E379. Michael Tracey Exposes Epstein Hysteria For What It Is

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Journalist Michael Tracey joins Bridget to dissect the Epstein moral panic currently swallowing the internet whole—and he's got the receipts on why most of it is "conspiracy-brain melted slop." As one of the only journalists pushing back on the dominant narrative, Tracey breaks down what we actually know versus what people want to believe: the FBI's fraudulent "1000 victims" number, why the Alex Acosta "sweetheart deal" wasn't actually a sweetheart deal, how Whitney Webb's "research" is a jok...

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0:00.0	I'm with Michael Tracy, everybody.
0:02.5	Welcome to Walkins.
0:03.8	Welcome.
0:04.2	Thank you for being here.
0:05.9	You're the man under fire at the moment.
0:07.9	Greetings.
0:08.8	Really?
0:09.1	I hadn't noticed.
0:10.4	How are you doing?
0:11.6	First of all, before we get started, just how are you doing?
0:15.8	You mean like personally?
0:17.3	Yeah.
0:17.6	Yeah.
0:19.1	I mean, it's interesting because for those of you don't know, Michael Tracy is a journalist
0:23.9	and you have been someone who's, you know, in interviewing people about Epstein,
0:31.7	it's actually much harder to find people who are pushing back against the, I would say,
0:36.9	dominant narrative that everybody,
0:39.2	that this was a petto island and they were sacrificing children and eating them.
0:44.6	And so I had...
0:45.5	That's a new wrinkle to the dominant narrative.
0:47.8	That's like a week old, maybe.
0:49.6	It's bizarre.
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