TRENDING TOPIC: It's That Time of Year Again- Shen Yun and Falun Gong!
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
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🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Have you seen the colorful ads enticing you to come experience "China before Communism" through the art of song and dance at a Shen Yun performance? What about the far-right wing newspaper "The Epoch Times" that preaches misogynistic, racist, homophobic and prejudiced views? They're both owned by the dangerous cult of Falun Gong which Ash tells Caitlyn and Lindsey about this week!
Caitlyn co-hosts PNW Haunts & Homicides, a podcast about true crime, the paranormal, and all kinds of spooky sh*t in the Pacific Northwest! Lindsey is the co-host of Ye Olde Crime, a podcast about spooky, strange, and surreal stories of the past. Support your local indie podcaster and check them both out today, wherever you listen to podcasts!
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-Audio editing by Dallas Hernandez.
-Research by Kristen Jones.
-Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy
- https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4477070-shen-yun-advertises-5000-years-of history-in-dance-why-does-china-call-it-an-anti-society-cult/
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/12/shen-yun-falun-gong-traditional-chinese-dance troupe-china-doesnt-want-you-to-see
- https://arbiteronline.com/2023/03/14/a-look-into-the-mysterious-roots-of-shen-yun-is-the-morriso n-center-unknowingly-hosting-a-front-for-a-cult/
- https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/cult-shen-yun-dance-troupe/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachings_of_Falun_Gong#Controversies
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Springs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
- https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-coons-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-hold-china-accountable-for-forced-organ-harvesting#:~:text=Experts%20estimate%20that%20the%20human,1.5%20million%20concentration%20camp%20inmates.&text=China%20appears%20to%20be%20the,is%20not%20the%20only%20offender.
- https://humanrightscommission.house.gov/events/hearings/forced-organ-harvesting-china-examining-evidence
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqwNo43p21Y
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAy8AngEZMs
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| 0:00.0 | The phone tapping is pretty awesome. Not for them. |
| 0:04.2 | But usually the communists are being witch hunted. In this case, they are doing the witch hunting. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, it's a weird flip. Yeah. But that's kind of why I said earlier, nobody's good in this story. |
| 0:19.7 | Because like, I don't really support witch hunts and book banning. |
| 0:24.1 | I mean, that's fair. |
| 0:25.2 | That's so fucked up presents. |
| 0:30.1 | That so fucked up presents. |
| 0:34.2 | That's so fucked up presents. |
| 0:35.5 | That's so fucked up Presents That's so fucked up presents. You guys, you are listening to That's so fucked up. |
| 0:44.1 | You are listening to That's So Fucked Up, a comedy podcast about Colts, crime, and other |
| 0:52.1 | things that make you say, ugh, that's so fucked up. |
| 0:57.1 | Or, you know, however you would say it. |
| 1:00.0 | And this is That's So Fooked Up Presents, |
| 1:03.1 | which is a spin-off series of That's So Fooked Up, |
| 1:05.4 | where each month we talk about a different, |
| 1:09.2 | kooky subject. |
| 1:10.6 | This is sinister sects. |
| 1:15.4 | Not sex. |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, God. |
| 1:17.8 | It's a killer. |
| 1:19.5 | The CTS. |
| 1:20.7 | Sinister. |
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