Do You Want To Hear Something Awful?

This society, psychology, and true crime podcast investigates the world's most awful things. From financial schemes to cult dynamics, fraud wellness scams to exploitation, to toxic relationships, pop culture scandals and lesbian drama, host Alyson uses her psychology and research science training to expose dystopian, shocking truths. But we also empower you with ways to fight back and make the world less terrible. If you're a fan of documentaries, true crime, dark comedy, and sapphic joy, this is a show you won't want to miss.

Do You Want To Hear Something Awful? is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Do You Want To Hear Something Awful?, a society show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #19

  My Mom is a Licensed Trauma Therapist...and a Narcissist | Stealing Money and Labor, Covering Up Abuse, Messing with My Medications, Pathologizing Friends & Family, and How I'm Healing

  Jul 21, 202628 minS1

  Host Alyson gets personal about what it's like having a parent who's a therapist and a toxic narcissist. Alyson shares about her mom's unethical household EMDR sessions, unofficial sessions her mom tried to facilitate between her and her coaches, the ways her mom financial exploited her for her practice, and more. This is a story about breaking the spell, learning to decenter a toxic parent, and discovering how to find closure within yourself when the person who broke you is basically licensed in gaslighting. ️ Subscribe to the podcast! Make sure to leave us a rating, review, and hit that subscribe button to help the algorithm find us! 00:00 – Introduction: My mom's career was a mask01:31 – Unofficial therapy session with coaches04:02 – Hiding my sexual assault to protect her image05:30 – How she pathologized my friends to isolate me07:20 -- Thinking everybody wants her advice for free8:30 -- Victim blaming but she's a trauma therapist10:40 -- Encouraging my eating disorder but she is a therapist for people with eating disorders11:14 -- Messing with my medication12:20 -- Everything is psychosomatic 14:02 – Working at her practice: "boundaries"15:58 – Financial exploitation 19:11 -- Stole my brother's tuition money20:00 -- Telling our therapists what to work on with us in our sessions21:00 -- Present day: Financial deception, custom house budgets, and grandiose delusions23:00– The art of reparenting, letting go, and finding final closure

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  Episode #18

  The Fall of Therapy Jeff: Weaponized Therapy-Speak, Toxic Dating History, Performative Feminism, Narcissistic Abuse & Questionable Apology

  Jul 19, 202622 minS1

  Earlier this year, TikTok’s favorite relationship expert, Therapy Jeff, had a series of Threads posts go viral that exposed a pattern of inappropriate behavior, performative feminism, and alleged manipulation. He shared a beautiful apology that left our hosts, Alyson and Tabitha, completely unsure of whether they could trust his content going forward. Today, we are breaking down the entire controversy to the best of our ability. Can we actually trust a licensed professional after these boundary violations, or is his apology all just calculated damage control for the sake of likes and views? What about performative feminism? Let's talk about it. 00:00 Intro - the TikTok relationship guru. 02:30 The infamous Threads post and the initial callouts. 04:38 graphic s*xual threads posts 6:13 Local women report abuse 7:00 Inaccurate information 11:00 Watching his apology video 15:40 Parasocial relationships ️ Subscribe to the podcast! Make sure to leave us a rating, review, and hit that subscribe button to help the algorithm find us!

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  Episode #16

  Waterboarding as Wellness: Inside Teal Swan's High-Control Spiritual Empire

  Jul 14, 202632 minS1

  International spiritual guru Teal Swan has thousands of online followers completely immersed in her digital echo chamber, going beyond basic New Age positivity to monetize human trauma. Teal Swan is publicly teaching vulnerable people that suicide is a safe fallback space and an existential reset button. Even worse, her core trademark therapeutic practice, "The Completion Process," routinely forces traumatized people into severe clinical dissociation under the guise of an enlightened breakthrough. At her high-ticket retreats in Costa Rica, attendees are subjected to extreme physical containment and water rituals that clinical psychologists look at and call exactly what it is: waterboarding masquerading as spiritual wellness.Host Alyson dives headfirst into the multi-million dollar corporate structure of Teal Swan International. We dissect her unverified memory regression techniques, expose the multi-level marketing pyramid scheme she uses to exploit her practitioners, and track how her entire cosmic origin story was manufactured by the architect of the 1980s Satanic Panic.At the end, we break down the necessary public health guidelines and policy shifts needed to legally regulate the wild west of the internet wellness market.🎙️ Subscribe to the podcast!👍 Make sure to leave us a rating, review, and hit that subscribe button to help the algorithm find us!

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  Episode #15

  How To Predict Divorce With 94% Accuracy, Scientifically

  Jul 13, 202644 minS1

  In this psychology episode, host Alyson uses her psychology and research science training to break down the data-driven predictors of divorce. Moving beyond common myths, we'll look at how specific personality traits, attractiveness, age, relationship history, career paths, education levels, physical or mental health differences, substance use, religious differences, and having children mathematically alter the longevity of a marriage. Then, we will look closely at the ultimate accurate predictor -John Gottman and Robert Levenson’s historic longitudinal research models to explain why some marriages face a rapid five-year collapse due to high-conflict behavior, while other couples experience a silent, neutral decline that leads to a split after 14 years. We'll explain Gottman's predictors of divorce that can predict the downfall of a marriage with 94% accuracy. Grab a notepad and get ready to calculate your relationship's survival. 🎙️ Subscribe to the podcast! 👍 Make sure to leave us a rating, review, and hit that subscribe button to help the algorithm find us!

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  Episode #15

  Revoke Queer Collective's Non-Profit Status! "Ovulation Makes Lesbians Crave D*ck," Identity is a Choice," Shady Money Practices, and Gaslighting through Therapy-Speak

  Jul 10, 202642 minS1

  These queer creators continuously host panel discussions saying: ovulation makes lesbians go d*ck crazy, identity is a choice, people should be allowed to bring their boyfriends/men into sapphic spaces, and comparing gender to race. Even worse, they registered as a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to "accurate representation," exempt from paying taxes, even though they have NO BOARD, no oversight, and no initiatives truly benefitting the LGBTQ+ community (you literally had to PAY to get into the one Halloween party they hosted). So what do the donations go to? Better podcast equipment? Hosts Allison and Tabatha dive headfirst into the deeply problematic, viral rhetoric being spread by the Canadian podcast The Queer Collective (hosted by Emily and Karbon). We dissect how their points actively reinforce dangerous, weaponized conservative talking points about corrective rape and sexual identity being a fluid choice. At the end, we'll guide you step-by-step on how to file an official report with the Canada Revenue Agency to audit their tax-exempt status. 🎙️ Subscribe to the podcast! 👍 Make sure to leave us a rating, review, and hit that subscribe button to help the algorithm find us!

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