Listen Now: We Came to the Forest
Blood Ties
Wondery
4.4 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility planned for Atlanta. She decides to join the activists trying to stop construction. When Vienna arrives in the South River Forest, she quickly finds a community, a cause and a love unlike any other. But the events of one morning shatters everything. Vienna and everyone connected to the forest begin to question what are you willing to die for? Wondery, Campside and Tenderfoot TV present: We Came to the Forest.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of blood ties ad-free. |
| 0:04.8 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:08.9 | In the depths of an Atlanta forest, a clash between activists and authorities ended in tragedy. |
| 0:14.6 | But the official narrative doesn't add up. |
| 0:16.9 | We came to the forest. |
| 0:18.4 | A new investigative podcast from Wondery, Campsite Media, and Tenderfoot |
| 0:22.6 | TV peels back the layers of secrecy surrounding a deadly confrontation that shook a community |
| 0:28.5 | to its core. Through exclusive recordings and never before released eyewitness accounts, |
| 0:33.8 | host Matthew Cher exposes the hidden truths behind a nighttime shootout that left one activist dead |
| 0:40.2 | and countless lives forever changed. As we dig deeper, we uncover a web of conflicting testimonies, |
| 0:47.3 | missing evidence, and allegations of a cover-up reaching the highest levels of law enforcement. |
| 0:53.4 | From the idealistic dreams of young environmentalists |
| 0:56.5 | to the complex motivations of local officials, this story challenges our understanding of justice, |
| 1:03.1 | activism, and the lengths people will go to protect what they believe in. What actually happened |
| 1:09.0 | in the forest? I'm about to play a clip from We Came to the Forest. Follow |
| 1:13.2 | We Came to the Forest on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:24.2 | Campsite Media. |
| 1:34.8 | On a chilly evening in January, an activist named Vienna Forest goes on a date with her partner in Atlanta. |
| 1:46.0 | It's been a long, rough month for Vienna, the longest in some ways she can remember, and she's spent much of it lying low, crashing on the floor at a friend's house. |
| 1:52.3 | Her partner, who goes by Tortugita, that's little turtle in Spanish, has decided that it's time for her to get out of the house. |
| 1:54.6 | And we went to get Vietnamese and Mexican food, just got a whole buffet. |
| 2:00.1 | It was, and Tortugito's, like, at their peak. |
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