Are There Risks to Traveling Abroad Now? (w/ David Pakman)
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
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| 0:24.5 | it a fellow YouTuber. I'm still uncomfortable with the title, but maybe you're more comfortable |
| 0:28.8 | with it. He's the author of The Echo Machine, how right-wing extremism created a post-truth |
| 0:34.4 | America. It's David Packman. What's up, man? Good to be here with you. |
| 0:38.7 | You, I want to get to the book, but first, you had a provocative video, maybe yesterday, |
| 0:45.7 | titled, I've been warned, do not leave the country. And I just, I want to be up front. I was like, |
| 0:52.4 | when I first saw it come across my feed, I was like, |
| 0:55.4 | okay, you know, like, let's not scare people unnecessarily. Like, I don't want to overdo it. |
| 1:00.4 | I do plan to leave the country soon. And so I was like, we could do a funny video when it's like |
| 1:05.5 | Miller. I do plan to leave the country for vacation. Like, you know, not really, not permanently. |
| 1:10.4 | But as I watched it, |
| 1:11.9 | I realized your situation is different from mine in a very meaningful way. And so I wanted to talk |
| 1:17.2 | it through with you because I think that this is something that people are really kind of trying |
| 1:21.7 | to process and do threat assessment on. And so I just figured we'd, you know, work it out. So for |
| 1:27.4 | people who've not seen the video, you know, work it out. So for people who've not seen |
| 1:28.1 | the video, you know, give a little summary of why your situation might be a little unique. |
| 1:33.3 | Well, I was not born in the U.S. So I'm a naturalized U.S. citizen. I've had citizenship |
| 1:38.3 | 20 something years. But this is a new world in which naturalized citizens have now been stopped and harassed or |
| 1:48.9 | intimidated at the border, been asked and told to turn over devices. There was a story of a |
| 1:54.4 | lawyer coming over. I think it was in Vermont from Canada back to the United States. A crossing |
| 1:59.0 | I've done 30 times growing up, going to Montreal to States. A crossing I've done, you know, 30 times growing up, |
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