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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and I got nothing interesting to tell you because I'm still inside as are all of you. Hopefully.

I watched a few good things recently. Everything is a blur these past 36 days. So if some of them are repetitive, my sincerest apologies. I watched Invisible Man, Very Good, Jojo Rabbit, Very Good.

I told you guys about Tiger King, but I feel like that's been talked to death. I've gotten a lot of requests for an episode on it. I feel like it's like in a Dell song where you hear it and you're like, wow, it's pretty fucking good. And then you listen to so much of it and then you're like, I'm so fucking sick of hearing this. That's kind of where I'm at with Tiger King right now. I'm like, okay, enough. We get it. Carol, Better Hasn't Do A Tiger. Everyone's bad.

No good. No, done. I'm over it. I'm over it. I watched American Horror Story 1984, which was fucking good. I actually started it back in October, but I fell off after the first few episodes. So I started back from the beginning, binge the entire season, and I actually liked it a lot. I watched the Variom, which was really weird. I watched that on Sunday. And it was a strange one.

But I liked it. And then no way, no way. I didn't like it. This is my podcast now. It's just me arguing with myself. I actually didn't like the end. I thought it was fucking weird and pointless. Maybe there was a deeper meaning there that I just didn't understand. But most recently, I watched the stranger on Netflix. And it's like eight episodes. I fucking loved it. It's very like Black Mirror-esque.

And if you haven't watched Black Mirror, I guess that's another one to add to the list. Black Mirror is really cool. You don't have to watch them in order. It's kind of like the Twilight Zone. Every episode is different. My favorites personally are San Junipero and hang the DJ. So either of those two.

Also, I'm only gonna say this one, but stop being on your phone so much. I started putting my phone away for the majority of the day. Other than like obviously periodically, I have to check emails and stuff for work. But it's helpful. So listen to music. Listen to me. Watch a movie. Read a book. Write a book. I don't care. Just take breaks from your phone. Especially if you're anxious. I'm sure I'm not the only one who got a notification recently.

Like your screen time is up an average of 74 hours. So just take care of yourselves. And let's get to the story because it's why we're all here. Today we are telling the tale of Dana Sugre, a California girl who turned bad. This is the confessions of a shopaholic. I want music here.

Dana was born on December 6, 1957 to Beverly and Russell Armbrust. Let's start with her parents. Her father was a hair stylist and he was on his second marriage with Beverly. Beverly herself was a former beauty queen turned Hollywood starlit. Though she doesn't really have any notable film work, she was signed to MGM. And obviously major Hollywood entity everybody's heard of MGM. They were delighted when Dana was born. They'd gone through trouble and the

past with miscarriages. So she was really kind of like their little miracle. However, the happiness couldn't keep them on cloud nine for long. You see, Beverly had a temper and was known for being extremely narcissistic. Motherhood didn't soften her much and ultimately her bad temper led to divorce.

The final straw for Dana's parents was when Russell saw Beverly getting into an altercation with an elderly woman. He was grossed up by the altercation and her temper and he decided he could no longer make it work. Understandable, but sad. As slowly Russell began to disappear from a then two-year-old Dana's life, the visits became further and further apart as Dana grew up.

Her mom honestly gives me major Joan Crawford mommy dearest vibes. If you haven't seen mommy dearest, it's the most iconic movie ever and you need to see it. And who?

Dana began to kind of act out as a direct result of her mother's harsh words and frequent punishments. It started out small, stealing money from her mom to go buy candy, often getting into it with the other kids at school. She just had a lot of displaced anger and buying things made her feel better.

At home, Dana's mother had gotten remarried and Dana couldn't handle sharing attention with her new step-brothers. There's a story that allegedly when she was like five years old she got jealous of her new step-brothers getting attention so she took a pair of scissors when into her mom's closet and cut a hole in her mom's favorite dress. She could not handle not being the center of attention.

Speaking of school, Dana was no A-plus student. She got in a lot of arguments with kids at school and when she wasn't doing that she was avoiding it altogether. She failed a lot of her classes and she was known to forge a note or two leading her to get suspended on a somewhat frequent basis.

She'd run into trouble when she met a group of rebellious kids and it's when we get our first sense of how cruel Dana really could be. She becomes friends with the bad kids, they're like smoke and cigarettes in the bathroom, they're graffitiing, I don't know if they did any of that.

But they were bad and I know that they were doing some awful stuff with animals because supposedly this group of kids Dana included would collect animals like pets from around the neighborhood and they would then take them to the roof of one of their houses and using a homemade catapult catapult them from the roof into the pool. Like just real mean kid shit and as we all know, hurting innocent animals is a huge commonality in future serial killers like why can't you guys just smoke weed and be normal.

High school friends remember Dana as athletic, she was skydiving, she was a daredevil, always out for adventure and in her yearbook she actually wrote that her favorite pastime was getting in trouble and that her favorite place to be was in free fall which is just like fucking hilarious.

When she was 14, her life got tougher when Dana's mom Beverly was diagnosed with breast cancer and unfortunately she passed away just two years later in 1973 right around the time Dana turned 16.

Things at home weren't working out so after her mom passed away she subsequently moved back in with her father Russell and his now third wife but Dana and her new stepmom did not get along well and Dana actually ended up getting kicked out after her stepmom Jerry found drugs in her room.

It wasn't disclosed what the drugs were but it probably it could have been weed for all we know which is a whole nother thing hello how many people are sitting in jail right now because of weed charges the fact that we can literally order weed on an app and have it delivered to your door like I think they should probably release those people.

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