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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

154: Lana Turner and the Mobster Moidah

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Happy Monday Cult Babes! This week we’re headed to the golden age of Hollywood to discuss the moidah of ex-mobster turned dirtbag boyfriend Johnny Stompanato. We’re first going to deep-dive into the life and times of iconic actress Lana Turner because boy does she have a story, 7 marriages, humble beginnings, and a skyrocket to stardom. She was just 15 years old when she was discovered and went on to become MGM’s bread and butter earning the studio $5O+ million throughout her time with them.
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Sources:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5wr5g7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Stompanato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner
https://web.archive.org/web/20150210045705/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/lana_turner/5.html
https://allthatsinteresting.com/johnny-stompanato

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and while look at us, it's Monday. We're thriving. Feeling a lot better today.

0:46.0

What's going on under the weather? Is it a crazy how many weeks we've spent together? How many Mondays have we spent together?

0:54.0

Or Tuesday mornings if you live abroad because probably by the time they get released, it's a different time of the day. Unless you're new, I guess, maybe we haven't spent a lot of weeks together. In which case, hi, Cult Leader is a podcast about cults, sometimes, and moida, most of the time, and truly whatever we feel like talking about. We being me because guess what? This is a one-man show babe. That's right. I'm all you got. I'm all you got here. If you're listening and you're thinking, hey, am I going to hear multiple people? You won't. Will you hear probably a cool act?

1:24.0

Sure. Will you hear me pronounce a city wrong? Absolutely. But, you know, it is what it is. Okay, so you guys, I don't really go on TikTok that much, but there's this person I'm obsessed with, and I want to shout them out. Their handle is scytime with Tracy, and she duets all of these videos, basically, of like conspiracy theorist, and she just kind of debunks them as they're telling you why you shouldn't get the vaccine, or, you know, whatever they're talking about. They'll be like, oh, the spike proteins are doing this. And she's like, no, actually, they've been doing this.

1:53.0

I was like, no, actually, they produce this. They do this. And I just love it. It's one of my favorite things ever. Super into her right now. Super into lifetime, as always. Honestly, I'm getting a little mad at this point. I'm getting a little, I'm not mad. I'm hurt more than anything I would say.

2:07.0

Anger, it's just sometimes rooted out of sadness that I don't have a relationship with lifetime. I try. I tweet them. I slide into the DMs. I feel like their social media person is probably has me on some list of like,

2:21.0

this is guy keep telling us that he loves lifetime. And it's fine. Okay. I still, I still love your lifetime. I know you love me too, just from a part. I know eventually you'll see it. You'll see the spark is there.

2:31.0

The favorite recent watch was web of lies. It's about an influencer, which we love a lifetime movie about an influencer. And she has this like crazy stalker fan. It's on the lifetime movie club. And listen, I love in any movie really, but especially lifetime movies. I like seeing for some reason.

2:50.0

It's like my thing. I like to see their version of Instagram because they'll be like, story and like, hey guys, blah, blah, blah. And it's just it'll be called something crazy. And then like all the comments are always like crazy. I don't know. I just like, I like to see it.

3:05.0

What else is in my notes? Underline. Oh, this is very important. I really wanted you guys to know. It's like, I don't even know what it is. I feel like it's like calling a grandparent or something like things I really need to talk to you about.

3:18.0

But I do. I want to talk to you about smoothies. That's on my agenda because I sat on Friday. I think on the little leader. I was like, oh, I'm not really. I don't really have anything that I love right now beverage wise.

3:30.0

But that's a lot. I'm very into smoothies. I'm into smoothies. And I'm into juicing. I bought a new blender and I have been going insane with it blending everything.

3:39.0

Green juices. Sure. Breakfast smoothies. Why not? A fruit tropical smoothie for the afternoon. Sure. I get super into things. I get hyped on things.

3:51.0

And so smoothies and juicing is my thing right now. I got some stuff that's coming today to help me with my smoothie journey.

3:58.0

Like some mesh bags for straining. I got some like little glass jars with like screw lids to like put my juices that I make in.

4:07.0

This is how I am. I get into something. And then I get right out of it. I probably guarantee a month from now will not be making smoothies.

4:15.0

No, maybe I will. I feel like it's a smoothies and juices are a good thing to like incorporate into your daily life daily harvest.

4:22.0

We're not sponsored by daily harvest today. But I do love their smoothies. Hey, we have a code with them somewhere. You can find it.

4:28.0

No, but you know what it is. I don't like eating anything heavy in the morning or even early afternoon. I'm such like a dinner person. Like dinner for me is where it's at.

4:37.0

I'm more of like a snacker throughout the day, which is why I like making smoothies now because I feel like it's so good.

4:44.0

Because then you get all your nutrients and whatever. And you feel better than everyone. Listen, when you're I'll tell you there is a high that comes with making your own celery juice where you're just like it's like a weird God complex.

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