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Speaker 1: A man named John Brockman today, and John Brockman is
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a literary agent who it works with all of the
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scientists who write books, and all of the academics who
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write books, and all of the supposed great minds. Well,
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John Brockman was one of Jeffrey Epstein's enablers, a man
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who brought Jeffrey Epstein closer to these scientists. And the
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article we're going to read today from The New Republic
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is going to detail just how that occurred. Now, this
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article came out on August twenty second of twenty nineteen,
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and the article was written by Evgeny Morozov and the
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headline Jeffrey Epstein's intellectual enabler. How did Epstein meet so
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many luminaries in the world of science and technology? It
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all might trace back to literary agent John Brockman. And
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I've heard John Brockman's name brought up several times to
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me in private conversations with people who are close to
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this case. And I've been meaning to get around to
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talk about John Brockman. And since the news is so
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light lately, I figured today would be the perfect time
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to do that. So let's jump into this article and
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see just exactly what John Brockman was up to. If
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you are an accomplished science or technology writer, your books
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are probably handled by the most powerful literary agency in
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the field, the famous John Brockman Incorporated, started by John
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Brockman and now run by Max Brockman, his son. As
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it happens, Max is also my agent and has been
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since my first book was sold in two thousand and nine.
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As agencies go, I only have positive things to report.
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The Brockmens fight for their authors and get us very
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handsome advances. That's what agents are for, of course, right, Look,
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not knocking the guy for his hustle. We all have
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to have our hustle, and we all have to be
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good at our job, right, And if you're a literary agent,
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your job is to make sure that your writers are
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getting deals and they're writing books. So not knocking the
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man for his hustle. I have no problem with the
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fact that he's a literary agent, right. My problem is
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he enabled Jeffrey Epstein. My problem is he brought Jeffrey
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Epstein into a circle and gave him credibility of off
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of his own name, off of the back of his
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own name. And when you do that you're vouching for
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this guy. And in the world I come from, Well,
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if you vouch for somebody, you're responsible for their behavior.
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But that's not the whole story. John is also the president, founder,
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and chief and presierro of the Edge Foundation, which has
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earned a stellar reputation as an eclectic platform for conversations
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that involve scientists, artists, and technologists. There is more than
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one Edge Foundation, though. There is the one meant for
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public consumption with its annual question e g. What are
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you optimistic about? Answered by famous intellectuals and thinkers, and
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one meant for private consumption by members of Brockman's elite network.
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The former exists primarily online. The latter has a vibrant
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real life component, with sumptuous dinners, exclusive conferences, and quite
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a bit of travel on private jets. It functions as
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an elaborate massage of the ego and apparently much else
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for the rich, the smart, and the powerful. Again, we
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see this time and time again with business leaders and
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politicians and you know, hedge fund managers, et cetera, et cetera.
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But now we also see that the highest in the
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realms of academia, the scientists, the doctors, the professors. All
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of these people are just as susceptible to guys like
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Jeffrey Epstein as well, and if not more. You see,
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these guys might be the leading minds at what they do,
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but that's about it. Right. If you take a look
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at most of these scientists, they're not exactly what you
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would call, you know, guys that are gonna knock your
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girls socks off if they come and sit down and
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look at them. Right, these are the kind of guys
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that are super intelligent, but pretty goofy for the most part. Right,
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these guys weren't playing on the football team. They weren't
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shotgun and beers on Saturday nights. They weren't getting into fights,
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they weren't getting the hot cheerleader girls in school, none
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of that. So that was all repressed for them. Now
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later on in life, well, the world's their oyster, and
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Jeffrey Epstein just happens to be serving seafood. Over the
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course of my research into the history of digital culture,
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I've got to know quite a lot about John's role
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in shaping the digital and especially the intellectual world that
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we live in. I've examined and scanned many of his
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letters in the archives of famous men, and they are
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mostly men such as Marshall McCluin, Stuart Brand, and Gregory Bateson.
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He is no mere literary agent. He is a true
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organic inte sellectual of the digital revolution, shaping trends. Shaping
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trends rather than responding to them. Would the MIT, Media Lab,
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TED conferences and Wired have the clout and intellectual orientation
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that they have now without the extensive network cultivated by
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Brockman over decades, I, for one, very much doubt it. Again.
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I've talked about these TED talks and these these Media
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Lab conferences and the Edge Foundation for years, and a
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lot of times it fell upon deaf ears, you know.
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I would speak to people about it and their eyes
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would glaze over. There's always been something going on, something
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wrong with these scientists, these people that were hanging out
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with Jeffrey Epstein. We never had anybody come out really
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and talk about it. Besides, you know, when Virginia so
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bravely stepped forward and talked about you know, Minski and
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some of the other scientists and stuff. But these guys
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have been able to go underneath the radar, operate under
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the radar for so long because everyone looks up to
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them because they're so smart and they're so respected. But meanwhile, meanwhile,
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in the dark of night and in on the privacy
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of Jeffrey Island's Jeffrey Epstein's Island, well, their real characters
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started to show through. So I've always been skeptical of
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these conferences like Ted Talk and the Edge Foundation, any
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of these places where people get up on a stage
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and they start preaching to you and they're acting holier
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than now and acting as if they're better than you.
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I automatically start to think that something is going on.
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It's just like when the government says to you, everything's
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fine here, everything's all right. We're from the government, we're
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here to help. Then you know, for a fact it's
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time to panic. Lately, John has been in the news
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for other reasons, namely because of his troubling connections to
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Jeffrey Epstein, the so called financier pedophile who reportedly hanged
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himself earlier this month while facing federal charges of sex trafficking.
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Epstein participated in the Edge Foundation's annual questions and attended
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its billionaire's dinners. Brockman may also be the reason why
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so many prominent academics from Stephen Pinker to Daniel Dennett
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have found themselves answering awkward questions about their associations with Epstein. Now,
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the way Gilaine Maxwell acted for the world of the
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socialite for the Upper Crest so called polite society, with
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Jeffrey Epstein as a conduit, that is the same exact
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way John Brockman acted as a conduit for Epstein into
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the world of intellectuals and scientists. Now, I'm not saying
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that John Brockman had the same sort of role as
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Gilaine Maxwell. Okay, nothing like that. But he was the
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introduction man, right. He was the man that introduced Epstein
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to these scientists, who vouched for Epstein with these scientists,
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brought them all together at the Edge Foundation, took a
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bunch of money from Jeffrey Epstein. Right. So Brockman was
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the pivot man for Epstein when it came to procuring scientists,
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the same way Gilay Maxwell was that the woman when
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it came to procuring young girls for him to abuse.
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There are clients of Brockman's. Marvin Minsky, the prominent Mit
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scientist who surfaced as one of Epstein's Island buddies, a
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client of Brockman's. And we know that Virginia said that
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Marvin Minsky was not only an enabler, but that she
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was trafficked to him as well. And I talked about
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Minsky on an episode yesterday morning, I believe, or the
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day before. I don't know. All the days are blending
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together to me right now. But Minsky is definitely somebody
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that flew under the radar for way too long, and
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he passed away recently, so obviously he's not somebody whose
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name is in the forefront. But I don't think that
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his legacy should go down with that without that being
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part of it. Right What he did to Virginia that
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needs to be talked about, that needs to be known.
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And you know, the media never really talks about Minsky.
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They never have. And of course there's more, there's juicier
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people involved in the case for them, of course, because
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health wants. Nobody even knows who Minsky is unless you're
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involved in you know, science and stuff. But the fact
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of the matter is Minsky needs more, needs more scrutiny,
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and he needs to be looked at harder by the
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legacy media. Choi Ito, the director of the Elite Research
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facility MIT Media Lab, who has recently acknowledged extensive ties
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to Epstein. Huh, also a client of Brockman's. You see
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the pattern here, folks, You see how it works. All
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of these people. Brockman would be the center guy, right
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the pivot. Epstein would come to him, Brockman would make
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the introduction, Epstein would suck them into his orbit, and
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we all know the story after that. Should we just
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write it off as natural collateral damage for someone with
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a network as extensive as Brockman's, he is, after all,
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a networker's networker. Yeah, sorry, negative. One thing we've learned
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in this case, the coincidence aren't the coincidences aren't just
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coincidences in this case, There's always more to it. There's
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always more under beneath the surface. When you do just
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a little scratch of the surface, you always find a
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little bit more. Based on my observations over the last decade,
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his whole His whole operation runs on two simple but
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powerful principles. First, the total value of the network, and
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thus his own value goes up if the nodes start
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connecting to each other independently of him. Yeah, well, that's
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how networking usually works, right, You make the introduction. You
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water the seeds, then you let the garden grow. And
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Brockman was very good at that, very good at that,
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nurturing relationships between people like Epstein with money and scientists
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who needed that money to get their projects off the ground. Second,
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the more diverse the network, the more attractive to its newcomers,
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as well as to all the exist existing members. Billionaires
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are rich, but they might harbor an insecurity complex related
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to not being very well read. Looking at you, Bill Gates. Oooh,
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zinger at Bill Gates, our friend Bill Gates. Scientists, in contrast,
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are usually well read, but might aspire to finance to
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fancy your cars and luxuries and funding for their pet
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projects and so on. There's something for everyone, And in
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the case of Epstein, some one seems to have done
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the matchmaking. Yeah, of course it's obvious. We know that
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that was happening, right, And people who followed the story
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have heard of John Brockman, and people know that he's
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a big time literary agent and somebody who is, you know,
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very connected when it comes to scientists, et cetera, et cetera.
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But it's obvious when you really dig deep and you
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take a look at what was going on that Brockman
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was working, as you know, the doorway into the scientific world,
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the man that would match these people together, like he
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was the millionaire matchmaker. Right, Oh, Epstein has money, this
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guy has a pet project. Epstein might like, let's get
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him together. And then, of course I'm sure Brockman was
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getting a percent somewhere down the line. Obviously I don't
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have evidence to prove that, but it works well with
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our entire thread of money laundering. Right. We all know
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that if you were to match up all of the
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receipts on the cash transactions, et cetera, et cetera, how
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many of them were reported to the IRS. I'd really
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like to know that in Brockman's world, billionaires, scientists, artists, novelists, journalists,
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and musicians all blend together to produce enormous value for
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each other and of course for Brockmen, again a symbiotic relationship.
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There's nothing wrong with that for a literary agent to
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you know, bring people together to try and network to
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help his clients get funding, et cetera, et cetera. The
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problem is when you're using Jeffrey Epstein as that lynchpin,
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when you're using Jeffrey Epstein as the draw. Brockman's a
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smart guy, all right. And did anyone thinks that Brockman
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didn't have an idea what Epstein was up to? I don't.
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I'm sorry, but I don't believe that this mingling of
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clients doesn't happen in their literary agencies, at least not
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to this extent. Nor does this happen at Brockman Incorporated.
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As all such interactions that we know of took place
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under the umbrella of the Edge Foundation, a sibling organization
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with Brockman as its president. Of course, you don't want
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to shit where you eat, right, you don't want to
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put it under the banner of your literary agency. So
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you start this thing called the Edge Foundation. Perfect. We'll
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get this Edge Foundation together, and we'll bring together all
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of these scientists with their fantastic benefactor, Jeffrey Epstein. Oh,
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did I mention there's a bunch of young girls on
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the island too. Would Brockman Incorporated exist without the Edge Foundation? Possibly,
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and it did at the outset. Would it be as
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powerful trading on Brockman's ability to rub shoulders with academics
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and billionaires alike. Probably not? Still I can attest that
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Brockman's authors faced no pressure to get involved with EDGE. I,
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for example, diligently responded to their annual question between twenty
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ten and two thousand and thirty. Was as much of
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an enabler as anybody else. Right, This guy John Brockman
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is very powerful in the industry that he is in,
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and he is definitely a gatekeeper to Epstein. Right, definitely
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was a gatekeeper to Epstein and definitely held the keys
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to a lot of these scientists and authors, you know,
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moving their projects forward on the back of Epstein's dime
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and the fact that they told their authors to stay
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away from politics and stuff when it comes to responding
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to the questions, Well, that doesn't shock anybody, right, They
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don't want them, you know, their overlords in one of
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the Alphabet Soup agencies that were running Epstein to get
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upset with the commentary. When the Epstein Brockman connection first
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surfaced in the news, I wanted to give Brockman the
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benefit of the doubt. It's possible I thought that Epstein
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was just one of the many rich people in Brockmann's orbit,
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or maybe the two had been close before Epstein's first
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criminal case in the mid two thousands, or maybe Brockman
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was in the dark about Epstein's tendencies and they only
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talked about quantum physics and artificial intelligence. Yeah. Look, I
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can understand why the author would feel that way about Brockman.
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He's his agent. He wants to think the best of
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the guy. Of course, you always want to give people
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the benefit of the doubt, right. You don't want to
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go into things and be like, all right, this dude's
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a part of Epstein's operation. That's it. Nothing can change
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my mind. Of course not. You always want to give
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people the benefit of the doubt. You want to look
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at the evidence and you want to make sure that
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your line of thinking is clear and that it has
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nothing to do with a confirmation bias or anything like that. Right,
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So this gentleman, the author Morozov, who wrote this article,
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wanted to give Brockman the benefit of the doubt. But
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obviously it doesn't add up, right when the pieces start
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to come into play, you can't try and you know,
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bend the truth to make it fit what you think
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the situation should be. You just have to follow the
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truth wherever it goes. In the last few weeks, such
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a charitable interpretation has become very hard to sustain, especially
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as other details implicating Marvin Minsky enjoy Eto, who has
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apologized for taking money from Epstein, became public. John Brockman
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has not said a word publicly about his connection to
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Epstein since the latest scandal broke, preferring to maintain silence
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on the matter that I have found quite infuriating. Yeah,
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it is pretty infuriating, right. A guy like Brockman should
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have came out right away, distanced himself from Epstein, distanced
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himself from the whole entire situation, and answered questions about
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his relationship with Epstein and as his role as a gatekeeper.
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But instead, like the rest of them, he just clammed up,
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quieted down and hoped it would go away. And that's
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what they all hope. Because of the first time around
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how things went, they hope that this time around it's
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the same thing. That nothing, the wheels don't turn, nobody
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gets in trouble and justice this has never served well.
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I'm here to tell them this isn't the last time around.
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All right. It's a whole new world we're living in, folks.
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There was no social media like this the last time around.
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There was no way for the survivors to go directly
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to the people with their case and their story. Now
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there is. And guess what, We've completely bypassed all of
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their buddies in the legacy media. We've completely bypassed all
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of their friends like George Stepanopolis and Amy Robach. Okay,
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we're taking the case directly to the people this time,
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and it terrifies them. It scares them. They know that
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there is no place for them to run. There is
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no safe haven for these people at this point. Knowing
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that Brockman likes to brag about all the famous people
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he has met and befriended, you can easily count the
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seconds until he name checks Marshall mccluhan or Andy Warhol
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or Gregory Bateson in a casual conversation. I decided to
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look over our correspondence over the past decade and see
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if he might have name dropped Epstein somewhere. Of course
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he did. Browsing through our email correspondence, I stumbled upon
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a most peculiar email from September twelfth of twenty thirteen.
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It was very laconic je FYI JB, followed by my
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short bio and some media clippings. You can check the
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entire PDF of the correspondence here. There's a hyperlink in
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this story. Make sure you click on the link in
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the description box after the article and you could check
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out that PDF. Strangely, it was sent to me and
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had no other contacts in CC. Perhaps he wanted to
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send it to JE but put my email there by mistake.
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When I commented on the meaning of this cryptic message,
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he responded with the following message, reproduced here in full.
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I missed that one. Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire science philanthropist pedophile,
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showed up at his weekend's event by helicopter with his
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beautiful young assistant from Belarus. He'll be in Cambridge in
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a couple of weeks. Ask me who he should meet.
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You are one of the people I suggested and told
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him I would send some links. He's the guy who
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gave Harvard thirty million dollars to set up Martin Noak.
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He's been extremely generous in funding projects of many of
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our friends and clients. He also got into trouble and
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spent a year in jail. That's what he says. Just
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he got in trouble and spent a year in jail.
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That's what Brockman says in the email. Doesn't go into detail,
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no context, nothing right. Why are you providing cover for him,
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mister Brockman, Why don't you let your other people know
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the people that you're representing, the sort of scoundrel, the
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sort of snake that you're trying to get them in
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bed with. If he contacts you, it's probably worth your
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time to meet him, as he is extremely bright and interesting. Really,
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what he means is extremely rich. Last time I had
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visited his house, the largest private residence in NYC. I
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walked in to find him in a sweatsuit and a
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British guy in his suit with suspenders getting foot massages
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from a young, well dressed Russian woman after grilling me
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for a while about cybersecurity. The brit name Andy was
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commenting on the Swedish authorities and the charges against Julian
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aesanje Andy, meaning Prince Andrew aka the Prince of punk Asses,
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the Prince of lies. We think they're liberal in Sweden,
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but it's more like northern England as opposed to southern Europe,
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he said. In Monaco, Albert works twelve hours a day,
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but at nine pm when he goes out, he does
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whatever he wants and nobody cares. But if I do it,
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I'm in big trouble. At that point, I realized that
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the recipient of IRENA's foot massage was His Royal Highness,
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Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. Indeed, a week later,
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on a slow news day, the cover of the New
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York Post had a full page photo of Jeffrey and
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Andrew walking in Central Park under the headline the Prince
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in the perv. That was the end of Andrew's role
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as the UK trade Ambassador, to which I responded, thanks
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for clarifying this. I'm sure he's an all around sweet guy,
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but I'll have to think about it. It could be
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that I spent far too much time in the Soros bubble,
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but I have zero interest in meeting billionaires. If I did,
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I'd be going to Davis every year. But I appreciate
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you taking the time. That's interesting that he brings up
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George Soros here, and that he was in George Soros's
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bubble and wants nothing to do with that either. I mean,
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George Soros is another one of these billionaire investors that
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we could probably do a whole entire podcast on right,
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because all of these guys doesn't matter your political bend, folks. Okay,
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all of these big players, all of these big time
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bundlers and money money guys, package guys, these guys are
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all bad for business, all right. These guys are the
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worst kind of lobbyists. Here is Brockman again. A billionaire
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who owns Victoria's secret plus a modeling agency is a
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different kind of animal. But I hear you and basically agree.
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Gregory Bateson once advised me that of all of our
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human inventions, economic man is by far the dullest JB.
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And here's my final answer. A billionaire who owns Victoria's
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secret plus a modeling agency one more reason to stay away. Actually,
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and look, the author of this article seems like a
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savant at this point, right, for avoiding all of this,
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staying out of the clutches of Epstein, not falling into
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the trap. So he definitely needs to get some props, right,
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Evgeny Morozov needs to get some props for not falling
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into that trap. I didn't know who Epstein was at
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the time, since I've never been keen to hang out
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with billionaires, Mine was a natural response, I declined Brockman's
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invitations to hang out on his farm or attend his
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famous billionaire dinners. So I didn't think much of that
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invitation and eventually forgot about it. Needless to say, I
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never heard from Epstein or from Brockman about Epstein. Of course,
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they try and dangle the carrot, right, but if you're
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not willing to play ball, they don't want anything to
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do with you. They don't want any loose lips on
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their ship, right. They know what happens with loose lips,
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so they don't want any of that nonsense. If you're
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not down with their proclivities, if you're not a fellow traveler,
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you're not welcome. In that old email, it seems clear
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that Brockman was acting as Epstein's pr men, his liaison
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with the world of scientists and intellectuals that Brockman had cultivated.
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Just like I said, Brockman was the pivot player here.
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He was the door, the revolving door that swung and
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opened the whole entire world of academia to Jeffrey Epstein
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and gave him the credibility for these scientists to listen
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to what he has to say. That Brockman has said
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nothing over this affair is rather bewildering. He did not
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return requests for comment left on his email and voicemail.
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I do know that John Brockman has been in poor
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health over the last few years, so I've cut him
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some slack, But patient as I am, the time is
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run out. It's not as if the Epstein story broke yesterday.
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It's been more than a month since Epstein was arrested
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on the latest charges. Still no word on the issue,
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And now that I've found that old email he sent me,
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I cannot believe that he knew absolutely nothing of Epstein's
23:44
wild sexual escapades. In fact, his email suggests he was
23:49
trying to capitalize on them to recruit yet another useful
23:52
idiot into Epstein's network. One hundred percent, one hundred percent,
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that's what these guys did. This network was vast, folks,
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so much larger than we could have ever imagined, or
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that that's even been presented to us. I feel like
24:08
getting a punchboard and setting it up like they did
24:12
in the wire to take down Barksdale and stirring your bell.
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That's how I feel right about now. Is in my office,
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I'm about to set one up with pictures and really
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start digging into this, like I'm a detective McNulty over here,
24:23
because this, this is the many layers of this, the
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many chambers of this. It's so vast, it is so
24:31
vast that it's hard to wrap your mind around how
24:33
many top level important people were involved in not only
24:37
the actual abuse, but enabling this to go on for
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so many years. There's more. A close analysis of Edge
24:47
foundation publicly available financial statements suggest that between two thousand
24:51
and one and twenty and fifteen, it has received six
24:55
hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars from Epstein's various foundations
24:59
in Man any of those years, Epstein was Edge's sole donor.
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Yet how many of Edge's contributors, let alone readers, knew
25:07
Epstein played so large a role in the organization. And now,
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remember those are just the numbers that we have on
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the books. We don't really know how much money was
25:18
given to any of these people, any of these foundations.
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We know that Epstein loved to spread the money around,
25:23
but was it always you know, done on the up
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and up straight transfers of money or how many bags
25:30
of cash were given out? That's a question that needs
25:32
to be asked, because the money aspect of this whole
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entire thing has been left to the side when I
25:37
believe it's a big part of it, a big tool
25:40
for law enforcement to use to leverage these people. I
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wish they would use it more often. I'm just one
25:48
of the many authors in Brockman's agency. My departure wouldn't
25:51
affect anything. I am also the last one to complain.
25:54
His agency sold two of my books, and I have
25:57
two more underway, also sold by them. Yet I am
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ready to pull the plug on my association with Brockman's
26:03
agency and would encourage other authors to consider doing the
26:06
same until and unless he clarifies the relationship between him,
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the Edge Foundation, and Epstein. If such an explanation is
26:14
not forthcoming, many of us will have to decide whether
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we would like to be part of this odd intellectual
26:20
club located on the dubious continuum between the seminar room
26:23
and the sex trafficking ring. That's some powerful stuff, right,
26:27
and I commend him for doing that and calling on
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his colleagues to do the same. Nobody should be working
26:32
with this Brockman guy until he clarifies what's going on,
26:35
right sorry, buddy, Time to split excessive networking, it appears,
26:41
devours its own. Brockman is already many months too late
26:44
to what he should have done much earlier. Close down
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the Edge Foundation, publicly, repent, retire, and turn Brockman Incorporated
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into yet another bat banal literary agency, the kind where
26:57
authors do not have to mingle with billionaires at fancy
27:00
dinners or worry about walking in on the Prince of
27:03
punk Asses getting his feet massaged the UN network. I
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think that's a great idea, right, I really do. I
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think that the role that Brockman played in this can't
27:14
be understated. I think that it deserves more scrutiny, and
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I think the Edge Foundation in general should be put
27:20
on blast. So we're going to talk a little bit
27:23
about the Edge Foundation in the coming days. We'll talk
27:26
a little bit more about that, add some context to
27:28
just exactly what it is, what they were up to,
27:31
what sort of conferences they were doing, who was involved,
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et cetera, et cetera. So, folks, look like I said,
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the rabbit hole is deep. This rabbit hole is so deep.
27:39
Every time we take a dive into the hole, we
27:42
find more chambers and more Warrens. So we just have
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to keep pulling on these threads. We have to keep going,
27:47
pulling on these threads and calling out all of these
27:51
enablers whenever possible, because they played a big role in
27:55
this right. Without this man, John Brockman, Epstein would have
27:58
had a harder time getting into the world of academia.
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He would have had a harder time getting his fingers
28:03
deep into this world. But yet Brockman acted as that pivot,
28:07
He acted as the conduit, and Epstein in turn, was
28:11
accepted by some of the finest minds in the world
28:13
who we've realized, while they might be very smart, individuals,
28:17
were disgusting scoundrels, just like Jeffrey Epstein. If you like
28:22
to contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapucci
28:25
at ProtonMail dot com. That's bobbycap you Cci at ProtonMail
28:30
dot com. You can also find me on Twitter at
28:34
Bobby underscore cap you Cci. Happy new what's up everyone,
28:41
and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. In this look
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back episode, we're gonna go back to twenty nineteen once again,
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and we're going to talk about Jeffrey Epstein and his
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attendance at the Billionaire's Dinner. This article was authored by
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Julia Laroche and it was published by Yahoo Finance. The
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arrest of New York financier pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has resulted
29:12
in many people trying to distance themselves from the registered
29:16
sex offender, including scrubbing records of him attending high profile events.
29:22
And how pathetic is that now? They tried to do
29:24
the scrub job, but it didn't work out so well.
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And you have yourselves here, the Edge group, John Brockman's group,
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and they host this thing called the Billionaire's Dinner where
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all of the so called elite get together, rub elbows
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and you know, set the future of the whole entire
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earth in motion. Epstein, sixty six, was arrested earlier this
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month at Teterborough Airport on charges at between two thousand
29:54
and two and two thousand and five, Epstein exploited and
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abused dozens of underage girls, some as young as fourteen.
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And that didn't matter to any of these guys. They
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didn't care. Epstein a welcome site as long as he's
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coming with his purse open, as long as he's coming
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with a few coins jingling in his pocket. In the
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early two thousands, and as recently as twenty eleven, Epstein,
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whose billionaire status is now under question, would hobnob with
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a who's who of academia, literature, and Silicon Valley at
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literary agent John Brockman's gathering, dubbed the Billionaire's Dinner, an
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annual event held during the TED Conference in Monterey, California.
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You know, a meeting of all of the supposed smartest
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people in the world. They're gonna we're talking at the
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TED Talk. Give me a break, man, I don't want
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to be invited to any of that shit. So I
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don't even care. All of these people that pala around
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with each other, all of these journalists out here that
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think like the pinnacle of life is being invited to
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these parties. You just don't get it, do you. Your
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job as a journalist is to hold people in power
31:08
to account and to keep the populace informed. Nothing more,
31:12
nothing less. We don't care about who you're working for politically.
31:16
Quit carrying water. That shit is old, it's tired, and frankly,
31:21
people are sick of it. In a now deleted post
31:28
on Brockmann's nonprofit, The Edge Group's website, the Billionaire's dinner
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it described as is described as one of Epstein's favorite events.
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He added that Epstein enjoys hanging, hanging with and stimulating provocative,
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thoughtful minds who have achieved a high degree of success
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in finance, company, high tech, and scientific research. So basically,
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you have a sexual predator who's invited to all of
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these dinners with all of these so called elite, the
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richest amongst us, the smartest amongst us. Allegedly you know,
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the who's who of Silicone Valley and the upper crust
32:07
of New York. Those are the kind of parties Epstein
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was hanging out at. And all of those people will
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have you think and believe that they know nothing of
32:16
the behavior Epstein was engaging in. The occasion is a
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night where the large names and finance, business, philanthropy, and
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science gather together for one night. The richest people in
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the world come face to face with the most intelligent
32:32
individuals in history. Oh that's a pretty big leap, hunh.
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So these people are smarter than Einstein or you know,
32:42
Fermi or any of the other great scientists we've had. Huh.
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All these pedophiles and molesters, all of Jeffrey Epstein's menagerie
32:49
of scientists are the brightest minds we have. Huh, well,
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for the brightest minds in the world. These fucking people
32:57
are stupid, aren't they. The New York Times reported in
33:03
two thousand and two that Epstein flew a bunch of TEDsters, oh,
33:06
the TEDsters, to Monterey and his Boeing seven to twenty
33:10
seven outfitted with mink and sable throws and a high
33:14
altitude lunch catered by Las Cirque two thousand. So my
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question is this, how many trafficked girls were on the
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plane at this time, acting, as you know, a flight
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attendance and otherwise we know Chantay Davies has talked about
33:29
this before. So all of these fucking rich people are
33:32
hanging out with Epstein, flying around on his plane like
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they don't have their own, and for what reason? Why?
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Just because they enjoyed his company? Huh yeah? Right, I'm guessing,
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and I can't prove this obviously, but I'm guessing that
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they were all having a bite of the forbidden fruit.
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Photographed on board the plane where Brockman, Steven Pinker, Daniel C. Dennett,
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Katinka Mattson, and Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins is the guy
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that talks about evolution and how you know there's no
34:05
God and shit like that. Right now, as you all
34:07
know by now, I'm agnostic when it comes to religion.
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I don't have arrogance enough to act like I know
34:13
what's what one way or the other. But these people
34:17
that were on this plane with Epstein and being toted
34:21
around by Epstein, when they all have access to their
34:23
own shit, they have some explaining to do. But again,
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none of these people have been forced to explain anything.
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They give us these garbage ass can generic excuses for
34:34
why they were with Epstein, and then we all just
34:37
move on to the next topic. The original caption shown
34:45
above from a Yahoo Finance screen grab has been altered
34:50
to exclude the association with Epstein. So when you look
34:54
at the article, you click on the link that'll be
34:57
in the description box, you'll be able to see all
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of this the you know how it was washed, how
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it was cut down, and how it was altered. Pinker,
35:07
a Harvard professor of psychology an author, was on board
35:10
that flight. He told Yahoo Finance that he has found
35:14
himself at some of the same events as Epstein, but
35:16
has no personal or professional relationship with him, and has
35:20
only spoken to him three times that he can recall.
35:23
So why were you on his plane? Bro? If you
35:26
don't know the guy, you're just gonna hop on his
35:28
plane and then you know, act like you don't You
35:31
aren't friends after that. It doesn't make any sense to me.
35:35
Maybe it's different in the world of these so called elite,
35:39
but in the real world, you're not hopping on anyone's
35:41
jet if you guys aren't homies. I first met Epstein
35:46
a couple of years before that plane trip, when I
35:48
was invited to chat with him over coffee with a
35:51
few mutual friends who said he was really smart, intellectual,
35:56
and scientifically curious. Pinker told Yahoo Finance, my own impressions
36:01
were different. Oh yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure that you
36:03
were just so anti Epstein that you got on his
36:07
plane and went on this trip a few years later.
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Please shut up, Okay, all of these people with their
36:12
dumbass excuses. I don't want to hear him anymore. Pinker
36:17
went on to describe Epstein as a kabitzer whatever that is.
36:21
He liked to hang out with and shoot the breeze
36:23
with smart and famous people, but he was intellectually lazy
36:27
and immature, abruptly changing the subject dismissing people's observations with wisecracks,
36:33
considering his own intuition to be as valid as data
36:36
from experts. Pinker added funny, though, that him and all
36:40
of his people were willing to take money from Epstein
36:42
even though he was a cobitzer. Though right another passenger
36:45
on that trip, the philosopher and author Daniel C. Dennett,
36:49
described the flight as uneventful and that Epstein pretty much
36:53
stayed to himself. Two photos completely removed. Look, Epstein didn't
36:57
stay to himself, stop it. He was all over that
36:59
plan and talking to people, you know, doing his thing.
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We all know how Epstein conducted himself, what he was
37:05
up to, and how he conducted himself amongst people like
37:08
these scientists. While Epstein, while the Epstein mentioned in the
37:13
Plaine photo caption was altered, two photos from the event
37:17
are no longer featured on the Edge's website. At the
37:20
two thousand and two dinner, where guests like Dean Camick, Cayman,
37:24
Linda Stone, Richard Saul Werman, Steve Petrannick, Jeff Bezos, John Markoff,
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Kara Swisher, Nathan Mirevald Christopher J. Anderson, George Dyson, George Dyson,
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w Daniel Hills hillis excuse me, Stuart Brandt, Katinka Mattson,
37:41
Peter Schwartz, Ryan Feelin, Richard Dawkin, Louis Risetto, Daniel C. Dennett,
37:47
David Bunnell, Stephen Levy, Charles Simoni, Sergi Brynn, and Marnie Morris.
37:53
According to the page and Sergei Brin's pretty funny considering right,
37:58
at least one guest in articular stood out as not
38:01
having a major business or literary accomplishments. That person is
38:06
Sarah Kellen, who appears in now deleted photographs. Of course
38:10
she was there, she was look she was Epstein's number
38:13
one when it came to this sort of thing. She
38:16
had to be with him everywhere he went, and that's
38:19
why she needs to be indicted. Kellen, who is now
38:23
married to NASCAR driver Brian Vickers, has been accused of
38:27
recruiting young girls, maintaining Epstein's schedule, and handling travel arrangements
38:31
for the young girls being exploited, and she has been
38:35
fingered as someone who took part in some of the
38:37
abuse as well. Let's not forget that out. She's specifically
38:40
identified in the controvers in the controversy Lenient non prosecution
38:46
agreement as a potential co conspirator. For nearly fifteen years,
38:51
Epstein's foundations have been major financial supporters of Brockman's nonprofit,
38:56
The Edge Foundation, contributing more than half a million dollars
39:00
in that timeframe, according to Yahoo Finances calculations. In nine
39:05
ninety filings, Epstein's The Couq Foundation donated twenty five thousand
39:10
dollars in two thousand and one, fifty thousand in two
39:13
thousand and three, fifty five thousand in two thousand and four,
39:17
and two hundred thousand in two thousand and five to
39:20
the Edge Foundation Incorporated. Ah, you know, he no part
39:24
of that though. He's not a big part of this.
39:25
He was just a guy hanging out, No big deal.
39:28
Epstein had nothing to do with the Edge Foundation. The
39:32
investigation into Epstein began in two thousand and five by
39:35
the Palm Beach Police Department. As the US Attorney for
39:38
the Southern Southern District of Florida began preparing federal criminal charges,
39:43
Epstein's attorneys began plea bargain discussions on September twenty fourth,
39:48
two thousand and seven, Epstein signed the controversial non prosecution
39:52
agreement with the US Attorney's Office. Imagine that, I know
39:57
we talk about it all the time, but imagine that
40:01
in that agreement, he pled guilty to one count of
40:04
solicitation of prostitution and agreed that he would register as
40:08
a sex offender. He also agreed to a thirty month sentence,
40:11
including eighteen months of jail time and twelve months of
40:15
community control. In exchange, the US Attorney's Office agreed to
40:19
not pursue federal charges. Epstein was released in two thousand
40:26
and nine from the Palm Beach County Stockade after only
40:29
thirteen months spent in the private wing, with six days
40:32
of work release per year per week. In twenty eleven,
40:36
Epstein appeared again at Brockman's Billionaire Airs dinner. According to
40:40
The New York Times, guests that the guests at the
40:43
event included Bezos, Brynn Meervald, Elon Musk Mursa, Mayor, Zach
40:49
Boge and Wajicky and David Brooks. A page for the
40:53
dinner shows and again it just shows you, folks, all
40:56
of the people Epstein was associating with How many of
40:59
these people have come out and said, well, we know
41:01
this about Epstein. He was with us here, this is
41:03
what happened. Blah blah blah. None of them right exactly.
41:10
Epstein attended the Billionaire's Dinner in nineteen ninety nine and
41:13
in two thousand, but those pages appeared to have also
41:17
been removed. He also attended in two thousand and four
41:21
at a downsized or more exclusive Edge dinner. And remember
41:26
he was invited to this after he was already a
41:28
convicted sex offender. What more do you need. Attendees at
41:32
the nineteen ninety nine dinner included Richard Saul Werman, Nathan Miervold,
41:39
Linda Stone, Steve Case, Marnie Morris, John McCree, Joichi Ito,
41:44
Katinka Matson, Jeffrey Epstein, Doug Rowan Lee, Leon m Liederman,
41:49
Kevin Kelly, Jean Jean Case, Patty Mays, David Bonnell, Jeff Bezos,
41:55
Daniel Hillis K Krows, according to a cashed version of
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the page. Another cash page for the two thousand event
42:03
shows that the guests included Marnie Morris, Patty Mays, Charles Samanyi,
42:10
car Swisher, Kara Swisher, George Dyson, Linda Stone, David Braunschwig,
42:15
Katinka Mattson, w Daniel Hillis, Dean Cammon, Stuart Brand, Kip Parent,
42:21
Nathan Mirval, Jeffrey Epstein, Brewster Call Brockman, the founder of
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the Edge Foundation, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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So again it just shows you all of these people
42:33
that were involved. Epstein was a fixture amongst the so
42:38
called elite, and all of a sudden, these very same
42:41
so called elite all have collective amnesia. Guess what, I'm
42:47
not buying it. If you'd like to contact me, you
42:50
can do that at Bobby Capucci at proton meil dot com.
42:53
That's b O B b y c A p U
42:56
c c I at protonmeil dot com, and also find
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me on Twitter at b O B B y underscore
43:04
c A p U c c I. The link that
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we discussed can be found in the description box.