Alex Goldman

It had its own culture, its own rules, and its own hierarchies.

So today we're teaming up with the Hyperfix podcast and its host, Alex Goldman, to go deep on what they uncovered.

When Marlena first came to us, she was looking for any information about what had happened to her a year earlier.

And we found that the answer to that begins with the story of this guy.

So she founded her own Facebook group to create the infrastructure to get these drugs into more people's hands.

She called it FIP Warriors.

Hyperfixed host Alex Goldman continues the story.

Robin Kintz told us that in the beginning, there was really nothing formal about the FIP Warriors Facebook group that she founded.

Hey, cool cats.

This is Alex Goldman.

[laughs] Look, that's what it says in the script.

I read what's in the script.

Irony of ironies, though, that I'm calling you guys cool cats in what I'm calling my hot basement.

That's like a normal basement, except your air conditioning isn't working.

Anyway, cool cats, this is Alex Goldman from the hot basement, and if you are listening to this, then that means you're a paid member, so thank you for supporting the show.

We couldn't do it without you.

Those of you who listen to Hyperfix, I don't know if he plugged Treks in the City on the show or not, but I'll try to get him to do that again.

He, yeah, we became friends over TikTok, strangely, him and I, and Alex Goldman.

And he, we were talking about me doing his other show and getting prepared for that.

And so we were like chatting about things.

Hi, welcome to Amityvilleville.

I am Alex Goldman.

I'm Caroline

Thompson.

Well, thanks again.

This has been a blast.

Amityvilleville is hosted by me, Alex Goldman, and Caroline Thompson.

The show is produced by Tori Dominguez-Peake, and it's engineered by me.

Welcome to Amityvilleville, the show where we learn incredible new ways to squander good filmmaking opportunities to make bad movies.

I'm Alex Goldman.

I'm Caroline Thompson.

And this week we watched Against the Night, also known as Amityville Prison.

Bye.

Thanks so much for listening to Amityvilleville.

My name is Alex Goldman.

My co-host is Caroline Thompson.

Enjoy the show.

Hi, I'm Alex Goldman, and this is Hyperfixed.

Each week on our show, listeners write in with their problems, big and small, and I solve them, or at least I try.

And if I don't, I at least give a good reason why I can't.

Welcome to Amityvilleville.

I am Alex Goldman.

I am Caroline Thompson, and we are joined today by a very exciting special guest.

Will, would you like to introduce yourself?

Witch cake.

Yeah.

One of the urban legends I learned about recently is a Japanese urban legend of a girl named Hanako-san or Hanako of the toilet, who basically is just like a ghost that haunts you in the toilet, which is like very, it's very Alex Goldman coded, I gotta be honest.

Oh,

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