What It Was Like

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1. My Manic Life as a Bipolar Art Forger

   30 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 1 min

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   In 1980s New York, Andy Behrman was an art dealer forging his clients’ paintings. He was also living with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, which he believes fueled his criminality and eventually landed him in prison. On this ep, Andy talks about his eternal hunger for more and how mania both enhanced and ruined his life. Lees meer

   Read Andy’s book: Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania

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2. I Spent 20 Years Catching Art Thieves (Preview)

   30 oktober 2026 · 12 min

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   Robert Wittman founded the FBI’s Art Crime Team and spent 20 years going undercover to recover stolen art. In the full subscriber ep, Bob tells us how he catches art criminals. As he says, most of them make the same predictable mistakes, including those behind last October’s heist of the Louvre in Paris. Lees meer

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   Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures

   The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

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3. Years Later, I Discovered the Truth About My Abduction

   24 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 4 min

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   In 1983, 11-year-old Kristine Conyers was abducted at gunpoint by a serial killer. She survived, but those four hours changed her life. It’s a story about the ripple effect on her family, and how she realised the crime was premeditated in ways she didn’t understand as a child. Kristine tells us how she’s lived with the trauma, and why the Me Too movement and the Cornell University rape case has emboldened her to come forward. Lees meer

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4. I've Spent Decades Helping Abused Children Heal (Preview)

   24 oktober 2026 · 7 min

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   This show often features people who’ve survived unimaginable horrors as kids, which begs the question: how do people move on? In this episode preview we put this question to Al Killen-Harvey, a clinical social worker who has spent decades helping abused and neglected children rebuild their lives. We talk trauma healing, how he carries his clients’ stories, and why he’s optimistic about the future. Lees meer

   Learn more about Al’s organisation: The Harvey Institute

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5. When the Captain Abandoned Ship, the Musicians Took Charge

   16 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 8 min

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   In 1991, cruise ship performers Moss and Tracy Hills found themselves on a sinking ship. As the MTS Oceanos floundered, passengers waited for the crew to take charge. Finally, Moss and Tracy stepped in, and ultimately rescued over 500 passengers. On this ep, Moss tells the story of becoming an accidental hero. Lees meer

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6. I Got Stuck on a Cruise Ship When COVID Hit (Preview)

   16 oktober 2026 · 6 min

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   This week's subscriber episode takes us back to February 2020, where Kent Frasure found himself confined to his cabin on the Diamond Princess due to COVID. It was a preview of the pandemic to come: the slow response, the gap between regular people and authority, and the limits of money against a million year-old virus. Lees meer

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7. The Strange Story of Tasmania’s Ninja Cult

   10 oktober 2026 · 50 min

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   Through the 1990s, a group of men in Australia’s southernmost state began training as ninjas. It was a kind of proto-manosphere that slowly became part cult, part domestic terrorist cell. They stole explosives, stockpiled guns, and plotted to kidnap local businessmen, until their leader was murdered in 1997. On this ep, Journalist Claire Sullivan walks us through this bizarre and forgotten saga. Lees meer

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8. How Cults Take Over Your Mind And How to Escape (Preview)

   10 oktober 2026 · 7 min

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   How do ordinary, intelligent people end up in cults, and how do they get out? In this subscriber ep preview, we talk to Ingo Michehl, who spent six years in the Moonies before a single phrase from a friend set him free. He later did a master’s in psychology with a thesis on mind control. He tells us about his journey in and out, and we unpack the eight criteria of “ideological totalism”. Lees meer

   Get in touch with Ingo at Balance With Ingo.

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9. I Fell in Love (and Had a Baby) With My Dad

   2 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 12 min

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   Sophia Greenwood was adopted as a baby. She had no contact with her birth parents, until she met her biological dad in her 20s. They both experienced a sense of profound connection and fell into a relationship that ended in pregnancy. In this ep, Sophia talks about knowing she was in a relationship with her dad, yet unable to switch off the attraction, and why that’s more common than you'd think among adoptees. Lees meer

   Sophia's book, Forbidden Love, is on Amazon here.

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10. Why Some Adoptees Become Attracted to Their Birth Parents (Preview)

    2 oktober 2026 · 7 min

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    This week’s story will likely be hard for many listeners to wrap their heads around, which is why we're unpacking the science behind it in this week’s subscriber episode.This is an excerpt from Julian’s discussion with Dianne Mathes, a Canadian therapist who specialises in the phenomenon of adoptees feeling attracted to biological family members. By her estimate, it's actually the majority of her cases, and she shares her own experience as an adoptee. Lees meer

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