Supplementary Material 46: Epstein Did Microtransactions, Grok Did Nothing Wrong, and Murder is Bad

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Social Sciences, Science, Leisure, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In our never-ending quest to alienate all potential online audiences, we finger-wag about rampant Epstein conspiracism and explain why we are, on balance, anti-murder.

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In our never-ending quest to alienate all potential online audiences, we finger-wag about rampant Epstein conspiracism and explain why we are, on balance, anti-murder.

00:00 Intro

03:39 Flooding Adventures

06:54 Eric's Troubles with his Silicon Friend

13:09 Peter Boghossian's Hardcore for Grok

17:16 A Promising Paper on reducing AI Hallucinations

22:17 Statistical Consults

23:12 Epstein Discourse Lollapalooza

27:24 Eric Weinstein thinks Epstein is connected to UFOs

29:09 Rogan Plays Apologist for Trump on Epstein

32:21 Emma Vigeland and Joshua Citarella engage in Conspiracy Hypothesising

35:07 Reasonable Conspiracy Theorising

42:24 The Real Conspiracy

44:26 Epstein and Ghislaine puppeting the culture wars

48:18 The Joy of Conspiracy Theories

53:29 Epstein and Bannon created QAnon as a Psyop

01:01:37 What about ritual child abuse, dissolving bodies and cannibalism?

01:09:05 Lurid Cannibal Fantasies

01:15:56 Emma's UFO theory

01:20:08 The Joe Roganification of Podcasts and some strategic disclaimers

01:24:14 A dichotomy in contemporary American attitudes to Wealth?

01:28:32 The Mainstream Media won't focus on Epstein's connections with Israel and Mossad

01:32:08 The REAL Epstein scandal that no one wants to talk about

01:34:36 Behind the Bastards coverage of Epstein

01:36:01 Epstein's alleged role in creating microtransactions in games

01:40:46 Epstein's cringey Edutainment ideas

01:50:53 What Robert Evans Got Wrong

01:54:08 There are No Coincidences

02:00:57 The Danger of Appealing Narratives and also... Michael Tracey

02:06:00 The Anti-Murder Podcast

02:07:47 Warren Smith highlights Violent Rhetoric aimed at Konstantin

02:14:12 Justifying Murder is Bad... M'Kay?

02:17:55 Experiences of Violence and Naivety

02:21:16 Levels of Political Violence

02:23:49 Destiny's Community and Edgy Political Violence Takes

02:27:56 Alienating online audiences 101

02:30:14 Eric talks wormholes with a UFO maniac

02:35:28 Lord of the Idiots

02:36:18 Does Matt know Snorlax?

02:39:43 A failed disclaimer outro

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0:00.0	I'm Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's supplementary material edition.
0:33.3	With the cognitive anthropologist, me Christopher Kavana, and the psychologist, statistician, some would say,
0:41.5	Matthew Brown over there.
0:43.7	It's good to see you, Matt.
0:45.0	You're kind of, you know, you're a hard man to reach you in a lot of demand.
0:49.5	It's almost like I've been trying to schedule you for multiple days.
0:53.9	It's, yeah, just nice to finally catch up for you.
0:58.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:58.9	Good to see you too, Chris.
1:00.0	I do remember having a conversation yesterday where I gave you my exact availability for both today and tomorrow.
1:09.8	And you just kind of got a distracted, faraway sound in your voice and changed the topic.
1:17.3	So, you know, one of this is trying to schedule things.
1:21.9	It's not an accurate representation.
1:24.5	You don't even know how to use a calendar.
1:26.4	Oh, my God.
1:26.7	I cannot get a calendar invitation out of you. This is unbelievable, Matt. I have
1:31.4	had you multiple days and I say, all right, we'll record tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. There's time
1:36.4	tomorrow. Then tomorrow rolls around. Where's Matt? Now, where do we find? By dealing with
1:42.0	things like flooding or family commitments work a
1:46.3	job but just feeling generally tired well that's also true there's the 4 p.m. cut off when it's
1:51.6	bedtime whiskey and then bedtime that's right yeah look it's true it's not always look to be clear
1:59.5	i i have my faults i know a lot of the time i just can't do it because the spirit is building in the flesh is weak. But scheduling, this is one I will not take. I gave you specific times. I did not get an answer. And then you come hassling me this morning. So, Matt, what's going on? Why don't we have a schedule? I was like, look, I don't think that's the way it works. You know people, by the way, love it when podcasts talk about this kind of stuff. They really, really appreciate it. Well, it's not an act. This is real. The suffering is real. People should know what it's like to work with you, Chris. I don't think,
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