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🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Knock knock who's there? It's the land of same day. What? Iceland.co.uk? It's only been two hours. That's right. With |
0:06.3 | saying they delivery, we'll have your shopping with you in no time. Shop online today at |
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0:15.6 | This podcast includes graphic descriptions of sexual assault. It may not be suitable for all listeners. |
0:21.8 | Just describe where we are right now. We're on top of Crown Mountain at Acquely Communications Tower. |
0:30.4 | I'm 1,500 feet up looking out over the lush green vegetation that blankets the island of St. Thomas, |
0:37.8 | one of four large islands that make up the US Virgin Islands. They don't call it America's paradise |
0:43.5 | for nothing. I'm here with Steve Scully, a Virgin Island resident and an IT contractor. |
0:50.1 | This is a ideal spot. There's only one higher on the island than here. |
0:55.3 | Years ago, Steve crossed paths with a multi-millionaire who hired him to set up an expansive |
1:01.7 | communication network on a nearby private island. And this massive tower of zig-zagging metal |
1:07.8 | and antennas is where all the data originated. He did not want to be out of touch. |
1:14.4 | The island was no ordinary island. From its villas to its landscape, it's impeccably designed. |
1:21.8 | And that's amazing you can see his island from here. Yeah. |
1:24.7 | And on a clear day off to the east across a span of turquoise water, you can even see it from |
1:30.9 | way up here, the island of Little St. James. We can see it, but how far is it from right here to |
1:37.4 | the island? 10.16 miles. The island's owner was an ordinary either. |
1:43.4 | I saw a t-shirt one day that actually said Little St. Jeff on it. That was the way that |
1:48.9 | Jeffrey liked the island referred to as Little St. Jeff. |
1:53.0 | The owner was Jeffrey Epstein, who had bought himself an entire island in the late 1990s, |
1:59.7 | building it up into a tropical paradise. We always have these beautiful, tropical trade winds |
2:07.2 | that blow through here. During the years that Steve worked for Epstein, he says he spent a lot of |
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