Episode 121 -- Moira's in the Epstein Files
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The Epstein files are many things: a study in elite impunity, a deep core sample of societal misogyny, a record of institutional failure. But they also give us a fascinating, if terrifying, alternate story of #MeToo and what came after. For this episode, Moira and Adrian take the recent drop of several million more pages of Epstein emails--and Moira's walk-on cameo in them--to think about networked antifeminism, #MeToo backlash, the traffic in women as social conduit, and the solidarity of (allegedly, allegedly, allegedly) predatory men.
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| 0:00.0 | Never ask a man, his salary, a woman, her age, or a sex radical what she was saying about boy lovers in the 80s. |
| 0:07.0 | That's the, that's the meme. |
| 0:09.6 | That's rough. |
| 0:10.8 | I love how we started with your lawsuit, and it's just like lawsuit bait all the way through now. |
| 0:16.5 | You're like, come up, me, bros. |
| 0:17.6 | I will get sued again. |
| 0:18.7 | I am still judgment-proof, so that's the good news. |
| 0:22.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello, I'm Adrian Daw. |
| 0:30.1 | And I'm where we're down again. |
| 0:31.3 | Whether we like it or not, we're in the Epstein Files. |
| 0:36.4 | Excuse me, Adrian. |
| 0:57.1 | Only I am in the Epstein files. That That's right. Stolen Valor. I'm sorry. And the only reason you know this, I believe, is because I told you, right? Yeah, no, I wouldn't have known if you hadn't texted me. So what happened is Tuesday morning, it was like 7 a.m. I was putting on makeup because, in fact, I was about to go on camera to do a podcast for the Guardian UK about newly released Epstein disclosures of which there were like 6 million, right? |
| 1:03.0 | So one challenge of covering this is that you have to write about it when you necessarily |
| 1:07.9 | don't know everything that's in it because just no editor on earth |
| 1:11.7 | is going to give you the amount of lead time that you would need to read three million documents. |
| 1:16.7 | So I was going to talk about, you know, some of the high-level revelations about Epstein's |
| 1:23.2 | closeness with, you know, powerful people even long after his 2008 initial conviction on child sex abuse charges. |
| 1:31.9 | And then I get a text from Adrian saying, heads up, Moira, you're in the Epstein files. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.9 | And I was like, what? |
| 1:39.6 | Now, in her defense, she was just there to snorkel. |
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