Silk Road - 418

The Generation Why Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Case, Trial, Conspiracies, 855520, Government, Unsolved, Society & Culture, Missing Person, Controversy, Exhibit C, Serial Killer, Crime, Murder, Documentary, Conspiracy

4.6 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode we tell the story of Ross Ulbricht, the creator and founder of the Silk Road deep website. The site ran from 2011-2013, and it took multiple law enforcement agencies and officers to take down one of the largest illegal drug and weapon exchanges on the internet. In the hunt for the elusive Ross, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the lines of good and bad become blurred; not all good guys wear white, and not all bad guys wear black.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app to listen ad-free.
0:06.1	How's everyone doing tonight?
0:07.8	Justin here and I wanted to let you know that Aaron and I have taken this week off.
0:12.0	As some of you may know, I lost my brother Christopher back in 2004.
0:17.0	He suffered from severe mental illness and addiction issues.
0:21.3	Last Thursday April 8th, I lost my sister Megan.
0:24.7	My mother found her dead from an apparent overdose.
0:29.3	If you're currently in distress or struggling with addiction, I implore you to seek help.
0:34.9	Today's episode is one that we recorded on January 22nd, 2018.
0:41.1	It was a premium episode, so most of you probably haven't heard it.
0:45.6	I think it's simultaneously the most appropriate and inappropriate episode we could put out right
0:50.3	now.
0:51.3	Here is the Silk Road and we hope you enjoy.
1:21.3	Hey, you doing tonight, Aaron?
1:33.0	I'm doing good, Justin.
1:35.5	Tonight's episode is a subject that I got obsessed with when it was in the news.
1:44.0	This is an obsession like anyone's obsession with true crime.
1:47.0	I just wanted to consume as much information about it as possible.
1:51.3	I've always been fascinated with cyber crime.
1:55.2	When the Silk Road hit the mainstream, I was fascinated by all the facets of it.
2:04.3	The VPNs, the BitTorrents, the Tor Network, the Deep Web.
2:09.6	Do you remember when it hit, Aaron, were you even paying attention?
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