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TRENDING TOPIC: Synanon- Drug Rehab Turned Dangerous Cult Apr 17, 2024

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Note: This episode originally aired in December 2022.
There has been a recent resurgence of talk about the Synanon organization, thanks in part to documentaries released on Max and Paramount+. So we decided to reach back to December 2022 for a re-release of our Synanon episode.
Synanon started out as an alternative to AA, a rehab program for "dope fiends", but quickly turned into a sinister and deadly cult. Synanon was also the basis for many of the programs that we see today in the TTI (troubled teen industry).
In this special bonus episode, Ash is joined by badass survivor Jen Carole, whose parents were murdered by Josef DeAngelo aka the Golden State Killer. Jen grew up during the 60s and 70s in Southern California, when are where Synanon began.
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TSFU: Ep. 151- Unqualified AF: Dr. Phil and Decades of Destruction Apr 12, 2024

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Where do we even start with "Dr." flipping Phil. He's not a licensed anything, accept for a-hole, and hasn't been for years. He's known for berating and being abusive towards guests, enabling victims of addiction, exploiting mental illness, and maybe best of all, sending multiple kids to Troubled Teen institutions.
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TSFU PRESENTS: Sinister Sects- Ep. 2: Shen Yun and Falun Gong Apr 09, 2024

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Have you seen the colorful ads enticing you to come experience "China before Communism" through the art of song and dance at a Shen Yun performance? What about the far-right wing newspaper "The Epoch Times" that preaches misogynistic, racist, homophobic and prejudiced views? They're both owned by the dangerous cult of Falun Gong which Ash tells Caitlyn and Lindsey about this week!
Caitlyn co-hosts PNW Haunts & Homicides, a podcast about true crime, the paranormal, and all kinds of spooky sh*t in the Pacific Northwest! Lindsey is the co-host of Ye Olde Crime, a podcast about spooky, strange, and surreal stories of the past. Support your local indie podcaster and check them both out today, wherever you listen to podcasts!
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TSFU: Ep. 150- Mysterious Deaths: The Disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon Apr 05, 2024

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In 2014, two friends named Kris Kremers (21) and Lisanne Froone (22) headed from their home in the Netherlands to Panama to go on a trip to go sightseeing, and with the goal of doing community service. On April 1st, they left their host family’s house in Panama to go on hike and disappeared in the forests of Panama.
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TSFU PRESENTS: Sinister Sects- Ep. 1: Project Modern Day Knight Apr 02, 2024

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TSFU Presents is BACK! This season Ash is joined by various friends from other awesome indie podcasts! Our first episode is with Alecia Watson from Twisted & Uncorked! Ash and Alecia go down the Project Modern Day Knight rabbit hole, PMDK is an $18,000 bootcamp for men who wants to go from beta boy to Alpha Man. It's a toxic masculinity mess... here we go!
This is the first season that will be half Patreon exclusive... everyone will get to hear the first two episodes of each season, but only Patrons get to hear the last two!
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TRENDING TOPIC: "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV", Nickelodeon Nightmare Mar 27, 2024

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"The untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside '90s kids' TV; hearing harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today." - Investigation Discovery
Ash and Fallon dig into the new docu-series "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV". Ash summarizes the four part series that details the trauma that many child stars went through while working at Nickelodeon from the mid 90s until only recent years. She gives the rundown on questions that the show left unanswered... and talks about allegations not discussed.
TW: severe and widespread child abuse.
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TSFU: Ep 149- Starvation Heights: Linda Hazzard aka "The Starvation Doctor" Mar 22, 2024

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Linda Hazzard billed herself as a "fasting specialist" despite no formal medical degree and little training. She believed that all diseases came from food, and starving was the only cure. She opened her “sanitarium” in Olalla, Washington in the early 1900s, calling it Wilderness Heights. But residents of the small town called it "Starvation Heights" because of the countless patients who went to see Hazzard... and vanished. Both figuratively and literally.
This is a story of murder.... but are y'all feeling some cultiness too?? "Paging Dr. Hazzard"! Did they only say that on Gray's Anatomy? Were they ever paging doctors? When did they stop?? That's not what this episode is about. AHDH!
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TSFU PRESENTS: Psychotic Psychology- Ep. 5: MK Ultra Part II Mar 19, 2024

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Ash and Fallon wrap up "Psychotic Psychology" and the insane story of Project MKUltra.
During the early Cold War and Korean Wars, in the late '40s and early '50s, the CIA became a super paranoid and obsessed spy agency, working on the notion that communists might have perfected some kind of a drug or technique that could control the human mind. Project MKUltra lasted through the '50s and '60s (at least that's what they want us to think) and killed many people and destroyed countless lives.
Wait... the CIA is shady AF? Yep, and you probably didn't know just how unscrupulous until now.
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TSFU: Ep. 148- The Troubled Teen Industry: "The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping" Part III Mar 18, 2024

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The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it deserves! Ash and Fallon break down the third episode, and there's some good news at the end of this one!
In the final episode, "Follow the Money", we find that, "with programs around the globe and exorbitant tuition, money was rolling in — but where was it going? A trail of dodgy dealings leads TO THE TOP." - Netflix
Omg y'all finally someone said it besides me... every freaking time!
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping: "Years after being sent to a disciplinary school, a woman who is haunted by her experiences decides to expose the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry." - Netflix
TW: child abuse of every kind.
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TSFU: Ep. 148- The Troubled Teen Industry: "The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping" Part II Mar 16, 2024

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"Years after being sent to a disciplinary school, a woman who is haunted by her experiences decides to expose the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry." - Netflix
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping is in the worldwide top ten on Netflix for a very good reason! The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it deserves! Fallon breaks down episode two.
In "Mind Control", we see that "daily life at Ivy Ridge involved cult-like tactics, a rules system with excessive punishments, and family reps incentivized to keep teens in the program." - Netflix
TW: child abuse of every kind.
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