After Party with Emily Jashinsky

Episode Summary: "What the Feds AREN’T Saying, and Creepy Epstein Emails, with Evita Duffy-Alfonso, PLUS Olivia Nuzzi’s Cringe Book"

Date: November 18, 2025
Host: Emily Jashinsky
Guest: Evita Duffy-Alfonso

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In this wide-ranging episode, host Emily Jashinsky dives into the week’s most scandalous headlines with independent journalist Evita Duffy-Alfonso. They dissect the latest on the Trump shooting investigation, the jaw-dropping release of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate's emails, and the generational cringe of Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir and the resulting Washington media drama. The episode also spirals into a frank discussion about internet subcultures, gender confusion, elite corruption, and the ongoing vibe shift in American pop culture and politics.

Detailed Breakdown & Key Discussions

1. The Olivia Nuzzi “American Canto” Memoir Scandal

([00:38]-[07:56])

• Emily lampoons the literary pretensions and self-absorption of Olivia Nuzzi in Vanity Fair excerpts about her alleged affair with RFK Jr.

  • Emily reads the purple prose with irony:

    “The prose so purple it'd make a Wyoming sunset seethe with the envy of a thousand spurned New York magazine writers...” (02:05)

• Discussion on Washington's fixation on sex, power, and media hypocrisy, especially the triangle between Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza, and Mark Sanford.

• Evita's reaction:

  “I love how seriously that journalist was taking this entire story... the sincerity of the Vanity Fair article.” (07:56)

2. The Epstein Email Dump: Elite Corruption Laid Bare

([08:47]-[32:19])

Trump’s Pivot on Epstein Document Release

• Emily plays recent Oval Office Q&A with Trump, revealing his new support for releasing Epstein documents:

  “All I want is I want for people to recognize a great job that I've done on pricing, on affordability...” (10:17)

• Evita contextualizes: Trump aims to tout his economic successes and distract from the Epstein narrative, but Americans aren’t satisfied—"We want to know if Epstein was attached to intelligence.”

Why MAGA Still Cares

• Evita explains MAGA's enduring obsession:

  “MAGA is anti corruption... a full populist revolt against the deep state... The people who are involved are still alive, many still in government and ruling over us... just give us Jeffrey Epstein.” (16:53)

The Creepy Content of the Emails

• Emily details email excerpts: Larry Summers (Harvard, Clinton Treasury Sec.) seeks relationship advice from Epstein—who calls himself Summers’ “wingman.”
• Scandal deepens: The woman in question was the daughter of a Chinese Belt & Road official—Summers simultaneously supporting her father's ventures.
• “He’s basically going to the expert of sleaziness... to get advice on how to be sleazy and inappropriate with someone who is his underling.” (21:54, Evita)

Why the Political Class Protects Itself

• Both parties seem disinclined to full disclosure—Emily notes:

  “What is the one entity that Republicans and Democrats are incentivized to cover up for alike? It’s the intelligence community.” (25:36)

Notable Moment

• On the casual depravity of DC elites:

  “It’s basically like if the guys from American Psycho were emailing each other on their iPads.” (18:15, quoting Matthew Stoller)

Podesta Art and Normalization of Deviance

• Podesta’s art collection—naked, chained children—once profiled in mainstream magazines.

  “It’s an overt glorification of child abuse and pedophilia... and for some reason... having people over to his house for parties. Why is this normal?” (30:15, Evita)

3. The Thomas Crooks/Trump Shooter: What the FBI Isn’t Saying

([32:19]-[45:53])

The Tucker Carlson & Miranda Devine Scoops

• Tucker Carlson's investigation into Crooks:
  • Crooks’ online trail began as pro-Trump, violent, then flipped to violent anti-Trump in 2020.

  “The FBI lied about that fact and pretended Crooks was a right winger…” (38:48, Tucker audio)

  • FBI officials misrepresented Crooks’s motive to Congress, omitting key evidence.
  • Crooks’s interactions with “William Willie Tepes” linked to European antifa, his posts stop after this.

Theories and Anomalies

• Crooks’s body quickly cremated; parents went from indigent to having high-powered lawyers.
• “The point is that there’s no trust. And so to just say in this current FBI, trust me, bro, we got it handled. There’s not much here. He’s a lone actor... it’s just not going to be enough.” (42:13, Evita)

4. Parallel Cases: The Left-Online Shooters and Furry Subcultures

([45:53]-[57:22])

The Charlie Kirk Assassin & DeviantArt

• Both Crooks and “Tyler Robinson” (Charlie Kirk shooter) had online presences in “furry”/DeviantArt spaces, used they/them pronouns, and dabbled in gender confusion.
• Discussing the role of digital subcultures:

  “I do think there’s a dark side of online anime world... It plays with gender... there became a political element to that type of posting.” (49:44, Emily)

• Evita: Pushback on blaming anime, but highlights mental and spiritual health crisis, bizarre ChatGPT interactions, and possession claims (Lance Twigs).

Notable Quote

• “My Catholic alarm bells are going off. This kid was possessed... maybe it’s not anime, but ChatGPT could be it.” (54:26, Evita)

5. Generational Malaise: Work, Alcohol, and the ‘Trad’ Turn

([57:22]-[61:27])

• Scott Galloway clip: Says “remote work” and the “anti-alcohol movement” have harmed young people’s social/romantic prospects.

  “Get out, drink more, and make a series of bad decisions.” (57:37, Scott Galloway clip)

• Evita: Gen Z lacks pre-pandemic context; social isolation rampant. Younger people now strive for “traditionalism” and conservatism after seeing woke excess and social breakdown.

  “A lot of young people... are thirsting for traditionalism... because we literally have hit rock bottom.” (60:30, Evita)

6. Cancel Culture Redux: Dasha Nekrosova & the Post-2022 Vibe Shift

([61:38]-End)

• Dasha Nekrosova (Red Scare podcast, Succession actress) dropped by agency for platforming Nick Fuentes.
• Emily reflects on the rapid change in cancel culture attitudes—cultural policing persists, especially among Millennials in HR and marketing.

  “The idea of the artist as a moral paragon was ‘a sentimental canard of Victorian moralism.’” (64:00, quoting Camille Paglia)

• As the culture swings away from “woke” messaging, the machinery enabling cancellations isn’t dead—just regrouping for the next round.
• “Being in that post-vibe shift better place… doesn’t mean that millions… haunting the halls of HR and marketing are just going to give up.” (65:00, Emily)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On DC hypocrisy:

  “Moralizing hipsters cloak their burning desires for control over your life in ironic detachment and bemused neutrality, all while behaving privately like people you would let nowhere near your own children if you knew what was actually going on.” (06:00, Emily)

• On the normalization of “weird” art:

  “Why is that like a normal thing that nobody thought was weird in Washington, D.C.?” (30:20, Evita)

• On the enduring Epstein obsession:

  “This is the one thing where we’ve said we want the truth… and they haven’t felt satisfied by that.” (17:50, Evita)

• On FBI credibility:

  “Trust me, bro, we got it handled... is just not going to be enough.” (42:47, Evita)

• On spiritual & mental health crisis:

  “You’ll know them by their fruits... what are we looking at right now? This is the destruction of the soul and of society with the social contagion.” (57:22, Evita)

Important Timestamps

• 00:38-07:56 – Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir, DC media culture skewered
• 08:47-32:19 – Epstein emails, MAGA anti-corruption focus, Summers/Harvard/China scandal, DC deviance
• 32:19-45:53 – Trump shooter Thomas Crooks, FBI stonewalling, Tucker/Devine scoops, conspiracy themes
• 45:53-57:22 – Robinson/Kirk shooting, furry/internet subcultures, ChatGPT, gender confusion & spiritual/mental health
• 57:22-61:27 – Gen Z, remote work, alcohol, right-wing populism, tradition-seeking among youth
• 61:38-End – Cancel culture, Dasha Nekrosova, Millennials in HR/PR, quick shifts in social mores

Overall Tone & Style

Emily Jashinsky’s signature blend of biting wit and cultural critique sets the tone, with both host and guest oscillating between exasperation, incredulity, skepticism of the powerful, and sincere concern for social health. The episode is rapid-fire, dense with allusions, and unapologetically moralistic—yet avoids conspiratorial excess by insisting on documented facts and honest frustrations.

For listeners, this episode delivers a grimly funny, deeply skeptical, and insight-packed tour through the headlines and undercurrents shaping American politics, culture, and elite behavior in 2025.