Reflections on Freedom (with Sebastian Junger)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Stay Tuned, Preet answers listener questions about DOJ’s landmark announcement that it seized $2.3 million in cryptocurrency payments made by Colonial Pipeline to DarkSide, a group of ransomware extortionists likely based in Russia. He also explains whether a grand jury can be re-empaneled if it declines to return an indictment. Then, Preet is joined by author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger to talk about his new book, Freedom, and the complicated nature of what that word means. Don’t miss the bonus for CAFE Insiders, where Junger discusses the freedoms of parenthood and why walking is one of humankind’s most powerful abilities. Listen to Now & Then, the new weekly CAFE history podcast hosted by the award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman. The first two episodes are out now. Just search and follow “Now & Then” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis by Elie Honig, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges. Head to cafe.com/brief. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is produced by CAFE Studios. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; Editorial Producers: Noa Azulai, Sam Ozer-Staton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.
0:06.0	I'm Pete Barara.
0:08.0	Can a democracy maintain a relatively fair distribution of income and protect the capitalist engine
0:18.0	and have it be a free and democratic and just a site?
0:21.0	Can we sort of do all these things?
0:23.0	That's Sebastian Younger.
0:29.0	He's a writer and filmmaker who is best known for his nonfiction book, The Perfect Storm.
0:35.0	You may have seen the film adaptation, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in 2000.
0:40.0	Much of Younger's reporting has focused on wars abroad.
0:43.0	He directed and produced the Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo,
0:47.0	which is based on his experience embedded with the US military in Afghanistan in the late 2000s.
0:52.0	Younger recently published a new book, Freedom, which is a rumination on what that word means.
0:57.0	Today we talked about his 400-mile walk along railroad tracks that inspired the book
1:02.0	and how we get closer to figuring out what freedom really means.
1:06.0	That's coming up. Stay tuned.
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