The Joe Rogan Experience - #1386 - Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author. He has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports, and has authored several books including his latest "Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another" is available now & look for his podcast "Useful Idiots" is available on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 11m
Broadcast on: 15 Nov 2019
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so jamie pointed out this this uh... congressman is that who it is that jamie put in this out that there's a congressman and he released a series of tweets and the first letter of all these tweets if you put them all together it says Epstein didn't kill himself or did not kill self so it is it's didn't he did uh... that he did the apostrophe we should have gone with did not starting here at that evidence of a link rap paul gosser what are the odds of this guy did this accidentally really small right that's kind of like one of those monkeys typing Shakespeare yeah i don't think it could uh... it could work and the thing is he did it backwards right so you didn't see what the puzzle was until the last tweet because the last week is an e i got a tweet from someone about thirty five minutes ago i don't know if there's a bunch of people online paying attention to it or what but someone alerted me and a few other people but is he a does he have an image of that fucking that crazy mask is that in his shit too okay he's a weird i'd be the h_ of his get the i was november first of the mask yes what is that mask again what is that a representative of was something it's the guy fox mass yes that's right there yeah so this guy is uh... he's he's thinking long alternative lines of thought but that is really uh... an interesting way of saying it alphabet read that's not just making a bunch of tweets don't ever address it just leave it there walk away there you know louis carol was famous for that was he yeah that was one of uh... he did a lot of sort of tricks with words uh... through the book go to lisher bach no yeah there's a whole whole bunch of stuff in there about people who used uh... who put puzzles in text hmm you know it's kind of a thing that that people did i guess back more in the eighteen-century before well this absent case is probably the most blatant example of a public murder of of a crucial witness of ever seen in my entire life or anybody's ever seen and the the the minimal amount of outrage about this the middle minimum out of cover it's fucking fascinating i mean i what's amazing to me just as a you know somebody works in the media is that this was shaping up to be the biggest like new story in history yes and the instant he you know

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