The Ripple Effect Podcast #174 (Michael Soussan | Backstabbing For Beginners: The Oil-For-Food Scandal)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

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

4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Michael Soussan is a whistleblower, LA-based screenwriter, producer, public speaker, journalist, author of Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course In international Diplomacy, and founder of The Brown Journal of World Affairs at Brown University.

Michael became famous for writing a book about his experiences working for the Oil-for-Food Program under the United Nations in Iraq, where he uncovered the largest and most corrupt humanitarian operation in UN history. The book has since been made into a feature film by the same name Backstabbing for Beginners starring Ben Kingsley and Theo James, and directed by Per Fly Plejdrup. The movie is currently available on Amazon Prime.

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0:00.0	believe in the ripple effect.
0:25.6	The ripple fact. I'm I'm I'm
0:38.3	I'm
0:39.3	I'm
0:40.3	I'm your host
1:09.8	Ricardo Verandez, also known as Ricky Varrandes, and today we have a great
1:13.4	episode for you.
1:14.7	I know I say this all the time, but I truly love these type of episodes where we get these
1:20.1	amazing guests that have amazing true stories that will blow your mind.
1:24.7	And this one is one of those, similar to Thomas Drake whistleblower
1:29.3	story, John Kariaku, Abraham Bolden, anytime you have a whistleblower on and you hear from
1:35.6	their perspective what they went through, what they exposed, everything they risk to do so.
1:41.2	It's truly amazing. It's hard not to become a fan of the guest. It's hard not to become a a fan of the guests it's a hard not to become
1:47.0	just a listener and spectator and observer of the guests while they're telling their story
1:52.5	I almost sometimes forget I'm interviewing them or having a podcast with them because I'm I get so
1:58.3	caught up into their own personal story and putting myself in their
2:03.1	perspective on how they handled it and what they did and if I would have done the same thing or
2:08.7	whatnot. So I definitely have a soft spot in my heart for whistleblowers. And today we have a real
2:15.6	amazing one. Michael Suzanne, he wrote the book, Backstabbing for Beginners.
2:20.3	There's also an amazing movie, which is on Amazon Prime.
2:24.3	So if you're an Amazon Prime member, please check it out.
2:26.3	It's the same title as his book, Backstabbing for Beginners, and it tells his amazing story.
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