In this transmission, Poolhouse looks at the public reaction to the Epstein affair through two contrasting responses from within the music industry. One artist—Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast—cuts ties with Casey Wasserman’s talent agency after his name appears in the files. Another—Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells—chooses to remain and publicly explains why.

Poolhouse analyzes how the profound darkness of the Epstein affair is flattened by a media market determined to process its malevolence through a reductive “MeToo” lens. At the heart of his inquiry is the very impulse to rush to judgment: the speed of accusation, the hunger to center one’s own victimhood and perform performative activism through public relations, and the timeless ritual of public blame.

Through the lens of Romans 2:1, Poolhouse asks whether the rush to judgment obscures a harder truth—that participation in modern civilization requires an unspeakable violence, one that may implicate us all to varying degrees.

What if righteousness requires temperance? What if understanding demands that we confront not only individual wrongdoing, but the larger machine we collectively sustain? This episode explores complicity, conscience, and the difficult discipline of withholding condemnation in an age addicted to it.

Ways to Find Poolhouse (maybe):

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that iconic “Yung Poolhouse” image everyone loves (to hate):

Source inspo: Poolhouse’s iconic “Rare Alt Unabomber” avatar

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Romans 2:1

Best Coast’s Beth Cosentino’s statement on the Casey Wasserman affair:

Please note that the fact that Casey Wasserman dated Ghislaine Maxwell from 2001-2003 has been public knowledge for two decades. Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted for her role in the Epstein affair in 2022. Four years elapsed before any artists cited the Epstein-Mazwell connection as the reason for their departure from Wasserman’s agency.

Alexis Krauss (Slay Bells) statement on why she isn’t leaving Wasserman (full statement here).

The left responded to Krauss with their trademark cunty attidues:

Let us know how all that organizing goes, you miserable fucks! 😛

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