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Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about colds and extreme belief and manipulation from two 30-something-year-old

juvenile delinquents who have actually experienced it. I am Lola Blanc. And I am Megan Elizabeth.

And today our guest is Yoni Shrera, friend of the show, and survivor of the Family Foundation

School, which was a troubled teen sobriety school that became notorious for how many of its former students died after going through the program.

In part one today, he's going to talk about what he was like as a teenager, how he was genuinely out of control when it came to drugs and alcohol,

and why his parents believed the school was the best option to help him.

He'll tell us about the religious undertones of the group, how the students were

separated into groups they called families, the culture of constant fear and snitching, and why he

thinks so many kids died. Plus next week, we'll talk about some of the harrowing punishments the

kids experienced and what it felt like to finally leave. That's right. This was such a wild interview for unrelated reasons to the content just because I've known Yoni from this area of my life and you know Yoni from that area of your life.

And then I found out that he's dating this person.

I know from this other area.

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