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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was known as somebody who was really into
- 0:09Speaker 1: the transhumanism movement. Now with transhumanism, what you're doing is,
- 0:16Speaker 1: in layman's terms, using technology to advance the human species. Basically,
- 0:21Speaker 1: you know, making humans into cyborgs, adding computer chips to
- 0:26Speaker 1: the brain, stuff like that. And Jeffrey Epstein was a big,
- 0:30Speaker 1: big proponent of transhumanism. We know he wanted to see
- 0:35Speaker 1: the human race with his DNA. And when you look
- 0:39Speaker 1: at Zorro Ranch and where it's located, it should come
- 0:43Speaker 1: as no shock to you that at the Santa Fe Institute,
- 0:46Speaker 1: a mere 47 plus miles away, they study a lot
- 0:50Speaker 1: of transhumanism. Also down at Los Alamos, A lot of
- 0:54Speaker 1: transhumanism going on down there as well. And that's not
- 0:57Speaker 1: too far away from the ranch either. So when we
- 1:01Speaker 1: talk about Jeffrey Epstein and his activities in New Mexico,
- 1:06Speaker 1: a lot of it had to do with having close
- 1:10Speaker 1: access to both of those facilities, but mainly the Santa
- 1:14Speaker 1: Fe Institute. He had a lot of sway there and
- 1:17Speaker 1: he had a lot of pull there. So with his
- 1:21Speaker 1: whole entire gung-ho attitude about transhumanism, it makes sense that
- 1:25Speaker 1: he had a property nestled so closely to the Santa
- 1:30Speaker 1: Fe Institute. So you add all of that into what
- 1:34Speaker 1: we already know about him not having to register as
- 1:36Speaker 1: a sex offender and all of the rest of it,
- 1:40Speaker 1: and it begins to build quite the profile. But on
- 1:44Speaker 1: this episode, we're going to talk a little bit about
- 1:46Speaker 1: transhumanism and what Jeffrey Epstein was up to. This article
- 1:52Speaker 1: is from the Business Insider, and it's an article from 2019.
- 1:56Speaker 1: The author is Ailyn Woodward. Headline, Jeffrey Epstein reportedly wanted
- 2:05Speaker 1: to see the human race with his DNA as part
- 2:08Speaker 1: of his fascination with transhumanism. Here's what that means. Now,
- 2:14Speaker 1: when I think about transhumanism, I think about like steampunk, right?
- 2:20Speaker 1: Like futuristic movies like Cyborg or, you know, stuff like that.
- 2:25Speaker 1: And it's wild to me to think that people would
- 2:27Speaker 1: really be down with getting chips inserted into their brain
- 2:31Speaker 1: and other things. But you could miss me with all
- 2:34Speaker 1: of that stuff. I'll pass on any kind of transhumanism
- 2:38Speaker 1: or modifying the human body. Hey, look, if it's something
- 2:41Speaker 1: other people want to do, great. But I'm just going
- 2:43Speaker 1: to rock with what I was born with. I'm not
- 2:46Speaker 1: going to get no Botox. I'm not going to get
- 2:49Speaker 1: none of it. Certainly not going to get horns installed
- 2:52Speaker 1: in my head or a repeating machine gun as an arm.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Whatever it is these cyborg weirdos are up to. Jeffrey Epstein,
- 3:01Speaker 1: who was charged earlier this month with trafficking dozens of
- 3:04Speaker 1: underage girls, reportedly told various scientists in the early 2000s
- 3:10Speaker 1: that he wanted to seed the human race with his DNA,
- 3:13Speaker 1: according to the New York Times. Imagine just what we need, right?
- 3:18Speaker 1: A bunch of maniacs like Jeffrey Epstein running around populating
- 3:22Speaker 1: the earth. Pass. Nobody needs anything like that in their lives.
- 3:26Speaker 1: And the fact that he thought this was a viable
- 3:29Speaker 1: option tells you everything you need to know about how demented, sick,
- 3:32Speaker 1: and twisted he was. He truly believed that he could
- 3:35Speaker 1: get away with every one of these crazy-ass plots that
- 3:40Speaker 1: he would kick into motion. Epstein said he'd do this,
- 3:45Speaker 1: the Times reports, by impregnating 20 women at a time
- 3:49Speaker 1: at his ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And you
- 3:52Speaker 1: wonder why this ranch had a 10-person shower, why it
- 3:56Speaker 1: was tucked away, away from everything else. When I went
- 4:01Speaker 1: out there, let me tell you about desolation, folks. It
- 4:04Speaker 1: is a very, very desolate place. There is not much
- 4:08Speaker 1: around it. And you would have to walk miles and
- 4:10Speaker 1: miles and miles to get to some service or to
- 4:13Speaker 1: somebody who could help you. And if it's in the winter,
- 4:16Speaker 1: forget it. It is freezing cold in the high desert. Summer?
- 4:20Speaker 1: Hot as shit. Have fun. So unless you're prepared and
- 4:23Speaker 1: you're geared up and kitted out, it's going to be
- 4:26Speaker 1: a very difficult task for you to leave that property
- 4:29Speaker 1: even if you wanted to. Also... Being nestled where it
- 4:33Speaker 1: was gives him the ultimate privacy, right? To go after
- 4:37Speaker 1: this sort of thing. If he wanted to have a
- 4:39Speaker 1: laboratory on property, he could have done that. But with
- 4:43Speaker 1: the access to the Santa Fe Institute so close, that
- 4:46Speaker 1: was a big draw for Jeffrey Epstein. Make no mistake.
- 4:51Speaker 1: There is no evidence to suggest that Epstein took any
- 4:54Speaker 1: steps toward making this vision a reality. But the idea
- 4:58Speaker 1: reportedly stemmed from Epstein's interest in the philosophy of transhumanism.
- 5:03Speaker 1: The belief that people can, and should, artificially enhance the
- 5:07Speaker 1: human body using modern technology. So what, we all look
- 5:11Speaker 1: like Darth Vader? We run around like the Borg? We
- 5:14Speaker 1: can all be locked into the same brain pattern, and
- 5:17Speaker 1: somebody like Epstein and his scientist friends can control our lives.
- 5:20Speaker 1: I am opting out. Let me be clear, okay? I'm
- 5:23Speaker 1: opting out of anything that Jeffrey Epstein or his scientific
- 5:27Speaker 1: buddies were into. Count your boy out. Transhumanists herald genetic
- 5:33Speaker 1: engineering and artificial intelligence as promising ways to improve human performance.
- 5:40Speaker 1: They advocate, essentially, for the use of technology, including nanomedicine, robotics,
- 5:46Speaker 1: brain-computer integration, and more, that alters typical human physiology in
- 5:52Speaker 1: order to better our body and brain. Now, nanomedicine might
- 5:58Speaker 1: be something that could be interesting. When they have those
- 6:01Speaker 1: little nanobot robots that they create that can go in
- 6:04Speaker 1: there and fix cancer cells and shit like that, That's
- 6:07Speaker 1: a little different. When I talk about transhumanism, I mean
- 6:10Speaker 1: ending up like a cyborg, running around like Darth Vader
- 6:13Speaker 1: or the Borg or some shit. I'm cool on all
- 6:15Speaker 1: of that. But if there's some kind of medical advancement
- 6:18Speaker 1: with nanotechnology, that's certainly something I'd be interested in them
- 6:22Speaker 1: advancing because it's something that could really help out. Now, also,
- 6:27Speaker 1: you have the flip side of that, which is the
- 6:29Speaker 1: Grey Goo theory, but we'll save that for a different day.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Epstein was fascinated with transhumanism. According to the Times, Jaron Lanier,
- 6:40Speaker 1: a pioneer of virtual reality, remembers talking to a NASA
- 6:43Speaker 1: scientist who said Epstein's New Mexico baby ranch idea was
- 6:47Speaker 1: inspired by a repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank
- 6:52Speaker 1: in Escondido, California. The sperm bank operated from 1979 to
- 6:58Speaker 1: 1999 and was incorrectly rumored to contain only the sperm
- 7:02Speaker 1: of Nobel laureates. I mean, sheesh. Everything's a hustle, it
- 7:08Speaker 1: seems like, right? You have to be on your guard 24-7.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Everybody's trying to hustle you. Oh yeah, this sperm bank's
- 7:15Speaker 1: filled with nothing but Nobel laureates. Meanwhile, it's filled with
- 7:19Speaker 1: nothing but derelicts and convicts, probably. Then they'll charge $ 10, 000
- 7:23Speaker 1: per sperm cell or something. You know, everybody has a hustle, right?
- 7:27Speaker 1: Everybody has a hustle. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz also
- 7:35Speaker 1: told the Times that Epstein once brought up the topic
- 7:38Speaker 1: of how humans could be improved genetically at a lunch
- 7:42Speaker 1: that Epstein sponsored. You know how humans could be improved?
- 7:46Speaker 1: By not having people like Jeffrey Epstein walk amongst us.
- 7:49Speaker 1: That's right. Nope, nobody like Epstein. Certainly a better world, right?
- 7:53Speaker 1: Less people like him in it? For sure. But if
- 7:57Speaker 1: you want to get some horns implanted in your head
- 7:59Speaker 1: or you want to get a Google Chromebook entrenched in
- 8:03Speaker 1: your chest like you're Tony Stark, hey, have at it.
- 8:05Speaker 1: But me personally, I have zero desire for any of
- 8:08Speaker 1: that stuff. Epstein's dual interest in furthering his own DNA
- 8:14Speaker 1: and improving the human gene pool plays into the biggest
- 8:17Speaker 1: criticism of the transhumanist ideology. That it's on par with eugenics.
- 8:23Speaker 1: And it certainly is. And we all know how eugenics
- 8:25Speaker 1: works out, right? You know, the Nazis love their eugenics.
- 8:29Speaker 1: And when you go with pure eugenic projects and you
- 8:33Speaker 1: have people that are gung-ho about it, what you have
- 8:36Speaker 1: are people who might be born slow or mentally challenged
- 8:41Speaker 1: or with a birth defect. They'll be called. They're not
- 8:44Speaker 1: part of the society that these transhumanists and these others
- 8:52Speaker 1: are trying to build. So those people are considered less than.
- 8:58Speaker 1: You know, when we talk about the Germans and them
- 9:01Speaker 1: going on their horrific spree of murder and Holocaust, some
- 9:06Speaker 1: of the first victims of the Germans were their very
- 9:09Speaker 1: own citizens who were considered less than, crippled, mentally slow. homosexuals, gypsies,
- 9:17Speaker 1: things of that nature. And that's one of the biggest
- 9:20Speaker 1: pitfalls when you start getting into eugenics and you start
- 9:23Speaker 1: getting into transhumanism. Eugenics is the science of deliberately breeding
- 9:28Speaker 1: human beings to increase the likelihood of certain characteristics. It's
- 9:32Speaker 1: associated with Nazi ideology, the party favored blonde, blue-eyed Aryan people,
- 9:38Speaker 1: and used the idea of eugenics to justify genocide. And it's...
- 9:44Speaker 1: Always the case. Eugenics and transhumanism will probably be the
- 9:48Speaker 1: next thing that'll turn into that. But this stuff always
- 9:51Speaker 1: leads to very, very dangerous dark roads. Transhumanism's political legacy.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Many transhumanists, however, are interested in other ways to improve
- 10:03Speaker 1: human performance that don't have to do with altering the
- 10:07Speaker 1: gene pool. Prior to the 2016 election, for example, presidential
- 10:13Speaker 1: candidate Zoltan Istvan promised to work towards halting aging and
- 10:17Speaker 1: death by merging technology with human biology. Istvan founded the
- 10:22Speaker 1: Transhumanist Party, a political party focused on using science and
- 10:26Speaker 1: tech to solve major problems facing humanity. I think we'll
- 10:30Speaker 1: have to find an even balance here, right? If there's
- 10:34Speaker 1: a way to use some of these methods as far
- 10:37Speaker 1: as furthering medicine, then I think it's a good idea, right?
- 10:42Speaker 1: If you can find a way to help somebody who
- 10:45Speaker 1: has kidney failure, I'm all for it. But when we
- 10:48Speaker 1: start talking about eugenics and some of this other wild
- 10:52Speaker 1: shit Epstein was into, I'm definitely 100% against all of that.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Istvan sees aging and death as the biggest plagues of
- 11:01Speaker 1: our time and thinks technology offers a cure. He supports,
- 11:05Speaker 1: for example, the use of bionic organs as transplants when
- 11:09Speaker 1: natural organs fail. I think that's a good idea. I
- 11:12Speaker 1: don't see the problem with that. If we can build something,
- 11:15Speaker 1: some sort of tech that can act in place of
- 11:18Speaker 1: an organ failure, then we should do that. I think
- 11:27Speaker 1: people have just been conditioned to believe this is just
- 11:29Speaker 1: a natural part of existence. That's the program, Istvan previously
- 11:34Speaker 1: told Business Insider. Well, yeah, that's what happens, right? People
- 11:38Speaker 1: get old, they die, their organs fail. Sometimes you're young
- 11:41Speaker 1: and you get the shit end of the stick and
- 11:43Speaker 1: it happens. And so our job is to uncondition that,
- 11:49Speaker 1: to tell them, actually, it was the program until we
- 11:52Speaker 1: reached the 21st century. And now all of a sudden
- 11:56Speaker 1: we realize with genetics and bionics and robotics that we
- 11:59Speaker 1: have a real chance of stopping death and treating it
- 12:02Speaker 1: as something much more similar to a disease than some
- 12:06Speaker 1: natural phenomenon. I think that is a bit, um... overzealous
- 12:11Speaker 1: and overselling it, but in certain instances, like with organs
- 12:15Speaker 1: and nanotechnology, as far as deploying nanotechnology inside of the
- 12:20Speaker 1: body to fight cancer cells and whatnot, I definitely think
- 12:23Speaker 1: that there's something there that is worth exploring. Cryonics, the
- 12:28Speaker 1: controversial process of freezing a body with the goal of
- 12:31Speaker 1: bringing it back to life later, also has a place
- 12:34Speaker 1: in transhumanist thinking. Currently, it only works for human embryos. But,
- 12:39Speaker 1: according to the Times, one unnamed transhumanist said he and
- 12:43Speaker 1: Epstein once chatted about cryonics. And Epstein said he wanted
- 12:47Speaker 1: his head and penis frozen. Because, you know, those were
- 12:51Speaker 1: the two joys that he gave to the world. His
- 12:53Speaker 1: head and his penis. Here's an idea. Nothing frozen. You
- 12:57Speaker 1: thrown into a volcano and forgotten about. You sick, twisted
- 13:01Speaker 1: son of a bitch. Well, there you have it, folks.
- 13:04Speaker 1: A little bit more on Epstein and transhumanism. Now, as
- 13:10Speaker 1: we move forward in the future and the technology gets better,
- 13:15Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked to see legit cyborgs running around.
- 13:19Speaker 1: It's certainly the way things are moving. And again, who
- 13:24Speaker 1: knows if we'll be alive to see that sort of change.
- 13:27Speaker 1: But it is certainly something of the future. And there
- 13:30Speaker 1: are a lot of very powerful cyborgs. and smart scientists
- 13:35Speaker 1: working on transhumanism as we speak. And one of the
- 13:38Speaker 1: main places they do that? The Santa Fe Institute. If
- 13:44Speaker 1: you'd like to contact me, you can do that at
- 13:46Speaker 1: bobbycapucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can also
- 13:55Speaker 1: find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The link
- 14:02Speaker 1: that we discussed can be found in the description box. Alright, folks.