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Was King Arthur real? or are we looking at history all wrong?If you think finding a 6th-century tomb solves the Arthurian legend, think again. Medievalist, artist, and author Dr. Amy Jeffs (author of Arthur: A New Life) joins host Paul Bavill to dismantle the obsession with "smoking gun" popular history. From giant-descended queens to shape-shifting wizards, the true power of King Arthur lies not in a single dead warlord, but in centuries of evolving folklore, political propaganda, and captivating mystery.In this episode, we explore:The Gloucester Cathedral Apprentice Bracket Myth: How medieval art history misreads grief vs. miracles.The Real Roots of Arthur: 9th-century Breton charters, early Welsh poetry, and monster-slaying heroes.Brute Chronicles & Propaganda: How medieval kings twisted myth to justify foreign conquests.The Dark Origin of the Round Table: Food fights, brutal executions, and baronial politics.Forgotten Women of Arthurian Legend: Morgan le Fay, Guinevere's lineage, and Merlin's sister.Stop reducing complex legends to simple answers—embrace the magic of historical mystery!Guest Info & Book Links:Buy the Book: Order Arthur: A New Life via the History Rage Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10120/9781529431681Website: https://www.amyjeffshistoria.com/Instagram: @amyjeffs_authorLive Event: See Dr. Amy Jeffs live at the Gloucester History Festival (12th–20th September). Book tickets now at https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk.Recommended Episodes:Episode 322: Emily Hauser rages that there is no canonical version of The Odyssey.Episode 276: Nick Jubber rages that vampires are not Transylvanian.Follow & Support History Rage:Website: https://www.historyrage.comPatreon: Join for £3/month for ad-free listening, or £5/month for live streams, early releases, and the History Rage mug at https://www.patreon.com/historyrage.Apple Podcasts: Subscribe directly on Apple Podcasts for ad-free episodes.Social Media: Follow @HistoryRage on Twitter/X, Instagram, and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) - Free. Want to turn today's episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I'll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It's packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home. Get your free PDF workbook here: https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com Episode 2162: Lisa Jeffs explains why a coaching culture belongs in every workplace, not just in the onboarding of new hires. She walks through five effects coaching has on an organization: sharper performance, stronger soft skills, higher employee engagement, teams that solve their own problems, and managers who lead by empowering people rather than presiding over them. The through line is that coaching raises productivity by building people up rather than by pushing them harder. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://lisajeffs.com/why-coaching-is-important-in-the-workplace/ Quotes to ponder: "Coaching not only improves productivity, but also helps employees improve their skills, competencies, and even make your office happier." "Coaching helps empower your team to find solutions for themselves." "The effectiveness of a leader is limited by how good their teams are." Optimal Work Daily is a daily career advice podcast where we narrate the best articles on productivity, entrepreneurship, and work-life balance, read to you by a professional narrator so you can grow your career a little more every day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 years ago, Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed prophet and leader of a polygamist and religious sect, called the FLDS, was captured – leading to a conviction, and life sentence for aggravated sexual assault against two minor females. But one year prior to Jeffs apprehension, Dr. Phil received a guest submission that introduced him to 2 teenage girls, both named Fawn, who claimed to escape the religious sect. At just 16 years old, both girls, in the middle of the night, claimed they ran away from their families who were embedded in the FLDS community. Both Fawns claimed that if they hadn't escaped, they would have been forced to become teenage brides to older men, and immediately begin having children. But although they were safe, both teenage girls admitted were feeling pulled to return home. Today, Dr. Phil speaks with one of the Fawns, now almost 40 years old, to see how she is doing over 2 decades after their first meeting. Plus, Fawn was only 18 years old when Dr. Phil first met her, now she has an 18-year-old daughter of her own, find out how she feels about her mother's inspiring story of survival. Sponsored by Preserve Gold: Get up to $20,000 in FREE Gold & Silver with a qualified purchase. CALL: 844-718-2642 Text ASKPHIL to 50505 or visit https://DrPhilgold.comSponsored by Chapter: Don't wait! If you're on Medicare or will be soon, reach out to Chapter: CALL: 352-845-0659 or go to https://askchapter.org to learn about your Medicare options and get help finding ways to save money.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
20 years ago, Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed prophet and leader of a polygamist and religious sect, called the FLDS, was captured – leading to a conviction, and life sentence for aggravated sexual assault against two minor females. The FLDS has been described by numerous experts, news outlets, and survivors as a dangerous cult, where young girls, many of whom were minors, were being forced to marry men three times their age, and bare as many children as physically possible. But one year prior to Jeffs apprehension, Dr. Phil received a guest submission that not only placed his focus on Warren Jeffs, but also introduced him to 2 teenage girls who claimed to escape the religious sect, a decision they feared may have been a mistake. Today, Dr. Phil reflects back on that pivotal episode, and shares never before details about how he prepared to help prevent both teenage girls from returning to the FLDS, and the alleged abuse they claimed was occurring. Sponsored by Preserve Gold: Get up to $20,000 in FREE Gold & Silver with a qualified purchase. CALL: 844-718-2642 Text ASKPHIL to 50505 or visit https://DrPhilgold.comSponsored by Chapter: Don't wait! If you're on Medicare or will be soon, reach out to Chapter: Call: (352)-845-0659 or go to https://askchapter.org to learn about your Medicare options and get help finding ways to save money.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
You can earn your own money, pay the bills and have access to the joint account - and still be economically abused. Economic abuse is about far more than stopping someone from accessing money. It can involve restriction, exploitation and sabotage - and it can be so deeply woven into coercive control that victims may not recognise what is happening to them. Laura is joined by Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs OBE, CF internationally recognised expert on economic abuse, author and founder of Surviving Economic Abuse, for a deeper examination of how perpetrators weaponise money and economic resources to establish and maintain power and control. Nicola shares findings from her pioneering research, which found economic abuse in 89% of the domestic abuse cases studied, and explains how perpetrators restrict resources, exploit a partner's income and credit, generate debt, sabotage employment and manipulate household finances. Laura and Nicola discuss new trends they are seeing and challenge the assumption that having a job, earning your own money or managing a joint bank account means you have financial independence. They discuss survivors who believed they controlled the household finances, only to later recognise that their partner was concealing income, exploiting their earnings or manipulating debt behind the scenes. They also explore why economic abuse can continue - and sometimes intensify - long after separation, through property, debt, child-related costs and repeated use of the family and civil courts. Laura and Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs also recently had a deeply insightful discussion in the Crime Analyst Squad unpacking the hidden patterns and devastating impact of economic abuse, financial control and coercive control. You can listen here. In this episode Laura and Nicola discuss: The difference between restriction, exploitation and sabotage. The subtle behaviours that can signal economic abuse. How perpetrators undermine a woman's confidence in managing money. Why earning money doesn't necessarily mean having control over it. Hidden accounts, coerced debt and financial exploitation. How pregnancy, motherhood and leaving the workforce can create economic vulnerability. The intersection between economic abuse and other forms of coercive control. How perpetrators adapt their tactics when women are financially independent. Post-separation economic abuse and the use of property, children and the courts to maintain control. Why economic abuse can become a major barrier to leaving — and a reason victims return. The work being done with banks and creditors to recognise coerced debt and, in some cases, have it written off. Why protecting access to and control over your own economic resources matters before, during and after a relationship. Money is not simply money in an abusive relationship. It can mean independence, choice, safety and the ability to leave. #DrNicolaSharpJeffs #EconomicAbuse #FinancialAbuse #CoerciveControl #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #PowerAndControl #FinancialControl #EconomicJustice #CrimeAnalyst #LauraRichards #BehaviouralAnalysis #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast More from Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs OBE: Website: All things economic abuse Book: Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse (Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse) : Sharp-Jeffs, Nicola: Amazon.co.uk: Books Podcast: Economic Justice Monitor | Podcast on Spotify LinkedIn: Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs OBE, CF | LinkedIn Instagram: @nicolajanesharpallthingsea Clip https://youtu.be/HtL0w8rZbzc?is=Gv18-hvRpJA64baj Support Crime Analyst If you value these conversations, please follow, rate, and review Crime Analyst wherever you listen to podcasts. Sharing episodes helps us educate more people about coercive control, stalking, domestic abuse and homicide prevention. For exclusive episodes, live events and behind-the-scenes content, join the Crime Analyst Squad on Patreon. Laura's Resources and Training information: www.dashriskchecklist.com www.thelaurarichards.com Crime Analyst YouTube, Socials and Website YouTube @crimeanalyst Facebook Crime Analyst Podcast Instagram @crimeanalyst @laurarichards999 Threads @crimeanalyst X @thecrimeanalyst @laurarichards999 TikTok @crimeanalystpod Website www.crime-analyst.com Leave a 5* Review https://www.crime-analyst.com/reviews/new/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Django and Jeff are feeling chill as hell this week. So pour yourself a refreshing beverage, lay back, and settle in for a smooth trip through amazing comic books that came out last week!0:08:44 - Well Welcome Wellmer!0:15:55 - Batman & Robin: Year One - Dynamic Duos #10:30:41 - Regicide #10:36:31 - The Shaolin Cowboy: Staying A.I.Live #20:41:17 - Absolute Batman #230:51:45 - Gastronomique #10:56:59 - Of The Earth #40:59:12 - Miles Morales: Spider-Man #11:02:35 - The Fury of Firestorm #51:09:29 - Clayface: Celebrity Dirt #2SPOILERS! Tread carefully dear listener, because we're going to talk about what happened in these books. So definitely pause this, read your comics, and come back. We'll still be here!And an enormous thank you, as always, to Andrew Carlson for editing this mess into something listenable.Subscribe to us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you like to get your podcasts.Email us at jeff@thecomicsplace.com! We love hearing from you and there's a good chance we will read it on air!Cover art by Dustin NguyenVisit us at The Comics Place next time you're in Bellingham, Washington!Comics Place Book Club - second Thursday of every month. Check the shop for details!
Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: creator of the daily puzzle game typonyms, Ben Deeb!Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals.Subscribe to Hello, Puzzlers! wherever you get your podcasts! And come join our growing puzzle community over on Patreon, where you can find bonus episodes and other exclusive content!Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas.The show is produced by Claire Bidigare-Curtis.Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
August 14, 2016. The last night The Tragically Hip ever played Toronto, and three fans who were in the building take jD back inside - ten years to the day.Sunday, August 14, 2016. The Air Canada Centre, the last night of a three-night stand, and the last time The Tragically Hip ever played Toronto. Nobody in the building knew that for certain. Everybody in the building knew it anyway.Ten years to the day, jD steers into uncharted waters (they never do third ones) with three fans who were there: Dave from Thornhill, Jeff from Buffalo, and Jeff from Belleville.The news first, because the news is always first. Jeff from Buffalo came in from a morning run, read the email, and handed his wife the phone because he could not say the words. Dave was getting into his car at Yonge and Eglinton when his whole body sank (and one friend in the group chat skipped the first paragraph and celebrated the new tour - leave it to friends). Jeff from Belleville read it in the front foyer, flashed hot, and told his kids the only thing he could get out: Gord Downie is not doing well.Then the tickets. Jeff from Buffalo broke the algorithm by asking for one seat at a time - it kept offering him another, and two shutouts became four tickets. Dave had Kingston floors on his screen for five full minutes before the error message took them away. Jeff from Belleville stared down the spinning wheel of death for half an hour, then went to plan B. Plan B was this show. So there's that.The day itself: the recording booth outside the ACC that both Jeffs walked past and still regret, a stranger in the beer line who covered the round - "pay it forward, man" - and got the two people behind them too, and Dave breaking his own no-listening-on-show-day rule, blasting The Hip the whole drive down from camp in Haliburton before standing under the marquee, staring at the boys.Then the set list. 'Blow at High Dough' out of the gate, hitting everybody in the face exactly the way it should. 'Opiated', which Dave still can't quite believe he got. Four songs from "Now For Plan A", the rare record of the night. 'The Last of the Unplucked Gems' filling the room while Gord changed - reflection time, Dave calls it. The 'that night in Toronto' line in 'Bobcaygeon' that Gord missed and the whole building carried. And 'Daredevil' into 'Grace, Too' to close - the close-up on the big screen, everything pouring out of him, down to the last bead of sweat.Jeff from Buffalo kept notes from that week, and he read them back. Nervous on the QEW. No crying at the show. And one line that says it all: there's no way he's sick, because nobody sick could be that defiant. The whole evening was a magic spell, and it held right up until the house lights came on. Then it broke.There's a detour into the silver suit (hello, good evening folks, we are the Silver Poets) - armor, magician's misdirection, or just Gord radiating light in a purple hat, depending on which panelist you ask. Jeff from Belleville admits the outfits looked a little cringy in the photos beforehand. Then Gord strutted out. Case closed.And the thread runs where it always runs - to August 20th. A living room outside Buffalo with the kids and Pearl Jam dedications rolling in. The back of the floor at the Danforth Music Hall. And for Dave, a mystery ticket a few weeks later that turned out to be "Secret Path" at Roy Thomson Hall - which he now teaches to his grade 7 and 8 students every January, when it's cold and grey outside and Chanie Wenjack was about their age.The landing belongs to Jeff from Buffalo, though: a compromised man put on a show like that, and the rest of us have our health. We all have something terminal. Live like it.THE PANEL• Dave from Thornhill - a teacher who got one night away from camp in Haliburton and spent it at the last Toronto Hip show, watched Kingston floors dissolve into an error screen, and turned a mystery ticket into "Secret Path" at Roy Thomson Hall. His debut novel, "The Throwback Academy", arrives this October under the pen name TJ Thompson (Instagram: @tjthompsonbooks).• Jeff from Buffalo - four kids (including triplets), a ticket system broken one seat at a time, and notes written in 2016 that he read back on air. He writes feature stories for Buffalo Magazine - the newest one is about washed glass on the Lake Erie shore.• Jeff from Belleville - an hour and forty from home with his wife, Shannon, a plan-B ticket that turned into this episode, and the beer-line story this series will be retelling for a while. His internet fought him all night. He stayed anyway.SOURCESSet list for August 14, 2016 at the Air Canada Centre - source: setlist.fm.SIT IN THE THIRD CHAIRThe finale of Yer Hipstories: Reflections From The Final Tour films inside the Bathhouse in Bath, Ontario on August 20, 2026 at 1:00 pm - ten years to the day since Kingston. There are three fan chairs, and one of them could be yours. Email jd@tthpods.com by August 15 - the day after this episode drops - with your name, email, phone number, whether you can make it to Bath, and a one-minute video on why it should be you. Travel is on you. The chair is on jD.GEDFEST TORONTOSaturday, October 17, 2026 at the Horseshoe Tavern, with Grace, 2. Raising money for Campfire Circle and the Murphy Family Fund in Precision Medicine in Pancreatic Cancer. Tickets: facebook.com/GEDfestYYZTHE GATHERING IN KINGSTONAugust 20 to 23, 2026, alongside Forever Hip - a mixer at the Merchant Pub, Choir! Choir! Choir! in Springer Market Square, a listening party for "The Tragically Hip Live, July 22 - August 20, 2016", a Long Time Running screening, and a farewell brunch at Morrison's. Email jd@tthpods.com to get on the list. And if you spot a purple shirt or a purple lanyard in Kingston that weekend, that's a safe person to talk to.Thanks to Dave, Jeff, and Jeff, because without them, there's not a show. Next stop: Hamilton - the show Dave almost talked himself into.MORE FROM THE TOURVictoria: https://redcircle.com/shows/a01e8de3-1a04-4a44-ab9c-8fc6e3cb7474/ep/99071e40-9d10-48f8-9b5d-f92416e791c3Winnipeg: https://redcircle.com/shows/a01e8de3-1a04-4a44-ab9c-8fc6e3cb7474/ep/bf776e9a-c431-41bc-b605-f73fff1155d3SUPPORT THE WORKThe tip jar: buymeacoffee.com/tthtop40Web: home.tthpods.com | Facebook: community.tthpods.com | Instagram: @tthpods | YouTube: youtube.com/@tthpods | Newsletter: subscribe.tthpods.com | Email: jd@tthpods.com#TheTragicallyHip #GordDownie #ManMachinePoem #NowForPlanA #UpToHere #TTHPodsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/tthtop40/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Here's another quick detour from the usual: me reading the new No New Jeffs column like I'm some scarf-wearing audiobook narrator. Substack lets a robot do it, but I figured I could beat the machine at reading my own words. Give it a listen and see if I pulled it off. And if you'd rather read it yourself, here's your link. Cheers!
We live in a manipulated economic framework where central banks expand monetary units to suppress natural, technology-driven deflation and keep an insolvent global debt structure alive. In this episode, I sit down with Jeff Booth, author of "The Price of Tomorrow" and managing partner at Ego Death Capital, to break down why true free markets require falling prices, how AI accelerates this shift, and why the current banking system relies on surveillance and control to survive. We dive deep into his debate with Michael Saylor regarding the illusion of digital credit, the corporate attack on digital assets, the inevitability of a systemic fork between fiat mindsets and sovereign protocol rules, and why a committed minority running independent nodes will ultimately secure absolute individual liberty. - Ego Death Capital: https://egodeath.capital/- Jeffs' Website: https://www.jeffbooth.ca/- Jeff on x: https://x.com/JeffBooth- Jeff on Nostr: npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyheLEADING PARTNER
This week we are joined by long-time supporter of the podcast Stephen Jeffs as we discuss 2025 science fiction action film Tron: Ares. This film was chosen by our guest from Gillian Anderson's filmography as she was the leaper chosen by our last guest from the film The Last King of Scotland. We hope you enjoy our discussion of Tron: Ares and the Tron franchise in general. Two of us know absolutely nothing about Tron but Mike and our guest had a lot to say. We hope you enjoy.
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Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) — Free. Want to turn today's episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I'll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It's packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home. Get your free PDF workbook here: https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2126: Lisa Jeffs offers a balanced look at the freedom, growth, and fulfillment entrepreneurship can provide alongside the financial uncertainty, responsibility, and demanding workload it may bring. Her insights can help you assess your readiness, set realistic expectations, and make a more confident choice about pursuing an independent career. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://lisajeffs.com/is-working-for-yourself-worth-it/ Quotes to ponder: “When you are self-employed you become the person who is in control of how much money you make, what education you receive and what path you want to take. This means that your options are endless, and your potential is limitless.” “Working for yourself might sound like freedom and in many ways, it can be. But it might also come with more work than you were expecting.” “When you love what you do it can help you feel both more successful and more fulfilled.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Back in 2017, I sat down with Anne Wilde, one of the foremost experts on modern-day polygamy. While I like to call her the First Lady of Fundamentalism, she has lived an incredibly unique life as an Independent Fundamentalist. For 33 years, Anne lived as the secret second wife of Ogden Kraut, a prolific fundamentalist author whose 65 books she personally helped write and edit. From the secret history of Mormon schisms to her own spiritual journey, you won’t want to miss this fascinating conversation! https://youtu.be/LH2zMt27kxM Don't miss our other conversations Shannon: https://gospeltangents.com/people/shannon-flynn Copyright © 2026 Gospel Tangents All Rights Reserved Check out a transcript of the interview on Amazon. Pick up a transcript of our conversation! Raised in the mainstream LDS Church, Anne later became an “Independent Fundamentalist” and lived for 33 years as the secret second wife of prolific fundamentalist author Ogden Kraut. This sweeping conversation covers everything from the hidden history of Mormon schisms to controversial theology and modern civil rights. Hidden History of Post-Manifesto Polygamy Many believe plural marriage ended abruptly with the LDS Church’s 1890 Manifesto, but Anne explains it was more like a sunset: “when does it get dark? It’s just gradually.” She points to an uncanonized 1886 revelation received by Church President John Taylor, which fundamentalists believe declared plural marriage an everlasting covenant that could not be changed. Consequently, polygamy continued underground and in places like Mexico and Canada. It took the 1904 Second Manifesto and the 1933 Third Manifesto—which enforced excommunication for those practicing plural marriage—to create a permanent rift between the mainstream church and fundamentalist groups. Untangling the Polygamous Sects One of Anne’s main goals is to dispel the myth that all polygamists are the same. She breaks down the diverse landscape of modern polygamy: The AUB (Apostolic United Brethren): With about 7,500 members, this group has a priesthood council and allows members more free agency in choosing their spouses. (Kody Brown of the TV show Sister Wives comes from this tradition.) FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints): Notorious for the extreme one-man rule of Warren Jeffs, this group practices arranged marriages and strict dress codes. Anne notes that Jeffs’ oppressive control and habit of splitting up families has caused their numbers to plummet. Since he went to prison, the numbers are about 10% of what they were. Centennial Park: A breakaway group of about 2,000 members who separated from the FLDS because they wanted a priesthood council rather than a one-man dictatorship. Ervil LeBaron: Anne also discusses dangerous outliers like Ervil LeBaron, a militant polygamist who claimed his own priesthood authority and became an assassin responsible for roughly 20 deaths, including that of AUB leader Rulon Allred. Independent Fundamentalists: Anne identifies with this category—believers who adhere to early doctrines and plural marriage but choose not to affiliate with any centralized sect. Surprising Stances on Gay Marriage Despite their conservative theology, Anne reveals that many fundamentalists support the legalization of gay marriage. Viewing it through the lens of civil rights, she argues that if polygamists want the government to decriminalize their own family structures, they must grant the same free agency to the LGBTQ+ community. She also expressed deep disappointment with the LDS Church’s 2015 policy that temporarily barred the children of gay parents from being baptized, feeling it wrongly punished children. Anne Wilde’s Controversial Theology: Was Jesus a Polygamist? Anne Wilde and her late husband, Ogden Kraut, authored numerous books, including a highly popular 1969 text arguing that Jesus Christ was a polygamist. She suggests that the wedding feast at Cana was actually Christ’s own wedding, and that he was married to at least Mary, Martha, and Mary Magdalene. She also tackles difficult aspects of Doctrine and Covenants Section 132, such as the “Law of Sarah,” which ideally requires a first wife’s consent for subsequent marriages. However, Anne notes that if a first wife adamantly refuses to consent to a priesthood law, the husband is exempt from her approval and can marry anyway. Furthermore, she interprets the scriptural mentions of “concubines” not as sex slaves, but as lesser, non-covenant wives permitted by the customs of the era. Advocacy and the 2002 Olympics After living in secret for decades, Anne stepped into the public eye ahead of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. Tired of seeing only bitter ex-members defining the narrative around plural marriage, Anne co-founded an advocacy group called “Principle Voices“. During the Olympics, they provided hundreds of press packets and fielded interviews with global media to offer a positive perspective on the lifestyle and to clearly distinguish themselves from the abuses of the FLDS church. Ultimately, Anne's story is a call for understanding. Whether you agree with her lifestyle or not, her experiences provide a rare, inside look at a marginalized community deeply woven into the fabric of Mormon history. Questions to ponder: 1. In what ways do the civil rights struggles of polygamists align with those of the LGBTQ+ community? 2. Why is it important to recognize the structural and cultural differences between various polygamous sects? 3. How does the “Law of Sarah” impact the balance of agency and power within a plural marriage? 4. What role does media representation play in shaping the narrative of marginalized or secretive religious communities? Don't miss our other conversations Shannon: https://gospeltangents.com/people/shannon-flynn Copyright © 2026 Gospel Tangents All Rights Reserved Check out a transcript of the interview on Amazon.
When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought BackIn When Men Become Gods, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular casts a light on a dark corner of religious extremism. He reveals a group of fundamentalists operating in the present-day United States, where teenage girls are kept in virtual bondage in the name of upholding the "sacred principle" of polygamy.As the leader and self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in isolated southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. His rule was utterly tyrannical. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives, many of whom were his father's widows. Television, radio, and newspapers were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above all else.But in 2007, after a two-year manhunt that landed him on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, Jeffs's reign was forcefully ended. He was convicted of rape as an accomplice for his role in arranging a marriage between a fourteen-year-old girl and her nineteen-year-old first cousin.In When Men Become Gods, Edgar Award nominee Stephen Singular traces Jeffs's rise to power and the concerted effort that led to his downfall. It was a movement championed by law enforcement, private investigators, the Feds, and perhaps most vocal of all, a group of former polygamous wives seeking to liberate young women from the arranged marriages they'd once endured. The book offers new revelations into a nearly impenetrable enclave---a place of nineteenth-century attire, inbreeding, and eerie seclusion---providing readers with a rare glimpse into a tradition that's almost a century old, but that has only now been exposed.https://amzn.to/4wbSxkhBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.
This is a quick detour from my usual podcast: I'm reading one of my No New Jeffs columns out loud for the first time. Substack lets a robot do it, but I figured I could probably beat the machine at reading my own words. Give it a listen and see if I pulled it off. And if you'd rather read it yourself, here's your link.
In this series, Jeff & Andy dive into a mix of useless facts, myths, forgotten stories, and strange truths.In this episode, Jeffs lists the most popular destinations in the United States to travel to during the summer months and Andy looks at modern everyday items that used to be reserved for only for the very wealthy.This series is brought to you by the amazing Cedar Run Decoys.
In this episode, we sit down with Ross Jeffs — jumps and combined events lead coach at Aspire Academy in Qatar, and former sprints and hurdles coach with experience across the UK, Netherlands, and now the Middle East. Ross brings a deeply curious and evidence-informed approach to coaching, shaped in part by his own experiences as an athlete, working directly with coaches like Jonas Dodoo, and much more. This conversation gets into the weeds on athlete profiling, monitoring, injury prevention, and the technical nuances of the triple jump.Timestamped Topics0:00 – Introduction & Ross's coaching journey from Jersey to London to Rotterdam to Aspire Academy in Qatar3:30 – Categorizing athletes: concentric, elastic, and metabolic types across sprinting and the jumps7:14 – The metabolic athlete — backside mechanics, rhythm, and why front side cues can backfire for certain athletes12:19 – Can athletes shift along the continuum? The risks of overwriting an athlete's natural movement solution12:49 – Force plate monitoring: why relative peak power output from a shallow CMJ has become Ross's most sensitive tool for fatigue and performance prediction16:09 – How to execute the shallow CMJ correctly and why it sits between a traditional CMJ and a reactive strength test19:16 – Hamstring injury management in triple jumpers: why Ross overhauled his approach after two grade 3 injuries and what he does differently now23:04 – Why Nordics and direct eccentric loading may be adding to the problem rather than solving it in-season27:19 – Triple jump influences: Paul Weston, Keith Hurston, Jeremy Fisher, Randy Huntington, and lessons from Cuban and Eastern European methodology31:03 – The Cuban jump system: 800 contacts in a single GPP session and what modern coaches can learn from it37:40 – Structuring plyometric progressions from sand to grass to track across the training year43:03 – When to individualize: moving from general bounding skills to athlete-specific phase work closer to competition46:03 – Key differences between long jump and triple jump takeoff: why the triple jump is flat until the hop-to-step transition47:45 – The role of the free leg and why displacing well at takeoff without a strong free leg recovery creates a different problem49:41 – Pelvic posture on the runway and its influence on phase mechanics and lower back health53:18 – Solving over-rotation at landing: why blocking is often misunderstood and can make things worse59:54 – Managing fouling athletes: a sensory-based approach to steering, walking takeoff drills, and why it's a skill acquisition problem not a psychological one1:07:47 – Where to find Ross: Coach Ross Jeffs on InstagramSupport the show
As we continue our series through the book of Nehemiah, Stephen picks up where Joren left off last week, exploring God's invitation for each of us to partner with Him in the good works He has prepared for us (Ephesians 2:10). Whether you're stepping into a new job, ministry, project, or season of life, this message offers practical biblical encouragement for the journey ahead. Drawing from Nehemiah's example, Stephen shares key insights on how to move forward with faith, wisdom, and perseverance. The challenge: take up the shovel, representing the work God has called you to do, and the sword, representing prayer and the armour of God. As we faithfully serve and depend on Him, we discover the strength to build what He has called us to build, not in our own ability, but through His power. Expect Opposition Prayer First Take action Do it together -----
Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2093: Lisa Jeffs explains how the right mentor can accelerate both personal and professional growth by providing guidance, accountability, and valuable industry insight. Learn what qualities to look for, how to build a lasting mentor relationship, and practical ways to connect with someone who can help you reach your goals faster. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://lisajeffs.com/https-lisajeffs-com-mentorship-how-to-find-one/ Quotes to ponder: "A strong mentor-mentee relationship can be transformational." "A mentorship is not a one-way street, it requires give and take from both parties." "A mentor can help you to develop a clear understanding of your goals and how to achieve them." Episode references: Flatiron School: https://flatironschool.com/ App Academy: https://www.appacademy.io/ Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Multi-million selling superstar author, Ken Follett, returns to Book Off and goes head to head in a war of the words with author and artist Amy Jeffs.Ken discusses his latest novel 'Circle Of Days' and his fascination with Stonehenge. He talks about the challenges of writing in different historic periods, deep research and how to turn lots of factual information into a brilliantly engaging, page-turning novel.Amy chats about her book 'Old Songs', and her fascination with folk songs and ballads. Amy steeped herself in medieval history and has studied this period and the songs of this time extensively.The two guests also give us some brilliant book recommendations - and Ken tells about his short-lived comedy writing career in the 70s!THE BOOK OFF'The Man Of Property' by John GalsworthyVS'Moonfleet' by J. Meade FalknerBut which one will win?Here's a little more info on our guests' books:'Circle Of Days' by Ken Follett A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFTSeft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Rite, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offers Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community.A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLEJoia, Neen's sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain.A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILISATIONJoia's vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life's work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders - and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare . . .'Old Songs' by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns Old Songs fuses short stories, histories, lyrics and illustrations in an enthralling reimagining of traditional folk ballads. Sunday Times Bestselling historian Amy Jeffs and Illustrator Gwen Burns combine forces to create a rich compendium, singing of travel, mystery, magic and the essential urges of humanity.Featuring iterations of fairy tales and sinister descendants of Greek myths and bible stories, as well as a cast of lesser-known characters with names like Tam Lim, Child Wynd and Maisery, Old Songs threads a tapestry of Britain's landscape, history and cultures. At the base of hills we can visit to this day, elf queens kidnap hapless poets and carry them through rivers of blood; and at the foot of a tree whose offspring still stand in the forests of Northumberland, a girl mimes combing the hairless head of a dragon who was once her brother.In spellbinding tales of brown-skinned girls who danced on their lovers' graves, of golden-masted ships captained by the Devil, of fiddles that cried "Murder!", of men kidnapped by fairies and boys married at fourteen, we find narrative motifs as ancient as humanity itself.In the histories interconnecting the stories, we find the fantastical rooted in the everyday, bringing to light the real experiences of great swathes of people to whom such story-songs were not only familiar, but a way of escaping into the extraordinary and returning gratefully home. Bringing enchantment to familiar landscapes, ballads were created anew by each singer and passed down from fireside to fireside, at the knees of childhood nurses, in manuscripts and in early printed pamphlets. Now, ten stories are gathered here, beautifully recreated for modern readers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
From inside a federal detention facility, Samuel Bateman maintained sufficient control over his followers that three women risked life sentences to execute his directives — communicated through a shared electronic tablet. That detail anchors the behavioral analysis of a case where the mechanisms of coercive control operated across physical separation, institutional confinement, and the threat of decades-long sentences for the people carrying out his instructions.Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examine the operational playbook Bateman employed to construct his FLDS offshoot in the Short Creek community on the Utah-Arizona border. Bateman — homeless and without resources — entered a community still destabilized by Warren Jeffs' imprisonment. He appropriated Jeffs' prophetic authority by claiming Jeffs communicated through him. His requirement of public confessions functioned as a compliance mechanism: each confession created psychological investment that made departure increasingly costly. His insistence on being filmed reflected identity construction — the need for an external audience to validate the role he'd assigned himself. Law enforcement questioned him on two separate occasions and did not pursue charges.Christine Marie was inside Bateman's world with a camera for an extended period. She and her husband had relocated to Short Creek to document the community's recovery from the Jeffs era. Bateman identified their presence as an opportunity and granted access. Christine had previously experienced coercive control under another self-styled religious leader and recognized Bateman's behavioral patterns from firsthand experience. She understood what performance of trust was required to maintain access and preserve the evidentiary record she was building.In her first extended interview, Christine addresses the operational and psychological cost of sustained embedded access — the process of earning trust within a paranoid community, the daily discipline of entering an environment where documented harm was occurring, and the internal transition from documentary filmmaker to active participant in building the evidentiary foundation that contributed to Bateman's fifty-year federal sentence.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SamuelBateman #FLDS #ChristineMarie #TrustMeNetflix #ShortCreek #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Samuel Bateman is incarcerated in a federal facility serving a fifty-year sentence. He maintains regular telephone contact with followers. A meaningful number of the women and girls removed from his FLDS offshoot — including individuals Christine Marie personally helped extract — have reportedly returned to his sphere of influence. Adult wives continue to identify him as their prophet. The conviction and sentence have not disrupted his operational control over the belief system he constructed.The pattern has direct precedent. Warren Jeffs has maintained influence over FLDS members from a Texas prison cell for over a decade. Bateman is replicating the same dynamic with the same psychological infrastructure — what Christine Marie characterizes as an "IV of indoctrination" delivered through regular telephone contact.Christine Marie addresses what she has learned about the content of Bateman's prison communications with followers. She identifies the division between women who have permanently separated from the group and those who have returned — and the social consequences for those who left, including potential reclassification as fallen or as enemies of the faith. She confronts the clinical and moral question she returns to repeatedly: whether some adults who have been conditioned within high-control religious environments from birth can be reached through intervention, or whether some individuals are functionally unable to construct identity outside coercive structures.Short Creek remains structurally intact. The theology, the isolation mechanisms, and the obedience hierarchy that produced both Jeffs and Bateman continue to operate. Robin Dreeke and Shavaun Scott examine why the FLDS persists when comparable organizations — NXIVM, Peoples Temple — collapsed following their leaders' removal. They address Faith Bistline's circumstances — having lost her family to Bateman and now raising the children affected by his conduct. They evaluate what intervention methods demonstrate efficacy with children in high-control religious environments and the competing harms of removal versus continued exposure. Both experts address directly whether the conditions at Short Creek are likely to produce another leader operating on the same model — or whether the community possesses the capacity to interrupt the cycle.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SamuelBateman #FLDS #ShortCreek #TrustMeNetflix #ChristineMarie #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
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A broke, homeless man walked into a fractured religious community on the Utah-Arizona border. Three years later he was driving Bentleys, commanding fifty followers, and fathers were handing him their young daughters as spiritual wives. The behavioral question isn't whether he was evil. It's how he did it — and why every system that should have stopped him didn't.Robin Dreeke spent decades at the FBI studying exactly this kind of manipulation. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has worked in coercive control and forensic mental health for over thirty years. Together they pull apart Samuel Bateman's behavioral playbook — the one now at the center of Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet.Bateman read the vulnerability of a community still reeling from Warren Jeffs' imprisonment. He claimed Jeffs was speaking through him. His demand for public confessions wasn't about accountability — it was about manufacturing complicity. Every person who confessed became invested in the system because admitting it was false meant admitting what they'd given up for it. His obsession with being filmed reveals how he saw himself — not as a con artist but as a figure of historical significance. Police questioned him twice and walked away both times. From a federal detention cell, he maintained enough control that three women risked life sentences to carry out his orders through a shared tablet.Christine Marie was inside his world with a camera every day. She didn't go to Short Creek looking for Bateman — she and her husband moved there to document a community recovering from Jeffs. Then Bateman appeared and saw two outsiders with cameras as the path to the audience he wanted. He let them in. Christine had survived coercive control with another false prophet years before. She could read every move he was making because she'd seen it done on her. She knew exactly what trust to perform to keep his guard down.In her first extended interview, Christine describes the cost of living that double life — gaining the trust of paranoid believers, walking into that house every morning knowing what she was watching, and the moment "documentary maker" became "mole" inside her own head.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SamuelBateman #FLDS #ChristineMarie #TrustMeNetflix #ShortCreek #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #WarrenJeffs
The legal case is closed. Samuel Bateman is serving fifty years. Every co-defendant was convicted. And Short Creek is still standing — same theology, same isolation, same obedience structure that produced both Warren Jeffs and Bateman. The machine didn't break. It just lost its current operator.Robin Dreeke and Shavaun Scott examine why the FLDS survives when other cults collapsed after their leaders fell. NXIVM dissolved. Peoples Temple ended in mass death. The FLDS keeps regenerating. The theology provides the framework. The isolation provides the barrier. The obedience structure provides the pipeline. And the community has now demonstrated twice that when a leader is removed, the conditions that created him remain intact.They talk about Faith Bistline — who lost her entire family to Bateman and is now raising the children they helped destroy. About what actually works to help children still inside high-control religious groups when removing them causes devastating psychological consequences and leaving them in produces worse ones. About whether Jeffs can maintain control of the FLDS indefinitely from a prison cell — and whether Bateman is doing the same thing right now.Because Bateman is still calling. Every day. From federal prison. The women still answer. Some of his adult wives still call him their prophet. Some of the girls Christine Marie helped rescue have returned to his sphere. The sentence didn't end his control. The conviction didn't end his control. Christine describes the phone calls as an IV of indoctrination — certainty flowing one conversation at a time into people whose entire identity was built inside a system designed to make leaving feel like dying.Christine addresses the split between the women who got out and the women who went back. Whether the ones who left are now treated as enemies of the faith. The ugly question she can't stop asking: whether some adults can be reached at all. And what real systemic change would look like — or whether this is just the cost of a country that lets people believe whatever they want, even when what they believe is destroying children.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SamuelBateman #FLDS #ShortCreek #TrustMeNetflix #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #FaithBistline #WarrenJeffs #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He's spent decades studying how people manipulate, recruit, and control. Samuel Bateman's playbook is one he recognizes — and the behavioral fingerprints are visible in every move the self-proclaimed prophet made on his way to fifty years in federal prison.Bateman targeted a community still fractured from Warren Jeffs' imprisonment. He claimed Jeffs was speaking through him — borrowing existing authority rather than building his own from scratch. His requirement of public confessions wasn't spiritual discipline. It was a compliance trap. Every person who confessed became invested because admitting the system was false meant admitting what they'd surrendered to it. His insistence on being filmed wasn't vanity — it was identity construction. He needed an external audience to validate the role he'd assigned himself. Police questioned him twice. They walked away both times.Even from a federal detention cell, Bateman maintained enough control that three women risked life sentences to carry out his orders through a shared tablet. Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examine what that level of remote control reveals about the psychological infrastructure he'd built — and whether it could survive his incarceration.Christine Marie saw it all from the inside. She sat at Bateman's table every day with a camera. She'd survived coercive control with another false prophet years earlier and could read every move he was making because she'd experienced the same techniques firsthand. She knew what trust to perform. She knew when his guard dropped. She knew the difference between a man who believed his own prophecy and one who was running a con — and she has an answer to that question.Christine describes the cost of maintaining the double life — earning the trust of paranoid followers, walking into the house every morning, and the moment her role shifted from documenter to something closer to an operative inside a closed world she'd entered voluntarily. That transition — and what it did to her — is the part the documentary couldn't fully capture.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SamuelBateman #FLDS #ChristineMarie #TrustMeNetflix #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #FBI #BehavioralAnalysis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Christine Marie watched Samuel Bateman every single day for years. She sat at his table. She filmed his sermons. She listened to his wives recite their devotion to him. And she has an answer to the question true crime listeners keep asking about him — was he a true believer, or did he know, deep down, that he was a fraud?She's the one outsider who got close enough to actually know.Christine and her husband Tolga moved to Short Creek with a completely different project in mind, planning to film something else entirely in the FLDS community along the Utah-Arizona border. Then Samuel Bateman walked into their lives — a self-proclaimed prophet rising out of the wreckage of Warren Jeffs' imprisonment, taking "spiritual wives," some of them children, claiming Jeffs spoke through him. He thought Christine and Tolga were going to make him famous. He gave them access nobody else got. And the entire time, she was watching him with the eyes of a woman who'd once fallen for a false prophet herself, years earlier — a woman who knew every move he was making because she'd had them made on her.In this opening conversation of our three-part interview, Christine takes us inside Bateman's world. Why he trusted her. What it cost to maintain that lie every day. The performance the women around him put on — and the real belief underneath it. The moment she admitted, even to herself, that "filmmaker" had become "mole." And what she saw in Bateman that made her wonder whether even he knew the whole thing was a con.LINKS BLOCKJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#SamuelBateman #FLDS #ChristineMarie #HiddenKillersLive #ShortCreek #WarrenJeffs #Cults #TrueCrime #ColoradoCity #Netflix
When Warren Jeffs, the “prophet” of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a Mormon fundamentalist group whose members practice polygamy, stopped communicating regularly from prison where he is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, his followers were at a loss. But, as Rachel Dretzin depicts in her powerful, eye-opening four-part Netflix series “Trust Me: The False Prophet,” Jeffs' silence created the opportunity for a new leader to fill the void. Enter Samuel Bateman, a seemingly unremarkable guy, who claimed that he was the new prophet. Rachel joins Ken on the podcast to talk about the consequences of Bateman's rise within the FLDS, his influence over a handful of adults and girls in the community, and the tragic consequences of his actions. The centerpiece of “Trust Me” and the key to Bateman's undoing is Dr. Christine Marie, a former Mormon who, along with her husband, the videographer Tolga Katas, grew close to the group with the intent of exposing Bateman's crimes. Relying heavily on Tolga's insider footage, as well as key interviews with women who eventually turned against Bateman, the series shows how far trust can take some people and a measure of justice that can occur when that trust is finally broken. “Trust Me: The False Prophet” is streaming on Netflix. The Presenting Sponsor of "Top Docs" is Netflix. Follow: @topdocspod on Instagram and X
Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2067: Lisa Jeffs breaks down the digital marketing skills that are becoming essential in a rapidly evolving online economy. From SEO and video marketing to analytics and creativity, she highlights the technical and interpersonal abilities that can help marketers stand out, generate engagement, and build long-term career success. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://lisajeffs.com/top-skills-digital-marketers-need-to-know/ Quotes to ponder: "Video advertising provides more engagement from your customers. It also showcases your product or service in a detailed manner." "Content is an important aspect of the digital marketing industry. Organic reach through engaging content can help companies funnel traffic." "Digital marketing is an essential aspect of a majority of business processes. Sales are predominantly seen in dynamic online setups." Episode references: State of Video Marketing: https://www.wyzowl.com/state-of-video-marketing/ Thinkful Digital Marketing Program: https://www.thinkful.com/ WordPress: https://wordpress.com/ Wix: https://www.wix.com/ Google Analytics: https://analytics.google.com/ Statista: https://www.statista.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in? The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order I'm tired of talking to AI In Memoriam: Don Newhouse Picks of the Week: KMart Muzak Infinite Jeffs isaiprofitable.com Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Rick Sammon Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/intelligent365 zscaler.com/security
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in? The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order I'm tired of talking to AI In Memoriam: Don Newhouse Picks of the Week: KMart Muzak Infinite Jeffs isaiprofitable.com Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Rick Sammon Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/intelligent365 zscaler.com/security
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in? The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order I'm tired of talking to AI In Memoriam: Don Newhouse Picks of the Week: KMart Muzak Infinite Jeffs isaiprofitable.com Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Rick Sammon Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/intelligent365 zscaler.com/security
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in? The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order I'm tired of talking to AI In Memoriam: Don Newhouse Picks of the Week: KMart Muzak Infinite Jeffs isaiprofitable.com Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Rick Sammon Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/intelligent365 zscaler.com/security
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in? The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order I'm tired of talking to AI In Memoriam: Don Newhouse Picks of the Week: KMart Muzak Infinite Jeffs isaiprofitable.com Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Rick Sammon Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/intelligent365 zscaler.com/security
Warren Jeffs will die behind bars. The FLDS he built is hemorrhaging members. Short Creek—the community he sealed off from the world—now has soccer games, bars, and a winery. But the story is not over. From a Texas prison cell, Jeffs continues issuing edicts. A hardened core of followers—scattered across multiple states—still considers him their prophet. Reports suggest plural marriage may be restarting in hidden locations.The final episode of the Hidden Killers five-part FLDS series covers the financial reckoning: a $152 million judgment, a $12 million food stamp fraud case, and Elissa Wall's years-long pursuit of hidden assets through shell companies. We cover the Bateman connection—how the FLDS vacuum produced another self-declared prophet who was arrested on federal charges and died in custody. And we cover the people rebuilding—the Lost Boys reclaiming the community that expelled them, the survivors who testified, and the organizations providing resources to those still trying to leave.For the true crime community, this is the question that refuses to close: the man is in prison, the money is hidden, the community is scattered, and the faithful are still waiting for their prophet to come home. Is it over? The evidence says not yet.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #TrueCrimeToday #FLDSToday #FLDSChurch #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ProphetInPrison #CultSurvivors #CultExposed
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The conviction was life plus twenty years. The civil judgment was $152 million. And Warren Jeffs is still issuing orders from a prison cell in East Texas. According to multiple reports, his brothers have served as conduits—using coded letters and allegedly hidden recording devices to relay instructions. A 2022 edict called former members back to the FLDS and triggered the redistribution of children among families deemed worthy or unworthy by a man who will never walk free.The final episode of the Hidden Killers investigation into Warren Jeffs and the FLDS examines the aftermath of the conviction. The $152 million judgment that may be uncollectible. Elissa Wall's pursuit of Jeffs' hidden money through shell companies and remote land purchases. Seth Jeffs' guilty plea in a $12 million food stamp fraud scheme. The faithful remnant scattered in hidden compounds. The rise and fall of Samuel Bateman—the self-declared prophet who filled the vacuum Jeffs left. And the transformation of Short Creek, where the community Jeffs controlled for decades has been released from court supervision ahead of schedule.The FLDS is fractured. It is not dead. And the question this investigation ends on is whether the system that produced Warren Jeffs can outlive the man who built it.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #HiddenKillers #FLDSToday #FLDSChurch #TrueCrime #CultInvestigation #ProphetInPrison #CultSurvivors #ShortCreek
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The evidence seized from the Yearning for Zion Ranch reads like a prosecution's exhibit list assembled by the defendant himself. The Bishop's Record—a handwritten ledger documenting underage marriages. Photographs of Warren Jeffs with a pre-teen girl in ceremonial settings. Medical records showing dozens of children with histories of bone fractures. And the recordings: Jeffs' own voice, captured during assaults inside the temple he had built.Part Four of the Hidden Killers investigation into Warren Jeffs and the FLDS covers the full legal arc—from a hoax phone call that triggered the largest child removal in American history, through the public backlash and Texas Supreme Court reversal, to the 2011 trial in San Angelo where Jeffs represented himself and was convicted in under thirty minutes. We examine the Utah case that was overturned on flawed jury instructions, the moral and constitutional questions raised by the raid's scope, and the evidence that made the Texas conviction unassailable: the defendant's own voice, on tape, in the room.The jury heard what Warren Jeffs did. The FLDS faithful heard the same recordings and called it martyrdom. Same evidence. Two realities.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #HiddenKillers #YFZRanch #WarrenJeffsTrial #FLDSChurch #TrueCrime #CultInvestigation #TexasRaid #CultExposed
In 2008, Texas authorities raided the FLDS Yearning for Zion Ranch and removed more than 460 children—the largest child custody action in U.S. history. The phone call that triggered the raid came from a woman in Colorado who had never been to the ranch. It was a complete fabrication. And it led investigators to evidence that was anything but fake.Inside the compound: a temple with beds for underage ceremonies. A Bishop's Record documenting child marriages. More than one in four of the teenage girls either married or pregnant. And audio recordings that captured Warren Jeffs' voice during the assaults of two children—a twelve-year-old and a fifteen-year-old who later bore his child. The Texas jury deliberated less than thirty minutes before convicting Jeffs and sentencing him to life plus twenty years.Part Four of the Hidden Killers FLDS series covers the raid, the backlash, and the trial—including the Utah conviction that was overturned on a technicality and why Texas made sure the same mistake wasn't repeated. For the true crime community, this is the chapter where the system finally catches up to the man it ignored for decades.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #TrueCrimeToday #YFZRanch #TexasRaid #FLDSChurch #WarrenJeffsTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CultExposed
Warren Jeffs did not run alone. When the FLDS prophet vanished to avoid charges in Arizona and Utah, the community that worshipped him bankrolled the escape. Cash, prepaid debit cards, untraceable phones, rotating safe houses—the operation was funded by the tithes of families who believed they were serving God. His brother Seth was caught in a separate traffic stop with nearly $142,000 and a change jar labeled Pennies for the Prophet.The FBI placed Jeffs on its Ten Most Wanted list in May 2006 with a $100,000 reward. Three months later, a Nevada trooper pulled over a red Escalade for an obscured plate. Inside: Jeffs, his favorite wife Naomi, his brother Isaac, three wigs, a police scanner, and $54,000 in cash. When questioned separately, Warren said Denver. Isaac said Utah. That was it.Part Three of the Hidden Killers FLDS series covers the manhunt, the funded escape network, and the arrest that ended it. We also cover the moment Jeffs told his own brother he was a fraud—and then took it all back. For the true crime community following the FLDS story, this is the chapter that shows how a cult's loyalty system operates even when the leader is in the wind.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #TrueCrimeToday #FBIMostWanted #FLDSChurch #FugitiveArrest #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CultLeader #CultExposed
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The evidence trail that ended Warren Jeffs' fugitive run did not start with a wiretap or an informant. It started with a temporary Colorado plate that wasn't visible on a red Cadillac Escalade. When trooper Eddie Dutchover pulled the vehicle over on I-15 near Las Vegas, he found the 482nd person to ever make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list sitting in the passenger seat with a fake name and a story that fell apart under the first question.Part Three of the Hidden Killers investigation into Warren Jeffs and the FLDS documents the infrastructure of a fugitive operation funded by church tithes. Seth Jeffs caught with $142,000 in cash. Prepaid financial instruments that left no bank trail. Rotating safe houses across multiple states. And the most damning detail: while actively fleeing federal charges, Jeffs returned to Colorado City and performed additional child marriages in a mobile home chapel. The prophet on the run was still committing the crimes he was running from.We also examine the jailhouse video in which Jeffs renounced his prophethood—then reversed course entirely. The power was the point. It was always the point.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #HiddenKillers #FBIMostWanted #FLDSChurch #FugitiveArrest #TrueCrime #CultLeader #CultInvestigation #WarrenJeffsArrest
The true crime community knows the name Warren Jeffs. The FBI manhunt, the Texas trial, the life sentence—those are the headlines. But the story that matters most is the one that happened before any of that, inside the FLDS community, where children were the currency of a system designed by one man.Girls were given to men decades older in so-called celestial marriages. Boys were expelled by the hundreds—dumped on roadsides with no education and no identification—because their existence was mathematically inconvenient. Wives were stripped from husbands and reassigned to new men at Jeffs' command. One woman was passed between Jeffs' own brothers, moved to homes without running water, and watched as a caretaker scratched her children's faces as discipline. A federal court later awarded her over $26 million.Part Two of the Hidden Killers five-part series on Warren Jeffs and the FLDS goes deep inside the machine—the keep sweet doctrine, the information blackout, the marriage economy, and the government failure that allowed it all to happen for half a century. If you've watched the documentaries, this fills in everything they left out.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #TrueCrimeToday #KeepSweet #FLDSChurch #ChildBrides #LostBoys #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CultExposed
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
The evidence is staggering in its scope. Under Warren Jeffs, the FLDS married girls as young as twelve to men decades older. Of the girls aged fourteen to seventeen on the YFZ Ranch, more than one in four was either married or pregnant when investigators finally gained access. Hundreds of teenage boys were expelled to reduce competition for brides. Wives were reassigned to new husbands when their original partners fell out of favor. And the entire system operated behind a wall of silence enforced by two words: keep sweet.Part Two of the Hidden Killers investigation into Warren Jeffs and the FLDS examines the internal mechanics of the machine. How information was sealed—no TV, no internet, no unapproved books. How marriage functioned as a reward system for loyalists and a punishment for dissenters. How the 1953 Short Creek raid created a fifty-year window where no government agency would intervene, and how Jeffs exploited that paralysis to expand his control unchecked. We follow Elissa Wall from her forced marriage at fourteen through her decision to cooperate with prosecutors, and we document the trajectory of the Lost Boys—from expulsion to homelessness to a $250,000 settlement that valued their stolen childhoods at pennies on the dollar.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #HiddenKillers #ForcedMarriage #LostBoys #FLDSChurch #TrueCrime #CultAbuse #KeepSweet #CultInvestigation
Before the FBI manhunt, before the Texas raid, before the trial that ended with life in prison—Warren Jeffs was a school principal. That is where the FLDS story actually begins. For twenty years, Jeffs ran Alta Academy, a private school inside his father's compound, shaping children into obedient followers through fear, isolation, and a carefully constructed mythology of coming destruction. When his father died, Jeffs inherited the church—and immediately married his father's widows, expelled rivals, and seized control of the land trust that owned every home in the FLDS community.The consolidation was surgical. Marriage became a weapon—Jeffs alone could authorize who married whom, and he used that power to reward loyalists with young brides while stripping dissenters of their families overnight. His own nephew later filed a lawsuit alleging Jeffs had abused him as a child in the basement of that school. The allegations went back to when Jeffs was fourteen.This is Part One of the Hidden Killers five-part Warren Jeffs and FLDS series. The true crime community has followed this case through documentaries and headlines. This series goes deeper—starting at the beginning, when the only people who knew what Warren Jeffs was capable of were the children trapped in his classroom.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #TrueCrimeToday #FLDSChurch #CultLeader #TrueCrime #ShortCreek #PolygamyCult #HiddenKillers #CultExposed
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The Warren Jeffs story didn't begin with an arrest or a courtroom. It began inside a school. At twenty-one, Jeffs was running Alta Academy—a private FLDS school housed in his father's compound—with no degree and unchecked authority over hundreds of children. Former students describe destruction lectures that gave them nightmares for years, private interrogation sessions with kids as young as second grade, and a surveillance culture where children were rewarded for informing on their own parents.When his father Rulon died in 2002, Jeffs moved fast. He claimed his father's widows as his own wives. He expelled dissenters and redistributed their families to loyalists. He used his sole authority over FLDS marriages to build a network of men who owed him everything—and he controlled the $100 million United Effort Plan trust that held every home in Short Creek. Cross him, and you lost your wife, your kids, and your roof in the same conversation.Part One of our five-part investigation into Warren Jeffs and the FLDS examines how absolute power is assembled—not in a single dramatic act, but quietly, over decades, by a man who figured out that controlling someone's family, home, education, and God means you never need to raise your voice.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#WarrenJeffs #FLDS #HiddenKillers #CultInvestigation #FLDSChurch #TrueCrime #ShortCreek #PolygamyCult #CultLeader #TrueCrimePodcast
The Samuel Bateman case is the most significant cult-based child trafficking prosecution in years, and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet has put it back in the national conversation. In this full-length panel discussion, former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony Brueski to cover the complete arc of the case — from how Bateman built his operation to whether the system that created him is capable of producing another one.The behavioral analysis: how a man with no resources, no credentials, and no institutional power recruited fifty people and convinced fathers to hand over their children within three years. The trauma reality: what the documentary's footage reveals about the psychological conditioning of Bateman's wives and victims — the silence in forensic interviews, the journals that told the truth, the children who experienced rescue as a threat. The structural question: why the FLDS survives when other cults collapse after their leaders are removed, what Jeffs' continued influence from prison means, and whether the Short Creek community is at a genuine turning point or just in a pause between prophets.Robin and Shavaun bring decades of combined expertise in behavioral analysis, trauma recovery, and coercive control. Tony brings the case knowledge from Hidden Killers' five-part series on Bateman. Together, this is the most comprehensive conversation on this case outside of a courtroom.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SamuelBateman #FLDS #TrustMeNetflix #ShortCreek #FalseProphet #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #CultAbuse
The prosecution of Samuel Bateman and his eleven co-defendants is the most thorough federal takedown of a cult-based child trafficking operation in recent memory. Every defendant convicted. Sentences ranging from time served to life. Restitution orders. Asset forfeiture. On paper, the system worked.But the FLDS has been raided before — in 1953, in 2008. Prophets have been arrested, tried, and imprisoned before. Warren Jeffs got life. And within a few years, the same community produced Samuel Bateman. The question this final segment of our three-part panel confronts is whether the Bateman prosecution represents a genuine turning point or another chapter in a cycle that the FLDS is structurally designed to repeat.Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony Brueski to examine what comes next. The community members who are rebuilding — Faith Bistline raising rescued children, the Dream Center operating from Jeffs' former compound, survivors reclaiming their lives. And the structural realities that resist change — Jeffs still directing operations from prison, thousands of members still inside the system, a theology that interprets outside pressure as persecution.Both experts are asked directly whether another Bateman is coming. Their answers frame the question the true crime community — and the justice system — will be grappling with for years.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SamuelBateman #FLDS #ShortCreek #FaithBistline #CultJustice #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FalseProphet #TrustMeNetflix #CultRecovery
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Bateman is in prison. Bistline got life. The case is over. But every time someone asks whether this is finished, the answer keeps circling back to the same uncomfortable truth — the FLDS has survived every attempt to dismantle it for nearly a century. Warren Jeffs is still reportedly running operations from a Texas cell. The One Man Rule doctrine that created the vacancy Bateman filled hasn't changed. And somewhere in Short Creek, children are growing up under the same conditions that produced the last two generations of victims.This is the final part of our three-part panel with former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, and Tony Brueski. We go where the Netflix documentary can't — into the structural question of whether any amount of prosecution can break a cycle that's embedded in theology, geography, and generational conditioning.We talk about Faith Bistline raising the children her brothers sacrificed. Christine Marie still living in Short Creek, still running her nonprofit. The Dream Center operating out of Jeffs' former compound. These are real signs of change. But Shavaun and Robin bring the hard lens — what they've each seen in their careers about how systems like this adapt, survive, and regenerate. The final question is direct: another Bateman, or is this where it finally turns? Both experts answer it honestly.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SamuelBateman #FLDS #ShortCreek #FaithBistline #CultJustice #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FalseProphet #TrustMeNetflix #CultRecovery
Christine Marie, cult psychology expert, joins me to discuss Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet. This four-part docuseries follows Christine and her husband, videographer Tolga Katas, as they embed themselves in the FLDS community in Short Creek, a town straddling the Utah-Arizona border long associated with fundamentalist Mormonism. What begins as an effort to support a fractured community in the wake of leader Warren Jeffs' imprisonment turns into something far more dangerous. As they gain the trust of Samuel Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet who rises to power after Jeffs, Christine and Tolga begin documenting his inner circle. Bateman, believing he is being filmed for a project that will amplify his message, allows unprecedented access. But behind the scenes, Christine and Tolga are gathering evidence of coercion, control, and the sexual abuse of women and underage girls. The series captures, in real time, the unraveling of Bateman's authority. A 2022 traffic stop leads to his arrest, followed by a federal investigation and raid that exposes the full scope of his crimes. He was later sentenced to 50 years in prison. Reality Life with Kate Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Like it to Know It: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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