Those Conspiracy Guys is a comedy, history and True Crime podcast based in Ireland and deals with everything from the out-there conspiracy theories like aliens, time travel, and ancient civilisations to the more grounded, historical and provable conspiracies like political and financial corruption, scientific chicanery and secret government agency shenanigans. From the high concept topics like inter dimensional lizard men, complicated assassination plots and future technology like alternative simulated universes to the much more tangible topics like discussing serial killers and mysterious disappearances, exploring religions and cult leaders and examining unbelievable true crime cases. You are brought on a light hearted and hilarious exploration of these fantastic stories by TCG host Gordo and a cavalcade of comedians and fabulously interesting guests.
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Robert Berchtold
On this episode comedian Ailish McCarthy joins me to discuss the case made famous by the documentary 'Abducted in Plain Sight' and one of the most egregious cases of manipulation that you can find; the case of Robert Berchtold and Jan Broberg.
Infiltrating and then sexually intoxicating a whole family of Mormons called The Brobergs, Berchtold was able to wrestle away the control of their daughter Jan and end up co-habiting with the family as he continued his deep psychological control campaign.
Abducting Jan on multiple occasions and ultimately holding her hostage in Mexico until the FBI were involved should have been the end of him and his depraved mission; but the hooks were too deep however as The Brobergs became even more entwined in Berchtolds web of deceit, psychological authority and sexual control.
Its such a crazy story that to give more details here would ruin it a bit, so just dive in and enjoy!
Ailish is great craic on this episode and you can find her on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/thesleepycomedian/ contrary to the handle she calls out in the episode! Its been changed since :) She also has a podcast called The Party T*ts and you can find that here https://youtube.com/channel/UC5T2_PYEFwy9nwTQCv8nv4Q or here https://www.ko-fi.com/ptpod or you can find her own comedy channel on Youtube here https://youtube.com/channel/UCOItbrUth4KRb-hAsUrj0Tw
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