Welcome to the Unspeak Easy podcast. I'm your host, Megan Down. This is another solo episode.

I have some thoughts lately I wanted to share with you. At the time of this recording, and I'm recording this on February

8th, the main story of the last several days have been the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

A massive tranche of documents has been delivered. I love that word tranch. It's like something Sarah Palin would name one of her kids.

You know, these are my son's trig, track, and trance. That's not an insult, by the way. I kind of dig the

names of her kids. Anyway, three and a half million pages of documents, many names named, many, many typos, many people revealed to be,

if not child molesters, at least very bad spellers.

But that's not really what this is about.

I'm going to discuss that in a separate episode.

I'm going to bring back my former

special place in hell podcast partner, Sarah Hater, and we're going to talk about that very soon.

This solo episode is about a much smaller story, something that is kind of a tempest in a teapot,

but that I think has some thematic links to the Epstein files and what they say about

public demand for information, insistence that everything be released.

If it exists somewhere, it is only right that it be available everywhere.

So there's a controversy happening in media land involving the podcast of New York Times columnist Ross Douthit.

The podcast is called Interesting Times.

I like it a lot.

I think Ross is a great interviewer, but that's not the point here.

Last month, Ross recorded an interview with a guy named Seth Harp.

I wasn't too familiar with Harp.

He is the author of a book called the Fort Bragg Cartel, which includes some really shocking

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