Sneak Peek: Baseless Exclusive

Sounds Like Hate

Southern Poverty Law Center

Documentary, Society & Culture, News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In a sneak peek of Season Two’s Baseless, we hear portions of a harrowing conversation with the father of a white supremacist leader who operated The Base’s training compound in Bad Axe, Michigan. Podcast hosts Geraldine Moriba and Jamila Paksima are guided by the compound leader’s father as they tour what remains of the headquarters after an FBI raid. Poring over the remains of the group’s preparations for a race war and the fall of society as we know it, they discuss youth radicalization and white supremacy.

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0:00.0	Didn't give them money for any paramilitary crap.
0:07.0	No.
0:08.0	But I mean, I gave them shells for target practice when I was up here shooting.
0:17.0	In season two of Sounds Like Hate, where the only journalist granted exclusive access inside the fortified headquarters of the neo-Nazi hate group, The Base.
0:36.2	I'm Geraldine Moriba, and I'm Jamila Paxima.
0:40.6	A warning to our listeners, much of what you hear will be disturbing.
0:44.6	Our story contains offensive language and discussions about the violent collapse of America.
0:52.9	We traveled with Eric Webb as he returned for the... of America. Watch your step through the old hair.
0:55.0	We traveled with Eric Webb as he returned for the first time to see what remained on his family farm in Bad Axe, Michigan, after a major FBI raid.
1:06.0	The FBI wouldn't have done this. I mean, they wouldn't have just throwing stuff on the ground. Because the rest of the house wasn't all trash looking.
1:13.6	They went through everything, what you're supposed to do on a search warrant.
1:16.6	But still.
1:19.6	Webb is an optometrist and a divorced father of two boys.
1:24.6	This looks like a dark place where there was no good.
1:34.6	When his son Tristan moved to the farmhouse, the 17-year-old invited as many as five other
1:41.5	radicalized white supremacists to join him.
1:45.0	This is when the web property became a hate camp,
1:52.0	where Michigan paramilitary training for the base took place.
1:56.0	They have all of their Nazi paraphernalia in one of these barns?
2:01.2	The garage.
2:02.0	Okay.
2:02.6	Can we see that?
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