Blindboy, Part 2: Where Have All the Good Men Gone?

About this episode

In this episode, Blindboy discusses the concept of being 'one of the good ones' amidst a historical context of sexual blackmail and criminality.

In Part 2, Matt and Chris return to Blindboy, now broadcasting from a solar-powered podcast and therefore morally unimpeachable. The darkness, however, remains. Having established in Part 1 that the global elite are a vampiric class of depraved blackmailers who traffic children and delight in cruelty, in Part 2, Blindboy offers us some welcome relief in the form of answering the question of what it looks like to be one of the good ones. You may be surprised to learn that it involves a missing dressing room, muddy socks, and a loyalty to small-time promoters that some might call heroic. The episode also traces an ambitious historical arc: from street gangs in 1800s Limerick to the New York underworld, Meyer Lansky, Roy Cohn, CIA brothels and LSD interrogation programmes, and eventually to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. The connecting thread is a continuous tradition of sexual blackmail passed from master to apprentice that has, apparently, been quietly guiding Western (criminal) civilisation for the better part of two centuries. Matt and Chris sift through the historical material, examine the leaps required to keep the chain intact, and consider whether a conspiracy hypothesis…

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt, Chris

Guest: Blindboy

Topics covered

• sexual blackmail
• historical analysis
• good vs evil
• criminal civilization
• cultural critique

Keywords

• Blindboy
• sexual blackmail
• historical arc
• Limerick
• New York underworld
• Donald Trump
• Jeffrey Epstein
• CIA brothels
• LSD interrogation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CIA

Places: Limerick

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