In this special episode, I share something very different from my usual show: an original three-and-a-half-minute short film and spoken-word piece, "The Dark Night of the Soul," created in response to the Epstein files to capture that moment when you realize the system was never what you thought. It's a visual poem about seeing the names on the list, children treated like cattle, the masks coming off, and asking why they're showing us their cards now — and whether we'll go back to bread and circuses or turn off the distractions, stand together under God, and refuse to look away. I also explain why this could be a rare unifying moment and how it ties into my upcoming Survivor Stories series with victims of ritual abuse and trafficking.

There was something that shifted inside me when the Epstein files dropped.

I know I wasn't alone.

For years, we've been watching this system reveal itself piece by piece — the lies, the cover-ups, the way powerful people protect each other no matter what they've done. But the Epstein files felt different. This wasn't just another news cycle. This was the final nail in the coffin of the political system. The moment when the illusion became impossible to maintain.

And for the first time in a long time, I saw something I didn't expect: unity.

Not the surface-level, temporary kind. Real unity. I've had people that are very, very opposite on the political spectrum to my core beliefs — people I never thought I'd find common ground with — come to me and we're talking. Actually talking. Not tiptoeing around political land mines hoping we don't cause a fight and not speak for six months. Actually talking about real things.

It was the first time that a real unity started to develop between the various political camps in this country.

And then, almost on cue, the headlines shifted. A war started dominating every screen. People's attention moved — which, okay, makes sense. It's a really big event. But whether the war was created as a way to pull people's attention away from the Epstein files — which I'm sure it was not that simple — whether that was the intention or not, it accomplished that.

And I felt something urgent rise up in me: we can't lose this momentum. We cannot lose it.