492 // Scout Camp w/ James Renner

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna speak with author James Renner about his new book Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America. In this timely and deeply personal true crime memoir, acclaimed journalist, author, creator of the True Crime This Week podcast, and former Boy Scout James Renner, explores the dark side of an American institution, its pervasive culture of sexual abuse, and the traumatic—even deadly—repercussions of its long-buried secrets. Scout Camp on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Scout-Camp-Secret-Societies-America/dp/0806543329. James's site: https://jamesrenner.com. James's podcast: https://truecrimethisweek.com/podcast/. IG: https://www.instagram.com/manfromprimroselane/. X: https://twitter.com/JamesRenner. FB: https://www.facebook.com/james.renner.14/. Follow us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. YT: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace. Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod. FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt. The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound. Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?
0:33.1	I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. The guests that we have on, he's been on a number of times, and every time he comes on,
0:39.8	he's always bringing a topic that really puts a lot of things into perspective and makes you
0:45.4	appreciate the world in which we live in.
0:49.3	He always has surprises, and his latest book is just a continuation of that.
0:56.1	But Tim, I would like to briefly continue this conversation by asking you how you're doing
1:00.4	today.
1:01.2	I'm doing great.
1:01.9	Thanks a lot for asking.
1:03.4	And yes, very excited to introduce this conversation with author James Renner.
1:09.0	And James Renner is really no stranger to these airwaves,
1:14.0	especially way back in the day when this podcast originally began back in 2015,
1:21.7	2016, those days, because we were all working on the disappearance of Mora Murray.
1:32.9	But now, Lance, that is not the case with what James is doing.
1:35.7	And he has written a new book.
1:42.7	It is called Scout Camp, Sex, Death, and Secret Societies inside the Boy Scouts of America.
1:53.6	And this is James' new true crime book in which he writes in first person with a well-defined voice.
1:58.1	And he really gets personal in this book.
2:01.6	This is definitely his most personal book.
2:10.5	He goes into such explicit detail about abuses and secret rituals and secret societies in such a brave and, I guess, timely fashion.
2:15.6	I mean, the back of the book literally says timely, brave, and deeply personal.
2:19.3	So that's all you really need to know going into this other than that's one of the most
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