The Charlatan Of The Ozarks

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny cover the story of Norman Baker, the magician who later claimed to have the cure for cancer. They start off by exploring his background as a vaudeville performer, inventor, and tramp machinist (yes, that’s a real profession). They talk about his time as the original Joe Rogan hosting his own radio broadcasting show called KTNT “Know The Naked Truth” - if only he was born 98 years later. Finally they chat about how he secured fame as well as state and federal prison terms by promoting a supposed cure for cancer. RESOURCES: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-haunting-history-of-a-hucksters-cancer-cure https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/norman-baker-4885/ https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/apr/12/glass-bottles-date-to-38-cancer-elixir-/ http://iagenweb.org/muscatine/obituaries/ba-obit.htm https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A78177225&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=93dab8fd https://www.thedailybeast.com/madeline-mccann-parents-ok-dna-test-on-julia-wandelt https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody to not another true crime podcast. I'm Sarah Levine and I'm Danny Murfino,
0:08.7	Wine Crime Time, where are your partners and all of the above? I love that. I love that. Before we get
0:15.2	started, okay, I wanted to talk about this documentary because everybody has been DMing us and I want
0:20.6	you all to know that yes, we have seen it stolen youth on Hulu. Actually, I don't know if I'm
0:28.4	speaking for both of us, Danny, have you actually seen it? I've seen it. Yes, and I've seen it and
0:32.7	also because we've we've been following this case for a long time. Yes. Yeah, it's about the
0:40.7	that cult at Sarah Lawrence. It was a big, big article in Where Else, but New York magazine. Yes.
0:48.9	Maybe 2018 era. I feel like that. That's or Tony said, I don't know. That's what like all their
0:53.4	big articles came out. I feel the long the long reads. Yes. I mean, so there was a peacock documentary
1:00.6	that we watched. We didn't episode on this one. I think like blows it out of the water. I mean,
1:06.4	one thing I hadn't really considered with the peacock documentary was like, none of the victims were
1:11.6	in it. It was just people kind of like talking about what happened. It was I feel the peacock one was
1:19.2	more so reporters who covered it, giving their point of view on it and kind of like it to me, the
1:25.2	peacock felt more we're telling the story about how we uncovered the story. Yeah. And the Hulu one
1:31.8	really was like, this is what happened to us. Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's just extremely disturbing,
1:39.4	but it is very, very well done. And I opening I think, you know, I think a lot of with these
1:45.9	like coercive control cult type things, people say like, oh, well, how could you fall for this?
1:53.6	Like, how could you be stupid? And it just really shows you how it doesn't have to do with
2:00.4	intelligence. No, it just has to do with you were vulnerable and some person with, you know, bad
2:07.5	intentions preyed on that. I mean, and yeah, that's a bad intentions and also the ability to
2:16.0	manipulate because it's like a very like, because it that people are like, how do people fall for
2:20.3	that? It's like usually someone who's swath isn't the right word, but it's like someone who knows
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