Epstein Files and the American Psyche
Vibe Check
SiriusXM
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Girl? |
| 0:04.2 | Girl. |
| 0:05.7 | It's a cranes in the sky kind of morning. |
| 0:08.7 | I agree. |
| 0:12.8 | It is the anniversary of that record. |
| 0:15.7 | It's feeling that way. |
| 0:17.3 | Ten years later, she's still right. |
| 0:19.2 | Salange was right. |
| 0:20.1 | The lyrics only are more profound, actually. I feel like as we go. |
| 0:26.3 | Well, let's get into it. I'm Sayy Jones. And I'm Zach Stafford, and you are listening to Vychek. |
| 0:48.8 | And And today, we've decided to dedicate a lot of time to discussing the ongoing Epstein files. |
| 0:52.3 | You know, we as a show have discussed this for a long time. |
| 1:12.6 | And Saeed, you and I have been talking about Jeffrey Epstein since we began as journalists. People forget he, I think he was arrested the first time in 2006. So, you know, high school, college, you know, a whole lot. This has been a long time coming. Long time. And a lot of what he represents, represents a lot of what this country is about. And, you know, we're going to get into that today. |
| 1:14.9 | That's probably why a lot of you are feeling really overwhelmed. |
| 1:18.5 | So we hope to kind of relieve you of some of that. |
| 1:21.8 | Psychosis you may be feeling, but also find some grounding in all of it. |
| 1:28.6 | Yeah, because it's just, it is, on one hand, it's important for this information to come to light. |
| 1:34.9 | On the other, as we've talked about before, especially for survivors of sexual violence, |
| 1:40.6 | it can be really fraught, having this become media fodder and all of that, too. And then third, now I think we've entered this phase where it's like, well, |
| 1:46.2 | where's the action based on this? Where's the accountability? And that is a new kind of crazy making. |
| 1:54.0 | And so I hope we can kind of lift some of the heaviness of people who feel like alone. They're |
| 2:00.2 | like looking around like, |
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