Name: Ep 389 - The Franklin Scandal (feat. Nick Bryant)
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 389 - The Franklin Scandal (feat. Nick Bryant)' from Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-30. Transcript available.

Ep 389 - The Franklin Scandal (feat. Nick Bryant)

the wild wild west well this is this is a big one special edition special
edition normally
we're goofing around yeah i've never been more ashamed to let somebody into our
studio
as soon as he came in i was like a lady i was like well sorry it's so messy in
here
uh we're here with nick bryant he's the author of uh the franklin scandal and
confessions of a madam yes confessions of a dc madam confessions of a dc madam
the politics of
sex lies in blackmail yes god damn uh oh pull that mic you speak a little more
into the mic
um so what you were just saying is how you got involved in in the franklin
scandal at the very
beginning so let's yeah let's jump right in yeah i was talking to an editor at
rolling stone and he
said pitch me dark stories and you know i said just kind of throwing my hands
up there so well i mean
what do you want you want a story on nazis you want a story on satanists i mean
what do you want and he
goes satanists that sounds good so i i started this whole odyssey this very
dark odyssey i was talking
to satanists um and they struck me as they they didn't strike me as very
ethical people yeah i'm
actually quite anxious and um i felt like i had to wash my hands you know after
i hung out with them yeah
but anyway so and then i was trolling the internet looking for subject matter i
mean when you're gonna
write something and try to get as much information as you can and then distill
it and then i came across
a cult called the finders that had been busted by the u.s customs for
trafficking children they had
six kids in tallahassee arizona and some concerned citizens called uh tallahassee
police department
and the tallahassee police department arrested the two finders and put the six
kids in protective
custody and the two finders were arraigned on multiple counts of child abuse
multiple counts and
they were held at a hundred thousand dollar bond i think it was might even been
higher and then um and
then two of the kids according to uh the tallahassee police report that i got
two of the kids have been
sexually abused and then the u.s customs report u.s customs got involved with
it because there was child
pornography and they got a search warrant for the warehouse where the finders
lived and they found
child pornography the warehouse is in like dc right yes in washington dc and
they found all kinds of
really unsavory things and and actually the finders had been connected to a
murder too
and all of a sudden the cia came in and quashed the entire case and those two
finders were just
let out of jail and those kids were repatriated with the cult and i thought to
myself i kind of
thought i knew how the world worked but after i read that document it just blew
my mind i mean what what
have i missed as far as my understanding of the world what how is this even
possible that the cia goes to
bat for some very strange people that are treating children nefariously i mean
how how does that happen
so that started my odyssey that was in 2002 and i've been on this odyssey for
the last 20 years
wow so what did the editor say when you're like i got something when you came
back with that
rather than like run of the mill he said you know nick um let's just try to
stick with satanism
wait how what do you think when you like how how many satanists have you talked
to and like
what are they what what's their like life philosophy isn't it just pretty much
like selfishness or like
well i mean there's different types of satanists if that's the case i might be
a satanist
i'm pretty selfish you would now you're not talking about there's there's
different type of satanists um
and they run the gamut i some of them it was very strange some of the satanists
that i talked to were
really really stupid and some of them were really really smart yeah i didn't
find any satanists in
between but um i was gonna go to uh one of the black masses my here was my it
was a simple plan
uh i'm gonna go to this black mass and i'm gonna write a an article about it
and one of the the high
priest said i had to read this book written by one of the satanists uh the
founder of that particular
saint hanix act and i read the book and i said well you know i read the book
and he said well you got
to do this and then i just you know he was trying to lead me down this primrose
path to uh to embracing
bills of bob and i yeah i realized that they were they were actually proselytizing
to me yeah and it
wasn't really like a religion that i felt attracted to sure didn't you have to
like eat like wasn't the
part yeah like a cum cookie yes well that was one of the problems um would your
editor like come on
the host was the potentiated administration and uh semen of the high priestess
and then the priest on
what what was the like on like a flowery wafer it with the satanists everything
is anti like it's an
anti-host you know so um and it's an anti-black mass whatever but um well that
was the deal if i read
the book i wouldn't have to take the anti-host right and um oh really that was
like if you don't read
the yeah you read the book and you won't have but then i read the book i said i
read the book i said no
you still have to take the anti-host so oh what's that so i'm i'm really up to
i like people to live
up to their word um that's important to me and it was kind of it was kind of
apparent to me that the uh
the the people in the darker fraternity so didn't didn't share his truth the
way that i did but and
you you were at an ash an ashram right when you were younger i lived in an ashram
when i was 19
years old how did you how'd you fall into that it's like it's not is that like
it's not necessarily
hindu but it's like this was a hindu this was a a swami he was he was from india
swami he was a genuine
indian guru there he is when when i was um in my teens i was really searching
um and i tried all kinds of spiritual paths and i ended up living on this ashram
with a genuine indian
guru he was a swami which means he was celibate and um so i got there and i was
just i was thirsty
for knowledge and um and i was talking to the swami one day and i could have swore
i smelled cigarettes
on his breath and you know i went to one of the people on the ashram who i
would later call pod the pod
people um i said you know you know i could have swami smoked cigarettes on swami's
breath he goes yeah
well see the deal with that is um he has to have one vice that keeps him tethered
to this plane of
reality so he can teach us now needless to say that didn't make a lot of sense
to me and then i found
that out that he was having sex with all these girls on the ashram and then i
found out he was embezzling
money for from his more affluent initiatives and i was thinking to myself that
guy must be really
spiritually developed if he's got to do all that just to stay on this plane of
reality i was
i think that's why i sold water so long yeah that was a bit of a swami no yeah
that was i always find
that intriguing when people end up on uh they seem like a cool place to live it's
just a place you would
go rather than like a christian you think it would just be like i'm fairly
certain every single one
of those is that i what do you think i don't know if i've heard of one story
you'll be smirching all
the i haven't heard of i've never heard of one guru that wasn't definitely
banging a bunch of the
people yes that's what i concluded because i looked into a lot of different gurus
after that and they all
have lower chakra problems every guru has lower shock what you know they're old
ugly indian men
and then they yeah and then they're trying to get bobs and vegan and they've
found the best way to get
bob that's true and then they come here and they have all these beautiful young
american women who are
spiritually starved throwing themselves yeah and then it's too much yeah how
could they yeah
how could they resist yeah i found a book i found a book in a or like a used
bookstore one time they
write really good books though like i read there was this is by a priest it was
like one of the best
little books on spirituality ever read and i'm like i gotta google this guy pedophile
i was like
motherfucker damn it yeah i mean that's i read uh rama's books and i was really
fascinated by them
and so i mean that's why i ended up at that ashram so what do you let's which
one do what do you want
to get into first here because i read the beginning of the frank i read about
half of the franklin
scandal like i said i was falling asleep i would listen to i listen to
audiobooks at night so i was
listening to franklin scandal at night and it was me up like every night i was
like jesus christ and
then i would start good like i never went to sleep i would just start googling
things like the finders
immediately i started good yeah and then i started going into like pizzagate
because it was in dc
and they were attracting this like then i was like is pizzagate real like you
know it's just
every time i started reading is pizza girl i have no idea on that and i'm i'm
agnostic
with my philosophic training um i said philosophy in college i try to approach
everything agnostically
i i really try not to make judgments on something even though it may seem like
a tonological truth
i try to withhold judgment and with pizzagate i'm agnostic yeah gotcha but with
the finders it was
the same i mean i was listening to you talk about it but it was the same thing
where it's like once you
explain like six children were found with two dudes in suits yeah they're
wearing like suits yeah the
children are all malnourished enough so that uh just a regular person called
the cops when they saw them
concerned citizens and then they got nothing it was like yo this is very weird
and yeah there's no way
they were like no we're just making sure they're good we just like to dress
nice and we didn't have
a lot of their clothes yet and the guys wouldn't talk right when they were
getting into the card
ready the card would be like and one guy actually went unconscious when the
police started to grill him
he went into a satanic trance he played positive satanic but uh yeah he just he
just went unconscious
yeah it's a good way it's it's in the u.s i might do that to my wife just dead
weight she starts talking
you might have to hook your wife up with the finders which i know it might be i
don't know if i'd advise
that but you never know that is crazy because you do that there's a lot of
people i'm sure you know this
who are delighted in being like that's all a bunch of bull they don't want to
hear any of it whatsoever
but that's like how much of it is like like as you say like some of it's conjecture
some of it is like
like how much of the stuff you've done is like ends in kind of like like some
nebulous weird stuff or
like what's like factual anyone could take like this is i mean the franklin
scandal i was very very
cautious with it and very very careful i wanted to nail everything because i
knew what i was the the book
that i was writing was so antithetical to people's mundane reality that it was
going to be met with
very very a lot of skepticism so but what happened with me with the franklin
scandal is i was able to
score like there were three grand juries that covered it up um there were two
grand juries in
uh nebraska and one grand jury in washington dc now i don't know if your
viewers are familiar with
the grand jury but grand juries are infamous for covering things up actually
like there was a grand
jury in florida looking into epstein that said that epstein hadn't molested a
single child
what happens in a grand jury is a special prosecutor is chosen and then grand
jurors are just regular
people that have come in to do jury duty and they've been funneled to a grand
jury and it's not adversarial
the special prosecutor picks the evidence that is shown to the grand jurors and
calls the witnesses
so special prosecutors have a tremendous amount of power over grand jurors and
actually there was a
uh a new york judge that had a fa