In our final episode on Georgia Tann, we tell the story of the lives impacted by Georgia’s actions even years later and how some have come together to heal and rebuild from the ashes Georgia left in her enormous wake. SOURCESFor 20 years, a Ten

Adoption Marketing Machine

May 3rd, 2022 18m 13s

Georgia Tann, even with her limp, her small frame and grandmotherly appearance, had a ridiculous amount of energy. And most of it was concentrated on her work - her absolute tyrannical goal to become the foremost leader in adoption work. She co

Outright Abuse

Apr 26th, 2022 21m 15s

This is the hardest episode. In fact, you honestly may want to skip this episode. I don’t really want to tell this story, but I’m a firm believer that stories are powerful and even if they’re hard and ugly and horrific, they should have light p

Georgia Tann's Co-Conspirators

Apr 19th, 2022 24m 29s

If Georgia Tann was good at anything, it was creating co-conspirators, unfailing supporters of her work and methods. She had her low level spotters. Folks who would deliver milk to poor areas and tell her about children they’d found that fit th

Ripping Families Apart

Apr 12th, 2022 22m 42s

Your baby is gone. Gone. This is the story of SO MANY MOTHERS. In this case you might do what all mothers would do, even young and poor with little resources. You would try everything to get your baby back. But, we’re talking about fighting Geo

Georgia Tann & The Memphis Machine

Apr 5th, 2022 30m 32s

The thing about Georgia moving to Memphis is that it was so well-suited for her personality and needs. She was direct, never subtle, demanding what she wanted and didn’t make any effort to hide her crimes. By 1924, Ed Crump had created a cultur

Baby Farmers, Orphanages & Adoption

Mar 29th, 2022 25m 17s

In this episode, I’m going to show you that Georgia Tann, though a monster, accomplished something incredible. She made undesirable children… well, desirable. When Georgia was growing up, people would not adopt children because of a huge belie

Setting The Stage For Georgia Tann

Mar 22nd, 2022 28m 17s

If you’ve never heard of Georgia Tann, you are in for a wild ride. Her story is one of those that you can’t quite believe was allowed to happen. It’s one of those that makes you wonder just HOW some people gain power and then are able to stay i

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The Complex Legacy of Georgia Tann

Mar 8th, 2022 3m 26s

What do you do when you are poor and have nothing and are worried for your sick child? Do you let this woman who says she'll pay for his medical care take your child? The thing is, it doesn’t really matter because once she has a target in mind

Jolly West vs. Scientology

Mar 1st, 2022 44m 11s

In 1969, when UCLA recruited him to head up the department, the West family packed up their life in Oklahoma and traveled to their namesake. They went West to Los Angeles, he and K and all three of their kids in tow. Los Angeles would change Jo

Patty Hearst + Dr. Jolly West

Feb 22nd, 2022 41m 8s

So imagine you are a nineteen-year-old college student, hanging out at your apartment with your boyfriend and you step into the hall. A group of people grabs you and neighbors watch as they take you out of the building and throw you into a vehi

Haight Ashbury, Jolly & The Hippie Culture

Feb 15th, 2022 26m 43s

Today’s story puts us in an office in Haight - Ashbury in the 1960s. Haight- Ashbury is a district in San Francisco, California named for the intersection of those two streets. It’s a name synonymous with the Hippie and counterculture of the 19

The Insanity of Jack Ruby

Feb 8th, 2022 23m 5s

On April 26, 1964, West hopped on a flight to Dallas, scheduled to examine Jack Ruby in the county jail that afternoon. The Dallas papers reported it in their final editions that evening: West emerged from Ruby’s cell to announce that the previ

Tusko The Elephant

Feb 1st, 2022 23m 38s

This is the story that Dr. Jolly West is most notorious for. The one that earned him the most press and attention in real-time. The one the press lambasted him for. The story of a feisty teenage-like creature named Tusko.Jolly was 38 years old

MK Ultra & The CIA

Jan 25th, 2022 35m 23s

In episode 3 of our Season One on Dr. Jolly West, we explore Jolly's involvement with the CIA and their controversial MK-Ultra program. Project MK-Ultra was the code name given for illegal experiments on actual humans done by the CIA. This was

Jolly in Lackland

Jan 18th, 2022 44m 3s

Jolly and K make a big move to San Antonio, Texas where Jolly, now a full-fledged doctor, serves as Lieutenant to Major in the U.S. Air Force where he is Chief of Psychiatric Service. Jolly’s time at Lackland is his debut in the field of brain

Destined For Greatness

Jan 11th, 2022 31m 37s

When I walked into my new job at the NPI at UCLA, I did register that there must be hundreds and thousands of tragic and interesting life stories in that building. I did not, in fact, realize that one of the most interesting stories would be th

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Now I'm Intrigued is Coming For You

Oct 10th, 2021 4m 51s

We invite you to season one of Now I'm Intrigued. I’m going to tell you the incredible story of a man involved in CIA brainwashing experiments, who participated in the MK -Ultra mind control program (which was an actual real thing… not just a

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