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Inside NXIVM: How a Hollywood star lured women into a sex cult · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Triumph Channel one. An incredible talent, a star known to many,
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  Speaker 1: her face instantly recognizable. Alison Mac a sex cult leader.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't even make sense. This is a woman we
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  Speaker 1: have all invited into our homes a million times. This
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  Speaker 1: woman has starred in so many shows. You know her
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  Speaker 1: immediately when you see her face. It's almost incomprehensible that
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  Speaker 1: she's a leader of a sex cult where women were
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  Speaker 1: branded with initials Alexis tors Chuck joining me from Radar
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  Speaker 1: Online dot Com investigative reporter Alexis. It's a little hard
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  Speaker 1: for me to believe this. I mean, you know how
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  Speaker 1: it is, Alexis, And I'll go to our shrink in
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  Speaker 1: a moment here and start joining us. When you invite
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  Speaker 1: somebody into your home repeatedly, even though you're sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the sofa and they're actually on TV and they don't
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  Speaker 1: really know that they're in your in your den, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like they're there, It's really hard for me to believe.
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  Speaker 1: The state better have a good case against this woman.
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  Speaker 1: Start at the beginning, Alexis, terrest oh ps, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: see Grace, this is crime stories. Thanks for being with us, Alexis.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? So Alsamac who is a famous actress.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knows her that TV show small Ville, which everyone loves.
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  Speaker 1: She started it she about Superman right exactly like Superman
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  Speaker 1: is a young hoo. I thought I was losing my
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  Speaker 1: mind and I had her name wrong. This is the
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  Speaker 1: star uh the Superman show Smallville? Okay, go ahead. She
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  Speaker 1: has been arrested, hauled off out of her apartment in
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  Speaker 1: handcuffs for being the leader of a sex cult with
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  Speaker 1: this man called Keith Ranier. And it's called Nexium, right Nexium.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that some type of like an indigestion pill? Right
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  Speaker 1: right now? What is nexium? Okay, Jackie? Apparently you know
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  Speaker 1: what from she's shaking her head. Yes, And there's also
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  Speaker 1: a sex cult named Nexium. That's a very unfortunate choice
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  Speaker 1: for the sex cult to be named after an indigestion peel.
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  Speaker 1: But that is neither here nor there. And another thing
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  Speaker 1: to you, Missy alexis terrestro. When people are charged with felonies,
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  Speaker 1: they usually are hauled out of their apartment in handcuffs,
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  Speaker 1: whether they're a Hollywood star or not. But go ahead, well,
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  Speaker 1: she has not been receiving Hollywood star treatment, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think since this, since the arrest. But she was a
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  Speaker 1: member of this cult. She met this man Keith, And
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  Speaker 1: what the police are saying is is that they spent
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  Speaker 1: years recruiting women around the country, around the world to
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  Speaker 1: join what was supposed to be a female empowerment club,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of like uh, Yoga Class extraordinaire. And
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  Speaker 1: you would go and this man Keith is so charismatic
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  Speaker 1: and Alison so beautiful, and you want to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of this thing that gives women power. Instead, they
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  Speaker 1: were turned into sex slaves who were branded branded literally
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  Speaker 1: with like a hot poker on their bodies to become
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  Speaker 1: a member of this cult. And she's wait, wait, wait, Alexis,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking so so fast I can't take it all in.
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  Speaker 1: Did I hear you say something about branding women with
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  Speaker 1: a hot something? I did. I called it a hot poker.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a medical term for it. Okay, guys,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the thirty five year old star of
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  Speaker 1: the hit series Smallville. Um. Not only is she charged
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  Speaker 1: with being the ringleader of a cult that sucked women
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  Speaker 1: into a girl empowerment meeting, it turned into basically kidnapping
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  Speaker 1: them and using them brainwashing them as sex slaves, complete
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  Speaker 1: with a red hot branding on their bodies. This, as
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  Speaker 1: it is emerging, apparently our dear beloved Hermione Yeah, Emma
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  Speaker 1: Watson from the Harry Potter hit series was there was
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  Speaker 1: an attempt to recruit her and Kelly Clarkson, who we
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  Speaker 1: all love from American Idol, who goes on to be
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  Speaker 1: a singing sensation Are they insane? Is it true they
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  Speaker 1: try to recruit these these two beloved stars, Emma Watson
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  Speaker 1: her Mind and Kelly Clarkson. Just tell me that much, Alexis. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: those are just a few of them. That these are
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  Speaker 1: the most famous women in the world. And Alison Mack
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  Speaker 1: and Keith and here were trying to bring them into
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  Speaker 1: this cult. And there's not a better word for it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a women's group. It's not a tennis club.
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  Speaker 1: It is a cult. Because these women were having to
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  Speaker 1: give when they joined and professed their faith to this
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  Speaker 1: cult they were having. They were black men. They had
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  Speaker 1: to give things like naked pictures of themselves are the
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  Speaker 1: most compromising stories about themselves. They had to give this
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  Speaker 1: to the leaders of the group so that in case
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  Speaker 1: they ever left this because it sounds like a freaky, weird,
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  Speaker 1: felonious version of scientology where you have to have be
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  Speaker 1: audited and tell all the worst things you've ever done,
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  Speaker 1: the extreme in your life, and then they have it
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  Speaker 1: to hold over your head. Uh, guys, hold on with me.
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  Speaker 1: As Alexis Torez Chuck, investigative reporter with Radar Online dot
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  Speaker 1: Com but now joining us is the journalist who originally
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  Speaker 1: broke the story of this cult. It's real n x
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  Speaker 1: I v M pronounced nexium. It's founder Keith Rainieri, allegedly
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  Speaker 1: subjecting women to humiliating sex acts and branding women and
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  Speaker 1: their pelvic area with a series of initials and had
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  Speaker 1: a large base has a large base in Albany, New York.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who first cracked this story journalist Frank Pelotto
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  Speaker 1: and the former sum publicist. You can find out all
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  Speaker 1: about him and a lot of his work at Art Voice.
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  Speaker 1: Frank Parlatto, thank you for being with us this This
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  Speaker 1: is such a wildly fantastical story. It's almost hard to believe.
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  Speaker 1: And when you start arresting Hollywood stars, you better have
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  Speaker 1: an air tight case. Okay, Frank, you broke the story.
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  Speaker 1: What happened? Well, initially it began this cult next and
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  Speaker 1: on two thousand and two, they achieved their first great recruit,
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  Speaker 1: and that was Seagram's heiress Claire Brafman. With her hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. Behind the cult, they were able
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  Speaker 1: to recruits various celebrities such as Kristen Krue, Grace Park,
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  Speaker 1: and Allison mac matt became a true believer and in time,
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  Speaker 1: she elevated herself to nearly the top of the cult
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  Speaker 1: and became ra Neeres top recruiter of young, attractive, new
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  Speaker 1: bile slender women Orneres in vidious sex cults. Well wa wa, wait,
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  Speaker 1: what did you say? What kind of women? He had
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  Speaker 1: a pipe and they were young, slender, long haired, new
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  Speaker 1: bile and attractive, prosperably with a little bit of money. Okay, sorry, Jackie,
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  Speaker 1: We're we're out. Okay, we're not getting into the as
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  Speaker 1: as they say, the unique human development and women's movement.
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  Speaker 1: That is what Alison Matc had been tweeting and sending
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  Speaker 1: notes to Kelly Clarkson and also to Emma Watson, trying
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  Speaker 1: to lure them in. Luckily they're smart enough to stay
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  Speaker 1: away from it. Frank Parlotto with me, the former Nextian publicist.
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  Speaker 1: He's in tearing art of an incredible site called Art
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  Speaker 1: Voice and the journalists that first broke the story. So
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  Speaker 1: it all starts off with a fringe group that manages
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  Speaker 1: to recruit an heiress from the Seagram's liquor dynasty, and
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  Speaker 1: she pumps a lot of money into it. They they,
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  Speaker 1: according to Frank solicit young, I don't believe I've heard
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  Speaker 1: anybody say the word new bile in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: It's flashback to Playboy. But okay, not judging, Frank, young
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  Speaker 1: thin women. Okay, what happens then, Frank? It begins innocently enough.
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  Speaker 1: The first meetings are surrounded with a group of women,
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  Speaker 1: all of them already in the called, who present a
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  Speaker 1: picture of normalcy, a picture of a friendly, wonderful, kind
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  Speaker 1: of lovely sorority. The think. The term that's often used
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  Speaker 1: in these kinds of cult like recruitment scenarios is love bombing.
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  Speaker 1: A woman comes in, she's told that this kind of
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  Speaker 1: program will improve her life. She'll get life coaching, and
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  Speaker 1: she will be mentored by other women who care about her.
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  Speaker 1: That's the initial deception. Then what happens, So they have
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  Speaker 1: the facade of normalcy. So you think you're joining a
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  Speaker 1: women's group, Is that right, Frank Plato? Yes, you are
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  Speaker 1: elbow to elbow with stars like Allison Mack or Kristen Krue.
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  Speaker 1: You're hob nobbing with Claire Brafman who's Seagrim's arras, and
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by attractive women, all of them slender. Later and
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  Speaker 1: you will realize why they're so slender. They're kept down
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  Speaker 1: restrictive diets. But your initial impression is this is really
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  Speaker 1: quite an exciting opportunity for me or whoever it is
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  Speaker 1: that's joining. And then they again be hypnotic induction. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what's that. It's a very carefully laid out plan. And
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  Speaker 1: Keith Henery, the head of Nexium, is a master hypnotist.
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  Speaker 1: This is his art and this is his specialty. And
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  Speaker 1: you begin by attending very long classes. They're very intense,
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  Speaker 1: high intensity classes. They begin at seven in the morning
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  Speaker 1: and the end of ten or eleven at night, and
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  Speaker 1: there is a slow hypnotic process that goes on, very
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  Speaker 1: carefully laid scheme. Well, what are the classes about, Frank.
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  Speaker 1: They purport to be about new ways of doing critical thinking.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it's called rational inquiry, and they start to
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  Speaker 1: challenge the students on various kinds of conceptions that they've
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  Speaker 1: long held as their base of beliefs. Well, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: they begin kind of innocently they talk about the criminal code,
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  Speaker 1: social moories. Uh. The They ask you, for example, to
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  Speaker 1: make a list of all of the advantages that would
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  Speaker 1: accrue to you if your boyfriend or husband should happen
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  Speaker 1: to die. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, whoa, Right there,
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  Speaker 1: right there, I've got a problem, okay, because it sounds
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  Speaker 1: to me and Karen start with me a New York psychologist,
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  Speaker 1: very well known, Karen Um, Please don't hit me with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of psychle psychological terms. But when somebody approaches
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  Speaker 1: you and starts talking to you about what challenging your
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  Speaker 1: belief system, like what's right and what's wrong? What what's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with being a Christian? What's wrong with Jewish beliefs?
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with your your long your heritage, your heritage beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: What would happen if you weren't confined to a relationship,
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  Speaker 1: a monogamous relationship with a boyfriend or a husband. Well
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  Speaker 1: that that may not be so bad. But anyway, that
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  Speaker 1: aside that one tiny, tiny exception, But I hear what
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  Speaker 1: Frank Parlatto is saying. Everybody with me is former next
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  Speaker 1: and publicist Frank Parlatto, and he has an incredible site
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  Speaker 1: called art Voice. He first broke the story. Karen Start,
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what happens when you get brainwashed your core beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: You you're you're encouraged to start questioning them until suddenly
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing doesn't seem wrong at all. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: it in gangs is the closest thing I can compare
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  Speaker 1: it to where year round it so much crime that's
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  Speaker 1: suddenly selling dope or committing murderers as part of an
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  Speaker 1: initiation is really no big deal. There's a whole us
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  Speaker 1: versus them mentality that ensues, and they choose people that
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  Speaker 1: are susceptible. And as that brainwashing experiences occurring that you
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned, Nancy, what happens is that they become more
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  Speaker 1: and more open to the suggestibility of the cult and
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  Speaker 1: they are actual they're beginning to discover brain changes that
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  Speaker 1: occur that starts, It's like an overload of information that
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  Speaker 1: starts to happen, so that the individual becomes more entrenched.
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  Speaker 1: And it's hard to believe how convincing this new world becomes.
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  Speaker 1: But think about Matt Manson and all of the girls
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  Speaker 1: that he was able to attract to him, which when
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  Speaker 1: we're looking on the outside, makes no sense. But this
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  Speaker 1: is a very well But I see a big difference,
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  Speaker 1: Karen Stark. Karen, I see a big difference, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're the shrink, not me. You're you're the one with
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  Speaker 1: all those degrees. I'm just a trial lawyer, but Frank
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  Speaker 1: Parlotte with me former nexting publicist, the journalists that broke
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  Speaker 1: the story, and how a site called art Voice. Frank,
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  Speaker 1: there's a big difference between taking in a teen homeless
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  Speaker 1: team girl who's already addicted to drugs and a Hollywood star,
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  Speaker 1: not just one, but several. Somehow this guy, uh Ranieri,
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  Speaker 1: Keith Ranieri, managed to brainwash, you know, powerful and educated
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  Speaker 1: and wealthy women. So they're in these grueling classes about
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  Speaker 1: questioning their beliefs. How does it go, Frank Pearlmatota to
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  Speaker 1: getting branded with a hot iron on your pelvic region. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you have to consider that it took nine years from
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  Speaker 1: Ellison Mac's first entree into the cult to the day
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  Speaker 1: she was branded and began to brand other women, nine
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  Speaker 1: long years of hypnotic conduction. So to Alexas tres Chuck
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  Speaker 1: invest Get a reporter with writer online dot com, what
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  Speaker 1: starts as a woman's empowerment group with a facade of
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  Speaker 1: normalcy ends with sex trafficking and literally branding women physically.
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  Speaker 1: And these women were expected and impressured by Alison and
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  Speaker 1: and Keith into having sex with Keith. And it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just Alison and Keith was all of the women and
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  Speaker 1: that's what and they were they were told, and the
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  Speaker 1: indictment revealed that they were threatened with physical force and
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  Speaker 1: violence if they didn't submit to this, that they would
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  Speaker 1: be physically harmed if they didn't submit to have sex
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  Speaker 1: with with Keith, and then the branding they were really
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  Speaker 1: lied to. These women were told that joining this organization
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  Speaker 1: into the the upper levels of the of the club
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  Speaker 1: Splash Cold, that they would just get a small tattoo,
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  Speaker 1: and the first one that came out said, I had
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  Speaker 1: I was fine with a small tattoo. But instead they
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  Speaker 1: were taken into a room. They were placed on a
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  Speaker 1: massage table uh face up. Three people held them. One
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  Speaker 1: person held each leg and the other held their shoulders
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  Speaker 1: and their arms held them down and this these initials
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  Speaker 1: were carried into their body, burned, burned into their body,
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  Speaker 1: and it literally took between twenty and thirty minutes. One
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  Speaker 1: of the women who came forward said, I disassociated. I
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  Speaker 1: felt like I left my body. I wept the entire
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  Speaker 1: time because it was so awful. What were the initials
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  Speaker 1: that were branded into the women? Keith r in years
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  Speaker 1: initials are in this branding it's a K and an
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  Speaker 1: R design. And in fact he has said, well, what
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  Speaker 1: if if they were Bill Gates as initials, you wouldn't care.
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  Speaker 1: But because their mind, you're upset about it. It's horrific
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  Speaker 1: that these women were burned this way. Nancy, in an
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  Speaker 1: interview with Alison Mack, apparently done before she was charged
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  Speaker 1: with sex trafficking, the actress actually says the branding of
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  Speaker 1: women was her idea. The New York Times magazine just
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  Speaker 1: published the interview in which Mac talks about coming up
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  Speaker 1: with the idea to use a cauterizing pen to burn
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  Speaker 1: the initials K R and a M. Those are her
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  Speaker 1: initials into the skin of the inductees into their secretive
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  Speaker 1: subgroup known as the Dominus of sequous Sororium d o
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  Speaker 1: S for short. Mac tells the time she takes full
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for coming up with the brand after someone suggested
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  Speaker 1: a tattoo, but Max said, tattoos mean nothing. It's just
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  Speaker 1: something people get when they're drunk. She wanted the women
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  Speaker 1: to do something, she says, was more meaningful, something that
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  Speaker 1: took guts. Well, I would care no matter who initials
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  Speaker 1: were branded into my skin or my daughter's skin branded
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  Speaker 1: to Joseph Scott Morgan, forensics expert and professor of forensics
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  Speaker 1: at Jacksonville State University. You know Joseph Scott Morgan. Long
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  Speaker 1: story short, no jury is going to believe a woman
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  Speaker 1: willingly submit it to being branded with a hot iron
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  Speaker 1: a series of initials whose initials still remain to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: That is your prime forensic evidence right there. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: this is not something that's going to be going away. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's branded into the skin. It It creates this this
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  Speaker 1: nasty looking kind of key Lloyd scar. I've seen these
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  Speaker 1: on gang members, uh primarily, and it's really interesting, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: you paralleled this earlier talking about gang membership. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things that some gangs and even fraternal organizations will
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  Speaker 1: will do is take a uh, take a coat hanger,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, and bended into a particular shape, heat superheated,
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  Speaker 1: and then branded in and um. And it's really interesting
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  Speaker 1: that that these uh, these women are so beaten down
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  Speaker 1: at this point mentally and emotionally where they get them
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  Speaker 1: to this point where he the leader obviously feels comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with doing this to them, and they allow it to
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  Speaker 1: a certain degree to be done to them because they're
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  Speaker 1: they're staying within this environment. It's almost like it's like
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  Speaker 1: all norms have been stripped away. Of course this is
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  Speaker 1: more Karen's area, but yeah, yeah, it is. It is something.
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  Speaker 1: It is a unique identifier that has left behind that
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  Speaker 1: will be connected back to them when and if this
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  Speaker 1: thing makes it the court, and I think it will,
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  Speaker 1: you know too. And Bremner, high profile Seattle lawyer who
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  Speaker 1: has been at the forefront of so many many renowned cases.
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  Speaker 1: And Bremner, in what universe is it suddenly okay to
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  Speaker 1: hold a woman down by force and brand her with
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  Speaker 1: a hot iron. I mean, at any point didn't these
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  Speaker 1: people go, WHOA, this is so wrong. I gotta get
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  Speaker 1: out of here. Well, I mean it's just so alarming
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  Speaker 1: and amazing, and you know with these costs that somebody does.
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  Speaker 1: I think Karen mentioned the Manson called. I mean they
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  Speaker 1: went out killed for him, and I don't we don't
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  Speaker 1: understand it. You know, at some point you say, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to get out of here. But now they're branded
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  Speaker 1: in some way submissive and there's so many felonies here,
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  Speaker 1: Like Jessica Scott Morgan just said, this case, I think
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  Speaker 1: we'll see court and I hope it sees it sooner
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  Speaker 1: rather than later with this recent arrest. Well, we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: but you're right about that. Am Bremner, the star now
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  Speaker 1: uh formally charged Alison mac the star of the super
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  Speaker 1: superhero hit series Smallville, about Superman Alison max bizarre blog,
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  Speaker 1: she had detailed life and an alleged sex cult. And
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  Speaker 1: while she says, quote it seems like it has been
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime in here already, it's not going to matter
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  Speaker 1: next um and it's right here in our country and
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  Speaker 1: Listen to ABC. Five women summoned to a house outside Albany,
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  Speaker 1: New York, one night this past March. Sarah Edmondson says
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• 23:14
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• 23:18
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• 23:21
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  Speaker 1: educated women, take part in a sex trafficking cult where
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: women are actually branded, and it's all happening right under
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: our noses. And these are educated, uh, well to do
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: people that get sucked into this. These are not homeless
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: people that have nowhere else to go, and nobody misses them,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: No one knows what's happening. No, these are people with families,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: with income, with education. You were just listening to ABC's
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty and a report on Nexium. It's spelled in
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: x I. The M and with me is the former
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: publicist for Nexium who broke the story, journalist Frank Parlotto.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: You can find him on art Voice online. Frank, I
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: still don't understand how women were brainwashed into thinking this
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: was okay. As now charges of sex trafficking are going down,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: where do those from? Where do those charges stem? Well?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Could have been so far revealed in the indictment, and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: there will be superseding indictments coming soon. I am convinced
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: emanates from two witnesses, and there are others, But strictly speaking,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the indictment speaks of the Jane Joe one and the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Jane Number two, both of these escaped slaves the sex
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: cult who told their horrifying stories first to me, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: then I encourage them to go to the FBI and
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: tell their entire story, which they did. Go ahead. Their
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: their horror emanated primarily from this. And this is a
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: secret that many don't yet understand. It just didn't start
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: with Brandy. It began by the procurement, the assiduous procurement
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: by Allison mac of black mail worthy material. So the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: slippery slope occurred where you began as a women's empowerment,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: you were brainwashed, You gave blackmail worthy material to Allison
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and Keith r Neary, and suddenly you found that what
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you thought was voluntary no longer became voluntary. But course,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: so let me understand this. Alexis terresta Radar Online dot
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Com investigative reporter, this sex cult Nexium, which allegedly forces
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: women to have relations with its leader and brands them,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: we believe, with his initials and others um our allegedly
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: unquote war mode going to battle to save Keith Ranieri,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: their leader, and Smallville actress Alison mack. Now, I'm trying
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to figure out what exactly the allegations are. Alexis Terres Chuck.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: As far as the sex trafficking, goes what is the
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: origin of the claim, So for sex trafficking, she has
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: been accused of recruiting these women from all over and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: taking them to different places to have sex with Keith
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: ran here and what they're saying is they used either
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: force or coercion. She excuse me, used forced or coercion
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to make them have sex with him. And so they
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: traveled all over the world, this group did. And in fact,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: when she the last video we saw of Alison mac
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: is she Keith was arrested in March in Mexico. They've
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: been hiding out in a very very very high end
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: home in Mexico and the authorities captured him. Allison jumps
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: in a car and there's a video of her chasing
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the police and chasing the car that Keith is in
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: in hysterics. Basically, she is so upset that her leader
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: has been arrested, and she is She's not somebody who
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, this is right, this is bad.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: This guy has finally been arrested, Thank goodness for me. No,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: she is convinced that this guy is being being treated unfairly,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and so she was chasing the police down as if
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to try to rescue him from the cops in well.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, take a listen to Hollywood
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: star Alison Mack as she is interviewing the alleged cult
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: leader about his program that quote helps actors be better actors. Okay, listen,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk a little bit about the Source,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: which is the company that you've created for actors, artists,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: people who want to get better at expressing in general.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Um Uh. Several years ago when we first met, I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: had said to you, would you be willing to work
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: with me and becoming a better actress? And you said, yeah,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk about it. And then several years
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: later you you started working with me and a bunch
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: of other people to develop a curriculum specifically for actors.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And um, I've been talking to different people about it
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: in like different actors and things like that, enrolling them
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: in the idea of coming and participating and saying what
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you've created, because it's been incredible for me. Um And
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of the questions that they ask is like, well,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: how is it different than Misner? How is it different
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: than stuff Adler or whatever? And a lot of what
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the answers that I've given have been like, well, it's
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: sort of, it's sort of it's a partnership with that
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: because it gives you the foundation underneath all of the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: technical skills and all of the kind of traditional approaches
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to acting that we've had throughout time. Um, like, it
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: really gets to the core of the actor so that
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: you can work on the raw material and then everything
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: else that they produce is affected by that. But I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: don't know, Like, I'm curious to know what your perception
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: is of the curriculum that you created and where it
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: came from. And well, it comes from a mix of
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: human behavior and philosophy and also really technical communication. You know,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: acting is all about a type of communication and being
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: not only more aware, but more congruent in your communication.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: So you want people to, if you will, to be
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: a bit m m common in what I say. You
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: want people to buy your character, and the way they
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: buy it is they find it congruent and authentic. Okay,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the question I mean, if someone could be totally congruent
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: in a character and express authentically through that character, so
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: they could do any sort of a scene or whatever,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: certainly that actor could do anything. So the question is
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: how do you achieve that? How do you achieve congruence,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: how do you achieve authenticity? And I think there are
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: many roads to do this. The thing that I think
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: makes the Source a bit unique is I come from
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a non acting background. You could say, I don't know
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. So that's that's good and bad.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: The good aspect is it comes from a a behaviorist
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: humanists sort of UM practical and philosophical background dealing with communication,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: dealing with UM all sorts of things relating to the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: psychodie ynamics of of people and humans UM without being
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: tainted by the current pedagogy of acting. And there's both
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: a good and a bad. The good is when you
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: have something that comes in like that fresh, it provides
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: a tool that goes outside of the box of all
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the normal tool sets. You know, any actor that wants
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to create a methodology of acting, especially if they know
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: those other methodologies, they're influenced in a certain way, and
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that can be very very good. But at times it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: also good to have something that is not influenced in
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the normal way by that as if coming from another planet.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: So to some degree, the Source it's not just created
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: for actors, it's created for human communication. It's something that
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: can be used in arbitration, it's something that can be
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: used in negotiations, it's something that abused in parenting, it's
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: something that could be used in a love relationship. And
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: it comes from that perspective, but does have a strong
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: application to what you would call that authentic congruent expression HM.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: And it's not tainted by the other schools that are
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: all extraordinary. It's not not it's not at all that
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: they're not great. It's that this is different. As you
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: hear Alison Mac interviewing the cult leader, compare that the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: dichotomy of these victims describing being strip naked, blindfolded, and tattoos.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Sarah says she devoted twelve years to Nexium, recruiting hundreds
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of new members, rising through the organization, even opening and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: running a center in Vancouver along the way, becoming best
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: friends with Nancy Saltzman's daughter, Lauren, who was made of
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: honor at sarah His wedding. She's like my therapist and
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: in the ranking system she's also above me. Then in March,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: after all their years together and Nexium, Sarah says, Lauren
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: approached her about a new and mysterious opportunity. She said,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I want to invite you to something that totally changed
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: my life. It was a secret sorority for women only,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: life changing but top secret. And the first step is
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: making a valve obedience to her as me being a
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: slave and her being my master. Again was the word slave,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: of course, Yeah, and objected every stage of the way,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and she said, it's just a it's a metaphor, it's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: a guru disciple. Then came the night that Sarah says
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: she and four other women submitted one by one to
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: being branded by this woman, she says Dr Danielle Roberts.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: And the woman on the table screamed out in pain,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: you know, twisted and turn and yelled. And the woman
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I was with, holding her legs down, we looked at
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: each other and we just wept. Why didn't you let
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: go and run out of their even naked? It didn't
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: seem like a choice at the time. She points two
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: years of Nexium training and all the indoctrination, all the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: years of women are weak, women have no character. Now
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: is the time to prove I can do it, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I said. Sarah gives another explanation for her obedience before
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: she joined the secret sorority and got branded. She says,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Lawrence Saltzman had demanded highly compromising collateral. You need to
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: provide something to me that I'm going to hold forever,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: just to confirm and to and to solidify that you'll
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: never share the secret. So what did your giver? So?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I gave her a written confessional and she, she says,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: for her and some others, the price of admission to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the secret group also included providing nude photos of themselves.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: To understand, when women do that, it's very difficult to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: say no, I'm not doing this because the person has
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: something of you with them Instantly, all my alarm bells
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: are absolute. So why did you do it? I did
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: it because I trusted her. That was from ABC's report
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: on nexium. This is how the whole thing works. Um
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: during arrayment a grand jury her testimony from former members
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of the cult, They claim the Hollywood start MAC would
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: lure young ladies into joining the cult cult and then
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: demand they turned over quote collateral. The collateral would be
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: compromising photos or their personal assets, money, belongings, car titles.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: That collateral was then used by MAC, according to the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: grand jury, to control the women who were transformed into
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: branded sex slaves. And this is all from court filings.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Now the founder and Eery was arrested the way Alexis
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Reschuck just told us. In Mexico, the States said that
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: during the past twenty years, Ranieri established a series of
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: self help programs self help programs. They had centers, so
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: they were getting a lot of money funding in the US, Mexico, Canada,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: South America. And it was a pyramid scheme. The courses
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: cost thousands of dollars and the people that took them
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: were then encouraged to pay for other classes and recruit
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: other people to take the classes so they could rise
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: up within the ranks. It's like um, it's a pyramid scheme,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: and Bremner it's like a Ponzi scheme. And brem Nur
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Seattle lawyer explained what I mean by pyramid. Basically, it's
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: like Ami or any of these kinds of things that
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: you just keep building membership by using your members to
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: go out and get other people and just keep building
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: that pyramid. Um. There's a lot of financial ones like
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: that too, But this is human trafficking and it's just
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: self perpetuating and here it's criminal and what they're also
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: claiming is that Alison Might, the Hollywood star, would force
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: women to become sex slaves after they joined the group
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: by threatening to drain all their assets or release those
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: compromising photos. So what would happen Frank Parlotto with me
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: the former Nextian publicist, the journalists that first broke the story.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: You can find him at art Voice. What would happen
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: if someone try to stop and leave the cult them
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: with the release of their quote unquote collateral. It all
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: exploded last year around May of two thousand seventeen, when
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the secret part of Nextium they call it dust and
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: that stands for dominance, obsequious sororium or the master over
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the slave women became reveal to the um external group
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: of Nexium, the women who had not yet been branded,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and that caused kind of chaotic explosion with the Nexium
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and a rapid exodus. Allison stuck with the group, as
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: did the core slaves, and even when the women's were threatened,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: some of them, like Sarah Edmondson I decided to leave
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: any way in risk the collateral being released. It's just
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: amazing that this is happening right here under our own noses. Guys,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with Alison mc the Hollywood star.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: She played Chloe in Smallville, and that was the hit
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: show about Clark Kent, Superman being raised in small Volkansas
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: before he was known as Superman, and it lasted ten seasons.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: She was also in Aunt Bully, she was in Honey,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: We Shrunk Ourselves. She's been in a lot of movies
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: and is very well known in the in the celebrity community.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: And then there's the Seagram's heiress as well, who now
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: apparently is um taking over a max position. Take a
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: listen to this. According to promotional materials, even as a child,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Ranieri was destined for greatness, speaking in full sentences at
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: age one, reading at age two, judo champ and concert
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: level pianists. At thirteen, I was told that he was
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: one of the smartest men in the world and just
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: an incredible man. With that, I'm going to pass the
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: microphone over to Mr Neary. So incredible. It seems that
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: an ordinary name just won't do. Participants say they're taught
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: to call Ranieri Vanguard. Vanguard. Yes, Vanguard is the name
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that we referred to Keith as because he's a leader
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: of a philosophical movement. The second highest ranking member of
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Nexium is a woman named Nancy Saltzman. Former members say
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: she is known as Prefect so Keith and Nancy Vanguarden Prefect.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: At the heart of Nexium training is something called intensives,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: which former members say are like group therapy, running as
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: long as fourteen hours a day for up to sixteen days.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Edmondson says she attended her first in two thousand five,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: when she was twenty seven. I left my five day,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: my initial training, as if a veil had been lifted
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and I could see things more clearly in my life.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: I could communicate better with people. That sounds fantastic, Yeah,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: it was great. Classes are invitation only and they are
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: not cheap. A five day intensive will run you three
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars, a sixteen day is seventy undred. In promotional
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: videos and materials that claims more than sixteen thousand people
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: worldwide have taken Nexium courses, many testify to its effectiveness.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I learned through the tools that there was a different way.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Sarah of was recruited into the group by filmmaker Mark Vicente.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: What was it that was so compelling to you? Just
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the way it to break down and understand certain things
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: in my life in a way I never had before.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Ranieri is fiercely protective of his teachings, requiring participants to
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: sign confidentiality agreements. Everyone signed it, and if you didn't
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: sign it, you couldn't take the curriculum. We do know
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: that Nexium has its own LINGO. Students are taught about
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: overcoming disintegrations to become more potent and less suppressive, and
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: avoiding people termed parasites or luciferians. Did you know about
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: a recent law that could leave your personal data exposed
• 43:41
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• 43:44
  Speaker 1: news lately, you know the Internet has created a dangerous
• 43:48
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• 43:52
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace, and we are shocked about a cult
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  Speaker 1: right here under our own noses that has used women
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  Speaker 1: as sex slaves after branding them. And these are educated
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  Speaker 1: and many of them will to do women, some of
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  Speaker 1: them Hollywood stars in fact, apparently even trying to recruit Hermione,
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  Speaker 1: that's Emma Watson from the Harry Potter series, trying to
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  Speaker 1: recruit Kelly Clarkson. Of course, Harmiony and Kelly Clarkson. We're
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  Speaker 1: not involved in any way, but so many other women
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  Speaker 1: fell for it. As it was first noted, it had
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  Speaker 1: the appearance of normalcy okay, and women got into it
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  Speaker 1: as a women empowerment group. But I want you to
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  Speaker 1: listen to Hollywood star Alison Mack. She is on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: and she is raving about a women's empowerment group. Here
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  Speaker 1: she's calling it by different initials, but it's Nexium. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: when someone is being authentic, you get the feeling that
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  Speaker 1: not only that there's a person there in the moment,
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  Speaker 1: but somehow you you reach into their very essence and
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  Speaker 1: you you meet a unique individual. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: that makes me want to cry. It's beautiful. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's sorry. Okay, so but why why do you think
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  Speaker 1: that's so emotional for me? I don't know. I think
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  Speaker 1: because it seems like it's a something that I just
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I want it m authenticity and I
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  Speaker 1: and I think, what do you want about authenticity? I
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  Speaker 1: think that there's a relaxed kind of exchange that happens
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  Speaker 1: between people when there's no pretense, and it seems like
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  Speaker 1: to me, those are like the most moving, most meaningful,
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  Speaker 1: most important moments in life. I'm not disagreeing with you,
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  Speaker 1: but why, Yeah, it's funny. I mean it feels like
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  Speaker 1: in a silly way, it's like that's where love is,
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  Speaker 1: like that's where like two. I guess it's the existential
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  Speaker 1: thing like it feels like two souls can come together
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  Speaker 1: without any sort of barrier boundary, and somehow there's completion
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  Speaker 1: or not a loneness or a transcendence in some way.
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  Speaker 1: That feels like it's the root of my motivation and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of all the things that I do in life.
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  Speaker 1: And and I guess that's probably part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I have such an obsession with art and creativity
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  Speaker 1: and things like that, because it feels like the sole
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  Speaker 1: purpose of those things is to generate that kind of
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  Speaker 1: an experience for people. You know, Karen Stark, New York psychologist, Karen,
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  Speaker 1: when you're in so deep in something, I guess it
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  Speaker 1: seems normal to you. It seems normal to you, and
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  Speaker 1: it seems normal to the people around you. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: for people who are vulnerable for the first time, they
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  Speaker 1: get a strong feeling of belonging to something. It always
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  Speaker 1: involves a charismatic leader, so that you're enticed and you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're getting the special attention. She talks about
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  Speaker 1: Alex and that the fact that he was her mentor
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  Speaker 1: that he mentored her in acting and the skills of acting,
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  Speaker 1: and they made it all sound very legitimate. You took courses,
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  Speaker 1: there was a curriculum. It became extremely enticing to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of this group, particularly because there were so
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  Speaker 1: many people who were celebrities or who had a great
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  Speaker 1: deal of money, and you begin to question, well, if
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  Speaker 1: they why would they be a member of this group
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  Speaker 1: if it were not legitimate. We are talking about a
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  Speaker 1: cult that started in Albany, New York, Upstate New York,
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  Speaker 1: with connections all over the world. Now it poses as
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  Speaker 1: a self help organization to empower women, and it rides
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  Speaker 1: the coattails of girl power. It ends up in the
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  Speaker 1: spotlight when the New York Times investigation exposed that the
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  Speaker 1: women in the group were referred to as slaves and
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  Speaker 1: subjected to ritual humiliations. They starved themselves. They were forced
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  Speaker 1: to starve themselves to achieve the cult leaders beauty ideal
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  Speaker 1: and to have repeated relations with him. Okay, Alexis Terres
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  Speaker 1: Chuck writer, online investigative reporter. Where is he right now?
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  Speaker 1: Keith Ranieri? He is in custody. He was arrested in
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  Speaker 1: March and extradited back to the United States, so he
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  Speaker 1: is awaiting trial. The interesting thing is Alison mac got
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  Speaker 1: released from jail and according to court paper, she is
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  Speaker 1: working with federal prosecutors on a pleabial so she might
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  Speaker 1: actually turn on him after having been his right hand
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  Speaker 1: women for all these years. You know, I'm noticing something
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  Speaker 1: to Anne Bremer, Seattle lawyer, and um, just like we
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  Speaker 1: saw with Harvey Weinstein, you know, he would have other
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  Speaker 1: women do his dirty work, set up meetings, set up
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  Speaker 1: quote interviews with Hollywood starletts, and women would see another
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  Speaker 1: woman thinking, oh, this is okay. Do you see that
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  Speaker 1: same thing according to prosecutors working here, Because according to
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  Speaker 1: US Attorney more Penza, Alison Mack was one of the
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  Speaker 1: top members of this scheme, which was designed to give
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  Speaker 1: Ranieri sex slaves under the guys a female empowerment, and
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  Speaker 1: that sheet Max starved women until they fit Ranieri's sexual
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  Speaker 1: feminine ideal. So your lure a woman is lured in
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  Speaker 1: by another woman, she thinks it's safe, then it's too late. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I'd be so hard to have her turn
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  Speaker 1: witness in a case like this. I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 1: so abhorrent. You know what she's done in the name
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  Speaker 1: of the empowerment during this me to the tsunami in
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  Speaker 1: so many ways that we're seeing and and hers talking
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  Speaker 1: about women's empowerment. I mean, it's all criminal all the
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  Speaker 1: way around, and she's going to try and escape, fashes
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  Speaker 1: out on it. Was it a five million dollar bail
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  Speaker 1: and he's still in custoding. She may well turned to
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  Speaker 1: Frank Parlato, former Nexium publicist, founder of Art Voice and
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  Speaker 1: the journalists that broke the story. Frank, how did you
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  Speaker 1: become involved with Nexium as their publicist? But I was
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  Speaker 1: originally retained to work for them by Claire Raffman, the
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  Speaker 1: Seagrim's heiress, who funds the entire operation of Nexium. She
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  Speaker 1: funded all of the branding and the cult network, and
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  Speaker 1: I was retained back in two thousand and seven to
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  Speaker 1: try to help them um get a better public persona.
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  Speaker 1: Even at that time people in the media were labeling
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  Speaker 1: this group as a call Well, Frank, how did you
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  Speaker 1: get out of it? Why? I had uncovered that Keith
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  Speaker 1: r Neary, the head of the cult, he had embezzled
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  Speaker 1: or swindled Claire Broffman out of one hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And I approached Claire and I told her that her
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  Speaker 1: money was missing and that Keith was in charge of
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  Speaker 1: that money. A hundred million disappeared, and she didn't really
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  Speaker 1: want to accept that um finding, which you know later
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  Speaker 1: wound up being proven to be true. She was contented
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  Speaker 1: in swindling her on a hundred fire. There is also
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  Speaker 1: alleged connections to Um. The twenty six year old daughter
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  Speaker 1: of Dynasty actress Katherine Oxenburg and the granddaughter of Princess
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. We're talking about alleged claims that India Oxenburg,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty six year old daughter and granddaughter, was brainwashed
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  Speaker 1: by this cult. She's beautiful and she fits exactly the
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  Speaker 1: physical description that Frank Parlotto and Alexis terres Chuck are describing.
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  Speaker 1: The tall, thin blonde again, the twenty six year old
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  Speaker 1: daughter of the Dynasty star Katherine Oxenburg, the granddaughter of
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  Speaker 1: a princess in Yugoslavia, was hauling plastic tubs full of
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  Speaker 1: restaurant fair uh. She toiled at menial tasks and was
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  Speaker 1: allegedly a sex cult slave. This is incredible to me.
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  Speaker 1: Her family allegedly claiming they believe she was indeed brainwashed
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  Speaker 1: by this leader, Keith rayniery Um. He would lure young
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  Speaker 1: waif like women and groom them, brand them with a
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  Speaker 1: hot iron. It's it's almost more than I can believe.
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  Speaker 1: It is happening here in our country under the guys,
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  Speaker 1: the disguise, the shroud, the facade of normalcy, or once again,
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  Speaker 1: women are being persecuted and mistreated. And I do not
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  Speaker 1: care how much money you have, or how rich you are,
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  Speaker 1: or how well connected you are. You're going to jail.
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  Speaker 1: Ranieri and Mac We're onto you, so help me. If
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  Speaker 1: they cut a deal with her, I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: she started. They are wrong. She needs to go to
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  Speaker 1: jail and rot right along with Keith Raniery for what
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  Speaker 1: they have done to these young girls. Nancy graces Crime Stories,
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