Hello,

welcome to Straightwide American Jesus hosted in partnership

with the CAP Center at the University of California

Santa Barbara.

My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor

Religious Studies, Skidmore College.

And I'm joined today by Ann Nelson, who has been on our show before, as part of the Orange Wave

series, but has been kind enough to return and enlighten us once again.

Anne is a journalist and actually so many other things for her work has received a Livingston

Award for Journalism, a Guggenheim Fellowship for

Historical Research, a Bilageo Fellowship

for Research on the Social Impact of Digital Media.

Graduate of Yale began her career as a journalist

in the United States and abroad, won an Associated Church Press Award for her

writing in the conflict in Central America.

Taut at Columbia University in various capacities has had an association with Bard College that we were just talking about.

And today we are talking once again about her incredible book, Shadow Network,

Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right.

And Anne, first of all, thanks for coming back and thanks for taking the time to talk to me.

My pleasure, Mad.

I was just telling you before we started recording that one of the reasons I wanted to have you back is two full or I actually have two reasons for wanting to have you back.

One is I want folks to understand the network of donors, financiers, media moguls,

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