'm expecting that. because the citizen's arrest wasn't done the
- 32:41Speaker 2: correct and legal way that they'll probably end up just
- 32:43Speaker 2: cutting me loose. When we got back to, uh, the GBI,
- 32:47Speaker 2: the general GIB general investigations Bureau on St.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Thomas.
- 32:51Speaker 2: And I realized like, they're not letting it go. I
- 32:53Speaker 2: am going to have to go to jail. I was like, well,
- 32:55Speaker 2: in that case, I will give a statement. I'll tell
- 32:58Speaker 2: you everything. Um, you know, so they, you know, got
- 33:02Speaker 2: a recorded video statement from me and I told them
- 33:05Speaker 2: basically everything I just told you. Um, Only probably better
- 33:08Speaker 2: because it was much fresher on my mind, right? And
- 33:13Speaker 2: after that, they're like, well, do you have anybody you
- 33:15Speaker 2: can call who can come post your bond? And I
- 33:16Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I was actually, you know, I was
- 33:18Speaker 2: prepared for this. I had bond money in the boat.
- 33:24Speaker 2: Let me call Ryan. And so I called Ryan. And
- 33:28Speaker 2: he comes down there. And when he gets there, I
- 33:31Speaker 2: had completely forgotten about this. They want him to give
- 33:33Speaker 2: a statement. And he drops the bomb on him.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, I'm a lawyer.
- 33:37Speaker 2: And so I was like, oh, yeah, he's a lawyer.
- 33:40Speaker 2: So the cops go ahead and let him know because
- 33:43Speaker 2: they're assuming he's my lawyer.
- 33:44Speaker 1: He's not.
- 33:44Speaker 2: I don't even think he's licensed to practice. He's just
- 33:48Speaker 2: been to law school and passed the bar or whatever.
- 33:50Speaker 2: They tell him that they're going to charge the people
- 33:52Speaker 2: on the island with kidnapping. I can't remember if it
- 34:00Speaker 2: was false imprisonment or unlawful detention, something along those lines,
- 34:04Speaker 2: and assault for what happened to me. Now, those charges
- 34:08Speaker 2: haven't dropped yet. I'm assuming they have to go to
- 34:09Speaker 2: a grand jury for that to happen. Paul, the kid
- 34:17Speaker 2: that hit me, walks past and apologizes to me, and
- 34:20Speaker 2: I'm still trying to get him out of trouble. I
- 34:23Speaker 2: don't feel like he should have been.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Mixed.
- 34:27Speaker 2: If I'm being honest, the way he acted, the way
- 34:28Speaker 2: the Haitians acted, I think they're all scared of Ann, too.
- 34:31Speaker 1: I really do.
- 34:33Speaker 2: They booked me into jail. The cops are cool as
- 34:36Speaker 2: crap the whole time. I love Virgin Islands Police Department. Like,
- 34:40Speaker 2: I didn't have a shirt on. The SVU sergeant gave
- 34:43Speaker 2: me her Punisher t-shirt. Like, everybody was being cool as crap.
- 34:48Speaker 2: They booked me into jail with my cell phone, like,
- 34:50Speaker 2: to book me right back out, you know, post bond.
- 34:52Speaker 2: And I ran into Paul in release. We fist bumped. Like,
- 34:56Speaker 2: everything seems cool, you know. And we get back to
- 35:00Speaker 2: the Airbnb. I recorded a video while it was all
- 35:04Speaker 2: fresh in my mind, which Laura's got that. Um, and
- 35:09Speaker 2: they tell me I gotta be in court Monday, uh,
- 35:11Speaker 2: which was a little stressful because my flight home was Monday.
- 35:14Speaker 2: And at this point I wanted nothing more than to
- 35:16Speaker 2: just go back home, man. Um, so Monday rolls around and, uh,
- 35:24Speaker 2: we go to court, uh, me and Ryan, he's not
- 35:27Speaker 2: been arrested. So he's just there with me. Uh, and we're, we're,
- 35:33Speaker 2: We go in for my... They do it a little
- 35:35Speaker 2: different down there. Like in Memphis, if you get arrested,
- 35:37Speaker 2: your first court hearing is your arraignment, right? Down there,
- 35:40Speaker 2: they do a probable cause hearing first. So it's my
- 35:42Speaker 2: probable cause hearing. And I get to hear the probable
- 35:52Speaker 2: cause statement that the police had put together right out
- 35:54Speaker 2: loud in court. And that's when I first learned Paul's name,
- 35:58Speaker 2: Emery's name, Ann's name.
- 36:02Speaker 1: But it's also.
- 36:03Speaker 2: where I learned that VIPD responded to that island not
- 36:08Speaker 2: for trespassing. Somebody called them and reported a kidnapping, me.
- 36:14Speaker 2: So I don't know who did that. We've asked for
- 36:18Speaker 2: the 911 calls, but my gut tells me it was
- 36:20Speaker 2: one of those Haitians. Dude, I think somebody on that
- 36:23Speaker 2: island was scared of what was about to happen because
- 36:26Speaker 2: nobody on my boat had a clue I'd been kidnapped
- 36:29Speaker 2: at all. They were clueless. They thought I was being
- 36:31Speaker 2: detained for trespassing. we decided to stick around in court
- 36:39Speaker 2: because we heard Ann Rodriguez's name in my probable cause statement.
- 36:43Speaker 2: And we notice Ann Rodriguez has court this morning and
- 36:47Speaker 2: she's in custody. That's strange because I know she hasn't
- 36:52Speaker 2: been indicted on kidnapping me yet.
- 36:54Speaker 1: What's going on?
- 36:55Speaker 2: So we sit through that appearance too. And as it
- 36:57Speaker 2: turns out, a month prior, or maybe a little more
- 37:00Speaker 2: than a month, I think it was like on March 1st,
- 37:03Speaker 2: She kidnapped a Spaniard at gunpoint.
- 37:05Speaker 3: What?
- 37:06Speaker 2: For running a drone on the island.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 37:09Speaker 2: And made him strip butt ass naked and hog tied
- 37:11Speaker 2: him too. The Spaniard's brother was able to escape on boat,
- 37:17Speaker 2: got the police. The police came back and found the
- 37:21Speaker 2: dude hog tied, butt naked in a boat. And so
- 37:25Speaker 2: that's what she was in custody for was kidnapping this
- 37:27Speaker 2: dude at gunpoint. Now it turned out to be a
- 37:28Speaker 2: fake gun, but that doesn't matter. You can't, you know,
- 37:31Speaker 2: Use a BB gun to kidnap somebody. So there's obviously
- 37:35Speaker 2: a pattern of this. And so now the pieces start
- 37:38Speaker 2: kind of coming together. You know, I heard the Haitians
- 37:40Speaker 2: say this has happened seven times. Well, now I know
- 37:42Speaker 2: of two times. Spaniard and me. What happened to the
- 37:45Speaker 2: other five guys? Or were they just, you know, running
- 37:48Speaker 2: their mouth? Maybe it didn't happen seven times. Maybe it's
- 37:50Speaker 2: only happened twice. But clearly there's a pattern.
- 37:53Speaker 1: Of this behavior.
- 37:53Speaker 2: You know, hindsight, I don't know that. She intended for
- 38:02Speaker 2: me to leave that island. I don't know what the
- 38:04Speaker 2: actual plan was. But the fact that the woman who
- 38:14Speaker 2: ran that island for Jeffrey Epstein is not only running
- 38:18Speaker 2: it today. She lives on it in this gigantic mansion,
- 38:21Speaker 2: I assume, because that's the only residence I'm aware of
- 38:23Speaker 2: on the island. The guys on the island that work
- 38:27Speaker 2: there refer to her as the owner. She's kidnapping people
- 38:30Speaker 2: and throwing them in a room she calls the dungeon. Like,
- 38:33Speaker 2: what the fuck is going on? And why, with the
- 38:38Speaker 2: release of all these files and all the public outcry
- 38:41Speaker 2: over Epstein, why am I the only guy that's been
- 38:44Speaker 2: arrested for being on that island?
- 38:46Speaker 1: You know why.
- 38:48Speaker 3: Do I?
- 38:50Speaker 1: Yeah. It's fucked up, Sean.
- 38:56Speaker 2: I more and more feel like we live in an
- 39:00Speaker 2: occupied country. What just happened with Massey is kind of
- 39:05Speaker 2: a scary example of that.
- 39:07Speaker 1: I mean.
- 39:08Speaker 2: Joe Kent's resignation.
- 39:09Speaker 1: AIPAC's literally bragging about buying that election.
- 39:14Speaker 2: 100%.
- 39:15Speaker 1: We're an occupied country. Yeah. There's no other way to
- 39:18Speaker 1: look at it.
- 39:18Speaker 2: There's no other way to look at it. And that
- 39:20Speaker 2: begs the question, like.
- 39:22Speaker 1: Our president is saying he has a 99% approval rating
- 39:24Speaker 1: in Israel. What's he gone like? it's down to like
- 39:30Speaker 1: 30% or something. I mean, I got to check, but
- 39:34Speaker 1: we check it on the break.
- 39:36Speaker 2: It scares the hell out of me. You know, it
- 39:39Speaker 2: scares the hell out of me. Oh, then they sued me.
- 39:43Speaker 1: What scares you about it?
- 39:44Speaker 2: What scares me about it? I have nine kids that
- 39:47Speaker 2: have to grow up in this nation. I have helped,
- 39:52Speaker 2: I don't even know how many people at this point
- 39:55Speaker 2: escape a life of addiction so that they're able to
- 39:58Speaker 2: become functional members.
- 40:00Speaker 1: Of society again.
- 40:01Speaker 2: And what is the society that they're coming back into?
- 40:07Speaker 2: It scares me. I'm a grandparent.
- 40:09Speaker 1: It scares me too.
- 40:12Speaker 2: I love the America I grew up believing in, and
- 40:15Speaker 2: I don't recognize it anymore.
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- 40:22Speaker 1: it is for the military to modernize faster, because there's
- 40:25Speaker 1: no shortage of good technology being built in the private
- 40:29Speaker 1: sector right now. The problem is getting that technology into
- 40:32Speaker 1: the hands of the people who actually need it. And
- 40:34Speaker 1: from everything I've heard, working with the Department of War
- 40:37Speaker 1: can be incredibly difficult. Most companies have no idea who
- 40:41Speaker 1: to talk to, where the real decision makers are, or
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- 41:05Speaker 1: they've helped small businesses win over $ 600 million in government contracts.
- 41:11Speaker 1: And what I like? Is there a veteran team focused
- 41:14Speaker 1: on getting better technology into the hands of warfighters? If
- 41:18Speaker 1: you're serious about selling to the Department of War, go
- 41:21Speaker 1: to sbiradvisors.com. That's sbiradvisors.com. And if you mention my name,
- 41:30Speaker 1: you'll get your first month free. Do you think the
- 41:36Speaker 1: America that you grew up believing in was the real thing?
- 41:41Speaker 2: At this point, I don't even know. And it honestly
- 41:45Speaker 2: hurts me to say that. It hurts to think about it,
- 41:52Speaker 2: you know? I have believed in American exceptionalism my entire life.
- 42:01Speaker 2: And more and more, I've started realizing that I don't
- 42:06Speaker 2: think either political party believes in that. I think they view...
- 42:10Speaker 2: I think they view.
- 42:15Speaker 2: I think they view America as a means to an end,
- 42:17Speaker 2: personal gain, both of them. You know, if you watch
- 42:21Speaker 2: me ever on social media, I loathe politics. I believe
- 42:25Speaker 2: in maximum rights for maximum people all the time, which
- 42:28Speaker 2: I believe would just make me a libertarian. But like
- 42:31Speaker 2: I'm out there, you know, trying to save lives in
- 42:33Speaker 2: some of the most impoverished communities in America. I'm trying
- 42:36Speaker 2: to move the needle for marginalized communities. I've fought genocide overseas.
- 42:40Speaker 2: You know, we've done all these things and suffering and
- 42:43Speaker 2: what I'm seeing is that our own government seems to
- 42:47Speaker 2: be fomenting suffering right here at home. And abroad, obviously.
- 42:52Speaker 2: But I'm just lost, man.
- 42:55Speaker 1: I'm lost.
- 42:55Speaker 2: And the more I do these weird things that I
- 43:00Speaker 2: keep getting myself pulled into, the more I start seeing
- 43:04Speaker 2: that something's fucked up. There's something that's not making sense.
- 43:09Speaker 2: There's a boogeyman out there somewhere, and I can't figure
- 43:11Speaker 2: out who it is or where it is.
- 43:14Speaker 1: I know the feeling.
- 43:17Speaker 2: You know, the first time I came on here, I
- 43:18Speaker 2: thought the State Department was the boogeyman because they were
- 43:21Speaker 2: in our way on everything in Afghanistan. And then I
- 43:23Speaker 2: started thinking maybe the FBI is the boogeyman because this
- 43:26Speaker 2: and that, and they're getting in the way on everything
- 43:28Speaker 2: we're trying to do, combating human trafficking.
- 43:31Speaker 1: And now you realize they're all just extensions. 100%.
- 43:33Speaker 2: Well, I just went to Epstein Island trying to bring
- 43:36Speaker 2: light to that with a dude from the State Department
- 43:38Speaker 2: and a couple people from the FBI. Like, they're not
- 43:40Speaker 2: the boogeyman either. Something is... There's something pulling the strings,
- 43:46Speaker 2: and I think we both know what it is.
- 43:48Speaker 1: It's Israel.
- 43:49Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 43:50Speaker 2: It's Israel.
- 43:51Speaker 1: I don't even fucking care anymore, dude. Yeah. I don't
- 43:54Speaker 1: believe in right.
- 43:55Speaker 2: You've got security.
- 43:56Speaker 1: I don't.
- 43:56Speaker 2: I don't give a fuck.
- 43:57Speaker 1: Right? I know, but I mean, if somebody wants you dead. Yeah.
- 44:01Speaker 2: You know what? You're exactly. It doesn't matter how much
- 44:02Speaker 2: security you've got. It's Israel.
- 44:04Speaker 3: It's Israel.
- 44:04Speaker 2: Our nation has been sold. We are an occupied nation.
- 44:08Speaker 2: And I honestly feel like Epstein is tied into that
- 44:12Speaker 2: in a million different ways. And, you know. I don't
- 44:18Speaker 2: know what I've stepped in.
- 44:20Speaker 1: I don't.
- 44:22Speaker 2: I'm a little bit scared. I don't regret it. I've
- 44:28Speaker 2: gone up against our government before in the Afghan evac.
- 44:31Speaker 2: You know, I've been in front of Congress and, like,
- 44:35Speaker 2: told them, you guys fucked up. You got a crackhead
- 44:37Speaker 2: responsible for safe housing, America's first interpreter in a global
- 44:40Speaker 2: war on terror. If that doesn't show you that you
- 44:43Speaker 2: fucked up and screwed up your job, I don't know
- 44:45Speaker 2: what does. I've got no problem going up against our
- 44:48Speaker 2: own government, but I don't know what I'm going up
- 44:50Speaker 2: against this time. I really don't. I don't know if
- 44:53Speaker 2: there's a billionaire on the other side of this. They've
- 44:55Speaker 2: sued me now.
- 44:57Speaker 1: Sued you?
- 44:58Speaker 2: Yeah, they sued me civilly. The entity that owns the island,
- 45:03Speaker 2: LSJVI LLC. And if that is actually owned by a billionaire,
- 45:08Speaker 2: that's a terrifying thing that I'm being sued by a billionaire.
- 45:13Speaker 2: The way the lawsuit reads, though, makes me wonder. Is
- 45:16Speaker 2: there actually a billionaire involved in this at all? Or
- 45:18Speaker 2: is this all Ian Rodriguez? They accused me, 30 seconds
- 45:22Speaker 2: of Googling me or just asking their favorite AI could
- 45:25Speaker 2: have prevented the absurdity that is their affidavit against me.
- 45:30Speaker 2: They called me a very violent man. There's not one
- 45:35Speaker 2: shred of evidence to back that up. In fact, I've
- 45:37Speaker 2: got a global track record, a very public global track
- 45:40Speaker 2: record of combating violence and genocide and human rights abuses.
- 45:45Speaker 2: They said that my lengthy drug use, which, I mean,
- 45:49Speaker 2: that's accurate. I've been very open about that. It means
- 45:51Speaker 2: that I'm basically insane and subject to conspiracy theories. Bro,
- 45:55Speaker 2: I am not into conspiracy theories. Not even a little bit.
- 46:02Speaker 2: The lawsuit they filed against me was basically slanderous, inflammatory,
- 46:05Speaker 2: you know. But it still scares me.
- 46:10Speaker 1: Like, it is.
- 46:11Speaker 2: Is there a billionaire behind this? Is Israel behind this?
- 46:14Speaker 2: What am I actually getting myself into at this point?
- 46:18Speaker 2: And I'm not afraid of taking on big issues. You know,
- 46:23Speaker 2: your team saw that in Memphis. I will step in
- 46:25Speaker 2: the middle of the biggest pile of shit on earth
- 46:27Speaker 2: if I think I can make a difference. And so far,
- 46:30Speaker 2: I've not found anything where I can't make a difference.
- 46:33Speaker 2: And I think that's something intrinsic to all of us.
- 46:35Speaker 2: We can all make differences in really big things. But
- 46:39Speaker 2: whatever I'm in the middle of now, Am I actually
- 46:42Speaker 2: going to be able to make a difference? And what
- 46:44Speaker 2: is the risk level I have just exposed myself to
- 46:47Speaker 2: trying to do that? I saw an article today before
- 46:50Speaker 2: we came here. I think it was the New York Post.
- 46:52Speaker 2: A lady somewhere in the Southwest, a journalist, ran a
- 46:58Speaker 2: piece about Epstein's CIA ties. She just announced that she's
- 47:02Speaker 2: leaving the country because she's been subject to DEW attacks. Now,
- 47:07Speaker 2: is she crazy or is that real? I mean, it
- 47:10Speaker 2: seemed like an incredible outlet on the story, but I mean,
- 47:12Speaker 2: that terrifies the shit out of me. She's talking about
- 47:14Speaker 2: Epstein and this has happened. And there's this other lady
- 47:16Speaker 2: on Tik TOK who covered my arrest, who said she's
- 47:19Speaker 2: been having people like show up at her house at
- 47:21Speaker 2: weird hours, kicking the door. And I've not had anything
- 47:25Speaker 2: weird like that happen yet, but is it common? What
- 47:28Speaker 2: have I opened my kids up to at this point
- 47:30Speaker 2: by doing? And all I was trying to do was
- 47:32Speaker 2: shed light on that damn Island. And we have uncovered
- 47:35Speaker 2: a hell of a lot more than we ever intended
- 47:37Speaker 2: to ever.
- 47:40Speaker 1: You can't get to the bottom of the entity that
- 47:43Speaker 1: owns it?
- 47:44Speaker 2: So I have not been able to. It is a
- 47:48Speaker 2: Delaware LLC. Public articles, you know, say that Stephen Decoff
- 47:55Speaker 2: bought both islands, Greater St. James and Little St. James
- 47:58Speaker 2: in one transaction. Pulling the property tax records, and we've
- 48:02Speaker 2: done all this since my arrest, pulling property tax records,
- 48:06Speaker 2: you can see that Black Diamond LLC, which is definitely Decoff,
- 48:10Speaker 2: that's known is paying the property taxes on great St.
- 48:14Speaker 3: James.
- 48:15Speaker 2: There's this other entity that is paying the property to LSJVI,
- 48:20Speaker 2: little St. James, Virgin islands, LLC that is paying the
- 48:23Speaker 2: taxes and little St.
- 48:24Speaker 1: James. Why?
- 48:25Speaker 2: If you own both of them, why not have your
- 48:27Speaker 2: entity paid the taxes on both of them? Why not
- 48:30Speaker 2: have your entity on both of them? Why have this
- 48:33Speaker 2: mysterious shell company on this other one? When you publicly
- 48:37Speaker 2: said you bought it, um, I'm not saying that that
- 48:40Speaker 2: in and of itself is anything nefarious. There could be
- 48:43Speaker 2: a million financial. Maybe that's why he's a billionaire and
- 48:45Speaker 2: I'm not. You know, he knows what to do with money.
- 48:48Speaker 2: But it begs the question, like, what is actually going on?
- 48:51Speaker 2: What is actually going on here? Because I don't see
- 48:55Speaker 2: that island getting turned into a resort. And look, I'll
- 48:59Speaker 2: tell you this. If I'm a billionaire and I buy
- 49:01Speaker 2: the world's most notorious island for pedophiles and I want
- 49:05Speaker 2: to rebrand it and change the public perception of it,
- 49:08Speaker 2: the very first thing I'm gonna do is fire every
- 49:10Speaker 2: motherfucker that worked for the last guy who was trafficking
- 49:12Speaker 2: kids to that island. I'm not keeping his property manager.
- 49:17Speaker 2: And if she kidnapped a guy, March 1st, I'm not
- 49:20Speaker 2: leaving her on the island until April 25th to do
- 49:23Speaker 2: it again. These are all giant red flags that to
- 49:29Speaker 2: me makes it seem like there's not actually a billionaire
- 49:32Speaker 2: in the picture. You don't get to become a billionaire
- 49:35Speaker 2: by being, you know, reckless. those seem like some pretty
- 49:39Speaker 2: reckless like really disastrous pr moves right there if if
- 49:43Speaker 2: they're true wow.
- 49:51Speaker 1: What are you thinking.
- 49:55Speaker 2: I mean honestly and i hate to say this because
- 49:57Speaker 2: of how how hard i have fought to change uh
- 50:01Speaker 2: the things that bother me i i think our nation's
- 50:03Speaker 2: i The Massey election, you know, shocked me.
- 50:13Speaker 1: Shocked me.
- 50:14Speaker 2: Did not expect that. We've got good people in Congress.
- 50:18Speaker 2: You know, Roe Connick, you've sat down, Roe. We've got
- 50:22Speaker 2: Nancy Mace, Massey. There are good people trying. Not Massey anymore.
- 50:28Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I don't know.
- 50:33Speaker 2: You don't think any of them are good?
- 50:35Speaker 1: See, I think.
- 50:39Speaker 2: Here's the difference between me and you.
- 50:40Speaker 1: Every time I think somebody's good. Right.
- 50:44Speaker 2: And that is my perpetual problem.
- 50:47Speaker 1: Just the other day, saw something else. It's just, I
- 50:52Speaker 1: don't even like bringing anybody on anymore. I get it.
- 50:55Speaker 1: I mean, that's, you know, yes, do I think there
- 50:58Speaker 1: are people good in there? Probably.
- 51:02Speaker 2: You know what?
- 51:04Speaker 1: Let's actually. I like.
- 51:07Speaker 3: Roe.
- 51:09Speaker 1: I like Massey. I like, I just, I don't know, man.
- 51:18Speaker 1: I mean, because every time I vouch for somebody, I
- 51:21Speaker 1: interview somebody. I don't really vouch for anybody.
- 51:24Speaker 2: I was about to say, interviewing is not the same
- 51:25Speaker 2: as vouching for somebody.
- 51:26Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't really vouch for anybody, but every time I,
- 51:30Speaker 1: not every time.
- 51:30Speaker 2: Believe in. Every time you believe in.
- 51:32Speaker 1: Yeah, every time I get, I believe in, whatever. I
- 51:36Speaker 1: just always wind up, it was just all fucking lies.
- 51:40Speaker 1: was all bullshit yep they're all beating the same fucking
- 51:43Speaker 1: drum and that's it right there and like you just
- 51:47Speaker 1: rattled one of those people off i just saw one
- 51:49Speaker 1: of those people that you rattled off do a tweet
- 51:52Speaker 1: we're not sending our money anymore to somalia we're not
- 51:56Speaker 1: gonna send it to russia we're not gonna send it
- 51:59Speaker 1: to china we are we're not gonna send it yeah
- 52:02Speaker 1: and damn it and and i looked under there do
- 52:05Speaker 1: you know nick fuentes oh yeah nick fuentes leaves a
- 52:07Speaker 1: comment under there he goes uh I think you may
- 52:10Speaker 1: have forgot one. Like, oh yeah. It was real? Yeah, like, oh,
- 52:15Speaker 1: it was Nancy. It's like, oh, okay. You forgot the
- 52:19Speaker 1: one fucking country that everybody, all of your fucking constituents
- 52:25Speaker 1: are bitching about, but you want to look like a
- 52:28Speaker 1: fucking courageous hard ass, right? You know what I mean?
- 52:32Speaker 1: And then it's theatrics.
- 52:34Speaker 2: I spent the bulk of my life an idealist and
- 52:37Speaker 2: I still am. And I trust everybody. My default is just,
- 52:40Speaker 2: I just love everybody. I love people, you know, and
- 52:43Speaker 2: that gets me burned in my line of work all
- 52:45Speaker 2: the fucking time, you know, but having to face the
- 52:49Speaker 2: realization that I've been an idealist and just blindly trusting
- 52:54Speaker 2: my own government for my entire life, that one, that
- 52:57Speaker 2: one made me sit down for a minute. I'll give
- 53:01Speaker 2: you an example of just how brainwashed, it's not even brainwashed.
- 53:04Speaker 2: I just accepted what got put in front of me
- 53:05Speaker 2: for so long. I was all for Israel. And then,
- 53:10Speaker 2: you know, we did the Afghan evacs. We did some
- 53:12Speaker 2: conflict evac in Ukraine and some other places. So after
- 53:16Speaker 2: October 7th, we did some evacs in Israel and we
- 53:22Speaker 2: tried to do them in Gaza, which we did a
- 53:25Speaker 2: lot of humanitarian aid and all these other places I
- 53:28Speaker 2: just named too. And so we tried to do that
- 53:29Speaker 2: in Gaza because there's kids starving. And in that process,
- 53:33Speaker 2: I think me and a lot of the same people
- 53:36Speaker 2: that worked the Afghan evac, we were trying to do
- 53:38Speaker 2: this one. And we were all believing Israel's good guys
- 53:41Speaker 2: and how horrible this attack that just happened, which it
- 53:44Speaker 2: was horrible. We're a week, two weeks maybe into this.
- 53:48Speaker 2: And that meme of the dude saying, are we the baddies?
- 53:51Speaker 2: Starts going around all these signal chats because we're all
- 53:54Speaker 2: it's donning on every one of us in real time.
- 53:56Speaker 2: Israel is not who we thought they were. Israel is
- 54:00Speaker 2: not who we thought they were. We're seeing in real
- 54:03Speaker 2: time evacuation corridors to prevent death and suffering get shut down.
- 54:08Speaker 2: We're seeing aid centers get hit. You've seen it in
- 54:10Speaker 2: Lebanon right now. We were seeing it in Syria. Hell,
- 54:13Speaker 2: Israel put the al-Qaeda leader in power in Syria. Like,
- 54:16Speaker 2: what is it?
- 54:17Speaker 1: And then we invited him. Yes. To the fucking White House.
- 54:20Speaker 3: Yes.
- 54:21Speaker 2: And fucking who was it that took a selfie with him?
- 54:24Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably Trump.
- 54:26Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure.
- 54:28Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 54:30Speaker 2: You know what? I'm going to catch a lot of
- 54:32Speaker 2: flack for saying this, and I don't mean it the
- 54:34Speaker 2: way it sounds, but actually I do. Everything is fake
- 54:38Speaker 2: and gay.
- 54:39Speaker 1: All of it.
- 54:41Speaker 2: Everything that is getting pushed down our throats from almost
- 54:45Speaker 2: every legacy media outlet, everything. What you just told me
- 54:49Speaker 2: about Mace is a great example. I didn't see that.
- 54:51Speaker 1: It's a fucking joke, dude.
- 54:53Speaker 2: It's all fake and gay.
- 54:55Speaker 1: Well, you know what? Are you a Christian? Absolutely. Okay.
- 54:58Speaker 1: That's what I think is happening. I think this is
- 55:01Speaker 1: the same fucking government that, you know what I mean?
- 55:04Speaker 1: The same fucking government that happened when 9-11 happened, when
- 55:07Speaker 1: we were growing up and all this shit. And now
- 55:10Speaker 1: there's a veil being lifted. All these, I mean, nobody's, look,
- 55:15Speaker 1: how much shit has the Clintons and the Trumps talked
- 55:19Speaker 1: about each other? How much shit have we heard from
- 55:23Speaker 1: Donald Trump saying, I'm going to fucking drain the D.C. swamp? Oh, yeah. Bro.
- 55:28Speaker 1: The D.C. swamp just got handed to you on a
- 55:31Speaker 1: silver platter. They're a bunch of pedophiles. It's in the
- 55:34Speaker 1: Pizzagate shit. It's in the Epstein. It's in everything. There
- 55:39Speaker 1: you go. There you go. Now you can drain the swamp.
- 55:42Speaker 1: Is he going to drain it?
- 55:42Speaker 2: Nothing's happening.
- 55:43Speaker 1: Fuck no, he's not going to drain it. Because he
- 55:45Speaker 1: is the fucking swamp. He's in there with all the
- 55:48Speaker 1: rest of them. They're all buddies. And this veil's getting lifted. And,
- 55:54Speaker 1: you know, we've, I mean, What does Christianity say? Don't
- 55:58Speaker 1: idolize anyone. Don't idolize anyone. Yeah, period. Well, we've idolized
- 56:04Speaker 1: George Bush. We've idolized Obama. We've idolized Biden. We've idolized Trump.
- 56:11Speaker 1: We've idolized all these fucking people. Yeah. You know what
- 56:15Speaker 1: I mean? And now this veil's being lifted. These are
- 56:19Speaker 1: the people that you've idolized.
- 56:20Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
- 56:21Speaker 1: This is what they've done. You're right. This is how
- 56:25Speaker 1: they live. They live by a different set of rules.
- 56:30Speaker 1: That's what's happening. It's all being unveiled. And we're seeing
- 56:34Speaker 1: this is why you don't idolize fucking human beings. Bingo.
- 56:39Speaker 2: Bingo. And you're seeing it happen not just with politicians.
- 56:44Speaker 2: It's the athletes. Watching grown men almost fetishize a politician
- 56:51Speaker 2: is– most bizarre thing in the world to me it's
- 56:54Speaker 2: even weirder than idolizing athletes and more and more I
- 56:59Speaker 2: am seeing that veil being lifted I think it's why
- 57:01Speaker 2: a lot of my content is going viral lately you
- 57:05Speaker 2: know everybody is starting to realize that there is a
- 57:11Speaker 2: war going on and it is us versus them but
- 57:13Speaker 2: it's not the us versus them everybody thought it was
- 57:15Speaker 2: you know this is our nation is rotting from the
- 57:19Speaker 2: top down and.
- 57:21Speaker 1: I think Xi just said we're a fucking declining nation.
- 57:24Speaker 1: Trump agreed with him. Right. Because we aren't. We are.
- 57:28Speaker 2: We absolutely are. And I think it's going to continue
- 57:31Speaker 2: declining as long as we look at this as though
- 57:35Speaker 2: one side or the other is going to fix it.
- 57:37Speaker 2: I'm watching perfectly rational human beings trash brilliant solutions because
- 57:43Speaker 2: it came from the wrong team. That's fucking retarded.
- 57:47Speaker 1: I really do think it's on purpose. It's got to be.
- 57:50Speaker 1: I think the abortion stuff, I think the race stuff,
- 57:54Speaker 1: I think Second Amendment stuff, this is shit that we're
- 57:58Speaker 1: going to battle back and forth until the end of time.
- 58:01Speaker 2: It is because we're being pushed.
- 58:05Speaker 1: It keeps us in the loop.
- 58:08Speaker 2: We're being pushed. Everything has to be just two choices,
- 58:11Speaker 2: black and white. Either you're pro-abortion and you want to
- 58:16Speaker 2: murder babies. Or you're anti-abortion and you want, you know,
- 58:21Speaker 2: women to die in childbirth. Those aren't the only two
- 58:23Speaker 2: fucking options. We can accept that abortion is tragic and
- 58:26Speaker 2: should be limited but is sometimes necessary.
- 58:29Speaker 1: That's not the point. Like, these people don't... Dude, we
- 58:33Speaker 1: have Lindsey Graham in there who has no fucking kids.
- 58:36Speaker 1: Why does that guy give a shit what happens to
- 58:38Speaker 1: the country when he's fucking dead? He has no kids.
- 58:42Speaker 1: He has no fucking future. There's no lineage to look
- 58:46Speaker 1: out for. Yeah. How the fuck did that guy get elected?
- 58:51Speaker 1: South Carolina?
- 58:52Speaker 2: That's a great question.
- 58:53Speaker 1: I mean, whatever. He's one of however many of the same. Yeah.
- 58:58Speaker 1: You know? I think we're leading up to a holy war.
- 59:05Speaker 1: It's not going to be fucking nations. Yeah. I mean,
- 59:08Speaker 1: I want to be solution-based. I think there's a way
- 59:11Speaker 1: out of this, but everybody's got to be on the
- 59:13Speaker 1: same page.
- 59:13Speaker 2: Well, and you just hit the nail on the head.
- 59:15Speaker 2: That is the way out of this, is we have
- 59:16Speaker 2: to all come together as Americans and realize, like.
- 59:19Speaker 1: Well, I will say that Israel is the one thing
- 59:22Speaker 1: since 9-11 that I've seen everybody rallying around. Mm-hmm. Get
- 59:28Speaker 1: off our fucking tit. Yep. We're tired of paying for
- 59:30Speaker 1: your fucking education. We're tired of paying for your universal
- 59:34Speaker 1: health care. We're tired of paying for your fucking Iron Dome.
- 59:37Speaker 1: We're tired of paying for your fucking missile defense. We
- 59:40Speaker 1: get shit. We are a fucking cow pasture for Israel.
- 59:44Speaker 1: We're tired of fighting your fucking wars. We're tired of
- 59:47Speaker 1: dying for your fucking causes. And everybody sees that the
- 59:52Speaker 1: United States of America is nothing but a fucking cow
- 59:55Speaker 1: pasture full of cattle to fucking send tax money And
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: fight their fucking wars. Everybody fucking knows.
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: And apparently protect their pedophiles.
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: Everybody knows. Except, I don't know, a portion of the
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: baby boomer generation.
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: Hey, you know what? I'm actually glad you brought that up.
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: I'm on a group text with a bunch of evangelicals,
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: baby boomer men. And this topic actually, I don't know
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: how I ended up there. This topic actually came up
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: the other day. And I speak my mind. You know me.
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: And so I dropped a couple examples of things I
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: personally witnessed while we were working the Gaza situation. And
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: they actually went and did their fucking research and came
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: back and like, holy shit.
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: You're right.
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: Israel is not what I thought it was. That blew
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: my mind to have, you know, 65 year old dudes
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: that are part of the baby boomers that have been
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: all pro-Israel for the whole lives now realizing I've been
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: lied to. I've been lied to. And I think if
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: we could get more Americans to wake up to that
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: fact and recognize that we've been lied to, that we've
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: been presented false, you know, two-choice narratives where there could
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: be a third option. Actually, the reason we're sitting here
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: is a great example of that. We were told Epstein
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: killed himself. And then this huge fight breaks out that, no,
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: Epstein didn't kill himself. You know, we never got to
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: consider that third option. Maybe the motherfucker left that jail
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: cell alive. And I think that's probably how Israel, the
- 1:01:27Speaker 2: mainstream media, our federal government, that's how they have been
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: keeping us so divided is that we're given two choices
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: to argue about. Meanwhile, there's a third option that's reality
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: out there. You know, just like the example I just
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: gave with abortion. We're faced with this. It's just one
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: way or the other. And we don't even get to
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: consider the third way. It's Second Amendment. One way or
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: the other, don't consider the third way. And so many
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: things tend to exist in that gray area.
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: They have to have those to keep us polarized, to
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: keep us fighting.
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: The bullshit that I've seen play out online between blacks
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: and whites blows my fucking mind.
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything about that in a long time. Right, right.
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: That's dead.
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: That's a dead argument now. But it's a great example
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: of the bullshit because you guys got to see it
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: when you came to Memphis. It's not real. You go
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: to the worst streets in America, nobody gives a fuck.
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: That is one of those problems that really only exists
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: in people's heads and online.
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: It's manufactured.
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: It's manufactured. Manufactured hate and division. And that same playbook
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: keeps getting used for every major societal issue.
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: It keeps people on the loop, but the loop is dying.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: I think it is too.
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: The loop's going to die with the baby boomer generation.
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: I mean, 85%, I read this, 85% of Gen Z
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: is tired of the bullshit with Israel. 85%. 85%. I
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: think Gen X, that's probably, how old are you? Are
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: you a Gen Xer? 4,400. Yeah, you're like me. We
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: don't know if we're Gen X or millennial. But 55%
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: of Gen X tired of the bullshit with Israel. I
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: can't remember of millennials. I think it's 65%, 70% or something.
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: It's getting over and more.
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: It's over. It needs to be. It's going to die
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: with the baby boomer generation.
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: The.
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: They're the last supporters of this shit. Now, whether anything
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: changes or not, who the fuck knows? You know what
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: I mean? But an entire new party has to be elected.
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: It has to be elected all at once. I talked
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: about this with Cenk Uygur.
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: How do we make that?
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: And that's why, like, I really do. I like Roe.
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: I like Eli Crank. Me and Eli have... I hate
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: saying that. We have wildly different opinions. Yeah, fucking wildly
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: different opinions than everybody I know. And that's okay. Yeah.
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: You know, but Eli's kind of on the other end
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: of this, I think, maybe. But you know what? Like,
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: that's a guy that emails his constituents and they tell
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: him how to vote. And I don't know any other
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: fucking politician that does that.
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: That is exactly how it's supposed to work.
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: Exactly. And you cannot fault a man for doing what
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: his constituents want him to do.
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: Yeah, that's literally his job.
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: Yep.
- 1:04:19Speaker 3: And.
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: Yeah, I really like Massey. There's a couple other people
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: that I think maybe there's some hope, but in order
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: to create the new system, I'm sorry, everybody has to go.
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: Everybody has to go. Every incumbent has to be out.
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: There cannot be any remnants left.
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: I could not agree more.
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: And it all has to happen at once. It can't
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: be a fucking president. It can't be a senator here
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: and there. It has to happen all at once, as
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: much as possible, all at once. I know not everybody's
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: up for election all at once, but there has to
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: be some type of a uniparty, you know, where everybody
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: comes together and it is against the Republican Party and
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: it's against the DNC and it has to be all,
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: and they have to run on the fact that we're
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: going to amend the Constitution. These are the things we're
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: gonna amend. It's gonna be term limits. It's gonna be
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: no more money in politics. Those are the first things
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: you're going to do when you fucking pass that way
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: because it's going to get corrupted again. It's only a
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: matter of time before it gets corrupted again. And so
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: when that happens, they need to pass what we need
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: them to pass, which are those two things, plus probably
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: a bunch more shit. But those are the two things.
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: First session after election, get your fucking asses in there,
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: amend that constitution, the end. Now we can go back
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: to fighting about abortion and race and all the other shit.
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: Taking care of term limits would stop the rot.
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: I don't think that's it.
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: Oh, I don't mean immediately. And not by itself. We've
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: got to stop the insider trading. We've got to stop
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: anything that allows elected officials.
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: To profit from their position, period, across the board. But
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: I do.
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: Completely agree it's going to take a viable third.
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: I mean, it feels like there's so much truth right
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: now being unveiled. nothing's happening yet i mean even when
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: i'm around my phone i mean i've always thought this
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: you know what i mean i mean i me and
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: a couple of guys um developed a whole application uh
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: that we're unveiling later on hell yeah you know for
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: for for phone privacy and security so that's how fucking
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: paranoid i am about it that i've went out and
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: developed my own damn app because of it and it's
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: going to be called glacier and uh probably out by
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: the time the show's out but I don't even, every
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: time I say something that I'm not proud of or
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: that I may regret if it hits the public and
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: I'm around my phone, I just look, I'm like, yep,
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: that's going to get unveiled at some.
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: Point in time.
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: I'm being serious. I agree. Because I think truth is
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: coming to the light. Now, it just depends on what
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: we're going to do with it when we get it.
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: Well, and that's the scary part. What if all the
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: truth comes out and nothing changes? Nobody does anything?
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: Then we deserve what we've got.
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: And that's a sad thing to accept, isn't it?
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: I read in the Wall Street Journal that there have
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: never been more Americans leaving the United States as there
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: is right now. Really? This time, applying for dual citizenship,
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: coming up with contingency plans because there is no confidence
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: in our institutions. There's no confidence in our people. There's
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: no confidence in the country. How fucking sad is that?
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: I've spent years arguing that Memphis, Tennessee is worth saving.
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: I never thought I'd be having to have that conversation
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: about this country.
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: But people are worth saving.
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: 100%. 100%.
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: People are always worth saving.
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: Government ain't worth a fuck right now.
- 1:08:07Speaker 3: No.
- 1:08:08Speaker 2: It hasn't been for a while.
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: Probably since JFK.
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: And who killed him? Don't you think that's weird? Who
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: killed him? Who killed JFK? Yeah. I mean, it's... Over
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: all the signs are pointing.
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: You know, I mean, Tulsi had the JFK files in
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: her house.
- 1:08:29Speaker 2: And they raided her.
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: Supposedly they raided her. Right, right. She came out and
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: said they didn't raid her.
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: And then quit.
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: Then the next week, she resigns.
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: It's all fake and gay.
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: What's real? There's your next t-shirt. That's the problem.
- 1:08:44Speaker 2: I'm going to get canceled just for saying that.
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: But it's true.
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: It's true. You know, I just, I open my phone
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: half the time and I'm blown away at how stupid
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: the majority of people seem to be. And then I
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: have to ask myself, is this real? Are they actually
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: this stupid? Or is this another influence campaign being funded by,
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: you know, and that's honestly, I think that's what a
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: lot of this ridiculous stuff we see popping up online is.
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: They already came out. They're paying $ 70, 000 a post, supposedly.
- 1:09:23Speaker 1: Holy shit. Be pro-Israel, right? $ 7, 000 a post. Did you
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: know that?
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: I did not know that. And that's our money, I'm sure,
- 1:09:33Speaker 2: that we gave them.
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: I don't know where it comes from. I don't know
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: who got paid. Who knows? That could be some AI
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: fake campaign. I don't think so. Pretty much everybody I
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: know knows about the $ 7, 000 a post. But It's bad.
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: It's bad. I mean, we got to throw the tweet
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: up of AIPAC celebrating the fact that they bought an
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: election in Kentucky.
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: Yeah, you do need to throw that up.
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: A foreign nation bought and is bragging about buying an
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: election in Kentucky. Yeah. Not even hiding it.
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: And this is how liberty dies. And what are we
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: going to do? I hate to feel so nihilistic about it, but.
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: I mean, there's all kinds of crazy shit happening. Just
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: our stance on the world, how fast it's changing. I mean,
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: I just read something the other day about the Canadian
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: pipeline that's now selling the majority of its oil to China.
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: to diversify from the United States because we fucking slapped
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: a 25% tariff on them. That worked out well.
- 1:10:58Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: Oh, Trump also came out and said we might have
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: to repay all of these tariffs. Really? Yeah.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: I missed that one.
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: God.
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: So what is this island now?
- 1:11:16Speaker 2: So what?
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: What is this island now?
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: It appears to be Anne Rodriguez's hangout. That's what it
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: appears to be to me. Where she still gets to
- 1:11:24Speaker 2: hog and tie people and throw them in a dungeon.
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: That's what it feels like. On paper, billionaire Stephen Decoff
- 1:11:33Speaker 2: bought it and is trying to rebrand it and wants
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: to build a resort there. If that's true, I'm a
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: little concerned about his choice of island manager. But I
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- 1:11:51Speaker 2: I really do.
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- 1:11:54Speaker 2: Time will tell.
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- 1:14:32Speaker 3: Sean Ryan.
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, man.
- 1:14:34Speaker 3: Glad to be here, man.
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: Glad to have you. It's quite the adventure you guys
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: have been on here for the past couple months.
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: It's been a wild ride, man.
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: Yeah, no shit. Well, let me give you an introduction here.
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: Ryan Dalton, you began your career as a human rights
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: lawyer focused on combating child sex trafficking and dismantling trafficking networks.
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: You co-founded Rescue Forensics, an intelligence platform that helped law
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: enforcement recover more than 150 child victims. You later served
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: as a special agent with the U.S. Department of State's
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: Diplomatic Security Service and worked in crisis response and intelligence operations,
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: supporting federal law enforcement and national security partners. Today, you
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: are the co-founder of Closed Horizon, a platform focused on
- 1:15:23Speaker 1: restoring integrity, to information in an era defined by deception.
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: Most recently, you're one of the men alongside Ben Owen
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: during the Little St. James excursion tied to the Epstein
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: Isn't Dead campaign. Ryan Dalton, welcome to the show. Glad
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: to be here. So you were on the excursion with Ben. Yeah.
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: So before we get into why you think Epstein is
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: still alive. What prompted this?
- 1:16:01Speaker 3: Yeah, we met then and realized that we felt similarly
- 1:16:06Speaker 3: about this. Felt similarly that there's something real weird going
- 1:16:11Speaker 3: on here that we couldn't quite figure out. So we
- 1:16:14Speaker 3: decided we're going to go down to the island after
- 1:16:17Speaker 3: having this conversation and feeling that we are on the
- 1:16:20Speaker 3: same page about, you know, Epstein might have left us
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: all alive. To bring attention back to that island and
- 1:16:27Speaker 3: back to this issue, one of the concerns that we
- 1:16:29Speaker 3: had is that it seems to be there's distractions that
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: are just one after another. There's the Iran war and
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: there's UFO files. And all of these distractions are pulling
- 1:16:40Speaker 3: attention away from an issue that I think points to
- 1:16:43Speaker 3: a stranglehold on our democracy and our institutions deeper than Epstein.
- 1:16:49Speaker 3: And it deserves continued attention.
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: What do you think it is?
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: I think that the Epstein... The Epstein files reveal a
- 1:17:01Speaker 3: child sex trafficking operation that was used as leverage over
- 1:17:06Speaker 3: our politicians by a larger power structure that continues to
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: have a stranglehold on our institutions. And so.
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: A blackmail operation.
- 1:17:16Speaker 3: A blackmail operation. Effective for a long time. Yeah. Really
- 1:17:23Speaker 3: effective because it predates The internet. This is a blackmail
- 1:17:29Speaker 3: operation that predates the internet, that now with the internet,
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: people put the pieces together. And it's a lot harder
- 1:17:38Speaker 3: to hide it. And I think that blackmail operation for
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: a very long time was very successful.
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: I think it still is. Look at what's going on.
- 1:17:50Speaker 1: Nobody's talking. Nobody's getting arrested. Yeah. The only names that
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: I'm aware of that have been unveiled, unredacted, is the victims, correct?
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: They haven't revealed any abuser's names. Have they? Am I
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: wrong on that?
- 1:18:09Speaker 3: No, there's some that have forced this. I think that
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: Massey on the House floor insisted on revealing one of
- 1:18:19Speaker 3: the co-conspirators. There's a document where there were some co-conspirators
- 1:18:23Speaker 3: who were listed that he came forward and said, here's
- 1:18:27Speaker 3: one of Africa, which one it was, maybe the last Wexner.
- 1:18:31Speaker 3: But aside from that, there's not much that the U.S.
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: has done. Now, foreign countries have some real courage where
- 1:18:38Speaker 3: they're investigating this and really putting some effort into the investigation.
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: See, I thought this, because King Charles, right?
- 1:18:49Speaker 3: Prince Andrew.
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: Prince Andrew, excuse me. Prince Andrew. But he's off the
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: hook already, isn't he?
- 1:18:55Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know the latest status of his.
- 1:18:56Speaker 1: He got arrested. Oh, he did?
- 1:18:59Speaker 3: For... It wasn't a child abuse crime, I don't believe.
- 1:19:04Speaker 3: I believe it was something like conduct unbecoming of his
- 1:19:07Speaker 3: official diplomatic role that he was in at the time.
- 1:19:11Speaker 3: But it was an arrest. It's more than we got here.
- 1:19:15Speaker 1: Fair point. Fair point. Well, before we get into it,
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: are you familiar with Polymarket? I am. Here's the context.
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: The market, $ 2. 27 million plus in live trading volume on Polymarket,
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: resolves yes only if irrefutable proof is publicly revealed that
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: Epstein is still alive before... December 31st, 2026. The DOJ
- 1:19:43Speaker 1: has released 3 million plus pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images.
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: Wonder what those images are of. From its Epstein investigation,
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: official records from the NYC Medical Examiner, DOJ, OIG, and
- 1:20:01Speaker 1: FBI established his 2019 death as suicide by hanging. The
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: crowd gives survival confirmation. A 5% chance.
- 1:20:13Speaker 3: We want proof of life.
- 1:20:14Speaker 1: We want proof of life. Yeah. I mean, there's been
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: a number of things that I dug up, but they've
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: all been debunked. Like the AI photos. You know, there
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: was some maniac Florida man posing as Jeffrey Epstein going
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: down the highway. That's been debunked. I got them right here.
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: I'll read them off real quick. Claim one. A post
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: on X claiming Israel faked his death gained over 6
- 1:20:39Speaker 1: million views. It featured a photo perpetually showing Epstein alive
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: in Tel Aviv, sporting white hair and a shaggy beard.
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: A second doctor image garnered another 2.4 million views. The verdict?
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: Both images were confirmed AI-generated or digitally altered. Reverse image
- 1:21:00Speaker 1: searches traced the originals to unrelated photos one dated May
- 1:21:04Speaker 1: of 2020, after Epstein's 2019 death. Claim number two, active
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: Fortnite account. A Fortnite profile named LittlestJeff1 appeared active after
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: Epstein's death, sparking speculation. The account went private shortly after
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: the speculation spread, which many took as suspicious confirmation. Verdict,
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: Fortnite confirmed that an existing account owner simply changed their
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: username to LittlestJeff1 after the DOG DOJ Epstein files were released.
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: Epstein's email address had no record in the Fortnite system.
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: Claim number three, Palm Beach Pete lookalike, March of 2026.
- 1:21:50Speaker 1: A video of a Florida man driving on I-95 went
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: viral with social media users claiming the driver was Epstein
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: and that he was still alive. The verdict, the man
- 1:22:01Speaker 1: nicknamed Palm Beach Pete publicly broke his silence confirming he
- 1:22:06Speaker 1: is simply a private citizen who resembles Epstein. He described
- 1:22:12Speaker 1: the situation as phenomenal. Florida man.
- 1:22:16Speaker 3: Florida man at it again.
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: Claim number four. This is the last one. Maxwell replaced
- 1:22:23Speaker 1: by lookalike February 2026. After Maxwell's deposition in February 26,
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: social media users pointed out to perceived discrepancies in her
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: facial features and voice, suggesting a lookalike had been swapped in. Verdict,
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: CBS News compared photos of Maxwell from 2015, 2016, 2020,
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: and 2026 and identified consistent features across all, including eyebrow shape,
- 1:22:50Speaker 1: ear structure, lip shape, and hair silhouette. Voice differences were
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: attributed to differing deposition contexts. You got anything that's not those?
- 1:23:02Speaker 3: Lots of things that aren't those.
- 1:23:03Speaker 1: All right. Yeah.
- 1:23:05Speaker 3: And, you know, I agree with these. These are, I'm
- 1:23:07Speaker 3: not convinced Palm Beach Pete is anything but a psyop.
- 1:23:11Speaker 3: It's just too on the nose. Yeah. Yeah, it just
- 1:23:14Speaker 3: is way too on the nose. I don't have any
- 1:23:17Speaker 3: comment on Delaine. I don't really, haven't really studied that
- 1:23:20Speaker 3: at all. What was the first one?
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: Oh, that was the AI photos.
- 1:23:26Speaker 3: The AI, oh yeah. So we put together an evidence
- 1:23:30Speaker 3: timeline that walks the reader through and it has to
- 1:23:34Speaker 3: meet a threshold for us, more likely than not, 51%
- 1:23:38Speaker 3: to 49%. So what we've done is, in our disclaimer
- 1:23:42Speaker 3: about how to read this evidence, is we've excluded anything
- 1:23:46Speaker 3: that could be AI-related. Anything that's post-AI era, we're not
- 1:23:50Speaker 3: even looking at it. And the reason for that is
- 1:23:53Speaker 3: how easy it is to fabricate evidence that can go viral.
- 1:23:58Speaker 3: It's not persuasive. So what we've done is taking the
- 1:24:01Speaker 3: information from the files themselves and look at the story
- 1:24:06Speaker 3: the files tell. The files, court documents, depositions, OIG investigations.
- 1:24:14Speaker 3: What story does the official release of the files tell
- 1:24:19Speaker 3: the people who dig into this? And so anything outside
- 1:24:22Speaker 3: of those bounds, we may supplement with a news article
- 1:24:25Speaker 3: that confirms a statement, but we source all of this
- 1:24:28Speaker 3: very carefully. where we have the claim and then the sources,
- 1:24:33Speaker 3: and the claim and then the sources on each of
- 1:24:35Speaker 3: these cards as we walk the reader down this, because
- 1:24:38Speaker 3: we're making a really big claim. You can't do this halfway.
- 1:24:41Speaker 3: There's no half measures on this one.
- 1:24:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:24:44Speaker 3: If you're making the claim that Epstein left that cell
- 1:24:48Speaker 3: alive and you pull on that thread, it implicates larger
- 1:24:54Speaker 3: power structures in our government and a deep level of corruption.
- 1:24:58Speaker 1: Now, I just have one question. Why would anybody want
- 1:25:02Speaker 1: him alive? What would the point of keeping him alive be?
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: It can only bring... risk.
- 1:25:12Speaker 3: Yeah. So say that you are Jeffrey Epstein, and you
- 1:25:17Speaker 3: have a multi-decade blackmail operation going on. Mm-hmm. He was
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: collecting blackmail when you had to put it on a
- 1:25:24Speaker 3: floppy drive.
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
- 1:25:27Speaker 3: He's been doing this for a long time. And we
- 1:25:29Speaker 3: know this because... The properties that he owned were wired
- 1:25:32Speaker 3: up with cameras. This is pretty well established, right? So
- 1:25:38Speaker 3: he has this large corpus of video and photographic evidence
- 1:25:43Speaker 3: on all the people that he could want to get
- 1:25:46Speaker 3: these on. Celebrities, politicians, scientists. And he's a master of
- 1:25:52Speaker 3: getting leverage. This appears to be a leverage campaign. So
- 1:25:59Speaker 3: if he has this much leverage, He's playing a dangerous
- 1:26:02Speaker 3: game in that if it goes sideways on him, he
- 1:26:07Speaker 3: has to make sure that he has his own insurance policy.
- 1:26:10Speaker 3: And what better insurance policy than retention of all of
- 1:26:14Speaker 3: this evidence as your dead man switch?
- 1:26:17Speaker 1: No ship. So you don't think this evidence has been
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: shipped out to a bigger entity?
- 1:26:23Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to the evidence, but I
- 1:26:24Speaker 3: think it would be negligent of him to not have
- 1:26:27Speaker 3: enough of it that he could say, hey, listen, Is
- 1:26:30Speaker 3: this gonna be a problem? Am I going to have
- 1:26:33Speaker 3: to let this out? And there's enough people that I
- 1:26:36Speaker 3: think would be persuaded that they don't want that to happen.
- 1:26:40Speaker 3: That's my best guess as to why to keep them alive.
- 1:26:43Speaker 3: What I do know is the government and co-conspirators were highly,
- 1:26:49Speaker 3: highly motivated to have a dead defendant, or at least
- 1:26:53Speaker 3: the appearance of a dead defendant. And the reason for
- 1:26:56Speaker 3: that is criminal discovery. So he's arrested. for a sex
- 1:27:02Speaker 3: trafficking offense and is going through the criminal proceedings process.
- 1:27:06Speaker 3: As part of that is discovery where the plaintiff and
- 1:27:09Speaker 3: the defendant surface all the evidence. It all comes out. Now,
- 1:27:14Speaker 3: this is pre-release of the files. So, what's gonna come out?
- 1:27:19Speaker 3: Flight logs, phone numbers, associates, financial records. Everything that could
- 1:27:27Speaker 3: defend or support the government's position. is going to have
- 1:27:31Speaker 3: to inevitably come out and the government and the co-conspirators
- 1:27:34Speaker 3: have no control over this. He could not have gone
- 1:27:38Speaker 3: to trial. That would have been a disaster because all
- 1:27:43Speaker 3: the evidence that come out would implicate people all the
- 1:27:46Speaker 3: way up and down the government and probably foreign governments.
- 1:27:51Speaker 3: He couldn't have gone to trial and so do you
- 1:27:52Speaker 3: know what stops criminal proceedings? The death of the defendant.
- 1:27:58Speaker 3: But if you have a defendant who has an enormous
- 1:28:01Speaker 3: body of evidence available to blackmail people with and get
- 1:28:06Speaker 3: leverage on them, well, then what's your option? The only
- 1:28:11Speaker 3: remaining option is to publicly have a dead defendant and
- 1:28:14Speaker 3: privately make sure there's no loose ends and extract him.
- 1:28:21Speaker 3: And this is what the files, the evidence supports in
- 1:28:22Speaker 3: the files.
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: Wow. What do you got for us?
- 1:28:27Speaker 3: So, the first thing I think is to understand really
- 1:28:30Speaker 3: who this guy was as best we possibly can. And
- 1:28:36Speaker 3: we know some things that are just very much in
- 1:28:38Speaker 3: the public sector about him. So he's this alleged billionaire
- 1:28:43Speaker 3: financial savant. He manages money for people, allegedly, that have
- 1:28:48Speaker 3: a lot of money. But then there are clues in
- 1:28:51Speaker 3: the files that are.
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: He says he works for the Rothschilds, right?
- 1:28:55Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:28:56Speaker 1: That's in the files. Is it in the files?
- 1:28:58Speaker 3: He emailed Peter Thiel saying that. So that was an
- 1:29:00Speaker 3: email to Peter Thiel saying, That's what I thought. As
- 1:29:03Speaker 3: you know, I believe were his words, I work for
- 1:29:05Speaker 3: the Rothschilds. So he's trying to seemingly get an introduction
- 1:29:10Speaker 3: for some kind of tech play, it looks like. And
- 1:29:13Speaker 3: he's making the introduction by doing a little bit of
- 1:29:17Speaker 3: name dropping.
- 1:29:19Speaker 1: Right?
- 1:29:19Speaker 3: Like, hey, there's some money on the other end of
- 1:29:21Speaker 3: this if we're going to talk. Seems to be the
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: way the email reads. Mm-hmm. So he has connections that
- 1:29:28Speaker 3: are larger, and here's the best piece of evidence we
- 1:29:30Speaker 3: have for this. So I've got show and tell for you.
- 1:29:32Speaker 1: Perfect.
- 1:29:34Speaker 3: This was discovered in the search warrant in New York
- 1:29:41Speaker 3: for one of his properties. And what you're looking at
- 1:29:45Speaker 3: is an Austrian passport with his photo, a younger Epstein,
- 1:29:54Speaker 3: and the alias of Robert Marius. This passport appears to
- 1:30:03Speaker 3: be a fraudulent passport. So not a fake one. A
- 1:30:06Speaker 3: fake passport is when you have a passport that's not
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: a valid travel document, right? Like, I make it at home.
- 1:30:16Speaker 3: A valid passport can be fraudulent under someone else's name.
- 1:30:20Speaker 3: This appears to be valid because he has entry and
- 1:30:24Speaker 3: exit stamps.
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: It's like the shit the intel agencies do.
- 1:30:27Speaker 3: This is our first connection.
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: Valid passport with a pseudoname. Yeah.
- 1:30:32Speaker 3: So this is the first connection where we have evidence
- 1:30:35Speaker 3: of this potentially connecting to an intel agency. Because who
- 1:30:39Speaker 3: can issue valid passports under a different name? Well, there's
- 1:30:41Speaker 3: consular who could do it, right? Under legitimate circumstances. And
- 1:30:47Speaker 3: you could make the argument that, oh, well, maybe he
- 1:30:49Speaker 3: got a fast one on consular of Austria and he
- 1:30:52Speaker 3: submitted this information and, you know, they issued it. But
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: under what motivation? who's motivating him to get this passport.
- 1:31:01Speaker 3: The other argument is that it was furnished to him
- 1:31:04Speaker 3: and had an operational purpose. In either case, we know
- 1:31:07Speaker 3: for sure this passport was recovered from his safe with
- 1:31:13Speaker 3: entry and exit stamps with his face.
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: And an alias. Wow. Where did you get this?
- 1:31:19Speaker 3: The files. This is in the files. So everything I'm
- 1:31:24Speaker 3: going to show you today We've pulled from the files
- 1:31:27Speaker 3: or public reporting that can be fact-checked. All of this
- 1:31:31Speaker 3: can be fact-checked. Again, this goes back to no half measures.
- 1:31:34Speaker 3: We cannot make a claim like this without substantial evidence.
- 1:31:40Speaker 3: Huge risk, reputational risk goes into making a claim that
- 1:31:44Speaker 3: he left that cell alive. But there's only three options.
- 1:31:48Speaker 3: Either he died from suicide in the cell, he was murdered,
- 1:31:54Speaker 3: or he left the cell alive. And of the three,
- 1:31:57Speaker 3: the one with the fewest problems is that he left
- 1:31:59Speaker 3: the cell alive.
- 1:32:01Speaker 1: Wow. Put this up on screen. What else do we got?
- 1:32:09Speaker 1: What is, I mean, where were these stamps to?
- 1:32:12Speaker 3: So I think it's on our website. I think it's
- 1:32:14Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia, France, and one more. But they're documented entry
- 1:32:20Speaker 3: and exit stamps. You can see the countries. I can't
- 1:32:23Speaker 3: recall the third.
- 1:32:26Speaker 1: What's your website? What's the address?
- 1:32:28Speaker 3: Yeah, it's epsteinisntdead.org.
- 1:32:30Speaker 1: And you'd lay out this evidence. Epsteinisntdead.org. Yeah.
- 1:32:38Speaker 3: Because I was going through this initially out of just
- 1:32:43Speaker 3: pure personal interest. I'm a criminal investigator and lawyer by
- 1:32:47Speaker 3: my background. And I also care deeply about child trafficking.
- 1:32:53Speaker 3: Through my career, this has been a theme of my career.
- 1:32:57Speaker 3: And I have a daughter, and so it hits a
- 1:32:58Speaker 3: little harder for me. And I'm looking at the files,
- 1:33:06Speaker 3: and I use large language models to surface the things
- 1:33:11Speaker 3: that are in there that are maybe a little bit
- 1:33:13Speaker 3: harder to find manually. And I'm putting together a timeline,
- 1:33:16Speaker 3: because that's how a criminal investigator typically thinks, is in
- 1:33:19Speaker 3: terms of a timeline. And I start looking at this information,
- 1:33:22Speaker 3: and I think, no way. No way am I arriving
- 1:33:26Speaker 3: at this conclusion. I don't like this conclusion. It's uncomfortable
- 1:33:32Speaker 3: for me. I'm not happy about it. One of the
- 1:33:37Speaker 3: seductive things about conspiracies is how entertaining they are for
- 1:33:39Speaker 3: many people. This is not something that I find particularly fun,
- 1:33:44Speaker 3: but if the evidence continually supports a conclusion, we have
- 1:33:51Speaker 3: to stare at that conclusion in its face and see
- 1:33:55Speaker 3: if it's true. And so I sent this to probably
- 1:33:56Speaker 3: 100 people. And I was like, guys, fact check me
- 1:34:00Speaker 3: on this. Sanity check me on all this. Am I crazy?
- 1:34:05Speaker 3: And I sent it to people and they were like, bro,
- 1:34:11Speaker 3: you put all this together? Yeah, this is something here.
- 1:34:15Speaker 3: And I think that we make a compelling case for it.
- 1:34:20Speaker 3: And if he left that cell alive, it demands Congress,
- 1:34:27Speaker 3: the DOJ, to reckon with that and take it seriously.
- 1:34:29Speaker 1: I think we know the DOJ and Congress is definitely
- 1:34:33Speaker 1: not going to take it seriously.
- 1:34:35Speaker 3: That's what I'm afraid of, too. And maybe not this administration,
- 1:34:39Speaker 3: maybe not this batch of Congress people, but the American
- 1:34:42Speaker 3: people aren't going to let this one go.
- 1:34:44Speaker 1: You don't think so?
- 1:34:45Speaker 3: I don't think so. They can't. Because think about what
- 1:34:47Speaker 3: it means if we give up on this one. If
- 1:34:50Speaker 3: we give up on a child trafficker brought kids to
- 1:34:58Speaker 3: an island to serve them to the world's elite, killed them,
- 1:35:04Speaker 3: ate them, and used that as leverage to get a
- 1:35:08Speaker 3: stranglehold on our democracy. If we let that go, just
- 1:35:12Speaker 3: give it all up. All of it. What does any
- 1:35:15Speaker 3: of it matter anymore? If we let this one go,
- 1:35:18Speaker 3: none of it matters anymore. And I think the American
- 1:35:21Speaker 3: people intuitively feel this. I think they intuitively feel something's wrong,
- 1:35:25Speaker 3: but they can't quite put words on it. And that's
- 1:35:30Speaker 3: what we tried to do. It's really, here's what you
- 1:35:32Speaker 3: feel is wrong. Here's what it is. And so we
- 1:35:37Speaker 3: lay it out and make the case for him leaving
- 1:35:41Speaker 3: that cell alive being the option that has the fewest
- 1:35:45Speaker 3: problems of the three.
- 1:35:52Speaker 1: What else you got?
- 1:35:55Speaker 3: So follow the money. Before he dies, two days before
- 1:36:02Speaker 3: he dies, he executes a new will and trust that
- 1:36:07Speaker 3: moves $ 577 million into a new legal vehicle that I
- 1:36:14Speaker 3: would structure this way if I was about to fake
- 1:36:17Speaker 3: my death. So he meets with his lawyers up to
- 1:36:22Speaker 3: 12 hours a day while he's in prison. And the
- 1:36:27Speaker 3: outcome of this is the creation of the 1953 trust,
- 1:36:32Speaker 3: where all of his assets that are known are moved
- 1:36:35Speaker 3: into this trust. And this accomplishes two things at the
- 1:36:38Speaker 3: same time. The first thing it does is it makes
- 1:36:43Speaker 3: it very difficult to ascertain the beneficiaries of this money.
- 1:36:47Speaker 3: So trust can be created in such a way that
- 1:36:50Speaker 3: the beneficiaries of that are not accessible to the public.
- 1:36:54Speaker 3: And so it would allow him to access this money
- 1:36:56Speaker 3: and these assets in a roundabout way through shell companies
- 1:37:00Speaker 3: and through having estate planning that supports the complexity needed
- 1:37:04Speaker 3: to access this money later. The second thing it does
- 1:37:09Speaker 3: is it prevents any of his assets from going through probate,
- 1:37:17Speaker 3: which would also make this public in the probate process.
- 1:37:22Speaker 3: He restructures his entire estate two days before he dies. Now,
- 1:37:27Speaker 3: is this complex estate planning for someone who's like, you
- 1:37:31Speaker 3: know what, I'm about to end my life and I
- 1:37:33Speaker 3: feel like I need to put everything into the right
- 1:37:38Speaker 3: place at the right time for all my money, or
- 1:37:42Speaker 3: is it estate planning for someone who wants to get
- 1:37:44Speaker 3: access to those assets after they're out of jail? And
- 1:37:50Speaker 3: I think that the way that I read it is,
- 1:37:55Speaker 3: Someone who's suicidal, who really is about to kill themselves.
- 1:37:59Speaker 3: And I don't believe he was like that because he
- 1:38:02Speaker 3: was so obsessed with immortality. He was so obsessed with
- 1:38:05Speaker 3: health and.
- 1:38:09Speaker 3: All kinds of sort of fringe things about continuing his
- 1:38:13Speaker 3: life onward. And he was probably like all billionaires and
- 1:38:17Speaker 3: sex traffickers have some ego. And he's already got a
- 1:38:22Speaker 3: sweetheart deal in 2007. So there's some hubris there. I
- 1:38:29Speaker 3: can't reconcile that with someone creating a will and trust
- 1:38:34Speaker 3: who's about to kill themselves. It doesn't sit right. It
- 1:38:39Speaker 3: seems more likely that that complex estate planning is in
- 1:38:42Speaker 3: preparation for accessing those assets after he's out.
- 1:38:50Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of people also think that he
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: was given a choice.
- 1:38:56Speaker 3: Meaning you kill yourself or we're going to do it
- 1:38:59Speaker 3: kind of thing. If he died in that cell, it
- 1:39:14Speaker 3: doesn't explain his escape plan. You seeing this? No.
- 1:39:21Speaker 1: There's an escape plan. Yeah.
- 1:39:23Speaker 3: So you're a SEAL.
- 1:39:24Speaker 1: Get the fuck out of here.
- 1:39:25Speaker 3: You tell me if this is an evasion plan. I'm
- 1:39:29Speaker 3: going to hand you this. I'm doing this out of
- 1:39:34Speaker 3: order a little bit. But you're right. You went through Sierra, right?
- 1:39:41Speaker 1: I didn't. Oh, no?
- 1:39:42Speaker 3: No.
- 1:39:44Speaker 1: Well, you're familiar. I evaded out of that one. You
- 1:39:46Speaker 1: evaded out of that one.
- 1:39:49Speaker 3: So my partner, Alex, smart guy, and he looked at this,
- 1:39:54Speaker 3: I called it an escape plan and he rightly corrected me.
- 1:39:56Speaker 3: He said, no man, this is an evasion plan. So
- 1:39:59Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you context for this document that you're holding.
- 1:40:03Speaker 3: This is the smoking gun for me. This is the
- 1:40:06Speaker 3: single piece of evidence that gives me the confidence to
- 1:40:12Speaker 3: have this conversation with you right now. You're looking at
- 1:40:16Speaker 3: a two notes, there's two pages here, of legal paper
- 1:40:22Speaker 3: that were found in his cell after his alleged death.
- 1:40:28Speaker 3: Most people are not talking about this at all. Very
- 1:40:30Speaker 3: little conversation is happening about these documents, and it is
- 1:40:34Speaker 3: astonishing to me. This is an escape plan, so keep
- 1:40:39Speaker 3: in mind what just happened. He just restructured his estate
- 1:40:43Speaker 3: and has set himself up to have access to after
- 1:40:48Speaker 3: he leaves. And then two days later, he allegedly dies
- 1:40:51Speaker 3: and this is recovered from his cell. So what you're
- 1:40:54Speaker 3: looking at, some of it's illegible. And so I'm not
- 1:40:58Speaker 3: going to speculate about the things that I can't read
- 1:41:00Speaker 3: because his handwriting was atrocious. It was super inconsiderate of
- 1:41:03Speaker 3: him to have terrible handwriting and make me have to
- 1:41:06Speaker 3: figure this out later on. But I'm going to draw
- 1:41:10Speaker 3: attention to some of the things here that really stand out.
- 1:41:13Speaker 3: And the first is, do you see in the middle
- 1:41:16Speaker 3: top of the page where red notice is underlined multiple times.
- 1:41:23Speaker 3: A red notice is an Interpol notice that goes out
- 1:41:25Speaker 3: to worldwide policing agencies for a fugitive. So why is
- 1:41:29Speaker 3: a guy about to kill himself concerned about red notices?
- 1:41:38Speaker 3: This is again on legal paper. So I don't know
- 1:41:42Speaker 3: this for sure, but this was, potentially furnished to him
- 1:41:46Speaker 3: by his lawyers who carry legal paper. And not the
- 1:41:52Speaker 3: note as it exists now, but that's where he got
- 1:41:54Speaker 3: the paper. So were these conversations happening with the people
- 1:41:57Speaker 3: that were there providing legal counsel to him? I don't know.
- 1:42:02Speaker 3: But it seems to be, based on the timeframe, they're
- 1:42:05Speaker 3: pretty close to each other for when these would have
- 1:42:07Speaker 3: been written. The next thing that really jumps out at
- 1:42:11Speaker 3: the top, top right, Next to that dollar sign, it
- 1:42:17Speaker 3: says what I believe to be blackmail. See the dollar
- 1:42:23Speaker 3: sign there in the top right?
- 1:42:25Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:42:26Speaker 3: Next to it, that word looks like blackmail to me.
- 1:42:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:42:34Speaker 3: So what's happening? If he gets out, he's thinking about
- 1:42:38Speaker 3: where to get money. If he's gotten blackmail on people,
- 1:42:41Speaker 3: that's pretty easy to be like, hey man, you need
- 1:42:43Speaker 3: to just wire me 10 grand, 100 grand, a million dollars,
- 1:42:46Speaker 3: whatever leverage he has, to get access to money. Because
- 1:42:50Speaker 3: you've got to figure out how to live while you're out.
- 1:42:52Speaker 3: And maybe he doesn't know what he has access to.
- 1:42:55Speaker 3: I can't read the word above that. I don't know
- 1:43:00Speaker 3: if it says bounty. So I'm not going to speculate further.
- 1:43:06Speaker 3: But beneath it, it definitely says guards. Guards are a problem.
- 1:43:11Speaker 3: If you want to get out of a federal prison,
- 1:43:14Speaker 3: You've got to deal with the guards. We can talk
- 1:43:15Speaker 3: about the guards in a little bit. But he's for
- 1:43:18Speaker 3: sure worried about the guards. And then there's some things
- 1:43:22Speaker 3: in between. But I can contextualize the things in between
- 1:43:26Speaker 3: based on the drawing that you see there in the
- 1:43:29Speaker 3: middle right. What does that look like to you?
- 1:43:33Speaker 1: Are you talking about this?
- 1:43:35Speaker 3: This right here.
- 1:43:39Speaker 1: Yeah, well, down here. Yeah. Looks like some sort of
- 1:43:44Speaker 1: a compound.
- 1:43:45Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks to me like an airport from overhead.
- 1:43:50Speaker 3: And it looks like an airport because of the word Brad.
- 1:43:54Speaker 3: So Bradley International Airport is a small regional airport that's
- 1:43:58Speaker 3: two hours away from the Metropolitan Correctional Center. So the
- 1:44:01Speaker 3: nearest small airport. And if he's going to fly out
- 1:44:05Speaker 3: of there, it can't be through LaGuardia or JFK for
- 1:44:08Speaker 3: obvious reasons.
- 1:44:09Speaker 1: So it's jet right here, too.
- 1:44:12Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:44:12Speaker 1: Looks like it says Nigeria above that.
- 1:44:14Speaker 3: That's right. So above it, and we know this is
- 1:44:17Speaker 3: an airport because it says Brad, Bradley International Airport would
- 1:44:20Speaker 3: be a great airport to go to if you don't
- 1:44:23Speaker 3: want to deal with customs and you want to have
- 1:44:25Speaker 3: access to the services expected of someone who has a
- 1:44:29Speaker 3: lot of money. So private hangars, private runways, it has
- 1:44:34Speaker 3: these things. And above it, it says, I can't tell
- 1:44:38Speaker 3: what the middle word is. So it either says jet
- 1:44:41Speaker 3: versus prop or jet U.S. prop. So that could either
- 1:44:45Speaker 3: be this is a jet or it's a prop plane.
- 1:44:49Speaker 3: What kind of vehicle are we in here? Or it
- 1:44:53Speaker 3: could be jet U.S. property. Is he flying out on
- 1:44:59Speaker 3: a U.S. plane? Because that would have obvious risks carried
- 1:45:03Speaker 3: with it if he's escaping on a U.S. controlled aircraft
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- 1:47:12Speaker 3: And then where's it going?
- 1:47:13Speaker 1: Who was in office when he committed suicide?
- 1:47:17Speaker 3: It was Trump in office then, right?
- 1:47:20Speaker 1: That's so weird.
- 1:47:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:47:22Speaker 1: Who would have thought?
- 1:47:24Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it goes all the way to the top.
- 1:47:29Speaker 3: So where does he go? Well, we don't know. We
- 1:47:32Speaker 3: can only speculate, but we can see that there's intent
- 1:47:35Speaker 3: here based on these locations that are written. Above jet
- 1:47:39Speaker 3: versus problem, I'm kind of walking you back up the page.
- 1:47:41Speaker 3: It says Nigeria. So they're probably an okay location to hide,
- 1:47:46Speaker 3: I guess. No one's going to look for Epstein in Africa.
- 1:47:52Speaker 3: Would Qatar and Saudi Arabia B locations, and they're very friendly.
- 1:47:57Speaker 3: Access to money. Associates there, for sure, we know that.
- 1:48:01Speaker 3: So the Q and the S-A next to Nigeria could indicate...
- 1:48:06Speaker 3: other locations that he's interested in. And then to the
- 1:48:10Speaker 3: left of that.
- 1:48:12Speaker 3: It says gangsters. See that to the left of the
- 1:48:17Speaker 3: Q and the S-A?
- 1:48:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:48:22Speaker 3: I don't know what that means. But I would imagine
- 1:48:26Speaker 3: if you're someone like him, you're willing to make a
- 1:48:30Speaker 3: lot of friends with a lot of people, not all
- 1:48:32Speaker 3: of them good people, who can get you the things
- 1:48:36Speaker 3: that you need. Gangsters are people who can be fixtures
- 1:48:40Speaker 3: for you and not ask questions. So that's a logical
- 1:48:47Speaker 3: person to ask or group of people. And then there's
- 1:48:52Speaker 3: a lot of other things on here that I just
- 1:48:53Speaker 3: don't know what mean.
- 1:48:55Speaker 1: And it would be completely like a U S map.
- 1:48:58Speaker 3: Yeah. Up here in the middle left. Yeah, it does.
- 1:49:02Speaker 3: It looks like a U S map. Someone said a
- 1:49:05Speaker 3: cow looks like a cow too. It does look like
- 1:49:08Speaker 3: a cow.
- 1:49:10Speaker 1: What do you think this is, the redacted portion?
- 1:49:16Speaker 3: I have no idea. Beneath it, though, it says computer
- 1:49:24Speaker 3: and then something illegible and then question mark and then VI,
- 1:49:27Speaker 3: which I'm assuming means Virgin Islands.
- 1:49:30Speaker 1: Palm Beach.
- 1:49:31Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. Palm Beach.
- 1:49:32Speaker 1: The PB. It's got to be Palm Beach.
- 1:49:35Speaker 3: So computer, Palm Beach, question marks, VI, Virgin Island. And
- 1:49:39Speaker 3: above that, it says G. That's what he called Ghislaine,
- 1:49:42Speaker 3: is G. So he's thinking about Ghislaine in computer or
- 1:49:47Speaker 3: multiple computers in Palm Beach and Virgin Islands. And I'd
- 1:49:50Speaker 3: be pretty worried about computers if I were him too.
- 1:49:58Speaker 3: It also, there's one piece on here that looks like
- 1:50:05Speaker 3: LSR up near the travel part. My best guess on that,
- 1:50:10Speaker 3: and I'm not willing to guess on many of these
- 1:50:12Speaker 3: if I don't feel confident, but LSR seems to be
- 1:50:15Speaker 3: last stop routes. So my understanding is in aviation, this
- 1:50:20Speaker 3: is a term indicating a airfield that is the last
- 1:50:24Speaker 3: on a connecting journey that to get to that airfield
- 1:50:28Speaker 3: would mean it's relatively remote compared to other airfields and
- 1:50:32Speaker 3: likely has less immigrations and customs restrictions. That's where I'd
- 1:50:38Speaker 3: want to go if I'm trying to evade.
- 1:50:50Speaker 1: What do you think is under LSN? Looks like it
- 1:50:54Speaker 1: says Muslim, maybe?
- 1:50:55Speaker 3: It does say Muslim.
- 1:50:58Speaker 1: Maybe Asia under that?
- 1:51:00Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't make out that third character. Above it,
- 1:51:05Speaker 3: it says Muslim, and so I would imagine that Muslim
- 1:51:08Speaker 3: nations would be potentially easy to hide in. Find a
- 1:51:14Speaker 3: remote area and hole up somewhere. You're not going to
- 1:51:17Speaker 3: be looked for in some of them. That's entirely speculation,
- 1:51:22Speaker 3: but it does say Muslim pretty clearly.
- 1:51:26Speaker 1: Why would he have written this all down?
- 1:51:30Speaker 3: I thought that too. Why write all this down and
- 1:51:33Speaker 3: then leave it in the cell? Why leave your escape
- 1:51:38Speaker 3: plan in your cell? And then I remembered, oh, Epstein
- 1:51:45Speaker 3: and his associates were talking over Gmail about raping and
- 1:51:50Speaker 3: eating kids. His OPSEC was bad. He didn't give a
- 1:51:57Speaker 3: damn about any of his OPSEC, about any of this
- 1:52:00Speaker 3: over Gmail. And being in the government, we both know
- 1:52:04Speaker 3: You can't talk about anything over anything or someone's going
- 1:52:07Speaker 3: to suck up those comms. He has decades of not caring.
- 1:52:12Speaker 3: And he leaves this behind. Someone's going to sanitize this cell.
- 1:52:16Speaker 3: He's got people that do this for him. My best
- 1:52:20Speaker 3: guess is, is there's some hubris here, some pride, and
- 1:52:25Speaker 3: that whoever's redacting these things didn't know what they were
- 1:52:27Speaker 3: looking at, or they did know what they were looking at,
- 1:52:30Speaker 3: and our institutions are not homogenous, meaning that some institutions
- 1:52:34Speaker 3: federal agent or lawyer looked at this, redacted only what
- 1:52:37Speaker 3: was absolutely required and allowed us to piece this together.
- 1:52:42Speaker 3: I hope that's the case. Because these people that are
- 1:52:45Speaker 3: performing these redactions took the oath that you and I
- 1:52:48Speaker 3: did to support and defend the Constitution against enemies, foreign
- 1:52:51Speaker 3: and domestic.
- 1:52:52Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:52:56Speaker 3: Even when they come from inside the House.
- 1:53:01Speaker 1: Everybody's just doing their job, right?
- 1:53:04Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:53:06Speaker 1: That's the excuse. The excuse. It's always the excuse. I'm
- 1:53:10Speaker 1: just doing my job. Fuck you. Yeah.
- 1:53:13Speaker 3: And they have to reckon with that. And there's some
- 1:53:16Speaker 3: that have resigned. And I admire that courage. Because here's
- 1:53:19Speaker 3: the sinister nature of this whole scheme. You can't whistleblow
- 1:53:23Speaker 3: on this and bring out the actual best evidence. Because
- 1:53:27Speaker 3: it's illegal, one, for classified, two, for child sexual abuse material.
- 1:53:33Speaker 3: you transmit that to a reporter you've just earned yourself
- 1:53:36Speaker 3: a strict liability offense or they don't care what your
- 1:53:39Speaker 3: intent was you're going to.
- 1:53:41Speaker 1: Jail yeah the old two-chair justice system.
- 1:53:44Speaker 3: Real quick on this let me show you page two
- 1:53:47Speaker 3: this is the real zinger right so the top of
- 1:53:49Speaker 3: page two he's complaining about something i don't know he
- 1:53:52Speaker 3: got he had a bad day he got locked in
- 1:53:55Speaker 3: to the shower or something i think that's absolutely hilarious
- 1:53:58Speaker 3: i imagine him sitting in that cell and just Dear Diary,
- 1:54:01Speaker 3: I had a bad day. Like, he's pretty upset. You
- 1:54:04Speaker 3: flip it over. This second from the top line says
- 1:54:13Speaker 3: jail out equals 10. And he allegedly died in that
- 1:54:19Speaker 3: cell on August 10th, 2019. He had foreknowledge of the
- 1:54:23Speaker 3: day that he's getting out. So what you're left with,
- 1:54:28Speaker 3: and this is the smoking gun, is you have a
- 1:54:31Speaker 3: escape plan written by a person who knows they're going
- 1:54:36Speaker 3: to be a fugitive about where the nearest airport is,
- 1:54:40Speaker 3: what considerations to avoid, how to get money, and foreknowledge
- 1:54:44Speaker 3: of the day that they're gonna leave that cell. This
- 1:54:47Speaker 3: is an evasion plan.
- 1:54:52Speaker 1: Wow. You might be right.
- 1:55:00Speaker 3: Someone who's going to kill themselves doesn't write this down.
- 1:55:13Speaker 1: Shit. Do you think there's any chance this could be
- 1:55:32Speaker 1: a psyop?
- 1:55:34Speaker 3: Yeah. There's layers of psyops here. Top to bottom. This
- 1:55:39Speaker 3: could be a psyop. For sure. What I can't reconcile this,
- 1:55:43Speaker 3: and I've thought about this, is this disinformation. I guess
- 1:55:47Speaker 3: that's always possible. But when you take the totality of
- 1:55:52Speaker 3: it all, this piece into the larger picture that it paints.
- 1:55:59Speaker 3: It makes the most sense that he left that cell
- 1:56:00Speaker 3: alive because of the other mistakes that were made in
- 1:56:04Speaker 3: this cover-up and the post-prison signals of life. And each
- 1:56:11Speaker 3: of these pieces by themselves don't... have equal weight. It's
- 1:56:18Speaker 3: up to the reader to make decisions about which ones
- 1:56:21Speaker 3: weigh the most for them. But you can put mathematical
- 1:56:26Speaker 3: modeling on these. and apply objective standards to them. And
- 1:56:33Speaker 3: this has been done. And we're going to put up
- 1:56:35Speaker 3: this mathematical model on the website for people who have
- 1:56:38Speaker 3: PhDs in statistics to evaluate. But what we've done, and
- 1:56:43Speaker 3: this is my good friend Nick McKinley, who runs a
- 1:56:46Speaker 3: nonprofit called Deliver Fund, who does amazing work in the
- 1:56:49Speaker 3: counter-trafficking space, former CIA guy, PJ, hero by all accounts,
- 1:56:55Speaker 3: rescued many kids from the horrors of that industry.
- 1:56:58Speaker 1: I'm aware of them. Yeah.
- 1:57:01Speaker 3: He did a mathematical model on this. And he looked
- 1:57:05Speaker 3: at this and he said the smoking gun for him
- 1:57:07Speaker 3: was the statistical odds of this being possible. And he
- 1:57:11Speaker 3: took the 14 largest anomalies. You can group those into cameras, guards,
- 1:57:20Speaker 3: and protocols. For the cameras, we know, again, all this
- 1:57:26Speaker 3: can be fact-checked. Some of them just straight up went down.
- 1:57:31Speaker 3: Just like, not were working at all. Some of them
- 1:57:39Speaker 3: did work, but then the footage is just missing. We
- 1:57:43Speaker 3: just don't know what happened to it. Epstein's cellmate lawyers
- 1:57:47Speaker 3: tried to get this footage and it's just file not found.
- 1:57:51Speaker 3: Of the ones that were working, we have a missing
- 1:57:54Speaker 3: minute of footage, gone. Just not there.
- 1:58:01Speaker 1: I know, man. I know. I think you're right.
- 1:58:06Speaker 3: And then you have, of the footage that we got,
- 1:58:08Speaker 3: the supposedly raw footage. Wired showed that, the Wired magazine,
- 1:58:16Speaker 3: showed that Adobe Premiere Pro edited that raw footage. Take
- 1:58:23Speaker 3: those anomalies and compound them with the guards who were
- 1:58:26Speaker 3: every 30 minutes supposed to check on him and they didn't.
- 1:58:29Speaker 3: They fell asleep. They were browsing the internet, shopping online.
- 1:58:34Speaker 3: And then the protocol of him not having a roommate
- 1:58:36Speaker 3: despite trying to commit suicide, allegedly. And despite the Department
- 1:58:42Speaker 3: of Psychology at the prison who sends out an email
- 1:58:44Speaker 3: to 70 people, including the warden, saying that this guy
- 1:58:47Speaker 3: needs to have a roommate and nothing was done. And
- 1:58:50Speaker 3: so now you have a guy in jail who has
- 1:58:55Speaker 3: no guards watching him. no roommate, cameras go down, and
- 1:58:58Speaker 3: is in the prime position for extraction. The odds of this,
- 1:59:05Speaker 3: all of these failures happening concurrently, based on this model
- 1:59:10Speaker 3: that we're going to allow people to scrutinize as much
- 1:59:13Speaker 3: as they want and argue with us about it, is
- 1:59:16Speaker 3: 1 in 5 times 10 to the 30th power. Those
- 1:59:27Speaker 3: numbers are meaningless to me unless I can put them
- 1:59:30Speaker 3: into an actual, something that makes sense in my head.
- 1:59:33Speaker 3: And it would be the equivalent of taking a quarter
- 1:59:37Speaker 3: and flipping heads 102 times in a row.
- 1:59:43Speaker 1: Not happening.
- 1:59:45Speaker 3: And so this moves us away from conjecture and conspiracy
- 1:59:48Speaker 3: forums and into mathematical understanding of the odds of this happening.
- 1:59:56Speaker 3: is effectively impossible where a mathematician would look at this
- 1:59:59Speaker 3: and say you've made an assumption wrong or there's an
- 2:00:02Speaker 3: error in your reasoning because if this is what the
- 2:00:05Speaker 3: odds show this is impossible he was left in that
- 2:00:12Speaker 3: cell in the prime position for extraction.
- 2:00:34Speaker 1: Why would anybody else want him alive? What do you mean? Well,
- 2:00:39Speaker 1: let's say he was working for the Rothschilds like he
- 2:00:43Speaker 1: says he was. Do you think they would want him alive?
- 2:00:53Speaker 1: Why the fuck did they even arrest him to begin with?
- 2:00:58Speaker 1: From the get-go, it was a clean-up job.
- 2:01:02Speaker 3: It happened twice, so he wasn't probably worried about it.
- 2:01:05Speaker 3: It happened once before in Palm Beach, and he got
- 2:01:07Speaker 3: a sweetheart deal. Which is a whole other rabbit trail
- 2:01:14Speaker 3: that's just astonishing to me.
- 2:01:16Speaker 1: A guy disconnected, right? You know what I mean? Disconnected. Yeah.
- 2:01:21Speaker 1: Why would they even, how would he even get booked
- 2:01:23Speaker 1: to jail anyways? Why would they even have a case
- 2:01:26Speaker 1: on him? Don't you think somebody would have pulled him off?
- 2:01:31Speaker 3: I think our DOJ and FBI are not homogenous. I
- 2:01:34Speaker 3: think the leverage starts at the top, but there are
- 2:01:36Speaker 3: men and women who took that oath and take it
- 2:01:38Speaker 3: seriously in our organizations.
- 2:01:39Speaker 1: I know, but I'm just saying, you know as well
- 2:01:41Speaker 1: as I do, lots of investigations, domestic, overseas. I mean,
- 2:01:47Speaker 1: lots of investigations have been stopped for whatever reason. You know, hey,
- 2:01:53Speaker 1: we're pulling you off this.
- 2:01:54Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:01:56Speaker 1: Why wouldn't somebody just get pulled off?
- 2:02:00Speaker 3: It certainly would have been very high profile, right? So
- 2:02:02Speaker 3: it's gonna go through layers of review. And I think
- 2:02:05Speaker 3: it's gonna depend on where this octopus of stranglehold and
- 2:02:13Speaker 3: all of its legs have wrapped itself around someone who
- 2:02:16Speaker 3: could make that call. It's not a perfect coverup. They've
- 2:02:23Speaker 3: made mistakes. They're humans. and I refuse to think that
- 2:02:32Speaker 3: the corruption runs complete through our institutions. Maybe one day
- 2:02:36Speaker 3: it will. But I don't think it does right now.
- 2:02:41Speaker 1: What do you mean by that?
- 2:02:42Speaker 3: Meaning that if the corruption were complete, then everyone on
- 2:02:46Speaker 3: our institutions would be Team Epstein.
- 2:02:50Speaker 1: You don't feel like they are?
- 2:02:52Speaker 3: I feel at the top it looks that way.
- 2:02:53Speaker 1: That's kind of what I mean. To me, that means complete.
- 2:02:57Speaker 2: Hmm.
- 2:02:58Speaker 3: Based on leadership.
- 2:02:59Speaker 1: If the leadership in every one of our institutions is
- 2:03:02Speaker 1: all beating the same drum, nothing's going to get accomplished.
- 2:03:07Speaker 1: We're seeing that, right?
- 2:03:08Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:03:10Speaker 1: You can only do so much, and then when you
- 2:03:13Speaker 1: get yanked off, I'm just doing my job.
- 2:03:16Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:03:16Speaker 1: You know?
- 2:03:19Speaker 3: There are clues for this that are interesting to me.
- 2:03:22Speaker 3: For example, Kash Patel sat in this chair and said
- 2:03:26Speaker 3: that he was going to clean it all up.
- 2:03:29Speaker 1: Oh, I burned that chair. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Yeah.
- 2:03:33Speaker 3: But I believed him. And I remarked to my wife
- 2:03:35Speaker 3: at the time, like, that's the politician I believe in.
- 2:03:38Speaker 3: That's awesome. I want that.
- 2:03:40Speaker 1: I was warned before I had him on the show.
- 2:03:42Speaker 1: He was completely full of shit.
- 2:03:44Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:03:44Speaker 1: A very good friend of mine. And he was fucking right.
- 2:03:48Speaker 3: Yeah. But you have an optimist in you probably that
- 2:03:52Speaker 3: didn't want to believe that. And I've got that one
- 2:03:54Speaker 3: in me too. The America that I grew up in,
- 2:03:57Speaker 3: And when I look at that flag and what I
- 2:03:58Speaker 3: feel about that flag, I can't let that go. And
- 2:04:06Speaker 3: him sitting here and watching that conversation about what he
- 2:04:10Speaker 3: really means, I wonder if he really meant it or
- 2:04:13Speaker 3: if when he sat on the house floor and he
- 2:04:14Speaker 3: said there's nothing in those Epstein files and perjured himself.
- 2:04:20Speaker 1: Why?
- 2:04:22Speaker 3: Where's the leverage? Where does it start and how deep
- 2:04:24Speaker 3: does it go? And I just can't believe it goes
- 2:04:27Speaker 3: as deep as the federal agents who took the oath
- 2:04:30Speaker 3: and who go home to their families at night and
- 2:04:32Speaker 3: are not in the spotlight and run their investigations. Some
- 2:04:36Speaker 3: of them, maybe. I can't imagine it's all of them.
- 2:04:42Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's the lower level guys,
- 2:04:45Speaker 1: probably not even the mid-tier, probably not even all the
- 2:04:48Speaker 1: way to the top tier. But I think the top
- 2:04:51Speaker 1: tier fucking knows.
- 2:04:52Speaker 3: Yeah. That's my read on it, too. I know those guys, man.
- 2:04:56Speaker 3: I was a federal agent. I got tons of friends
- 2:04:59Speaker 3: that are feds. They're good people. But some of them
- 2:05:05Speaker 3: are looking at this information and saying, yeah, I'll redact that.
- 2:05:08Speaker 3: I'll redact that. I'll redact that. And at some point,
- 2:05:15Speaker 3: they're complicit in this cover-up because it is a cover-up.
- 2:05:18Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What are you hoping to gain
- 2:05:27Speaker 1: by doing this?
- 2:05:33Speaker 3: We started Closed Horizon out of the belief that America's
- 2:05:36Speaker 3: in an epistemological crisis. Epistemology being the study of how
- 2:05:41Speaker 3: you know the things that you know. What is truth?
- 2:05:46Speaker 3: We're lied to constantly. Constantly. There's a new psyop every day.
- 2:05:54Speaker 3: We deserve better psyops. There's a new one every day. Deception. Lies.
- 2:05:59Speaker 3: Coming from the White House. Our institutions. Corruption. AIPAC buying
- 2:06:07Speaker 3: our government seats. Look what happened to Massey.
- 2:06:11Speaker 1: Everything's a fucking lie, man. It's all a lie. It's
- 2:06:14Speaker 1: all lies. Everything's. Everything. I mean, even... I just did
- 2:06:20Speaker 1: this episode with this guy, Pete Blaber. Delta Colonel.
- 2:06:26Speaker 3: And.
- 2:06:26Speaker 1: we went over a whole slew of lies that just
- 2:06:29Speaker 1: Naval Special Warfare is propping people up like heroes and
- 2:06:32Speaker 1: passing out awards. I mean, I'm pretty sure you know
- 2:06:38Speaker 1: about this shit. And that's, yes, even though people that
- 2:06:43Speaker 1: I know died in those events and were killed and
- 2:06:45Speaker 1: they were fighting for the country, I mean, that is so,
- 2:06:48Speaker 1: I hate to say it like this, but that is
- 2:06:51Speaker 1: so far It's just not as significant as what we're
- 2:06:58Speaker 1: talking about right now. When you're talking about people eating
- 2:07:00Speaker 1: babies and raping fucking kids and blackmail and are basically
- 2:07:05Speaker 1: our government is run by a shadow government. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's,
- 2:07:14Speaker 1: but I mean, we lie, we lie about that shit.
- 2:07:18Speaker 3: Yeah. Did you see the email that was sent to
- 2:07:21Speaker 3: Ghislaine asking if she wants to be on the shadow
- 2:07:24Speaker 3: nine 11 commission?
- 2:07:26Speaker 1: No, I didn't see that.
- 2:07:27Speaker 3: She gets an email. You can dig it up in
- 2:07:29Speaker 3: the files.
- 2:07:29Speaker 1: We'll put it up on screen right now.
- 2:07:32Speaker 3: To be on the shadow 9-11 commission. And here's what's
- 2:07:36Speaker 3: interesting about the files. You want to get into corruption?
- 2:07:39Speaker 3: There is a canyon of missing files between 99 and 2002.
- 2:07:48Speaker 3: Nothing came out in those years. Well, what happened in
- 2:07:51Speaker 3: those years? You have both 9-11 and the dot-com crash.
- 2:07:57Speaker 3: major events that shaped the next decades of history. What's
- 2:08:02Speaker 3: being hidden there?
- 2:08:09Speaker 1: What do you think's being hidden?
- 2:08:12Speaker 3: I think that what we've been told about some of
- 2:08:14Speaker 3: those events is really uncomfortable and not true. And it
- 2:08:21Speaker 3: would create a existential crisis for a generation of Americans
- 2:08:27Speaker 3: who fought, bled, and died overseas. Because they looked at
- 2:08:32Speaker 3: those towers being hit, and they said, this cannot stand
- 2:08:36Speaker 3: in my country. I'm gonna serve my country honorably, and
- 2:08:39Speaker 3: I'm gonna go fight over there, because they saw what
- 2:08:41Speaker 3: happened there. And I don't think it was what it
- 2:08:45Speaker 3: was per... what it was portrayed to be. And I
- 2:08:48Speaker 3: think that Canyon of files, if it ever comes out,
- 2:08:53Speaker 3: will show this.
- 2:08:55Speaker 1: Do you think the files even still exist?
- 2:08:58Speaker 3: That's a good question. I hope so. I hope they do.
- 2:09:10Speaker 1: You gonna watch the big UFC event tonight at the
- 2:09:12Speaker 1: White House? The.
- 2:09:17Speaker 3: the big fight?
- 2:09:18Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're all worried about, right? The fucking
- 2:09:21Speaker 1: UFC fight.
- 2:09:22Speaker 3: Your bread and circus. Here, take your bread and circus.
- 2:09:26Speaker 1: Shit really is biblical, man. It is.
- 2:09:29Speaker 3: It's a war of good and evil. And I knew
- 2:09:32Speaker 3: this was a war of good and evil when I
- 2:09:34Speaker 3: saw the darkest thing in the files. I used to
- 2:09:38Speaker 3: think that this was a criminal organization that was very sophisticated.
- 2:09:42Speaker 3: And it is. But it's deeper than that. This is
- 2:09:44Speaker 3: a good and evil issue. There was an email. I
- 2:09:51Speaker 3: gotta be careful. There was an email between Epstein and
- 2:09:59Speaker 3: an associate, and it's redacted who this associate is, where
- 2:10:08Speaker 3: Epstein recounts how a girl told him that she believed
- 2:10:14Speaker 3: while in her bed that God protected her. and that
- 2:10:18Speaker 3: Jesus was watching over her. And then he says, whoops.
- 2:10:26Speaker 3: And the person replies, you should dress up like him,
- 2:10:29Speaker 3: being Jesus, the next time you see her. We don't
- 2:10:39Speaker 3: wrestle against flesh and blood. This is deeper. This is
- 2:10:45Speaker 3: a war of good and evil. of truth, of secret
- 2:10:49Speaker 3: keepers and truth seekers. And I think that if we
- 2:10:58Speaker 3: don't get it under control, we're a generation away from
- 2:11:00Speaker 3: losing the empire. Because we care about it, but you
- 2:11:05Speaker 3: ask the next generation coming up, you ask Gen Z,
- 2:11:08Speaker 3: and a lot of them don't believe all the bullshit,
- 2:11:10Speaker 3: which is cool. They don't believe what the legacy news
- 2:11:15Speaker 3: media is telling them. They're like, man, all that's just lies.
- 2:11:18Speaker 3: But the problem is you extend that worldview into belief
- 2:11:21Speaker 3: about our institutions. All of it's corrupt, all of it's lies.
- 2:11:24Speaker 3: I don't believe in any of it anymore. Then you
- 2:11:28Speaker 3: get permission to do this forever without consequence.
- 2:11:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:11:35Speaker 3: The people who grew up like we did are the
- 2:11:38Speaker 3: last line against this. And it is more urgent than
- 2:11:41Speaker 3: people realize. Because once you get into the next generation,
- 2:11:47Speaker 3: we give up on this. It's over.
- 2:11:54Speaker 1: I know. I know.
- 2:12:02Speaker 3: But these people make mistakes. This isn't perfect. The people
- 2:12:07Speaker 3: that have done this conspiracy, and I'm okay using that
- 2:12:11Speaker 3: word because this is where the evidence takes me. People
- 2:12:13Speaker 3: have called me a conspiracy theorist in the lawsuit against
- 2:12:16Speaker 3: us for trespassing, and I don't give a damn about trespassing.
- 2:12:20Speaker 3: Not one damn about it. I gotta correct Ben on
- 2:12:25Speaker 3: two things. I love Ben, but I am an actively
- 2:12:27Speaker 3: barred lawyer. I'm sorry, I'm a barred lawyer with an
- 2:12:30Speaker 3: inactive license. And he was very generous to me and
- 2:12:36Speaker 3: just said that if they got caught, that they would
- 2:12:38Speaker 3: have to worry about trespassing charge. I don't give a
- 2:12:40Speaker 3: shit about a trespassing charge. We are going to figure
- 2:12:43Speaker 3: out whatever it takes to get to the truth on
- 2:12:45Speaker 3: this matter. And they make mistakes. Here's another for you. So,
- 2:12:55Speaker 3: let me.
- 2:13:00Speaker 1: Give you.
- 2:13:05Speaker 3: These two documents. Oh, hold on. Yeah, these three documents,
- 2:13:14Speaker 3: which we'll cover real quickly. But I think you're gonna
- 2:13:16Speaker 3: find this really interesting, John. So the first one is
- 2:13:23Speaker 3: this one labeled page six at the top here. This
- 2:13:28Speaker 3: is a page from the medical examiner's autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein.
- 2:13:36Speaker 3: And the top line, the first full sentence, says the
- 2:13:41Speaker 3: prostate is slightly and diffusely enlarged with mark enlargement of
- 2:13:45Speaker 3: the varimontanum. I don't know what that is. So this
- 2:13:50Speaker 3: is her observation. Medical examiner, official autopsy for Jeffrey Epstein,
- 2:14:01Speaker 3: that he does have a prostate. This next line, this
- 2:14:06Speaker 3: is just kind of an aside. It's not relevant to
- 2:14:08Speaker 3: the evidence here. It's just really embarrassing. It says the
- 2:14:10Speaker 3: testes are unremarkable. I don't know that I'd want that
- 2:14:13Speaker 3: in my autopsy. So she makes this position that there
- 2:14:20Speaker 3: is a prostate. This next document is a deposition. And
- 2:14:30Speaker 3: he's asked a question. He's asked a series of hypothetical questions.
- 2:14:34Speaker 3: You can have high testosterone and still have a need
- 2:14:37Speaker 3: for a Viagra because you don't have a prostate, right?
- 2:14:41Speaker 3: And he says, correct. Seemingly indicating on face value that
- 2:14:47Speaker 3: he doesn't have a prostate. Now there's controversy over this
- 2:14:52Speaker 3: because people make the argument that the U in that
- 2:14:55Speaker 3: sentence is the royal U. Meaning sort of a general
- 2:15:01Speaker 3: question about someone's medical condition. Okay, fair enough. But the
- 2:15:05Speaker 3: next document is a LabCorp record. And he has a
- 2:15:11Speaker 3: series of LabCorp records and other medical records as well
- 2:15:18Speaker 3: as intake forms that began as early as I could
- 2:15:20Speaker 3: find as 2012 maybe, where he's having problems with his prostate,
- 2:15:27Speaker 3: his testes. There's some kind of urological problem that he's having.
- 2:15:31Speaker 3: And so he's visiting a urologist. And at the bottom
- 2:15:34Speaker 3: of this, in highlighted, it says, serum PSA should decrease
- 2:15:41Speaker 3: and remain at undetectable levels after radical prostatectomy, which is
- 2:15:46Speaker 3: the removal of the prostate. So in his deposition, he
- 2:15:50Speaker 3: remarks that it'd be correct, this is what to expect
- 2:15:52Speaker 3: if you don't have a prostate. In his LabCorp record,
- 2:15:57Speaker 3: it seems to be a... a document indicating either pre-surgery
- 2:16:05Speaker 3: or follow-on, or at least some kind of analysis for
- 2:16:08Speaker 3: what the condition of his prostate would be like, or
- 2:16:10Speaker 3: his PSA and urinalysis would be if he didn't have
- 2:16:13Speaker 3: a prostate. But the official finding in the autopsy is
- 2:16:19Speaker 3: that he had a prostate. And based on all of
- 2:16:21Speaker 3: the other records that look at his medical history and
- 2:16:25Speaker 3: things that his associates sent him, it appears he most
- 2:16:28Speaker 3: likely had prostate cancer. And I know that because his
- 2:16:32Speaker 3: associates would send him medical journal articles about the state
- 2:16:38Speaker 3: of the art of prostate cancer, vaccines, cures. There were
- 2:16:45Speaker 3: 132 records if you search prostate cancer in the files.
- 2:16:52Speaker 3: He also had a health coach that he seemingly donated
- 2:16:55Speaker 3: a lot of money to who was sending him articles about...
- 2:17:00Speaker 3: or referencing an article for him to go look at
- 2:17:03Speaker 3: about being recovered from stage four prostate cancer. So these
- 2:17:09Speaker 3: three files in and of themselves are not entirely determinative
- 2:17:11Speaker 3: about the condition of the prostate, but it's a valid
- 2:17:14Speaker 3: open question about whether he didn't have a prostate and
- 2:17:18Speaker 3: the office of the chief medical examiner didn't track that
- 2:17:23Speaker 3: and it wasn't his body on the table.
- 2:17:27Speaker 1: Wow.
- 2:17:34Speaker 3: Detractors of this theory make the comment that this bottom
- 2:17:38Speaker 3: paragraph is boilerplate language on a lab core record. Fair enough,
- 2:17:45Speaker 3: but he's still being evaluated for what his level should
- 2:17:48Speaker 3: look like following a radical process. And prostate cancer is
- 2:17:55Speaker 3: occurring many times throughout the files. So, I'm not going
- 2:18:00Speaker 3: to say that it's completely determinative, but it's a very open,
- 2:18:03Speaker 3: valid question about if they made a mistake here. What
- 2:18:07Speaker 3: we do know is that he had a Body double
- 2:18:12Speaker 3: of some kind.
- 2:18:14Speaker 1: Say that again?
- 2:18:14Speaker 3: We do know that the FBI's own memo showed that
- 2:18:19Speaker 3: they pushed out a body for the media to see
- 2:18:23Speaker 3: that was covered in boxes and blankets to divert them
- 2:18:25Speaker 3: away from following it as it moved away from the
- 2:18:28Speaker 3: Metropolitan Correctional Center. We know that for sure.
- 2:18:32Speaker 1: 100%.
- 2:18:34Speaker 3: There's a memo showing that they pulled this scheme to...
- 2:18:39Speaker 3: trick the media basically when it came out. But weirdly,
- 2:18:43Speaker 3: the New York Post was there to take photos. And
- 2:18:46Speaker 3: so what they did is, as the gurney came out,
- 2:18:49Speaker 3: took photos of this alleged body on the gurney. From
- 2:18:55Speaker 3: the FBI memo, they say it was boxes and sheets.
- 2:18:58Speaker 3: The New York Post took photos of somebody. And we
- 2:19:02Speaker 3: know that because we have those photos. And what people
- 2:19:06Speaker 3: went back and did is they compared the photos of
- 2:19:09Speaker 3: him on the gurney to his mug shots and compared
- 2:19:14Speaker 3: the ear and the bridge of the nose. And if
- 2:19:19Speaker 3: you look at the cartilage of a dead person, it's
- 2:19:23Speaker 3: not gonna change that much. Like their face is gonna
- 2:19:25Speaker 3: change the way that the body carries fluids, they'd look different,
- 2:19:30Speaker 3: but your cartilage doesn't change right after you die. So
- 2:19:36Speaker 3: you can see for yourself The difference between even just
- 2:19:41Speaker 3: the nose. One of them is him dead, the New
- 2:19:46Speaker 3: York Post photos, and the other is him alive, the mugshot.
- 2:19:53Speaker 3: The bridge of the nose is curved on the dead body,
- 2:19:56Speaker 3: and it's more straight on the mugshot. The ear.
- 2:20:07Speaker 3: The ear is interesting because you can identify a body
- 2:20:10Speaker 3: based on the ears. We have unique shapes of our ears,
- 2:20:13Speaker 3: kind of like a fingerprint in a way. And the
- 2:20:19Speaker 3: version I'm showing you is in black and white. In color,
- 2:20:20Speaker 3: this is more evident, but I didn't have a color printer.
- 2:20:23Speaker 3: No one has printers anymore.
- 2:20:24Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:20:27Speaker 3: You could see the comparison of the ears. It's not
- 2:20:29Speaker 3: the same ear. So who is on that gurney? Because
- 2:20:36Speaker 3: based on this, Unless something really crazy happened to his
- 2:20:39Speaker 3: face after he died, which I guess is possible. That's
- 2:20:44Speaker 3: not his face.
- 2:20:48Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, that is completely different.
- 2:20:57Speaker 3: It's a different guy. So you pull this together and
- 2:21:10Speaker 3: you look at it and you think, am I crazy?
- 2:21:14Speaker 1: The whole thing makes you think you're crazy. It does.
- 2:21:16Speaker 3: It makes you think you're crazy.
- 2:21:17Speaker 1: From the beginning. If you vocalize what you're thinking, the institutions,
- 2:21:28Speaker 1: the administration will all label you crazy.
- 2:21:33Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:21:34Speaker 1: Low IQ. Low IQ.
- 2:21:37Speaker 3: CBS News covered an article on us.
- 2:21:42Speaker 1: Say that again.
- 2:21:42Speaker 3: CBS News did an article on us. Legacy Media Institution.
- 2:21:46Speaker 3: I think the reporters that we talked to were good people.
- 2:21:48Speaker 3: I think at once it hit an editor desk. It said, oh,
- 2:21:51Speaker 3: this has all been debunked. None of this has been debunked.
- 2:21:55Speaker 3: None of it is lazy. If you can't contend with
- 2:21:58Speaker 3: the facts, you smear me and Ben. You paint us
- 2:22:01Speaker 3: as crazy conspiracy theorists. You do lawfare, sue us for
- 2:22:07Speaker 3: civil trespass. Anything, anything but contend with the evidence itself.
- 2:22:15Speaker 3: And I think this is part of the playbook. And
- 2:22:18Speaker 3: the enemy is more sophisticated than we realize. I fell
- 2:22:22Speaker 3: for some of their tricks, hook, line, and sinker. And
- 2:22:26Speaker 3: the most clever one is the controversy that began right
- 2:22:29Speaker 3: after he died. There was an autopsy that was performed
- 2:22:34Speaker 3: And the conclusion of the autopsy says, this is death
- 2:22:39Speaker 3: by hanging. Official narrative. At the same time, his brother
- 2:22:44Speaker 3: Mark Epstein hires a forensic examiner to look at the
- 2:22:48Speaker 3: results of the autopsy. The forensic examiner says, well, hold up.
- 2:22:55Speaker 3: This little bone in the neck called the hyoid bone,
- 2:22:59Speaker 3: if that breaks, that's more consistent with strangulation. And now
- 2:23:06Speaker 3: this controversy begins between he killed himself or he was murdered.
- 2:23:14Speaker 3: From the jump.
- 2:23:15Speaker 1: That was manufactured as well.
- 2:23:18Speaker 3: If I'm wanting to take my kids to dinner, as
- 2:23:21Speaker 3: their dad, I say, hey, do you guys want to
- 2:23:24Speaker 3: go out for steak or sushi? And you know what
- 2:23:27Speaker 3: they do? They bicker like nine-year-olds. Normal nine-year-old stuff. Steak, sushi, steak, sushi.
- 2:23:34Speaker 3: I don't care. I love both.
- 2:23:37Speaker 1: They're both great.
- 2:23:39Speaker 3: But I've controlled the narrative. And what they did is brilliant.
- 2:23:44Speaker 3: They controlled the narrative on this because they knew the
- 2:23:47Speaker 3: official statement would be rejected by people who don't trust
- 2:23:50Speaker 3: our institutions. Immediately would be rejected. The number one global
- 2:23:57Speaker 3: pedophile dies by suicide as the first suicide in 21
- 2:24:01Speaker 3: years at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. First suicide in 21 years.
- 2:24:06Speaker 3: They know damn well that people are going to say,
- 2:24:09Speaker 3: no way. We're not that dumb. So what happened? Well,
- 2:24:14Speaker 3: the forensic examiner says, oh, this was suicide by hanging,
- 2:24:17Speaker 3: and I fell for this hook, line, and sinker. It's like,
- 2:24:20Speaker 3: clearly he was murdered. Clearly. It's a false choice. It's
- 2:24:29Speaker 3: a false choice. The third option. It's entirely valid. Like
- 2:24:33Speaker 3: with my kids, there's a lot of other options. All
- 2:24:37Speaker 3: their favorites, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, whatever. Tons of options, but I
- 2:24:42Speaker 3: narrowed it down to two, gave them two, and made
- 2:24:44Speaker 3: them fight over which two. So you've seen this in
- 2:24:46Speaker 3: a near decade of memes now about Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah,
- 2:24:52Speaker 3: he didn't. He left the cell alive. That's the third option,
- 2:24:55Speaker 3: and they control the narrative from day one. Brilliant move.
- 2:25:08Speaker 1: How much more do you have to look through?
- 2:25:13Speaker 3: There are some post-life signals that are interesting. You brought
- 2:25:17Speaker 3: up the Fortnite one. I am not convinced that the
- 2:25:20Speaker 3: official Fortnite position is anything but part of the cover-up.
- 2:25:26Speaker 1: I could be wrong.
- 2:25:26Speaker 3: I'm not going to hold on to that one too tight.
- 2:25:29Speaker 1: Maybe.
- 2:25:29Speaker 3: Maybe. He had another gaming account that went live called
- 2:25:32Speaker 3: War Thunder under the email that he had. I don't
- 2:25:35Speaker 3: know anything about War Thunder, but the email he had, jeevacationatgmail.com,
- 2:25:40Speaker 3: I believe it is. There's receipts and things like that.
- 2:25:43Speaker 3: There's activity on that email afterwards. That's very interesting. If
- 2:25:48Speaker 3: everyone thinks you're dead, what do you care if you
- 2:25:50Speaker 3: use the same email? Your files aren't coming out. No
- 2:25:52Speaker 3: one has access to your Gmail. So those are intriguing.
- 2:25:57Speaker 3: And then the most intriguing for me is there's a
- 2:26:00Speaker 3: YouTuber named Rusty Shackleford, and he flew a drone over
- 2:26:05Speaker 3: Little St. James. And he got like two hours of footage. 4K,
- 2:26:12Speaker 3: it looks like, great resolution. And as he flies around,
- 2:26:16Speaker 3: he brings the drone over roughly the middle of the island-ish,
- 2:26:21Speaker 3: and there's some side-by-sides sitting there. And the drone is
- 2:26:26Speaker 3: positioned above these side-by-sides, And there's someone in one of
- 2:26:31Speaker 3: the side-by-sides in the driver's seat who leans forward and
- 2:26:37Speaker 3: looks up at the drone and then goes back in
- 2:26:39Speaker 3: that side-by-side. And that person looked like an older gentleman
- 2:26:45Speaker 3: with gray hair that met my threshold of this should
- 2:26:51Speaker 3: be looked at. This is post-death. And let me tell
- 2:26:56Speaker 3: you something about that island because I've been to it.
- 2:26:59Speaker 3: If you wanted to hide somewhere, these intelligence people will
- 2:27:02Speaker 3: hide in plain sight. It wouldn't be a bad option,
- 2:27:06Speaker 3: especially if you have to clean up some loose ends
- 2:27:08Speaker 3: with your computers or technical infrastructure. No one's going to
- 2:27:12Speaker 3: think you're alive. And even if I came forward and
- 2:27:14Speaker 3: I said, he's alive and he's on that island, people
- 2:27:16Speaker 3: would laugh at me. No way, man.
- 2:27:19Speaker 1: No way.
- 2:27:20Speaker 3: So it's not an unsafe place, particularly because you can
- 2:27:25Speaker 3: stay there with it. extreme privacy, and the only way
- 2:27:28Speaker 3: that you wouldn't have privacy is if someone has an
- 2:27:29Speaker 3: aerial shot of you, which seems really unlikely, but this
- 2:27:33Speaker 3: guy did. He flew this drone over, and you can
- 2:27:34Speaker 3: watch this footage on Rumble. It's been taken down all
- 2:27:37Speaker 3: over the internet, but it's still up on Rumble as
- 2:27:39Speaker 3: of today. Who knows if it'll still be up, but
- 2:27:42Speaker 3: I'm sure people have preserved it. You can look and
- 2:27:44Speaker 3: make your own decision. This is post-death and pre-AI, which
- 2:27:49Speaker 3: meets our criteria. If it's after he died and before
- 2:27:53Speaker 3: the introduction of large language models, which can edit images.
- 2:27:55Speaker 3: All right, we'll put that in. So you take all
- 2:28:02Speaker 3: of these now in totality, from the passport to the
- 2:28:08Speaker 3: conditions in the jail cell, the trust, the escape plan,
- 2:28:15Speaker 3: the condition of the body when he is wheeled out
- 2:28:19Speaker 3: on the gurney, and walk your way all the way down,
- 2:28:23Speaker 3: and then post-life signals that carry some weight. The option
- 2:28:30Speaker 3: with the fewest problems of the three is that he
- 2:28:33Speaker 3: left that cell alive. And he left that cell alive.
- 2:28:38Speaker 3: We want proof of life.
- 2:28:44Speaker 1: Do you think you'll ever find out? We're going to try.
- 2:28:47Speaker 3: And here's how we're going to do it, and are
- 2:28:51Speaker 3: doing it. So Alex, my co-founder, and I work for
- 2:28:54Speaker 3: Rewards for Justice. It's the federal government's rewards program for
- 2:29:00Speaker 3: information about the who's who in the national security world
- 2:29:02Speaker 3: of bad guys. It's a very effective program. I put
- 2:29:08Speaker 3: out $ 5 million for Bob Bad Guy. Say that you
- 2:29:13Speaker 3: took a different path in life and you're Sean Ryan
- 2:29:15Speaker 3: and you run a terrorist network and everyone that's in
- 2:29:18Speaker 3: your staff here is part of your terrorist network. And
- 2:29:22Speaker 3: then you wake up one day and you see on
- 2:29:23Speaker 3: the news that there's $ 5 million reward for information about
- 2:29:27Speaker 3: the location of Sean Ryan. What are you worried about?
- 2:29:37Speaker 1: A lot of things.
- 2:29:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:29:40Speaker 3: You're worried about everyone that knows your eye color, your
- 2:29:42Speaker 3: plate numbers, where you bed down. It creates incentives for
- 2:29:47Speaker 3: betrayal within your network. It also restricts your freedom of
- 2:29:51Speaker 3: movement and closes your horizons. You can't travel anymore. You
- 2:29:57Speaker 3: can't be on planes. You can't be jet setting. You
- 2:29:59Speaker 3: can't be driving around past marketplaces, going to see your
- 2:30:04Speaker 3: associate friends. It makes the enemy adjust their TTPs. We
- 2:30:11Speaker 3: don't have $ 5 million, but we do have is a
- 2:30:14Speaker 3: lot of people that are mad about this. And we
- 2:30:16Speaker 3: started the reward pool and put in 40,000 of our
- 2:30:19Speaker 3: own money and people are contributing to this reward pool.
- 2:30:22Speaker 3: If we're wrong, and I'm willing to be wrong. In fact,
- 2:30:25Speaker 3: I would prefer to be wrong. I take no satisfaction
- 2:30:29Speaker 3: in being right about this. If we're wrong, every dollar
- 2:30:33Speaker 3: in that reward pool goes to Ben's organization. We fight
- 2:30:35Speaker 3: monsters to help people in trafficking and addiction. Every dollar.
- 2:30:39Speaker 3: If we're wrong, we can't prove it. But if we're right,
- 2:30:43Speaker 3: that reward pool will grow and grow year over year
- 2:30:46Speaker 3: as a long-term commitment to justice and truth. And incentivize
- 2:30:51Speaker 3: people to come forward. And if people have proof of life,
- 2:30:56Speaker 3: we want direct observational evidence. Not open source. I mean,
- 2:31:01Speaker 3: Ben is doing the open source side. My human collection
- 2:31:05Speaker 3: side wants direct observational evidence. I was his driver. I
- 2:31:09Speaker 3: was his gardener. I was his plastic surgeon. Those people,
- 2:31:16Speaker 3: because his associates aren't going to care. Say we get
- 2:31:18Speaker 3: it to a million dollars. Say some crazy person watching
- 2:31:21Speaker 3: this who has a ton of money says, I believe
- 2:31:23Speaker 3: in this, and puts in $ 10 million. His associates don't
- 2:31:27Speaker 3: care about that much money.
- 2:31:28Speaker 1: They don't care.
- 2:31:30Speaker 3: But you know who would care? For all of the
- 2:31:33Speaker 3: logistical parts of his life that have people that require,
- 2:31:38Speaker 3: they're required to hide someone. Gardeners, security, drivers, maids, plastic surgeons.
- 2:31:48Speaker 3: People that know, and this is not a fringe belief
- 2:31:51Speaker 3: that he's alive among his people in the Virgin Islands
- 2:31:56Speaker 3: and people that went to high school with him, survivors
- 2:32:00Speaker 3: of his crimes. So you build a reward pool big enough,
- 2:32:06Speaker 3: it becomes expensive to stay silent.
- 2:32:13Speaker 1: Where do people go for that?
- 2:32:17Speaker 3: They can go to EpsteinIsn'tDead.org, read the evidence, make your
- 2:32:22Speaker 3: own conclusion. If you believe in this and you think
- 2:32:24Speaker 3: you'll let that sell alive, consider the reward pool. The
- 2:32:31Speaker 3: other thing that they can do is go to ClosedHorizon.com
- 2:32:37Speaker 3: where we've created a marketplace for truth. We are tired
- 2:32:43Speaker 3: of being lied to about everything and constant deception. Tired
- 2:32:49Speaker 3: of it. There are questions that matter and are dangerous questions.
- 2:32:54Speaker 3: If I'm right, this is a dangerous question. Closed Horizon
- 2:32:59Speaker 3: allows anyone to create a campaign and fund it like
- 2:33:02Speaker 3: GoFundMe and pay sources for information. Whatever your question is.
- 2:33:08Speaker 3: There's other questions out there that are dangerous questions. Who
- 2:33:12Speaker 3: really killed Charlie Kirk? It's a dangerous question. They don't
- 2:33:15Speaker 3: have to be big questions. They can be little ones, too.
- 2:33:17Speaker 1: Who really killed JFK?
- 2:33:19Speaker 3: Who killed JFK?
- 2:33:21Speaker 1: Where'd those files go? I mean, we were told they
- 2:33:25Speaker 1: were going to release those files, right? Yeah.
- 2:33:28Speaker 3: He campaigned on that, right? Trump did?
- 2:33:34Speaker 1: If my memory is correct, yes, he did.
- 2:33:39Speaker 3: Why is everything a lie? This is what I mean
- 2:33:45Speaker 3: by an epistemological crisis. We have become accustomed to being
- 2:33:49Speaker 3: lied to about everything.
- 2:33:51Speaker 1: Yeah. I know. Well, I hope you get to the
- 2:34:05Speaker 1: bottom of this. That's some pretty compelling evidence that you've
- 2:34:10Speaker 1: got there.
- 2:34:13Speaker 3: We're not willing to give up on it. I can't, man.
- 2:34:17Speaker 3: Can't give up on this one.
- 2:34:20Speaker 1: Can't. What's next for you guys?
- 2:34:33Speaker 3: The other way that people can help here is we're
- 2:34:37Speaker 3: calling for an Epstein Truth Commission. And if any members
- 2:34:42Speaker 3: of Congress have the courage to reach out to us.
- 2:34:47Speaker 3: We believe that there should be a Epstein Truth Commission,
- 2:34:50Speaker 3: like there was a 9-11 Truth Commission or 9-11 Commission
- 2:34:52Speaker 3: and a church committee after the JFK assassination. Now there's
- 2:34:58Speaker 3: problems with those, sure. But the FBI has fully abdicated
- 2:35:03Speaker 3: its duty to investigate this. Completely. There's no reason that
- 2:35:09Speaker 3: Ann Rodriguez based on my reading, shouldn't be charged under
- 2:35:13Speaker 3: the Mann Act and the sex trafficking statute for procuring
- 2:35:17Speaker 3: people and bringing them to the islands for illegal sexual activity.
- 2:35:22Speaker 3: That's a low-hanging fruit one. That's the island manager, not
- 2:35:25Speaker 3: a billionaire. That's an easy one. That's the sacrificial lamb.
- 2:35:34Speaker 3: Brought people to that island for the purpose of illegal
- 2:35:36Speaker 3: sexual activity, harbored and transported for child victims. for commercial sex.
- 2:35:42Speaker 3: Something of value was exchanged for a commercial sex... for
- 2:35:44Speaker 3: a sex act. So there's no.
- 2:35:49Speaker 3: FBI and DOJ who's willing to do this in this administration.
- 2:35:52Speaker 3: We need a long-term commitment to justice from our federal government.
- 2:35:55Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure out how somebody gets arrested
- 2:35:58Speaker 1: for sex trafficking when there's... Who do you traffic to?
- 2:36:03Speaker 3: To nobody, Sean. Ghislaine and Epstein didn't traffic them to anybody.
- 2:36:11Speaker 3: Believe that and go back to Brown Circus.
- 2:36:14Speaker 1: I can't wait for that UFC fight.
- 2:36:15Speaker 3: Let's go, baby.
- 2:36:16Speaker 1: I bet it's going to be a real good one.
- 2:36:18Speaker 3: Yeah. The stakes are high. I think people have to
- 2:36:26Speaker 3: wake up to that.
- 2:36:32Speaker 1: Man. Well, Ryan, I really appreciate what you're doing, man.
- 2:36:37Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in.
- 2:36:38Speaker 3: I have something for you.
- 2:36:40Speaker 1: Oh, shit. What is it?
- 2:36:44Speaker 3: Ben gave you the We Fight Monsters flag. This is
- 2:36:48Speaker 3: the closed horizon flag that we brought to the island. So,
- 2:36:53Speaker 3: you got two.
- 2:36:54Speaker 1: Oh, man. Thank you.
- 2:36:59Speaker 3: That's our... Our logo is a reticle and a compass
- 2:37:06Speaker 3: with the north indicated.
- 2:37:08Speaker 1: Love it.
- 2:37:11Speaker 3: Truth, gotta find truth. I have another gift for you.
- 2:37:19Speaker 3: My understanding is, is you were reading the Stoics, is
- 2:37:21Speaker 3: that right? Who's your favorite?
- 2:37:25Speaker 1: Marcus Aurelius.
- 2:37:25Speaker 3: Marcus Aurelius, the OG Stoic.
- 2:37:28Speaker 1: That's right. My interview yesterday was about this.
- 2:37:31Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 2:37:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:37:33Speaker 3: He's made a generational impact on the lives of men.
- 2:37:38Speaker 3: Be like the promontory upon which the waves continually crash
- 2:37:41Speaker 3: while they're allowed to sleep at your feet. That's how
- 2:37:46Speaker 3: a man should be, and you're one.
- 2:37:47Speaker 1: Of those men.
- 2:37:49Speaker 3: And this is a Roman Denarius with the depiction of
- 2:38:00Speaker 3: Marcus Aurelius on it. And I give that to you
- 2:38:04Speaker 3: as a fellow truth seeker. You have the courage to
- 2:38:07Speaker 3: say things here that other people won't say. It was
- 2:38:10Speaker 3: given to me by a truth seeker. I pass it
- 2:38:14Speaker 3: to you as a truth seeker that is saying things
- 2:38:17Speaker 3: that other people are afraid to say. Won't say. That matter.
- 2:38:21Speaker 3: And maybe one day you'll pass it along to another
- 2:38:24Speaker 3: truth seeker and you'll have a long legacy of truth
- 2:38:27Speaker 3: seekers who have owned that coin.
- 2:38:30Speaker 1: I will. Thank you, man. Ryan, I wish you the
- 2:38:37Speaker 1: best of luck. And if you come across anything else,
- 2:38:40Speaker 1: let me know. I'd love to have you and Ben
- 2:38:42Speaker 1: and anybody else back to sit on this.
- 2:38:45Speaker 3: We'd love to come back. All right, brother.
- 2:38:48Speaker 1: God bless.
- 2:38:49Speaker 3: Thanks, Sean.
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