Shannen Rossmiller wanted to fight terrorism. So she went online and did.
Read more about her from her book “The Unexpected Patriot: How an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists to Justice”. An affiliate link to the book on Amazon is here: https://amzn.to/3yaf5sI.
Thanks to Spycast for allowing usage of the audio interview with Shannen.
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Attribution
Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
This episode was researched and written by Fiona Guy.
Assembled by Tristan Ledger.
Episode artwork by odibagas.
Mixing by Proximity Sound.
Theme music created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify.
Transcript
[START OF RECORDING]
JACK: How did I get here? I’ve got such a strange job, you know? I never imagined I’d be a podcaster. For one, I failed English class at least twice in college, so there’s no way I’d ever be a writer, so I thought. Sometimes I like to step back every now and then and just wonder what crazy life events happened to me to put me in this place I’m in right now? [MUSIC] Let’s look at 9/11, for example. On 9/11, I woke up early and took a shower, and I walked over to my grandma’s house. She was gonna drive me to go see the FBI. The thing is, the FBI had a job-fair-type event and was recruiting people who were into computers. I was into computers. I wasn’t exactly thrilled about working for the FBI, but it could be a great adventure. Maybe I could be a spy or something. Alright, yeah, cool. Screw it; let’s go. Let’s go apply and see what happens. Come on, grandma, wake up. Let’s go meet with the FBI and see if they’ll hire me.