Haven’t done a culture post in a while, and longtime readers know I only send out the very best pre-screened selections when I make a culture post.

Today, I’m sharing (above, youtube player inset) the best piece I’ve seen from the hidden media genre, which shows how people treat the less fortunate when they think no one is watching.

Take 17 minutes to watch this, it’ll offset all the war, murder, lies and debauchery that clog your timeline and queue.

At least for a couple days.

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Previously on J425 Culture:

Now they needed to find the driver, the cop said. And arrest her for attempted murder.

LAKE STEVENS — The car turned up in Steilacoom (suburban Tacoma), six days after she stole it out of my Lake Stevens garage.

“You know it’s not driveable right? They told you it’s not driveable,” the detective declared.

I say nothing.

The Type of Laugh You Don’t Wanna Hear

You generally don’t expect to get your car stolen by someone you know.

And if you do, it’s hard to imagine that you’ll spend days upon days texting and voice memo’ing the hell out of her, attempting every tactic possible in an attempt to get the car back.

But all you’ll get a is a sparse extremely unfunny laugh.

The type of laugh you don’t wanna hear from someone who knows they can ruin you or save you…

Totally depending on their whim.

You don’t generally imagine that the person who stole your car also stole your guns.

But the EDC you store in the glove box (Glock 43x 9mm MOS with Shield red dot optic) is gone.

And the Glock 20 (10mm) with its KRISS Vector mag made for shooting Larry Bird numbers?

Nowhere to be found.

• Your new Oakley shades are gone. Third pair this year, after a six year run of not losing any shades. What happened Kev?

• And they stole your wallet. Which has your Real ID.

• And your DJI Mini 3 Drone… and controller are gone.

Brace yourself. You think she saved anything for you? (She laughs that cold laugh.)

• Your beloved FUJIFILM camera is gone.

• The underrated Fuji 50-200 mm zoom you sourced outta Kenmore is gone.

• The great kit lens and the Peak Design camera bag stuffed with. high end memory cards, extra batteries and a 1 TB HDD flash drive? Gone,

And honestly it’s best that you couldn’t have imagined any of this occurring.

Because what a hell you’d be in… if you just thought this sorta thing up organically, amiright?

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I Was Actually Feeling Pretty Good About Things

Like we talked about up top, the car turned up in Steilacoom six days after she stole it out of my garage.

Officer Dustin Hulbrock with the Steilacoom boys in blue found it Fathers Day afternoon and he gave me a call as he approached.

He lets me know that my 2015 BMW M235ix …that was reported stolen Friday was spotted at a waterfront park in Steilacoom.

Hulbrock and his partner watched online as the stolen BMW cleared a nearby intersection and arrived at the park an hour earlier.

A slim, short light skinned girl hopped out of the drivers seat. Three dudes folded themselves outta the rest of the coupe.

So that’s how it was… as the sun set on Father’s Day…that I was actually feeling pretty good about things.

My car had been found after all — and that wasn’t a given. Better yet, Hulbrock relayed that he saw no obvious problems with the body or interior.

And then he abruptly cut off. “There she is.”

“Gotta go,” Hulbrock said, “Call ya in a few.”

“I’m So Sorry Bro.”

An hour and twenty minutes later, hearing nothing, I called Steilacoom PD. Once, twice. Nada.

Eventually Hulbrock calls back.

“I’m so sorry bro.”

You don’t generally imagine that a girl you know is gonna steal your car. out of your garage.

Or that your car will be chock full of your best tools and weapons when stolen.

You dont imagine that said girl will refuse to give you a clear answer to any question for days on end.

You pepper her with charm, anger, reasoning, fantasy.

Surely she’s gonna give it back right?

“Give it back and you won’t be charged,” I text her. And I mean it.

“Hah charged for what? I don’t have your stupid car,” she spews.

I run her utterance through the Thieving Miscreant-to-American English translator.

It comes out as “I have your car.”

“We Had Her Hemmed In. At Least I Thought We Did.”

But this time she’d told the truth, the first time. Halle-effin-llujah. The thief really didn’t have it.

But that’s because she’d given it to the girl in Steilacoom, who had my car now.

And the girl in Steilacoom, who we’ll soon learn isn’t about to be taken alive….she just slipped through the pair of deputies who sought her on foot… making it back to the M235's spot in the parking lot, auto doors clicking open as she reached proximity…throaty straight six growling after she sparked the ignition button.

“We had her hemmed in,” Hulbrock told me on the phone. “At least I thought we did,” he trailed off.

The young woman driving my stolen car wasn’t about to be taken into custody at the beach on this bucolic Fathers Day evening.

“I thought she was gonna get me,” Hulbrock said. “She drove right at me.”

The officer dodged a direct, possibly fatal impact and absorbed a glancing blow from the 320 horsepower German rocket.

Picking himself up off the blacktop, Hulbrock had raced for his patrol car as the girl jammed the accelerator through the floor …and the BMW accelerated at a pace commensurate with its sub-four second 0-60 time.

In a public beach parking lot. On a warm Fathers Day evening. The girl touched 75. By the time she hit the side streets of Lakewood she topped 110 mph.

“She Got Away”

The Steilacoom cops, mindful of the Sunday afternoon family-out-for-Fathers-Day vibe…and likely memo’d on the spate of fatal high speed chases that have ended up splatted on walls and jersey barriers around Pierce County this year…had to call off the chase.

“So sorry dude. She got away.”

“That car was fast,”Hulbrock muttered…before remembering it was actually my car. “That car was fast…as you know.”

“So anyway,” I begin. Lame AF.

“So we’re gonna keep looking, but she is out of our jurisdiction now,” Hulbrock said. “So…”

“We found it. We found your car.”

Three hours later my phone rang. Hulbrock again.

“We found it. We found your car.”

The nice guy that he is, Officer Hulbrock was happy for me. Like legitimately happy.

Evidently, he and his partner had stewed over the car that got away for the entirety of their shift. It honestly seemed to me like Hulbrock was more upset that he didn’t detain the car and driver the first try than he was that the driver had tried to run him down.

But at the end of the night?

The black beamer M class had shown up on location. And Hulbrock and his partner took possession of my car and arranged for it to be towed to their station.

Now they just needed to find the driver, Hulbrock said.

And arrest her for attempted murder.

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You’re aware that the car isn’t driveable right?

If a girl you know steals your car, you probably don’t think she’ll keep it for long.

But she will.

She’ll keep it for a week while messing with you over message.

She’ll clean out your possessions and all visible traces of her…and then she’ll call a cousin or a buddy in Lakewood…and if you’re watching traffic cams in Renton early Sunday morning, you’ll seen a charcoal two door BMW coupe rocketing its way south outta Renton.

“This is Greg, I’m the Detective assigned,” the voice stated, leaving some room for a noun to be named later.

“You’re aware that the car isn’t driveable right? The officers let you know that the rear axle snapped?”

This was news to me. Bad news.

(Cut to a ticker tracking the real time increase in the National Debt.)

“And we’re gonna hold on to her for a little while. Just until we get this case squared away. Gotta get a warrant (Hey it’s my car, I can just give you permission)…

“I like where your head’s at but I can’t cut corners,” Greg says, “Gotta get a forensic expert…and a tech guy…”

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You go to bed last Tuesday and everything seems ok

And that’s really where things stand today. My car sits in Steilacoom (Tacoma).

Stripped to the frame of personal belongings.

Rear axle snapped.

Seized by a judge as evidence in the case against one of the drivers.

Even if the car is released from evidence any time soon, it’s gonna be an expensive repair.

And in the meantime, the tools used to do this work are gone.

You go to bed last Tuesday and everything seems ok. Sometime between 7:00 and 8:00 am Wednesday, my BMW M235ix shot up my driveway, turned left on Vernon and headed south towards Kent, leaving behind its rightful owner.

In the time that’s ensued, new and very disturbing realities have entered the frame.

Someone you know might steal your car. And keep it from you as you search for them.

And go through all your belongings (well, they aren’t “yours” anymore are they?)’’.

And then — instead of returning the car to you —they hand it off to someone else.

And that someone else tries to murder a cop with your car, then cracks the wheel right off of the axle while doing 120 mph on a high speed chase… on Father’s Day.

(The car is not driveable.)

It’s definitely not what you imagined. It’s more like a waking nightmare. But.

They’re just things. (A lot of em.) And things can be replaced. (At great cost.)

But the feeling you had before you knew this was possible?

That’s never coming back.

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It’s been a year of growth and accolades.

Teachers Who Prey: J425 Identifies Two High School Coaches Attempting Sex with Students

Convicted Child Sex Predator Julian Willis landed in jail after J425 reporting identified at least eight victims across four states.

Our series on teachers who prey on students — “Predators in Public School” earned second place honors in the respected nation-wide industry-led LION Journalistic Impact Awards. Further, both teachers we outed as predatory lost their jobs. One is currently in jail.

J425 Breaks the Roosevelt Recruiting Story

After witnessing an area 7v7 coach and trainer offer illegal benefits to student athletes and illegally recruit a Lake Stevens football player, J425 confronted the trainer in question — Tracy Ford of Ford Sports Performance and began work on an investigative project that resulted in our series on recruiting violations at Seattle’s Roosevelt High School. Our reporting broke the story over a month before other area media took notice.

J425’s original reporting identified some 20 area players with ties to FSP who’d transferred into Roosevelt prior to the 2024 season. We also directly took Ford to task for disparaging local coaches and imply to Black players that 425-area football was soft… and that Black players couldn’t trust non-black coaches. Last week, the WIAA announced major recruiting violations and fines handed down against Roosevelt, its coaches and players.

An independent fact finder hired by the WIAA board substantiated the major points of J425’s initial reporting, stating that Roosevelt’s head coach, athletic director and principal were all complicit in the fraudulent use of Federal homeless student designations that — among other things — circumvented state transfer rules and nullified eligibility standards regarding minimum GPA and attendance rates that are typically applied to every student athlete.

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A Five Year Investigation Pulls the Curtains Back on An Ugly, Unsolved Extrajudicial Killing

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Editor’s Note - From a media and government criticism point-of-view, I’ve followed the Epstein matter since 2008. Unredacted “Epstein files” began to leak via civil litigation around 2010. Via civil leaks and the reporting of guys like Nick Bryant, this stuff is already out there. J425 is sharing a couple full files today, both to prove that the supposed transparency going on at the federal level is a charade, and to show that this information is already out there for those who choose to look. - KTH

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK — Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Donald Trump. Prince Andrew. Chris Tucker. Kevin Spacey. Alan Dershowitz. Steven Pinker. Larry Summers. Bill Richardson. John Podesta. A Soros or two. These are just a few of the names included on authentic Epstein contact lists and flight logs published on J425 today. Some names are clients. Some are potential witnesses or victims. Some are neighbors. But all are authenticated. And it’s names like these that keep people interested in the release of files related to the expired blackmailer. But a lot of this stuff was actually released over a decade ago.

That’s why one day after the supposed release of “the Epstein files” fizzled into the bizarre charade of a few conservative influencers getting handed binders that included redacted, partial excerpts of files… …J425 writes to remind readers that the full Epstein Black Book and flight logs have been passed around internet and media circles for over a decade. These unredacted resources provide a much better look at the Epstein network than whatever edited file the government intends to release. 

We’re just gonna cut to the chase and give you these two complete “Epstein files” today.

J425 subscribers can download and view both The Epstein Black Book — a contact list which contains 227 names, over 50 of which were circled as people of interest by a former Epstein butler — and the 72-page unredacted flight log and passenger manifest for the so-called “Lolita Express” — Epstein’s private plane. 

Both files are included in their entirety at the bottom of this post for J425 subscribers

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Who is Jeffrey Epstein?

Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender who reportedly operated a multi-national blackmail ring for unknown masters. Epstein cultivated an elite social circle and procured many women and children whom he and his associates sexually abused. Born and raised in New York City, Epstein began his professional career as a teacher at the Dalton School, despite lacking a college degree.

After his dismissal from the school in 1976, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles before starting his own firm.

Interestingly, Epstein was hired for his teaching job by Donald Barr, a supposedly retired American intelligence agent working as principal of the elite boarding school. Donald Barr is the father of CIA agent and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr. Bill Barr was an active CIA operative in 1976, the time frame when Epstein left teaching and entered international finance.

By the time he was 35, Epstein gained power of attorney over the affairs of Les Wexner, a billionaire retail magnate who apparently gifted Epstein a plane and a $61 million dollar New York townhouse.

The Roots of the Epstein Federal Prosecution

In understanding the Federal connection to Epstein, and what files the DOJ possesses, it’s important to understand the roots of the initial Epstein case.

In 2005, Palm Beach Police began looking into Epstein after a local parent alleged that Epstein assaulted their 14-year-old daughter.

In doing so, Michael Reiter, the former Palm Beach Police chief was lighting the wick that ultimately exploded in Epstein’s mysterious 2019 death in Federal custody. The Palm Beach investigation found numerous additional underage victims and eventually led to a Federal case that resulted in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 federal non-prosecution agreement (NPA). 

Reiter got the initial tip from a parent who reported Epstein molested her 14-year-old daughter. Reiter and his lead detective, Joseph Recarey identified dozens of potential victims—girls as young as 14—interviewed them, and built a solid case, uncovering a pattern of Epstein paying for sexual “massages” at his Palm Beach mansion.

By 2006, they’d compiled enough evidence to push for serious charges, like sexual assault, and Reiter personally took it to the Palm Beach State Attorney, Barry Krischer. Krischer slow-walked it, treating the victims more like willing participants than trafficking targets, and only pursued a single prostitution-related charge.

Frustrated, Reiter didn’t stop—he bypassed Krischer and handed the case to the FBI in 2006, hoping federal muscle would deliver real justice.

Reiter was ultimately sidelined when the feds took over, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office under Alex Acosta let Epstein plead to state charges with a slap-on-the-wrist 13-month sentence—complete with work release every day in his Palm Beach mansion—while signing off on a federal non-prosecution deal.

Reiter later called it a betrayal of the victims, telling the Miami Herald in 2018 that he was “shocked” and “disappointed” at how the feds let it fizzle out after his department’s groundwork. He’d handed them a grenade, and they pulled the pin but didn’t throw it.

The Epstein Black Book (included below)

Epstein’s contact list aka “The Epstein Black Book” surfaced in court proceedings that followed the initial federal case described above after Epstein's former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez tried to sell it in 2009. About 50 of the entries were circled by Rodriguez, a notation that supposedly marked victims, witnesses and clients.

According to an FBI affidavit included above, Rodriguez described the address book and the information contained within it as the "Holy Grail" or "Golden Nugget" to unraveling Epstein's sprawling child-sex network.

Rodriguez famously spent more time in prison than Epstein for the crime of attempting to sell the black book to attorneys launching lawsuits at Epstein on behalf of his victims.

Rodriguez died in 2014 after a long illness. He never spoke out about the address book, so the precise significance of the names he circled remains fuzzy. But during a conversation with an undercover FBI agent posing as a potential buyer, he "discussed in detail the information contained in the book, and identified important information" to the agent.

Circled entries include:

• Alan Dershowitz

• Billionaire Leslie Wexner (owner of The Limited and Victoria’s Secret)

• Former New Mexico Governor Bruce King

• Former New Mexico Governor and and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson

• Peter Soros, the nephew of George Soros

• Former Miss Sweden and socialite New York City doctor Eva Andersson Dubin

Some of the circled entries include additional notes—one address in New York City, for instance, is marked as an "apt. for models," and two names bear the marking "witness."

Asked why he was included, Alan Dershowitz1 told the magazine Gawker, "I've never seen the book and I have no idea what it means. I was neither a victim nor a material witness—I never witnessed any crimes or participated in any crimes, and I can prove it."

President Donald Trump is included in the Black Book but not the flight logs.

Trump, through a spokesperson, said in 2015, "Mr. Trump only knew Mr. Epstein as Mr. Trump owned the hottest and most luxurious club in Palm Beach and Mr. Epstein would go there on occasion until Mr. Trump removed him from the premises." Trump famously banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago over his treatment of a guest’s daughter.

Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew have been previously connected to Epstein via Federal testimony of reported Epstein victims. Their names aren't circled in the black book, but both appear heavily in flight logs to Epstein’s Little St. James Island.

Epstein noted 21 contact numbers and various email addresses for Clinton, as well as several contact numbers for the prince.

Epstein Flight Logs - The Lolita Express

Former President Bill Clinton took more than 50 trips on the "Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—according to flight logbooks originally obtained by the defunct magazine Gawker.

The logs show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with convicted child sex trafficker and Epstein fixer Ghislaine Maxwell, who federal prosecutors proved procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his guests.

Before his arrest and later death in custody, Epstein settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims, the youngest of whom was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.

One of these victims, Virginia Roberts, claimed in a federal court filing that Epstein recruited her as a "sex slave" at the age of 15 and "sexually trafficked [her] to politically-connected and financially-powerful people," including Prince Andrew and attorney Alan Dershowitz.

Maxwell, the daughter of the media mogul Robert Maxwell (who died in a bizarre yachting accident2), was accused by Roberts of photographing Epstein's victims "in sexually explicit poses and [keeping] the child pornography on her computer," and "engag[ing] in lesbian sex with the underage females she procured for Epstein."

Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of child sex trafficking in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. She refused to testify about Epstein clients.

According to the logs, Clinton shared Epstein's plane with Maxwell on at least 11 flights in 2002 and 2003—before any of the allegations against them became public—according to the pilots' logbooks, which surfaced in civil litigation surrounding Epstein's crimes.

In January 2002, for instance, Clinton (story continues and files are attached after the jump)

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Epstein Little Black Book Unredacted

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LAKE STEVENS — What I’ve got for you today: the moment when a popular youtuber / amateur physicist takes advantage of the fact that’s he’s got the entire NASA manned-moon voyage team sitting in front of him with nowhere to go. I suppose they were expecting a team building speech or something but what they get instead is a startling wake up call.

And that’s why we all need to watch this. Because we’re being told that we’ve basically misplaced the way to the moon.

Excuses like “we threw away the notes” are passed off as legit when NASA engineers are pressed on why they are having difficulty conceiving a redux of the Apollo missions — feats that we completed almost 50 years ago!!!

And the fact that we no longer have access to key data from the Apollo mission isn’t the headline here.

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Penn Cove Brewing Company – the award-winning Whidbey-based brewery is set to open a new Lake Stevens taproom, bar and restaurant in newly-renovated digs.

The celebrated brewers have acquired the turnkey brewery location of since-closed Meatheads and are undergoing renovations ahead of a September 2023 opening.

According to documents filed with the City …

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Today we return to NF, whose new video was the most watched Youtube content on Earth ye…

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Lake Stevens School District Superintendent Ken Collins visited Liza Watkins' class at Sunnycrest Elementary School earlier this month to read to students.

The book of choice? "Sitka Rose” by Alaskan author Shelley Gill.

We thought we better t…

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The classified ad and the obituaries aren’t the only things to, um, die since the print version of the newspaper went belly up.

To be fair, it’s not…

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