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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcat #133 (Russ Baker | WhoWhatWhy.org)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

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

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 110 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 fact

0:25.6

The ripple fact I'm a host, Ricky Vrandis.

1:13.0

Today we have returning guest Russ Baker. He's an investigative journalist, founder of who-what-why.org,

1:19.4

and author of Family Secrets, the Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the hidden history of the last 50 years.

1:26.5

So if you like history, if you like

1:28.3

journalism, if you like real stories about real events and current events and without a bias

1:38.2

edge to it or trying to sell you a perspective or opinion, then check out who at why.org and Russ Baker's

1:46.0

work.

1:46.4

This is his third time on.

1:48.3

He's always a joy to talk to.

1:49.9

The nice thing about having him on for the third time is that anytime I have returning

1:53.1

guests, it always seems like it's much more relaxed of a conversation, and it's always

1:56.8

super easy to hold a conversation and talk for a while.

2:00.4

So we do about two hours

2:01.7

and we talk about everything from current events to personal opinions and perspectives to Trump and

2:07.5

Middle East and some historical stuff and everything in between. So really fun conversation.

2:12.7

Support Russ Baker's work, WhoOI.org. Listen to his past appearances if you're interested in some of his other work

2:19.6

and maybe interested in what he talks about in his book, which I think we go over on his first appearance.

2:26.2

And you can just, obviously, just search the Ripple Effect podcast, Russ Baker, and you'll find the episodes.

2:32.6

So also support the R effect podcast with patreon we're

2:35.9

now on patreon which is a great way of funding and and helping things that bring some value to

2:42.3

your life i'm not sure if who will why is on there but i am so if you want to support the ripple

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