Gwen Shamblin: "The Way Down" | Serial Streamers TV Club

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Serial Streamers, Jami takes listeners on a journey through The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, a docuseries highlighting the rise and fall of Gwen Shamblin Lara's religious weight-loss regimen. Gwen Shamblin rose to fame as a weight-loss champion but she also happened to be a controversial religious leader. Listen as Jami shares her take on the cult leader and diet guru. Follow Jami on Instagram & TikTok @JamiOnAir, and join the Serial Streamers true crime TV club! Twice per month, Jami opens up the Serial Streamers club chat on Instagram so members can weigh in on the TV series we’re watching. Watch Serial Streamers on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@jamionair. CrimeCon 2023: Visit CrimeCon.com and use code MURDERISH for 10% off a Standard Badge. Lipstick & Lies (produced & co-hosted by Jami) - listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lipstick-lies/id1704189120 Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime - listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092. Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 Media to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH, send an email to Sahiba Krieger mailto:sahiba@cloud10.fm with a copy to mailto:jami@murderish.com. Visit MURDERISH.com for more info about the podcast and Creator/Host, Jami. Ad-Free episodes: Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to join MURDERISH | Behind the Mic and get access to bonus episodes, ad-free episodes and other cool perks. Listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer, it just means you’re murder..ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of serial streamers. I'm so glad you're here. And if you're wondering
0:07.7	what serial streamers is, if you haven't caught on yet, it is a true crime TV club kind of like a
0:14.0	book club, but better. And it's for people who binge true crime TV series and documentaries,
0:20.5	which I know I do. And I figure a lot of people listening to Murderish are probably out there
0:25.2	binging all this true crime content on TV. So I started a true crime TV club and we call ourselves
0:31.6	the serial streamers. And if you're wondering who I am, if you're just watching this on YouTube,
0:36.0	just getting to know me. My name is Jamie. I am a full-time podcaster. I host podcasts,
0:41.9	Murderish, Lipstick and Lies, Dirty Money Moves. And I just recently got on here to YouTube. So
0:49.3	I'm having a lot of fun with that. But make sure you do all the things. Subscribe to my YouTube channel
0:54.4	at Jamie on air. If you're listening to this right now, make sure you hit the subscribe or the
0:58.5	follow button in your podcast player so that you don't miss any new episodes of serial streamers
1:03.9	as they come out on the Murderish podcast feed. And I think that's it. And I'm going to say these
1:08.5	things all over again at the end of this thing just to remind you. So let's get into the case
1:12.6	or the docuseries. But before we do, I need to offer some trigger warnings because I like to be
1:18.2	thoughtful about, yes, this is a true crime, you know, content series. So people maybe ought to know
1:24.6	that there's going to be some disturbing things. But I always try to catch, you know, particularly
1:29.2	disturbing topics and offer trigger warning at the beginning. So for this particular docuseries,
1:34.6	there are discussions of very toxic diet culture, fat shaming, as well as child abuse and child death.
1:42.6	So just please take care before listening or watching.
1:57.6	Okay, let's get into this docuseries. So the docuseries that the serial streamers were watching
2:03.8	recently is called the way down God greed and the cult of Gwen Chamberlain. And this one is a
2:10.4	2021 docuseries on max, which is formerly HBO. And all I can say is wow. And it just the hair.
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