Part Four: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World

going over all of the evidence of child molestation. Yeah, not that we don't want to be highlighting that, but we did, and everyone knows that stuff, and I think this is also important, so we're getting into it.

But because of the other stuff, like I feel like we do have to talk about how deeply tired he is to all of these massively important things that are happening in society, that he's talking to the major players and trying to convince them of things right. It's weird because this is kind of the only behind the bastards where for the most part, I'm saying like, well, we know he was trying to do something with this bad thing, but we don't know how he influenced this bad thing,

which we don't normally do here. But I don't know how else to handle Epstein right now, right.

they had no direct connection. There's not really hard evidence of a direct connection. But there is an email with a cinder redacted where it signed the way JK. Rowling sometimes signs stuff, but that's not conclusive. So I don't know, right, And hopefully as more stuff comes out, maybe there is even more about her in the current files that just haven't been found yet because people we haven't No one

knows everything that's in these files yet. Stuff's being found every day, right, So that's one of the issues with this is that I decided there was enough obviously for four episodes now, but in a year, people will probably be angry at you, Well you left this out well because people aren't found yet. I don't know, man like, or there's stuff I know I'm leaving out now that I did find that was on my research doc that I was just like, well, this is forty two pages long.

We got to call it somewhere, huhh.

stuff anyway. So maybe it would have happened if he hadn't gotten convicted of anything. But there's a definite moment that we can fairly easily say had a big impact on how Jeffrey Epstein thought about the world, and it's Ferguson. On August tenth, twenty fourteen, Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown and killed him. There were protests immediately, and some people used the opportunity of the protests to

loot and engage in other criminal activity. The police are included in the criminal activity that occurs after this shooting because they're violence. In the fact that they all looked like fucking soldiers kicked off further unrest and a national debate. You all probably lived through pieces of this. I'm not going to re litigate everything that happened in Ferguson, but the basics of it are very relevant to the Jeffrey Epstein story because Ferguson wasn't just a tragedy in its

own right. It was a prelude to mass protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder in twenty twenty, but it also helped to inspire the fascist backlash that first made itself obvious when mister Donald Trump announced his presidency

on June sixteenth, twenty fifteen. I don't think it's focused on enough how close Ferguson is in time to Trump announcing the start of his campaign, and how many older white people with money see the videos from Ferguson of the protests of these crowds of mostly black people who are very rightfully angry and get fucking terrified, right because they see this as stirrings of the kind of race

riots that they've never stopped fearing. Now we know that Epstein began donating to far right content creators and talking very openly about race science in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen, not long after Ferguson, And we know that he paid close attention on what was happening in Ferguson from an early point, and that he talked about his predictions for what might happen next with one of his good friends, former Israeli Prime Minister at Hud Barack fucking well, no,

fucking it's always and then he talked about it with his friend, this influential monster.

prediction for what's going to happen to Ferguson. And we don't know exactly what that prediction was or what he said, but we do know that on November twenty fourth, a grand jury fails to indict Wilson for killing Michael Brown. More protests follow, and some people respond to a man getting away with murder by rioting. Police cars are burned. There's a murder of a man in a parked car. It's really unclear, I think still who does that and

why that happens, But it's a big deal, right. What happens in Ferguson in November of that year is like hugely influential all across the country. On November twenty sixth, two days after the grand jury fails to indict Wilson, a hud Barak sends this email to Jeffrey Epstein that you're seeing on your screen right now. Jeff, you've accurately predicted the eruption, and together we'd predicted the mistakes which will follow. Let's hope it won't get worse. Ari, light

and strong. I'll call you tomorrow morning. Your time, best, eb And then he's linked there a CEE in an article called Ferguson braces for more unrest. Right, So, I want to really emphasize what's happening here. Jeffrey is concerned enough about the potential of race riots in the United

States that he's like looking for them. So as soon as Ferguson happens, he is concerned, and he reaches out to his friend, who he thinks would be the best friend to talk to about his fear that a racial minority in his country is getting violent, the former Prime Minister of Israel. Okay, there's a lot, a lot you can read into this conversation.

basy eugenicist right, he's talking this is Elon Muskshit. He's friends, you know, but he's interested in the same kind of stuff and absent other informations. When I first cover this, I chalked it up as more classic rich guy narcissism. My immediate thing was like, oh, this guy wants a bunch of kids because he's a narcissist, and I didn't really see oh no, no. This guy is also very specifically a white nationalist, right, a budding white nationalist at

the very least which Epstein is. By this point, the releases have made this different picture very clear, and I think it makes the most sense when you look at it through the prism a Ferguson. An article on futurism dot com describes how Jeff's interests evolved after Ferguson. In twenty sixteen, Epstein emailed German cognitive scientist and then MIT professor Joshua Bach, indicating that he was interested in the idea of genetically modifying black people to make them smarter.

The Telegraph found Bach had received a roughly four hundred thousand dollars donation from Epstein. Those are tied, that's tied to his interpretation of Ferguson. And that's not a small donation.

obviously can. But his conversations with his fellow white intellectuals, or at least he saw himself as intellectual, made it clear that he saw successful and intelligent black people as outliers. And when you really want to get into how racist Jeff Epstein is by twenty sixteen, there's no better place to go.

apparently hanging out together. So he had been hanging out with Nome and I guess Nome's partner that night because he says thank you both for tonight, and then he tells Noam Chomsky that hey, man, if you want I can have my private jet, the Lalita Express, pick you up in Boston and take you to my private island and return whenever you like. Right, and Nome calls this invitation eight years after Epstein had been exposed for child

sex trafficking tempting. Now, maybe he's just blowing Jeffrey off here, but Epstein doesn't read it that way. Epstein takes Noam Chomsky's response as an invitation to keep chatting, this time about racism, so he continues. After inviting him to his sex island, he says, on a different note, you have encouraged me to look at data, no holds barred mortgages, inequalities, opportunities. I have seen some things through your eyes, and for

that I am grateful. The test score gap amongst African Americans is well documented twenty years of and then he spells testing testsing many, which might be said to like, if you can't spell the word testing right, maybe your complaints about other people that are smart issue are kind of bullshit. But he continues many countries. James Watson, who's the racist guy who helped or arguably helped figure out the structure of DNA and was also like a DNA

show like black people learn as smart as white people. Guy, right, James Watson big racist?

about that? Nom Chomsky? And no, and I get is no.

their entire lives, and that impacts test scores. Right, that's what Chomsky is saying. Right. He says that Epstein's data has no scientific interest, but he also says the greater issue is for later discussion, which I find interesting. Chomsky knows this is bullshit. He knows what his friend is saying is offensive, and he says kind of that. But then he's like, but we can talk about this later. You know you want to keep talking. I'm always down

to talk about race science with you. Jeffrey Epstein, though, doesn't take the hint, and he keeps the conversation going. He admits that he's aware of the potential for abuse with genetic engineering and eugenics. However, imagine that a set of genes could be used for working memory, like the ones for tay Sacks disease could be found and adjusted

not looking seems cruel. And he's bringing up the argument that anyone makes if you're trying to convince a hostile source, that you need to accept the initial tenets of eugenesis, thinking, well, look, obviously there's problems with this, Yeah, but look at this horrible disease that happens to kids when they're in the womb. If you could knock that out, wouldn't that be good? Right? Wouldn't that be good?

that people aren't born with a certain skin color? And one of the things that's interesting to me is that, like, if you are at a eugenicist and you're trying to like corrupt someone right and get them to agree with you, you'll start the way that Jeffrey ends here, which is weird.

tas SAXS disease? Should we be fixing that, right, Chomsky calls Jeff's proposition almost inconceivable and then says, but if it could be done, I think there would be far more important uses, like changing the genes for dedicated savagery and lack of concern for the welfare or even security of the population on the part of that sector of

educated elites that reaches positions of power. And I'd love to appreciate that response more if he wasn't sending it to his friend Jeffrey Epstein's who continued to communicate with for years after his arrests for sexual trafficking.

That's what he's doing here. He is trying to get Chomsky to start going down the road he's going down because he knows Chomsky can influence in even a large chunk of the country and maybe make them more amenable to scientific racism. That's what he's trying to do because that's how Jeffrey thinks about everyone who's his quote unquote friend, right.

He thinks about them in terms of what can I get out of them, And that's how he's thinking about Chomsky during this convert There's other stuff he gets from Chomsky, obviously, but this is one thing he's trying to get and that he doesn't seem to get out of him. It's the same playbook we saw Epstein to play with Bobby Kotick, right,

this is how he operates. What these new files reveal is that Jeffrey Epstein was an active and influential part of the reactionary wave often just called the alt right that's struck from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen and brought us all the authoritarian bullshit we're living with today. He's a part of that, and he's trying to bring Chomsky into it right. A huge part, well, Chomsky does. A huge part of the class that he's a part of

follows him down this road. And part of why they do is because Epstein works on them one by one to encourage them to think differently and to ask uncomfortable questions. He's not the only one doing this, right, He's not the leading one doing this. Part of why all of these Silicon Valley guys go fash is that a core of them start by saying like, well as the brain trust in America is is the only ones who are

really intelligent, I really know what's going on. Because of all the money we've made it's incumbent on us to ask uncomfortable questions and you know, to consider things that that less intelligent people might consider forbidden. You know, so let's look into it, right, And that always just means racism. That's the only thing that means, right.

people aren't people like that's the dangerous question? Or what if fifteen year olds are fine to have sex with Those are the dangerous questions that the intellectuals are always talking about when they say dangerous questions. And Jeffrey Shift here his interest in this shit, That's what I'm trying

to say. Like all of he is not novel. He has more influence than most, but a lot of these guys are thinking the same way, and he's using his money to support and encourage them to continue this shift. And I want to tell a story that kind of makes this point for me. And the story starts with the guy named John Brockman. Brockman is a major figure in the New York art scenes starting in the nineteen sixties.

He is a peer of Andy Warhol, and he eventually becomes one of the most powerful literary agents in the city. His specialty is books about science and futurism, and he works with big name academics and thinkers, which means that he makes a lot of money. Brockman describes himself as a cultural impresario. Right sure man, cool cool.

the understanding that they will be challenged. The hallmark of the Reality Club has been rigorous and sometimes impolite discourse. The motto of the Club was inspired by the late artist philosopher James Lee Byers to arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have him ask each other the questions they are asking themselves. And that's a great idea. It's a beautiful idea. We've

hit the edge of the world's knowledge. Let's get the smartest people together to see if we can extend that edge. But what happens James Lee byers his whole abilities that this will let us accomplish the extraordinary, right, But what actually happens is when these guys get together, primarily they talk about like what if people couldn't vote if they were poor, what if we had more money, what if

I could fuck teenage girls? Those are like the three big issues at the edge of human knowledge that these guys are really interested in it.

intellectual enabler of Epstein. Brockman bragged that the edge foundation, this salon of his was redefining who and what we are, and he connected Epstein to important people because he wanted his friend Jeff to have a chance to change the world. Now, one of Brockman's clients is joy Edo of MIT and in fact, Brockman may have been how Epstein and Itedo met. He may have at least helped to encourage them to become friends. We know many other prominent intellectuals like Stephen Pinker,

were first connected to Epstein by Brockman. So in a way, Brockman has been with us this whole story, helping to put up and coming technologists, thinkers, and researchers in a room with a pedophile sex trafficker. When all of this dropped, author of Jenny Morozov found himself shocked. His books were represented by Brockman's agency, and he decided to look through his emails with Brockman to see, like, are there any

signs that like something bad was going on here? And he finds an email from twenty thirteen that really gives you an idea of how Brockman and Epstein baited the hook when they're trying to get these intellectuals interested in them. Right, I'm going to quote from Morozov's article in the New Republic here. It was very laconic. Je Fyi JB followed by my short bio and some media clippings. Strangely, it was sent to me and had no other contacts in CC. Perhaps he wanted toscend it to JE but put my

email there by mistake. When I commented on the meaning of this cryptic message, he responded with the following message, reproduced here in full. I missed that one. Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire scientist philanthropists, showed up at this weekends event by helicopter with his beautiful young assistant from Belarus. He'll be in Cambridge in a couple of weeks and asked me who he should meet. You are one of the people I suggested, and I told him I would send

some links. He's the guy who gave Harvard thirty million dollars to set up Martin Oak. He's been incredibly generous and funding projects of many of our friends and clients. He also got into trouble and spent a year in jail in Florida. Crazy way to say he's a registered child sex offender. He't got into trouble spend a year in jail in Florida.

but you should meet with him. He's really interesting and obviously he's got a lot of money that he can put towards your work.

Julian Assange. We think they're liberal in Sweden, but it's more like northern England as opposed to southern Europe, he said. In Monaco, Albert works twelve hours a day, but at nine pm when he goes out, he does whatever he wants and nobody cares. But if I do it, I'm in big trouble. At that point I realized the recipient of Arena's foot massage was his Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. Now Brockman is telling this story

because he thinks it's cool. He thinks it'll convince Morozov. He's just gotta meet Epstein.

and he does this because he needs Epstein. Epstein is funding the whole Edge Foundation. Jeffrey's assorted donations provided six hundred and thirty eight thousand of the eight hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars in funding the organization received from two thousand and one to twenty seventeen. Epstein was, per

BuzzFeed News, by far the largest donor. In fact, one could argue the Edge Foundation and all its billionaire dinners seem to have existed largely to connect Jeffrey Epstein to tech billionaires in public intellectuals right, because one of the things they start doing in the aunts is Rockman starts putting together dinners with billionaires like that. They call it

the Billionaire Dinners, and Epstein's nearly always there. Right. Given the private nature of these events, we don't fully know what he used his influence to do, but he wouldn't have put more than six hundred thousand dollars into this foundation if it wasn't worth it to him. One regular tradition was that Brockman would send out a list of questions for the members of the Edge Foundation to answer

each year, like what is your dangerous idea? The answers would be published on their website, which The Guardian called the World's Smartest. So again, everyone's sucking these people off in the odds. Brockman also used his influence to host annual billionaires dinners, as I mentioned, and Epstein was a common feature. This is how some major tech billionaires wind up connected to Epstein via email via Mandy Castigan's article.

Quote email threads, which sometimes included Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk, later turned into private conferences at Epstein and Brockman's properties, as well as public events and debates. Brockman Wants bragged to Epstein that the network of the forty guests at my two fourteen Billionaire's dinner was equal to the combined wealth of sixty percent of all Americans.

attends his first Billionaire's dinner in twenty eleven. Right, But we know these dinners go back further, and we know that in earlier years, like two thousand and three, his close associate Sarah Kellen, was one of the few women present at this dinner. To give a brief summary of what exactly Sarah's role was in Epstein's operation, here's a paragraph from an article about her divorce from NASCAR star Brian Vickers. Court documents accused her of helping to arrange

illegal massage sessions with underage girls. In twenty twenty two, a federal judge said she shared criminal responsibility while sentencing Gilan Maxwell. However, authorities never filed criminal charges against Kellen. Kellen, who worked with Jeffrey connecting people to illegal massage sessions, is at the Billionaire's dinner in two thousand and three before Jeffrey, as far as we know, is even at these huh huh, interesting, I mean interesting, Yeah.

know who else. Maybe no one made Maybe Sarah didn't connect anyone with legal massages at the Billionaire's Dinner. Maybe she was just a great conversationalist who happened to as a judge, says be deep complicit and Jeffrey Epstein's illegal sex trafficking who knows? So that twenty eleven dinner Epstein attended feature Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brinn, and Elon Musk, all of whom deny doing anything but briefly meeting Epstein at this event. This was not the only dinner he had

with some of these folks, though. In August of twenty fifteen, billionaire Tom Pritzker, cousin of JB. Pritzker, asked Epstein if he was available to hang out. Jeff replied, not sure yet. I had dinner with Zuckerberg, Musk, Teal Hoffmann wild. And then he sends a photo of this event, and it looks Sylvie as shady as you'd guess. They're at like a dark table. You can see Elon in one corner, whoever took the photo is sitting right next to Mark

fucking Zuckerberg. Like it is just the shadiest looking dinner, but it's also like.

In a write up for the trans News Network, Maddie cast again more accurately describes the Edge Foundation as quote a loose predecessor for the far right intellectual Dark Web. And I think she's right on the money there, right, or at least I think it's accurate to say the intellectual dark web is taking some of these ideas, but being like, look, number one billionaires don't have time to write this bullshit. They're not thinking up stuff. They're they're

living out on their yachts, they're surfing. We got to find some guys who aren't quite as rich who will start thinking dangerous ideas and writing about maybe we should be racist, maybe it is okay to have sex with children, right, Like we need we need our we need our intellectual dark web to get that information out to the PLBs. Right, So I think there's some value in sort of looking at it that way, right, To continue from her articles.

Brockman or physicist Lawrence Krauss. Now, it's noteworthy that so many super smart Edge people as well as the IDW folks, picked hating trans people as their dangerous intellectual idea. One of the most noteworthy members of this crew is Epstein's good friend Lawrence Kraus, As was stated in that quote above, Kraus is a famous physicist and right wing crank who taught at Arizona State University, where only the best scientists work. In two thousand and six, he hosted a conference on

Epstein's island with Stephen Hawking. So he's responsible for all the pictures of hawking that we have to think about now, which don't necessarily implicate hawking and hawking. May have just heard this is a science conference, because all of these scientists are showing up at this island from this guy who donates to science. It's two thousand and six. Epstein hadn't been arrested yet. That said, for a lot of these guys, there's a follow up conference in twenty ten,

after which point they knew who Epstein was. Kraus is so close with Jeffrey that he becomes one of the first guys to face public consequences for his relationship with Epstein. In twenty eleven, Rebecca Watson attacked him for continuing to associate with Epstein and justifying it by claiming science. Kraus defended his friend and said, I don't feel lowered by my association with Jeffrey. I feel raised by my friendship

with Jeffrey. And also he never raped any kids. Yeah, it's a good call, Kraus.

subsequently pledged a whopping two million in twenty fifteen. Kraus claimed he raised a total of four million dollars for the project in twenty eighteen, meaning that a large portion of his funding came from billionaires accused of child rape. And my only correction that would be that, like again, Epstein was really a billionaire now, But this does goes to show when I say that, like you can't just

look at what Epstein gives. You have to look at like what Leon Black is giving because Epstein told him to.

craft his response. Like the open letter that he writes about the allegations, which Kraus denied, but now we know because we have this information, Epstein was giving him like notes on it. Nattie cast again continues. While he has long denied many of the allegations from his time at ASU, Krause admitted to it, even tried to justify gratuitous sexual comments about trans women he made around coworkers. In one

later removed section of his retirement letter. He also helpfully included a grade school sketch of a light bulb that he drew in front of colleagues. Since Kraus's retirement from academia and hopefully sketch art, Epstein continued to advise and fund him as he pivoted to building an anti trans podcast on his YouTube channel and accompanying substack, where he's interviewed a large number of turfs and other anti transfigures, including other Epstein associates like Richard Dawkins and for a

note that light bulb sketch Jeff Drew. I know this because of a fucking Dilbert book I read as a kid. If you like, draw a light bulb in a certain way and turn it upside down, it looks like a woman who's bending over with her underpants on. That's what Kraus is doing. One of our greatest minds. Truly a master of physics, just a genius. All these men just the that's they.

She started by just searching the Epstein files for the word transsexual. Right now today, that is widely although I have known some trans people who still use that term for themselves, but it is why. It is an outdated and offensive term as a general rule, that's like, you're not you shouldn't be using that referring to if someone wants to take that whatever, I'm not not for me to speak about, right. But the reason why doctor Nichols uses that term is because most of the men in

the Epstein files are older men. They're around Jeffrey's age, and that term was even if you weren't trying to be offensive, the term you would have used twenty or thirty years ago.

that now. The first woman to publicly accuse Jeffrey Epstein of abuse was a transgender Latina woman named Ava Cordero. She sued Epstein in October of two thousand and seven, claiming that he forced her into bizarre and unnatural sex when she was sixteen years old. Per an article in LGBTQ Nation Quote. In her lawsuit, Cordero alleged that in nineteen ninety nine, Epstein lured her to his mansion undressed

and requested a massage. Cordero said she felt frightened but agreed, at which point Epstein suddenly began violently touching her genitals, pushing her head downward, and demanding oral sex. She alleged Epstein had lured her to his mansion in nineteen ninety nine when she was sixteen. Right, so again, I just really need to emphasize that.

when she makes it. Anyway, This is a trans woman and that makes assholes consider her an unsympathetic victim. Another thing that is used against her is that she's HIV positive. Right, she had admitted that she'd been admitted to a psychiatric hospital several times. She's has mental health issues in the past, and she's admitted to illegal drug use in the past, and all of this makes her a bad victim in the eyes of shitty people. I want to emphasize she

is being judged here. Part of her credibility. Why she's judged is not credible is that she's admitted to having used drugs in the past. Epstein is perfectly happy to use drugs. In fact, we have evidence of this. There's a twenty thirteen email exchange between him and his fixer, Leslie Groff where Groff is arranging for a friend of so. Epstein has an apartment complex that he owns, right, and he lets people stay there. Sometimes they're male friends of his.

They can crash there. Sometimes he lets people live there, usually very young women live there for periods of time. Right in twenty thirteen, one of these apartments, a woman lives there and she asks Leslie Groff, Hey, my friend, actor Will Forte is coming into town. Can he crash with me for a few nights in this apartment Jeffrey Epstein owns Now, I don't know the relationship between Jeffrey and this woman. I don't know the age at which she starts talking to Jeffrey. I think she's an adult

at this point from everything that I know. So there's a lot that I don't understand here. But Epstein has this apartment that he sends women to, and that he sends men to, and that there's sub evidence he sends men to to have sex with young women, maybe women that he's giving a free apartment to. It's a little bit unclear. That's not what this is, right, Will Forte is not a friend of Jeffrey Epstein. When Epstein is asked if he can stay at the apartment, Epstein does

not appear to know the guy right now. Would will have been cool if he knew that he was staying in an apartment Jeffrey Epstein owned. I don't know if he would have been I don't know if he knew. Right does this woman tell her friend Will Forte. By the way, this apartment's owned by Jeffrey Epstein. You know this is one of those because I'm bringing Will into it as

a result of something else. I want to make it clear there's not evidence he did anything wrong, although maybe it should be looked into a little bit right now just to make sure, but there's not there's not evidence. I want to make that really clear. Anyway. The reason why this is relevant is because this woman asks, hey, can Will Forte crash with me? And Leslie asks jeff hey,

is this okay? And Epstein responds yes, but make sure there are no drugs or drink in the apartment, which means that there's drugs there a lot of the time, right, right, right. This isn't the only evidence that Jeffrey Epstein used drugs or applied girls with drugs, right. It just makes it very clear.

Now she denies these are her social media accounts. And we know Epstein hired people to fix his Wikipedia for him. We know that he hired people to alter website, and we know that he hired people to alter like Google results so that it wouldn't be obvious that he was a sex criminal. He had somebody removing the fact that he was a convicted sex offender from his Wikipedia, he

had people altering Google results. Wouldn't have been weird for him to have someone make a fake social media page for this woman who has charged him, who is alleged that he abused her, right, And I just really wanted to emphasize how vile this is really Comprehensively, her case is dismissed because it fell outside of the statute of limitations, she waited more than five years, and the fact that this all happens and that it like it's not not

only is this dismissed, which maybe they didn't have a choice legally. I'm not enough of a law expert to say if this is a good ruling or not. You know, but statutes of limitation exist, U I mean good in the is it illegally consistent ruling that they would have applied to anybody. But what you do know here is

that the media treats this like a joke. These are serious allegations that Jeffrey Epstein raped a child that come out the year before he gets charged with molesting a child and convicted, and it is not It is treated like a joke forever up to the present day and per an article in LGBTQ Nation, The New York Post's October twenty third, two thousand and seven coverage included the headline gender bend shocker, kinky sex suit gal is a man Like, Yeah, this is a rape allegation by a

child or somebody was a child at the time. Right, It's just it's it's file. It's just like so comprehensively evil. Anyway. This is Epstein's first recorded interaction with a trans person, but from this point forward, so there's obviously a period at which he fetishizes trans people right, and that's deeply tied in with his anti transactivism because that becomes an increasing thing to him in the odds and one person he expresses a lot of this too, is evolutionary biologist

Robert Trivers. Now. Trivers was famous for back in the seventies creating what's called the theory of investment parenting. And this theory suggests that parents invest in their kids to ensure their own multi generational success. Thus, it's natural for women to invest more in parenting because they invest in or to create the child, and it's natural for men to invest less in parenting because it's easy to come right. That's what Nichols is saying, and that this is fine

and right and good. This theory has been discredited, but as doctor Nichols noted in her article, it is still widely cited. Travers started corresponding with Epstein in two thousand and nine, again after Epstein's guilty plea per Nichols quote. Epstein invited Trivers to his house in Florida to discuss his work and paid Trivers's travel into comonations. Trivers, like all researchers, needed money. Research is expensive salaries, materials, publishing fees,

and more. Over the years, Trivers frequented to Epstein's Florida home. Triver's is unsure how we're when Epstein began funding his work, but by twenty fifteen, Epstein bragged to Nom Chomsky that he was Trivers's major funder. Concurrently, Triver's publicly justified Epstein's pedophilia in no uncertain terms, and she chooses not to reproduce that justification here. I think I will reproduce them because it's important for knowing what a piece of shit

Trivers is. And in twenty fifteen Reuter's article, after a lot more stuff about Epstein started coming out, several scientists who had received donations from the Epstein Foundation were asked why they kept taking his money and associating with him after his conviction. Kraus said, I'd be a coward if I abandoned Jeffrey over allegations I know nothing about. And that's gross. But what Trivers says in this article is so much worse. I can't believe he said this to Reuter's.

Did he get an easy deal? Did he buy himself a light sentence? Well? Yes, probably compared to what you or I would get but he did get locked up, Trivor said. Triver says he also said he believes girls mature earlier than in the past. By the time they're fourteen or fifteen, they're like grown women were sixty years ago. So I don't see these acts. Is so heinous?

the bio world. Right, So that suggests he wanted Travers to write a piece about transgender people and actual and like biology, Like this is like a bioessentialist thing, right, That's what he wants doctor Travers to write, and that's kind of his his priority, right, is getting this guy to write about trans people rather than any of the other research that he's doing. Doctor Nichols continues. Two months later, Trivors contacted Epstein again and communicated that he is getting

to the end of transsexuality. Trivers goes on to pontificate about the benefits of fucking trans women, using the humanizing language to refer to transfilms like organism and the new morphs. To that end, Trivers asks Epstein for more money to finish his research on the proposed topics. So, but first off, Trivers, if you read his actual emails, he is a fetishist. He fetishizes trans people, and he also does not consider them number one to be the gender that they are. Right,

he's a biological essentialist. But he also and I think this is the same with Epstein. They're happy to fetishize these people when these people have an identity and are trying to get treated as human beings. That makes him incredibly angry because they only exist for his sexual gratification.

I think that's a big thing for both Epstein and Trivers here, and why they're both on the anti trans stuff right is they're personally offended at the struggle for like dignity and civil rights by trans people as a community because to them, they're not a community, they're a fetish. That's I think what's going on here. That's my interpretation

based on my reading. In October of that year, twenty sixteen, Trivers held a talk in London titled and Evening on Evolutionary Biology, an Overview covering feminism, transgender sexuality, and on our Killings. He invited Epstein to the talk, and in an email where he laid out the details of the event, wrote wrote the title, so as far back as twenty sixteen, Epstein is trying and giving his money to support the creation of an internet wave of coverage critical to transidentity.

Because Epstein's response is that basically, I think this will do a good job of getting in the news, like great work on the conference. Hopefully people write about it, you know, like he's really trying to get intellectuals to put out critical stuff about trans people that he can then get to go viral, and he talks about this directly in his emails with Trivers. In twenty eighteen, Epstein and Trivers again communicate about trans theories. Trivers uses more

really bad language. He calls trans people novel phenotypes, and then he describes an experiment that he wants to do to kind of test some of his theories, which and this is how doctor Nichols describes it. He reiterates his attraction to trans women and explicitly erasist trans men, all while using his porn algorithms as evidence. Trivers ends the email by claiming that trans three year old's are receiving

hormone treatments, a false anti trans scare monger. So again, this mix of fetishization and scare mongering is really interesting. I don't want to include too much of the texts of these emails. They're gross enough that I don't really want to read them in detail. But his Nichols notes, Epstein funds his anti trans work over his other research,

which is often also racist. For example, Trivors wanted to find an evolutionary reason for why basically black people do on our killings and Middle Eastern like Arab people do want our killings, when the reality is that like on, our killings are everywhere. If a man gets angry that his wife slept with someone else or doesn't respect him enough and murders her, which happens all of the time

in the US, that right, there's an honor killer, my friend. Yeah, he's angry because a woman made him in there any murderer anyway. What's interesting, though, is that above all this stuff, above even the racial stuff, Epstein wants Trigvor's writing anti trans propaganda. Here's a March twenty nineteen email where Epstein lays out directly that he considers the anti trans stuff Trivers's main priority. I can call you today if you like My recollection is that we sat together. I thought

that you might want to focus on transgender biology. People would be interested, and I would fund. I am a true believer in your talents.

things that the community is putting out right. That's he's very specific about, Like, I want this to go viral, I want this to get news coverage, right, he expresses. And when he says in that last email that people will be interested about your anti trans research, he's expressing confidence that he can brute force the public to care about Trivers's research. Right. That's what he's talking about, is

forcing anti trans talking points into the public sphere. I could go on about the other people that may have had played a role in this. Epstein is very close to the Sulzberger family who own The New York Times, who publish a lot of anti trans bullshit. Epstein knew them as far back as the seventies. In one email chain, he jokes with Michael Wolfe about the fact that former publisher Arthur Sulzberger had a sex scandal that could have ruined him before he retired. Sulzberger's son now runs The

New York Times. And you know, obviously I'm not saying that Epstein convinced the New York Times to run a bunch of anti trans propaganda, but it's interesting that Epstein is really pushing that and his friends with the people behind the Times and The Atlantic.

mom was. Right, a lot of these all these people are desperate money from rich assholes like Jeffrey Epstein and are willing, like especially the writers and the academics, to kind of say anything if there's money in it. They they all of these fucking guys like the the fucking Berry Weis's crew or whatever talk about how they're like truth tellers, and this is the same as like the honestly the New York Times editorial board talk about how they care about the truth and good and get information

to people. They give a shit about money and having rich friends and access right and they're so desperate for it that the instant someone like Jeffrey Epstein starts saying, you know what I found about trans people, they'll start green lighting articles because that's what the public wants to hear.

fingers look, I can tell you if they're transgender.

for more money and publishes his findings. Ultimately, Triver's theory is easily falsifiable. Despite this, hate groups pick up on the pseudoscience and use it as a justification for their regressive policies. That is, in a nutshell, the Jeffrey Epstein story.

that we already have on these episodes. But I would feel bad if I didn't end by coming back to the bromance between Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon right now. As I said earlier, both are in each other's orbit for years before they got connected officially in twenty seventeen by Michael wool Through. At least that was, you know, the best estimate that I found previously, but there is

evidence that it goes back earlier. And on Sunday, December eighteenth of twenty sixteen, Epstein emails Brock Pierce asking if he'd had a chance to meet with Bannon. Right, Epstein's asking, Hey, did you meet with Bannon yet? And Brock says yes, and Epstein says, Bannon seems like the pretty smart puppet master. Brock vouches for Bannon and says like, yeah, I've relied

on him for years. And it's after this point that Steve and Jeffrey talking awful lot, So it may have been that, you know, in twenty seventeen, they start talking after you know, this conversation December of twenty sixteen, but also the fact that Epstein's asking Brock if he'd had a chance to meet with Bannon suggests that he's aware of Bannon and is interested in what he's doing, and saying, you know, maybe because they knew each other, or maybe

because they were kind of socially distant, but still someone I don't exactly know, right, but it's telling that he's like, Bannon seems like a pretty good puppet master. In twenty sixteen,

here's Politico's summary of their relationship. The two texted frequently about everything from the TV show Chernoble and a guessing game over who pinned the twenty eighteen anonymous New York Times op ed to their efforts to influence international geopolitics, including shaping Europe's governing coalitions, ramping up pressure on China,

and forging business ties in the Middle East. At one point, took credit for convincing Trump in twenty eighteen to impose massive tariffs on China, gabbed with Epstein about his we Build the Wall endeavor that would later end in a federal indictment and presidential pardon, and gossiped about the latest developments in Special Councer Robert Mueller's investigation, in which Bannon was a subject. They're talking about everything, especially their crimes.

to all the famous men impacted by me too. The two men were very direct about their plans to subvert democracy. In July of twenty eighteen, they talked about hiring hackers or otherwise working to get them on our side. Epstein included links to the website for hacking convention def con as he pondered how they might influence these people. And it's very clear for these emails neither of these guys know much about hacking, although one reveal from the Epstein

files is that at least per Epstein's claims. In the files, Epstein claims Peter Teel was funding Nazi hacker Weave for years, which I do believe so Bannon asks, hey, do you know any of these guys, and Epstein responds, some of the founders, organizers. They are the most dangerous force in today's society by far. Bioweapons pale due to blowback nuclear a sixty year old technology. Whether sixty year old tech

frightens you. Space Frontier can't operate without software, so basically saying like hackers are scarier than nukes or bioweapons, which is also a dumb thing to say. Cool Bannon asks if he thinks these kind of people can be bought, and Epstein says yes, and he excitedly explains, you can buy hacks, you can buy zero day exploits, right, you see that in the email on here too. And he says in other emails that he's wrestling with the task of getting hackers who would work for Bannon and could

maybe find a zero data target crypto wallets or voting booths. Right, yeah, now, there's no evidence they did this, certainly, and Epstein is going to have other concerns very soon after these emails get sent. This may have just been another example of himbloviating, but it shows how he and Bannon are thinking, right, and that's meaningful. At least there's more. At least they're dumb.

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