Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
0:28 Epstein's Israel connections 9:35 Epstein's history of blackmail 22:43 Was it suicide? 27:09 Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump 32:16 Why won’t Trump release the files? 38:59 The Israel connection(s) 51:21 Some Epstein-Wexner weirdness 57:23 What’s the deal with Ghislaine? 1:03:51 Was it suicide? (cont’d) 1:16:11 Influence operation or personal fetish operation? Or both? 1:27:18 Epstein's strangely light 2008 sentence 1:33:09 The political cost for Trump 1:37:27 How dangerous is Trump?
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded August 11, 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello, Mickey Cows. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey, Bob. |
| 0:33.5 | How are you? |
| 0:34.8 | You sound better. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm fine. |
| 0:36.4 | It's been a while since you've graced this podcast with the presence, Mickey. |
| 0:40.3 | And you know what I'm wondering? |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.2 | Is the Google YouTube algorithm so powerful that it can reach out and find the many people |
| 0:49.2 | who used to tune in regularly just to see you, but who may be off watching other videos right now. Like, is it going to like, are they seeing a flashing red light right now or something? I think only Palantir is powerful enough to do that, I think. Well, fortunately, you know Peter Thiel. I'm sure they could be doing it. But, you know how we'll find out? |
| 1:11.1 | You know how we can find out? |
| 1:12.3 | Is if I say, if you're happy to see Mickey Cowes, smash the like button. |
| 1:17.4 | And then if there's fewer than like a thousand likes, |
| 1:20.3 | I think they didn't find nearly all the Mickey Cous. |
| 1:25.1 | I think we had a thousand viewers at our peak. |
| 1:29.2 | No, no. |
| 1:29.9 | We used to do way, way, whoa, man. |
| 1:32.0 | We were in the stratosphere and then you left me |
| 1:33.7 | and it all came tumbling down. |
| 1:36.6 | Hey, hold. |
| 1:37.1 | But I digress and I don't blame you. |
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