How WIRED Analyzed the Epstein Video

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4.1 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Last week, the DOJ released what they described as raw footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death in 2019. WIRED’s Dhruv Mehrotra went through the metadata and found that it had been, in fact, modified. In today’s episode, we dive into what Dhruv found and what it means.

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0:29.3	find us. How is everybody doing this week? I'm doing well. I am recovering from a vacation. I went to Detroit, Michigan with my family.
0:40.3	If you haven't spent time in Detroit, I highly recommend it as a vacation destination, which may surprise
0:48.3	you depending on what kinds of vacations you like to take. But if you like to spend time in
0:53.3	interesting cities with great food,
0:55.7	you could spend some time in Detroit. It was awesome. So I'm good. I just, you know, you come back
1:00.2	from vacation and you're like, you hate everything. And so I'm there. But I'll get out of it.
1:06.5	Isn't the purpose of a vacation, though, to give you a little bit of relaxation and perspective so that you don't hate everything?
1:14.2	That's not the kind of vacation I take, Warren.
1:17.0	Okay.
1:17.8	We need to get you to a spa.
1:19.6	So Detroit's famous for its pizza, for its square pizza.
1:23.8	How does it rate?
1:24.7	And it's cars.
1:26.0	Yeah, and it's cars, but really.
1:46.0	Cars, we're more concerned about. Great about. You know, we had pizza twice. We had Detroit-style pizza night one. I mean, it's delicious. I find it very heavy. I like to power-consume pizza. So, like, I like three, four, five pieces of pizza. You can't do that with this pizza. You know what I mean? Yes. So I find that to be kind of a bummer. But like it's good.
1:50.6	It's just very heavy. Katie, I have a very important question for you. Okay. Do you eat your pizza
1:55.6	with a fork? No. Thank God. Do you? We am shaking now. We can keep going. Definitely not. Okay. No, no chance. No. Thank God. Do you? I'm shaking it out. We can keep going. Definitely not. Okay. No, no chance. No. No, no chance.
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