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Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Alice Hines on Twin Flames Universe

Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 8 a.m.

Today\\u2019s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.\\xa0

Let\\u2019s admit it. Despite the billions of people on earth, the world can be a friggin lonely place. And for the VIP-lonely among us, Jeff and Shaleia charge a mere $8888 for all the answers to life\\u2019s big love questions. If you\\u2019re seeking a first-person narrative about what it\\u2019s like to pay to play in Twin Flames Universe, check out Keely Griffin on ALBC.\\xa0

For this show, we features Alice Hines \\u2013 the Emmy-award winning investigative journalist and executive producer of Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe, a new docuseries chronicling the two kooky, creepy founders Jeff \\u2013 a real Keto Keith Raniere \\u2013 and his partner Shaleia as they go from run-of-the-mill influencers to building what Vice has called a \\u2018cult empire\\u2019.\\xa0

Hines dives right into her curiosity around the creepy repercussions of internet culture on IRL relationships and how that led her to explore, report on, and be invited into Jeff and Shaleia\\u2019s home where she filmed the duo. You can watch that footage in the docuseries.\\xa0

For now, take a listen for the inside scoop on the culty couple.

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Alice Hines is a writer, documentary film producer, and news correspondent that speaks truth to power and sheds light on unseen subcultures. She\\u2019s contributed to The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and New York Magazine, among others. She introduced the term \\u201cChads\\u201d \\u2013 the ideal, buff, white, manly man at the heart of incels\\u2019 standards of attractiveness. And she won a News Emmy for her work on-camera for a Vice News series. Based on her reporting for Vanity Fair, Alice executive-produced the Amazon Prime docuseries, Desperately Seeking Soulmate.

Alice grew up in South Carolina, got her writing creds at Brown University, and even worked as an editor at the sartorial Vestoj, a research vessel with fascinating pieces that explore the bridge between fashion theory and sales \\u2013 that is, why we wear what we wear.\\xa0\\xa0

If you really want to go down the word salad rabbit hole and you\\u2019re armed with many grains of salt, you can read Jeff and Shaleia\\u2019s response to Alice\\u2019s Vanity Fair expos\\xe9.\\xa0

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Here\\u2019s Alice\\u2019s website, her Instagram, and her Tik Tok.

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The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody\\u2019s mad at you, just don\\u2019t be a culty fuckwad.

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