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The First Degree

DEEP DIVE: SHEN YUN

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

IT’S TIME! This week, the girls are finally deep diving into Shen Yun. And this time, it’s personal. Jac and Lex went to a Shen Yun show themselves to see what all of the fuss was about. They’re diving into the bizarre history of Shen Yun itself, what going to a Shen Yun show is REALLY like, and figuring out once and for all if Shen Yun is actually a cult (spoiler alert: it is).

Transcript

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0:00.0

PIN

0:02.0

PIN

0:08.0

PIN Welcome to the deep dive where the difference between a conspiracy and the truth is six months.

0:32.9

I'm Jack.

0:33.5

I'm sitting here with Lex.

0:34.5

And it's been long awaited, highly requested.

0:38.9

This is your official deep dive of Shen Yun.

0:42.2

I can't believe it.

0:44.9

We're finally here.

0:46.3

And you know what?

0:47.0

We didn't want to do the deep dive without experiencing it for, you know, first person

0:52.1

experience.

0:53.1

So we went.

0:54.0

We went to go see Shen Yun and Costa Mesa last week,

0:57.5

and we're here to tell the tale.

1:00.5

I can't believe it because I have been force-fed these ads

1:06.2

for the better part of a decade on every flag on the streetlights, every billboard, flyers,

1:15.6

they're targeting streaming now, like the streaming commercials.

1:21.4

I'm getting Facebook ads.

1:23.9

They're really pushing this.

1:27.1

Shen Yan is pushing it. And we're going to kind of deep dive into how that can actually be

1:32.7

because it's like, how could you possibly afford to do something like this?

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