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Well, ladies and gentlemen, the Epstein files have dropped, or at least more of them have dropped,

over 3 million copies at this point.

And everybody is furiously going through them right now and providing insight, analysis,

and everything else that you would expect from the podcast space.

And I don't want to replicate all of that.

So I'm actually going to try to hit this up from a slightly different perspective.

And so to give you that perspective, I need to give you a little bit of background on myself and some of the work that I did before I was ever involved in politics or social media or things like that. So for those of you who you don't know, I served in the military and I served in special forces. And my last job in special forces is what they call it 18 Fox, which is a special forces intelligence sergeant. and what a special forces Intel Sergeant does is they're part of the intel sergeant does is they're part of the 12 man ODA,

they're part of the 12 man special forces A team.

And they handle a lot of the all source intelligence for the team.

So when a 12 man team deploys to Iraq, like I did in 2008 is the 18 Fox, I do a lot of Intel analysis on the area that we're going to.

And I start to develop targeting packets.

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