#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps

29:21Jeez. Yeah. How many kids will go to this at once? So their materials have cited numbers like 27 ,000 teenagers per summer. 27 ,000 teenagers per summer? 25 ,000 families go to Branson every year for summer camp. Or I think more recently, I've seen numbers cited as like 10 ,000. So I don't know if that's like dwindling or they're just, were they exaggerating their numbers? But we're talking, it's not like a, again, not a typical mom and pop shop kind of camp. This is a mega ministry. It's the largest summer camp in the world. I mean, we have, it's put 500 ,000 people through, but that would only be 20 years worth of kids.

30:11I mean, I know it grow and we're talking about, it's been a hundred years. Well, yeah, but like they are repeat customers, right? So like, people go through high school and then sometimes they'll do link year and then they'll go to college and be a counselor there. And then on the other side of college, you can do the Kanakuk Institute, which they've called like a master's in ethics, ironically. Exactly. And so you can, the pipeline is, that's why it's jokingly called the Canna Cult. And from my research, I don't even joke about, it's like the Canna Cult, right? They keep you in, they suck you in and you stay there to the point where people feel financially held hostage.

30:54It's wild. And so that's the, that's the pipeline, you know, from early childhood through adulthood, there's always a place for you at Canna Cuck. And so then you go to the then you can work at Kanakuk beyond that in the leadership role. Wow. So a lot of their staff, they've grown up in this and stayed. 100 % bought in. 100 % bought in, even those that have kids that were victimized. It's crazy. What? What? That's where it's like, that's the cult piece of it, right? It's like, why would you stay at an institution where your own child was abused? This shit sounds like the Jehovah's Witnesses. This is fucking crazy.

31:35It's crazy. Yeah. Where do we go from here? I mean, what do you want to know? I have five years. I mean, I can go through kind of like how we started this investigation out and where we are now. Let's talk about what happened. Yeah, let's go back. Okay, so my husband and I, we were living in North Carolina in our 20s. i'd spent a lot of time are you older or younger than you're i'm the oldest you're the oldest yeah i'm big six three years okay and um i had gone to smu graduated a year early went over to uganda to help start up a social enterprise and uh did that off and on for six years started having babies commute got a little hard to uganda with babies and um we moved to north carolina where my husband's from, to run the family business on his side, which came with a newly endowed foundation, the Phillips Foundation, which I've been running since 2013.

32:36And so we had day jobs, we were having kids, and my brother was really struggling. I remember being pregnant with my first son, and I would get these calls from my mom or my dad, and they'd be like, we just had to put Trey in treatment. He's not doing well. And it was just a roller coaster until he died. But I didn't really know what had happened to Trey. I remember when he was 21, Pete Newman was arrested. So I would have been 24. Pete Newman was arrested and ultimately sentenced to three life terms. Arrested for what? Seven felony counts of child sexual abuse. Seven felony counts of child sexual abuse at Camp Canikuk.

33:31Yeah. And I balk at Camp Canikuk because these boys were abused all over the place. Okay. So it wasn't just at camp. It was in their own homes sometimes. It was on mission trips to China where he would film them getting massages. So we're talking child sexual abuse material being created. That never got investigated. It was investigated by the Taney County Sheriff's Department. And they never looked into Pete Newman's devices for CSAM. When we have witnesses who were on those trips saying, we saw Pete Newman filming these boys getting massages and having the massage therapists activate their groin areas so he could film it.

34:07So they were abused all over the place. There were trips to Haiti, you know, in the name of Kanakuk International mission trips. There were, I mean, Trinidad and Tobago, all over the world. And so, where was I with that? Basically, I didn't really know the extent of what happened to my brother until, so he was not doing well. And then he decided to pursue civil litigation against Canacuck. After the criminal case closed, he was named as a victim. Uh, right when Pete Newman got arrested, Joe White flew down on his private plane to Dallas and asked for a meeting with my dad and Trey, man to man.

34:52Like, leave my mom out of it. He didn't want an angry mom involved. And, uh, this was before the story really broke. And he was like, it's gonna come out that Pete Newman was abusing boys, but it was really just boys being boys, typical middle school masturbation and experimentation, like minimized it, downplayed it, with my brother Trey right there, basically saying, here's the story, and you're sticking to it. It wasn't a big deal. Now, do you think this guy knew that your brother was abused? Yeah, because he was on a list. Pete Newman provided a list of victims. So this is after he was arrested.

35:30This was, so the exact chronology is like March 2009. he confesses to Kanakuk leadership that he's been abusing boys. What year? Hmm? What year? 2009. March 2009. And he'd been caught multiple times before. Skinny dipping, riding four-wheelers nude with boys. Go ahead. I know. They caught him in 1999. and 2001 and 2003 and 2006. So Jeff White. Joe White, yeah. Joe White. We can call him Jeff. Whatever. Joe White has the head guy of all these kids riding around four-wheelers naked with them. Yeah, and it gets reported back to the camp. Like, they knew this stuff was happening. And in one of the depositions, as this...

36:28So they just sweep this shit under the rug, and they don't even tell them, don't do it again? They're like, oh, that's just boys being boys. Boys being boys? And, uh, well, I can show you what they did to discipline him. I have the record here. Uh, but it basically... See it. Yeah, we'll pull it out. Um, but real quick, so, like, the four-wheeler thing, the naked basketball, the nude swimming, uh, Joe White was asked in a deposition, like, you don't think that is child sexual abuse? Like, Pete Newman, naked in front of these young boys? And Joe White's response was, well, it depends on how dark it was.

37:03if they could see his penis.

37:09People still send their kids to this place? Exactly. Like thousands of people. Yeah. I'll bet that stops after this releases. I hope so. Because kids are in danger there. And I think that's why Tim wanted us to talk. This is what they do. A few things going on. That guy does not care about anything more than saving kids. Right. And I'll talk more about what we're partnering on together to protect kids. But this is one example of how they disciplined Pete Newman when he was in those situations with boys. They called it boys being boys. And he actually, there's a document where, here it is.

38:04They made him take a test.

38:10And then they made him sign a contract to spend more time with his wife, not spend so much time in the hot tub. A lot of the abuse would happen in the hot tubs. And then they sent him to a counselor who gave him this questionnaire.

38:28List three reasons why camp counselors sometimes get accused of inappropriate conduct with campers.

38:39It's hard to read his handwriting. Yeah, that's all Pete Newman's handwriting. Conduct has been inappropriate. Child has past abuse experiences that stimulate fear. they are careless in ministry strategy and uneducated. List three good ways to avoid accusations of improper sexual conduct toward a camper. 1. Avoid alone time with kids of opposite sex. Avoid sexual humor, inappropriate jokes. Never have alone sleepovers. List three things former President Clinton did wrong regarding his encounter with Monica Lewinsky. Cheated on his wife, lied about it, failed to set the example of what a leader should look like.

39:28Isn't that bizarre? And then flip to the back, just turn the whole thing over. And on the very back page, is the next one on the very back page. Pete Newman, objective, to help Pete understand what healthy ministry is and to make sure Pete Pete never places himself in a compromising position that his integrity would be in question. We want to ensure that Pete be involved in a lifetime of ministry. Overall boundaries for ministry. All high school ministry ends at 10pm, all junior high ministry ends at 9pm, never show up at home unannounced, never encourage students to disregard other responsibilities to be with you, like school, family, or a job.

40:14Failure in these areas will disqualify you from ministry privileges. All contact with kids will be done in public, never in private, without parent permission. Exception, picking up the first child and dropping off the last child from an event. You must have parents' permission. Never spend the night alone with a child. Never be involved in sexual humor. Never suggest or be involved with any sexual or nude behavior. Never touch a child in a way that might be perceived as sexual in nature. Always put a stop to inappropriate behavior, i.e. sexual, physical, nudity, vulgar speech, inappropriate humor.

40:59Failures in these will lead to instant dismissal and complete reporting of the incident. Boundaries on local extra camp ministry. Limited to three nights a week, club leadership, small group. One weekend a month, two small group Bible studies, one lunch a week. Summertime boundaries. Regular accountability with Will Cunningham. The amount of time can be determined later. These times might include physical workouts, biblical mentoring, detailed discussions of feelings about ministry, life, Katie, kids, personal worth, etc. No further visits from out-of-state kids, no sleepovers, i.e. events that required Pete to spend the night alone with one or more kids, period.

41:51Noticeable change in the way Pete budgets his time. Regular time with Katie, that must be his wife. Regular time spent with peers as opposed to a lopsided, inordinate amount of time spent with kids. What? This is how they disciplined him. And they signed it. He signed it. And what's the date? 10-22-03. They knew. In 03. What normal person needs a document like that?

42:27And they also have these, like, playbooks, these staff playbooks. This is... I know. That's their... Anybody that's sending their kids to Camp Canna Cook, you need to read this. Yeah. They're literally, they have to try to coax their counselors into not having a sleepover alone with your child. What normal person needs that rebuke?

42:58So, in March 2009, oh, so this year, 03, they obviously, he was escalating, right, in his behavior. And so they... they restructured. And Canikuck had been a for-profit, they restructured to become a non-profit. Right? They're realizing they have liability. They hire this guy named Rick Brashler as the director of risk, risk management. He's a former Pizza Hut manager and insurance broker to churches. I thought you were gonna say, Pizzagate. I'm gonna shed my pants.

43:39So he comes over from Pizza Hut, and he's suddenly the director of risk management. That's in 03. And then they catch Pete Newman again in 06. Somewhere between 03 and 06, his supervisor, Will Cunningham... What is it with pizza and little kids? What's the thing? Can you have someone on to answer that for us? So Rick is, he has no qualifications in child protection or anything. And he's supposed to, you know, sharpen up the protocols for these bad acts. That they are keeping on staff and not just that. Pete Newman got promoted after that. So not only did they not report him to the authorities properly or fire him, they promoted him to director of K-Country.

44:29he was assistant director then director of k-country will cunningham who was his supervisor uh recommended his termination and then he got squeezed out slowly and left canicuck he's been very helpful to survivors in their cases now because he's like i told them to fire the guy red flags all over the place more than red flags that joe white knew about so um then there's this There are a few theories around how he ended up turning himself in in March 2009. But one thing I've heard, and I know this guy in Dallas, I've heard the story directly from him. His dad was a sitting U.S. congressman, and he had sponsored a kid to go with Pete to some retreat in Alabama.

45:13And the kid called back, said he tried to assault me. So that guy calls Pete, and he says, I'm going to have the FBI on your doorstep tomorrow morning. say goodbye to your wife, Katie, and your kid. They had a daughter. My family threw their baby shower in Dallas. Oh.

45:35So, the person I'm... Your family threw his baby shower? Yeah. It was considered an honor. Holy shit. Mm-hmm. and um so anyways uh pete turns himself into the taney county sheriff's department it should have been fbi from the beginning and it wasn't it was a taney county sheriff's department investigation it was the local victims that put him away the prosecutor at the time jeff merrill he uh said there were 55-ish victims known at the time of sentencing but he estimated a true victim count in the hundreds on Pete Newman alone. Pete's now one of over 75 perpetrators associated with Kanakuk we know of now.

46:25Through my investigate, we'll go into that. But can you say that again? Pete's one of over 75 perpetrators affiliated with Kanakuk that we've uncovered to date with allegations dating back from 1958 to very recently. So that's Pete. 55 victims known at time of sentencing, prosecutor estimating true victim count in the hundreds. Other experts would say thousands, just because he had unfettered access to children year-round for 14 years. Add that to his moda operandi of how he would abuse. So, yeah, hundreds, thousands of victims, Pete Newman alone. And then... Hundreds to thousands of victims for Pete Newman.

47:13alone. Right. Alone. Yeah. So, Kanakuk's crisis PR strategy on all that was, well, we can't let one bad apple take down this ministry. We've saved so many souls. Tim had said that he was saying something in court on the stand too, I believe. I don't know if it was Pete Newman, because I wasn't familiar with any of the names. Oh, he said something in his remarks in court that don't let what I did take down this whole ministry. Keanu Cuck's good for kids. It's the happiest place on earth, blah, blah, blah. He, you know, did his whole spiel. Keanu Cuck, so he goes to prison for three... You know, White probably had him say that, huh?

47:58Yeah, who knows? So then he goes to prison at Jefferson City Correctional Center. The address for that is 8000 No More Victims Lane. That's why I call this. I call it Operation Millstone because of a verse in the Bible that says, if you are a child, you're better off with a millstone around your neck thrown into the bottom of the sea. So I call everything I'm working on related to this Operation Millstone. But there's, what was I going to say? There's a, oh, so their crisis PR strategy was there's one, this was one bad apple. We can't let him destroy this entire ministry. It's the first time this has ever happened.

48:37We are so shocked. we now know of perpetrators, like, going back to the very first year they opened the girls' camp. And then third, we're now the safest camp in America because we've learned the hard way how this could happen. And they have started this CannaCuck Child Protection Plan that's now been spewed to over 600 youth-serving organizations across the country. It was accredited by the Beau Biden Foundation. and uh then they tried to get some other like uh accreditations uh on their website to look legit after they've had this massive pedophile scandal they put the canna cut child protection plan in place and uh and start going around the country talking about how they know how to handle uh camp safety now because they just had this horrible situation and they're now going to be safest camp in America through this Canna Cut Child Protection Plan.

49:31I brought a PowerPoint that they've used on that, that in my opinion and experts opinions, would make better pedophiles, not protect kids. Can I show you that? Absolutely. You want to do it now? Yeah. So this is the... We'll put it up on screen as we talk about it.

49:57there's so much to talk about okay so this is a a powerpoint that the former pizza hut manager rick brashler with no expertise in child protection put together and i have a whole audit on it by actual subject matter experts but this is the slide deck he uses to go to other camps.

50:24It's page 24, I have in my head, page 24, 25. Have you heard of Nambla? Have you heard of this? Nambla? Yeah. No, I've not heard of that. You're gonna get really pissed by this. Sorry, these pages aren't numbered. Oh, here we go. How to Practice Child Love. Oh, great. You're going to make me read this one, huh? And then 170-page child molestation instruction manual, Nambla.org, the online voice of the North American Man-Boy Love Association. So if you're a pedophile in his audience, he's showing you where to go to become a better pedophile. Okay, who wrote this? this is a we're going to put this up on screen here i'll read it this is i didn't write it how to practice child love by richard creech before you begin on the education important info theory before practice child sexuality taboos and shame risks involved when to start what age where do i find a child this is the this is the curriculum introduction having own own children or family equal access, single parents and moms with kids, babysitting, daycare and schools, children out in the wide open world, other creative methods, and some final words.

51:53The four important advantages, survey, approach, and create a relationship. The practical steps, the introduction. Step one, the first physical contact. Step two, the second physical contact. Step 3.

52:11Exploring the child's genital. Step 4. Exploring the adult's genital. Step 5. Making love for the first time. Richard Creech, 45, pled guilty May 24, 2013. Creech used a peer-to-peer file sharing program to collect and share child pornography videos, including numerous videos of children between ages 5 and 12 years old being raped and sexually abused. Crenshaw's child pornography collection included more than 1 ,100 images and 1 ,300 videos of children being sexually exploited.

53:00Wow. 170-page child molestation instruction manual surfaces. This is in Orange County. Orange County Sheriff Deputies say that a 170-page manual is circling around Central Florida. It shows people, step-by-step, how to molest children. Nambla.org Nambla's goal is to end the extreme oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships.

53:34What the fuck is this? So that's Rick Brashler's Canikuk child protection plan that he says they learned of through this Pete Newman situation. So it tells you a lot about what Pete Newman was doing. This is also the playbook. You know how people say, it's like they're all using the same playbook. There are playbooks that exist. Some on the dark web, some are, you know, more... Some are at Camp Canicook. Some are Camp Canicook's creation. And, uh, yeah. So that's been spewed to 600 youth-serving organizations across the country, according to Rick Brashler. He's still there as the director of risk management.

54:16He's still here. Yeah. He's still running the child protection plan for Kanakuk. The other thing I was gonna mention is that, uh... So Pete went away in 2010 for three life terms, and then they implement this Kanakuk child protection plan in 2010. And then in 2011, they had another arrest by a pedophile named Lee Bradbury, who was a counselor. I think he had five counts of sodomizing a child. And he just got out of prison. He's out. Yeah, he jumped the registry. We got him put back on. What's his name? Lee Bradbury. Where does he live? Pelham, Alabama. Pelham, Alabama. Lee Bradford. Bradbury. Bradbury.

55:01Yeah, we have all... Lee Bradbury. Yeah. I helped set up a website called factsaboutcanacuck.com once I connected with other survivor families. and there's a page on facts about CannaCuck that's known abusers, and you can see all their mugshots. We just added another one yesterday. It's like never ending. How many are there? So there are... How many have you found? Over 75. Over 75 sexual abusers? Affiliated with CannaCuck Ministries and Joe White. But there's 13 that have publicly been alleged, and 12 of those have convictions. There's a 13th who, because of statute of limitations, is just out there living his best life.

55:42But he was publicly alleged in USA Today, an article that we helped with. So, 13 on our... What's his name? That's Chuck Price. Chuck Price? Where does he live? St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri. That's a whole story. Yeah, I need to tell you that story. Because you lived in St. Louis, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. His victim lives in Utah. There's multiple of them. But all that to say, this CannaCuck Child Protection Plan, that was supposed to be their saving grace, it failed immediately when Lee Bradbury was arrested in 2011. Jeez. So, I don't... I mean, they've gotten away with this for so long. And then Trey suicides.

56:33This is after years of... I mean, so, Pete Newman went away when he was 23, when Trey was 23. So Pete Newman was arrested at age 21, when Trey was 21, and then under the current civil statute of limitations in Texas, if you were abused as a child between 1995 and 2015, you only have until the age of 23 to sue liable institutions or your perpetrator. So Trey was forced to file a civil lawsuit because he was not doing well and he needed therapy. and that ended with a restrictive NDA, a settlement agreement that had a restrictive NDA. So he couldn't talk about what happened to him. He couldn't talk about Kanakuk's role in all of this.

57:16And he was one of the John Doe's that filed a civil case pretty soon after Pete went to prison. And I didn't really understand all that. All I remember is at one point, I was going to be deposed and other family members were going to be deposed. I was pregnant with my second kid at that point. And Trey wanted to spare me from going through depositions pregnant because it was so hard on him. Like the deposit, Canna Cooke's lawyers are so brutal. They would gaslight these victims saying things like, are you sure you're not just depressed and struggling because your parents have a bad marriage? Are you sure it just wasn't an early homosexual experience and you're gay?

57:56They're like, no, pretty sure it was the child rape. So I'm not doing great. They would try to pin it on anything but Kanakuk's negligence and Pete Newman as the reason for the civil litigation. So then they put him under an NDA, and I just saw that NDA for the first time after we passed Trey's law in Texas in September. When... Oh, man, dude. 2025. And now I know why they were so scared. So they NDA'd him after the abuse? All of these victims, yeah. Except one family refused to sign the NDA. Cannicook came after them, federally sanctioned them because they refused to sign the NDA. What do you mean federally sanctioned?

58:40What does that even mean? That means that their case was filed in Texas. Cannicook's in Missouri, right? So at that point, like even though the case was filed in Texas, it got pulled to a different jurisdiction. And the case was federal. So then the judge ruled in that court that the case was closed, the settlement agreement had been signed, they can't come back for more now and add an NDA in there. But they had every intent of forcing that family to sign an NDA. And that family did not. They're the Alarcons. It's been public since then. Ashton Alarcón, he calls me sis. We're really close. He serves our country.

59:24He's in Japan right now. amazing kid now man just got married and he told his dad I want to be able to tell my story one day and so they had to fight even their own lawyer their own lawyer was pushing this NDA on them it's standard practice and we can get into all that because that's like how I uh their own lawyer yeah it's very the family's attorney was wanted them to sign the fucking nda yeah they all do that they'll never talk about how their kid was fucking sexually molested and raped yeah and what's even sicker is that um by a fucking church yeah oh and to that who the fuck is that attorney it's all of them all of them this is this is standard practice in personal injury law now i the fuck are these people these are fucking kids these are kids kids should never be put under a contract.

1:00:19They can't consent to contracts as minors. So hold on. Just let me replay this. So this fucker, Pete Newman, gets arrested. Yeah. Then more of these people start falling. Then they reach out to all the victims and they fucking try to make it sound like it was some other event that fucked them up in the head. And then they fucking convince them to sign an NDA saying that they'll never talk about how Pete Newman or anybody else at Camp Canacook was playing with their fucking penis or their vagina or shoving shit up their asshole or fucking dancing with them naked or playing basketball with them naked or fucking putting them in Chinese massage parlors to give them an erection so they can fucking film it.

1:01:04And the defense attorney is having their fucking client sign this shit? Thanks for saying that so I didn't have to. What the fuck? Yeah. Where's the fucking FBI? Where's the FBI? Oh, the FBI is doing what they always do. Yeah. Abso-fucking-lutely nothing. We can circle back to that. They entered the chat a couple of years back. Of course, they are. They're always fucking late to the party. Yeah. Like 12 years too late. So yeah, that's exactly right. So I've spent a lot of time now educating plaintiffs' attorneys on why they shouldn't silence their own clients. but that's how widely accepted, this is considered a best practice.

1:01:46You settle, you sign an NDA, and everyone moves on. Well, guess who doesn't move on? The kid who cannot heal because they have been legally silenced by a Christian... The kid who's having dreams every night of Pete fucking Newman jacking them off. Or Lee Bradbury, or Corby Dale Grimes, or Chuck Price, or Paul Green, or Paul Kerr, I mean, the list goes on and on. Some of these guys were abused twice, once by Pete Newman and then again by another one. And this shit is legal? This shit is legal? You can... How the fuck can a kid sign a document anyways? This shit... What? So there's an active fraud lawsuit with the plaintiff who's a kid in Hendersonville, Tennessee, just down the road here.

1:02:40and his parent, he was 17 when he settled. His parents, as the guardians, signed the settlement agreement. They own an aged hardware store. Like, they're not sophisticated on legal nuance, right? So these NDAs, they get snuck in at the midnight hour. It's under the guise of a confidentiality clause. And you're thinking, well, I want this to be confidential, because we don't want to talk about it. The kid doesn't really know what he's signing. He's not even signing it. It's his parents. So this victim was told he would have to sue his parents to get out of the NDA. And so... I mean, what? What?

1:03:19Never mind. I mean, I want to say, like, what judge, what attorney is going to prosecute a fucking human being for talking about how they were sexually molested and fucking raped as a child? But this is the world we live in. There's lots of attorneys that would love to do that. I started talking about it. There's people that are standing up and trying to call these people minor attractive persons. Don't get me started. Minor attractive persons. Let's not fuck with them. They're a protected class. They are. It's not funny. It's fucking real. I laugh because it's so ridiculous. It's just like, yeah.

1:03:59You know what's fucking crazy? How many people are in D.C.? How many Americans are there? 340 million Americans There's like 200 people running the fucking show

1:04:14Do the math. And where are their priorities? We fucking know where their priorities are. You see any Epstein files yet? Exactly. Me neither. I connected with Nick Bryant a while back. I was trying to figure out if the CannaCuck network connected to what he'd uncovered. And he wanted to have me on his podcast. At that point, I was too scared. I was getting cringeshod by CannaCuck. They would send me cease and desist letters, demand letters. Getting what? Crenshawed. Oh, reference to my situation. Yeah, that didn't work. Cease and desist letters. It didn't work on me either. I took them to the press.

1:04:58And yeah, I have it here too. I framed it. This is what Canna Cook's lawyer sent me. I'm not under an NDA. My brother, my dead brother, was under an NDA. And this is what, so I set up No More Victims after getting into this Operation Millstone. And No More Victims started putting together a website called Facts About Kanakuk. And we got the deposition tapes from the John Doe 1 case because I was the only one not under NDA. and we put all this information up on factsaboutcanacuck.com. We have receipts on all of it. And then Canacuck immediately, they don't like it, they send this letter. And it's laughable because, first of all, they think I'm a law firm and they threaten to disbar me in the state of Pennsylvania for this website that's soliciting clients.

1:06:03I'm like, nope, just... Affirmation. Yeah. Just trying to get the truth out to the public so kids stop getting raped on your watch. Where do I read? Oh, if you want to look at their 12 points of what they want. Where's the threat? The...

1:06:26Behind that title page there, it's like 12 things they want taken off the website. one of them is that you called joe white's father skip white his name is spike white my attorneys are like well that's not defamation that's called a typo they also had a correction in there corby dale grimes isn't in prison in florida he's in prison in texas and we're like thanks for that we were trying to run down where he was in prison like just stupid things that they wanted corrected. So I sent this to the media and they published it. And, um... Do you mind if we scan this and put it up? All yours. We'll have everybody download it.

1:07:07It's public. This is, uh, Camp Canicook trying to silence Elizabeth so that, um, the word doesn't get out that they're a bunch of pedos. Mm-hmm. Sexually abusing... So that was the first one. There have been other threats and things since, but I didn't have... Kind of threats. Oh. So... That's for you. Yeah, yeah. Let me know whoever's behind facts about CannaCuck. I'll take them out. Things sent to the Facts About CannaCuck email address where CannaCuck's posing as victims to try, like, you know, fishing to see what we'll react to. or if we'll put something up on our website that's not vetted.

1:07:51I have great PIs and lawyers who vet these things before we put them up anywhere. Then I got a call from a lobbyist in D.C. that Kanakuk tried to hire his firm to... It was like three or four things they wanted to pop up a dark money C4 and oppose Elizabeth Phillips' bills in Texas and Missouri. Got to go to DC to get that stuff done, don't you? It's funny how it's real. It's fucking real. Well, and I'm laughing because this totally backfired on them because that DC lobbyist actually cares about kids. And he immediately got in touch with me and was like, they're trying to character assassinate you, oppose your campaigns.

1:08:35And I was like, well, thanks. I'll let my security team know. Because that was not... So then there was another lobbyist they went after, it got right back to me again. And all these guys are like, we don't want to work with them, we want to work with you. I'm like, cool, come on, join the good, you know, get out of there, come join the good side. And I work with different lobbyists in different jurisdictions, and they do this because they're passionate about it. A lot of them pro bono do this, and they reject business from pedophile rings. That's the first positive thing you've said I'll interview.

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1:11:52Alright, Elizabeth, we're back from the break. talked about a whole bunch of stuff on the break but um i'm really interested you know when you guys you informed the fbi that you're coming on the show and you asked them hey is there anything you don't want us to talk about because we don't want to interfere in your investigations with canna cook and what was their reply so let's go back to 2023 when i first talked to them I think that's important context. So as I said earlier, the FBI should have been involved in this from the beginning. And when I took this story to the media, the head of the Law Center for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation said the FBI should be so on top of this, it's just screaming FBI.

1:12:38And even that guy I mentioned who told Pete Newman, I'll have the FBI on your doorstep in the morning, and instead he turned himself into the Taney County Sheriff's Department. Everyone's like, FBI, this is interstate trafficking of children. And so we get to a point where we have so much information from the private investigation I'm leading with my colleagues, we start sending information to appropriate law enforcement agencies. We start with the IRS. So, Kanakuk got IRS church status in 2015. I mentioned they restructured in 2003, and then they were a for-profit, then they became a non-profit.

1:13:18You had mentioned... And that's a way to shield assets. Okay. And then to, there's a whole lot of reasons that they would do that with what we now know they knew. Okay. I mean, Nathan Afflett kind of broke down why you would want to go nonprofit during his interview about the religion business. Yeah. Well, and thanks to your producer, Jeremy, I've been in touch with those guys, and we're going to do some work together. I can't wait to see what you guys do. It's going to piss off a lot of pedophiles. I'm excited about it. So the IRS is involved in 2023. They start their investigation that spring.

1:14:00A couple months into that, they're like, it's time to bring in the FBI. I'm like, oh, good, they're on it. And I'd just gotten up to where my dad has a beach house, and they said, can you be in Springfield, Missouri on Monday? I was like, I cannot. I'm not getting off this island. I just got on this island, but I'll do a Zoom call. And so I did a Zoom call with the lead criminal investigator for the IRS in that central region. And he brought in the SAC agent and another agent who, like, leads the task force on child exploitation somewhere in Missouri. They're blacked out because they're on location somewhere.

1:14:33They can't show where they are. But I can see the IRS agent, and he's fired up. Like, he sees this for what it is. And I go through a presentation. I have it right here. This is what I presented to law enforcement. I had like two all-nighters to pull this together because I was not in town. I had my right-hand woman was on maternity leave, and her deputy was helping me scramble to put something together. We organized all this information we'd been digging up for years at this point, like three years worth of tips and just pulling numbers where we could, claims Kanika had made. and um so i went through this deck and i get through the page about their money and private and your mint and uh the irs agent goes well where'd you get these numbers and i was like oh we just pulled this from their 990 forms so 990 forms are what you send to the irs if you're a non-profit you don't have to do 990 forms if you're a church uh so their their transparency has gotten less and less as since 2015 when they became a church but we were able to dig up what we could through the 990s.

1:15:43And we were able to trace 380 million in gross revenue to this camp in Southwest Missouri. Wow. And then we calculated that, net that out, 25 % was leaving the country and going to failed states like Haiti. 25 % was leaving the country. Yeah. Yeah. So you've got Kanakuk who's soliciting donations. They have revenue from their summer camps, right? I mentioned it's very expensive to go there, thousands of dollars a week to go to Kanakuk. So they have earned revenue, But then they also fundraise for the poor children in Haiti. And Joe White does his whole thing about this. Wait, how can they charge for the camp if it's a nonprofit?

1:16:19Oh, it's not unusual. It's a faith-based camp, and they charge per term for their service. So that's not unusual. There are a lot of for-profit camps, too, like Camp Mystic, which we'll talk about in a little bit. But Kanakuk was a for-profit camp. Then they became a nonprofit camp. then they became a church nonprofit, which is a different tax status. So anyways, the IRS is looking into this. They're like, this is the numbers in their bank accounts. When they said, where'd you get these numbers? I said, 990 forms. They go, well, you should see their bank accounts, which tells me it's a lot more than what I know.

1:17:02And then I showed them the money, follow the money, right? follow the money to Haiti. They were funneling money to, and this is, I'm telling the FBI this, you know, the IRS has brought them in. It's like, not like out of the blue, I'm cold calling the FBI on this. There's an active investigation, right? And so they bring these guys in, and I'm like, yeah, so we have, at this point, here's a chart of all their entities. I mean, there's so many of them. You broke down the entire organization. Broke down the entire organization. We found that the White family earned$11.7 million in revenue from Canna Cook Ministries personally between 2006 to 2020.

1:17:48$9.1 million of that is rental income to the White's for-profit holding companies that they don't pay taxes on. They got the county to alleviate their taxes, even though they're for-profit. But$2.6 million in compensation to Joe and Debbie Joe White between 2006 and 2020. So, you know, I started with the numbers because this is an IRS angle. And from my experience working with the anti-trafficking nonprofit I mentioned earlier, she and her other friend got rescued because the IRS got their pimp on money laundering and tax evasion, not on sex trafficking. So that's oftentimes how these trafficking rings get busted up.

1:18:34It's because of the money, not the crime itself. So that's how I knew to go this angle, right? Here it is when Rick Brashler becomes the director of risk management in 2003. They had a 4 ,000 % increase in their insurance coverage. They knew what was coming. this is a whole timeline of okay so known abusers at this time one two this is where it becomes FBI is like the known abuser list I mentioned earlier at that time we knew of 11 convicted 11 convicted yeah and these are all their charges so I'm showing this to the FBI Have you been in touch with the insurance company? So they were actually at one point added to the complaint in these fraud cases for civil conspiracy.

1:19:32The insurance company colluded with Kanakuk to cover this up. So they've been named in these lawsuits. Shit, man. Everybody's in on this. Yeah. No, we need to deep dive on insurance because that's really the root of the... We live in a capitalist society. I don't know of a better one. right like it's not communism it's not socialism but this is the dark side of capitalism and i'll get into that if you want but this um because insurance is involved and incentives are misaligned and that's why kids keep getting raped in institutional settings because they go with what insurance will cover and insurance will drop their coverage if uh in certain cases when and that's what was threatened here in this situation with canna cook so the fbi sees this they see the numbers.

1:20:16Then we get into Kanika Katie. And this is really disturbing. But they're like, yeah, this is a, yeah. They're like, this looks like an organized crime ring. Then that's your 10. How many victims do you know? I'm like hundreds. I have to go, I don't even know the number at this point. Like thousands of tips, hundreds of victims. At this point, maybe like 50-something known perps on our end, and only those that were convicted on that slide. But when you start following the money, I mentioned all that money, millions of dollars going to Haiti and other countries. But the Haiti situation is particularly disturbing because Joe White always flew private, and his private plane pilot was convicted of sodomizing his five-year-old daughter.

1:21:10and this was who's flying Joe White around to Haiti. He was convicted of sodomizing his daughter? Yeah. Did Joe White know this? Yes. Joe White testified in his trial as someone who would let his grandchildren be around this man as a character witness. He was a character witness for this guy who had sodomized his own child and then let him stay on camp property while awaiting trial. holy shit okay so that i'm just painting the picture here you've got a pedophile pilot flying around pedophile pete newman here he is in a santa costume in canica i mean in haiti with canica katie

1:21:53so pedophile pete with pedophile pilot and joe white shit this is this is The sun's shining, birds are singing, and all feels right in the world. Until the season changes and suddenly you lose your motivation to get out of bed. In fact, one in five people experience some form of depression no matter the season or time of year. At the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, our vision is to build a mentally healthy nation for all because we want you to live your best life and be your best you all year round. Please visit MentallyHealthyNation.org to learn more. So we know of Haiti victims.

1:22:36We know of victims, Canuck victims from Hawaii to Haiti, and who knows where else, all over the world. But here's where it gets really concerning. Look at this shit, dude.

1:22:56In the name of Jesus.

1:23:01So... Canna Cuck Haiti was founded by Joe White in 1991. And I remember when I was at camp, the end of every session, they'd throw around like a tithing basket, and you're supposed to like fund Canna Cuck Haiti, or you could sign a baseball to fund a cabin of the poor children at Kids Across America next door. Instead of scholarshipping them into the mainstream camps, it's like, oh, no, the poor kids have to go over here. so you could like i know we're like this is way off subject you're a christian how the fuck is this allowed to happen it's not where's the retribution like where is christ and when the fuck is he going to step in this shit is happening all over the fucking world in every community in it's fucking everywhere and now they're using their they i mean not now it's been in the catholic church been in all the churches forever but it's like they're using his name to get to us to to the kids it's not what the fuck is going on so and why why is why why is god allowing this shit to happen where is he when we go back to and none of these people are getting fucking caught they're just going back or they go to prison for a little bit and then they come back out and they do it again and they fucking do it again.

1:24:23I want to talk about that. I want to talk about when my brother Trey was really struggling, how it, and then died, destroyed my faith. Because I'm like, where were you, God? Where are you? Why are you letting this happen? All valid questions, big part of my spiritual journey. And here's the thing. I read something by a theologian who studies institutional sin. So this is Catholic Church, USA Gymnastics. These institutions are part of the problem, right? It's especially atrocious when it's in the name of Jesus. But he wrote an article. It was targeted towards the SBC, the Southern Baptist Convention.

1:25:09Huge pedophile problem. They don't want to do anything about. All lip service, no real substantive reform in the Southern Baptist Convention. and so he was targeting his article towards that and this really stuck out to me he said idols demand sacrifice like mullick you know it's like we just covered this with dr dan schneider is he a priest or something he is a uh i don't know he's a phd but um and something in catholicism and we went over all these old gods and false gods. So if you look at this issue through the lens of institutional sin, which a lot of the church wants to ignore that institutional sin.

1:25:55It's a lot about personal sin, right? In most mainstream evangelical theology. And we've ignored this concept of institutional sin. But because of how incentives are aligned towards insurance, right? and fundraising money is part of it, it's created idols. People idolize Joe White. People idolize Canna Cut. People idolize Camp Mystic. People idolize their megachurch, you name it. And when you have an idol, idols demand sacrifice. And our children are being sacrificed on the altar to these idols. You think that's what it is? What do you think? Child rape is just a casualty of business. Are you saying you don't think this is for pleasure?

1:26:51Well, at the pedophile level, it is. At the Joe White level. Yeah, I mean, I think there's only a couple conclusions to draw there. Like, I think people who empathize more with pedophiles than children have a problem. You're letting this guy stay on your camp property while awaiting trial when this has just happened to his daughter Like The dude's not right He's still running this camp. He's still stewarding thousands of kids per summer on his properties and making shit ton of money and Yeah, I mean, I'm sure you've heard this before but the love of money is the root of all evil So not everyone's as complicit as Joe White.

1:27:40You know, there are some SBC leaders who are not pedophiles, but they're not doing anything about the pedophile problem. Why is that? The institution above all else. So then you have children being raped, people being hurt. Well, that's the cost of doing business because we're saving so many souls. And I've had this conversation with a lot of people a lot of survivors, in fact. Where is that calculus in Scripture? Souls saved outweighs children raped. But that's Kanekuk's messaging is, well, whoops, we had a few bad actors who infiltrated our ministry, but look at all the souls we've saved. That's not my Jesus.

1:28:24And we're saying there's potentially thousands. There's definitely thousands. There's definitely thousands. Yeah, so, you know, only one in seven child sexual abuse victims ever come forward. So that's like a conservative calculation. If we know, if the prosecutor on, this is just Pete Newman, remember, one serial perpetrator, 55 victims known at the time of his sentencing, prosecutor estimating a true count in the hundreds but you know 55 victims came forward in the criminal trial i know of over 205 in our database right now like pete newman related and then way more beyond one in seven yeah then what so then times that by seven it's like 350 right well if we're talking 205 newman victims in our database that have come forward so far times seven oh 200 holy shit and that's pete newman That's just one.

1:29:32And how many are there? Over 70.

1:29:40So when you start following the money and seeing their goal is to continue making this camp a cash cow, because it's serving Joe White, you just heard me say, like, they've made$11.7 million in that period of time, personally. The White family, through their church camp.

1:29:59that's where their heart lies. That's what they're pursuing. And it's in the name of souls saved, but at what cost, right? So then they have this thing called Canica Katie that Joe White started in 1991. And then they partnered with an organization called Cross International. And Cross International was also called Cross Catholic Outreach. So there's a Catholic side to it and then the evangelical side guy named jim kavanagh was doing cross catholic outreach joe white and him partnered up so it's like you know kavanagh does the catholic side he does the non-denominational side of fundraising cross international is 1.3 billion in general contributions it's the 39th largest non-profit in the u.s uh no one's ever heard of it like i've I've been in philanthropy for 12 years.

1:30:49I've never heard of Cross International. And then like 1.2 billion of their annual contributions are in-kind donations and medical supplies. But then when you talk to people who have flown to Haiti with Joe White or gone on these Canna Cut Haiti trips, and I've obviously talked to a lot of them at this point, they're like, we were handing out Ziploc bags with like candy and toothbrushes. I'm like, that's not$1.3 million worth of medical supplies. What are they doing with the medical supplies? Are there even medical supplies? Or are they fucking selling them? I don't even know if they exist. I mean, so now the claim is that they are the primary source of funding for over 6 ,000 kids in Haiti who would starve to death if not for Joe White.

1:31:34And they go on these mission trips. And Cross International, they would give some of this money I was mentioning to Cross International as a pass-through. But then some of it, like to the tune of 6 million, just directly wired to Haiti. or sorry, sent by check according to their nine-anime form. They're sending checks to Haiti to these divine shelter schools. So I sent some people to get ground truth on this whole thing. And at first they were like, well, a few of these schools they mentioned serving don't exist. There's not even roads to get there. This sounds like Minnesota. Yeah. And then we kept...

1:32:12Except it's Haiti, which is weird. Yeah. Not that different. Yeah. And, but this is an American ministry church sending millions of dollars to Haiti to feed the children. And on their website that they just refreshed, it's not like we're going off of historical information. They very recently updated the Canuck-Haiti website. And they say, well, yes, this was started by Pastor Edmund or someone and then mentioned another pastor. and they're both dead. And so I'm like, who's running Kanakuk, Haiti, or like with Cross International on the ground in Haiti? These two pastors mentioned on your website that have been running things, they're dead.

1:32:58And then we had a whistleblower who found us. This person on the ground was a whistleblower for where this money was going. And they felt like they had to flee for their life when they told us what was going on with these organizations that Cross International and Kanaka-Kaiti are funding. And I won't say where they ended up, but I'm glad they're safe, and I hope they stay safe. But these were organizations. One was called Free the Children, and then they got investigated for child trafficking and organ harvesting. Organ harvesting. Yeah. And then they rebranded and reopened under a different name, like Overture International or something.

1:33:47And then CannaCuck and Cross International still gave them money. Holy shit. So to all the CannaCuck donors out there, people giving them your business, you're funding this... Organ harvesting of kids and sexual trafficking and sexual abuse and rape. And silencing kids with NDAs. Yeah, and then, yeah, and then silencing the kid with a fucking NDA. Here's the numbers on that. 1.5 million to free the kids. A charity run by, uh... It's a Haitian orphanage. Um, run by Priest Boivere. And then in 2020, yeah, Overture International took over governance of free the kids after someone came forward with public accusations of sexual abuse against Father Mark, the priest running it.

1:34:43The board was aware of multiple reports, particularly Father Mark. I mean, this mentions like three perps. And they failed to act until they couldn't deny the case. And yeah, here's all the emails and things about that. American Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting a young boy in Haiti. This is all an organization that can't cut funds and cross-international funds. Sorry for all the piles of paperwork, but I just want people to know I have receipts. This isn't just conspiracy theory stuff. This is documented. I think we'll probably...

1:35:26I think we should just get the digital vials of all these documents and put them in the link in the description so all the millions of people that watch this can access the documents. I am curious. I mean, it brought up the FBI. So how's their investigation going into this? So that's the reason I put all that together was to present it to the FBI. Then they said, let's get in touch with the 10 worst victims, which is a horrible phrase and label, but who's been trafficked - Most traumatized. Yeah, who's been trafficked across state lines the most, whether it's to China, Haiti, or all over the US.

1:36:03And so I provided that. I talked to the, you know, certain victims in that pool who were willing to speak. Some of them are still scared or they're not okay. And so I had to do, you know, a lot of calling around and make sure that this survivor wanted to talk. Every time they have to talk, it brings up, you know, like, I'm sure it's true for veterans as well. It's like, you have to go back there. It's hard. and uh so i don't take that lightly right when i'm calling a survivor for a clarifying question or like someone wants to speak to a survivor like well who's doing okay right now who wants to do this right now is it healing for them anyways we do that work we give them the list of 10 survivors willing and ready to speak they don't want the number one thing is they don't want this to happen to another kid they want this to stop they're like yeah i'll talk to anyone put me on that FBI list.

1:37:00The agent starts calling around. I hear back from the survivors. They've gotten in touch with them. And then we follow up, nothing. Follow up, nothing. So this presentation I was just referring to, that was July, 2023. And here we are, January, 2026. And we're doing Kanakuk's job for them. We're doing the FBI's job for them. We're going and fighting these predators. I'm starting to think that the FBI's job is just a fucking mouthpiece for whoever's in the White House to explain why they're not fucking doing their job. It just goes from administration to administration to administration, and that's what they do.

1:37:42You get up there and you listen to them talk about why the fuck they're failing again. Yeah, and on this issue, they're not informed. because, again, back to when I was the board chair of an anti-trafficking organization, the survivor leader of that organization would go train the FBI on how to spot trafficking and understand it. Again, the burden falls on survivors time after time. And that survivor, I mean, it's almost her full-time job is going around and training law enforcement and how to understand trafficking, spot it, address it.

1:38:19So, like, I mean, trafficking's been going on for centuries. Why are we... Why are they only talking to 10 victims? What are you guys, busy doing something? Fucking prove it. Yeah, I think they made it through, like, four on that list. What have you done? Yeah. And so, I mean, since 20... I started this investigation in 2021. 2020, actually. Fall of 2020. and here we are in 2026. I've been in touch with eight to ten law enforcement agencies at this point, including the inspector general's office. They were looking at a can of cuck for PPP loan fraud. I was like, well, get them on whatever you can, like at this point.

1:39:03I didn't know what an inspector general was. I had to Google it. I'm like, this is not what I do. But I guess it is now. might be the rest of my life but yeah i mean the inspector general's office hsi fbi irs dbd we had an arrest in dallas we have uh been in touch with the uh yeah different jurisdictions and their law enforcement the attorney general missouri now two different attorney generals in missouri and they're like sorry we can't do anything about canna cuck because we have unique jurisdictional issues the way it was explained is that in missouri there's unique jurisdictional issues where they can't act upon anything unless the local law enforcement brings them in.

1:39:45I was positively refreshed though by some Missouri legislators. So after I uncovered what happened to my brother and the statute of limitations stuff started making sense, like why was he forced to file so before he was ready? He was 21 when his perp went to prison and and he was forced to file by 23 just trying to graduate college, like heal and like, you know, wake up from this nightmare. And so then the civil litigation process broke him, led him to his first psychotic break. And I connected with these other survivors through the facts about Kanakuk network we were building. And I started testifying in Jefferson City and started proposing bills that would help these survivors have access to the civil courts past the age of 26.

1:40:33In Missouri, it's 26. That law's been unchanged since 1938. And so I started testifying on statute of limitations reform, and the House sponsor is from Taney County. His name's Representative Brian Seitz. And then our Senate sponsor is Brad Hudson, also represents Branson. So when I told them what was going on at CannaCuck, they have zero chill about child abuse. And they were like, we will sponsor this bill. And then I went and testified in a hearing on it, brought some survivors as well who testified on this bill. The House Judiciary Committee was just mind blown. Everyone there had heard of Keanacuck or knows of Keanacuck, because if you don't send your kids to Keanacuck, then you go to K-Life.

1:41:23There's something everywhere in Missouri, Keanacuck related, and in other states. Um, and this lobbyist came up and testified in favor on behalf of Mayor Milton of Branson. And I lost it. I cried. Because it was like, finally. There are people that are standing with survivors, and they don't care that Canna Cuck's one of the top revenue drivers, if not the top revenue driver to that part of the state. The Mayor of Branson is on our side, and the house rep from the area, and the senator who represents that district. are standing with survivors. And I left that hearing, and the lobbyist for Mayor Milton pulled me aside.

1:42:03He was like, I've got two daughters. I'm so pissed off after hearing everything I just heard. How can I help you? And I'd never worked with a lobbyist. In my mind, lobbyists are, like, shady. And, uh, yeah, so he was like, I want to help. And I would just call him and ask a question. And he's like, no, like, I really want to help. Like, it's getting to the point where you need to retain a lobbying firm because you have a lot of opposition. I'm like, who? You know, at this point, I'm kind of like unaware. And he's like, oh, you know, just like the whole insurance lobby and tort reform people and the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America, like, they're spending...

1:42:46I don't even know what their budget is for lobbying. Definitely more than what I can combat as one person. even though i'm fundraising now for like our efforts like back then i was like i can't go up against an industry like insurance um i had some attorneys on my side who had seen the darkness because of cases they've taken on and so are they trying to shut down um the law yeah that's what they're doing they don't want ndas released okay they don't want the statute of limitations changed because then it opens all these cases up and the insurance companies have to pay out those settlements. Gotcha.

1:43:27So this lobbyist, uh, shout out to Mark, good man. He's like, I want to help you. Former firefighter. Like, I don't even think he, well, I think he went to college eventually, but like, he was a first responder. He'd been very successful at getting like mental health things done for first responders in the Missouri legislature as a lobbyist. Uh, father of two girls. He's like, I want to help you. City of Branson's on your side. We've got representative sites in Senator Hudson. And you need real lobbyists. So they took us on. And then, so that was Missouri. And then in Texas, three mutual friends got connected to one of the powerhouse lobbying firms in Austin.

1:44:07And they've been working with me pro bono for a couple sessions now. The Texas legislature meets every other year. Missouri meets every year. So in Missouri, it's usually like a one, two, three step process, not getting things passed in like one session. In Texas, because there's a gap between sessions, you kind of get a little more panicked if you don't pass something that session. It's going to be two more years before you can even get something else done. But yeah, we got Trey's Law passed in Texas and Missouri. Did you have any help from any people in Congress or anybody to get that pushed through in Texas or Missouri?

1:44:47Yeah, so I mentioned our bill sponsors in Missouri who represent Kanakuk's district, which I'm sure just upset them. But we got that done. And that applies to child sexual abuse and trafficking victims, so minors. And it's for cases that arose on or after August 28th of last year, 2025. In Texas, we got a version of Trey's Law passed that covers all survivors of sexual assault, regardless of their age and regardless of when it happened. And that was a really interesting process. I had Representative Jeff Leach as our House Champion. He's also the House Judiciary Chair. And he gave us the opportunity to provide an interim briefing to his committee.

1:45:33So that's super helpful, because before the next session even starts, you're briefing them on this issue so that they can decide how to prioritize it, who should carry the bill, those kinds of things. Jeff carried for us on the House side, because this was personal to him. His wife's a disclosed survivor. She got the civil statute of limitations extended to age 48 back in 2019.

1:45:59And that's great, but it wasn't retroactive. So again, as I mentioned, if you were abused between 1995 and 2015 in Texas, you still only have until the age of 23 to sue. Then it got extended to like 33, not to 48. But that only applies to victims after 2029, sorry, 2019. So since that was passed in 2019, it only applies to survivors who were abused after 2019. They have until age 48. But Jeff Leach, this was personal to him. Then I meet with Senator Angela Paxton. And turns out it's quite personal to her as well. She's a former school teacher and counselor. She's a mother and a grandmother. And she has zero chill about child abuse.

1:46:46And I told her about a former student of hers that is under an NDA. Was, now I can say was under an NDA. And he had been in her 10th grade math class. And when I said... I'm not gonna say his name, but like, when I said so-and-so says hello, and this is personal to him, she burst into tears, and she told her team, this is why God put me in the legislature. Wow. To pass this bill. There is a good person in there. So I want people to know they're not all bad. There are people that have fought with me tooth and nail. And what I mean by that is... What's her name? Angela Paxton. um she's done a lot of good for kids in texas um her husband's a politician too and so she knew the ropes and um yeah she was a ride or die champion on this in texas then there's a representative named mitch little and he's a practicing attorney in the area of child sexual abuse.

1:47:56So as we were drafting the bill, we had a constitutional issue. So under the Texas, I think it's even in the Bill of Rights, not just in the Constitution, but no retroactive laws can be made. And I really in Texas needed the law to be retroactive because it's my brother's story, right? It's that student of Senator Paxton's story. that they were put under these NDAs, you know, after the Pete Newman scandal. So they needed this to be retroactive, to be freed from their NDAs. Otherwise, it's just helping future victims, which is still good. But the conflict with the Constitution in Texas was an issue.

1:48:38And in Missouri, it's not retroactive because we have to address the constitutional conflict there. But Mitch Little, being a brilliant lawyer, he came up with a loophole and he said, anyone who wants to enforce an existing NDA has to get a special court order to keep it in effect. Otherwise, all NDAs are void and unenforceable in the state of Texas after September 1st, 2025. Nice. And I thought that was a brilliant strategy because it forces the bad actors to reveal themselves. You want to take that abused kid to court and get a special court order to maintain that child's NDA? Or that victim's NDA?

1:49:17Show your face. So... That's pretty slick. What we accomplished in Texas is monumental. It's the most sweeping NDA reform anywhere in the country, and probably world. There have been other NDA reforms passed, like the Speak Out Act, which applies to sexual harassment in the workplace. That was led by Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginski. They were Roger Ailes victims at Fox News. and I got to know Gretchen when um and their non-profit's called Lift Our Voices and they're still working on this issue but it's workplace related like pre-dispute NDAs in the workplace so like I mean then it's valid it's important work think about the McDonald's worker who signs an employment contract they don't understand NDAs they don't understand they're signing away their right to a court because they get sent to arbitration behind closed doors just by signing in that employment contract.

1:50:09So what Gretchen and Julie are doing is really important and just leaves out kids. And so the Speak Out Act passed federally in 2022 and that's for pre-dispute NDAs and workplace sexual harassment cases. And I got connected through Gretchen when I was on the board of a women's philanthropic network and she had joined as a new member. We had members day. She talked about Lift Our Voices and what she was trying to do. I side-chatted her, and I said, this is my brother's story. And she goes, I've never heard of a kid being put under an NDA. That's horrible. So we got on a call, and I told her Trey's story.

1:50:53And she said, you need to talk to Nancy French. She lives in Franklin, Tennessee. She's a ghostwriter, does celebrity memoirs. She spent 30 days in Wasilla, Alaska, with the Palins, writing some books. She did a book for Mitt Romney. She did Shawn Johnson, the Olympic gymnast. She's had a lot. Like, I hope she writes a book one day about all of the books she's written. The behind the scenes are crazy. But I didn't know Nancy French. I just went off this lead from Gretchen. She goes, you need to write a book. And then once you have your book, you can option it into a film. Get this story out. like what Bombshell in their case helped people understand the Roger Ailes story and the Fox News stuff.

1:51:39Or like Spotlight, right? The Catholic Church Crisis, that movie helped expose the scale and the scope of the situation. So I get on a call with Nancy for 45 minutes. She's a disclosed survivor of clergy abuse when she was 12. Vacation Bible School teacher abused her when she was 12 in the Church of Christ in Kentucky. And I told her what I was uncovering and working on. And she was like, I don't know how I can help. Like, yes, I'm a ghostwriter, but this needs to get out to the public ASAP. So anyways, we like stayed in touch. She's an amazing writer. And so I was like, if nothing else, look at this Facts About CannaCuck website and help me out with, um, how do we get the word out?

1:52:25And then I met this woman who, on a blog post about the Pete Newman arrest, and a local, like, a local blogger in Taney County had written about Pete Newman's arrest, and someone left her full name and address and said, I reported Pete Newman well before he was arrested, because my daughter saw him abusing a boy in the woods. I contacted her. She'd investigated Kanakuk on her own as a freelance journalist for, like, four years. and I said, can I acquire your research? I got her research. We organized it into like six binders. I take those binders out to Franklin, Tennessee to meet with Nancy French and I'm going over the evidence like some of the stuff I showed you.

1:53:02Like they knew in 2003, why are they putting him under boundaries of like no nudity with children, no sleeping one-on-one with children if he's not sleeping one-on-one with children? And her husband, David, he'd started a media platform called The Dispatch with some other guys and it was a right-leaning conservative media outlet. And he walked in, he brought us lunch while we were going through all these binders trying to figure out like, how do we write a book about this or what are we doing with this information? Cause it has to get out. And he heard me say 500 ,000 kids have gone through this place, 50 ,000.

1:53:37And then he heard the NDA part and he was like, what? So infuriated. He had just exposed Ravi Zacharias. So whistleblower friend and the Ravi Zacharias scandal, huge, big televangelist who, uh, very well known around the world. And then he died and all these people came out about how they'd been trafficked by Robbie Zacharias. So her, Nancy's husband, David French, had just exposed that. So he, he was like, NDAs, all of the things where it's like the same thing, just another version of it. This is kids. And, um, so by the time I flew back to Dallas, they were like, this can't wait on a book. We need to get this out to the public ASAP.

1:54:18So that's how the first articles came out on the dispatch. And that platform, it's like a sub-stack model kind of platform. So not mainstream. I couldn't get mainstream media to write about this or care about this. Of course, they won't touch it. Yeah. Have they ever touched it? Well. Somebody did? I went top down on, I had a friend who was vice president of Gannett Communications. And I told her, I'm stuck. I can't get Springfield News Leader, the local paper, to write about this. So we had the dispatch, and then it got picked up by some other... Did you say Gannett Communications? Yeah. Like Northeast?

1:54:55They own USA Today and a big media conglomerate. Oh, God. And I had worked at one point towards the end of college. I interned for the RNC, the Republican National Convention, with this friend. And we both studied corporate communications and public affairs. We're both trained in crisis PR. That's how I saw what Kanakuk was doing, because that was my degree. Wow. And so I call her, and she was like, this is ridiculous. I'm gonna get you on a Zoom call with the head of investigative reporting for our whole company. And then they brought in the regional head for USA Today. And we finally got five articles published in USA Today in the Springfields News Leader, because I told them that if they don't report on this, then they're part of the cover-up.

1:55:52Nice. And then they ran five articles. I was like, yeah, catching up for lost time. Nice. Then would be better. Anyways, but once we got USA Today, that led to a Vice News piece. We actually won an Emmy on that, about the NDAs back in... We won an Emmy in 2022 for that. Nice. Vice TV is not around anymore, but they did a responsible and good job on that story. We had to have victims with anonymized treatments because they were scared because of the NDAs, of speaking out. So they had to do, like, you know, the blackout treatment for these victims to talk. And then we did a CBS survivor sit-down.

1:56:28I hosted it in Dallas, flew victims in from around the country. Same thing, anonymized treatment. Everyone was so scared because of these NDAs. So after the Dispatch articles, and David and Nancy put their stamp of credibility on it, David's now at the New York Times, and he's mentioned it in a couple of his opinion pieces, the Canna Cuck scandal, and they're both Christians, and they have three kids and now grandkids. They don't like this stuff. So I still talk to them frequently, and they're always trying to help make intros, get this covered. um so the mainstream media eventually followed but that was not who wanted to tell this story initially in fact the woman i mentioned who i i acquired her research and put it in binders she had taken the story she did four years of investigating this and then she took the story to vanity fair and they said oh we have abuse fatigue we just did a story on catholic abuse so she gave up on it fortunately you know we got connected it was a year almost a year to the date after Trey died because my therapist I'd been working with when Trey was not doing well.

1:57:41Because I had little kids, all my hats, you know, day job stuff. And I was going to visitation hours in psych wards or visiting Trey in rehab. And it got to the point where I was getting unhealthy. Right? I'm big sis, but I'm also mom. And I'm also stewarding this foundation role I have. And all these boards, you know, like I couldn't just full time take care of Trey. But everywhere we went failed him. Um, um, mental health system's a mess. I've seen the guts of it. It's not great. Um, medications he'd try would make him fat or, like, make the depression worse. Man. He was on and off suicidal for, for years.

1:58:31I never knew when that would be the last time I, you know, these phone calls or visits. Like, I always left thinking that could be the last time, you know? and I'd go from like carpool line where I'd see a Kanakuk bumper sticker to visiting Triana Psych Ward and I understand why he didn't want to live in this world everyone in Dallas just thinks Kanakuk is like I mean not anymore but like for the longest time people still sending their kids there he felt so unseen and he couldn't talk about it I would listen. I'm so glad I leaned in. I listened to everything he wanted to tell me. And a lot of it got super dark.

1:59:18And he was a brain researcher. He was brilliant. And he was working at the Langer Lab, which is a shared program between MIT and Harvard. And he was studying the brain, I think, because he wanted to fix his own. So, really smart kid growing up. National Merit Scholar, not finalist, not semi-finalist, national merit scholar, like top 0.01 % like on that test. He always wanted to be pre-med. He had the, he could have been a brain surgeon. I mean, he was brilliant, well-rounded football, cross-country, like athletic, all the things, Eagle Scout. And then those depositions, like I mentioned, led to his first psychotic break.

2:00:06Thanks, Kana Cuck. So it was like the child sexual abuse. And then you had the institutional abuse and the gaslighting in those depositions. And then the in and out of treatment centers. Some, he would leave without even a diagnosis. And there's like 20 more medications. Nothing was working or helping. And so he started like deep diving and he came out to live in North Carolina with us for a month. And he was too paranoid to go to a certain therapist's office. I got him in because of my foundation role. I was doing some work with the University of North Carolina in Greensboro on healthy relationships.

2:00:50So these guys are all psychologists. And so I called the head of the department, great counseling department. I'm like, who's the best person in town for complex PTSD? I don't know if my brother's going to make it. And I've got little kids I'm dealing with too. And he gives me a name. We go and we meet with that therapist, and I have to sign the intake forms and, like, my own interest. He's too scared. He's in a ball in the corner. Jeez. We get in the office with the therapist, and he's totally, like, almost catatonic, closed off. And then I asked this woman, tell Trey about other clients you've had.

2:01:32And she goes into, well, have treated MKUltra victims. And I didn't know what the, I was like, what? And Trey suddenly came to and was like, oh, yeah. Okay, like that earned his trust. And she had had clients like starting back in the 80s who would be in session with her and they'd hear an ice cream truck and just go into a trance and follow the ice cream truck. And then go back and forth between like being a three-year-old a 30-year-old, a 15-year-old, you know, like that multi-personality thing. So she's like, I've seen it all. And what's going on? And Trey's like, tell her about Kanakuk. So like, I would tell about Kanakuk.

2:02:18You don't want to talk about it. And she's like, your symptoms are a lot like victims I've seen who survived satanic ritualistic abuse, or like this MKUltra stuff. And that's where I'm like, you know, I'm just sitting there as a supportive sister, but I'm also listening. And I go buy every book I can on MKUltra and like all this stuff. I thought it was a conspiracy theory. And then I come back to, we moved back to Dallas eventually. And I got to really lean into helping my brother. So that lady was in North Carolina. move back to Dallas, find other therapists, same thing. They're like, sometimes he's 15, sometimes he's seven, sometimes he's 30-something.

2:03:05And I'm like, what did Kanekuk do to you? It's like, what did they do to you?

2:03:20It wasn't just like one therapist who was like crazy. It was like everywhere he went, when I was included, I got to see, I got a front row seat to his suffering. And I learned a lot about how these networks work. It's never just one perpetrator. It's never just one victim. the ritualistic abuse going on in the name of Jesus. Like, this guy who was abusing these kids was also baptizing them. Oh, man. Reading scripture over them and praying over them as the abuse is happening. It shattered my faith.

2:04:11reading scripture over them

2:04:18did your brother tell you that I've talked to so many survivors now so Trey was scared to talk because of the NDA and he told the therapist in Dallas she's in the same building as the guy who wrote the book CIA Doctors, Colin Ross, I think is his name. I read that, but I started educating myself on like, the MKUltra stuff's declassified. Like I just totally thought Trey was being like psychotic or something. And I was like, oh, I did my own research. I was like, this stuff's for real. And I met doctors that like treat these patients and Trey's symptoms lined up with all that. And I'm like, oh my gosh.

2:05:03And then four days, I think it was four days, like very close to his death, he reached out to that therapist and said, they'll always control me and I'll never be free. Damn. And then he killed himself.

2:05:27I'm sorry. And when...

2:05:37When I started going around to meet with his therapists, and hear, like, all the same things over and over and over again, of just, like, victims they've treated and how it's hard to, at that point, like, and then there was also, like, drugs and addiction involved in trace stories. Like, it's just so hard to come back from that. When like all the medications and the failures of different doctors who couldn't help him, I learned pretty early on I couldn't save him. So, you know, as a big sister, you're like, I'm supposed to protect my little brothers. And I couldn't. So I had, you know, my own therapist walking me through all this.

2:06:25She was really cool. She's retired now, but she

2:06:31PhD Messianic Jew. So like she's ethnically Jewish, but she came to know Christ, her housekeeper converted her to, to Christ. And she had a really cool faith. And she helped me understand like how to set boundaries. Like you don't have to go to every visitation hours. You don't have to go to all this therapy. Like you have to self-care because You're a mom. You're all these other things, too. You're not just Tray's big sister. My parents were going through a divorce at the time, too. Oh, man. Perfect storm. So she said, you need to take a year and just grieve. And I'm a very action-oriented person, Sean, if you can't tell.

2:07:12So that was hard to heed, right? It's like, what do you mean, just grieve? Like, just cry all the time for a year? Like, I've got stuff to do. And she's like, no, just grieve. Like, sit in the grief. Like, if you can't feel it, then you'll never heal from it. Like, you have to feel it to heal it. And the Jewish faith tradition has some really cool stuff around grief. Like, the way that they do funerals and the way the community supports each other when someone passes away. and um she's like you need to go through the first four seasons without your brother before you take any action like just grieve it and um it was really good advice for someone like me but then about a year like literally so she said grieve for a year then that year passed i'm like okay i'm gonna do something that's when i got on the middle of the night and i find this blog post, and it's called The Turner Report, and he was like a local journalist who did his own blogging thing in Taney County.

2:08:25And he'd posted about Pete Newman's indictment and then, like, reported on the criminal trial proceedings. And that's where I found that comment from that woman whose daughter had witnessed Pete with a boy in the woods and then acquired her research and all that. I got a burner phone after that, like a drug dealer. and I would get tips because in Trey's obituary, we said, my parents and I, our family agreed, we are going to name this abuse. So many people were confused, like, what's wrong with Trey? He was like a straight-A student, football player. Trey was it. He was like the man. All the girls wanted to date Trey.

2:09:13All the boys wanted to be Trey. And then suddenly he's dead. Not so suddenly, actually. It was a slow decline. All horrible. And...

2:09:29Yeah, so he... In his obituary, we wrote all those things that were great about him, and at the end we said he was a Canna Cut Camps abuse survivor and a friend to other survivors he could help. And so that was out there in the Dallas Morning News. And we started getting outreach from, you know, like the Me Too movement. I call this Kids Too. Because we kept getting all these calls about our family. We think our son might have been abused at Canna Cook. He's never talked about it. Or a direct victim reaching out. and I had to be really careful because one thing we knew from the civil case is that Kanakuk would put PIs on the victims and they would like pull their trash and surveillance them to get like you know any evidence of homosexual behavior drug use and then use it against them in depositions and all these victims I've talked to like so many of them are like yeah I was followed by a black SUV.

2:10:36I'm like, oh my god, I thought Trey was just, like, getting schizophrenic or something. Like, I didn't believe... Not that I didn't believe him, I was just, like, skeptical. Mm-hmm. And then you hear it enough times, you're like... That is so evil. That Keanna Cook and their attorneys would surveillance victims. And they also set up a hotline in the wake of Pete's arrest that would report back to themselves. Like, victim support at canacook.com. And then that's how they... Are you shitting me? That's how they grew their list of victims. It's like, victim support at canacook.com. It's still up on their website.

2:11:17And so then... Are you serious? Yeah. Then they can intercept the victims, and Joe White would offer some families a trip to Disney World, a fancy hunting trip, like$100 ,000 for treatment. But it comes with an NDA.

2:11:36Shit. That's still on the website? Yeah, it's victimsupport.canicart.com, I think. We'll pull it up on screen right now. Yeah, they have this R-response page because... That way, if there's any victims, you know, they can... ...talk to their abuser. Yeah, not go there. What the fuck? Well, it's worse than that, too. They had counselors in their network of counselors, and they would send people to this guy and then things that a victim would say in their counseling session, thinking it's confidential, hello, HIPAA, things they would have only told that counselor come up in depositions. Holy shit.

2:12:19So this is very like Scientology. I mean, this is not the only cult that does this, but that's what they were doing to victims too. And then Kanakuk would pay the counselor, like pay the invoices. They would say, oh, you deserve free therapy. We'll pay for your therapy. But they wouldn't give the victim the money. They would pay the therapist, and the therapist would report back.

2:12:45Do you have the names of the therapists? Oh, yeah. Is there any legal recourse to them? No. Nothing. No. Not for breaking HIPAA, not any of that. No, I mean, I think that... So, I'm thinking of one in particular, like the one I have the most on.

2:13:08He was at a Baptist church in Branson. And I think when a lot of this came out in Discovery and these lawsuits, they fired him, or he's no longer in that role at that church. But yeah, there's a network of therapists that feed the information back to Canna Cook. So they... Canna Cook. recruited therapists to talk to their victims and then have them report the deepest, darkest, most disgusting sexual abuse back to them so that they can cover it up. These are fucking licensed therapists. Yeah, and the victims that would tell me this, I'd be like, report them to try to get their license revoked. I don't personally have a claim because it didn't happen to me, but I tell the victims it happened to him, like, please report this to the licensing agency in Missouri.

2:14:07Because he should lose his license. Holy shit. Joe White also claims to be a counselor. I think what's the most... How do you find this many people who are, like, okay with sexually abusing kids. Like they did everything but put a fucking recruitment like poster up that says, hey, if you love to sexually abuse kids, sign up here. Exactly. So like that's why it's so important when an institution has a case of child sexual abuse that they have an independent investigation into that organization not a law firm to cover, you know, them, but to have an independent investigation that looks into the scope and scale of the abuse that's occurred.

2:15:02Because it's, I've never seen a case where it's just one perpetrator, just one victim. Like they're usually tied into, especially with like the online stuff, so intersectional with this institutional abuse, right? Because they desensitize their victims by using porn a lot of the time, or in the case of Kanakuk in some of these other assemblies of God and certainly Catholic church abuse, SBC stuff, they use an element of spirituality to it. Pete Newman would tell boys that if they masturbated with him in a hot tub, they were still sexually pure because they weren't doing it with a woman. And that ties back again to Joe White's books about teen purity.

2:15:44So from the top, you have this dude who's obsessed with teen sex and purity And then his own words and philosophy and theology are twisted by these pedophiles that come to work at Canna Cuck. And then they get caught abusing kids, and Joey White's like, oh, it's just boys being boys. I thought it was immature. I didn't think it was criminal. He says things like this in the deposition tapes we have. And he was like, they're, you know, just... You have them saying that? Oh, yeah, we have hours and hours of deposition videos. Can we put them up? Yeah, let's put them up. I've got... We can insert him into this.

2:16:21Please. Please. Send it. Yeah. Send it to us. Just wait till you see this guy's face lift, too. He looks great. I can... Like, what in the Kenneth Copeland is going on here? You know, that it, like... That's exactly who just popped into my brain. Yeah, that's what... Yeah. You would agree with me that we can't trust what Pete Newman says or has said about the number of victims or the extent of the contact with individual victims? It's hard to know what to trust and what not to trust. Well, do you trust him at all?

2:17:00Do I trust him at all? When he sent us a list, I believe there was a list of approximately 18 or 19 names 22 I think. Yeah, okay, that list. And I forget the exact date of that list. It was... The first list. The first list that Newman sent you. Well, I'm referring to a list that he sent to Chris Cooper. Right. And I can't tell you the date. But I talked to a number of those parents of those victims and have subsequently had conversation with a number of the children of those. And it was consistent with the list that there were two or three boys that he said he had touched on the list. That was consistent.

2:17:58There was 16-ish boys that he said on the list that he hadn't touched, and that has been consistent. So there's a degree of trust there that in investigating that particular list. Yeah, he's in deposition saying things like, we didn't fire Pete because these incidents of nudity were like two drops in a cascade of applause and praise. And all the victims, when we're watching these deposition tapes, we're like, those two drops, those are poison. They poison the whole well or waterfall, whatever your metaphor is. Like... I'm pretty sure scripture says, like, if one sheep goes missing and you've got 99, you go after the one lost sheep, like, go after those drops of water, those poisonous drops of water that most people would call felony acts, instead of focusing on the applause of praise and money coming in through this Rainmaker director who's obviously naked with kids all the time because you're writing contracts to say, stop spending so much time naked with kids.

2:19:03You're, like, revising his HR document. to say, no more one-on-one sleepovers, spend more time with your wife, Katie, less inordinate amount of time with kids. Like, it's unbelievable. And this is out there. So since the dispatch articles dropped in 2021... Where's this guy in prison? Jefferson City Correctional Center. How is he not fucking dead? Usually these guys get killed in prison. Who's protecting him?

2:19:34fuck man you're right

2:19:41oh and I had to protest his parole um in 2024 so here's some Missouri math three life terms and he was up for parole after serving 15 years because in Missouri a life sentence is 30 years so that's kind of weird i'm 38 i've outlived my lifespan then he had three of those three 30 year so 90 years of prison but under the current criminal code in missouri you're up for parole after serving half of one life term which is 15 years and then you're up for parole again every one to five years after that first hearing so i set up a website protest pete's parole.com and we got, I mean, his opposition file has to be this thick.

2:20:29We got thousands of letters and emails sent in to the victim specialist office. And then he had his hearing and he started it by, I've spent a lot of time in jail counting my victims. It was only 55.

2:20:47Like that was going to be a good look for him. Only 55. And we know it's thousands, you know, it's like, uh and like if you count i i don't consider myself uh well i guess i am a canicook victim but not a direct victim like my brother was but if you start counting the family members of these victims that might be hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been shattered by this by canicook like pete plus the 70 plus other perps we know about times all the ones we don't know about and then the collateral damage in these families and our laws protect these institutions and these predators

2:21:32and they can walk i mean we just posted a new perpetrator on our on facts about kanika uh yesterday because she got out of prison after three years so that's a woman on so can we know female on female crime male on female male on male obviously my brother's story um so it's the culture of we only care about counting the souls we've saved not the kids who get get harmed along the way

2:22:08may talk to joe white about it i mean we've gotten him on a couple phone calls and it's like he just starts weeping and playing the victim himself. Do you know Andy Frisella by chance? No, should I? You should probably know him. He owns this big supplement company called First Form. He's a good friend of mine. He's in Missouri. He's in St. Louis. I know he's got some deep connections. I'll introduce you. I'd love that. And he's not fucking scared of anything.

2:22:44I'll talk to anyone who will listen.

2:22:49I do, I do, I do. At one point, I got connected with James O 'Keefe at Project Veritas. So they were on this. Like, they were doing it. I had several Zoom calls. And then when I had breakfast with James in Dallas one time, I explained the summer camp situation. He goes, I've never, he's like, Elizabeth, I never thought about this. Camps are the perfect places to indoctrinate children. Like, yes, this American summer camp tradition is send your kids off into the woods for a month with strangers and hope they come back in one piece. But parents don't have a lot of insight. I mean, they could have gone to the camp themselves, but you don't get a lot of communication.

2:23:36you don't have a lot of insight into what they're teaching your kids, you know, that like whole culture situation at Canuck, especially alarming if you're there for a month. Like I would usually only go for one or two weeks. Trey went for a month. But yeah, so Project Veritas was like, this is so messed up. How can we help?" And I briefed them and then James left Project Veritas and it was a new leadership in something. I followed up and followed up and followed up and I don't think it ended up happening. Yeah, actually we were teaming up with Project Veritas the first time I interviewed Ryan about all of that stuff and we actually held the episode to release it at the same time because they had a bunch of stuff too and then they backed out so it was just me and ryan yeah the only ones talking about this shit yeah well new bestie thanks for caring yeah well i just i let's what i just how could you not everyone will tell you they care about child sexual abuse and then when it when the rubber meets the road they don't they don't want to do it these people give a shit i just told you the last time when we brought up roblox they took a six billion dollar haircut in one week and i quit i quit tracking it after that we'll throw the graph up the day the day we released that episode it went lost six billion in one week good because that's how you have to do it you have to hurt them where it hurts and it's they care about the bottom line unfortunately it's ridiculous that's like that's That's the win.

2:25:23Oh, yeah. How many kids have been fucked up because of that game? How many kids are dead? How many kids have carved slut into their forehead because of fucking roadblocks? And our win is like, oh, yeah, we took six billion from them. Well, at least they don't have to run around with slut carved in their fucking forehead everywhere they go. Have you seen... That's a 764 satanic cult shit. Well, that's a Kanika victim has that in her leg. What? Mm-hmm. They were doing that kind of satanic ritual. I mean, it all is, right? All that sexual abuse is, but that's a visible mark. Yeah, I didn't know if I believed in all of that stuff.

2:26:10And then I met someone who ran the office for victims of crime, OVC. and he put me in touch with my PIs and he had just talked to some survivors of SRA and I was like, well, is that real? You know, I'm still trying to process all of that at this point. I'm like, I've heard this from therapists over and over again and he was like, Elizabeth, I didn't think that was real until I started meeting all these survivors. And he's like, I just met with one in Missouri. Like, again, what the Missouri is going on? And she had no legs. They'd cut off her legs. They cut off her legs? Where was she from? Missouri.

2:27:03I mean, from this? No, not a canicuck victim, like just a satanic ritualistic abuse victim. And so this guy, he was like, I thought it was like, you know, it's very dark, and he's seen a lot of darkness. And he was skeptical until he started meeting these victims. And he's like, it's very real. I've talked to enough of them now to be convinced. And I was like, well, here's what I know about what happened to Trey, and then there's these other victims, like things carved in their leg and stuff. I'm like... Is this commonality out of Canacook victims themselves the the carving those words that you mentioned uh i've seen it once um physically i mean personally seen it once um traded other things to self-harm but not that um but yeah this was their own i mean i know it all stems from something so i don't want to take away from that.

2:28:11What I'm talking about is the 764, the perpetrator would have the victim carve that into them. We're talking about the same shit. Yeah. And, you know, like I was saying earlier, the playbook is the playbook. You start wondering when you meet with or talk to Catholic survivors, SBC victims, you know, Kanakuk, these institutional situations, you're like, what book are they all reading? Because it's the patterns across these institutions. Well, we uncovered that a couple weeks ago too. I mean, you've already brought it up, I can't remember if it was on the break or if it was on... right here, but I mean, there's manuals everywhere on how to do it, the playbook.

2:29:04I mean, there's tons of manuals. Yeah, no, like, so what I showed you in Rick Brashler's PowerPoint, he's like, here's the literal book on how to find children and abuse them. And now that there's so much online, you don't need the physical book anymore, it's just these chat rooms and stuff. Yeah. The fact that Pete Newman's devices were never investigated for child sexual abuse material. That keeps me up at night. The fact that... It's a fucking cover-up. Oh. What else? I mean... So literally, they hired... Being a corporate communications major, we had this firm, a huge PR firm, one of the largest in the world.

2:29:51And they would send someone in as guest lecturers in our classes, and there was one on crisis communications. And then I noticed, when I started going back and digging into all this Pete Newman stuff in the cover-up. I couldn't find anything mentioned about Pete Newman as it associated it with CannaCuck until like the ninth page of Google search results. So I'm like, they've spent millions on this cover-up, right? Like, I just knew that from my background. And then the spokesperson for CannaCuck, his name, I googled it, and he was the head of crisis for the Americas for this large PR firm. and uh now he like works for the fed somewhere but they hired the best crisis comms firm and team in the country to cover this up and i my team and i have like calculated a probably like two million dollar budget for this crisis peer cover-up and now what i know they're offering these lobbyists to oppose my bills like trades law and sol reform and Camp Safety, they are telling us their budget.

2:30:59Like, they offered that D.C. lobbyist$250 ,000. They offered more to the Austin lobbyist, and it's like, okay, we'll just keep a spreadsheet going on how much money you're willing to spend against me on passing these child protection laws. Good fucking luck when this comes out. You can't buy this kind of PR. Well, I'm grateful for the opportunity. Fuck those people. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's been a really eye-opening six years. This shit is going to send. It's going to go big. I fucking know. I just can feel it. People are going to be pissed. I hope so, because this is righteous anger. This is what righteous anger is for.

2:31:48We need to be pissed about the right things. We need to be enraged by what's happening at CannaCuck and these other camps. I mean, Facts About CannaCuck is a whistleblower website that a bunch of survivors pulled together. A CannaCuck survivor put together our social media because he does that for work. And, um, you know, the survivor army is growing and they're gaining their voices and now they can legally talk, at least the ones with Texas cases. Uh, we just filed it in Alabama, trade laws filed in Alabama to end NDAs and child sexual abuse and trafficking cases in Alabama. We're filing it in, uh, Oklahoma alongside statute of limitations reform.

2:32:31Um, and... Yeah, if your audience wants to bring this to their state, let's go. They're gonna want to. And federally. I just got word this morning that Senator Ted Cruz, my senator from Texas, he is going to sponsor Trey's Law federally. That's awesome. Yeah. And he's going to try to do it with Senator Gillibrand. She carried the Speak Out Act, so she's very familiar with this NDA issue. And so... Who's your congressman? We are talking to several. A lot of them want it. Congressman Issa's office was really interested in this. He's a Republican out of California. California has a version of trade's law that was part of a broader Crime Victims Act.

2:33:12And so we don't need to pass trade law in California. They've already covered this space. But it's only Tennessee, go Tennessee, 2019. There was a plaintiff's attorney, a Democrat in a very Republican legislature who said this is evil and he's deceased now. But Representative Beck in Tennessee, it's like two lines, one sentence, that NDAs in child sexual abuse and trafficking cases should be void and unenforceable as against the public interest of the state. There was no hearing. There was no testimony in the committee. Unanimous, zero no votes. And yeah, so that was 2019. so anyone under an NDA in Tennessee since 2019, void and unenforceable.

2:34:00And you have to change the law because the lawyers don't even know that's a law sometimes. But so the lawyers are going to keep putting victims under NDAs, so you have to change the law so then the victim can realize or they can find a different attorney who tells them, you were put under NDA in 2020 in Tennessee, it's void and unenforceable because of this 2019 law. And then Alabama, I'm from a big Roll Tide family. my grandpa didn't miss a game his entire life. And, uh... That came about because I have a ton of cousins in, uh, Walker County, my mom's side of the family. And, um, they were following on Facebook, like, this whole Trey's Law journey.

2:34:44And then, out of the blue, I get a text from a representative in that area, like, your cousin told me about what you're doing, I would love the honor of bringing this to Alabama. That's awesome. I know. I was like, okay, there are good people in the world. And then two weeks later, he texted me, and he was like, I'm a senator now. And I'm like, what's going on in Alabama? There's like a special election or something. So that's Senator Matt Woods now. He's standing with survivors in Alabama. He just pre-filed Trey's Law. And our House Rep is David Faulkner, who's carrying Trey's Law and our Camp Safety Bill in honor of Sarah Marsh, one of the girls who died in Camp Mystic.

2:35:19She was from Birmingham. Nice. And, um... Yeah, in Oklahoma, we're talking to the speaker's top counsel, Representative Kennedy, and, um... And then Ted Cruz's team at the federal level, Schmidt's office is willing to be helpful, because Kanakuk sent Senator Schmidt's state. And then I got to know, uh, Senator Ashley Moody when she was Attorney General of, uh, Florida. And we were on a panel together at this, uh, for the Policy Circle, talking about safeguarding innocents. And when she was AG of Florida, she had an over 90 % success rate in prosecuting trafficking cases. Wow. Also a mom, like, young.

2:36:04So she was appointed Marco Rubio's seat. So she's Senator Ashley Moody now. And so I'm keeping her team up to speed with what we're trying to do, because she cares about this stuff. And then Senator Katie Britt's office, They've been supportive, and we'll have the Alabama tie-in after this session. Did you say Steve Toth helped you when he was in Congress? So, yeah, he's a Texas state rep running for Congress, and he's running for Crenshaw's seat, actually. Oh, is Crenshaw helping you? Did he help out? Not a—no. Did you reach out to him? No. You didn't? No. You probably should. I'll get right on that.

2:36:52But Toth, he's a good guy because he stood with Rep Leach on the House floor when the House was going to vote on Treslaw.

2:37:04And I couldn't be there in Austin for some reason. So I was watching it, like, on my laptop. And you can see, like, right there next to Jeff Leach is Steve Toth. And he has this look of fury on his face as Jeff's doing the bill outlay, which is basically like saying, I'll send you the clip. I mean, it's super powerful. And then Mitch Little had some powerful comments too. But in certain situations, when a bill's presented and people are passionate about it, even if it's not their bill, they'll go up there and stand with the bill sponsor who's presenting it. And Toth was like right there in the camera.

2:37:41I would bet Crenshaw would bend over over fucking backwards to help you right now because from what i've heard he could really use a win and he can't help you if he doesn't know about it does he watch your show i don't know i've heard he does yeah we'll uh give him a visit i'll put you in touch with his attorneys Thanks.

2:38:08Yeah, I mean, I think this is a slam dunk for anyone who wants to do something for kids right now because the Epstein files aren't going anywhere at the moment. Not a whole lot of people in government want to help kids. Not a whole lot of momentum on that. A lot of people want to help pedophiles. Not very many people want to help kid victims. But I haven't come across one elected official who thinks kids should be silenced contractually after surviving sexual assault or trafficking. It's a pretty hard thing to be against. That's good to hear.

2:38:50There's a lot more behind the scenes on that Texas bill, if you want to talk about it. But we landed the plane, and victims have their voices back. And the most poignant memory in this work from last year was when I got to tell that student of Angela Paxton, Senator Paxton's former student, September 1st, two words, be free. I love that. He's free. Elizabeth, what do you have to accomplish to move on with your life?

2:39:36I just think when you lose someone under these circumstances and crimes are involved you have to understand the issue first of all figure out how to prevent it from happening to others because I hold this information now uh my brother's not alive to talk about it so I have to talk about it. And now I work with a lot of other survivors who are ready and willing to talk about it. And as long as they need me, I'm here. And I don't know what that looks like. I've thought about, I told you my faith was shattered, like deconstructed it, reconstructed, like I've thought about going to seminary. I've thought about going to law school.

2:40:22And then I realized, you know, and helping pass these four laws in one year, I'm probably best served, best service to others if I keep advocating with them for them. Sometimes they need a voice, sometimes they just need a mic. You know, Trey doesn't have a voice right now. Since my brother died, I've been trying to be his voice. Then there are other survivors who have just been silenced and suffering in the shadows and having them testify at a hearing for a lot of them is so healing. So these hearings are healing for them. Sometimes I'm just the first person they've ever disclosed their abuse to, and I just hold that as sacred.

2:41:10Like it's holy ground when a survivor discloses their abuse to you. Yeah. Yeah. This here is full of dry shampoo and secrets. because I will not, someone trusts me with that, I consider it sacred and holy. And then sometimes they need help. They might need counseling, they might need rehab. They might just need someone to hold their story with them. And they might need to connect with other survivors. And now there's this whole community of Kanakuk survivors and other survivors of camp abuse and negligence who are finding healing in community. So I haven't gotten that far to ask myself, like, what do I need to move on?

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2:46:01But anyways, maybe the next time you go to the Texas gun experience, you can take this one in. For real? Oh my gosh, thank you. You don't even know what it is yet. Is this the one with the red dot? Can I open it? It's like Christmas morning, thank you.

2:46:22Hell yeah. There you go. So, I mean, after interviewing you for whatever we've gone now, two and a half hours, three hours maybe, you got a lot of enemies. So you're going to need something to protect yourself. This is awesome. Yeah, so that's the SIG P365 Legion with the red dot that you were going on about. And that is their latest. You want to hold it up? I was going to say magazine's not in it. Magazine's not in it. It's safe. holds 17 rounds plus one in the pipe so 18 rounds it's got the red dot it's all metal obsessed thank you that is the legitimately i'm not just saying this you're not going to get a better everyday carry in the sub pump compact category than that i'm so excited my husband's also going to be so thrilled he'll probably be jealous he'll be very jealous you're rocking a hellcat now yeah yeah that i like that because you don't have to deal with the safety it's like in the trigger but you'll I already do.

2:47:24I like how it fits my... I have tiny hands. We'll pop a couple rounds off at the end. Okay, perfect. Before you head back. Yeah, we deserve that. This is a hard topic. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. That's... This is amazing. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. We're gonna piss off a lot of pedophiles.

2:47:46We're also gonna piss off a lot of people at Cam Canicook. yeah well one in the same yeah good good point so what are what are we what are we diving into next well thank you for brought up a chart on the break oh yeah well that was just chit chat but um i did want to show yeah so this was just like side chatting um but i think the best visual to map out the whole CannaCuck situation I shared, is this network map. So my team of PIs, whenever we're digging into something, we want to put it in a format that law enforcement can easily read and understand. But this is how big the web is. It's like every entity that Joe White or CannaCuck Ministries has a hand in, you can see the little handcuff icon.

2:48:36And then we have a separate page that outlines the exact charges for those handcuffs. We'll put that on screen. Yeah, it's just not normal. So... Man. Yeah. So each one of these is a different business? Or LLC? Or what exact... Yeah, so they're LLCs or ministries or churches. He's on the board, like things he's affiliated with. And you can't find one that doesn't have some sort of... It's not connected to the handcuffs. ...sexual exploitation of children. Man.

2:49:13So, when you don't hold predators accountable the first time you see a flag, you attract bad actors to your enterprises. And that's a mess. And I think with Joe White, I don't know what his deal is, but I assume it's a lot darker than just a culture of complacency. But in general, and what I wanted to talk to you about before we go shoot, is this culture of complacency is a camp industry problem. It's industry-wide. So, you know, I was doing this CannaCuck stuff since 2021, trying to understand what happened to my brother, connecting with all these victims. And then I started looking at, okay, is CannaCuck an outlier or is this the norm?

2:50:02and I started getting tips from all over the country, including other camps, many in Texas, who have victims under NDAs. So word starts getting out, especially as I started testifying in state legislatures. When you're testifying at a hearing, that's public and anyone can watch it. And so I started reaching more of the masses that way. And then I'd get outreach from random people about camps or organized crime within churches and cults. Oftentimes with IRS church status, we've got to stop giving church status to cults. And that's an IRS issue on my list of things to discuss with the religion business guys you've had on.

2:50:51Nathan. Yeah. Nathan's doing really good work in the name of Christ to get rid of this corruption in the church. And I'm actually, I'm going to be shooting season two with them in a few days. We're going to start that. Right on. Yeah. They also have zero chill about child abuse in the name of Jesus. So that's cool. I always love that. But so we figured out that the camp industry nationally in the US, it's an American tradition. I don't know if it was where you grew up, but in my circles, like everyone went to summer camp. and some of them are just a couple weeks some of them are a month long and it's a 70 billion dollar industry about 26 million people uh are involved in summer camps every year in the u.s and i think there's so many positives to that right it's like get your kids off their devices and have them meet new friends from other places um get out in nature like all All of that is good stuff, right?

2:51:53But for so long, parents have not asked questions. And that's why I wanted to talk about this, because you started this conversation about what do parents need to know? And this is so important for parents to know, that the camp industry is completely under-regulated and some states completely unregulated. So 15 states don't even require criminal background checks on summer camp staff. That's not even how you catch the bad guys. that's just a baseline, right? To make sure you're not hiring people with a record. Hello. Dude, I like how can... It's common sense. How can you run a business around children and not run a background check?

2:52:30Yeah, so what I found is unless camps are regulated and there's laws that force that, they don't because they are saving cost. That's what I was... So they are looking for the lowest common denominator to watch your kids. Correct. The person that will take the least amount of payment. They don't give a fuck. No. It's just a body. Yeah. And a lot of these camps I mentioned earlier are for-profit camps. And so they see kids as a commodity, right? They want to recruit as many campers as possible and keep costs as low as possible. And that's their family business. Doesn't anybody advertise the quality of the counselors that they hire or any of that shit?

2:53:12I mean, everybody's... One would think that they would want to be, you know, hold a high standard and be an example of proper hiring practices and, you know, going above and beyond what the state would require with a licensure process. But that is just objectively not the case. So 15 states don't require even baseline measures like a criminal background check. Nine states don't require day camps to be licensed. eight states don't require residential camps to be licensed. And in a lot of states, even where they are required to be licensed, if you're faith-based, you're exempt from that licensure process.

2:53:54And so that makes me unhappy as a Christian that faith-based is held to a lesser standard. It's like, shouldn't Christians be operating with a higher ethical standard and more excellence? But a lot of these Christian camps, especially in Missouri, if you're a faith-based camp, you're exempt from the licensure process. And that was true in Texas until this year, 2025, sorry. So it attracts criminals. Oh, yeah. Because there is no... It is a... Oh, man. Yeah, exactly. Now, this isn't true of every camp, but parents need to be aware of the regulatory environment with summer camps so they can ask the right questions and decide if they want their children to be stewarded by these people that are oftentimes running for-profit businesses.

2:54:41Um, or if it's a faith-based camp, um, they're held to no standard in the name of freedom of religion, which I'm all about. But when it comes to kids, safety first. So... Do you send your kids to a camp? No. I didn't think, I mean, I would... After what my family's been through and after what I've researched, again, I've had to Aaron Brockovich all of this. Like, no one's doing this work. Are there any good camps? Of course. Can you name any?

2:55:09Um... Outward Bound. Have you heard of that one? Which one? Outward bound. I think it's outward bound. Homeward bound. My husband did not. So you have like summer camps and then you have programs like that that are a little bit different than a traditional summer camp. And then you have the troubled teen industry programs. And that's a residential program for a teen that like may be a very conservative parent, catches their kid smoking marijuana and they freak out. And they're like, you're a troubled teen. You have to go to this program. They get kidnapped in the middle of the night, show up at this troubled teen program, behavioral program.

2:55:44This is Paris Hilton's story. I don't know if you've heard about any of this. She got the Stop Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act passed by Congress because of her experience. Paris Hilton? Paris Hilton. Mm-hmm. And then there's a nonprofit called Unsilenced, and they have a database of troubled teen programs that have allegations against them. Did you just say Paris Hilton got something passed about what? I know. Paris Hilton, Stop Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act. And she and other survivors of the troubled teen industry rallied together to get Congress to approve this act. Was she sexually abused?

2:56:22She was abused at a troubled teen program in Utah. No shit. We need to get her. Yeah. Yeah. She's really impressive, really smart. But then all of these other survivors have also coalesced around this, and Paris was willing to put her name on it. and they got it passed. Wow. So you have the troubled teen programs. There's actually a Netflix show called The Program about this as well. The nonprofit Unsilenced is the one that has the database of these residential programs for troubled teens. So like that Agape Boarding School I mentioned earlier that moved from Washington State to Missouri to be less regulated, they would be in that database.

2:57:05There's active litigation against one of those programs called Shelterwood. That was actually a Joe White-affiliated troubled teen program. So yeah, the summer camp industry, the troubled teen thing, a lot of times kids will go to summer camp, they're troubled, and so then Joe White or someone at the camp might recommend they go to a behavioral school or behavioral program. And what's been uncovered recently, and thanks to people like Pierce Hilton willing to put her name on it, there's been more awareness around that. with your traditional American summer camp, like these sleepaway camps, huge industry in the Hill Country in Texas.

2:57:46And being from Dallas, I had a lot of friends that went to Camp Longhorn, Camp Mystic, a ton to Canna Cuck, of course, too. But these are also 100-year-old camps in the Hill Country, and they're in Kerr County, and that's like the county's industry. A lot of it revolves around these camps because it brings in tourism. So my life changed again on July 4th of 2025 when I was at the beach with my family and my sorority sister's group text started blowing up. And it was like flash flooding in the hill country. I'm like, so? I'm up in the northeast. I'm like, why are you giving me weather updates? And then that escalated into Lila's missing.

2:58:33one of my sorority sister's daughters. And then I turn on the news. I mean, we're all getting ready for the Fourth of July parade. And then I keep getting texts. There's a text I got of a cabin floating down the river with, looked like, 50 kids in it. Holy shit. Yeah. And then it quickly escalated from Lila's missing to Lila's dead. And all these girls are missing.

2:59:04And so, like, I'm with my three kids and my family, and we, like, are sitting at the Fourth of July parade as all of this is, like, coming through on my phone. And I'm like, I'm like, oh, no, I need to reach out to a Navy SEAL friend I know that's based in Austin, see if they're on it. Like, what is going on?

2:59:22And, um... You know, fast forward, 27 girls died at Camp Mystic during the flash floods in the Hill Country on July 4th. And it was completely preventable. So then I know this because I'm camp negligence girl at this point from everything I've uncovered about CannaCuck and the camp industry. The American Camps Association has been around for 115 years, and they're the main accreditation entity for the industry. There are also some smaller camp organizations that lobby for mostly exemptions and waivers, not child protection. So my head immediately goes to, and it's horrible to say this, but I just know what I know.

3:00:04And these girls aren't missing, they're dead. And it's the camp's fault and it's negligence. Like, just, you know, the pattern is there. I've also, I've been in touch with a dad from California whose daughter drowned at a day camp because the American Red Cross was fraudulently accrediting lifeguards. That came out in a Washington Post article. There's just, at every turn, the camp industry has had failures, and they've had 115 years to do better. but here we are with uh 19 suicides affiliated with the canicuck situation so trey's not the only one that's uh died by suicide um and then you have these 27 eight-year-old girls eight to ten-year-old girls who died because the camp didn't have an evacuation plan in fact their evacuation plan was to shelter in place that's not an evacuation plan what are you trained on When there's flash flooding, what do you do?

3:01:09Get to higher ground. Get to higher ground. Get to higher ground, not rocket science. They left the eight-year-old babies in the flood, and they got swept away between 1 and 7 a.m. on the morning of July 4th. Three of them were my friend's daughters. Oh, man. I wear these bracelets in their honor. They're now known as the Heavens 27.

3:01:41And one of them especially hit close to home because my sorority sister, Caitlin, like we lived together in the Cap Vales. We studied abroad in London during college. And she has three girls, and Lila was the oldest. And I couldn't stay at the beach while this was happening, right? So our whole family, we leave. We come back to Dallas. We go to Lila's funeral memorial service. And I go hug my friend, and I'm like, this wasn't your fault. She went to Mystic, too. So I knew she was going to blame herself. and I was like these camps I I'm here if you ever want to talk about this whenever you're ready and um I was like I'm not going to be the friend that brings you a lasagna or like a little note with flowers but if you want to talk about camp reform I'm here for it and she goes oh I know exactly what I'm calling you for and I was like I'm pissed she's like I'm so pissed I was like yeah I'm here then I went and talked to the dad and uh he gave me the biggest hug and he was like I'm sorry I'm like why are you saying you're sorry to me your daughter's memorial service he's like I had no idea what you've been going through the last five years like with Trey and like these camps man I'm like yeah he's like I'm here when you're ready to tackle these issues uh he was like I'm gonna have to to take action or I won't survive this.

3:03:18I've lost a brother and that was hard enough. I can't imagine losing a child, especially when they just needed to walk 100 feet that way and they'd be alive. But the camp leadership told them to stay in place. Oh my gosh, man. And there's still one camper missing and her name is Seal Steward. and she's from Austin and they haven't found her.

3:03:53They are still looking for a seal. The search is very active and ongoing. There were some Navy SEALs early on who jumped in to help search and they were wearing these bracelets, SEALs for SEAL. And the first responders were amazing. people like that who just wanted to help showed up, started diving, recovering bodies. Now the search is under the purview of Captain Miller, former Green Beret, who's with the Texas Rangers now, and he's also a combat veteran. He's from there. He knows that river inside and out. You couldn't have someone better on paper to be searching for a seal, and there's another man that's still missing.

3:04:41but Blake and Caitlin Lila's parents they called me a few weeks later after the service and they were like we're ready I thought it would be way down the road like that they would just hunker down grieve raise their other two daughters and they were ready to fight so I took a call with them and um they're like how did you pass Trey's law how do we go about reforming the camp industry and uh this was in the summer so you know I mentioned Texas only meets every other year their legislature so there are things called a special session if something doesn't get resolved during the legislative session the regular legislative session, the governor can call a special session.

3:05:32And at this point, when I'm talking to my friends, there is a special session happening, but the Democrats have walked out over redistricting, so nothing's happening in Austin. And because that stalled out, there's the likelihood that the governor was going to call a second special session. And I got in touch with my lobbying team, who helped me pass Trey's Law. and one of them was, I mean, everyone's traveling in the summer, right? So it's like trying to run down this team and one was in London, one was in Italy and then there was someone available in Austin and he actually knew Lila's dad, Blake, and got in touch with him.

3:06:15Then Karen Rove, who's married to Karl Rove, she's a lobbyist in Austin. And then another victim, their daughter was a counselor that went down with those girls. Oh, man. There are two counselors that Chloe and Catherine, we call heroes because they could have left and saved themselves, but they went down with those girls. Man. And they were both going to UT in the fall. One was going to be pre-med, one was going to be a special education teacher. And they stayed with those girls till the end. And they followed orders, which were stay in place. and it killed them all. And, um, anyway, so... Chloe being one of the counselors and, um, Blake, my friend's husband, Lila's dad, um, after I told them, like, here's some of the possibilities, we rallied the troops, like, the lobbyists we all knew in our group.

3:07:16There was one girl in Birmingham who died in the flood, Sarah Marsh. That's why we're bringing camp safety bills to Alabama next. I called my sponsors for Trey's Law. Representative David Faulkner in Alabama represents Sarah Marsh's district, and he's going to carry this camp safety reform legislation for us in Alabama. I also have one of my friends in Missouri who has been House Judiciary Chair during this whole journey for me with Trey's Law and Statute of Limitations Reform in Missouri. She's going to sponsor camp safety reform in Missouri. And, um... Because this just touched everyone at the deepest level.

3:07:53Anyone who's a parent can't fathom losing a child on period, but under these circumstances, when it was so preventable, like, if that cabin had had a ladder to get on the roof, they'd be alive. If there had been any redundancy in the internet connection, they could be alive. There's no communication. There were three adults trying to rescue hundreds of girls in that flash flood, and they refused to evacuate them, even after at 1.15 a.m. It was like life-threatening flash floods. A counselor was able to call 911 at like 3.30ish. The camp didn't call until 7.30 and said, we're missing between 20 and 40 girls.

3:08:32Oh my gosh, man. Horrible. So especially in Texas, this was all over the news, but I think it was all over the news everywhere. Did you hear about this? Hill Country flood? Yeah. Yeah, so like everybody heard about this. And these parents, in their acute raw grief, came to the consensus that they don't want this to happen to anyone else, any other family. No other family should have to go through this. We don't want any other children. We don't want children going to camp next summer without some big changes. So what ended up happening is the second special session got called. These families, myself, our lobbying team, we went down to Austin.

3:09:21We met with the big three, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House, and the Governor. They held photos of their daughters and talked about them and what bright lights they were and what kind girls they were.

3:09:39and, you know, still in shock. I mean, you probably have, with your background, but seen someone tremor from trauma. It's just like some moms just like tremoring with the trauma and the shock and grief of their daughters not being with them anymore. Those survivors of that flash flood in the whole country traumatized, left in Blackhawks. They're like, we sent our daughter to camp, and they left in Blackhawks. We didn't send them to a war zone. And so much trauma. And that was the only camp that lost life. That's the only camp? The others had evacuation plans or got lucky. So all these lawsuits have dropped now, claiming negligence, gross negligence, It's wrongful death.

3:10:35And now I wish I weren't alone in this. I mean, I felt alone in this fight. Not just the Canna Cuck fight, but realizing this goes well beyond Canna Cuck. Like camps in general are so unregulated and unsafe and they don't prioritize. They prioritize low insurance premiums, profits, you know, getting their property taxes down. It's just like all the things you would think of to run a normal business, but this is kids and their lives. So you need to go a step further in protecting people's most precious, their children, right? And in the case of Mystic, none of that happened. These 27 babies died, the Heavens 27.

3:11:26and those parents showed up and testified and passed the Heavens 27 Camp Safety Act and the Youth Camper Act. So that's starting next summer, not waiting on the 2027 legislative cycle, which means that wouldn't be implemented till 2028. So it had to happen during that special for 2026 to be any different than this year. So now in Texas, it is not up to human error anymore or discretion. you evacuate. No more sleeping babies in a floodway or floodplain. You have walkie-talkies. You have things so you can communicate among the cabins in a situation like that. And what we've learned is not only was Camp Mystic not prepared for a flood, even though it's called Flash Flood Alley and it's flooded multiple times before, to the point where I've had alumni tell me that they remember when it flooded and the staff would bring them breakfast in a kayak.

3:12:22Like they knew, they know this floods. Um, but yeah, they, uh, they lost these 27 campers because they refused to evacuate them. Chloe and Catherine went by the documented orders, stay in place, we'll come get you. And, um, but now the camps in Texas are required to be licensed. No more waivers, no more exemptions. So that's huge because only 300 something camps were previously licensed and there's over a thousand camps in Texas. They're required now to have a database on the website for the state of Texas about which camps have been licensed and just more transparency, right? So parents can make their own decisions about where they want to send their kids.

3:13:12And yeah, a whole bunch of other stuff too. that makes camp safer for kids immediately in Texas. That's in effect. Man, nice work. Very proud of these families who I now consider dear friends, but I wish I were, you know, I'm not alone in this fight anymore, but I wish I were. I wish it didn't have to be this way. There's an army of parents who are determined for their daughters to be remembered, for their legacies to matter, not just their lives, but in their loss. How do we prevent that? and I'm here for it. I'd like to read their names if that's okay. Absolutely. Because the camp hasn't acknowledged their names in any communications.

3:13:55Are you serious? And they've announced their reopening. And one camper is still missing.

3:14:04Maybe recover all the bodies of your dead campers from last season before you reopen summer 2026. Jeez. It's actually one of the girls' birthdays today.

3:14:22And... I always hated it when people would say sorry for your loss, because with Trey, it's like, my loss, it's the loss to the world. Right? And that's how I feel with these girls, too. It's not just their family's personal loss. This is, like I mentioned, future special ed teacher, studying to be a doctor. Some of them wanted to be veterinarians when they grew up or artists. This is what we've lost. Mary Grace Baker, Margaret Bellows, Lila Bonner, Chloe Childress, Molly DeWitt, Lucy Dillon, Catherine Feruzzo Ellen Gutton Hadley Hanna Virginia Hollis Janie Hunt Mary-Kate Jacoby Lainey Landry Hannah Lawrence Rebecca Lawrence Twins Kelly Ann Lytle Sarah Marsh Lenny McCown Blakely McCrory Wynn Naylor Eloise Lulu Peck, Abby Pohl, Margaret Sheedy, Vernet Schmeistrula, Mary Stevens, Seal Stewart, and Greta Taranzo.

3:15:46Those are the Heavens 27. And, um, they should still be here. Their deaths were completely preventable. so if that's not a wake-up call to parents to the camp industry that we need to do better i don't know what else it's going to take

3:16:10we launched what's called the campaign for camp safety and um this is now under the no more victims alliance so you know it's all camp negligence right trey's law can't put victims under NDAs. I mean, that camp I mentioned that had the cabin floating down the river, they've had a huge child sexual abuse problem.

3:16:37Camp Stewart, the brothers, Camp Mystics All Girls, Camp Stewart's a boys camp. I got a call from a victim's mom because they wanted to put her son under an NDA. I have a whole database of these camps that have child sexual abuse problems, and I never thought, oh, as a mom, I should also ask, do you sleep eight-year-olds in a floodway?

3:17:02And so I started before you go to camp.com and it's for parents to know how to vet these organizations. And it started out as just questions to ask to understand, do they have appropriate child sexual abuse prevention measures in place? If they respond, we use the CannaCook Child Protection Plan, big red flag. we are going to add different categories to this before you go to camp.com to include these physical safety measures because Camp Mystic wasn't prepared for an active shooter. I mean, someone could have creeped up on those girls in a canoe on the river. No plans for that kind of stuff either.

3:17:43But you know what's been heartbreaking is for these parents to realize that they just assumed that the same safeguarding measures in place at schools or your local YMCA. I mean, I'm looking around this room, there's exit signs, there's fire sprinklers, a lot of schools have carbon monoxide detectors, like at camps. I mean, when we were drafting these bills... We put blast film on every window and we all carry a gun here. We don't fuck around with this stuff. Yeah. And the only people that showed up for those girls were the camp owner, he also died. And at first everyone was like, he's a hero. He died with those girls.

3:18:26I'm like, he died in a ship he built that had holes in it.

3:18:36But there's that guy, his son, and a night watchman. Those were the only three adults around when these girls needed to be evacuated. And they waited too late. And there's a verse in Ezekiel that one of the dads read at the state senate hearing. It's really powerful. This place is opening up again already and they have it on the bodies? Correct. Who owns it? It's a for-profit family business owned by the Eastlands. The Eastlands? Mm-hmm. Dick Eastland, who passed away in the flood, and his wife Tweety. Tweety and Dick. Yeah, Tweety and Dick. And then their kids help run it with them. So this is what Ezekiel 33, 6 says, but if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes someone's life, that person's life will be taken because of their sin.

3:19:41but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.

3:19:47And I think that is all of our charge as the responsible adults in the room to be the watchman and to protect kids, whether that's guarding their innocence from sexual abuse and predators or their physical safety. You evacuate children, go to higher ground when there is a life-threatening flash flood warning and you know how that river floods. Damn, man.

3:20:18It's just... So the Campaign for Camp Safety is now focused on research. We're doing a national mapping exercise of what states have the worst lack of regulation versus, like, what's a model state, for example. So research and then advocacy, like, passing the laws I mentioned. And then a Safe Summers Fund. So to your question, like, are there good camps? Yes, like there's some camps that do a mate like think about camps for disabled children like it's an opportunity for them to find people they relate with. Oftentimes the parents come with the kids to those camps, but there are some church camps like they.

3:20:59I mean shit all camps are supposed to be good. And I mean you say that like oh yeah, I want to spend my kid with special needs there. Do I? Or is there some sick fuck there that's got a fetish for special needs kids? Well, yeah. And so one of my good friends, um, Catherine Wolf, she runs a camp in Alabama called Hope Heals. Her first book was Hope Heals. She suffered a massive stroke and half of her face is paralyzed. She's in a wheelchair. And for her 40th birthday, I gave her$40 ,000 personally to put a child sexual abuse prevention plan in place because some of those kids are nonverbal. I mean, how are you gonna know?

3:21:42And she was so grateful. And they'd already done some... Her husband's an attorney. Like, they'd already done a lot to keep kids safe at that camp, knowing they're extra vulnerable, that population. But the parents go with the kids to that camp, which is neat too, because parents who are in a position of raising a child with special needs, they have camaraderie, right, and encouragement in that community. And so really grateful for Kathryn Wolf and what she, I think, what they've done at Hope Heals Camp, bringing in some consultants, some real subject matter experts to make sure that these kids are safe there.

3:22:16That's so important. She's also the friend, I met her a month after Trey died, and she was in her wheelchair I'd never seen, heard of her, met her before, and was with a mutual friend, something in South Carolina. And she grabbed my hand and she was like, what are you going through? And I was like, I just lost my brother to suicide a month ago. And she, in her eye that works, she like, one tear came down her eye. And she was like, I just want you to know that there are treasures in the darkness. Isaiah tells us that there are treasures in the darkness. I didn't really know what she meant by that in that moment but as I've been through this grief journey and met so many other grieving people I understand it now I would not be connected to a lot of these people I consider now some of my closest friends if we hadn't both endured the darkness there are treasures in the darkness Um, you know, would we all trade it to, in their case, have their daughters back for me to have my brother back?

3:23:28Of course. Um, but that's why I read the Serenity Prayer, because, um, you know, it talks about being reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy in the next. Like, it's not all hunky-dory here on Earth. Yeah. And, um, we can find those treasures in the darkness, though, those glimmers of hope, those signs. And I brought this book to share because a lot of the families... I just want to say something real quick. You know, when we're talking about these camps, I'm like... This isn't just camps. This is schools, stadiums, malls, venues, churches, everything. I mean, we've got, we have an active shooter problem in this country.

3:24:20Every fucking school that gets hit. Oh, shit. We didn't think it was going to happen. We didn't want to put the fucking blast film on the windows. We didn't want to put in a security system. We didn't want to pay for a fucking security guard. We didn't even want to get our lazy asses up and lock the fucking door. And how many fucking kids are dead? From active shooters because nobody, it's not going to happen to us. Happened right here. Covenant. Well. We yanked our kids out of school. I mean, it's just, it's just, it's like, man, what the fuck is it going to take for you motherfuckers to take this shit seriously?

3:25:00Put the blast foam on the windows. Lock the fucking doors. Get a security guard. Put a fucking drone up over the fucking school when Charlie Kirk is fucking talking. like what the fuck man common sense what the fuck have the kids go up the hill when the fucking flood comes correct what the fuck is happening man this country is perishing fast the the covenant shooting was personal to me too because the senior pastor of that church his daughter Hallie died in that shooting. And he married my husband and me. He led my husband to Christ in college. Our nanny went to church there. Well, you helped on the backside, right?

3:25:57You secured the... Yeah. Thank you. I didn't do much. I went there and I did a free security assessment after it happened. That was it. And it's the after it happened that's so devastating. So how to, you know, circling back to what we talked about earlier, it's like, how do we go upstream to prevention and value prevention and put resources towards prevention? The legislative process is so reactive. You do what you're doing or you homeschool your fucking kid and take charge. Yeah. That's what you do. You yank your kids out of the system because the fucking system doesn't work. In Texas this last year, another big win for kids is that Representative Mitch Little, who I mentioned earlier, helped us with the drafting on Trey's Law.

3:26:49He passed a bill that removed sovereign immunity from public schools. Because that's a thing, where public schools cannot be sued for child sexual abuse. What? Correct. What? so that just changed in texas and that needs to be changed in every state i can only tackle so much at once and it's statute of you say that again if your kid is sexually molested in a public school you have no recourse to fucking sue you can let that shit sink in you can sue the perpetrator but not the school until now in texas you can sue you can hold accountable everyone that was involved including the institution. Is this involved with the Texas gun experience?

3:27:35So like I went to shoot with this sweet guy named Chandler. I say sweet. Sorry, I got to bring some humor into this. You and me both. Oh shit. But yeah, I was shooting and he was like, okay, you've done this before. He's like, what do you do? And I was like, oh, I hunt pedophiles, not with guns, with the law. He's like, what? Who are you? But changing laws is how we get ahead of this. And, you know, the Heavens 27, the Camp Safety Acts that have been passed in Texas, we're going to have a ripple effect of that across the country. But I want to go back to what you said about this isn't just camps.

3:28:17This is youth serving organizations, all of them. And if I could tell the audience or, you know, you're not asking, but I'm going to just say three things that could change overnight and make a huge difference. It would be getting rid of NDAs that we've discussed, the statute of limitations so that victims have more time to sue on their own terms and in their own time. So the justice system doesn't do more harm on top of the harm that's already occurred. And then insurance companies requiring subject matter expert base, like best practices and child sexual abuse prevention or child safeguarding in general, all hazard, before they insure that organization.

3:29:03Because these organizations aren't going to run without insurance. And so that is a real root issue here, is the insurance companies stop fighting me, insurance lobbyists, get on the side of good, and let's prevent these nuclear settlements you're so afraid of happening if an organization that you insure gets hit with a lawsuit. Prevent the lawsuit from ever being necessary. Insurance could pull that lever overnight. It would change the game. It's not rocket science.

3:29:40And then parents, consumer pressure would be another one I'd add, actually. So the reason Canica is still in business, besides all of the legalities I've gone over, just the lack of law enforcement, statute of limitations, is parents still send their kids there. The reason Camp Mystic's reopening, parents will still send their kids there. That is so, I mean, I call them sheeple. There's a lot of them. Uh-huh. And there is the cult aspect to some of these camps, too, where it's like, oh, well, my grandma went there, and my, you know, and so it becomes this kind of dynastical camp cult. And kids aren't safe.

3:30:24Again, it's been 115 years since the American Camps Association started. They've had 115 years to get this right. When they last updated their accreditation measures in, I think it was like 2019, it didn't include anything about child sexual abuse prevention. So either they're complicit in the problem and have an issue themselves, or they're so naive that they don't know this problem exists, how do you live in this world and not know this problem exists? Everybody knows this problem exists. I mean, so if we know the problem exists, I always try to stay solutions oriented. So I'm going to stay solutions oriented.

3:31:04We know the problem exists. So you have primary prevention, you have secondary prevention, and you have tertiary prevention. I, you know, with a bunch of other colleagues and other foundations, we've started something called the Safe Childhoods Initiative to bring more private funding into the field of child sexual abuse prevention because people need to understand this is preventable. We just hosted a conference in Dallas at our office campus for foundations and like, you know, private funders, even some practitioners, subject matter experts, to a symposium to talk about prevention. Just to give a couple examples that hopefully provide some glimmers of hope here, there's a doctor from Sweden.

3:31:56He came and talked about his... It's an injected medication for pedophiles. A what? An injected medication for pedophiles that takes away their urge to act upon their desires. And he's tested this. There's a medication that pedophiles can take that will take their... I call it like Ozempic for pedophiles. Like, you get this injection every 100 days, and you don't have the urge to act upon your desires. Pedophiles come into just, you know, research shows for the most part, you know you're a pedophile when you go through adolescence. So just like anyone comes into whatever sexual attraction they're gonna have, it's when you hit puberty and adolescence.

3:32:43And so there's a lot of juvenile offenders. I mean, a lot of child sexual abuse is peer on peer. So it's not just about creepy adults. First of all, they usually don't come off as creepy. I mean, there certainly is that, but it's usually someone the kid knows, loves, and trusts. It's not stranger danger, like we were taught in the 50s. But someone the kid knows, loves and trusts, a lot of it is familial, which is sick. Especially when you get into the trafficking. So not all child sexual abuse is trafficking, but all trafficking is child sexual abuse, right? When you get into the trafficking statistics, so much of it is familial within the family.

3:33:26But yeah, this injection for pedophiles, it does something in the brain that reduces the urge to act on those desires, on your sexual attraction to children. Does it actually work on sexual attraction to children or is it just sex drive in general? Yeah, so I asked that and it's sex drive, which is sexual attraction to children in a pedophile. Like they don't have a sex drive. Oh, okay. That is their sex drive. And it's criminal. And if you can intervene early enough, then they don't act on their urges. So this trial started with 500 pedophiles, then 5 ,000. Now they're scaling it and in talks to bring it to the U.S.

3:34:16And, you know, my head went, when I first heard this presentation in Sweden, Um, Her Majesty Queen Sylvia invited eight foundations to her palace, uh, December 2024. Uh, we were one of eight foundations invited because we're one of eight foundations that funds this issue of child sexual abuse prevention at the seven-figure level and above. Not a lot of us. Only about$150 million in private funding goes towards child sexual abuse prevention globally on an annual basis. Globally? Yeah. So how are we going to make a dent in this with the lack of private funding? Because public dollars follow private funding for the most part.

3:34:58And so what we do at the Phillips Foundation is we like to incubate innovative or new concepts, provide the proof of concept to then take it to the state and say, this works. Look, it'll actually save taxpayer dollars if you scale this versus ignoring the issue. And that's worked with a lot of our initiatives through our foundation. That's an approach we take. We're not a traditional foundation. But we got summoned by the queen to the palace in Stockholm. She had started the World Childhood Foundation 25 years ago. She was really ahead of her time on just addressing child sexual abuse as a problem.

3:35:41And her daughter, Princess Madeline, is about to... Because Queen Sylvia is now in her 80s. She's passing the torch to Princess Madeline. He was really amazing. She was so nice, so chill. She just moved back to Stockholm from Florida with her kids, and she's going to take this on, you know, carry the legacy on. So we all convened in Stockholm. We heard from this doctor I mentioned. We heard from a few other people that study pedophiles and have some promising interventions. And then we grew the group from those eight foundations to like 15 foundations to what we just hosted in Dallas. And then there was another one, maybe 30.

3:36:25And now in Dallas, it was like 50. And so we're trying to grow interest in the private funding because, you know, as we were saying, everyone will tell you they care about this issue. but we vote with our dollars, right? You know someone's priorities by where they're spending their time, money, time, treasure, talent. And there's just not a lot of money flowing into this issue. Anti-trafficking, yes, more so. Child sexual abuse prevention, not so much. Reacting to child sexual abuse, children advocacy centers get a lot of funding, even from the state. I think the state of Texas gets something like 80 million in appropriations to their children advocacy centers from the state.

3:37:06Prevention, however, that number I mentioned,$150 million. Damn, man. So we need to take this issue from millions to billions, not that money alone can solve it, but it can fund these promising innovations so that we make a dent in this issue. Yeah. But it also requires a culture shift where parents are asking the right questions of their kids' school, of wherever they're playing sports. I, you know, I have a PI on retainer and, you know, not everyone can do that. But before my kids are coached by anyone, I run a background check. Sad to say, we've not proceeded with certain people because they don't pass the criminal background check.

3:37:55But everyone else in Dallas thinks this guy hung them in.

3:38:00And I'm like, well... Man, you'd think this would just be common sense these days. You don't have to have a PI on retainer to get a background check. Well, right. I mean, we like to dig a little deeper beyond a background check, because sometimes, you know, your typical criminal background check isn't going to do a sweep of their social media, and what are they posting, and what are the patterns? Like, one of the concepts that was presented at Symposium is a database for gray area perpetrators. So this is someone who maybe had red flag behavior, but it didn't rise to criminal. So it's not going to show up on a background check.

3:38:41But there are conversations around these databases where someone is terminated due to red flag behavior or breach of policy related to child sexual abuse. So, like, maybe they're in the girl's locker room shouldn't be. They're not gonna get arrested for that, but they're gonna get terminated for a violation of policy. And I wanna check that database. I wanna check someone's name against that database, because it goes way beyond just like a criminal background check. Yeah. So, you know, those are the things we're working on, and I wanna leave your audience with some hope and also a call to action.

3:39:14There is hope, but it takes action. It takes advocacy, it takes dollars, and we're putting together also through the Safe Child a menu, if you will, of investable opportunities that can help prevent child sexual abuse. It also takes just spreading the word around. Yeah. Getting loud about these things. We have to talk about it. Because, you know, if nobody goes to CannaCook, then they're not in business. That's what I mean. We vote with our dollars. And that's how our family office and foundation, we invest that way through a lens. I look at it as a lens, right? So it's not just a program area of the foundation where we are incubating promising concepts, but we are also applying this child safeguarding lens to anyone we grant to or anything we invest in.

3:40:07So we just invested in this technology that helps hire substitute teachers for public schools. And I'm like, I think that's a great investment, but I want you to ask these additional questions about how are they screening, right? How, what are the, what's the process for vetting these substitute teachers? How do these, how do these, how do these come to you? How do these entities or nonprofits or companies, whatever they are, how do they come to you? How do they find you? Yeah. So because early on, so I started running the Phillips Foundation when I was about 24. And so now, you know, it's been over a decade that we've put ourselves out there as interested in impact investing.

3:40:47So everything we invest in, we look at the impact because I want to take a first do no harm approach and strategy to our investments. Now, there's a spectrum of impact investing all the way to ETFs, but down to venture philanthropy. And there's different returns for each of those asset classes in different parts of the spectrum. But across that spectrum, we're asking questions about if you're a company or a concept that involves children, then we want to diligence you a different way than your run-of-the-mill real estate business, let's say. So we use this lens across our portfolio for profit and on the foundation, in the foundation grant making side.

3:41:40And so when we had this conversation with that investee I was mentioning, they were so receptive. They said, and on top of what you've asked, we're going to look into these three other things too. So like the more we talk about it and the more we elevate this conversation to match the data, one in five girls, one in seven boys globally, will be victims of child sexual abuse. So, abused before the age of 18. I mean, I'll bet 50 % of the people that have been on this show have been sexually abused as a child. It blew my fucking mind. I think it's much higher. I think it's much higher than what data shows because of the delayed disclosure issue, the shame, especially with male survivors.

3:42:23A lot of these, a lot of them tell me off camera. But a lot of them tell me on camera. And it's... Yeah, and I came forward about my own sexual assault when I was in college at a Senate committee hearing in Texas, because I'm holding all of these stories with people sharing their worst trauma with me. I was like, I need to be brave too. I need to... I'm gonna disclose what happened to me when I was 21. I wasn't a kid. But, um... It was an attempted rape. I was able to escape the guy. And then I got dragged into a criminal court case around that. I didn't think anything would happen. There would be any justice, but the Dallas DAs all of us started testing the rape kit backlog.

3:43:13Have you heard about this issue? It's a national issue. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So they start testing the rape kit backlog. this guy's DNA ties to several victims. I didn't do a DNA kit because mine was an attempted rape, not one that would require a rape kit. Yeah, I get a call from the senior detective for homicide, cold cases, and sexual assault. I just left filming a PBS segment in North Carolina for something, and I get this call, I'm like, huh? Trey had just died. I was the board chair of an anti-trafficking organization. I'm like, this could be one of 20 things, right? And they're like, we detained Rafa Alvarez in Houston.

3:43:51And I was like, what? I have not heard that name in a minute. But the rape kits had tied his DNA to all these assaults. And they're like, will you be a witness? I'm like, hell yeah, called the right girl. But in the, and then I was assigned a victim advocate, which was really ironic considering I had just become a victim. a certified crime victim advocate myself because I was so far into all these disclosures, people telling me what had happened in their childhoods, and I don't know why. I just needed a piece of paper to tell me that I was certified in something. So I just got nut, and then I'm assigned one.

3:44:32And we went through the criminal process. Trial got postponed two times, and then the statute in Texas on that, the reason it was in statute is there's an obscure part of the statute in Texas that if a perpetrator has more than five victims, there's no statute of limitations criminally. Unfortunately, like two of the victims dropped out after trial got postponed so much that they didn't have the five victims willing to testify. So he's just outliving his life. And I came forward about that in the Senate committee hearing in Texas because I was so inspired by friends like Cindy Clemeshire, who was a victim of Robert Morris, one of the largest megachurch pastors in the country out of North Texas.

3:45:21She was 12 when he started abusing her. And we caught him finally in Oklahoma because of a loophole in statute there where it was like a frontier law. So if you come through the state, commit a crime and leave, the statute of limitations doesn't apply. And so they were able to get Robert Morris through that statute in Oklahoma. And then a bunch of women were inspired by Cindy's story, came forward in Oklahoma about an Assemblies of God pastor, Joe Campbell, also from Missouri. He was running a camp in Missouri. Holy shit. Yeah. So... Anyway, so we're at this hearing, Cindy's testifying, and then there's this...

3:46:08um, this young man named Joseph, who was abused in the Assemblies of God, they have a college ministry called Chi Alpha, just a cesspool for these predators. And his abuse started when he was a minor, but went well into his adulthood. So after hearing our testimony, like, I refer to myself as a college kid. We call them college kids. You're a kid. Like, so after Joseph testified about being abused up to like age 23, 24. We were advocating for Trey's Law to apply to sexual assault survivors of any age. And that's what we got passed in Texas, because college kids shouldn't be put under NDAs either when they've survived a sexual assault.

3:46:50Someone like Joseph definitely should have never been put under an NDA for what he survived. But he also exposed that the Assemblies of God was using NDAs at the staff level. So they'd have people come in a closed room and talk about, how are we going to cover this up? Sign an NDA before we disclose what's going on. So Trey's Law addresses that too. So like... Holy shit. Yeah, it voids NDAs for employees as well who knew something about the abuse. It's all released. Truth set free. Truth set free. And Texas, I'm so proud of Texas, because what we accomplished with Trey's Law in Texas is the best outcome possible for what we wanted this law to achieve.

3:47:33And I see signs of... I try everywhere. That's what keeps me going. And I brought this book, Signs. It's by Laura Lynn Jackson. A lot of the moms of the Heavens 27 read this book too. She grew up as a Christian. I also believe that people have spiritual gifts. And so she... I don't think the two are in conflict with each other. I think some people are just more in touch with the other side than others. And Laura Lynn Jackson's one of those. And so people have labeled her a top medium in the country. But her book is Secret Language of the Universe, Signs, Secret Language of the Universe. And these signs that I get from my brother and that these families are getting from their angels above are undeniable.

3:48:19And I am so convinced that when people leave this Earth, their spirits are still with us. And when Trey died, I got inundated with a bunch of notes from a lot of friends and people who loved him, who care about my family. And there were three out of all these hundreds of notes, three things that really stuck with me. One was from a childhood best friend's mom. She wrote in her note, with a lot of other things too, but she said, the veil between heaven and earth is so thin. and I was like wow I've been feeling that you know you kind of notice people sometimes say it's a butterfly, it's a cardinal, it's a rainbow the signs I've gotten from Trey aren't just generic it's like very specific and powerful and then can you share any?

3:49:12I've had this happen a lot yeah so an example is about two weeks before he died he dropped off this potted plant on my porch. And I wouldn't say we were, like, fighting. I had just, as I mentioned earlier, set up some boundaries where I didn't want to get sucked into, like, three-hour phone calls every night about how suicidal he was, stuff like that. I was like, I need boundaries. I have kids. So we were at that point in the relationship where I had just set some boundaries. Anyways, he dropped off this potted plant with a sweet note, and it was on my porch when I got back from North Carolina.

3:49:55My husband's from North Carolina. We go back and forth quite a bit. And I don't think he even knew we were in North Carolina. So anyways, it was on my porch. I bring it inside. I read the note, and then he died. So that's the last thing I got from my brother. and um my oldest child at the time was going into first grade

3:50:22and one morning it was like so trade died in august was like october maybe um my oldest son is like can i tell you about a dream i had i was like yeah sure this will take 10 minutes right it's a seven-year-old had a dream it's gonna be something weird and funny 40 ,000 words later, he had me type it out. It was a story about an evil villain named Captain Pete who was trying to take over the world, and the kids fought back and defeated the evil Captain Pete. Holy shit. And he didn't know any... He did not know that Trey had been abused by someone named Pete. He didn't... I mean, he's so little, like, I'm not telling him how Trey died at that point.

3:51:06My therapist said, only answer the questions your kids ask because of how little they are, and just answer the question. Is Uncle Trey in heaven? Yes. Did Uncle Trey die? Yes. You know, the other questions came later, the more complicated ones, the sad ones. But he didn't know anything about the circumstances of Trey's abuse or how he died. And I brought you these books. So he's a published author now, three times over. it's called the magic island chronicles and uh i hope your kids can enjoy these one day he's about to come out with the fourth and it's dedicated to his uncle t um really special and so yeah that's one example and then i took him to paris that october and our flight out of paris got delayed Delayed, canceled.

3:52:05So we had to hop over to Heathrow, spend the night in London. We're at breakfast the morning after that. So we're not supposed to be in London. Like, we were supposed to fly back from Sherald Ghal in Paris, and we're suddenly stuck in London. Thank you. We go to breakfast. That exact flower that Trey had dropped off on my porch before he died was on our breakfast table. Look around the room. I start crying, and my son's like, why are you crying? I'm like, these are the flowers Uncle T gave me right before he died. I'd never seen them before in my life. And they're at our breakfast table. And no other tables around us have these flowers.

3:52:47Wow. Stuff like that, all the time. You want to hear one of mine? Mm-hmm, I do. My best friend died of a heroin overdose. and uh we uh we worked he was a seal we contracted at ca together and uh he got really wrapped up into opiates he was part of red wings if you know what that was it was the biggest loss in team history at the time anyways uh

3:53:25When we left the agency, he was living with me for a long time, and I was trying to save him. And then when I was in Florida, I moved to Tennessee, and he overdosed shortly thereafter. But while he was, while I was still in Florida, he was trying to, he was a pro hockey player before he was a SEAL. And so he, while he was all junked out, he would tell me, I'm going to start the Wounded Warriors hockey team and the Panthers, the NHL team, they're going to sponsor it. I'm like, okay, Gabe, right on. And best of luck. the day he died the Panthers went over to his condo to tell him that they were going to fund his fucking team and they found him dead he had overdosed

3:54:29and so fast forward the team's, that's his jersey right there the Panther Warriors and they still funded it so let's fast forward right so i always i'm always talking to gabe and uh i did this interview overseas that uh ruffled a lot of feathers and with the taliban and uh because i i i had um me and a guy legend had broken the story that um the u.s government's sending 40 to 87 million dollars a week to the taliban in cash and i got really paranoid and i was like oh they're gonna kill me and um And we had come back. We did the interview in Austria. And we came back. And this is at my old studio.

3:55:14That jersey was hanging right when you walk in the front door. Probably been hanging there for about three years. I come home from that, and I'm already paranoid, and that thing had fallen on the floor. No glass broke. The nail hole wasn't weird. It just was on the ground. And I felt like Gabe was trying to tell me something. So the whole day, I'm like, and nobody else was at the studio except my assistant. The whole team was in Austria. And I asked her, did you, there's no reason for you to have done this, but why, you know, she's like, I wasn't like that yesterday. And so everybody leaves, I'm pacing around, and I'm like, Gabe, what are you trying to fucking tell me, man?

3:55:57What do I need to be looking out for? And I go home, and I tell my wife, and she just looked at me, and she goes, the Panthers just won the fucking Stanley Cup yesterday. What? And I was like, holy shit. and then i and then um i found it on june 28th which is the day red wings happened and those were his guys wow it's specific oh yeah there's no doubting that gabe saying hello yeah panthers one or something yeah so i started laughing because katie told me that and i was i started laughing because i was like man gabe's over here probably looking at me like you idiot i'm not trying to warn you of anything the panthers just won the stanley cup and it's june 28th that was a celebration yeah i know i know i was like man i gotta stop taking myself so seriously but uh but um i've had a lot of like that happen man and uh well it's definitely not a coincidence it's not I don't believe in coincidences.

3:57:18And I will say, another note that I mentioned three that really stood out, the second one was a woman who had lost her husband and her son in the same year. Her son was a friend of mine. And she wrote in the note, joy and sorrow can coexist. And I really needed to hear that. And to your point of taking yourself so seriously, it's easy to do that when you're experiencing a tragedy and going through grief. but we have to give ourselves the permission to feel joy and sorrow. They can coexist. And then another note a friend wrote, her brother was really good friends with Trey. She's one of my best friends.

3:57:59How do you do that? How do you find joy and sorrow? Have you figured that out? Well, that's what these signs tell me to have. And if you listen to them, you know, that's Gabe. Panther's wand, smile. Chill out. And these signs, that's what I always get. It's like a chill out. Like you have so many blessings, so many things to be grateful for. Like focus on that. And, but it doesn't fix the sorrow, but joy and sorrow can coexist and you can find purpose in the pain. And that's why I am so energized by the work I do. People are like, aren't you exhausted? It's like constantly, I've gotten rid of the drug dealer phone now, and I just use my normal phone.

3:58:47I'm not so scared of the Canna cult at this point. They should be scared of me, not the other way around. And they are. Now that I've seen Trey's NDA after September 1st, I know exactly why they're so scared of Trey and of me. Canna Cuck specifically demanded the NDA. Not the insurance company, not the other defendants. They tacked on more money if he would sign the NDA. and his lawyer let him do it. And he called it blood money. And so this third note I got from my friend whose brother was close with Trey, she said, God's work is not done with Trey yet.

3:59:33And that gets me up in the morning and gives me the fight I need to have. I don't know if you feel this with Gabe or others that have been close to you that you've lost, but they're okay. They're whole and healed. Oh, yeah. We're the ones left behind to do the work that the lessons they taught us tell us to do. And if you can't have joy in that, I think it's a slap in the face to your loved one on the other side. They don't want us to be sad every time we think of them. And so they send us these little glimmers and they send us these, I call them God winks sometimes. You gotta be paying attention though.

4:00:18You have to be open to it and you have to be paying attention. And if you are, then it becomes sustainable, at least for me. This is so depressing. I mean, yeah, I'm just here, Sean, to lighten the mood today about child rape. I hope your next guest is, like, something. Oh, you want to know who my next guest is? Who is it? Ro Khanna. Oh. We're talking about the Epstein files. Good. I can't wait to watch that. We posted one of his quotes on our Tres Law social media. He had some good ones. And, yeah, I'll be real curious to hear what he has to say about that. Yeah, him and Massey really blew the lid off of that.

4:01:04Thank God somebody fucking had the nuts to do it, right? I respect and stand with those survivors so much because they've been waiting for 20 years. And I mean, Keanu Gug's about to catch up to it because it's been, like, Pete Newman's been in prison for 16 years. Yeah. But there's over a thousand Epstein victims

4:01:27and no justice. And I'm glad that the public is pressing in and putting pressure on the files being released. whatever that looks like. I couldn't tell you tactically how to do that, but it can't be that hard.

4:01:48Keep calling it out. I appreciate you. I will. Well, I appreciate you. But, um... Anne, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you for what you're doing. It's a sacred honor. Let me know if I can help any more. I'll be in touch. I'd love to jump in. All right.

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