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

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. The full episode is available to Patreon subscribers (2 hours, 42 minutes). Join us at: 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 Links Erik arguing with Grok Boghossian’s hardcore rules for Grok H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs (Gao et al., 2025) YouTube comment under our NXIVM video about Epstein People article claiming Epstein was Putin’s Wealth Manager Taylor Lorenz – Panic World: How Epstein Warped the Entire Internet Garbage Day: “Here’s How Epstein Broke the Internet” Eric Weinstein on Piers Morgan connecting Epstein to UFOs and his “research” Triggernometry’s 7th appearance on Rogan American Alchemy: Eric Weinstein & Eric Davis on Wormholes BBC: Ex-police chief said Trump told him in 2006 “everyone” knew about Epstein’s behaviour Joshua Citarella & Emma Vigeland – Epstein, Conspiracy & Right-wing Media | Doomscroll Pew Research: Demographics of the Progressive Left in the United States Debunking claims about Ghislaine Maxwell being a Reddit power mod Obama did not say aliens are real – PBS NewsHour NBC News: Epstein’s relationship with Ehud Barak Al Jazeera: What were Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Israel? Warren Smith’s post about threats from Digital Gnosis Digital Gnosis Substack statement Destiny’s Head Mod Confronts Him On His Rhetoric Eric Weinstein Demands UFO Secrets From Pentagon Scientist Epstein email documents Email from Pablos Holman to Epstein (document 1) Email from Pablos Holman to Epstein (document 2) Email from Pablos Holman to Epstein (document 3) Epstein forwarding Holman’s email to Bobby Kotick Pablos Holman responding and dunking on Kotick

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Supplementary Material 46: Epstein Did Microtransactions, Grok Did Nothing Wrong, and Murder is Bad is an episode from Decoding the Gurus by Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne.

This episode is 36:46 long.

This episode was published on Mar 14, 2026.

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