Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Alice Hines on Twin Flames Universe

<p dir="ltr">Today’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. </p> <p dir="ltr">Let’s 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’s big love questions. If you’re seeking a first-person narrative about what it’s like to pay to play in Twin Flames Universe, check out <a href= "https://alittlebitculty.com/episode/keely-griffin-on-twin-flames-other-dumpster-fires"> Keely Griffin</a> on ALBC. </p> <p dir="ltr">For this show, we features Alice Hines – 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 – a real Keto Keith Raniere – and his partner Shaleia as they go from run-of-the-mill influencers to building what Vice has called a ‘cult empire’. </p> <p dir="ltr">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’s home where she filmed the duo. You can watch that footage in the docuseries. </p> <p dir="ltr">For now, take a listen for the inside scoop on the culty couple.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">NOTES </p> <p dir="ltr">Alice Hines is a writer, documentary film producer, and news correspondent that speaks truth to power and sheds light on unseen subcultures. She’s contributed to The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and New York Magazine, among others. She introduced the term “Chads” – the ideal, buff, white, manly man at the heart of incels’ standards of attractiveness. <a href= "http://alicehines.com/video">And she won a News Emmy for her work on-camera for a Vice News</a> series. B<a href= "https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/12/inside-the-all-consuming-world-of-twin-flames-universe">ased on her reporting for Vanity Fair</a>, Alice executive-produced the Amazon Prime docuseries,