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

**Shawn Ryan** (0:00)
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**Shawn Ryan** (2:19)
Ben Owen.

**Ben Owen** (2:19)
Shawn Ryan.

**Shawn Ryan** (2:20)
Welcome back, man.

**Ben Owen** (2:21)
Thanks for having me, dude.

**Shawn Ryan** (2:23)
What's 777?

**Ben Owen** (2:24)
So, 777 is the address of our, what is gonna be our treatment center. 777 South Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee.

**Shawn Ryan** (2:32)
Oh, shit.

**Ben Owen** (2:33)
Perfect number, isn't it?

**Shawn Ryan** (2:34)
It is, man.

**Ben Owen** (2:34)
I just love it. I love it.

**Shawn Ryan** (2:35)
That's awesome.

**Ben Owen** (2:37)
A direct result of our last episode.

**Shawn Ryan** (2:40)
Is that the school?

**Ben Owen** (2:42)
No, so it actually was opened up as a brewery right after World War II, and then 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. A 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 building that you need, and so now we have it.

**Shawn Ryan** (3:13)
Congratulations.

**Ben Owen** (3:14)
Thank you.

**Shawn Ryan** (3:15)
So you 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.

**Ben Owen** (3:31)
That's right.

**Shawn Ryan** (3:32)
What the fuck?

**Ben Owen** (3:35)
What?

**Ryan Dalton** (3:35)
So what?

**Ben Owen** (3:38)
Oh, gracious.

**Shawn Ryan** (3:39)
Give me a brief summary and then I'll intro you.

**Ben Owen** (3:43)
So a brief summary. All right. Well, as brief as I can make it, you have a lot of really cool people to 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 the student 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. I was 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 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 them. You know, something that large doesn't just die because they say he died, you know, and one person got arrested like this. That's not how this works. So, right.