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Speaker 1: Camp Shane was once the most popular weight loss camp

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Speaker 1: in America. It was the best summers of my life.

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Speaker 1: Thousands of kids and teens spent their summers at Shane

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Speaker 1: and together lost hundreds and hundreds of pounds.

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Speaker 2: I went from one sixty to one forty.

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Speaker 1: I lost twenty seven pounds. I've lost eighty seven point

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Speaker 1: six pounds in nine leaks. From the outside, Camp Shane

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Speaker 1: seemed like a utopia for kids who felt unwanted by

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Speaker 1: the real world. It was a family business whose mission

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Speaker 1: was to help campers change their lives. And business was good,

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Speaker 1: real good.

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Speaker 2: We were busting at the seams at that point, five

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five kids. It was a lot.

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Speaker 1: But beyond the profits and the accolades, Shane had some

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Speaker 1: sinister secrets. It was no guidance.

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Speaker 2: It was more or less throw a bunch of kids

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Speaker 2: at a place call at a fitness camp.

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Speaker 1: They see a bunch of kids that go in heavy

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Speaker 1: and they come out thin, and they're not asking any

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Speaker 1: other questions.

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Speaker 2: What I didn't know at the time know was that

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Speaker 2: he was grooming me. I don't know that I fully

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Speaker 2: understood body shame until I went to a fat camp

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Speaker 2: and It's why it was called Camp Shame.

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Speaker 1: Then, in the middle of summer twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Camp closed, parents left scrambling.

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Speaker 1: The state is now investigating the sudden closure. What led

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Speaker 1: an acclaimed weight loss camp to suddenly close its doors

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Speaker 1: after fifty years in operation? What happens when the goal

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Speaker 1: is weight loss at any cost. I'm Kelsey Snelling. I've

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Speaker 1: spent over a decade uncovering the dark truth behind Camp

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Speaker 1: Shame and the culture that fueled it's decades long success,

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Speaker 1: and it turns out there's a very heavy price to shame.

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Speaker 1: This experience still hurts to this day.

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Speaker 2: It's still haunts me to this day.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Cam Shame starting on June fifth, on the

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