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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcast #216 (Russ Baker | CoronaVirus, Censorship & The Media)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

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

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Russ Baker is an award-winning investigative journalist, author of best selling book 'FAMILY OF SECRETS: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government & the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years.' He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice and Esquire. He has also served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. Baker received a 2005 Deadline Club award for his exclusive reporting on George W. Bush’s military record. He is the founder of the nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news site WhoWhatWhy.org.

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0:00.0

believe in the ripple effect.

0:25.6

The ripple fact. I'm gonna' I'm gonna I'm

0:38.3

I'm

0:39.3

Avaughan What's up? Another episode of Ripple, I came to talk. Another episode of Ripple Effect

1:14.0

podcast. You figured I've done this over 200 episodes. It'd be easy to say my own podcast title.

1:21.1

But another episode of Ripple Effect podcast. There you go. I got it out without any mistakes.

1:28.9

A great episode for you today. A dear friend, somebody who's been on the show a bunch of times and we talked about it during the

1:34.0

interview and i'll say it again just in case you guys forget you'll hear it a few times go back

1:40.0

check out his past appearances on the show he was a part part of a great podcast, two-parter I did on

1:46.6

the JFK assassination where I had some of the best researchers and most interesting, intelligent

1:50.9

people in regards to the JFK assassination. And we all just came together and talked about it.

1:56.6

And it was the first part one did awesome. Then I did a part two. And it was really, really fascinating and interesting.

2:03.9

And just getting everybody's perspectives and their own opinions on the situation and on every theory was just super fun.

2:12.6

And it was one of the most downloaded episodes, if not the most downloaded episode of that year.

2:17.0

So that was that was awesome. And I got episode of that year. So that was awesome.

2:18.4

I got tons of positive feedback.

2:19.9

And Russ was a part of that.

2:21.0

He also, in the past, has been on to talk about his book, Family Secrets.

2:25.9

Also, talk about the Boston bombing.

2:29.2

When that was happening, after that happened, he really did incredible investigating into that story and who

2:35.3

the brothers were and tons of just layers of that story. So definitely go into archives, check

2:41.3

that out. But yeah, Russ Baker from Who What Why is with me today. He's, if you haven't been

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