On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie and Michelle look at two cults with very different agendas… Can you slap yourself to health? When Hongchi Xiao quit his life as a successful banker to instead spread the word as a guru of alternative therapy, Paida Lajin, people flocked to his workshops. Essentially, you slap yourself…
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at two very different cults… In 1958, Chuck Dederich founded a self-help group called Synanon, where addicts could help other addicts get clean. It was massively successful and the key to its success lay in a form of therapy called The Game. But as Synanon…
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at cults and conspiracies… In 1929, the body of a woman called Willa Rhodes was found by police under the floorboards of her foster parents’ home. This gruesome discovery led police to the bizarre Blackburn cult, run by mother-daughter duo May Blackburn and Ruth Rizzio….
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle look at classic porn star Annie Sprinkle and the wellness-slash-sexy cult OneTaste… There was a time when porn was made in a studio. Porn stars had their own kind of Hollywood and you could become a household name. We’re talking the 70s and 80s here…
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle talk about a cult that masquerades as self-help mentoring, plus how an unknown caller got dozens of people to strip-search their employees… What if someone told you they could help you fulfil your dreams, achieve your career goals AND make you a better person? This…
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This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, hosts Geordie & Michelle look at two cults started by women… When Eavesdropper Linda wrote in telling us about how her father had changed his will to leave the lion’s share of his money and property to the Brahma Kumaris in the last days of his life, Geordie got…
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This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast… Two cults!! When host Michelle went looking for a little-known cult to investigate, she came across Love Has Won. Turns out there’s a HBO series about them (she didn’t watch), so not so unknown… But what a cult! In 2009, Amy Carlson left her 3D relationship (ie, her hubby…
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Eavesdroppin’ host Geordie gets culty and looks at Charles Manson and the Manson Family and asks, where are they now? In the late 1960s, Charles Manson and his LSD-soaked cult followers he called the Manson Family went on a killing spree. The reason? Race hate. Want to know more? You’ll have to listen! Plus Geordie…
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Hello Eavesdroppers! It’s the wellness episode and this week on Eavesdroppin’… Are emojis just for old people? Still wearing those 90s boyleg pants? What is vabbing? Would you steam your vag? TikTok dance trends… The troubling true-life true-crime story of James Arthur Ray and how his cult killed three people at a sweat-lodge retreat… The…
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Filth is a virtue! If you’re a member of Aum Shinrikyo, you’ll know this already and this, dear Eavesdroppers, is just a small taste of what we’re talking about this week on Eavesdroppin’, when hosts Geordie & Michelle investigate the weird world of two cults… At the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, a documentary called AUM:…
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