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This Jeffrey Epstein Story Will Send Chills Down Your Spine - Eric Weinstein · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: One thing is that there is a physiological reaction that
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  Speaker 1: corresponds to this phrase that you know, the hair on
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  Speaker 1: the back of my neck stood on end, Like that's
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  Speaker 1: a real physiological feeling. I don't know whether the hair
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  Speaker 1: actually does that, but it's exactly what it feels like.
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  Speaker 1: You're meeting somebody who is unholy, and you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the most interesting things is that he was beckoning
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  Speaker 1: into a world that didn't seem to exist, but for
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  Speaker 1: him as the doors the door mat I think that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that freaked out a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these rich people is that he he felt rich in
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  Speaker 1: a movie sense, which is not something that you find
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  Speaker 1: among actually rich people. What do you mean, Well, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of very wealthy people don't own an eyeland. Islands
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  Speaker 1: are really tough to maintain. I'm obsessed with islands, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, in general, I have to be obsessed with
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  Speaker 1: islands that have airports run by other people, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: they have populations on it. But every rich person starts
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  Speaker 1: to wonder, can I afford it? Can I afford an island?
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  Speaker 1: Or how many jets? And if you look at Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's wealth, it was beaten. It was like gold beaten
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  Speaker 1: into gold foil so that it could cover a vast
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  Speaker 1: area and leave the impression of a solid gold life.
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  Speaker 1: But it was really probably a mid nine figure fortune
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  Speaker 1: that had been used to buy islands and planes, which
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  Speaker 1: is not what any nine figure person is going to do.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that he had a lipstick camera pointed at
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  Speaker 1: me from an art object, that he laid a table
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  Speaker 1: that was preposterously long and thin with a tablecloth made
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  Speaker 1: of an American flag to make it look like a
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  Speaker 1: coffin so that I would spill my coffee on the
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  Speaker 1: flag of my own country. I mean, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he looked like a mutant Ralph Lauren with this kind
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  Speaker 1: of labricious quality, and he's talking all of the science
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  Speaker 1: and market stuff and nothing adds up, and there's an
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  Speaker 1: arrist bouncing on his knee to get it boobs to
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  Speaker 1: jiggles to see whether it can distract. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: like one of these crazy scenes where nothing about it
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  Speaker 1: was normal. There was just no there was no trace
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  Speaker 1: of a normal world. Yeah, I mean, I think part
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  Speaker 1: of it, John Travolta is like putting a gun to
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  Speaker 1: your head and forcing you to drink and break a
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  Speaker 1: coat in a minute. Yeah, like that part of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was some sort of like you know,
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  Speaker 1: remember that story The Most Dangerous Game where a man
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  Speaker 1: invites you to his island so he can hunt you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this was scary, and it was it was
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  Speaker 1: meant to be scary. Sounds menacing. Well, I think his
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  Speaker 1: product was silence. People think that his product was sex
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  Speaker 1: or finance, but it was silence. I'm pretty sure what
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  Speaker 1: some mean if you're scary enough. Look, rich people can
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  Speaker 1: get sex, but they can't necessarily get people to shut
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  Speaker 1: up afterwards. So my take on it, and my take
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  Speaker 1: on it instantly was this is not an actual human
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  Speaker 1: This is a construct of someone's Someone has created a
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  Speaker 1: fake human being called Jeffrey Epstein who's a mysterious currency
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  Speaker 1: trading financier with crazy rules so that no one would
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  Speaker 1: ever invest with him. And I think that was to
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  Speaker 1: keep people from seeking his investment services. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's labeled disgraced financier, but nobody has a record of
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  Speaker 1: trading with him. He was sitting there, he comes into
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  Speaker 1: the me and he says, you know, well, Eric, I
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  Speaker 1: was just doing some currency trading. And I thought about
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  Speaker 1: that scene that you sometimes see and as a meme
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  Speaker 1: with Steve Buscemi with a skateboard over his Hello fellow,
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  Speaker 1: just hello, fellow financial traders exactly. So I'm thinking you
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  Speaker 1: don't really look like a rich guy who trades in markets. No.
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  Speaker 1: When I say I think he was a construct, I
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  Speaker 1: literally mean that. I think he was constructed, like fitted
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  Speaker 1: with a story. Oh so you think he was a plant? No,
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  Speaker 1: I think he was a construct. What's that like? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to dig in. I think Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: super genius financier, was not a thing that existed. Where
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  Speaker 1: did the money come from? I mean, mumble lex we Westerner. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so that's what you mumble. But then you know there's
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  Speaker 1: this missing fortune of Robert Maxwell and this fortune of
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein that we can't explain. Are those the same fortune?
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  Speaker 1: It's like a conservation of money principle that if you
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  Speaker 1: have a fortune that's missing, and you have a fortune
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  Speaker 1: that can't be explained, and they're connected by Gilain Maxwell,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why is it that no hedge funds?
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  Speaker 1: What is it they file form? I forget it's thirteen F.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain forms that you have to file nobody's
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  Speaker 1: ever asked for these things. Who's his prime broker? Where
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  Speaker 1: has somebody gone over the prime brokerage? What are his trades?
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  Speaker 1: He would have to move the market. If he was
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  Speaker 1: doing a yard of euros or Swiss francs or who
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  Speaker 1: knows what, it's like a billion that would move the market.
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  Speaker 1: So there's no way you can fake retroactively a hedge
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  Speaker 1: fund of immeasurable size that trades currencies. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he was a currency trader. He told me it was
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  Speaker 1: a current. I don't know. I would imagine some version
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  Speaker 1: of the intelligence community. You know, sometimes somebody's cover gets blown.
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  Speaker 1: We have a very famous, unfortunate story of Ellie Khne
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  Speaker 1: with the Massad, where Ellie Cohne was an Egyptian jew
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  Speaker 1: who was fitted with a backstory that he was an
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  Speaker 1: Argentinian playboy who'd made a fortune in Argentina but was
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  Speaker 1: Arabic in origin. And then he moves to Damascus and
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  Speaker 1: he takes out an apartment where he holds orgies and
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  Speaker 1: becomes the best friend of Hafez Alasa. Right, And so
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  Speaker 1: that's an example of a story we know. We know
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  Speaker 1: how the intelligence communities of the world create people who
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  Speaker 1: don't really exist. This was intended to be terrifying. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't an accident. It was intended to be as fascinating
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  Speaker 1: as it could possibly be, which it was, and terrifying
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. And it achieved both. It achieved
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  Speaker 1: both objectives. I mean, I was given an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: meet him again. I didn't know what to do. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the other thing I just found really weird is that
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  Speaker 1: he knew about my research. And it turned out that
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  Speaker 1: he was connected to my graduate department at Harvard. So
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  Speaker 1: he had a connection to the Harvard Math department, unbeknownst
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  Speaker 1: to me. I don't know when that began. I know
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  Speaker 1: two of the professors he was connected through. But this
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  Speaker 1: is some unholy story. It has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. It has to do with whatever this thing was.
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  Speaker 1: We tripped over a thing. We tripped over a structure.
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  Speaker 1: We named the structure Jeffrey Epstein. This was already going
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  Speaker 1: in the early two thousands. You see. My sense of
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  Speaker 1: this is that this was a pre Internet plan that
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  Speaker 1: lived into the Internet Age and couldn't survive contact with
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  Speaker 1: the Internet age. You know, there's a claim that nobody
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  Speaker 1: cares about Jeffrey Epstein because it's this many years later
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  Speaker 1: and we've all moved on. Yeah, that's completely untrue, and
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  Speaker 1: we know that it's true because if you start talking
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  Speaker 1: about Jeffrey Epstein, the engagement goes up. So you have
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  Speaker 1: these fictions, like you know, that are put out by
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  Speaker 1: mainstream media or traditional news desks, which is nobody cares
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  Speaker 1: about that story. Well that you can see from social
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  Speaker 1: media that that's not true from the Internet, So the
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  Speaker 1: Internet is constantly providing an ability to check whether or
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  Speaker 1: not these claims from inside the structure true. And Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein is an example of what I called an anti
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  Speaker 1: interesting phenomenon. What's that one anti interesting thing is something
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  Speaker 1: that would normally be fascinating. Imagine, for example, you had
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  Speaker 1: a story where you could get a Pulitzer Prize for
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  Speaker 1: breaking it. Everybody cares, you'd sell papers like hotcakes, blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah, and nobody wants to report on it. And
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  Speaker 1: it's like, right there, you could just ask the dumbest
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  Speaker 1: questions and it would like New York Times says disgraced financier, Well,
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  Speaker 1: tell me, did you find his prime broker? Did you
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  Speaker 1: find the forms? Did you go to his offices in
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  Speaker 1: Bollard House. No nobody does. Ever, the story is anti
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  Speaker 1: interesting and it's very different than being uninteresting. I mean, see,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is one of the most uncomfortable things.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was a time when mostly when people
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  Speaker 1: said collusion or coordination, their presumption was, well, that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of that's pretty far out there. We now know, like
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  Speaker 1: post Elon Musk's forty four billion dollar adventure at Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: that there are these coordinating groups coordinating, coordinating social media
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  Speaker 1: with the intelligence community, or with the Department of Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 1: or with the State Department. We now know that we're
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  Speaker 1: living in an orchestrated, co curated, choreographed world and we
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  Speaker 1: can't know it officially, but we all know it if
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  Speaker 1: we want it not, which is hysterical. Now we have
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, well, are you a conspiracy theorist? Like
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  Speaker 1: I read I read the slack messages, I read the emails.
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  Speaker 1: What are you even talking about that