The Nick Bryant Podcast

The Nick Bryant Podcast features journalist and author Nick Bryant as he interviews subjects about their experiences in the corrupt underbelly of American society. After 20 years of investigating trafficking networks, political blackmail, and other government malfeasance, Bryant turns his lens on those who have refused to accept the status quo of our perfidious political system. New episodes every Friday Feel free to subscribe to patreon.com/thenickbryantpodcast for 2 extra episodes a month, access to my Franklin documents, episodes places behind the paywall, and much more.

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The Keepers with Gemma Hoskins

Today’s podcast features Gemma Hoskins, a high school student of beloved teacher Sister Cathy Cesnik who was found murdered in 1969. Gemma Hoskins and fellow internet sleuth Abbie Fitzgerald spent years auguring into the demise of Sister Cathy, and their quest to find the killer was captured by Netflix's The Keepers. Unbeknownst to both Gemma and Abbie they would ultimately find that a pedophile network was responsible for Sister Cathy's murder. Keeping On: How I Came to Know Why I Was Born http...

Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 6 min

The Franklin Scandal Revisited: To Stop a Predator

www.patreon.com/thenickbryantpodcast *This podcast is accompanied by a PowerPoint with documentation that is available to watch on youtube* https://youtu.be/uhIaTWY2UhU Nick Bryant takes the viewer through a PowerPoint on The Franklin Scandal and also shows that super predator Lawrence E. King's recent attempts to join organizations that would give him access to children have been thwarted. nickbryantnyc.com

Jun 10, 2022•41 min

The Extreme Abuse Survey with Dr. Ellen Lacter, Ph.D

Dr. Ellen Lacter, Ph.D, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Registered Play Therapist, a Marriage and Family Therapist, as well as past President of the California Association for Play Therapy. She is currently Academic Coordinator of the Play Therapy Certificate Program at the University of California, San Diego-Extension, where she is also a continuing education instructor, training psychotherapists in play and art therapy techniques and the treatment of trauma. Dr. Lacter has 30 years of c...

Jun 03, 2022•44 min

The Keepers with Jean Hargadon-Wehner

This episode features survivor Jean Hargadon-Wehner, from the Netflix docuseries “The Keepers.” Jean was the first victim to speak out against the abuse she endured at Archbishop Keough High School. We talk about her experience at Archbishop Kenogh High School, the murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, and Jean’s road to recovery. Jean's book: https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Aletheia-Jean-Hargadon-Wehner/dp/1735043249 nickbryantnyc.com twitter: @nick__bryant...

May 27, 2022•1 hr 34 min

Dissociative Identity Disorder with Dr. Warwick Middleton

Warwick Middleton, MD, is a psychiatrist and a professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He is the Director of the Trauma and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital is in Brisbane Queensland, Australia. Dr. Middleton is a former president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Today, I interview him about his extensive knowledge and experience treating Dissociative Identity Disorder, Sigmund Freud’s disavowal of DID, and the controversy sur...

May 20, 2022•1 hr 36 min

The Finders with Elizabeth Vos (preview)

Patreon.com/thenickbryantpodcast for the full episode and two extra episodes a month! Elizabeth Vos is a journalist who has written extensively on the cult known as the "Finders.” In 1987, two members of the Finders were arrested for the abuse and neglect of six feral children in Tallahassee, Florida. The two Finders were charged with multiple accounts of child abuse. A search warrant was then executed on the Finders wearhouse in Washington, DC. Law enforcement found child pornography and eviden...

May 13, 2022•17 min

Alisha Owen

This episode of The Nick Bryant Podcast features Alisha Owen, one of the victims of the Franklin Credit Union Scandal of the 1980s in Omaha, Nebraska. Sexually trafficked as an adolescent and set up for a prison bid, Alisha spoke out about her perpetrators and became an enemy of the state. State and federal grand juries indicted her on 16 counts of perjury, and she was staring at 200 years in prison, but she refused to recant accounts of her abuse. A Nebraska state Kangaroo Court found her guilt...

Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 19 min

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