Welcome To The Sunshine Place
Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it w...
15 Aug 20224min
Virginia Heffernan: Edge, Jeffrey Epstein, & the Intellectual Dark Web
You're struggling to advance your writing career. You reach out to a mysterious book agent who seems to be the key to success, along with his exclusive group of intellectual heavy hitters. Little do y...
10 Aug 20221h 14min
Joann Vaega: Waco Survivor and Former Branch Davidian
You're a child living on a remote compound in West Texas. One day authorities show up at your front door and an exchange of gunfire breaks out. Just as you expected would happen. Survivor of the Bran...
3 Aug 20221h 2min
Spencer Schneider: Sharon Gans, School, & a Manhattan Cult Story
Can you keep a secret? Lawyer and author of Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival discusses his attraction to esoteric philosophy, how he joined Sharon G...
27 Jul 202255min
Luis Favela & Honor Academy
Jesus bootcamp, anyone? Musician Luis Favela shares what it was like attending the Christian youth training camp Honor Academy, part of an evangelical youth organization called Teen Mania Ministries. ...
21 Jul 20221h 20min
Hank Nuwer & Hazing Culture
Writer and author of several books including Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Hank Nuwer, discusses the various forms that hazing can take, why he started tracking data of deaths and injuries, a histor...
14 Jul 202259min
Evan McNary: Assisting Exorcisms, Speaking in Tongues & Pastors in Sunglasses
Filmmaker Evan McNary discusses his childhood in an exorcism focused church, believing in demons, helping with church exorcisms, having "possessed" people living in his home, and attending a Pentecost...
6 Jul 202259min
G Charles Wright: Growing up Bisexual, Natural Disasters & Abusive Parenting
Casting director and former Christian G Charles Wright talks about growing up Christian and struggling with his sexuality, a natural disaster he was caught in the middle of, why he calls his mom a psy...
22 Jun 20221h 7min
