#311 Ben Owen & Ryan Dalton - Arrested on Epstein's Island

Summary

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The Shawn Ryan Show – Episode #311

Guests: Ben Owen & Ryan Dalton
Title: Arrested on Epstein’s Island
Date: June 8, 2026

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Overview

In a riveting and provocative episode, Shawn Ryan sits down with Ben Owen (CEO of Once American Is Memphis, anti-trafficking nonprofit leader) and Ryan Dalton (human rights lawyer, cofounder of Rescue Forensics and Closed Horizon) to discuss their recent, headline-making incursion and arrest on “Epstein Island” (Little St. James). The conversation spans their motivations for investigating the site, the details of their arrest and detainment, developments in the Epstein case files, the persistence of elite sex trafficking networks, and a larger exploration of systemic corruption, blackmail, government deception, and the struggle to uncover truth in a world rife with misinformation and institutional decay.

The episode blends astonishing first-hand storytelling, in-depth file analysis, and dark humor—delivering both surreal moments and profound existential questions about power, justice, and belief in America.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Genesis of the Epstein Island Operation

• [01:26]–[03:47] Background:

  • After a previous episode with Shawn Ryan, law enforcement professionals connected with Ben Owen and his team. This catalyzed their link up with Ryan Dalton, who runs the website epsteinisntdead.org.
  • The group aimed to visit Epstein Island to plant a symbolic “We Fight Monsters” flag, raise awareness, and investigate possible ongoing networks.

• Motivation:

  • Both Owen and Dalton are not convinced Epstein is dead. Owen:

    “I’m not convinced Epstein’s alive... I am convinced his network is very much alive and operating.” —Ben Owen [03:16]

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2. The Arrest: A First-Hand Account

• [08:07]–[15:47] The Infiltration and Capture:

  • Five men travel by boat from St. Thomas to Little St. James.
  • Three go ashore—Owen, Dalton, and a third—planning to stick to the beach (believed to be public). They’re overwhelmed by the landscape and exertion, drawn by the sight of the infamous ‘temple.’
  • Detained by island security (described as Haitians and a commanding woman later identified as Emory Polion), Dalton is hog-tied, deprived of water, dragged to a windowless “dungeon,” and eventually blindfolded.

  “They told me, you know, we’ll get you some water. And I’m thinking, okay, you know, here comes my misdemeanor charge. It’s everything’s fine.” —Ryan Dalton [15:40]

• [17:40]–[22:09] The Ordeal Intensifies:

  • Water is violently denied by the property manager. Dalton is restrained, flex-cuffed, zip-tied, and thrown in the “dungeon.”
  • The commands over the phone come from “mom”—eventually identified as former Epstein property manager Ann Rodriguez—who refers to the cell as “the dungeon,” orders continued deprivation of water, and alludes to violence and intimidation.

  “Her mom tells her to duct tape me and put me in the dungeon... What an awful choice of words for somebody who works for a billionaire trying to rebrand this island.” —Ryan Dalton [21:01]

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3. Detainment, Rescue, and Legal Fallout

• [24:39]–[39:43] Epic Rescue and Courtroom Drama:

  • Dalton ultimately faces the local police rather than his captors’ worst, escaping what he feared could be a beheading. Local police are more focused on the unlawful restraint and kidnapping than Dalton’s trespass.
  • A surprising revelation: property manager Ann Rodriguez (now identified as key Epstein logistics operator in the files) had committed similar acts—recently kidnapping a Spaniard with a fake gun, forcing him to strip and hogtying him.
  • Dalton posts bond, reflects on the risks, and voices incredulity that no pedophile has ever been arrested for crimes on the island, while he faces criminal and civil charges for trespassing.

  “Nobody’s been arrested for being a pedophile on that island.” —Ryan Dalton [04:06]

  • Bond was $500, ten times the maximum fine for trespassing.
  • Both Dalton and Owen highlight that the locals (the staff, security) treat Ann as “the owner,” maintaining a closed, intimidating environment.

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4. Corruption, Power, and Systemic Decay

• [39:43]–[66:45] Wider Reflections:

  • The episode branches into the persistence of blackmail operations, captured in the Epstein files and court docs; the deep state nature of the shadow system using child sex trafficking as leverage over politicians; and growing public awareness and outrage.
  • Sharp skepticism towards government and media narratives, widespread “two-option” polarization, and the inability of institutions—or the two-party system—to deliver justice or reform.

  “I think we live in an occupied country.” —Ryan Dalton [39:50]
  “Our nation is rotting from the top down.” —Ben Owen [57:22]
  “Everything is faking gay... Everything that’s being pushed down our throats from almost every legacy media outlet.” —Ryan Dalton [55:27]

  • Both men express disenchantment and even existential despair, but the hope persists in the grassroots, in “truth-seekers,” and in the possibility of a new generation rejecting the manufactured divides and narratives.

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5. Epstein Files: Evidence & Theories

• [76:48]–[115:10] The Case for Epstein Still Alive:

  • Dalton and Owen present comprehensive, methodical, open-source, officially-sourced evidence suggesting Epstein could have escaped. Every claim is documented and can be read on epsteinisntdead.org.
  • Key pieces:
    • An Austrian passport with Epstein’s photo but a pseudonym (“Robert Marius”), found in his safe with valid entry/exit stamps, indicative of intelligence ties. [89:49–92:15]

      “Who can issue valid passports under a different name?... This is the first connection where we have evidence of this potentially connecting to an intel agency.” —Ben Owen [91:22]

    • A handwritten escape/evasion plan found in Epstein’s jail cell after his death, referencing “Red Notice,” “blackmail,” “guards,” and maps to airports and destinations like Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. [100:12–115:10]

      “This is the smoking gun for me. This is the single piece of evidence that gives me the confidence to have this conversation with you. Right now.” —Ben Owen [100:18] “He had foreknowledge of the day that he’s getting out. Jail out equals 10. He allegedly died in that cell on August 10, 2019.” —Ben Owen [115:10]

    • A will and trust updated two days before death, shielding $577 million in trusts with opaque beneficiaries—classic pre-extraction/identity change move. [96:52–99:47]
    • Statistical/mathematical modeling by Nick McKinley (Deliver Fund) showing the impossibility of the “official story” (all surveillance and procedural failures happening simultaneously). [117:56–121:31]
    • Discrepancies in autopsy and medical records regarding Epstein’s prostate (e.g., whether he’d had a prostatectomy), raising questions about body identity. [132:33–139:10]
    • Evidence of a body double—FBI deployed a fake gurney to distract media; forensic analysis of postmortem photos shows critical differences in nose and ear structure. [139:10–142:24]
    • A drone video (“Rusty Shackelford” on Rumble) apparently showing someone resembling Epstein on Little St. James post-death, pre-AI era. [147:09–150:39]

  “The option with the fewest problems of the three is that he left that cell alive.” —Ben Owen [150:39]

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6. The Broader Struggle for Truth

• [126:30]–[156:09] “Epistemological Crisis,” Solutions, and the War for Reality:

  • Both Owen and Dalton emphasize America is in an “epistemological crisis” (what is truth?), with every institution and narrative distrusted, every media report potentially a lie or psyop.
  • Their open-source campaign and reward fund (<epsteinisntdead.org> and <closedhorizon.com>) crowdsources both investigation and incentives for “proof of life” or actionable evidence—precedent they hope to spread to other hard truths (JFK, 9/11, etc.).
  • They call for a congressional “Epstein Truth Commission” and, more fundamentally, for a total cleansing of US government institutions and politics.

  “If we give up on a child trafficker... used that as leverage to get a stranglehold on our democracy... If we let this one go, none of it matters anymore.” —Ben Owen [95:42]
  “It's a war of good and evil... The people who grew up like we did are the last line against this.” —Ben Owen [130:25, 132:33]

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7. Memorable Gifts and Closing Reflections

• [158:34]–[160:26]:
  • Ben Owen gifts Shawn Ryan the actual We Fight Monsters flag that went to Epstein Island, his own Closed Horizon flag, and a Roman denarius (coin) of Marcus Aurelius as a symbol of Stoic perseverance and truth-seeking.

  “Be like the promontory upon which the waves continually crash while they’re lulled to sleep at your feet. It’s how a man should be. And you’re one of those men.” —Ben Owen to Shawn Ryan [159:29]

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “I wanted to go down there. I wanted to plant a We Fight Monsters flag... symbolically reclaim that property for good purposes.” —Ryan Dalton [04:22]
• “I was still unable to breathe or really stand. So I’m thinking in my head, like, yup, I’m about to get a misdemeanor charge... The other two guys make their way back to the boat. And, like, they’re helping. They’re being nice... I could tell by the accents, and I could hear them talking to each other. They’re Haitian.” —Ryan Dalton [14:14]
• “Mom tells her to duct tape me and put me in the dungeon... That is a strange thing to say.” —Ryan Dalton [21:01]
• “She was Jeffrey Epstein's property manager... 23,000 results [in the files]. A lot of emails of her handling flights and lodging for females.” —Ryan Dalton [28:06]
• “They’re much more interested in why I’m hog-tied... I hear the Haitians and Ann Rodriguez talking. Reference was made to, ‘This is the seventh time this has happened.’” —Ryan Dalton [38:38]
• “Why am I the only guy that's been arrested for being on that island?” —Ryan Dalton [39:43]
• “I love the America I grew up believing in, and I don’t recognize it anymore.” —Ryan Dalton [41:09]
• “It’s Israel. Our nation has been sold. We are an occupied nation. And I honestly feel like Epstein is tied into that in a million different ways.” —Ryan Dalton [44:58]
• “Everything that is getting pushed down our throats from almost every legacy media outlet. Everything. What you just told me about Mace is a great example. I didn’t see that... That’s in gay.” —Ryan Dalton [55:27]
• “We’ve idolized George Bush. We’ve idolized Obama. We’ve idolized Biden... This veil is being lifted. These are the people that you’ve idolized. This is what they’ve done.” —Sean Ryan [57:06]
• “That same playbook keeps getting used for every major societal issue.” —Ryan Dalton [63:25]
• “We started Closed Horizon out of the belief that America’s in an epistemological crisis. Epistemology being the study of how you know the things that you know. What is truth?... There’s a new psyop every day.” —Ben Owen [126:30]
• “We want proof of life.” —Ben Owen [81:10, repeated]

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Suggested Viewing / Reading

• epsteinisntdead.org – Primary evidence archive and reward fund.
• Drone footage discussed (“Rusty Shackelford’s” video) on Rumble.
• Closed Horizon: Platform for crowd-funded open-source investigations.

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Timestamps – Major Segments

• [01:07–06:40] — Origins and motivations for investigating Epstein Island.
• [08:07–15:47] — Step-by-step account of island incursion and arrest.
• [17:40–26:25] — Hog-tying, deprivation, and the “dungeon.”
• [28:06–38:38] — Who’s who: Ann Rodriguez, Emory Polion, Paul, and the rescue.
• [39:43–66:45] — Institutional corruption, the power structure, and “occupied America.”
• [76:48–115:10] — The files: Evidence for Epstein’s escape, financial and legal analysis.
• [132:33–139:10] — Autopsy, identity, and body double discrepancies.
• [126:30–156:09] — Epistemological crisis, truth-seeking platforms, call to action.

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Conclusion

The Shawn Ryan Show #311 is an electrifying and deeply unsettling exposé—part adventure, part investigative journalism, part philosophical rumination. It shines a light not only on the lingering mysteries and possible cover-ups surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and his network, but also on the systemic rot afflicting modern institutions. As the guests warn again and again, the real stakes extend far beyond Epstein: the battle is over truth and the soul of society.

The episode closes with the guests reaffirming their commitment to pursuing these truths, calling for a new commission and inviting the public to join the investigation. The flags—and the coin—are left with Shawn as tokens to inspire the next wave of truth-seekers.

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For more details, evidence, or to contribute to the ongoing investigation, visit epsteinisntdead.org.

Transcript

[Ben Owen]

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[Ryan Dalton]

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[Ben Owen]

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[Sean Ryan]

Owen. Sean Ryan, welcome back, man.

[Ryan Dalton]

Thanks for having me, dude.

[Sean Ryan]

What's 777?

[Ryan Dalton]

So triple seven is the address of our. What is going to be our treatment center. Triple 7 South Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee. Oh, perfect number, isn't it?

[Sean Ryan]

It is.

[Ryan Dalton]

I just love it.

[Sean Ryan]

That's awesome.

[Ryan Dalton]

A direct result of our last episode, that's all.

[Sean Ryan]

Is that the school?

[Ryan Dalton]

No. So it. It actually was opened up as a brewery right after World War II. And then it's. It was a bunch of recording studios, like some pretty big names have recorded there. I mean, it's in Memphis and the couple that owns it had a son die from a fentanyl overdose. Dear friend of theirs, who happens to be a cop in Memphis, saw our episode, came out, started volunteering. We got to know him really well. He told the couple about us. We got to know them really well, and they're like, hey, we got this bell building that you need. And so now we have it.

[Sean Ryan]

Congratulations.

[Ryan Dalton]

Thank you.

[Sean Ryan]

So, yeah, I haven't heard from you in what, about a year? And then all of a sudden I get a text of you on what looks like a Little John boat that says you got arrested for trespassing on Epstein Island.

[Ryan Dalton]

That's right. What the

[Sean Ryan]

what?

[Ben Owen]

So what?

[Ryan Dalton]

Oh, gracious.

[Sean Ryan]

Give me a brief summary and then I'll intro you.

[Ryan Dalton]

So a brief summary. All right. Well, as brief as I can make it. You have a lot of really cool people that watch your show. And after our episode, a lot of those really cool people, most of them in law enforcement, started reaching out to me. We can get into the details of what all has transpired since then. But one of the results of that episode was that this dude, Ryan Dalton, former State Department Diplomatic Security special agent who is behind the website epsteinisntdead.org was made aware of who we are and what we do. He had this idea to go down to Epstein island to get eyeballs on it again, to raise awareness. And he hit me up. Actually, he hit me up before. He had the idea of Epstein island just wanting to know if we would be willing to help him run the open source intelligence investigations tied to his website. And, you know, for context, I'm not convinced Epstein's alive. I'm definitely convinced he. He didn't leave that jail cell a dead man. I don't know that he's still alive. I am convinced his network is very much alive and operating, though. You know, something that large doesn't just die because they say he died. You know, and one person got arrested. Like, that's. That's not how this works.

[Sean Ryan]

So is it right, that one person got her biggest, biggest sex trafficking elite sex trafficking ring in the world with.

[Ryan Dalton]

With two arrests, one incarceration. Yeah, just Lyn Maxwell. Well, now three. I got arrested. So not for sex trafficking kids.

[Sean Ryan]

Hold on, let me correct.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, this would be clear on that. I got arrested for trespassing on Pedophile island, which is weird because nobody's been arrested for being a pedophile on that island.

[Sean Ryan]

Well, you know, they're all being protected by the President of the United States.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. Or somebody. Somebody or multiple.

[Sean Ryan]

Or somebody that's controlling him.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, there's definitely some weird stuff going on, man. So, yeah, I told Ryan, look, I'm always down for crazy ideas. You know, this about me. I wanted to go down there. I wanted to plant a We Fight Monsters flag on that beach and, you know, kind of symbolically reclaim that property for good purposes. I was under the impression that a billionaire, Stephen Dekhoff, had bought the island that was gonna turn it into a res. Beaches can't be private in the Virgin Islands, so going on that beach was an allowable thing to do. And I thought we would go down there, plant our flags, call it a day. We got a little excited on the way in. We saw his temple, which everybody's seen Epstein's temple on that island. We saw that and kind of forgot that you're not allowed to go beyond the beach.

[Sean Ryan]

Oh, man. All right, we'll get into the rest in a minute. Let me give you an intro just for anybody that didn't see the first episode. Ben Owen, you are the CEO of Once American Is Memphis, a Memphis based AI and Digital forensics company whose intel foundry platform supports law enforcement and federal partners and owns it. Excuse me. OSINT targeting and counter trafficking operations. Alongside your wife Jessica, you co founded We Fight Monsters, a non profit working at the intersection of anti trafficking efforts, community violence intervention, re entry support and survivor housing. Together you've raised biological, foster and adopted children, including your Afghan daughter Erezo, who we spoke about in your last interview. You also lead Owen Army, Flanders Fields and Black Rifle Co and have been involved in disaster response efforts across the country. From the Uvalde shooting, school shooting to the Lahaina I'm butchering that fires to Hurricane Helene and beyond. Most recently, you made headlines after traveling to Little St. James, a part of the Epstein isn't dead campaign to investigate the Epstein criminal network. Just for context here, Little St. James is Epstein Island.

[Ryan Dalton]

That is Epstein Island.

[Sean Ryan]

During your escape from the island, you say you were hog tied, unlawfully restrained, kidnapped and assaulted by Epstein's property manager before later being charged with misdemeanor trespassing. You are currently out on bond. Welcome back to the show. How much was your bond?

[Ryan Dalton]

500 bucks.

[Sean Ryan]

500 bucks.

[Ryan Dalton]

That's it now it's it.

[Ben Owen]

That's it.

[Ryan Dalton]

Which. It's. It's kind of weird.

[Sean Ryan]

That should have called me. I could have posted that one.

[Ryan Dalton]

Oh, I was prepared. I took my money with me.

[Sean Ryan]

It would have been an honor.

[Ryan Dalton]

You gotta think about what we do. I've always got bond money in my backpack. I. I never expected to be for me, old habits. Yeah. Yeah, right. It.

[Ben Owen]

The.

[Ryan Dalton]

My bond was 10 times the maximum fine for trespassing. Like so. They were definitely trying to make an example out of me. I think. Yeah. It's a $50 fine for trespassing. Now they can give you up to 30 days in prison for it. I did not know that. But hopefully that didn't happen. Yeah, I'm out on bond.

[Sean Ryan]

I mean they didn't try to cut you up in pieces and throw you down the trash chute into the ocean or do any ritualist satanic blood rituals or.

[Ryan Dalton]

I was waiting.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ryan Dalton]

Like I didn't expect to get kidnapped. You know, once I realized we had progressed beyond the beach, I knew that trespassing. I was trespassing. I knew I was. And so I expected that. Let's.

[Sean Ryan]

Let's back up.

[Ben Owen]

Right?

[Sean Ryan]

Let's go. Let's. Yeah. Before we get into all these different rabbit holes. So you got approached. Where did you guys. Where did you sail from? Where did you go from this.

[Ryan Dalton]

We met on St. Thomas. We. We got a ferry from St. Thomas over to St. John and chartered a boat.

[Sean Ryan]

Just for context, for anybody that doesn't know where this island is, it's just a little due east of Puerto Rico. Right?

[Ryan Dalton]

Right. Yep. It's closer to Venezuela than it is the mainland.

[Sean Ryan]

United States. Okay.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. Down in the Caribbean. I mean, it's paradise. It's. It's like heaven on earth down there. Just absolutely beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. So we chartered a boat from St. John and, and took that to Little Saints.

[Sean Ryan]

What kind of boat?

[Ryan Dalton]

I don't. I don't even know. Like a fishing boat, you know, Nothing. Nothing fancy.

[Sean Ryan]

How far was the.

[Ryan Dalton]

20 minutes.

[Sean Ryan]

That's it?

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, it's close, dude. It's close. And that's the thing. Like, I. I did not expect that island to be as surrounded by people and other islands as it was. Like, it's. It's not some secretive enclave that you can't see. You know, there's like helicopter tours going on all the time. You know, it's.

[Sean Ryan]

It's.

[Ryan Dalton]

It's right out there in the open.

[Ben Owen]

Wow.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. Did not expect that. So I guess you want me to walk you through that day?

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

How many of you guys were there?

[Ryan Dalton]

So there were five of us in total. Three of us went on the island.

[Sean Ryan]

The other two do.

[Ryan Dalton]

Boat. Took care of the boat.

[Sean Ryan]

Okay.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. Had to have somebody.

[Sean Ryan]

I don't know if you, like, beached it or.

[Ryan Dalton]

No, there's. So that was the thing that was like. Plan was to, you know, beats the boat and, like, run up and. But that were too many rocks.

[Sean Ryan]

I'm a little upset I didn't get an invite.

[Ryan Dalton]

I mean, I'm sorry.

[Sean Ryan]

I'm a frog. Done this a time or two.

[Ryan Dalton]

You know, hindsight's 20 20. Next time it's going to be me. There might be a next time. Not on that island, but. But maybe somewhere else. Right.

[Sean Ryan]

We'll go find another.

[Ryan Dalton]

We'll do it the right way. It'll be me, you, Scott man, Travis Peterson. We'll have the right team together next time. This team. This time it was like the. The Memphis A Team. Right. Couldn't get the boat up to the beach because of the rocks, so we realized we're going to have to swim, which we knew was a possibility. I'm not a great swimmer. I'm not going to drown, but I'm also not a great swimmer, so we had to swim. I don't know, I was like 50, 100 yards. And our plan was still to plant the flag. So I'm swimming with this 20 foot collapsible flagpole and boots. And I'm already not a great swimmer. So by the time I get to where I can even stand up, I'm done. Like, it's over with. And like, I've still got 20 yards from where I was able to stand up to walk across this rocky reef to shore. And like, I'm just. My legs are not working. They're rubber at this point. Definitely need to do more cardio. I hate cardio. But the need was made very apparent. If I'm going to go out there and do hood rat shit, I need to be a little bit better shape on the cardio side. So we finally get to the beach and like I can barely stand up. We got a 400 yard near vertical climb to get to this temple. Right. For people unaware of Epstein's temple, just Google it. Like it's this little cube up on a cliff. And while Epstein had it, it was like painted to look like a Muslim temple. It's like, you know, blue and there's gold. It's got stripes. It looks like. Yeah, yeah, it looks like something you would see.

[Sean Ryan]

Israel colors.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, yes, yes. That's actually a very good point. And currently it's, you know, it's all painted gray and boarded up. And I want to be very explicit about this. We had no intentions of trying to go inside the temple. Like, we were not there to enter any dwellings or like we just wanted to get pictures with our flags in front of the temple and stick a 20 foot flagpole on the ground, which we never ended up doing because we got caught.

[Sean Ryan]

Did you see any activity on the. On the way up?

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, yeah, you could see them running around and we thought they were golf carts. They were ATVs. So you definitely see people on the island. And at this point, I'm assuming, you know, it's like crowns keepers. This deck off billionaire guy has turned it into a resort. So those must be his employees. Later find out that wasn't the case. So we made it to the temple. We got our pictures, you know, with our flags up there. Oh, Sean, I brought you the flag.

[Sean Ryan]

Get the out of here.

[Ryan Dalton]

I brought you the flag. Yeah, I actually had a bit of

[Sean Ryan]

the flag you brought.

[Ryan Dalton]

This is the flag that went to Epstein island and was in front of his temple. And. And Laura's got the pictures, so I don't know. Holy. Yeah, dude. Yeah, I bet that's for you. I accidentally left it in Georgia. Oh, you know what, I need to get a picture you holding that I accidentally left it in Georgia. And so my business partner had to go to my house yesterday and overnight that to yalls P.O. box at the UPS store. Thank God it made it. That was a panic attack. So we get up there, you know, we take our pictures of the flags, and, like, you can see the ATVs coming, and they're coming deep. There's, like, four of them. And, like, you can just tell by the way they're driving, they're pissed. And so I. I was still unable to breathe or really stand. So I'm thinking in my head, like, yep, I'm about to get a misdemeanor charge. You know, how long did it take

[Sean Ryan]

you to get up there?

[Ryan Dalton]

15 minutes, maybe. Maybe 10. I don't know. And, you know, the two guys that were on the island with me,

[Sean Ryan]

they

[Ryan Dalton]

don't have criminal backgrounds. They're former feds, you know, and so if anybody's taking a charge today, it's gonna be me. I don't know how many misdemeanor convictions I have, but adding one more to the mix isn't the end of the world for me. So they were able to get back to the boat. I was definitely not. I ended up collapsing, like, on this hillside full of cactuses, bro. I was pulling cactus thorns out of my leg for two weeks. It was so bad.

[Ben Owen]

So sorry.

[Ryan Dalton]

I sit down. I mean, I didn't have any choice. Like, I physically could not continue. So I sit down, and basically, I'm the bait. At this point, all of the security guys are coming to me while the other two guys make their way back to the boat. And, like, they're. They're helping. They're being nice. I could tell by the accents, and I could hear them talking to each other. They're Haitian, you know, I heard them speaking Creole. We worked Haitian refugee stuff a few years back, so I don't speak Creole, but I definitely recognize it. And so when I realized they were Haitian, I was like, I could probably, you know, make buddies with them, just tell them some stories about the work we did in the refugee camps and stuff. But I couldn't breathe enough to talk at this point other than asking for water. So I hadn't started that process of trying to make friends out of them, but that's where my head was. So they finally get me up, and after multiple times have fallen back into cactuses trying to get up this hill, I finally made it to the trail up top. They told me, you know, we'll get you some water. And I'm thinking, okay, you know, here comes my misdemeanor charge. It's everything's fine.

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[Ryan Dalton]

When we get to the the pathway, another ATV pulls up and it's this black female driving it and there's water. And I'm like, thank God, dude, because I thought I was about to die. And so I grab water. She knocks it out of my hand. I mean like violently knocks it out of my hand. And then she grabs the rest of the waters in the ATV and throws him down the hill. And I was like, I might have a problem. Now it became quickly apparent that that she's calling the shots and everything those guys had just told me is. So I go to sit down in her atv, which she told me to sit down and then she tells the Haitian dude behind me to tie me up. I'm like, well, this is odd. That's not normally what happens when you're, you know, trespassing and they have guns. No, they didn't have guns. But, like, I was so gassed, there was no resisting even if I wanted to, man. And plus, there's, you know, six, seven of them, one of me. So even if I had energy to resist or flee, I don't think I'd have done it at this point. I also had no idea what was about to happen. You know, if I had known what was coming, I would have found the energy to somehow resist or run. So the Haitian that tied me up was the one I had started trying to make buddies with. He's sitting behind me, and he's, you know, through the little gap in the seat just puts a rope kind of loosely around my hands. And so I'm like, thinking, you know, it's sitting. The end of the world. It's no big deal. Whatever. I'm going to, you know, wait on the police to come, and. No big deal. And so she drives us down to the dock, and I know now who she is. Her name's Emory Polion. And I'll explain more about who she is here in a bit. The drive is down to the dock. Once I'm at the dock, this Hispanic dude comes up and tightens the ropes on my wrist behind me, and then they tie me to a pole on the dock, and then he ties my feet, and I'm like, this is getting weirder and weirder, right? But in my mind, I'm sitting on this dock waiting on the police because the police have to come to the dock to get me, right? And I'm expecting, you know, police to come give me a misdemeanor citation. I'm trying to figure out, like, well, how am I going to get it back to St. John? I don't have a phone. I've got nothing. I have absolutely nothing on me.

[Sean Ryan]

I'm.

[Ryan Dalton]

I've got boots and my We Fight Monsters bathing suit. I didn't have a shirt, and it was hot. Like, I was. I was roasting. Emory gets a phone call about this time. I've probably been. Who Emory? The black female that was driving the atv. So I've probably been tied up for about an hour, maybe 30 minutes at this point. I don't know. Time was elusive. I was definitely, you know, heat exhaustion was setting in. I was dehydrated as hell. I inhaled a bunch of seawater on the way up. And then obviously, that huge physical exertion Trying to get up there and then get away. She gets a phone call and she answers on speaker and calls the woman on the other end, mom. And I'm like, that is very strange. What is going on? And mom tells her to duct tape me and put me in the dungeon. And I'm thinking in my head that what an awful choice of words for somebody who works for a billionaire trying to rebrand this island from what it used to be. Why would you call it the dungeon? That is a strange thing to say.

[Sean Ryan]

And wow, that's strange.

[Ryan Dalton]

Her mom. Right, her mom. And I'm thinking in my head like, this lady's just trying to scare me. And, you know, they're. They're taking pictures of me the whole time. And I was not about to let them know I was freaked out. So I would smile at them, like. And I'm trying to irritate them a little bit, but also let them know, like, I'm. I'm good. You might remember from the last time we talked that this was not the first time I've been kidnapped. And so I'm trying to stay as calm as I possibly can, or actually was pretty damn calm at this point, you know, no big deal. I'm getting a misdemeanor citation. I just gotta sit through this bullshit while these people harass me until the police get there.

[Sean Ryan]

So what can you see your. Your buddies?

[Ryan Dalton]

No, they were long gone. They were longer. They had to be okay because of their backgrounds and the lines of work they're in today. A trespassing charge is going to harm their livelihood, I would suspect. You know, my background. You think I care about another misdemeanor? I really, you know, thank God I'm not a felon. And I knew I wasn't facing any felony here, but a misdemeanor, who cares, man? That's what I'm thinking at the time. I didn't realize in that moment that the Virgin Islands can actually give you 30 days in prison for misdemeanor trespassing. I thought it was the citation. I was wrong. So hindsight being 20 20, I probably should have researched that a little bit more. So they. She gets off the phone with mom and the Haitians and Hispanic dude go to look for duct tape, which they can't find, but they did find flex cuffs. It's like the third red flag. Why the do you have flex cuffs on Epstein Island? So they put me, you know, the zip tie me. I've got flex cuffs, half inch zip ties, and rope at this point. And they Tell me to go to the ATV. Well, this dock's like, I don't know, 50 yards long. And I'm hobbled. And they make me start hopping down this dock to the very last ATV in line to transport me somewhere else. You remember monkey that used to have to mpt?

[Ben Owen]

No, sir.

[Ryan Dalton]

Maybe let me demonstrate the monkey hold your ankle like this. Oh, that's basically what I'm doing. For 50 yards down the stock. I've got like, I don't know, a foot between me and this row of ATVs of dock to hop on and the ocean on the other side of me. And I'm positive I'm gonna fall in. And she start. Emory starts joking. You know, maybe they should just kick me in since I'm so thirsty. And I'm like these about try to make me drown. So I'm still hardly able to breathe. Like terribly dehydrated. Like all I can think about is wanting water. And I'm having to do monkey down this whole ass dock to get to their ATV so they can take me to wherever they're going to take me. To the dungeon is what they called it. And again, I'm still thinking they're just trying to scare me. Well, we get to the dungeon and I quickly realized, like they weren't trying to scare me. They legit have a dungeon. I think we gave Laura a sky view satellite view from Google Earth of this thing. It's like this door in the middle of a hillside. The roof is grass, you know, and inside it's like this 10 by 20 dungeon. Like there's nothing. It's just a cement room. The optics, I'm thinking at this point, in that room, right? Yeah, but see, I had no idea at this point who these people were. So none of this is clicking in my head really. Like, I know I'm on Epstein Island, I know the history, but I wasn't nearly as freaked out as I should have been, right? They throw me in this room, it's like 120 degrees in there. And they come add duct tape now to my ankles, my knees. Mom calls again. And they keep answering this on speakerphone. Just I'm positive they're trying to like psyop me and terrify me even more. And she tells them to make sure I'm in the corner of that room so that the breeze from the doorway cannot reach me. And I'm dreading that happening because the breeze felt like the only thing that was keeping me conscious. She tells them to continue denying me water. I hear her Say, over the phone. If it was up to me, I would just shoot every one of these. The Haitians keep referring to the woman on the other end of the phone as the owner. The owner. The owner. Emery leaves. I'm trying to talk to the Haitians like, please get me some water. Please give me some water. And they're like, look, if you think this one's bad, just wait till the owner gets here. So repeated references made to the owner. So I'm. I'm still thinking like, the owner is Steve Dekoff, and maybe they're talking about

[Ben Owen]

his wife or something.

[Ryan Dalton]

I don't know how many hours have passed at this point, but it was a bunch. Finally, the owner shows up, who I later figured out was mom, who was on the phone with Emory every time she comes. Like, Emory had come back and given me water. I had been trying to work my magic on human connection with her and the Haitians this whole time. And I think it finally started paying off a little bit because she did come back with ice cold water. And, you know, she poured it in my mouth for me. And it was like a different Persona than the Emory that had me down there, you know, near the beach. Like, you could tell she was angry, as in the beginning. So mom gets there now I know who mom is today. I did not at that moment. Her name is Ann Rodriguez and she is Emory Polon's mother. She gets there furious, just. And I don't understand why she's so mad. Like, all I. I was just going to take a picture and leave the island. We weren't even trying to interact with people. They were hundreds of yards away until they saw us and came to us. Like, I know I was trespassing. I'm aware of that. But the level of vitriol coming from this woman towards me made zero sense to me at the time.

[Sean Ryan]

Is she the legit owner?

[Ryan Dalton]

I don't know. I don't know. We. We'll get there. Well, no, let's get there now. I'll tell you who she is. She was Jeffrey Epstein's property manager. In other words, how do you know that? The files. The Epstein files.

[Ben Owen]

Oh.

[Ryan Dalton]

If you search her name in there, it returns 23,000 results and.

[Sean Ryan]

23,000.

[Ryan Dalton]

3,000 results. You know, a lot of emails with her calling Jeffrey Bossman, emails of her handling flights and lodging for females. Like she was managing logistics and maintenance, security.

[Sean Ryan]

To say that the whole thing. And she's just running around out there, right?

[Ryan Dalton]

To say it a different way.

[Sean Ryan]

Not detained. What?

[Ryan Dalton]

Nothing. And apparently kidnapping People. So the Haitians, she blindfolds me. And at this point, I do get. I start getting a little scared. You know, I may have watched an ISIS beheading video or two too many. Because when the blindfold went on, I was like, I'm about to get executed, you know? And more time passes. At this point, panic sets in because I, like, I'm convinced they're going to kill me. I still don't know what I just told you. I don't know that she's Epstein's property manager. I don't know that. Emery Polion. I don't know any of that at this point. I just know I'm tied up in a room that this lady calls the dungeon. Side note, the woman that ran the island for Jeffrey Epstein called that the dungeon. That. That's scary. That's scary. So I don't know how much time has passed. Several hours I've been in this dungeon. I hear the door open. I hear a camera start clicking. And now I'm convinced. Here comes the beheading. You know, they're gonna record it in 4K. And hand goes in the back of my head, rips my blindfold off. And I'm like, yep, here it comes. They're gonna take blindfold off and just cut off my head, you know? And instead of that happening, I'm looking at a Virgin Islands Police Department detective with an evidence camera. And I just got the biggest shit ending grin on my face. I was like, I am so glad to see you. Like, knowing I'm probably about to get arrested. But, God, I was glad, because whatever has been happening is finally over. So I thought, I hear a lot of commotion outside the dungeon. The cop of the evidence camera has stepped out, asking somebody, can they come cut me loose? And this dude charges into the dungeon. Young black male, and just runs up to me and smacks me on the side of my head. Closed fist. I'm lost. The police are here. This dude's hitting. Like, what is going on? So I got all these thoughts going through my head, like, oh, my God, are the cops in on it? Like, what is actually going on right now? Instead, the cops grabbed him, dragged him out. All right, I hear Emory screaming outside. It wasn't him. It wasn't him. I thought, she's talking about the dude that just hit me. She's actually talking about me. Because what I forgot was that I heard her screaming over the radio earlier that somebody had pushed her down on the beach. Now, I didn't see that because I was detained by The Haitians. And we've actually got the receipts. I don't. I don't think anybody pushed her down. But Paul, who's apparently her boyfriend, thought I was the one who pushed her. She's pregnant. I'd have hit me too. Like, I'd have hit me in front of the cops even, you know. So when they finally cut me loose, I go out there, I see pollen, handcuffs on the back, one of these ATVs, and I straight up tell the cops, like, if that kid's in handcuffs right now because of what just happened to me, please take them out. Like, I don't want to press charges. I'm good, you know, I'm fine. Everything's cool. If he thought I pushed his pregnant girlfriend down while trespassing on her island, I'd have. Whatever, I'd have beat the hell out of me, you know? So I'm trying to get him out of trouble. And that's when it dawned on me that the cops are a lot more concerned about this than I was. They told me, we're not taking anybody out of handcuffs until we figure out who hogtied you. And then the gravity of what is going on starts setting in. There's 15 or 20 cops out here, and they're much more interested in why I'm hogtied than they are in the fact I was trespassing. I hear the Haitians and Ann Rodriguez talking. Reference was made to, you know, this is the seventh time this has happened. And I'm like, what the. This is the seventh time. Like, what's actually going on here? So the cops takes down their fast boats. They've got two of them there. I'm still not in handcuffs, Paul. Still is. And they take us all back to St. Thomas. They let us get out of the boats. And one of the detectives that had been asking me all these questions, I didn't want to give a statement. I just wanted it to be over with, you know, And I didn't think I was getting arrested. I was just gonna let bygones be bygones, like, you know, whatever. You hogtied me, you kidnapped me. But I trespassed. We'll call it even, that kind of thing. I don't stress too much about things. Well, one of the detectives comes over and tells me that. That Ann is insisting on doing a citizen's arrest. Like, what does that mean? Like, technically for a citizen's arrest, she needed to tell me she's placing me under citizens arrest back on the island. Like, this is, like, way too late. At this point. But the cops are kind of. Their hands. They feel like their hands are tied. They're gonna have to go ahead and charge me. So they take me back to the station. And, you know, I'm expecting that because the Citizens Rest wasn't done the correct and legal way, that they'll probably end up just cutting me loose. When we got Back to the GBI, the General Gib, General Investigations Bureau on St. Thomas, and I realized, like, they're not letting it go. I am going to have to go to jail. I was like, well, in that case, I will give a statement. I'll tell you everything, you know. So they, you know, got a recorded video statement from me, and I told them basically everything I just told you, only probably better because it was much fresher on my mind, Right? And after that, they're like, well, do you have anybody you can call who can come post your bond? I was like, yeah, I was actually, you know, I was prepared for this. I had bond money in the boat. Let me call Ryan. And so I called Ryan and he comes down there, and when he gets there, he. I had completely forgotten about this. They want him to give a statement, and he drops the bomb on him. Oh, by the way, I'm a lawyer. And so I was like, oh, yeah, he's a lawyer. So the cops go ahead and let him know because they're assuming he's my lawyer. He's not. I don't. I don't even think he's licensed to practice. He's just been a law school and passed more or whatever. They tell him that they're going to charge the people on the island with kidnapping. I can't remember if it was false imprisonment or unlawful detention, something along those lines, and assault for what happened to me. Now, those charges haven't dropped yet. I'm assuming they have to go to a grand jury for that to happen. They. They've. Oh, Paul, the kid that hit me walks past, you know, and apologizes to me. And I'm still trying to get him out of trouble. Like, I don't feel like he should have been mixed, if I'm being honest, the way he acted, the way the Haitians acted, like I think they're all scared of and too. I really do. They booked me into jail. Cops, cool as crap the whole time. I love Virgin Islands Police Department. Like, I didn't have a shirt on. The SVU sergeant gave me her. Her Punisher T shirt. Like everybody was being cool as crap. They booked me into jail with my cell phone like to book me right back out, you know, post bond. And I ran into Paul Interlease. We fist bumped, like, everything seems cool, you know. And we get back to the Airbnb. I recorded a video while it was all fresh in my mind, which I. Lars got that. And they tell me I gotta be in court Monday, which was a little stressful because my flight home was Monday. And at this point, I wanted nothing more than to just go back home, man. So Monday rolls around and we go to court, me and Ryan. He's not been arrested, so he's just there with me and we're. We go in for my.

[Sean Ryan]

They.

[Ryan Dalton]

They do it a little different down there. Like in Memphis, if you get arrested, your first court hearings, your arraignment right down there, they do a probable cause hearing first. So it's my probable cause hearing, and I get to hear the probable cause statement that the police had put together read out loud in court. And that's when I first learned Paul's name, Emory's name, Anne's name. But it's also where I learned that VIPD responded to that island not for trespassing. Somebody called them and reported a kidnapping me. So I don't know who did that. We've. We've asked for the 911 calls, but my gut tells me it was one of those Haitians dude. I think somebody on that island was scared of what was about to happen because nobody on my boat had a clue I'd been kidnapped at all. They were clueless. They thought I was being detained for trespassing. We decided to stick around in court because we heard Ann Rodriguez's name and my probable cause statement, and we noticed Ann Rodriguez has court this morning and she's in custody. That's strange, because I know she hasn't been indicted on kidnapping me yet. What's going on? So we sit through that appearance, too, and as it turns out, a month prior, or maybe a little more than a month, I think it was like, on March 1st, she kidnapped a Spaniard at gunpoint. What, for running a drone on the island? Yeah. And made him strip butt ass naked. Hogtied him, too. The Spaniard's brother was able to escape on boat. Got the police. The police came back and found the dude hogtied butt naked in a boat. And so that's what she was in custody for, was kidnapping this dude at gunpoint. Now, it turned out to be a fake gun, but that doesn't matter. You can't use a BB gun to kidnap something. So there's obviously a pattern of this. And so now the pieces start kind of coming together. You know, I heard the Haitians say this has happened seven times. Well, now I know of two times. Spaniard and me. What happened to the other five guys? Or were they just, you know, running their mouth? Maybe it didn't happen seven times. Maybe it's only happened twice. But clearly there's a pattern of this behavior. You know, hindsight, I don't know that she intended for me to leave that island. Like, I don't know what the actual plan was, but the fact that the woman who ran that island for Jeffrey Epstein is not only running it today, she lives on it in this gigantic mansion, I assume, because that's the only residence I'm aware of on the island. The guys on the island that work there refer to her as the owner. She's kidnapping people and throwing them in a room she calls the dungeon. Like, what the fuck is going on? And why, with the release of all these files and all the public outcry of Rep stain, why am I the only guy that's been arrested for being on that island?

[Sean Ryan]

You know, why do I. Yeah,

[Ryan Dalton]

it's fucked up, Sean. I. I more and more feel like we live in an occupied country. What just happened with Massie is kind of a scary example of that. I mean, Joe Kent's resignation.

[Sean Ryan]

Apex literally bragging about buying that election 100%. We're an occupied country.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

There's no other way to look at it.

[Ryan Dalton]

There's no other way to look at it. And. And that begs the question.

[Sean Ryan]

Like, our president is saying he has a 99 approval rating in Israel. What's he got? Like, I think it's down to, like, 30 or something. I mean, I gotta check. But we check it on the break.

[Ryan Dalton]

It scares the hell out of me. You know, it scares the hell out of me. Oh, then they.

[Sean Ryan]

What scares you about it?

[Ryan Dalton]

What scares me about it? I have nine kids that have to grow up in this nation. I have helped. I don't even know how many people at this point escape a life of addiction so that they're able to become functional members of society again. And what is. What is the society that they're coming back into? It scares me. I'm a grandparent.

[Sean Ryan]

Scares me, too.

[Ryan Dalton]

I love the America I grew up believing in, and I don't recognize it anymore.

[Sean Ryan]

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[Ryan Dalton]

At this point, I don't even know. And it honestly hurts me to say that. It hurts to think about it. You know, I have believed in American exceptionalism my entire life, and more and more I've started realizing that. But I don't think either political party believes in that. I think they view. Yeah, I think they view. I think they view America as a means to an end. Personal gain, both of them. You know, if you watch me ever on social media, I loathe politics. I believe in maximum rights for maximum people all the time, which I believe would just make me a libertarian. But, like, I'm out there, you know, trying to save lives in some of the most impoverished communities in America. I'm trying to move the needle for marginalized communities. I've fought genocide overseas. You know, it's. We've done all these things in suffering. And what I'm seeing is that our own government seems to be fomenting suffering right here at home. Well, and abroad, obviously. But I'm just lost, man. I'm lost. And the more I do these weird things that I keep getting myself pulled into, the more I start seeing that something's fucked up. There's something that's not making sense. There's a boogeyman out there somewhere, and I can't figure out who it is or where it is.

[Sean Ryan]

I know the feeling.

[Ryan Dalton]

You know, the first time I came on here, I thought the State Department was the boogeyman because they were in our way on everything in Afghanistan. And then I started Thinking maybe the FBI is the boogeyman, because this and that. And they're getting in the way on everything we're trying to do. Combating human. You know, and now you. That was then.

[Sean Ryan]

They're all just extensions.

[Ryan Dalton]

100. Well, I just went to Epstein island trying to bring light to that with a dude from the State Department and a couple people from the FBI. Like, they're. They're not the boogeyman either. Something is. There's something pulling the strings, and I think we both know what it is.

[Sean Ryan]

And Israel. Yeah.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. This Israel. I'm not.

[Sean Ryan]

I don't even fucking care anymore, dude.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

I don't believe in. Right.

[Ryan Dalton]

You've got security. I don't.

[Sean Ryan]

Right, I know, but I mean, if somebody wants you dead.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, you know what? You're. Exactly. Doesn't matter how much security you got. It's Israel. It's Israel. Our nation has been sold. We are an occupied nation. And I honestly feel like Epstein is tied into that in a million different ways. And, you know, I don't know what I've stepped in. I don't. I'm. I'm a little bit scared. I don't regret it. I've. I've. I've gone up against our government before. In the Afghan evac, you know, I've been in front of Congress and, like, straight up told them, you guys fucked up. You got a crackhead responsible for safe housing, America's first interpreter in a global war on terror. If that doesn't show you that you fucked up and screwed up your job, I don't know what does. I've got no problem going up against our own government, but I don't know what I'm going up against this time. I really don't. I don't know if there's a billionaire on the other side of this. They've sued me now.

[Sean Ryan]

Sued you?

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, they sued me civilly. The entity that owns the island, lsjvi, llc. And if that is actually owned by a billionaire, that's a terrifying thing, that I'm being sued by a billionaire. The way the lawsuit reads, though, makes me wonder, is there actually a billionaire involved in this at all, or is this all in Rodriguez? They accused me. 30 seconds of googling me or just asking. Their favorite AI could have prevented the absurdity that is their affidavit against me. They called me a very violent man. There's not one shred of evidence to back that up. In fact, I've got a global track record, a very public global track record of Combating violence and. And genocide and human rights abuses. And they said that my lengthy drug use, which, I mean, that's accurate, I've been very open about that means that I'm basically insane and subject to conspiracy theories. Bro, I'm not into conspiracy theories. Not even a little bit. The lawsuit they filed against me was basically slanderous, inflammatory, you know, but it still scares me, like, is there a billionaire behind this? Is Israel behind this? What am I actually getting myself into at this point? And I'm not afraid of taking on big issues. You know, your team saw that in Memphis. I will step in the middle of the biggest pile of shit on earth if I think I can make a difference. And so far, I've not found anything where I can't make a difference. And I think that's something intrinsic to all of us. We can all make differences in really big things. But whatever I'm in the middle of now, am I actually gonna be able to make a difference? And. And what is the risk level? I have just exposed myself to trying to do that. I saw an article today before we came here. I think it was the New York Post. A lady in. Somewhere in the Southwest, a journalist, ran a piece about Epstein's CIA ties. She just announced that she's leaving the country because she's been subject to DW attacks. Now, is she crazy, or is that real? I mean, it seemed like a credible outlet run the story, but, I mean, that terrifies the shit out of me. She's talking about Epstein, and this is happening. There's this other lady on TikTok who covered my arrest, who said she's been having people, like, show up at her house at weird hours, kicking the door. And I've not had anything weird like that happen yet. But is it coming? What have I opened my kids up to at this point, by doing. And all I was trying to do is shed light on that damn island. And we have uncovered a hell of a lot more than we ever intended to ever.

[Sean Ryan]

You can't get to the bottom of the entity that.

[Ryan Dalton]

Who owns it, So I have not been able to. It is a Delaware llc. Public articles, you know, say that Stephen Deckhoff bought both Islands, Greater St. James and Little St. James, in one transaction, pulling the property tax records. And we've done all this since my arrest, pulling property tax records. You can see that Black diamond llc, which is definitely Dechoff, that's known, is paying the property taxes on Great St. James. There's this other entity that is paying the property to LSJVI. Little St. James Virgin Islands LLC that is paying the taxes in Little St. James. Why, if you own both of them, why not have your entity pay the taxes on both of them? Why not have your entity on both of them? Why have this mysterious shell company on this other one when you publicly said you bought it? Now, I'm not saying that that in and of itself is anything nefarious. There could be a million financial. Maybe that's why he's a billionaire and I'm not. You know, he knows what to do with money. But it begs the question, like, what is actually going on? What is actually going on here? Because I don't see that island getting turned into a resort. And look, I'll tell you this. If. If I'm a billionaire and I buy the world's most notorious island for pedophiles and I want to rebrand it and. And change the public perception of it, the very first thing I'm going to do is fire every motherfucker that worked for the last guy who was trafficking kids to that island. I'm not keeping his property manager. And if she kidnapped a guy March 1, I'm not leaving her on the island until April 25 to do it again. These are all giant red flags that, that to me makes it seem like there's not actually a billionaire in the picture. You don't get to become a billionaire by being, you know, reckless. And those seem like some pretty reckless, like really disastrous PR moves right there if. If they're true. Wow.

[Sean Ryan]

What are you thinking?

[Ryan Dalton]

I mean, honestly, and I hate to say this because of how. How hard I have fought to change the things that bother me. I. I think our nation's. I. The Massey election, you know, shocked me. Shocked me. Did not expect that. We've. We've got good people in Congress, you know, Ro. Connit. You've. You've sat down row.

[Sean Ryan]

You.

[Ryan Dalton]

We've got Nancy Mace Massey. There are good people trying. Not Massey anymore.

[Sean Ryan]

I don't know, man. I don't know.

[Ryan Dalton]

You don't think any of them are good?

[Sean Ryan]

See, I think

[Ryan Dalton]

here's the difference between me.

[Sean Ryan]

Every time I think somebody's good,

[Ryan Dalton]

right? And that's. That is my perpetual problem.

[Sean Ryan]

Just the other day saw something else. I.

[Ryan Dalton]

It's just my default.

[Sean Ryan]

I don't even like bringing anybody on anymore because I get it. I mean that's, you know. Yes. Do I think there are people good in there? Probably.

[Ryan Dalton]

You know what. But now it. Let's actually like.

[Sean Ryan]

Like Roe. I like Massey.

[Ryan Dalton]

I like.

[Sean Ryan]

I just I don't. I don't know, man. I mean, because every time I vouch for somebody, I interview somebody, I don't really vouch.

[Ryan Dalton]

I was about to say interviewing is not the same as voucher.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah. I don't, I don't really vouch for anybody, but every time I interview.

[Ryan Dalton]

Not every believe in. Every time you believe it.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah, every time I get. I believe it's whatever. I just always wind up. It was just all lies. It was all, yep, they're all beating the same drum and that's it right there. And like, you just rattled one of those people off. I just saw one of those people that you rattled off do a tweet. We're not sending our money anymore to Somalia. We're not going to send it to Russia. We're not going to send it to China.

[Ryan Dalton]

We are.

[Sean Ryan]

We're not going to send it. Yeah. And.

[Ryan Dalton]

Damn it.

[Sean Ryan]

And, And I looked under there. Do you know Nick Fuentes?

[Ryan Dalton]

Oh, yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Nick Fuentes leaves a comment under there, he goes. I think you may have forgotten one. Like, oh, yeah, yeah, like, oh, it was Nancy. It's like, it's like, oh, okay, you forgot the one country that everybody, all of your fucking constituents are bitching about, but you want to look. You want to look like a fucking courageous hard ass. Right? You know what I mean? And then, and then it's. It's theatrics.

[Ryan Dalton]

I spent the bulk of my life an idealist, and I still am. And I trust everybody. My default is just. I just love everybody. I love people, you know, and that gets me burned in my line of work all the fucking time, you know? But having to face the realization that I've been an idealist and just blindly trusting my own government for my entire life. That one, that one made me sit down for a minute. I'll give you an example of just how brainwashed. It's not even brainwashed. I just accepted what got put in front of me for so long. I was all for Israel. And then, you know, we did the Afghan evacs, we did some conflict evac in Ukraine and some other places. So after October 7th, we did some evacs in Israel and we tried to do them in Gaza, which we did a lot of humanitarian aid and all these other places I just named too. And so we tried to do that in Gaza because there's kids starving. And in that process, I think me and a lot of the same people that worked the Afghan evac, we were trying to do this one, and we were all believing Israel's Good guys. And how horrible this attack that just happened, which it was horrible. We're a week, two weeks maybe into this, and that meme of the dude saying, are we the baddies? Starts going around all these signal chats because we're all. It's dawning on every one of us in real time, Israel is not who we thought they were. Israel is not who we thought they were. We're seeing in real time evacuation corridors to prevent death and suffering get shut down. We're seeing aid centers get hit. You've seen it in Lebanon right now. We were seeing it in Syria. Hell, Israel put the Al Qaeda leader in power in Syria. Like, what is it?

[Sean Ryan]

And then we invited him.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yes.

[Sean Ryan]

And then the White House.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yes. And who was it that took a selfie with him?

[Sean Ryan]

I don't know. Probably Trump.

[Ryan Dalton]

Well, I'm sure.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ryan Dalton]

You know what? I'm gonna catch a lot of flack for saying this, and I don't mean it the way it sounds, but actually I do. Everything is faking gay. All of it. Everything that is getting pushed down our throats from almost every legacy media outlet. Everything. What you just told me about Mace is a great example. I didn't see that. And it did honestly joke. It's all like. That's in gay.

[Sean Ryan]

Well, you know what? Are you a Christian?

[Ryan Dalton]

Absolutely.

[Sean Ryan]

Okay. That's what I think's happening. I think it's the same government that. You know what I mean? The same fucking government that happened when. 9, 11, happened when we were growing up and all this shit. And now there's a veil being lifted. All these. I mean, nobody's. Look, how many. How much. How much shit has the Clintons and the Trumps talked about each other? How much shit have we heard from Donald Trump saying, I'm going to fucking drain the DC Swamp? Oh, yeah, bro, The DC Swamp just got handed to you on a silver platter. There are a bunch of pedophiles. Yeah, it's in the pizza gate. It's in the Epstein. It's in everything. There you go. There you go. Now you can drain the swamp. Is he gonna drain.

[Ryan Dalton]

Nothing's happened.

[Sean Ryan]

No, he's not, because he is the swamp. He's in there with all the rest of them. They're all buddies. And this veil's getting lifted. And, you know, we've. I mean, what. What does Christianity say? Don't idolize. Idolize it.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. Period.

[Sean Ryan]

Well. And that is. We've idolized George Bush. We've idolized Obama. We've idolized Biden.

[Ryan Dalton]

We've idolized politician worship.

[Sean Ryan]

Idolized all these fucking people.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

You know what I mean? And now this veil is being lifted. These are the people that you've idolized. This is what they've done.

[Ryan Dalton]

Right.

[Sean Ryan]

This is how they live. They live by a different set of rules.

[Ryan Dalton]

And I.

[Sean Ryan]

That's what's happening. It's all being unveiled. And we're seeing. This is why you don't idolize fucking human beings.

[Ryan Dalton]

Bingo. Bingo. And you're seeing it happen not just with politicians. You know, it's the athletes. Watching grown men almost fetishize a politician is most bizarre thing in the world to me. It's even weird than idolizing athletes. And. And more and more I am seeing that veil being lifted. I think it's why a lot of my content is going viral lately. You know, everybody is starting to realize that there is a war going on and it is us versus them, but it's not the us versus them everybody thought it was. You know, this is. Our nation is rotting from the top down.

[Sean Ryan]

And I think Xi just said we're a fucking declining nation. Trump agreed with him.

[Ryan Dalton]

Right.

[Sean Ryan]

Because we are. We are.

[Ryan Dalton]

We absolutely are. And I think it's going to continue declining as long as we look at this as though one side or the other is going to fix it. Like I'm watching perfectly rational human beings trash brilliant solutions because it came from the wrong team. That's.

[Sean Ryan]

I really do think it's on purpose.

[Ryan Dalton]

It's gotta be.

[Sean Ryan]

I think the abortion stuff, I think the race stuff, I think second amendment stuff. This is that we're gonna battle back and forth until the end of time.

[Ryan Dalton]

It is because we're being pushed. It.

[Sean Ryan]

Because this false. It keeps us in the loop.

[Ryan Dalton]

It. We're being pushed how everything has to be just two choices, black and white. You know, either you're pro abortion and you want to murder babies or you're anti abortion and you want, you know, women to die in childbirth. Those aren't the only two options. We can accept that abortion is tragic and should be limited, but is sometimes necessary.

[Ben Owen]

It's.

[Sean Ryan]

That's not the point. Like these people don't. Dude, we have Lindsey Graham in there who has no kids. Why does that guy give a. What happens to the country when he's dead? He has no kids, he has no future. There's no linear legacy to look out for.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

How the did that guy get elected? South Carolina.

[Ryan Dalton]

It's a great question. I mean, whatever.

[Sean Ryan]

He's one of the. Of however many of the same.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

You Know, it's, it's, it really, it. I think we're leading up to a holy war. It's not going to be fucking nations. Yeah, I mean, I want to be solution based. I think, I think there's a way out of this, but everybody's got to be on the same page.

[Ryan Dalton]

Well, and you just hit the nail on the head. That is the way out of this is we have to all come together as Americans and realize like, well, I

[Sean Ryan]

will say that Israel is the one thing since 911 that I've seen everybody rallying around, get off our tit.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yep.

[Sean Ryan]

We're tired of paying for your education. We're tired of paying for your universal health care. We're tired of paying for your iron dome. We're tired of paying for your missile defense. We get, we're, we are a cow pasture for Israel. We're tired of fighting your wars. We're tired of dying for your causes. And everybody sees that the United States of America is nothing but a fucking cow pasture full of cattle to fucking send tax money and fight their fucking wars. Everybody.

[Ryan Dalton]

And apparently protect their pedophiles.

[Sean Ryan]

Everybody knows, except, I don't know, a portion of the baby boomer generation.

[Ryan Dalton]

Hey, you know what, I'm actually glad you brought that up. I'm on a group text with a bunch of evangelicals, baby boomer men. And this topic actually, I don't know how I ended up there. This topic actually came up the other day and I speak my mind, you know, me. And so I dropped a couple examples of things I personally witnessed while we were working the Gaza situation. And they actually went and did their fucking research and came back and like, holy shit, you're right, Israel is not what I thought it was. That blew my mind to have, you know, 65 year old dudes that are part of the baby boomers that have been all pro Israel for their whole lives now realizing I've been lied to. I've been lied to. And I think if we could get more Americans to wake up to that fact and recognize that we've been lied to, that we've been presented false, you know, two choice narratives where there could be a third option. Actually the reason we're sitting here is a great example of that. We were told Epstein killed himself and then this huge fight breaks out that no, Epstein didn't kill himself. You know, we never got to consider that third option. Maybe the motherfucker left that jail cell alive. And I think that's probably how Israel, the mainstream media, our federal government, that, that's how they have been keeping us so divided is that we're given two choices to argue about. Meanwhile, there's a third option. That's reality out there. You know, just like the example I just gave with abortion. We're faced with this. It's just one way or the other. And we don't even get to consider the third way, the Second Amendment, one way or the other. Don't consider the third way. And so many things tend to exist in that gray area.

[Sean Ryan]

They have to have those to keep.

[Ryan Dalton]

To keep us polarized, to keep us fighting. The bullshit that I've seen play out online between blacks and whites blows my mind.

[Sean Ryan]

I haven't seen anything about that in a long.

[Ryan Dalton]

It's right. Right.

[Ben Owen]

No, it's.

[Ryan Dalton]

That's dead. That's a dead argument now. But. But it's a great example of the. Because you guys got to see it when you came to Memphis. It's not real. You go to the worst streets in America. There's nobody gives a. That is. That is one of those problems that really only exists in people's heads and online.

[Sean Ryan]

It's manufactured.

[Ryan Dalton]

It's manufactured. Manufacturers hating division. And that same playbook keeps getting used for every major societal issue.

[Sean Ryan]

It keeps people in the loop. But the loop is dying.

[Ryan Dalton]

I think it is too.

[Sean Ryan]

The loop's gonna die with the baby boomer generation. I mean. 85. I read this. 85% of Gen Z is tired of the with Israel. 85.

[Ryan Dalton]

85%. Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

I think. I think Gen X. That's probably. How old are you?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

You're like me. We don't know if we're Gen x or millennial. 55% of Gen X tired of the. With Israel. I can't remember Millennials. I think it's 65, 70 or something.

[Ryan Dalton]

But it's getting over and more.

[Sean Ryan]

It's over.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. It needs to be.

[Sean Ryan]

It's.

[Ryan Dalton]

It's reached.

[Sean Ryan]

It's going to die with the baby boomer generation that the. The. They're the last supporters of this now. Whether anything changes or not, who the fuck knows? You know what I mean? But yeah. An entire new party has to be elected. It has to be elected all at once. I talked about this with Jank Uger. How do we make. And that's why. Like. Like I really do. I like Ro. I like Eli Crank me and Eli have. I even hate saying that. We have wildly different opinion.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Wildly different opinions than everybody. I know.

[Ben Owen]

But.

[Sean Ryan]

And that's okay.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

You know, but Eli's kind of on the other end of this, I think maybe, but. But you know what? Like that's a guy that emails his constituents and they tell him how to vote and I don't know any other politics.

[Ryan Dalton]

That is exactly how it's supposed to work.

[Sean Ryan]

Exactly. And you cannot fault a man for doing what his constituents want him to do.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, that's literally his job.

[Sean Ryan]

And yeah, I really like, really like Massey. There's a couple other people that I think maybe there's some hope. But in order to create the new system, I'm sorry, everybody has to go.

[Ryan Dalton]

Everybody has to.

[Sean Ryan]

Every incumbent has to not be any remnants left.

[Ryan Dalton]

I could not agree with.

[Sean Ryan]

It all has to happen at once. It can't be a fucking president. It can't be a senator here and there, a couple of Congress. It has to happen all at once, as much as possible, all at once. I know not everybody's up for election all at once, but there has to be some type of a uni party, you know, where everybody comes together and it is against the Republican Party and it's against the DNC and it has to be all. And they have to run on the fact that we're going to amend the Constitution. These are the things we're going to amend. It's going to be term limits. It's going to be no more money in politics. And those are the first things you're going to do when you fucking pass inside that way. Because it's going to get corrupted again. It's only a matter of time before it gets corrupted again. And so when that, when that happens, they need to pass what we need them to pass, which are those two things, plus probably a bunch more shit. But those are the two things. Like first session after election, get your asses in there, amend that Constitution, the end. Now we can go back to fighting about abortion and race and all the other shit.

[Ryan Dalton]

Taking care of term limits would, Would stop the rut.

[Sean Ryan]

I don't think that's it.

[Ryan Dalton]

Oh, I don't mean immediately and not by itself. We've got to stop the insider trading. We've got to stop anything that allows elected officials to profit from their position, period, across the board. But I do completely agree. It's going to take. It's going to take a viable third.

[Sean Ryan]

I mean, there's just. It feels like there's so much truth right now being unveiled. Nothing's happening yet. I mean, even when I'm around my phone, I mean, I've always thought this. You know what I mean? I mean, me and a couple of guys Developed a whole application that we're unveiling later on, you know, for phone privacy and security. So that's how fucking paranoid I am about it, that I went out and developed my own damn app because of it, and it's going to be called Glacier and probably be out by the time the show's out. But I don't even. I don't even. Every time I say something that I'm not proud of or that I may regret if it hits the public and I'm around my phone, I just look, I'm like, yep, that's. That's going to get unveiled at some point in time. I'm being serious.

[Ryan Dalton]

I agree.

[Sean Ryan]

Because I think. I think. I think truth is coming to the light now. It just depends on what we're going to do with it. It and we get it.

[Ryan Dalton]

Well, and that's. That's the scary part. What if. What if all the truth comes out? Nothing changes? Nobody does anything.

[Sean Ryan]

Then we deserve what we've got.

[Ryan Dalton]

And that's a sad thing to accept, isn't it?

[Sean Ryan]

I read in the Wall Street Journal that there have never been more Americans leaving the United States as there is right now. Really, this time, applying for dual citizenship, coming up with contingency plans because there is no confidence in our institutions, there's no confidence in our people. There's no confidence in the country. How sad is that?

[Ryan Dalton]

I've spent years arguing that Memphis, Tennessee is worth saving. I never thought I'd be having to have that conversation about this country.

[Sean Ryan]

The people are worth saving.

[Ryan Dalton]

100.

[Sean Ryan]

100 people are always worth saving.

[Ryan Dalton]

Government ain't worth a right now. No, it hasn't been for a while.

[Sean Ryan]

Probably since jfk.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. And who killed.

[Sean Ryan]

You think that's weird?

[Ryan Dalton]

Who killed him?

[Sean Ryan]

Who killed jfk?

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah. I mean, where all the signs are

[Sean Ryan]

pointing, you know, I mean, Tulsi had the JFK files in her house and they raided her supposedly they Raider. She came out and said they didn't raider. Then the next week she resigns.

[Ryan Dalton]

It's all faking gay. What's real?

[Sean Ryan]

There's your next T shirt I'd get.

[Ryan Dalton]

That's the problem. I'm gonna get canceled just for saying that. But it's true. It's true. You know, I just. I open my phone half the time and I'm blown away at how stupid the majority of people seem to be. And then I have to ask myself, is this real? Are they actually this stupid? Or is this another influence campaign being funded by, you know, and that's honestly. I Think that's what a lot of this ridiculous stuff we see popping up online is.

[Sean Ryan]

A lot of people, they already came out. They're paying $70,000 a post. Supposedly. Holy be pro Israel, right? $7,000 a post.

[Ryan Dalton]

Did you know.

[Sean Ryan]

And that's.

[Ryan Dalton]

I did not know that. And that's our money. I'm sure that we gave them that. They're.

[Sean Ryan]

I don't know where it comes from. I don't know who got paid. Who knows? That could be some AI fake campaign. I don't think so. Pretty much everybody I know knows about the $7,000 a post. But it's bad. It's bad. I mean, we got to throw the tweet up of AIPAC celebrating the fact that they bought an election in Kentucky.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah, you do need to throw that.

[Sean Ryan]

Nation bought an election, bragging about buying an election in Kentucky.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Not even hiding it.

[Ryan Dalton]

And this is how liberty dies. And what are we going to do? I hate to feel so nihilistic about

[Sean Ryan]

it, but, I mean, there's all kinds of crazy happening. Just our stance on the world, how fast it's changing. I mean, just read something the other day about the Canadian pipeline that's now selling the majority of its oil to China to diversify from the United States because we fucking slapped a 25% tariff on them. That worked out well.

[Ryan Dalton]

Oh, yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Oh, Trump also came out and said we might have to repay all of these tariffs.

[Ryan Dalton]

Really?

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ryan Dalton]

I missed that one.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ryan Dalton]

God.

[Sean Ryan]

So what is this island now?

[Ryan Dalton]

So what?

[Sean Ryan]

What is this island now?

[Ryan Dalton]

It appears to be in Rodriguez's hangout. That's what it appears to be to me, where she still gets to hog type people and throw them in a dungeon. That's. That's what it feels like on paper. Billionaire Stephen Deckhoff bought it and is trying to rebrand it and wants to build a resort there. If. If that's true, I'm a little concerned about his choice of island manager, but I have a hard time believing that that's true. You know, I really do.

[Sean Ryan]

Time will tell.

[Ryan Dalton]

Time will tell.

[Sean Ryan]

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[Ben Owen]

Glad to be here man.

[Sean Ryan]

Glad to have you. It's quite the adventure you guys have been on here the past couple months.

[Ben Owen]

It's been a wild ride, man.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah, no shit. Well, let me give you an introduction here. Ryan Dalton, you began your career as a human rights lawyer focused on combating child sex trafficking and dismantling trafficking networks. You co founded Rescue Forensics, an intelligence platform that helped law enforcement recover more than 150 child victims. You later served as a special agent with the U.S. department of State's Diplomatic Security Service and worked in crisis response and intelligence operations supporting federal law enforcement and national security partners Today you are the co founder of Closed Horizon, a platform focused on restoring integrity to information in an era defined by deception. Most recently, you were. Most recently, you're one of the men alongside Ben Owen during the little, little St. James excursion tied to the Epstein Isn't Dead campaign. Ryan Dalton, welcome to the show.

[Ben Owen]

Glad to be here.

[Sean Ryan]

So it's. So you were on the. You were on this excursion with Ben?

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

So before we get into why you think Epstein is still alive, what prompted this?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, we met Ben and realized that we felt similarly about this. Felt similarly? That there's something real weird going on here that we couldn't quite figure out. So we decided we're going to go down to the island. After having this conversation and feeling that we are on the same page about, you know, Epstein might have left that cell alive to bring attention back to that island and back to this issue. One of the concerns that we had is that it seems to be there's distractions that are just one after another. There's the Iran war and there's UFO files. And all of these distractions are pulling attention away from an issue that I think points to a stranglehold on our democracy and our institutions deeper than Epstein, and it deserves continued attention.

[Sean Ryan]

What do you think it is?

[Ben Owen]

I think that the Epstein. The Epstein files reveal a child sex trafficking operation that was used as leverage over our politicians by a larger power structure that continues to have a stranglehold on our institutions. And so a blackmail operation. A blackmail operation. Effective for a long time. Yeah, really effective. Because it predates the Internet. This is a blackmail operation that predates the Internet. That now with the Internet, people put the pieces together and it's a lot harder to hide it. And I think that blackmail operation for a very long time was very successful.

[Sean Ryan]

I think it still is.

[Ben Owen]

Look, it was.

[Sean Ryan]

Look at what's going on. Nobody's talking. Nobody's getting arrested.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

The only names that I'm aware of that have been unveiled unredacted is is the victims. Correct. They haven't revealed any abusers names, have they? Am I wrong on that?

[Ben Owen]

No, there's some that have forced this. Like, I think that Massie on the house floor insisted on revealing one of the co conspirators. There's a document where there were some co conspirators who were listed that he came forward and said, here's one of. I forget which one it was. Maybe Les Wexner. But aside from that, there's not much that the US has done now. Foreign countries have some Real courage where they're investigating this and really putting some effort into the. The investigation.

[Sean Ryan]

See, I thought this because King Charles. Right.

[Ben Owen]

Prince Andrew.

[Sean Ryan]

Prince Andrew. Excuse me. Prince Andrew did, but he's off the hook already, isn't he?

[Ben Owen]

Oh, I don't know. The latest status of his. Yeah, he got arrested. Oh, he did? For. It wasn't a child abuse crime, I don't believe. I believe it was something like conduct unbecoming of his official diplomatic role that he was in at the time. But it was an arrest. It's more than we got here.

[Sean Ryan]

Fair point. Fair point. Well, before we get into it, are you familiar with Polymarket?

[Ben Owen]

I am.

[Sean Ryan]

Here's the context. The market. 2.27 million plus dollars in live trading volume on Polymarket resolves. Yes. Only if irrefutable proof is publicly revealed that Epstein is still alive before December 31, 2026. The DOJ has released 3 million plus pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. Wonder what those images are of. From its Epstein investigation, official records from the NYC Medical Examiner, DOJ, OIG and FBI established his 2019 death as suicide by hanging. The crowd gives survival confirmation a 5% chance.

[Ben Owen]

We want proof of life.

[Sean Ryan]

We want proof of life. Yeah, I mean, there's been a number of things that I dug up, but they've all been debunked. Like the AI photos. You know, there was some maniac Florida man posing as Jeffrey Epstein going down the highway. That's been debunked. I got him right here. I'll read them all real quick. Claim one, a post on X claiming Israel faked his death gained over 6 million views. It featured a a photo perpetratorly showing Epstein alive in Tel Aviv, sporting white hair and a shaggy beard. A second Dr. Image garnered another 2.4 million views. The verdict. Both images were confirmed. AI generated or digitally altered. Verse image searches trace the originals to unrelated photos. One dated May of 2020 after EPT Epstein's 2019 death. Claim number two, active Fortnite account. A Fortnine profile named Little Littlest Jeff 1 appeared active after up team Epstein's death, sparking speculation. The account went private shortly after the speculation spread, which many took as suspicious. Confirmation verdict. Fortnite confirmed that an existing account owner simply changed their username to littlest jeff1 after the dog doj epstein files were released. Epstein's email address had no record in the Fortnite system. Claim number three, Palm Beach Pete look alike. March of 2026. A video of a Florida man driving on i95 went viral with social media user claiming the driver was Epstein and that he was still alive. The verdict. The man nicknamed Palm Beach Pete publicly broke his silence. Confirming. Confirming he is simply a private citizen who resembles Epstein. He described the situation as phenomenal. Florida man.

[Ben Owen]

Florida man at it again.

[Sean Ryan]

Claim. Claim number four. This is the last one. Maxwell replaced by lookalike. February 2026. After Maxwell's deposition in February 26, social media users pointed out to perceived discrepancies in her facial features and voice, suggesting a lookalike had been swapped. In verdict. CBS News compared photos of Maxwell from 2015, 2016, 2020, and 2026 and identified consistent features across all, including eyebrow shape, ear structure, lip shape, and hair silhouette. Voice differences were attributed to differing deposition contexts. You got anything that's not those?

[Ben Owen]

Lots of things that aren't those.

[Sean Ryan]

All right.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. And you know, I agree with these. These are. I'm not convinced Palm Beach P is anything but a psyop. It's just two on the nose.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. It just is. Is way too on the nose. I don't have any comment on Delane. I don't really. Haven't really studied that at all. What was the first one?

[Sean Ryan]

Oh, that was the AI photos.

[Ben Owen]

AI? Oh, yeah. So we put together an evidence timeline that walks the reader through the evidence, and it has to meet a threshold for us, more likely than not, 51 to 49%. So what we've done is, in our disclaimer about how to read this evidence, is we've excluded anything that could be AI related. Anything that's post AI era. We're not even looking at it. And the reason for that is how easy it is to fabricate evidence that can go viral. It's not persuasive. So what we've done is taken the information from the files themselves and look at the story the files tell the files, court documents, depositions, OIG investigations. What story does the official release of the files tell the people who dig into this? And so anything outside of those bounds, we may supplement with a news article that confirms a statement. But we source all of this very carefully. Where we have the claim and then the sources and the claim and then the sources on each of these cards as we walk the reader down this. Because we're making a really big claim. You can't do this halfway. There's no half measures on this one.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben Owen]

If you're making the claim that Epstein left that cell alive and you pull in that thread, it implicates larger power structures in our government and a Deep level of corruption.

[Sean Ryan]

Now I just have one question. Why would anybody want him alive? What would the point of keeping him alive be? It can only bring risk.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, so say that you are Jeffrey Epstein and you have a multi decade blackmail operation going on. He was collecting blackmail when you had to put it on a floppy drive. He's been doing this for a long time and we know this because the properties that he owned were wired up with cameras. This is pretty well established, right? So he has this large corpus of video and photographic evidence on all the people that he could want to get these on. Celebrities, politicians, scientists. And he's a master of getting leverage. This appears to be a leverage campaign. So if he has this much leverage, he's playing a dangerous game in that if it goes sideways on him, he has to make sure that he has his own insurance policy. And what better insurance policy than retention of all of this evidence as your dead man switch.

[Sean Ryan]

No shit. So you don't think this evidence has been shipped out to a bigger entity?

[Ben Owen]

I don't know what happened to the evidence, but I think it would be negligent of him to not have enough of it that he could say, hey listen, is this going to be a problem? Am I going to have to let this out? And there's enough people that I think would be persuaded that they don't want that to happen. That's my, that's my best guess. The wine to keep them alive. What I do know is the government and co conspirators were highly, highly motivated to have a dead defendant, or at least the appearance of a dead defendant. And the reason for that is criminal discovery. So he's arrested for a sex trafficking offense and is going through these criminal proceedings process as part of that is discovery where the plaintiff and the defendant surface, all the evidence, it all comes out. Now this is pre release of the files. So what's going to come out? Flight logs, phone numbers, associates, financial records, everything that could defend or support the government's position is going to have to inevitably come out. And the government and the co conspirators have no control over this. He could not have gone to trial. That would have been a disaster. Because all the evidence that come out would implicate people all the way up and down the government and probably foreign governments. He couldn't have gone to trial and said, you know what stops criminal proceedings? The death of the defendant. But if you have a defendant who has an enormous body of evidence available to blackmail people with and get leverage on them, well then what's Your option, the only remaining option is to publicly have a dead defendant and privately make sure there's no loose ends and extract him. And this is what the files, the evidence supports in the files.

[Ryan Dalton]

Wow.

[Sean Ryan]

What do you got for us?

[Ben Owen]

So the first thing I think is to understand really who this guy was as best we possibly can. And we know some things that are just very much in the public sector about him. So he's this alleged billionaire financial savant. He manages money for people, allegedly that have a lot of money. But then there are clues in the

[Sean Ryan]

files that are maybe says he works for the Rothschilds. Right? Yeah, that's in the files.

[Ben Owen]

Peter Thiel saying that. So that was in an email to Peter Thiel saying, that's what I thought. As you know, I believe were his words, I work for the Rothschilds. So he's trying to seemingly get an introduction for some kind of tech play. It looks like he's making the introduction by doing a little bit of name dropping. Right. Like, hey, there's some money on the other end of this if we're going to talk, seems to be the way the email reads. So he has connections that are larger and here's the best piece of evidence we have for this. So I've got show and tell for you.

[Sean Ryan]

Perfect.

[Ben Owen]

This was discovered in the search warrant in New York for one of his properties. And what you're looking at is an Austrian passport with his photo, a younger Epstein, and the alias of Robert Marius. This passport appears to be a fraudulent passport. So not a fake one. A fake passport is when you have a passport that's not a valid travel document. Right. Like I make it at home. A valid passport can be fraudulent under someone else's name. This appears to be valid because he has entry and exit stamps.

[Sean Ryan]

It's like the shit the intel agencies do. This is our first valid passport with a pseudo name.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. So this is the first connection where we have evidence of this potentially connecting to an intel agency. Because who can issue valid passports under a different name? Well, there's consular who could do it. Right. Under legitimate circumstances. And you can make the argument that, oh, well, maybe he got a fast one on Consular of Austria and he submitted this information and you know, they issued it, but under what motivation? Who's motivating him to get this passport? The other argument is that it was furnished to him and had an operational purpose. In either case, we know for sure this passport was recovered from his safe with entry and exit stamps with his face and an alias.

[Sean Ryan]

Wow. Where did you get this?

[Ben Owen]

The Files. This is in the files. So everything I'm going to show you today we've pulled from the files or public reporting that can be fact checked. All of this can be fact checked. Again. This goes back to no half measures. We cannot make a claim like this without substantial evidence. Huge risk, reputational risk, goes into making a claim that he left that cell alive. But there's only three options. Either he died from suicide in the cell, he was murdered, or he left the cell alive. And of the three, the one with the fewest problems is that he left the cell alive.

[Sean Ryan]

Wow. Put this up on screen. What else do we got? What is. I mean, where were the stamps to?

[Ben Owen]

So I think it's on our website. I think it was Saudi Arabia, France and one more, but they're documented entry and exit stamps. You can see the countries. I can't recall the third, but what's your website?

[Sean Ryan]

What's the address?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, it's epsteinisintdead.org. remember this evidence? Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Epsteinisn't dead.org.

[Ben Owen]

yeah. Because I was going through this initially out of just pure personal interest. I'm a criminal investigator and lawyer by my background, and I also care deeply about child trafficking through my career. This has been a theme of my career. And I have a daughter, and so it hits a little harder for me. And I'm looking at the files and I use large language models to surface the things that are in there that are maybe a little bit harder to find manually. And I'm putting together a timeline because that's how a criminal investigator typically thinks is in term of a timeline. And I start looking at this information and I think, no way, no way am I arriving at this conclusion. I don't like this conclusion. It's uncomfortable for me. I'm not happy about it. One of the seductive things about conspiracies is how entertaining they are for many people. This is not something that I find particularly fun. But if the evidence continually supports a conclusion, we have to stare at that conclusion in its face and see if it's true. And so I sent this to probably a hundred people. And I was like, guys, fact check me on this. Sanity check me on all this. Am I crazy? And I sent to people and they were like, bro, you put all this together. Yeah, this is something here. And I think that we make a compelling case for it. And if he left that cell alive, it demands the country, Congress, the DOJ to reckon with that and take it seriously.

[Sean Ryan]

I think we know the DOJ in Congress is definitely not going to take it seriously.

[Ben Owen]

That's what I'm afraid of, too. And maybe not this administration, maybe not this batch of Congress people, but the American people aren't going to let this one go.

[Sean Ryan]

You don't think so?

[Ben Owen]

I don't think so. They can't. Because think about what it means if we give up on this one. If we give up on a child trafficker, brought kids to an island to serve them to the world's elite, killed them, ate them, and use that as leverage to get a stranglehold on our democracy. If we let that go, just give it all up, all of it. What does any of it matter anymore if that. If we let this one go, none of it matters anymore. And I think the American people intuitively feel this. I think they intuitively feel something's wrong, but they can't quite put words on it. And that's what we tried to do. It's really. Here's what you feel is wrong, here's what it is. And so we lay it out and make the case for him, leaving that cell alive being the option that has the fewest problems of the three.

[Sean Ryan]

What else you got?

[Ben Owen]

So follow the money. Before he dies. Two days before he dies, he executes a new will and trust that moves $577 million into a new legal vehicle that I would structure this way if I was about to fake my death. So he meets with his lawyers up to 12 hours a day while he's in prison. And the outcome of this is the creation of the 1953 Trust, where all of his assets that are known are moved into this trust. And this accomplishes two things at the same time. The first thing it does is it makes it very difficult to ascertain the beneficiaries of this money. So trust can be created in such a way that the beneficiaries of that are not accessible to the public. And so it would allow him to access this money and these assets in a roundabout way through shell companies and through having estate planning that supports the complexity needed to access this money later. The second thing it does is it prevents any of his assets from going through probate, which would also make this public. In the probate process, he restructures his entire estate two days before he dies. Now, is this complex estate planning for someone who's like, you know what? I'm about to end my life and I feel like I need to put everything into the right place at the right time for all my money, or is it estate planning for someone who wants to get access to those assets after they're out of jail. And I think that the way that I read it is someone who's suicidal who really is about to kill themselves. And I don't believe he was like that because he was so obsessed with immortality. He was so obsessed with health and all kinds of sort of fringe things about continuing his life onward. And he was probably like, all billionaires and sex traffickers have some ego. And he's already got a sweetheart deal in 2007. So there's some hubris there. I can't reconcile that with someone creating a will and trust who's about to kill themselves. It doesn't sit right. It seems more likely that that complex estate planning is in preparation for accessing those assets after he's out.

[Sean Ryan]

I mean, a lot of people also think that he was given a choice.

[Ben Owen]

Meaning you kill yourself or we're going to do it kind of thing. If he died in that cell,

[Sean Ryan]

It

[Ben Owen]

doesn't explain his escape plan. You seen this?

[Sean Ryan]

No. There's an escape plan?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. So you're a seal.

[Sean Ryan]

Get the out of here.

[Ben Owen]

You tell me if this is an evasion plan. Let me hand you this. Like, doing this out of order a little bit, but. All right. You went through Sierra, right?

[Sean Ryan]

I didn't.

[Ben Owen]

Oh, no, no. Well, you're familiar.

[Sean Ryan]

I evaded out of that one.

[Ben Owen]

You evaded out. So my. My partner Alex, smart guy, and he looked at this, I called it an escape plan, and he rightly corrected me, said, no, man, this is an evasion plan. So I'm going to give you context for this document that you're holding. This is the smoking gun for me. This is the single piece of evidence that gives me the confidence to have this conversation with you. Right now. You're looking at A2 notes. There's two pages here of legal paper that were found in his cell after his alleged death. Most people are not talking about this at all. Very little conversation is happening about these documents. And it is astonishing to me. This is an escape plan. So keep in mind what just happened. He just restructured his estate and has set himself up to have access after he leaves. And then two days later, he allegedly dies. And this is recovered from his cell. So what you're looking at, some of it's illegible. And so I'm not going to speculate about the things that I can't read because his handwriting was atrocious. It was super inconsiderate of him to have terrible handwriting and make me have to figure this out later. But I'M going to draw attention to some of the things here that really stand out. And the first is, do you see in the middle top of the page where red notice is underlined multiple times? A red notice is an Interpol notice that goes out to worldwide policing agencies for a fugitive. So why is a guy about to kill himself concerned about red notices? This is, again, on legal paper. So I don't know this for sure, but this was potentially furnished to him by his lawyers, who carry legal paper and not the note as it exists now. But that's where he got the paper. So were these conversations happening with the people that were there providing legal counsel to him? I don't know, but it seems to be based on the time frame, they're pretty close to each other for when these would have been written. The next thing that really jumps out at the top, top right next to that dollar sign, it says what I believe to be blackmail. See the dollar sign there in the top right?

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben Owen]

Next to it. That word looks like blackmail to me.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben Owen]

So what's happening if he gets out? He's thinking about where to get money. If he's gotten blackmail on people, that's pretty easy. Like, hey, man, you need to just wire me 10 grand, 100 grand, a million dollars, whatever leverage he has to get access to money, because you got to figure out how to live while you're out. And maybe he doesn't know what he has access to. I can't read the word above that. I don't know if it says bounty, so I'm not going to speculate further. But beneath it, it definitely says guards. Guards are a problem. If you want to get out of a federal prison, you got to deal with the guards. We can talk about the guards in a little bit, but he's for sure worried about the guards. And then there's some things in between. But I can contextualize the things in between based on the drawing that you see there in the middle. Right. What does that look like to you?

[Sean Ryan]

Are you talking about this?

[Ben Owen]

This right here?

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah. Oh, down here?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Looks like some sort of a compound.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, it looks to me like an airport from overhead. And it looks like an airport because of the word, Brad. So Bradley International Airport is a small regional airport that's two hours away from the Metropolitan Correctional Center. So the nearest small airport. And if he's going to fly out of there, it can't be through LaGuardia or JFK, for obvious reasons.

[Sean Ryan]

It says jet right here, too.

[Ben Owen]

Right.

[Sean Ryan]

It looks like it says Nigeria above That.

[Ben Owen]

That's right. So above it, and we know this is an airport. It says brad Bradley international airport would be a great airport to go to if you don't want to deal with customs and you want to have access to the services expected of someone who has a lot of money. So private hangars, private runways. It has these things. And above it it says I can't tell what the middle word is. So it either says jet versus prop or jet US prop. So that could either be this is a jet or it's a prop plane. What kind of vehicle are we in here? Or it could be jet US Property. Is he flying out on a U. S. Plane? Because that would have obvious risks carried with it if he's escaping on a U. S. Controlled aircraft. And tail number.

[Sean Ryan]

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[Ben Owen]

What do you think, Sean? We're high. And then where's he going?

[Sean Ryan]

Who was in. Who was in office when he committed suicide?

[Ben Owen]

Those. It was trump in office then, right?

[Sean Ryan]

That's so weird.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Who would have thought?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, I think it goes all the way to the top. So where does he go? Well, we don't know. We can only speculate. But we can see that there's intent here based on these locations that are written above. Jet versus prob. Now, I'm kind of walking you back up the page, it says Nigeria. So they're probably an okay location to hide, I guess. No one's going to look for Epstein in Africa. Would Qatar and Saudi Arabia be locations? And they're very friendly access to money associates there, for sure. We know that. So the Q and the SA next to Nigeria could indicate other locations that he's interested in. And then to the left of that, it says gangsters. See that to the left of the Q in the essay? Yeah. I don't know what that means, but I would imagine if you're someone like him, you're willing to make a lot of friends with a lot of people. Not all of them good people who can get you the things that you need. Gangsters are people who can be fixers for you and not ask questions. So that's a logical person to ask or group of people. And then there's a lot of other things on here that I just don't know what mean.

[Sean Ryan]

And it would be completely like a US Map.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. Up here in the middle left. Yeah, it does. It looks like a U. S. Map. Someone said a cow.

[Sean Ryan]

Looks like a cow, too.

[Ben Owen]

It does look like a cow.

[Sean Ryan]

What do you think this is? The redacted portion?

[Ben Owen]

I have no idea. Beneath it, though, it says computer. And then something illegible. And then question mark and then vi, which I'm assuming means Virgin Islands.

[Sean Ryan]

Palm Beach.

[Ben Owen]

Oh, that's right. Palm Beach. The pdb.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah, it's got to be Palm Beach.

[Ben Owen]

So computer, Palm beach, question marks Virgin Island. And above that, it says G. That's what he called Ghislaine is G. So he's thinking about Ghislaine in computer or multiple computers in Palm beach and Virgin Islands. And I'd be pretty worried about computers if I were him, too. It also, there's one piece on here that looks like LSR up near the travel part. My best guess on that, and I'm not willing to guess on many of these if I don't feel confident, but LSR seems to be last stop routes. So my understanding is in aviation, this is a term indicating a airfield that is the last on a connecting journey that to get to that airfield would mean it's relatively remote compared to other airfields and likely has less immigrations and customs restrictions. That's where I'd want to go if I'm trying to evade.

[Sean Ryan]

What do you think is under lsn? Looks like it says Muslim maybe.

[Ben Owen]

It does say Muslim.

[Sean Ryan]

Maybe Asia under that.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, I can't make out that third character above it. It says Muslim. And so I would imagine that Muslim nations would be potentially easy to hide in it. Find a remote area and hole up somewhere you're not going to be looked for. In some of them, that's entirely speculation, but it does say Muslim pretty clearly.

[Sean Ryan]

Why would he have written this all down?

[Ben Owen]

I thought that too. Why write all this down and then leave it in the cell? Why leave your escape plan in your cell? And then I remembered. Oh, Epstein and his associates were talking over Gmail about raping and eating kids. His opsec was bad. You didn't give a damn about any of his OPSEC about any of this over Gmail. And being in the government, we both know you can't talk about anything over anything. Or someone's going to suck up those comms. He has decades of not caring and he leaves this behind. Someone's going to sanitize this cell. He's got people that do this for him. My best guess is there's some hubris here, some pride. And that whoever's redacting these things didn't know what they were looking at. Or they did know what they were looking at. And our institutions are not homogenous. Meaning that some federal agent or lawyer looked at this, redacted only what was absolutely required and allowed us to piece this together. I hope that's the case, because these people that are performing these redactions took the oath that you and I did to support and defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben Owen]

Even when they come from inside the house,

[Sean Ryan]

everybody's just doing their job, right?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

That's the excuse.

[Ben Owen]

Excuse.

[Sean Ryan]

It's always the excuse. I'm just doing my job. You?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. And they have to reckon with that. And there's some that have resigned. And I admire that courage because here's the sinister nature of this whole scheme. You can't whistleblow on this and bring out the actual best evidence because it's illegal. One for classified. Two for child sexual abuse material. If you transmit that to a reporter, you've just earned yourself a strict liability offense. Or they don't care what your intent was, you're going to jail.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah, the old two chair justice system.

[Ben Owen]

Real quick on this one. Let me show you page two. Oh, this is the real zinger.

[Sean Ryan]

Great.

[Ben Owen]

So the top of page two is complaining about something. I don't know. He got. He had a bad day. Got locked in to the shower or something. I think that's absolutely hilarious. I imagine him sitting in that cell and just, dear diary, I had a bad day. Like he's he's pretty upset. You flip it over. This second from the top line

[Ryan Dalton]

says

[Ben Owen]

jail out equals 10. And he allegedly died in that cell on August 10, 2019. He had foreknowledge of the day that he's getting out. So what you're left with, and this, this is the smoking gun, is you have a escape plan written by a person who knows they're going to be a fugitive about where the nearest airport is, what considerations to avoid, how to get money and foreknowledge of the day that they're going to leave that cell. This is an evasion plan.

[Sean Ryan]

Wow, you might be right.

[Ben Owen]

Someone who's going to kill themselves doesn't write this down.

[Sean Ryan]

Do you think there's any chance this could be a psyop?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, there's layers of psyops here, top to bottom. This could be a psyop for sure. What I can't reconcile this and I've thought about this, is this disinformation. I guess that's always possible. But when you take the totality of it all, this piece into the larger picture that it paints, it makes the most sense that he left that cell alive because of the other mistakes that were made in this cover up and the post prison signals of life. And each of these pieces by themselves don't have equal weight. It's up to the reader to make decisions about which ones weigh the most for them. But you can put mathematical modeling on these and apply objective standards to them. And this has been done and we're going to put up this mathematical model on the website for people who have PhDs and statistics to evaluate. But what we've done, and this is my good friend Nick McKinley who runs a nonprofit called Deliver Fund, who does amazing work in the counter trafficking space. Former CIA guy, pj Hero by all accounts rescued many kids from the horrors of that industry.

[Sean Ryan]

I'm aware of him.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, he did a mathematical model on this and he looked at this and he said the smoking gun for him was the statistical odds of this being possible. And he took the 14 largest anomalies. You can group those into cameras, guards and protocols for the cameras. We know again all this can be fact checked. Some of them just straight up went down just like not were working at all. Some of them did work, but then the footage is just missing. I just don't know what happened to it. Epstein's cellmate lawyers tried to get this footage and it's just file not found of the ones that were working. We have a missing minute of footage Gone, just not there.

[Sean Ryan]

I know, man, I know. I think y.

[Ben Owen]

And then you have of the footage that we got, the supposedly raw footage, Wired showed that the Wired magazine showed that Adobe Premiere Pro edited that raw footage. Take those anomalies and compound them with the guards who were every 30 minutes supposed to check on him, and they didn't. They fell asleep. They were browsing the Internet, shopping online. And then the protocol of him not having a roommate, despite trying to commit suicide, allegedly. And despite the Department of Psychology at the prison, who sends out an email to 70 people, including the warden, saying that this guy needs to have a roommate, and nothing was done. And so now you have a guy in jail, has no guards watching him, no roommate, cameras go down, and is in the prime position for extraction. The odds of this, all of these failures happening concurrently, based on this model, that we're going to allow people to scrutinize as much as they want and argue with us about it, is 1. Let's see, I get this right. 1 in 5 times 10 to the 30th power. Those numbers are meaningless to me unless I can put them into an actual something that makes sense in my head. And it would be the equivalent of taking a quarter and flipping heads 102 times in a row. Not happening. And so this moves us away from conjecture and conspiracy forums and into mathematical understanding of the odds of this happening. It is effectively impossible. Where a mathematician would look at this and say, you've made an assumption wrong or there's an error in your reasoning, because if this is what the odds show, this is impossible. He was left in that cell in the prime position for extraction.

[Sean Ryan]

Why would anybody else want him alive?

[Ben Owen]

What do you mean?

[Sean Ryan]

Well, let's say he was working for the Rothschilds like he says he was. Do you think they would want him alive?

[Ryan Dalton]

Why the.

[Sean Ryan]

Did they even arrest him to begin with? From the get go, it was a cleanup job.

[Ben Owen]

It happened twice, so he wasn't probably worried about it. It happened once before in Palm beach and he got a sweetheart deal, Which is a whole nother rabbit trail. That's just astonishing to me.

[Sean Ryan]

But I mean, a guy this connected. Right? You know what I mean? This connected?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Why would they even. How would he even get booked to jail anyways? Why would they even have a case on him? Don't you think somebody would have pulled him off?

[Ben Owen]

I think our DOJ and FBI are not homogeneous. I think the leverage starts at the top. But there are men and women who took that oath and take it seriously in our organizations.

[Sean Ryan]

I know, but I'm just saying, you know as well as I do lots of investigations, domestic, overseas doesn't. I mean, lots of investigations have been, you know, stopped for whatever reason. You know, hey, we're pulling you off this.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

Why wouldn't somebody just get pulled off?

[Ben Owen]

It certainly would have been very high profile. Right. So it's going to go through layers of review, and I think it's going to depend on where this octopus of stranglehold and all of its legs have wrapped itself around someone who could make that call. It's not a perfect cover up. They've made mistakes. They're humans. They're not all powerful. And I refuse to think that the corruption runs complete through our institutions. Maybe one day it will, but I don't think it does right now. What do you mean by that? Meaning that if the corruption were complete, then everyone on our institutions would be Team Epstein.

[Sean Ryan]

You don't feel like they are.

[Ben Owen]

I feel at the top, it looks kind of.

[Ryan Dalton]

What?

[Sean Ryan]

I mean that.

[Ben Owen]

To me, that means complete based on leadership.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

If the leadership in every one of our institutions is all beating the same drum, nothing's going to become. Nothing's going to get accomplished. We're seeing that, right?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. This is.

[Sean Ryan]

You can only do so much, and then when you get yanked off. I'm just doing my job.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

You know,

[Ben Owen]

there are clues for this that are interesting to me. For example, Cash Patel sat in this chair and said that he was going to clean it all up.

[Sean Ryan]

Oh, I burned that chair.

[Ben Owen]

I'm just kidding. Yeah. But I believed him. And I. I remarked to my wife at the time, like, that's the politician I believe in. That's awesome. I want that.

[Sean Ryan]

I was warned before I had him on the show. He was completely full of.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Sean Ryan]

By a very good friend of mine. And he was right.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. But you have an optimist in you, probably, that didn't want to believe that. And I've got that one in me, too. The America that I grew up in. And when I look at that flag and what I feel about that flag, I can't let that go. And him sitting here and watching that conversation about what he really means. I wonder if he really meant it or if when he sat on the House floor and he said, there's nothing in those Epstein files and perjured himself. Why? Where's the leverage? Where does it start? And how deep does it go? And I just can't believe it goes as deep as the federal agents who took the oath and who go home to their Families at night and are not in the spotlight and run their investigation. Allegations. Some of them, maybe. I can't imagine it's all of them.

[Sean Ryan]

I mean, I don't think it's. I don't think it's the lower level guys. Probably not even the mid tier. Probably not even all the way to the top tier. But I think the top tier knows.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, that's my read on it, too. I know those guys, man. I was a federal agent. I got tons of friends that are feds. They're good people. But some of them are looking at this information and saying, yeah, I'll redact that. I'll redact that. I'll redact that. And at some point, they're complicit in this cover up, because it is a cover up.

[Sean Ryan]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What are you hoping to gain by doing this?

[Ben Owen]

We started Closed Horizon out of the belief that America's in an epistemological crisis. Epistemology being the study of how you know the things that you know. What is truth? We're lied to constantly. Constantly. There's a new psyop every day. We deserve better psyops. There's a new one every day. Deception. Lies coming from the White House. Our institutions. Corruption. APAC buying our government seats. Look what happened to Massie.

[Sean Ryan]

Everything's a lie, man. It's all a lie.

[Ben Owen]

It's all lies.

[Sean Ryan]

Everything's everything. I mean, even. I mean, I did this episode. I just did this episode with this guy, Pete Blaber, Delta Colonel, and we went over a whole slew of lies of just. Naval special warfare is propping people up like heroes and passing out. It's passing out awards and. I mean, I'm pretty sure you know about this. And that's. Yes. Even though people that I know died in those events and were killed and they were fighting for the country. I mean, that is so. I hate to say it like this, but that is. So far. It's just not as significant as what we're talking about right now. When you're talking about people eating babies and raping fucking kids and blackmail and our. Basically, our government is run by a shadow government. Yeah, I mean, it's. It's. It's. But I mean, we lie.

[Ryan Dalton]

We lie about that.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. Did you see the email Crazy. That was sent to Ghislaine asking if she wants to be on the Shadow911 Commission?

[Sean Ryan]

No, I didn't see that.

[Ben Owen]

She gets an email, you can dig it up in the files.

[Sean Ryan]

I put it up on screen right

[Ben Owen]

now to Be on the Shadow 911 Commission. And here's what's interesting about the files. You want to get into corruption. There is a canyon of missing files between 99 and 2002. Nothing came out in those years. Well, what happened in those years? You have both 911 and the dot com crash. Major events that shaped the next decades of history. What's being hidden there?

[Sean Ryan]

What do you think, Savannah?

[Ben Owen]

I think that what we've been told about some of those events is really uncomfortable and not true. And it would create a existential crisis for a generation of Americans who fought, bled and died overseas because they looked at those towers being hit and they said, this cannot stand in my country. I'm going to serve my country honorably, and I'm going to go fight over there. Because they saw what happened there, and I don't think it was what it was, what was portrayed to be. And I think that canyon of files, if it ever comes out, will show this.

[Sean Ryan]

Do you think the files even still exist?

[Ben Owen]

That's a good question. I hope so. I hope they do.

[Sean Ryan]

You gonna watch the big UFC event tonight at the White House?

[Ben Owen]

The. The big fight?

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben Owen]

July 4th.

[Sean Ryan]

That's what we're all worried about, right? The UFC fight.

[Ben Owen]

Your bread and circus here. Take your bread and circus.

[Sean Ryan]

Shit really is biblical, man.

[Ben Owen]

It is. It's a war of good and evil. And I knew this was a war in good and evil when I saw the darkest thing in the files. I used to think that this was a criminal organization that was very sophisticated, and it is, but it's deeper than that. This is a good and evil issue. There was an email. I gotta be careful. There was an email between Epstein and associate, and it's redacted, who this associate is, where Epstein recounts how a girl told him that she believed while in her bed that God protected her and that Jesus was watching over her. And then he says, whoops. And the person replies, you should dress up like him, being Jesus the next time you see her. We don't wrestle against flesh and blood. This is deeper. This is a war of good and evil, of truth, of secret keepers and truth seekers. And I think that if we don't get it under control, we're a generation away from losing the empire because we care about it. But you ask the next generation coming up, you ask Gen Z, and a lot of them don't believe all the. Which is cool. They don't believe what the legacy news media is telling them. They're like, man, all that's just lies. But the problem Is you extend that worldview into belief about our institutions. All of it's corrupt, all of its lies. I don't believe in any of it anymore. Then you get permission to do this forever without consequence.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben Owen]

The people who grew up like we did are the last line against this. And it is more urgent than people realize. Because once you get into the next generation, we give up on this. It's over. I know,

[Sean Ryan]

I know.

[Ben Owen]

But these people make mistakes. This isn't perfect. The people that have done this conspiracy, and I'm okay using that word because this is where the evidence takes me. People have called me a conspiracy theorist in the lawsuit against us for trespassing. And I don't give a damn about trespassing. Not one damn about it. I gotta correct Ben on two things. I love Ben, but I am an actively barred lawyer. Sorry, I'm a barred lawyer with an inactive license. And he. He was very generous to me and just said that if they got caught that they would have to worry about trespassing charge. I don't give a. About a trespassing charge. We are going to figure out whatever it takes to get to the truth on this matter. And they make mistakes. Here's another for you. So. Let me give you. These two documents. Oh, hold on. Yeah, these three documents, which we'll cover real quickly. But I think you're going to find this really interesting, John. So the first one is this one labeled page six at the top here. This is a page from the medical examiner's autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein. And the top line, the first full sentence says, the prostate is slightly and diffusely enlarged with mark enlargement of the Veramontanum. I don't know what that is. So this is her observation. Medical examiner, official autopsy for Jeffrey Epstein, that he does have a prostate. This next line, this is just kind of an aside. It's not relevant to the evidence here. It's just really embarrassing. It says the testes are unremarkable. I don't know that I'd want that in my autopsy. So she makes this position that there are. There is a prostate. This next document is a deposition. And he's asked the question. He's asked a series of hypothetical questions. You can have high testosterone and still have a need for a Viagra because you don't have a prostate. Right. And he says, correct, seemingly indicating on face value that he doesn't have a prostate. Now there's controversy over this because people make the argument that the you in that sentence is the royal you, meaning sort of a General question about someone's medical condition. Okay, fair enough. But the next document is a LabCorp record. And he has a series of lab core records and other medical records, as well as intake forms that began as early as I could find as 2012, maybe, where he's having problems with his prostate, his testes, there's some kind of urological problem that he's having, and so he's visiting a urologist. And at the bottom of this and highlighted, it says, serum PSA should decrease and remain at undetectable levels after radical prostatectomy, which is the removal of the prostate. So in his deposition, he remarks that it'd be correct. This is what to expect if you don't have a prostate in his lab court record. It seems to be a document indicating either pre surgery or follow on or at least some kind of analysis for what the condition of his prostate would be like or his psa. And your analysis would be if he didn't have a prostate. But the official finding in the autopsy is he had a prostate. And based on all of the other records that look at his medical history and things that his associates sent him, it appears he most likely had prostate cancer. And I know that because his associates would send him medical journal articles about the state of the art of prostate cancer vaccines, cures. These were. There were 132 records if you search prostate cancer in the files. He also had a health coach that he seemingly donated a lot of money to who was sending him articles about or referencing an article for him to go look at about being recovered from stage four prostate cancer. So these three files, in and of themselves, are not entirely determinative about the condition of the prostate, but it's a valid, open question about whether he didn't have a prostate. And the office of the Chief Medical examiner didn't track that, and it wasn't his body on the table.

[Sean Ryan]

Wow.

[Ben Owen]

Detractors of this theory make the comment that this bottom paragraph is boilerplate language on a LabCorp record. Fair enough. But he's still being evaluated for what his level should look like following a radical prostatectomy. And prostate cancer is occurring many times throughout the files. So I'm not going to say that it's completely determinative, but it's a very open, valid question about if they made a mistake here. What we do know is that he had a body double of some kind.

[Sean Ryan]

This is. Say that again.

[Ben Owen]

We do know that the FBI's own memo showed that they pushed out a body for the media to see that was covered in Boxes and blankets to divert them away from following it as it moved away from the Metropolitan Correctional Center. We know that for sure, 100%. There's a memo showing that they pulled this scheme to trick the media, basically when it came out. But weirdly, the New York Post was there to take photos. And so what they did is, as the gurney came out, took photos of this alleged body on the gurney. From the FBI memo, they say it was boxes and sheets. The New York Post took photos of somebody. And we know that because we have those photos. And what people went back and did is they compared the photos of him on the gurney to his mug shots and compared the ear and the bridge of the nose. And if you look at the cartilage of a dead person, it's not going to change that much. Like their face is going to change the way that the body cares fluids. They'd look different. But your cartilage doesn't change right after you die. So you can see for yourself the difference between even just the nose. One of them is him dead, the New York Post photos, and the other is him alive, the mugshot, the bridge of the nose is curved on the dead body and it's more straight on the muck shot. The ear. The ear is interesting because you can identify a body based on the ears. We have unique shapes of our ears, kind of like a fingerprint in a way. And the version I'm showing is in black and white. In color, this is more evident. But. But I didn't have a color printer. No one has printers anymore.

[Sean Ryan]

I'll do my job.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, you could see the comparison of the ears. It's not the same ear. So who is on that gurney? Because based on this, unless something really crazy happened to his face after he died, which I guess is possible, that's not his face.

[Sean Ryan]

Wow. Yeah. That is completely different.

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[Sean Ryan]

The whole thing makes you think you're crazy.

[Ben Owen]

It does. It makes you think you're from the beginning.

[Sean Ryan]

If you vocalize what you're thinking, the institutions, the administration will all label you crazy. Yeah. Low iq.

[Ben Owen]

CBS newspaper. See theorist covered an article on us.

[Sean Ryan]

Say that again.

[Ben Owen]

CBS News did an article on us. Legacy media institution. I think the reporters that we talked to were good people. Think it. Once it hit an editor desk, it said, oh, this has all been debunked. None of this has been debunked. None of it. It's lazy. If you can't contend with the facts, you smear me and Ben, you paint us as crazy conspiracy theorists. You do lawfare, sue us for civil trespass, anything. Anything but contend with the evidence itself. And I think this is part of the playbook. And the enemy is more sophisticated than we realize. I fell for some of their tricks, hook, line and sinker. And the most clever one is the controversy that began right after he died. There was an autopsy that was performed. And the conclusion of the autopsy says, this is death by hanging. Official narrative. At the same time, his brother Mark Epstein hires a forensic examiner to look at the results of the autopsy. The forensic examiner says, well, hold up this little bone in the neck called the hyoid bone. If that breaks, that's more consistent with strangulation. And now this controversy begins between he killed himself or he was murdered from the jump.

[Sean Ryan]

No, that was manufactured as well.

[Ben Owen]

If I'm wanting to take my kids to dinner, as their dad, I say, hey, do you guys want to go out for steak or sushi? And you know what they do? They bicker like nine year olds. Normal nine year old stuff. Steak, sushi. Steak, sushi. I don't care. I love both. They're both great. But I've controlled the narrative and what they did is brilliant. They controlled the narrative on this because they knew the official statement would be rejected by people who don't trust our institutions immediately. Would be rejected. The number one global pedophile dies by suicide as the first suicide in 21 years. The Metropolitan Correctional center, first suicide in 21 years. They know damn well that people are going to say, no way. We're not that dumb. So what happened? Well, the forensics examiner says, oh, this was suicide by hanging. And I fell for this hook, line and sinker. It's like, clearly he was murdered. Clearly. It's a false choice. It's a false choice. The third option, it's entirely valid, like with my kids. There's a lot of other options. All their favorites, Chipotle, Chick Fil, A, whatever. Tons of options. But I narrowed it down to two. Gave them two and made them fight over which two. So you've seen this in a near decade of memes now about Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, he didn't. He left the cell alive. That's the third option. And they controlled the narrative from day one. Brilliant move.

[Sean Ryan]

How much more do you have to look through?

[Ben Owen]

There are some post life signals that are interesting. You brought up the Fortnite one. I am not convinced that the official Fortnite position is anything but part of the COVID up. I could be wrong. I'm not going to hold on to that one too tight. Maybe he had another gaming account that went live called War Thunder under the email that he had. I don't know anything about War Thunder, but the email he had, g j e-evacationmail.com I believe it is, there's receipts and things like that. There's activity on that email afterwards that's very interesting. If everyone thinks you're dead, what do you care? If you use the same email, your files aren't coming out. No one has access to your Gmail. So those are intriguing. And then the most intriguing for me is there's a YouTuber named Rusty Shackelford and he flew a drone over little St. James and he got like two hours of footage. 4K looks like great resolution. And as he flies around, he brings the drone over roughly the middle of the island. Ish. And there's some side by side sitting there. And the drone is positioned above these side by sides. And there's someone in one of the side by sides in the driver's seat who leans forward and looks up at the drone and then goes back in that side by side. And that person looked like an older gentleman with gray hair that met my threshold of this should be looked at. This is post death. And let me tell you something about that island, because I've been to it. If you wanted to hide somewhere, these intelligence people will hide in plain sight. It wouldn't be a bad option, especially if you have to clean up some loose ends with your computers or technical infrastructure, no one's going to think you're alive. And even if I came forward and I said he's alive and he's on that island, people would laugh at me. No way, man. No way. So it's not an unsafe place, particularly because you can stay there with extreme privacy. And the only way that you wouldn't have privacy is if someone has an aerial shot of you, which seems really unlikely. But this guy did. He flew this drone over. And you can watch this footage on Rumble. It's been taken down all over the Internet, but it's still up on Rumble as of today. Who knows if it'll still be up, but I'm sure people have preserved it. You can look and make your own decision. This is post death and pre AI, which meets our criteria. If it's after he died and before the introduction of large language models which can edit images. All right, we'll put that in. So you take all of these now in totality, from the passport to the conditions in the jail cell. The trust, the escape plan, the condition of the body when he is willed out on the gurney and walk your way all the way down. And then post life signals that carry some weight. The option with the fewest problems of the three is that he left that cell alive. And he left that cell alive. We want proof of life.

[Sean Ryan]

Do you think you'll ever find out?

[Ben Owen]

We're gonna try. Here's how we're gonna do it and are doing it. So Alex, my co founder and I work for Rewards for Justice. It's the federal government's rewards program for information about the who's who in the national security world of bad guys.

[Ryan Dalton]

Guys.

[Ben Owen]

It's a very effective program. Put out $5 million for Bob Bad guy. Say that you're took a different path in life and you're Sha Ryan. And you run a terrorist network and everyone that's in your staff here is part of your terrorist network. And then you wake up one day and you see on the news that there's $5 million reward for information about the location of Sean Ryan. What are you worried about?

[Sean Ryan]

A lot of things.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. You're worried about everyone that knows your eye color, your plate numbers, where you bed down. It creates incentives for betrayal within your network. It also restricts your freedom of movement and closes your horizons. You can't travel anymore, can't be on planes, can't be jet setting. You can't be driving around past marketplaces, going to see your associate friends. It makes the enemy adjust their TTPS. We don't have $5 million, but we do have is a lot of people that are mad about this. And we started the reward pool and put in 40,000 of our own money and people were contributing to this reward pool. If we're wrong, and I'm willing to be wrong, in fact I would prefer to be wrong, I take no satisfaction in being right about this. If we're wrong, every dollar in that reward pool goes to Ben's organization, We Fight Monsters to help people in trafficking and addiction. Every dollar for wrong and we can't prove it. But if we're right, that reward pool will grow and grow year over year as a long term commitment to justice and truth incentivize people to come forward. And if people have proof of life, we want direct observational evidence, not open source. I mean Ben is doing the open source side. My human collection side wants direct observational evidence. I was his driver, I was his gardener, I was his plastic surgeon. Those people, because his associates aren't going to care. Say we get it to a million dollars. Say some crazy person watching this who has a ton of money says I believe in this, then puts in $10 million. His associates don't care about that much money. They don't care. But you know who would care are all of the logistical parts of his life that have people that require they're required to hide someone. Gardeners, security, drivers, maids, plastic surgeons, people that know, and this is not a fringe belief that he's alive among his people in the Virgin Islands and people that you know went to high school with him, survivors of his crimes. So you build a reward pool big enough it becomes expensive to stay silent.

[Sean Ryan]

Where do people go with that?

[Ben Owen]

They can go to epsteinisintdead.org read the evidence, make your own conclusion. If you believe in this and you think you left that cell alive, consider the reward pool. The other thing that they can do is go to closedhorizon.com where we've created a marketplace for truth. We are tired of being lied to about everything and constant deception. Tired of it. There are questions that matter and are dangerous questions. If I'm right, this is a dangerous question. Close Horizon allows anyone to create a campaign and fund it like gofundme and pay sources for information. Whatever your question is, there's other questions out there that are dangerous questions. Who really killed Charlie Kirk? It's a dangerous question. They don't have to be big questions. They can be little ones too.

[Sean Ryan]

Who really killed jfk?

[Ben Owen]

Who killed jfk? These are big ones.

[Sean Ryan]

Where those files go. I mean, we were told they were going to release those files, right?

[Ben Owen]

Yeah. He campaigned on that, right? Trump did.

[Sean Ryan]

If my memory is correct. Yes, he did.

[Ben Owen]

Why is everything a lie? This is what I mean by an epistemological crisis. We have become accustomed to being lied to about everything.

[Sean Ryan]

Yeah, I know. Well, I hope you get to the bottom of this. That's some pretty compelling evidence that you've got there.

[Ben Owen]

We're not willing to give up on it. Can't, man. You can't give up on this one. Can't.

[Sean Ryan]

What's next for you guys?

[Ben Owen]

The other way that people can help here is we're calling for an Epstein Truth Commission. And if any members of Congress have the courage to reach out to us, we believe that there should be a Epstein Truth Commission. Like There was a 911 truth commission or 911 commission and a church committee after the JFK assassination. Now, there's problems with those, sure. But the FBI has fully abdicated its duty to investigate this completely. There's no reason that Ann Rodriguez, based on my reading, shouldn't be charged under the Mann act and the sex trafficking statute for procuring people and bringing them to the islands for illegal sexual activity. That's a low hanging fruit one. That's the island manager, not a billionaire. That's an easy one. That's the sacrificial lamb. Brought people to that island for the purpose of illegal sexual activity. Harbored and transported for child victims for commercial sex. Something of value was exchanged for a commercial for a sex act. So if there's no FBI and DOJ who's willing to do this? In this administration, we need a long term commitment to justice from our federal government.

[Sean Ryan]

I'm still trying to figure out how somebody gets gets arrested for sex trafficking when there's. Who do you traffic to?

[Ben Owen]

To nobody. Sean, Delaine and Epstein didn't traffic them to anybody. Believe that and go back to bread and circus.

[Sean Ryan]

I can't wait for that UFC fight.

[Ben Owen]

Let's go, baby.

[Sean Ryan]

But it's going to be a real good one.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah, The stakes are high. I think people have to wake up to that,

[Ryan Dalton]

Man.

[Sean Ryan]

Well, Ryan, I really appreciate what you're doing, man. Thanks for coming in.

[Ben Owen]

I have something for you.

[Sean Ryan]

Oh, what?

[Ben Owen]

I got Ben gave you the We Fight Monsters flag. This is the Closed Horizon flag that we brought to the island. So you got two.

[Sean Ryan]

Oh, man. Thank you.

[Ben Owen]

That's our. Our logo is a reticle in the north compass. A compass with the north indicated.

[Sean Ryan]

Love it.

[Ben Owen]

Truth Gotta find truth. I have another gift for you. My understanding is as you were reading the Stoics. Is that right? Who's your favorite?

[Sean Ryan]

Marcus Aurelius.

[Ben Owen]

Marcus Aurelius, the OG Stoic?

[Sean Ryan]

That's right. My interview yesterday was about this.

[Ben Owen]

Yeah.

[Ryan Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben Owen]

He's made a generational impact on the lives of men. Be like the promontory upon which the ways continually crash while they're lulled to sleep at your feet. It's how a man should be. And you're one of those men. And this is a Roman denarius with the depiction of Marcus Aurelius on it. And I give that to you as a fellow truth seeker. You have the courage to say things here that other people won't say. It was given to me by a truth seeker. I pass it to you as a truth seeker. That is saying things that other people are afraid to say. Won't say that matter. And maybe one day you'll pass it along to another truth seeker and you'll have a long legacy of truth seekers who have owned that coin.

[Sean Ryan]

I will. Thank you, man. Ryan, I wish you the best of luck. And if you come across anything else, let me know. I'd love to have you and Ben and anybody else back that's in on this.

[Ben Owen]

We'd love to come back.

[Sean Ryan]

All right, brother. God bless.

[Ben Owen]

Thanks, Sean.

[Sean Ryan]

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