Speaker 1: So today we have an article from the Sydney Morning Herald,
and this article is going to discuss the documentaries that
have come out recently about Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal organization.
Those documentaries obviously are Filthy Rich and Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein.
Now I'm sure everybody who is listening to this podcast
has watched both of those already. If you have not,
I highly suggest you do, you're not going to learn
anything new. But again, you know how I feel about
context and adding a little bit more meat to the bone.
So today's article is going to talk about both of
those documentaries. And this article is from the Sydney Morning Herald,
and the headline is Life of Jeffrey Epstein leaves viewer
feeling grubby, queasy and angry. That headline right there certainly
is a bullseye, because that's the emotion it elicits from
people who watch these documentaries, especially people who come in
unaware as to what was really going on. They watch
these documentaries and their head starts to spin and they
start to ask themselves all of the questions that you
asked yourself when you first heard all of this, and
the cycle continues. But now people are starting to become
a lot more aware of exactly what Jeffrey Epstein was,
exactly what Jeffrey Epstein and his co conspirators were up to,
and they are also becoming aware that, like usual, they
have been misled by those in power. This article was
authored by Debbie Anker. The life of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein
Pedophile was laden with luxury. He owned a multi story
townhouse in Manhattan, an apartment in Paris, a ranch in
New Mexico, an island in the Caribbean, a private jet.
Yet for all its opulence, Epstein's were was an ugly place,
a corrupt and exploitive environment where girls were routinely sexually abused.
Spending time in the world of the financier pedophile, as
two recent documentaries do, is likely to leave a viewer
feeling grubby, queasy and angry. Look, there is zero doubt
that if you had no idea who or what Jeffrey
Epstein is or was, and then you got a full
frontal the way that some of these documentaries are leading
people in, of course, it's going to shock the senses
right to any normal person. This sort of thing is
just beyond the pale how something like this could have occurred,
how he got off, how these girls were continuously treated
like shit by the system.
Speaker 2: See, folks, because most people are decent, right.
Speaker 1: I refuse to believe that everybody or a majority of
people out there are evil or just.
Speaker 2: Don't care or anything like that. I don't believe that.
Speaker 1: What I do believe is that people are caught up
in their own lives most of the time and they
don't know what's going on around them if it doesn't
directly affect them. So once they get hit in the
face with something like this and their eyes open, I
think most people care. And that's where again we have
to throw a shot at the legacy media. It is
their job to educate the masses about these kind of situations.
It is their job to make sure the public understands
just exactly what is going on and just exactly what
is at stake. But they can't find the time to
do that.
Speaker 2: Ever. Instead, they have to get it.
Speaker 1: They have to be involved in the tribalism, They have
to be involved in the political nonsense as opposed to
exposing the biggest child trafficking ring perhaps in the United
States history, at the very least the most high profile,
but Jeffrey Epstein Filthy Rich on Netflix and Who Killed
Jeffrey Epstein on the ID Channel, two quite different productions,
also demonstrate why streaming services have become such an important
home for documentaries.
Speaker 2: That's true too.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this a lot on the podcast about
how social media and these new platforms are huge tools
to use in cases like this because what it does
is it exposes people who might not otherwise have been
exposed to what's the information that is within the documentary
or around the case. Because again, the legacy media does
not do their job. So what happens People swoop in
and they fill the void. Right, you have independent content creators,
you have filmmakers, you have writers, etc.
Speaker 2: Etc.
Speaker 1: That fill the void and do the job of the
legacy media. Can you imagine if the legacy media pay
this story the attention that it deserved, how many people
would be enraged. Epstein died in August last year, soon
after being taken from a cell in New York's Metropolitan
Correctional Center, the official verdict being suicide allegedly, Yet his
story lives on, and not just because the circumstances of
his death have proved fertile ground for conspiracy theories. Well,
let me ask you a question. Okay, how is it
a conspiracy theory to demand answers when none are forthcoming?
How is it a conspiracy theory when two guards fall
asleep while they're on duty, the camera is pointed at
the wrong tier, the camera does not record what it's
supposed to record, the evidence ends up missing. How is
that a conspiracy theory? That is not a conspiracy theory.
What we have here, folks, is a cover up. The
sordid story has a range of reliability, intriguing elements, reliably
intriguing elements, sex class and powerful people. It's also about
the protective cloak.
Speaker 2: That money can buy.
Speaker 1: And again when we talk about just scratching the surface,
that is exactly what a statement like that is. Because sure,
money definitely played a part here. Wealth definitely played a
part here. But what really played a part was influence.
What really played the biggest part, the most significant part
here was the peddling of information. Remember, the most important
currency to these people is information. As both shows at test,
the Moneyman was a master manipulator who wormed his way
into the upper echelons of business and society. With well
connected English socialite, co conspirator, co abuser Gelaane Maxwell by
his side. Despite a conviction in Florida in two thousand
and eight for procuring an underage girl for prostitution doesn't
even exist, an underage girl cannot consent, etc.
Speaker 2: Etc.
Speaker 1: And allegations of financial misdeeds, he hobnobbed with political leaders
and corporate barons, with scientific, academic and technology chiefs, and
with a prince who enjoyed his hospitality and largesse.
Speaker 2: Yeh, Jeffrey Epstein had a very very very.
Speaker 1: Large and vast circle of very powerful people who moved
within its hallways. Jeffrey Epstein was considered a friend by
these people. Jeffrey Epstein was invited to all the functions
with these people. And these people are going to act
like they had no idea what was going on. Even
after the fact that the man was arrested the first
time and charged with what he was charged with, these
people still opened the door and invited him back to
polite society. Guys like Jess Staley, Guys like Les Wexner,
Guys like Glenn Dubin. All of these people played a
part in bringing Epstein back into so called polite society,
without any of the stink of his crimes left on him.
They acted as for Breeze basically. Meanwhile, with the help
of accomplices, including Maxwell, who disappeared after his arrest, he
lured girls and young women to his home with offers
of payment for massages, sometimes sweetened by promises of educational
or employment opportunities. And that's the carrot that was always dangled, right,
these young girls from disadvantaged homes, broken homes, bad bad situations. Well,
the carrot that was dangled in front of them was, hey,
we'll help you get a better job, or hey we'll
help you get educated, We'll help you get out of
that piss poor environment that you're in. But just you know,
come along with us and do what we say. And
of course, these young disadvantaged girls they're saying to themselves, Hey,
this might be my out. I finally have a way
to get out of this madness and make my life better.
So they go with Jeffrey Epstein, they go with Glayne Maxwell,
they go with Sarah Kellen Vickers, whoever it may be.
They get to Epstein's house and the grooming process begins,
and before you know it, they think that that's just
the way things are in that kind of environment and
that sort of society, so they just go right along
with it. And that is exactly the Jeffrey Epstein plan,
That is exactly the plan that Glayne Maxwell used. Their
blueprint is obvious here. Many of these girls were vulnerable.
A predator hunts for the weakest, says lawyer Spencer Couvin,
who represents women that Epstein molested. And that's always the
case with people like this. These people like Jeffrey Epstein,
they know they can't do this to one of their
banker friend's daughters, right because well, there would be repercussions.
But the poor people, people that they look at as
less then, well, we're just chattled to them.
Speaker 2: We're not even human beings.
Speaker 1: So why would it elicit any sort of any sort
of remorse on their part for molesting these girls or
hurting these girls, Because again, remember, folks, we're not dealing
with normal people here.
Speaker 2: We're dealing with people who.
Speaker 1: Are operating in a world of narcissism and a world
of hubris that we cannot even begin to imagine. Inspired
by the book by James Patterson, the aptly titled Filthy Rich,
succinctly illustrates the class divide with a bridge that literally
separates the haves from the have nots. And again, if
you have not grown up poor, if you haven't grown
up in the shadow of wealth hanging over you while
you live in squalor, then you don't understand. I can't
explain it to you. I cannot explain to you what
it's like. But when you don't have anything and you
see all of these people with stuff, and then you
have an opportunity to perhaps join their ranks, it is
an opportunity that you cannot pass up. And these young girls,
that was the dangling carrot for them, and it was
a very very powerful tool for Jeffrey Epstein and Gilain Maxwell,
and it remains a.
Speaker 2: Powerful tool for these other.
Speaker 1: Networks that are still in operation, that are still being
run brazenly. On the island of Palm Beach in Florida,
the wealthy live and waterfront mansions across the Blue Heron Bridge,
and as local writer Carl Hyason notes, a world away
in West Palm Beach is a working class community of
run down houses and trailer parks where many of the
girls lived.
Speaker 2: And these people.
Speaker 1: Knew that it was going to be a lot easier
to manipulate these these girls from disadvantaged homes as opposed
to a girl from say a solid middle class, upper
middle class background or some one of their golfing buddy
type friends. Right, that's not going to happen because you
don't have the carrot to dangle them at them. They
don't need your money, so why would they come over
and massage You're disgusting old ass. So again it is
poor people who are once poor people who are once
again used as nothing more than pawns.
Speaker 2: For the elite.
Speaker 1: The documentaries differ notably in approach and style. Who Killed
Jeffrey Epstein is tabloid TV fair that feels like it's
yelling at you. It introduces itself with the narrator's declaration
that this is the most twisted story of the decade.
Its true crime scenario presented in a blaring, breathless tone, sensationalized,
adorned with thumping music, featuring repetitive recapping after anticipated ad breaks,
and dramatized recreation sequences. When interviewees describe the dire conditions
at the prison where Epstein was incarcerated, we are showing
images of rats, scuffling down a dank corridor. And again, folks,
I don't buy any of that, by the way, Okay,
as bad as the MCC is condition wise, it's not
like this is a place where suicides are happening on
a regular basis, especially where Jeffrey Epstein was being held.
So don't let them push that narrative down your throat.
Speaker 2: It makes me.
Speaker 1: Mad when they act like suicide is just such a
common thing at MCC. Sure, it's relatively it happens relatively
often in the federal prison system as a whole, But
at the MCC, it's just not true. It's not something
we see on a regular basis at the MCC. Made
is a three part series for cable TV, but screening
here at feature length. It charts Epstein's career in finance,
the moneyed men he'd worked for, and network he built.
It then moves on to the views about his death,
airing theories about him being a spy and possessing audio
and video recordings of people's indiscretions that that could be
used for blackmail.
Speaker 2: Well, we know that's a fact.
Speaker 1: We know for a fact that Jeffrey Epstein was compiling
dossier's on people. We know that he was compiling information
on people, and we know what he told Virginia to
do while she was doing what he made her do.
So we know for a fact that the whole blackmail
angle of this is true. And we also know that
he was not working in a vacuum. He wasn't just
compiling these dossiers. They were doing something with them. And
where this information going, where this information would end up, well,
that is the million dollar question. That is where the
speculation comes in. But from where I'm sitting, there is
only one possible answer to that. And my friends, it
is a three letter organization that has its fingers and
many pies. And just look around the world and wherever
something is going south, you can be sure the CIA
is not far behind. A couple of forensic pathologists find
that his fatal injuries were consistent with homicide rather than suicide,
and that there has been a lot of questions surrounding that. Right,
all we have is the state coming out and giving
us their report right what they said happen. Meanwhile, they
haven't shown any evidence to back it up. It's just
once again, like Bill Barr says, well just believe what
I have to tell you in reality and in the
real world, none of us are willing to do that
at this point.
Speaker 2: The fore part Filthy Rich, Excuse Me?
Speaker 1: The fore part Filthy Rich features a range of people
who do not appear in the other production, from women
abused by Epstein to police, journalists, authors, and lawyers involved
with the case. By Lisa Bryant, it issues the Excuse
Me a sensational tone as it quietly clinically constructs its portrait.
And the Filthy Rich documentary, as you know, is a
lot of it is testimony from some of the survivors,
and that's what makes it such a powerful documentary.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Filthy Rich was much better than Who
Killed Jeffrey Epstein and much more of a resource for
people who are just getting involved with the case.
Speaker 2: So, as I've.
Speaker 1: Stated earlier, I believe that Filthy Rich most certainly did
what it's set out to do by being a basic
entry point for people who have not really followed this case.
A large part of its focus is on the women
who Epstein abused, identifying them as survivors rather than victims.
That's right, because that's what they are. They are survivors,
not victims, and I'm glad that all these other outlets
are starting to fall into line and starting to take
notice of the proper a labeling of these gals.
Speaker 2: They aren't victims anymore.
Speaker 1: They are now survivors, courageous survivors who are fighting back
with everything in their arsenal to bring justice down around
the heads of these disgusting animals who abuse them for
so long, and who were protected by the media and
some in the government. It allows space for their stories
to be told and their voices to be heard. Their
pain is palpable as they detail their fears, regrets, anguish
and shame. They are both courageous and fragile. Some reveal
lifelong damage. Well, even the ones who don't reveal it, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure have very very, very very.
Speaker 1: Dark thoughts at times, because you can't live through trauma
like this and have it not reoccurred in your dreams
and subconsciously come back. And that's why something like this
is so horrible. That's why something like this cannot go unchallenged.
That's why people like Epstein and Guilaine Maxwell and Jean
Luke Brunel and the rest of them must.
Speaker 2: Be brought to justice.
Speaker 1: Possibly as there's no narration to deploy as a linking device.
There are too many cliched shots of various women staring
out to see, but the anger they convey is justified
because it took so long for any kind of justice
to be achieved. Negotiated by a brigade of high profile lawyers,
the two thousand and eight Miami conviction is persuasively and
shockingly depicted as a sweetheart deal after Epstein was arrested
last year in New Jersey. His death robbed the women
of their chance to confront him in court. Depict it
as a sweetheart deal. I got news for you, Sidney
Morning Herald. This was the sweetheart deal of all sweetheart deals.
This is the kind of deal that the mafia would
have gotten in the old days, if they would have
had a couple of jurors over the barrel. You don't
get this kind of deal just by negotiating. There is
a lot more here, and until we can see those
Grand Jerry records, until we can see what truly occurred,
than I am still never ever going to believe the
official narrative. They need to prove it at this point.
Filthy Rich helps to illustrate why documentaries have become such
a key yet unexpected part of the streaming revolution, which
has granted them a new lease on life. One of
the early surprises of SVOD viewing patterns was not that
people were flocking to big budget show pieces such as
The Crown, but the popularity of back catalog series such
as Friends and The Office. Now, the nonfiction area is
also proving a rich scene, especially valuable at a time
when documentaries have been rare on free TV, with feature
length productions virtually non existent. And that's definitely true too,
because documentaries play a huge part in cases like this
in my opinion. You know, just look at the ones
that have come out prior to Filthy Rich and look
at the interest they drummed up, and then in turn,
look at the court cases that started again because of
these documentaries. You see, at the end of the day,
we have to remember, folks, we have the power.
Speaker 2: It is up to us, not them.
Speaker 1: They work for us. So if we exert the proper
amount of pressure, if we hit the accelerator at the
right time, and we make our voices heard, it'll be
a real difficult challenge for them to ignore all of us.
One gnat, you can swat them away ten million gnats. Well,
now you find yourself suffocating already this year we've been
treated to cleverly constructed and compelling series such as The
Test Amazon Prime and The Last Dance on Netflix. Filthy
Rich joins a group that demonstrates that the streaming services
have allowed documentary makers the money and the latitude to
display their accomplishment as storytellers. And again, Filthy Rich has
its ups and downs. Right, there's things about Filthy Rich
that I would have changed. But at the same time
I understand that with a mere four hours roughly to
tell the story, they had to be pretty locked into
what they wanted to get out there. They couldn't be
veering off in other directions and leaving things, you know,
threads untied, et cetera, et cetera. So for what Filthy
Rich is and for what it's set out to accomplish,
I truly believe it has done a fantastic job.
Speaker 2: Just look at all the new interest in the case.
That alone is worth.
Speaker 1: Its weight in gold in my opinion, because again, the
more people involved, the louder our voice becomes, and the
harder justice will be.
Speaker 2: To not happen.
Speaker 1: Right, It'll be harder for them to deny justice to
these girls. If everybody is up in arms about this,
the only way that we can hold them accountable is
by holding those in power that we've elected or have
been put in power by those we elected, accountable as well.
And if that means voting out everybody who is ever
involved in something like this, then I say that's what
we do, because personally, I would have a hard time
voting for anybody ever involved with Jeffrey Epstein at this point.
That's how disgusted that I am by this whole entire thing.
That's how disgusting the whole entire thing is. And to
be honest with you, look behind the curtain into the
dark room of what is truly going on at the
highest levels of power leaves me sick to my stomach.
But the contents of that room need to be laid
bare for everybody to see, because unless this story is
brought to the public, unless the veil of secrecy is
lifted from the whole entire thing, then these sort of
operations are just going to continue, and later on down
the road there will be another Jeffrey Epstein, and the
whole entire cycle will repeat itself once again.
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Speaker 1: Contact me, you could do that at Bobbycapucci at Protonmeil
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Speaker 2: All right, folks,