Subjects/subject
Franklin scandal
2016-09-13, 4 mentions2016-11-01, 8 mentions2017-01-03, 1 mention2017-02-21, 3 mentions2017-03-21, 1 mention2017-04-04, 1 mention2017-04-18, 1 mention2017-09-03, 2 mentions2017-09-24, 14 mentions2017-10-08, 1 mention2017-10-15, 1 mention2018-05-09, 1 mention2018-07-19, 1 mention2018-07-26, 1 mention2018-08-09, 1 mention2018-09-13, 1 mention2019-01-26, 1 mention2019-03-16, 3 mentions2019-03-24, 9 mentions2019-07-08, 1 mention2019-07-28, 2 mentions2019-08-10, 1 mention2019-08-18, 1 mention2019-10-27, 3 mentions2020-01-19, 1 mention2020-03-15, 1 mention2020-03-17, 1 mention2020-04-19, 1 mention2020-05-31, 1 mention2021-03-21, 1 mention2023-09-02, 1 mention2025-12-27, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He treats the Franklin scandal as one of the few conspiracy theories he considers actually substantiated rather than a punchline, contrasting it explicitly with lizard-people and Pizzagate theories that he says cast too wide a net 1:06:06 16:15. He leans hard on Nick Bryant's book as the source, has Bryant on the show, and later uses the case as the historical template for the Epstein/Wexner story, arguing it's the same cover-up minus the internet 0:29 1:18:12. He's consistently critical of the institutions involved, citing dead investigators and a documentary that got its funding pulled with no explanation 32:26 1:18:12.
He also keeps returning to it as a personal project that never quite launches, floating an Omaha road trip for years running 1:00:39 1:06:38. And it shows up as recurring stray material too, like the fan who brought the book to a signing and the "Franklin mint" mix-up 0:34 1:00:39.
Every Reference (71)
"you know there's a great book if you're interested in this called the franklin cover-up in the franklin cover-up it's called the franklin scandal"
"it's so incredibly well corroborated in that book it is well written six seven eight sources yeah things and he left a lot of stuff out and he put a lot of documents in the book and i think documents it could even maybe gotten trouble for right there's a lot of sealed grand jury documents that you're not supposed to"
"the Franklin scandal book starts where he's driving Rusty Nelson, this photographer that supposedly photographed all of these things happening"
D.C. Political Blackmail, Craig Spence's House, and Pedophile Demographics — This Ain't Great+319s into the segment"Gary Carradore who was the investigator during the Franklin scandal. So he was investigating this sort of, all these victims that came out, came forward in the late 80s, early 90s."
America's Most Wanted, Paul Bonacci, and Gary Caradori's Plane Crash — This Ain't Great+33s into the segment"Nick Bryan on. Nick Bryan is an author. He's a writer of the Franklin Scandal. He's done a lot of work on this new Jeffrey Epstein scandal."
The Nazi Grandpa Bit and Halloween Trump Blowup — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+128s into the segment"Nick Bryant wrote a book called The Franklin Scandal, a story of child abuse, power brokers, and betrayal about that pedophile ring that was centered in Omaha, Nebraska. And it's a book that I've read. It's disturbing, but it is great."
Nick Bryant Interview: Epstein's Black Book and the Franklin Scandal Intro — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+28s into the segment"Now, let me ask you a question. When we talked about the Franklin scandal, it was for the purposes of sexual blackmail. There would"
Nick Bryant on Sexual Blackmail and Pedophile Impunity — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+39s into the segment"procuring these children? I mean, I know when we talk about the Franklin scandal, we talked about these really horrible incidences of kidnapping"
How Children Are Procured and the Johnny Gosch Case — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+74s into the segment"naturally. One of the things, right, one of the things about the Franklin scandal, listen, it's It's all disturbing and I hate to, you know,"
Treating Pedophilia and the Occult Angle of the Franklin Scandal — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+189s into the segment"that do have beliefs like that. And what got me into the Franklin scandal was a US Customs report on the finders. to be doing some"
The Finders Case and CIA Cover-Up of Ritual Abuse — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+22s into the segment"some harassment over the years. Because I remember in the Franklin scandal, some girl, you're staying with a friend and then some girl"
Bryant on Death Threats, Filthy Rich, and Whether Justice Is Possible — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+68s into the segment"and it just didn't seem to matter. So I would say that the Franklin scandal is the symptom of something pretty nefarious that goes on"
Bohemian Grove and Closing Question: Luciferian Cult? — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+76s into the segment"they're very afraid of what the actual journalists want cover some of this like Franklin scandal shit yeah they're very conscious of it"
David Icke Booking Tease and Reptilian Child Sacrifice Theories — Life In The Bloodbox+72s into the segment"operations Businesses usual Epstein Island, whatever it is Franklin scandal We can go back to you know the 80s and 90s where you know"
"the FBI just doesn't give a shit because they didn't care when it was the Franklin Scandal you remember the FBI was the one shutting down the chase"
"shit that like we pretty much definitely know it like the Franklin scandal and you know That's a fact. Yeah, and like and no and the"
"which detailed a cover up at the highest level. This in the Franklin scandal was happening in the eighties and nineties. It took 20 plus"
South by Southwest Recap and Booking Ray a Flight to Buffalo — We're Gonna Get Ours+137s into the segment"the brokerage. I forget her name sweet woman brought the Franklin scandal book Oh, I signed at the brokerage very nice moment. I was"
"pedophile. Well, they did like girls too. There was a girl in the Franklin scandal. Was there? Yeah, girl Alicia, whatever name it is."
"epic is the Franklin scandal related to the Franklin mint I don't think so it's related to the Franklin credit union on my Nebraska"
Guinea Pig Vaporware and the Who Took Johnny Halloween Road Trip Pitch — Joel Osteen's Ark+161s into the segment"to speak to the guys and and see if they if they if that Franklin scandal is gonna become a react I bet I say we step into that police"
"And this book, The Franklin Scandal, which I have right here, I'm holding up, written by Nick Bryant is the culmination of seven years of research into this topic."
Revisiting Who Took Johnny and the Franklin Scandal Book — The Whole Thing Is Evil+67s into the segment"profession how did you basically go down this rabbit hole? Well, the Franklin scandal isn't a rabbit hole that I normally would have gone down."
"cult doing very ominous things to children? I mean, so the Franklin scandal is my seven year investigation to try to understand that"
MKUltra, the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, and Dissociative Identities — The Whole Thing Is Evil+68s into the segment"in the Franklin scandal, I came across some MKUltra documentation that actually talks about creating dissociative states children using drugs and electroshock and hypnosis"
Lawrence E. King and the Omaha Franklin Scandal Origins — The Whole Thing Is Evil+275s into the segment"Franklin Credit Union, which is how the book gets its name, the Franklin scandal. And a bunch of senators decided to form a committee to look"
Ages of Victims and the Psychology of Pedophilia and Power — The Whole Thing Is Evil+20s into the segment"mean, and there could have been younger ones involved in the Franklin scandal, but the youngest one I talked to was like eight or nine."
Craig Spence's DC Blackmail House and Alicia Owen's Persecution — The Whole Thing Is Evil+247s into the segment"according to victims in the Franklin scandal, a bunch of them did come forward and say that they had been abused in an occult setting."
"taken seriously. Yeah. Because their stories, I mean, the Franklin scandal, the finders. I mean even Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, we've talked"
Bohemian Grove, Occult Aesthetics vs. Real Ritual Abuse — The Whole Thing Is Evil+70s into the segment"the media will not do anything. I personally have given the Franklin Scandal to three of Oprah's producers, one of Nancy Grace's producers."
Media Refuses the Story: Agents, Oprah, and Nancy Grace — The Whole Thing Is Evil+201s into the segment"about especially what I'm saying here what I'm saying in the Franklin scandal is that? the FBI and the Department of Justice cover up child"
Dennis Hastert, Pizzagate Skepticism, and Media Consolidation — The Whole Thing Is Evil+88s into the segment"With the Franklin scandal, you're able to follow the money to a certain degree because I acquired all those sealed grand jury documents."
"like to speak. I mean, when when it comes to weirdness, the Franklin scandal is way up there. So I mean, when I mean, at this point."
CIA Weaponizing 'Conspiracy Theory' and Operation Mockingbird — The Whole Thing Is Evil+203s into the segment"mean, I would love it for someone to debate me about the Franklin scandal. Yeah, I would love that. Right. I mean, I had one guy try"
How High Up? Attorneys General and the Fates of Trafficked Kids — The Whole Thing Is Evil+10s into the segment"Go order this book. This is something you have to read. Go on Netflix and the documentary Hoots and Challenge, I'm sure you've seen."
"car right yeah everyone in the same way that like yeah the Franklin scandals are very real thing pizza game you know there's there's"
4chan Sleuths, Michael Ruppert's Death, and Chomsky on Internet Conspiracies — Mandalay Ray+82s into the segment"that thing with the Franklin scandal that woman who's running the documentary and there's no explanation given for why they pulled the plug on it"
"is what people asked me like oh why give credibility to the Franklin scandal They were victims. They came forward. They were real victims."
Vice Videos, Pizzagate, and Real vs. Fake Conspiracy Journalism — The Montauk Project+393s into the segment"thinks left people do it. They don't want to talk about the Franklin scandal. And then, you know, and it's just like, and then the right"
Wishing Pedogate Away and the KFC Featherless Chicken Myth — Tin Foil Hat and Tim at Skankfest+66s into the segment"entangled in a very legitimate and ongoing conspiracy of Franklin scandal and who took Johnny and Johnny gosh and we talked to ring"
Government Pedophilia Cover-ups and Cernovich's Own Rape Accusation — Not A Legal Expert+61s into the segment"a fucking more mainstream outfit. We've talked about the Franklin scandal at the Ozzie M and then the whole Johnny Gosh. We had to"
Alex Jones's Skill, Pizzagate, and the CIA/Iran Coup History Lesson — Not A Fancy Man+71s into the segment"the Franklin scandal, that house where supposedly they had all these fucking parties, these sex parties for senators and congressmen"
"think they say these are all accidental deaths. They said the Franklin scandal didn't happen either. They fucking lie. Hey, it's Martin"
Going Down the Rabbit Hole: Emailing Detectives and Dark Web Theories — The Smiley Face Killers+5s into the segment"which was an interstate pedophile Network run out of Omaha, Nebraska, where kids were being peddled to wealthy, powerful people all over the country, but a lot of them in D.C."
80 Victims, Trump Kicking Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago, and the Blackmail Angle — Jeffrey Epstein's Go Fund Me+318s into the segment"anything. I need some raw information, which you have in the Franklin scandal, and you have in a lot of these other cases. So it is there."
Pizzagate, Elite Sex Trafficking, and Vindication — Jeffrey Epstein's Go Fund Me+107s into the segment"know? The guy started writing a book and he stumbled on the Franklin scandal and guy looks like a ghost, you know? But he's sick. So next"
"He wrote a book called The Franklin Scandal, which details an interstate pedophile network that was operating out of Omaha, Nebraska in the 80s and 90s, peddling children to wealthy and powerful people in Washington, D.C."
Cold Open: Introducing Nick Bryant and the Epstein Follow-Up — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+39s into the segment"traffickers that and I found that out to be the case in the Franklin scandal. There are kids that are for sale in the United States of"
Trafficking Sources and Predators Finding Victims — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+38s into the segment"I think what we have seen, we saw this with Epstein and we also saw with the Franklin scandal, is that people living in mansions don't have to pay a price for molesting children."
Why Powerful People Get Away With It: Mutually Assured Destruction — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+116s into the segment"involved together. And then when you see, like, with the Franklin scandal and also with Epstein, when you You see these guys that have"
J. Edgar Hoover, Wayward Intelligence, and the Epstein Cover-Up — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+149s into the segment"with children, and you had written that there's a, in the Franklin scandal, there is people that have reported that they were victims"
Bill Clinton, Dershowitz, and Secret Society Speculation — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+333s into the segment"Well, it was my first trip to Nebraska, looking into the Franklin scandal. And I was sitting on my friend's couch watching television"
The Gestures, Occult Ritual Abuse, and MKUltra Dissociation — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+134s into the segment"in the sand. They do not want to look at things like the Franklin scandal or Epstein. I'm really proud of what the Miami Herald has"
Threats, Pizzagate, and How High the Franklin Scandal Reaches — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+77s into the segment"Franklin scandal that talked about it, three victims in the Franklin scandal that talk about it. And why a lot of that seems to be happening"
DC Madam, Child Sacrifice Claims, and Suspicious Deaths — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+73s into the segment"with the Franklin scandal, I think those dominoes would have definitely fallen all the way to Washington, D.C. had people not been murdered."
The Safari Club, Trump's Compromise, and Closing Thoughts — Epstein Island Adventures with Nick Bryant+267s into the segment"think about it cuz I did like a lot of shows with like the Franklin scandal and like all that which was Republicans and Democrats it's"
Bill Clinton's Flight Log and Enjoying the 'Elite Democrat Pedophile' Narrative — Emergency Broadcast - Mullen / Dillon / Epstein+94s into the segment"even in the franklin scandal or like you know from what i you know from you know the reading the book and having Nick on and the people that did who took Shaunie that Netflix"
The Black Book, Material Witnesses, and Epstein's Temple — Episode 158 Part 2 - Tim and Ray on the 3 Evils: Epstein, Big Tech, and Long Island+156s into the segment"know back when you know Larry King Lawrence E king and the Franklin scandal bro these victims couldn't find each other there were no"
How Young Were These Girls, and Occult Cover Stories — Episode 158 Part 2 - Tim and Ray on the 3 Evils: Epstein, Big Tech, and Long Island+176s into the segment"with a guy named Nick Bryant and wrote a book called the Franklin scandal that's exactly right Nick's done a lot of work in the in"
Sexual Blackmail Operations and the CIA's 'Love Traps' — Emergency Epstein Podcast w/ Whitney Webb+8s into the segment"imagine this story without the internet dude [ __ ] imagine this cuz it was the Franklin scandal the Franklin scandal was this exact story without the internet"
Leslie Wexner, the Press's Willful Stupidity, and the Franklin Scandal — 161 - The Los Angeles Liars+483s into the segment"we're trying to do an epic podcast in Omaha about the Franklin scandal where we get some people to talk maybe haven't talked before"
Noise Complaint at the Hotel and Franklin Scandal Trip Planning — #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show+171s into the segment"to Omaha Nebraska and do an episode of the show about the Franklin scandal and he's not gonna happen for a million reasons because I'm"
What If Harvey Weinstein Loved My Act? — #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show+466s into the segment"later you know maybe there will be a movie made about the Franklin scandal there'll be a movie made sooner about Jeffrey Epstein because"
Louis CK's Weinstein Joke and Ben's Dogs — #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show+123s into the segment"type of things I think to have credibility cuz they do the Franklin scandal you know when the Hollywood when the Hollywood madam was"
Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones, and Pizzagate Credibility — #183 - Tim Does The Tonight Show | The Tim Dillon Show+352s into the segment"assassination a second thought that it never read books like the Franklin scandal I watched them go hard into conspiracies i watch people on"
Everyone Becomes a Conspiracy Theorist — #191 - Corona Cast | The Tim Dillon Show+19s into the segment"will you ever dip back into the franklin scandal what do you mean get back into it I don't understand talk about it again I've done four episodes four whole hour-long episodes on it"
"nothing and we've heard this before we've heard it with the Franklin scandal there's been many other pedophile rings in the UK Quorra"
Clip: The FBI's Abusive Non-Response — #196 - Whitney Webb | The Tim Dillon Show+213s into the segment"precedent for this there's it none of it is mentioned the Franklin scandal is not mentioned they do not mention any thing about Jimmy"
The Epstein Netflix Documentary and Palm Beach Real Estate — #202 - Puppies Rainbows Candy Lamborghinis | The Tim Dillon Show+404s into the segment"the building that you from the franklin scandal if you're a fan of the show for a long time you know that uh the uh who took johnny documentary and the franklin scandal uh you know that me and ray comp covered because we're journalists"
Patreon Rothschild Backlog and the Sauce God (Young Don) — #244 - Dobrik's Death Count | The Tim Dillon Show+103s into the segment"is organized religion and and by the way even during the Franklin Scandal those kids were coming out of boy town like there's always"
The Catholic Church, Pedophilia, and Confession as Blackmail — A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359+12s into the segment"the Franklin scandal was another scandal in the 80s in in Omaha, Nebraska, where a Franklin credit union was laundering money um on behalf of a human trafficker who was pedalling uh children to wealthy and powerful people."
Did Epstein Kill Himself? And Blackmail as a Way of Life — Epstein Docs & A Culture Of Slop | The Tim Dillon Show #476+235s into the segment