Most people at some point in their lives will be vulnerable to this kind of thing.

So whether they join or not depends on whether they come in contact with a high control group like the 12 tribes.

It's more a matter of luck than bad judgment.

Hello, hello everyone and welcome on the edge. You might be thinking Andrew sounds different today and I'm not doing that thing

where I talk in the third person because I've become a lunatic I was just sort of saying what you might be thinking

because I sound different and that's because I have come back to my family home for a few days in London because I am doing some

interviews in person.

So you know where I actually live is a couple of hours away from London and I can't really ask people to come out there so people come to London and it's a pleasure being back.

But I don't have my microphone so I'm just using my phone for this and then trying to make the audio better.

I have no idea how it's going to sound but that's not what you're all here gathered for today.

What you're here for is to hear from Tim Elliot, an investigative journalist at the

Sydney Morning Herald, and he has an original true crime podcard called inside the tribe, so I do recommend

you give that a listen. It's fascinating. It's about a young Sydney couple who disappeared for 13 years.

When I say Sydney I should just, I mean the city that's in Australia, not just like a couple where somebody's called

Sydney or something because I know some Sydney's myself and that's Sydney with a sea.

Anyway this Sydney couple disappeared for 13 years into a secretive Christian fundamentalist sect called the 12 tribes and were hidden in different locations around the world.

Their story is insane, the tribes is headquartered in North Carolina. the the UK. They have been investigated by the FBI, German authorities and the New South

Wales Police for Child Abuse, Labor violations, medical neglect, alleged murder and burying

stillborn babies on their rural properties in Australia.

It is just the most mad podcast, mad story,

really strange, weird tribe, the 12 tribes.

So I hope that this is of interest to you and Tim's a fascinating speaker and has an Australian accent and he even went in to a studio to do this, a studio in Sydney that is to do this with me remotely so it's going to sound and

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