Ross Douthat

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293 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 2 Dec

Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Ezra Klein Show · Interesting Times: She Exposed Epstein and Shares MAGA’s Anger · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

But that does explain how rich he got. matched

Right. matched

Wexner is a billionaire and he, I guess, makes money. matched

tens or hundreds of millions just matched

this connection. matched

Does that does that seem plausible to you? matched

Like, do you feel like the Wexner connection, even if why Wexner loved him is a mystery, suffices to explain how much money he seemed to have by the end of the 1990s, let's say? matched

again, these all of these stories are, you know, when we had our fact checking team look at this script, you know, they were like, well, this is a supposition. matched

This is secondhand. matched

This is hearsay. matched

Right. matched

So you have you have this narrative before he meets Wexner starting in the 1980s. matched

He's really good at sort of moving money around the world. matched

in sort of complex international environments, matched

one of the, again, secondhand stories is that he does work for Adnan Khashoggi, the fairly famous arms dealer in the 1980s, right? matched

So there's this sort of mythos around him as a kind of fixer. matched

And you said that he was really good at giving people what they wanted, right? matched

And you've seen these stories that are like people would come to him with some impossible problem, allegedly, like... matched

I'm making this one up, right? matched

But, you know, I have a fleet of Mercedes, you know, somewhere in Tibet, and matched

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