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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

517 // The King of The Thrill Pill w/ Shaahin Cheyene

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Crawlspace. In this new episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by a truly fascinating individual, Mr. Shaahin Cheyene. In the 1990s, when Shaahin was 17 years old, he created a drug which was a natural alternative to MDMA called Herbal Ecstasy. The success of his product was meteoric, the fame and money flooded in. Before he knew it, Shaahin was looking at a billion dollars in revenue. But that kind of success comes with many pitfalls. Pick up your copy of Billion: How I Became The King Of The Thrill Pill Cult https://www.shaahincheyenne.com/book Check out what Shaahin has going on: https://www.shaahincheyenne.com/ Shaahin’s podcast booking agency is PodcastCola: https://podcastcola.com/ Follow Shaahin: https://www.instagram.com/shaahincheyene/ https://www.facebook.com/shaahincheyene/ https://twitter.com/shaahincheyene https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX59Z1-L4LBe7-qKEz_-QzA Contact Shaahin directly at: [email protected] Follow Crawlspace: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast  Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance. Lance, how are you today?

0:32.5

I'm doing so well today, Tim. Thank you so much for asking. I hope the listeners are doing well as well.

0:38.8

And this episode, I've been really anticipating its release. I've been eager to hear what the

0:44.3

listeners are going to think about this. The guest is really different. It's a really different

0:48.8

type of guests that we have on today. There is some crime-ish conversation that's happening,

0:53.6

but Tim, I'm very ish on your mood.

0:56.1

Can you tell me exactly how you're feeling today? I'm feeling all right. Thanks a lot for asking.

1:01.4

And yeah, very, very interesting conversation today with Shaheen Cheyenne. And this conversation

1:08.4

ranges from his background to the drug he produced for clubgoers.

1:16.2

And it definitely brushed against illegalities.

1:22.1

And it sort of shook up the, well, the government.

1:26.0

They got involved because I think Shaheen, he may say

1:29.6

because they wanted their cut, they would probably tell you for safety. So you can see how this

1:34.4

conversation is going to have two sides to it. Exactly. And there's actually one part of this

1:39.0

conversation where he says, oh, I've never done anything illegal. And we have a laugh about it because he says right after that, so is the interview over, because he's on a true crime show.

1:48.4

So we make a joke about how this is just kind of, again, brushing up against the crime conversation.

1:54.0

He created this alternative to MDMA.

1:58.2

Ecstasy.

1:59.0

It was a natural alternative that wasn't chemical based, according to his

2:04.6

recipe. Apparently he made millions and millions when he was 16, 17, 18 years old. And once that

2:11.4

ended for him, he began this lifelong career as an entrepreneur. He also wrote a book called

2:16.4

Billion, how he became the king of the thrill pill cult.

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