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🗓️ 9 January 2024
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How an American media polarized over Antifa led to an innocent family on a Twilight-themed lockdown-escaping camping trip getting barricaded in the woods by armed, hostile townspeople.
Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare Original music by Phil Channell
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0:35.0 | From BBC Radio Four, this is Things Fell Apart, season two. |
0:40.0 | When Stephanie Meyer was first writing Twilight, she googled the rainiest place in the U.S. and she found forks. |
0:48.0 | A tiny little dot on the map town in the middle of the forests of Washington state that almost nothing happens in for most of the year. |
0:58.4 | Forks, Washington, home of Edward and Bella, the vampires from Twilight, is in real life, as this fan video says, |
1:06.8 | a place where nothing much happens, except on June the 3rd, 2020, when something did happen. |
1:14.3 | My name is Matthew Rindazzo the 5th. |
1:16.4 | I am a senior governmental executive |
1:18.7 | for Native American tribal nations. |
1:21.6 | The thing that happened happened to a family who lived 500 miles from Forks in Spokane. |
1:27.0 | They became collateral damage in a culture war inflamed by a national media that had become too polarized and ideological. |
1:40.0 | The family remains too traumatized to give interviews interviews they told us. |
1:44.0 | But one of them did tell the story to Matthew |
1:46.0 | because of his advocacy work. |
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