Journalist and former CEDU student David Safran joins us to talk about his experience assisting a detective at the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department in investigating the disappearance of three children from the behavioral modification program CEDU between 1993-2004, and how the department moved to block the investigation and shut it down. LA Mag: Are Police Stifling the Investigation Into 3 Teens Who Vanished From a Controversial Residential Treatment Facility? lamag.com/citythinkblog/cedu-running-springs-san-bernadino-sheriffs-department-daniel-yuen-john-inman-blake-pursley/ Medium Anonymous: Running My Anger: The Legacy of CEDU medium.com/@1527176167818/legacy-of-the-cedu-cult-7e2dcb8f30e4 TrueAnon Presents: The Game — The Story of Synanon soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/sets/trueanon-presents-the-game Tickets for TrueAnon Live https://linktr.ee/trueanon

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Episode 262: CEDU Detective

To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- The Christmas Elves of Human Kindness crawl from their wretched warrens and join us in a frenzied session of forgiving and forgetting some of 2022s biggest Losers and Haters

Episode 261: Peace On Earth (trailer)

We make a deposit in the Learn Bank and learn about Hipster Eugenics, advances in baby-making, Elon Musk’s brood, and Baby Einsteins real and imagined. What we find will make you spit out your pacifier.

Episode 260: God-Sperm of Mad Men

To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- TrueAnon FinCo correspondent and Financial Times journalist Alexandra Scaggs joins us to make sense of the multiple charges levied against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, what this has to do with our old friends at Tether, and just what JPoww and the Fed really think about the labor market situation.

Episode 259: Funny Money (trailer)

TrueAnon St. Louis correspondent Devin Thomas O’Shea joins us to talk about his new piece in Protean (https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-community-under-the-atomic-cloud) combining the history of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project and US government chemical testing on the residents of major American cities. TrueAnon Live Tickets: https://linktr.ee/trueanon

Episode 258: Cloud Cover

To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- Lambo. Fake IDs. Motorcycle assassin. We go back to the Bay to talk about the story of Marin’s greatest teenaged thief and worst drive-by shooter: Max Wade. Surveillance video: https://abc7news.com/marin-county-max-wade-chef-guy-fieri-lamborghini/7863/

Episode 257: Max Wade (trailer)

San Francisco’s police department and mayor dare to ask: Do Robot Cops Shoot at Electric Crooks? And if not, can we make them? TrueAnon looks at the failed rollout of unmanned vehicle-borne IEDs by SF’s police department. twitter.com/SanFranciscoPOA/status/1597673959117402112

Episode 256: Programmed To Kill

We revisit our old foe, Andrew Tate, to talk through the eternal return of The Red Pill and the geography of the manosphere, while Brace debuts his patent-pending guide to romance: The G.U.N. Method. TrueAnon tour tickets: linktr.ee/trueanon

UNLOCKED! Episode 247: The G.U.N. Method

To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- We gather around the motel bed at the tail end of tour and talk about some of the TrueAnon tips and rules we’ve doled out over the years—and do a groundbreaking a capella mashup of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song and Kashmir. Thanks to everyone who came to the Year of the Smile :)

Episode 255: True Rules For Life (trailer)

We call the Bahamas and talk FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, BIG DOLLAR DONATIONS, polycules and plenty of clues in the aftermath of the latest crypto scam explosion.

Episode 254: Moneyball II

The Game Part 5: The Return

Part Four: Liquor, beatings and tax fraud bring trouble for Synanon, Straight Inc. blooms in Florida, WWASPs international criminal syndicate, and the cash-fueled ascent of behavioral modification programs. This episode contains discussion of rape, self-harm, and suicide.

The Game Part 4: Dissipations

The Game Part 3: The Game

Synanon’s boom years and rise to prominence in California. Structure of Synanon’s governance and businesses. Explanation of Abraham Maslow’s beliefs, Weird California in general, and the psychological and geographical milieu that influenced Synanon. Beginning of violence and rule breaking at Synanon, early stages of how it becomes a cult.

The Game Part 2: Squares

Part One: The Early Years of Chuck Dederich, a history of rehabs and Alcoholics Anonymous, acid tests at UCLA, and the birth of Synanon. Additional voices by: Mark Ames, Michael S. Judge, Ben Howard, John Vanderslice, and Matt Christman.

The Game Part 1: Dopefiend [reupload]

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