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QAA Podcast

Episode 238: Sound of Freedom feat. Dave Anthony, Anna Merlan, and Tim Marchman

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

News

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

After years of delays, the film “Sound of Freedom'' has finally hit theaters. The movie stars majorly pilled QAnon-promoting actor Jim Caveizel. He portrays Tim Ballard, the founder of the anti sex trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad. This film is bound to be a big boon for Tim Ballard. He is a former Department of Homeland security agent, but starting about a decade ago he made a name for himself thanks to stories of bold, daring missions helping rescue abducted children and arresting traffickers. Sex trafficking is in fact a very real and serious problem that is being actively fought by many governmental and nongovernmental organizations. But investigations into Ballard discovered that he exaggerates or sometimes outright fibs about his role in helping victims of trafficking. Similarly, Operation Underground Railroad claims partnerships with law enforcement and corporations that aren’t actually real. To discuss the film, we are joined by Dave Anthony of the Dollop Podcast. To dive into Operation Underground Railroad and its founder Tim Ballard, we talk to Vice News reporters Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Guests https://twitter.com/daveanthony https://twitter.com/annamerlan https://twitter.com/timmarchman REFERENCES https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/qanon-save-the-children-trafficking.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/sound-of-freedom-jim-caviezel-857639bf https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/sound-of-freedom-the-film-you-almost-never-had-the-chance-to-see Reporting On Tim Ballard From Vice News https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7a3qw/a-famed-anti-sex-trafficking-group-has-a-problem-with-the-truth https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxev5/inside-a-massive-anti-trafficking-charitys-blundering-overseas-missions https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgq8a/anti-trafficking-charity-operation-underground-railroad-has-another-murky-rescue-story https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zjyg/operation-underground-railroad-touts-non-existent-partnership-with-american-airlines https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3apm/anti-trafficking-group-with-long-history-of-false-claims-gets-its-hollywood-moment

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Welcome listener to chapter 238 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, The Sound of Freedom

0:21.7

and Operation Underground Railroad episode, as always we are your host Jake Rockatansky

0:26.7

and Travis Vue. After years of delays, the film Sound of Freedom has finally hit theaters.

0:34.3

The movie stars majorly pilled QAnon promoting actor Jim Cavizio and he portrays Tim Ballard,

0:40.3

the founder of the anti-sex trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad.

0:45.7

Now the film is going to be a big boon for Tim Ballard, he's a former department of

0:49.9

Homeland Security agent but starting about a decade ago he may name for himself thanks

0:54.3

to stories of bold daring missions he allegedly undertook helping rescue abducted children

1:00.5

and resting traffickers. Now obviously sex trafficking is a very real, very serious problem

1:06.2

that is actively being fought by many governmental and non-governmental organizations but investigations

1:11.8

in the Ballard have discovered that he exaggerates there are sometimes outright fives about

1:15.4

his role in helping victims of trafficking. Similarly Operation Underground Railroad claims

1:20.5

partnerships with law enforcement and corporations that aren't actually real.

1:24.3

Vice news reporters Anna Merlin and Tim Marchman from Vice News have done great work fact-checking

1:30.1

Operation Underground Railroad and later in the show we'll talk to them to get more

1:33.8

nuanced view of what they have done. So Jim Cavizio, the long time fixture of the

1:38.9

show, most notably in episode 143, enter the Kavortex featuring guest Dave Anthony.

1:46.3

That includes original reporting from sources who had worked with Cavizio on his CBS show

1:51.0

Person of Interest and is to date one of the most popular episodes we've ever done. Mostly

1:55.9

because of the absurd behavior of Cavizio that Julian reported on. This included Cavizio

2:02.4

being totally unable to remember his lines, even simple lines like the word no and being

2:07.7

so dangerous that they wouldn't even give him a gun with blanks. It's good stuff. Julian

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