Presenting: Stolen

April 8, 2021·54 min·5 clips

Connie Walker reveals how the murder of Pamela George exposed how society devalues Indigenous women's lives.

The climate show swerves on purpose. Ayanna and Alex begin in familiar territory, then admit they are not making that show today. Alex has a television blind spot, so the true crime setup gets a little funny first, with Law & Order, CSI, and The West Wing carrying the lighter mood before Stolen takes over. Vicky wakes up on Saturday, sees a missed call from Germaine, and keeps calling back because silence from her feels wrong right away. Germaine was usually easy to reach. The episode stays with that simple detail, because her normal phone habits make her sudden absence feel personal and alarming. She had been active on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok, including two TikTok videos from the day she disappeared. Then everything stops. Vicky calls Jacob, Germaine's new boyfriend, and he says he does not know where she is either. That does not settle anything. He also says a later call sounded like someone deliberately hung up, which makes Vicky trust her fear more. The family starts calling around on the Flathead Reservation, trying to find the person who normally would have answered. The handoff works because How to Save a Planet keeps its conversational frame, while Stolen asks for a more serious kind of listening. No neat answer arrives here. Ayanna and Alex send listeners to Stolen, The Search for Jermaine, and say they will return to their own show next week.

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A climate-show detour that settles into a tense, family-centered missing-person story.

How to Save a Planet makes a sharp pivot from climate conversation into true crime, first by treating the genre as something broad and familiar, then by using that setup to open Stolen and a missing-person story from the Flathead Reservation.

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A true-crime doorway from a climate show into a missing-person search.

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