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Talking Dateline: The Ranch

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True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz and Keith Morrison discuss Keith’s episode, “The Ranch,” about the harrowing 2007 kidnapping of Eduardo Valseca in the small city in Mexico where he lived with his wife, Jayne, and their three young children. As Jayne worked to meet the ransom demands for her husband, Eduardo endured seven months of deprivation and torture before finally being released. Keith reflects on the strength of the Valseca family and their unbreakable bond in the face of tragedy. He also shares an extra clip from his interview with Jayne Valseca in which she speaks about how she met Eduardo, the man who would become the love of her life. Keith and Josh answer viewer and listener questions from social media. Listen to the full episode of "The Ranch" here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_theranch

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody it's Josh Mayinkowitz and we're talking dateline today with

0:07.2

Keith Morrison. Hi Keith. How you doing Josh? I'm good. We're here to talk about Keith's episode called The Ranch, which is about the very frightening

0:17.0

kidnapping of a guy named Eduardo Valseka. He's a father and husband. This all happened in a small city in Mexico and what followed was a really unbelievable fight by his family, by his wife and kids to get him home.

0:31.0

Now if you have not listened to this broadcast yet,

0:33.9

it is the episode right below this one

0:35.6

on the list of podcasts that you just chose from.

0:38.7

So you can go there and listen to it.

0:40.4

Or if you want to watch it,

0:42.0

stream it on Peacock and then come back here.

0:45.2

In addition to talking about this episode, Keith has a clip that you're going to play for us

0:50.7

from your interview with Jane Valsaca and then later we will answer some

0:55.8

questions about the broadcast from social media so stick around for that so

1:01.1

let's talk to at line.

1:04.0

Let's do it.

1:05.0

So this is I'm gonna say an older episode.

1:10.0

This was done in what 2010 something like that? Yes, we have done this several times. It

1:17.7

remains one of my favorite stories ever and it's probably the reason why we went

1:22.2

back to to recheck on it from time to time over the years and things changed.

1:26.0

Things changed in sometimes very dramatic ways, but the original story itself is extremely dramatic and and also romantic and also

1:37.3

terrifying and also life affirming and the people in it the the people in this story, remarkable, remarkable family.

1:46.0

Well, and as a story, it's got a couple of twists that you don't see coming.

1:51.0

That is very true.

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