Episode 920 Vice News Anna Merlan on "Sound of Freedom" Operation Underground Railroad and Tim Ballard
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Anna Merlan is a journalist and author, specializing in subcultures, alternative communities, conspiracy theories, crime, belief, death, sexual violence and women’s lives. She is currently a reporter at Motherboard, a division of VICE. She was previously a reporter at the Special Projects Desk, an investigative division within Gizmodo Media Group, a senior reporter at Jezebel, and a staff writer at the Village Voice and the Dallas Observer. Her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, BBC Travel, Topic, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. She has been accused of being both a lizard person and a CIA agent, but never at the same time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends, welcome to today's show and if you've been listening to the podcast |
| 0:08.2 | or anything I've been involved with for any period of time, you'll know that I think |
| 0:12.9 | that the irrational fears surrounding kidnapping and trafficking of children is pernicious |
| 0:21.2 | and dangerous for the development of kids and your mental health. |
| 0:25.9 | If you're really sitting there worried that your kid is going to get kidnapped, well |
| 0:29.9 | then you're not going to let your kid out and if you don't let your kid out, well then |
| 0:32.6 | they're not going to be a very courageous independent or confident adult because, of course, they're |
| 0:37.6 | going to think that there's danger around every corner. |
| 0:40.6 | Over the years I've talked to Lenore Skenezy of free-range parents and so many more experts |
| 0:46.2 | about this issue, talked about how I raised my daughters, why I think these issues matter |
| 0:51.1 | so much. |
| 0:52.3 | In addition, there is now a statistic that has so many American parents terrified that |
| 0:58.3 | 800,000 kids are kidnapped and sold into sex trafficking every year. |
| 1:04.2 | Guess what? |
| 1:05.2 | Couldn't be further from the truth. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm not downplaying kidnapping or sex trafficking. |
| 1:10.4 | When it happens and it's legitimate, it's terrible, it's any parents nightmare. |
| 1:15.2 | But as I've always said many times, you probably don't know anybody who's been kidnapped, |
| 1:19.0 | you probably don't know anybody who knows anybody who's been kidnapped. |
| 1:21.8 | We can name the people who were Elizabeth Smart when I was growing up, it was such a big |
| 1:25.7 | story out in Utah, of course, which is why I was so interested to talk to Vice News Anna |
| 1:32.8 | Merlin because she, along with her colleagues at Vice News, has been doing an excellent |
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