162: What if you grew up in a cult?

This Is Actually Happening

Wondery

True Crime, Tiah, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

“I didn’t know what normal was, so everything looked so scary….Everything I was doing I was learning for the time it was like my birth into the world.”

Producer: Whit Missildine

Episode Summary: A woman puts the pieces of her life back together after a childhood spent inside an insidious religious cult in Los Angeles.

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Content/Trigger Warnings: child abuse, sexual abuse, suicide, death, drug use, mental illness, explicit language

Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper

Music Bed: “Union Flow” – Spuntic

Outro Music: "The Moon is Down" - El Diablo & Adam Schraft (Rojo y Negro) @eldiablosf @rojo-y-negro www.eldiablobass.com/

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Transcript

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0:08.7	Hello, I'm Hannah.
0:09.9	And I'm Sirete.
0:10.9	And we are the hosts of A Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast.
0:14.6	Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.
0:18.0	From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch's
0:22.7	harga.
0:23.7	Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for
0:28.3	us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we
0:31.1	like.
0:32.1	We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's
0:35.1	blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon
0:39.8	of genetic sexual attraction.
0:41.6	Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior.
0:46.4	Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized?
0:49.0	What drives a child to kill?
0:51.3	And what's the psychology of a terrorist?
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