Power, Politics, Corruption and Prayer: What is 'The Family'?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Washington, D.C. is home to numerous organizations and institutions created to broker deals and funnel power from one place (or policy) to another. Many of these organizations operate more or less openly, while others pride themselves on their discretion and ability to stay out of the public eye. The Family is one of the latter -- a secretive group founded in 1935 as a religiously-motivated movement to bring its interpretation of Christianity to the halls of Congress and beyond. But what exactly is the Family? More importantly, what exactly are they up to? Join the guys as they peer behind the curtain.
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| 0:04.1 | investigating the serial murders orchestrated by South African cold leader Cecilia Stein. |
| 0:09.1 | She conditioned them to be monsters. |
| 0:11.4 | In the world of murderous cults, if Charles Manson is king, Cecilia Stein is queen. |
| 0:17.2 | She was telling people the Bible since she was going to kill, but actually she was taking revenge. |
| 0:22.6 | Listen to Queen Havoc and her murder cult. |
| 0:24.8 | On the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.1 | The True Crime Podcast, Sacred Scandal, returns for a second season to investigate a led sexual abuse at Mexico's La Luz del Mundo Mega Church. |
| 0:38.4 | Journalist Robert Garza explores survivor stories of pure evil experiences at the hands of a self-proclaimed apostle who is now behind bars. |
| 0:46.6 | I remember as a little girl being groomed to be his concubine, that's how I was raised. |
| 0:51.7 | It is not wrong if you take your clothes off for the apostle. |
| 0:54.8 | Listen to Sacred Scandal on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.8 | You can think of a nation as a place with a border, a set of laws, flags, and people, but really a nation needs a story, a story to tie the whole thing together. |
| 1:10.6 | So what to do then about the inconvenient parts of the nation's past, the parts that call the whole thing into question? |
| 1:17.4 | On the new season of White Lies, we tell a story about immigration, about indefinite detention, |
| 1:22.1 | and about how sometimes it's the lies that bind us together. |
| 1:25.7 | Listen to the White Lies Podcasts from NPR, within the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:31.7 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 1:38.4 | You can turn back now, or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 1:52.9 | Hello, and welcome back to the show. My name is Noel. |
| 1:58.9 | Our close compatriot Matt is on adventures, but it will be returning soon. |
| 2:03.9 | They called me Ben. We are joined with our super producer Paul Michigan-controlled Decant, |
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