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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
before they insure that organization, because these organizations aren't going to run without insurance.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
And so that is a real root issue here, is the insurance companies stop fighting me, insurance lobbyists.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
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.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
prevent the lawsuit from ever being necessary.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
Insurance could pull that lever overnight, it would change the game.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
It's not rocket science.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
And then parents' consumer pressure would be another one I'd add, actually.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
So, the reason Kanakuk's 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.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
The reason Camp Mystic's reopening, parents will still send their kids there.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
That is so, I mean, I call them sheeple.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
Uh-huh.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
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.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
And kids aren't safe.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
Again, it's been 115 years since the American Camps Association started.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
They've had 115 years to get this right.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
When they last updated their accreditation measures in, I think it was like 2019, it didn't include anything about child sexual abuse prevention.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
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.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
How do you live in this world and not know this problem exists?
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
I mean, so if we know the problem exists, I always try to stay solutions oriented.
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#272 Elizabeth Phillips - Inside Camp Kanakuk: One of America’s Darkest Child Summer Camps
So I'm going to stay solutions oriented.