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Over half a year ago, immediately following the reported death of [[Jeffrey Epstein]], Eric recorded a solo episode that he never released in hopes that its subject matter would be overtaken by investigative journalism. As this has not happened, it is being released with some trepidation in March of 2020 due to the issue of state involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.   

<p><em>00:00:28</em><br>What I see when watching this video of the episode in question is a frightened 53-year-old man in an unscripted-and perhaps occasionally rambling-hour of discussion of Jeffrey Epstein. He doesn’t exactly know how to say what he has to get across, but perhaps that is because he isn’t simply a middle-aged man at all. When I look closer, I see a terrified 10- or 11-year-old boy who, many years ago, was sent to a therapist. Why was that child so terrified of going to see a therapist, you may ask? Well, because of inappropriate events set in motion by the therapist’s behavior at the first of their two meetings. That, however, was not what caused the lasting terror. Despite the therapist being a trained and established authority figure and the boy being a minor, it was possible for the boy to simply and firmly say, “No. I do not want that. You must stop.” Thus, the boy is not a survivor. He was not a victim, and he did not want a random broken person to be integrated into his life story.</p>

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<em>00:01:21</em><br>Today, the man in that chair addressing the camera is simply the man that became of [that] unlucky boy who was sent to see a professionally licensed therapist who crossed his path.

<p><em>00:06:00</em><br>So, to that long-dead, and previously abandoned former self, let me just say this: “Sorry I’m a little late, kid. I, uh, became afraid that the imperfections of what I’m about to say next could derange my adult life and make me vulnerable to those who will destroy anything and anyone who threatens them using everything at their disposal. I apologize for my cowardice. It is one of many character flaws that I am working to correct, but you as a boy did nothing wrong and it will be a pleasure to stand up for you, come what may. You’re a solid kid who didn’t deserve this, and I think you deserve a better champion, but Jesus wasn’t available-so you got me instead. Let’s do this thing.”</p>

<p><em>00:07:20</em><br>Now I want to say, first of all, that I have absolutely no special inside knowledge of the situation. I know people who knew him and I met him once, but it is not like I have any particular line on information from any particularly interesting source about the situation. Furthermore, I don’t think that I’m going to be using any special kind of analysis that is known only to me, but I did want to talk to people about [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]]. That is, in the minds of many, people believe that conspiracy theorists are people like Alex Jones, people who are spouting all sorts of crazy ideas-some of which might have some grain of truth in them, but in general it feels like an exercise in talking to the tin foil hat crowd. </p>

<p><em>00:16:17</em><br>All right, that leads us to the doorstep of what I call [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]]. Now, in order to do Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing, it’s important not to be definite about things we don’t know, and I’m going to try to let you know that I actually don’t know what has happened. In fact, the official story is quite possible. From what I know, it’s not impossible that Jeffrey Epstein was a perverted, very rich man who is dead by his own hand in custody through an unlikely, but not impossible, set of circumstances. </p>

So in order to do [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]], my first rule is that one should not attempt to allege a type of conspiracy that has never been encountered before. Over the years, many conspiracies have been uncovered;  and so we have a menu, if you will, of proven conspiracies [from] which we [try to deduce] whether something is in fact possible. And to give you an idea, I’m going to list a small number of conspiracies that have been proven, and [explain] why these things figure in my imagination. And I think that over time you’ll see [me] refer to the same conspiracies over and over again, because they give us an idea of the boundaries of the possible. </p>

<p><em>00:24:45</em><br>Is there any attempt to gain control of innocent influencers? That is, are there any circumstances in which people simply have the crime of being influential used against them? In fact, you can look for [[Section A of the Reserve Index]], people to be rounded up in times of national emergency inside the United States. This might include professors, labor organizers, professionals, authors, the independently wealthy. In other words, there is very much an interest in keeping track of people who’ve done nothing wrong, but [who], in times of national emergency, [one] might want to [ensure] are [not] capable of influencing the population. </p>

<p><em>00:36:12</em><br>Now, in order to do [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]], there are a couple of techniques [I use] that I would like to share. One is that I like to distinguish two separate elements that may in fact be the same thing. Let’s imagine that the character that I met is in fact the forward-facing construct, and that there was an underlying human being playing that character. Now, if he was genuine, then as we say in mathematics, without loss of generality we can adapt ourselves to the circumstance that the actor and the character were one and the same. So if the actor and the character are one and the same and [if] he [is] in no way a construct of anyone, then no harm-no foul, the theory will accommodate that. But [the theory] allows us to have a different possibility: that the character and the actor are two different people. </p>