25: Tickled

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It's not what you think.

After stumbling upon a bizarre "competitive endurance tickling" video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking-the sender mocks Farrier's sexual orientation and threatens extreme legal action should he dig any deeper. So, like any good journalist confronted by a bully, he does just the opposite: he travels to the hidden tickling facilities in Los Angeles and uncovers a vast empire, known for harassing and harming the lives of those who protest their involvement in these films. The more he investigates, the stranger it gets, discovering secret identities and criminal activity. Discovering the truth becomes Farrier's obsession, despite increasingly sinister threats and warnings. With humor and determination, Farrier and co-director Dylan Reeve summon up every resource available to get to the bottom of this tickling worm hole.

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1:17.2	Ritolos in my life. I don't even have time to talk about anything else. So I googled
1:21.3	her and I was like, well, what the hell is she arrested for? We made a joke. We were
1:25.7	like, well, I hope it's not. I hope she's not a secret monster.
1:30.7	Exactly.
1:31.7	Here's an article that I found on April 1, 2015, not April Fool's joke from the New York
1:37.6	Daily News. They miss label her. They call it, it's a man. They say man. The New
1:44.7	York Daily News is pretty good. That sucks. So what happened?
1:48.3	This is a headline, towering six foot eight career criminal swipes $40,000 Hindu goddess
1:57.8	of compassion that apologizes after arrest. Hey, she apologized. Six foot eight. You
2:07.4	guys, we are super energetic. We do not exaggerate when we talk about things. I'm described.
2:13.1	So if you haven't seen the life of Marsha P. Johnson, it would like she's a tall, she's
2:16.8	a very tall drink water. It's six, she's six eight. She was 51 at the time. She was.
2:23.2	She was, she's a career criminal. She's been in and out of jail since 1985, all non-violent
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