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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcast #152 (Nick Bryant | The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Bryan, Society & Culture, Callen, Philosophy, Carlin, Bill, 6, Dave

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Nick Bryant is an investigative journalist & author. Nick joins us to talk about his book The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal. Nick's book covers The Franklin Scandal which involves child trafficking, pedophilia, black mail, mysterious deaths, corruption & cover-ups. From FBI & CIA, to high ranked politicians & the wealthy elite, The Franklin Scandal covers who was involved & who help cover-up one of the darkest & saddest stories of child abuse & corruption in American History.

Nick Bryant's writing has recurrently focused on the plight of disadvantaged children in the United States, and he’s been published in numerous national journals, including the Journal of Professional Ethics, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and Journal of School Health. He is the co-author of America’s Children: Triumph of Tragedy, addressing the medical and developmental problems of lower socioeconomic children in America. He has also contributed a chapter on child trafficking to Global Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders: Individual and Societal Oppression, a book addressing various facets of dissociative disorders that features chapters from an international group of psychiatrists and psychologists.

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0:00.0

believe in the ripple fact.

0:25.6

The ripple fact. I'm a lot of the What's up?

1:06.0

Another episode Ripple Effect podcast.

1:08.9

Finally, I'm back after a little bit of a hiatus every once in a while,

1:14.0

a couple times a year. I'll disappear for a little bit. And this time, there was a lot of reasons

1:21.6

for it. Life stuff, a little bit of struggling to get some of the guests I wanted to get on,

1:28.5

and also trying to brainstorm and trying to figure out which guests I want to have on because I want to

1:35.1

continuously get interesting people and maybe some people you haven't heard about, maybe some people

1:41.0

you have, but always keeping it fresh and keeping it interesting.

1:45.7

And I also love bringing back, obviously, some great old guests.

1:50.8

That's why I've had people like Russ Baker on multiple times and James Corbett and stuff like

1:55.5

that.

1:55.8

So some guests I just absolutely enjoy talking to, and there's so many different things to talk

2:00.0

to them about that I love having them on. But this is a new topic, new guest, Nick Bryan, author

2:06.9

of a Franklin scandal, a story of power brokers, child abuse and betrayal. And this is a, I think,

2:15.5

I finished the show probably, I don't know, probably like 15 minutes ago.

2:18.8

And I think I'm still kind of down.

2:20.7

I'm still kind of depressed a little bit.

2:22.7

This is a really depressing, sad story and scandal and cover up.

2:28.2

And any other word you can come up with.

2:30.0

It's just, it's crazy.

2:31.4

It's about child trafficking, cover up, mysterious deaths, corruption, conspiracy.

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