Greetings, earthlings and humans and any other intelligent life forms that might be tuning in on whatever frequency, planet, or, you know, wavelength you're coming from.

I'm glad you're here, and especially animals, the highest intelligent beings on this planet, far more intelligent than humans, of course,

because they don't have to bullshit themselves every single day in order to feel the joy of living.

Welcome to the Roseanne Barr podcast.

Well, you know how I love to talk to geniuses, dissonters, people with ideas that normally we don't get to hear

because of the unified field of bullshit that is YouTube and all the internet media outlets.

And I'm very excited today because we have a pioneer, a pioneer in the whole Epstein story,

the first person to break the Epstein story.

Nick Bryant.

Hi, Nick.

Thanks for being here.

Good to be with you, Roseanne and Jake.

Thank you for coming on.

So you were, in fact, the first person to break the whole Epstein story, and you did it way back when?

Well, there had been a number of articles about him molesting children, and there was a grand jury

that found that he hadn't molested a single child, and that was in 2006, I believe.

I went down there in 2012, and I acquired his little black book, and then I started calling victims in the black book.

And they started telling me about being flown around and flown to an island.

And at that point, I realized he was no longer a lone pedophile, but he ran a pedophile network.

And so I took it back to New York. I took the black book back to New York City.

And I live in the mecca of publishing. I thought for sure somebody would touch it. And of course,

nobody did. And then in 2015, I hooked up with John Cook at Gawker. And we published both

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