Well, this is this is a big one special edition. It's special edition normally. We're goofing around. Yeah, we've never been more ashamed to let somebody into our studio

This is he came in. I was like a lady. I was like, well, sorry. It's so messy here

We're here with Nick Bryant. He's the author of the Franklin scandal and

Confessions of a madame. Yes, confessions of DC madame. He's a fashions of a DC madame. The politics of sex lies in black. Yes. God damn

Oh, pull that back. You speak a little more into the mic

Um

So what you were just saying is how you got involved in in the Franklin scandal at the very beginning

So let's yeah, let's jump right in. Yeah, I was talking to an editor at Rolling Stone and he said pitch me dark stories and

You know, I said just kind of throwing my hands up there. So well, I mean, what do you want to do on a story on Nazis?

You want to story on Sataness? I mean, what do you want and he goes Satanists? That sounds good

So I

started this whole Odyssey this very dark Odyssey. I was talking to Satanists

and

They struck me as they didn't strike me as very ethical people. Yeah, I'm actually quite honest and I felt like I had to wash my hands

You know after I hung out with them. Yeah, but anyway, so and then I was trolling the internet looking for

subject matter. I mean when you're gonna write something you try to get as much information as you can and then distill it

And then I came across a cult called the finders that had been busted by the US customs for

Trafficking children

They had six kids in Tallahassee, Arizona and some concerned citizens called

Tallahassee Police Department and the Tallahassee Police Department

Arrested the two finders and put the six kids in protective custody and the two finders were

Arrained on multiple counts of challenges multiple counts and they were held at a hundred thousand dollar bond

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