The Ripple Effect Podcast #146 (Matthew Valentinas | Hollywood Pedophilia, An Open Secret)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2017
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
AN OPEN SECRET is an documentary exposing child sexual abuse in the film industry. The film features interviews with victimized performers, who were targeted when they were young boys, as well as industry figures, the predators themselves, and journalists.
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple effect. |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact. I'm a host, Ricardo Verandes, and today we have... What's up, another episode of Ripple Effect podcast? |
| 1:11.6 | I'm your host, Ricardo Varendes. |
| 1:13.4 | And today we have Matthew Valentinas. |
| 1:17.3 | He is an executive producer of the documentary, A. Open Secret. |
| 1:21.9 | And it's about a very controversial issue. |
| 1:24.3 | It's a very controversial documentary. |
| 1:27.3 | It's about the huge pedophilia problem |
| 1:30.0 | in Hollywood. And I think when a documentary came out in 2015, probably not so commonly known, |
| 1:37.7 | probably not so commonly believed, but there's this huge issue in Hollywood. And I think it's not just in Hollywood. |
| 1:45.9 | I think it's in politics. |
| 1:46.9 | I think it's with a lot of the powerful elite that there's pedophilia parties and |
| 1:53.8 | cover-ups. |
| 1:55.5 | And we've seen it with so many different names and which we mentioned on the podcast, |
| 1:59.7 | so I won't talk about it now. But if guys like this podcast if you think this is an important topic to get |
| 2:07.6 | out there and a important documentary to get out there and spread then please do share it on your |
| 2:12.7 | social media share it on your Facebook Twitter, and help spread this conversation and help spread |
| 2:19.3 | this documentary. |
| 2:21.4 | And they've had some pushback. |
| 2:23.0 | It's been kind of hard to get it out there for obvious reasons. |
| 2:26.1 | But please, please share it if you think that, if you also think that this podcast and this |
| 2:34.0 | conversation is important to do so. |
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