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And there is no welcome at. Today is Thursday, March, let's see, 4th or so that you're listening to this. It's in the Marchish region of France. March 4th. March 4th. March 4th and do good. Yeah. Yeah. I guess. Too better than Epstein. That's not hard to do. Literally just, you know, Hey. Don't rape kids. Maybe don't rape kids. I think like that's your... And that's the show. That's it. That's the show. That's the show. Hey, everybody. A couple jazz hands. Oh. So, Cesar, we've got a couple of stories we want to talk about. One of them is from The Verge, how the men in the Epstein files defeated me too, and then a

fucking the grossest apology, apologetic, I should say, not apology. Let me rephrase that

entirely. The grossest apologetic ever written by Lawrence Krause. This is from Quillette, and it is called

The Price of the Epstein Frenzy. And what he really means is, I did bad things and I don't want to

pay the price. Yeah, that's pretty much it. We'll get to, we'll get to Krause later. Yeah.

Because they think Kraus is like a minor player in all this.

So minor.

So minor.

But somebody who's involved in our sort of niche.

So it's important to talk about him at least.

But let's go back to the main story here.

This story from The Verge. By the way, I just want to say this, the Verge has had

some excellent reporting. This is like an organization that had not been on my radar until

fairly recently. And I've read a handful of articles, like longer form articles from the Verge,

in the last probably year or so. And I am impressed with

the writing is good. The research is good. The analysis is good. They've done a nice, like this is

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