TEDDY HOSE artist + writer

Artist, writer, humorist, award-winning animator/filmmaker. CV includes The Huffington Post, Laughing Squid, & McSweeney's | teddyhose.com | [email protected]

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Hi, I’m Colin Robinson and I am an energy vampire. I wish people would understand that I don’t live to drain. I drain to live. - #colinrobinson #wwdits #halloween #halloweencostume #halloween2020 #energyvampires #vampire #taikawaititi #whatwedointheshadows #whatwedointheshadowsfx #comedy #cosplay (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHBhViYg8uZ/?igshid=ba9izbyaljl

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Doing my part for the 2020 election. The USPS ran out of postcards so I had to design some on the fly, using the candidates’ facial profiles. No copy machine here, just drawing and writing the same thing over and over. Handwritten postcards have proven effective to motivate voters. So if you want to do something creative and even therapeutic against election worries: 1. Text "JOIN" to 484-275-2229 2. They email you the script 3. Send them a pic of your postcard design 4. They approve & send you voters' addresses Yay, I don’t have to call anyone! More info: PostcardsToVoters.org - #2020election #amymcgrath #jonossoff #amymcgrathforcongress #jonossoffforcongress #postcardstovoters #bluewave #bluewave2020 #itmfa #dumptrump #votehimout #canvassing #postcards #postcard #illustration #design @amymcgrathky @jonossoff https://www.instagram.com/p/CFjSeEwggMO/?igshid=i3kg32vjnkn8

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Talk radio station, Midnight Society is doing a series of interviews on the theme of cults every night this week, 10pm ET / 7pm PT. They will be interviewing me live for 3 hours Friday, also taking calls from listeners. Listen at Midnight.fm - CULT WEEK ON MIDNIGHT SOCIETY WITH TIM WEISBERG⠀ ⠀ MONDAY: Exploring Cults Inside and Out⠀ Rick Alan Ross will discuss some of the tactics that cults use for control and manipulation. He will also share some of the most effective methods he and other experts have used to reverse that programming.⠀ ⠀ TUESDAY: Escaping Scientology⠀ Janis Grady talks about her life growing up in Scientology's Sea Organization, working directly with L. Ron Hubbard – and how she escaped. She will also talk about her mother, Yvonne Gillham Jentzsch, who founded the Scientology Celebrity Centre.⠀ ⠀ WEDNESDAY: Destructive Cults; The Liberation Point⠀ In the first half of the program, Dr. Janja Lalich will discuss her cult research, including the hidden cults lurking online, and examples of people she has studied and what was learned. She will also discuss the process of deprogramming. Then, Sami Brosseau will share what it was like growing up in the Twelve Tribes, the challenges she faced when she escaped and how she has found healing through helping others overcome similar experiences.⠀ ⠀ THURSDAY: Scientology’s History and Future as a Destructive Cult⠀ Chris Shelton joins us to discuss Scientology and some of the key aspects of its beliefs, practices and structure from the bottom to the top, including the confidential Xenu story.⠀ ⠀ FRIDAY: Secrets of the “Moonies”⠀ Teddy Hose will share his experience growing up in the Unification Church – a.k.a the “Moonies.” He will tell us what the UC is about, how he escaped and what he is doing now.⠀ ⠀ Tune in weeknights beginning at 10 pm Eastern/9 pm Central/7 pm Pacific. Link in bio.⠀ ⠀ #MidnightFM #cults #Scientology #SeaOrg #12Tribes #TwelveTribes #NXIVM #moonies #unificationchurch #cultsurvivor #cultexpert https://www.instagram.com/p/CFH5tT_AOK-/?igshid=34rsm8ebe9lc

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Cara Jones

The film I (along with an amazing team) have worked on for the last 7 years, Blessed Child is releasing to the world today. It’s a personal story about me and my family and it’s leaving me holding...

Excited to see my friend, Cara’s documentary release today examining her upbringing as a fellow born and raised “Moonie” from the Unification Church. She went to great lengths to give a glimpse of what was expected of us, including footage of an arranged marriage mass wedding (after participating in one as a young adult) and labor trafficking practices.

This is more of a personal story than investigative journalism and is one of many, but that her dad was the president of the American chapter of the Church in its early days gives it a unique perspective. I was happy to participate in it as well, though my interview was seven years ago so my views might have changed a bit since, but not much. Either way, happy to see this out in the world 🙌

You can now find the film on ITunes, Amazon or Google Play: https://itunes.apple.com/movie/blessed-child/id1522361718 and if you’d like to support a local art house you can buy tickets via the Roxie in San Francisco and be invited to a virtual Q&A 6pm PST on Tuesday July 21: https://www.roxie.com/blessed-child/

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My Etsy store (etsy.com/shop/TeddyHose) has been getting more attention lately, maybe because of my docuseries appearances. I originally used it for prints of my webcomic that ended in 2015, but just added two zines from the past few years. A big reason I speak out about my cult experience is that I think it sheds light on real world socioeconomic issues. These two zines from the past few years I just added speak to my being presented with those in my adult life, in one form or another: • Moments: From the Streets of San Francisco • Art School: Supplies and Demand - #zines #socioeconomics #comics #artschool #studentloans #studentloandebt #poverty #equality #transgender #lgbt #homeless #wealthgap #havenots #economy #sanfrancisco #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #sva #costofliving #costofcollege #workingclass #minority #america #underserved https://www.instagram.com/p/CAYHTJEgOfO/?igshid=132mwejd31d9k

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Ep1 Teddy Hose - Living & Leaving A Cult - The Genuinely Interested Podcast

Teddy Hose is an award-winning animator and filmmaker, designer, and storyteller of multiple mediums and I had the pleasure of speaking to him for an hour Teddy was on Vox's Explained, A&E Cults and on Extreme Beliefs and other programs where he discusses the life he lived being born into the Moonies cult. I have a ton of respect for Teddy for telling his story and having the courage to leave the cult and change his life the way he did.

Happy to have been interviewed for another podcast, this the first episode of a new one out of New York. Roy was a great host and I appreciate the theme of his Genuinely Interested Podcast, where he just talks to people he finds interesting.

Roy reached out to me after my appearance on the Explained: Cults docuseries episode on Netflix. We go into my childhood in the Unification Church (Moonies), research on cults, politics, and interesting facts like how the Church owns the New Yorker Hotel at the 34th St. subway stop, which I'd go to Church holidays for as a kid and Nikola Tesla died in.

iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/…/the-genuinely-int…/id1499910944

Spotify https://t.co/GNkH3FogNA?amp=1

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This was the moment transgender went from basic understanding to an emotional reality. From my 2016 zine, Moments: From the Streets of San Francisco. It's Transgender Awareness Week Nov 13th-19th. Your resilience is a beautiful thing. - #transawarenessweek #transgenderawarenessweek #transawarenessweek2019 #transgender #TransIsBeautiful #sanfrancisco #zine #zines #comic #indiecomic #cartoonist #lgbt #lgbtqia https://www.instagram.com/p/B4_7flPA-ur/?igshid=csrut0ag3hc8

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Big thanks to @brinkmanatee for showing me around NBC Studios last week! Don’t know how well I hid it, but I was short of breath from the excitement of seeing the SNL stage room, the control room of Late Night w/ Seth Meyers during a David Harbour (Stranger Things) interview, some pipes Jim Henson painted, and the studio where Bryan does VFX for Jimmy Fallon and SNL. Very surreal and great to catch up! - #nbc #nbcstudios #nyc #rockefellercenter #30rock #snl #motiongraphics #latenight #comedy #showbiz #entertainmentindustry #augenblickstudios #aftereffects (at NBC Studios Rockefeller Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3mtTJkARIq/?igshid=njjzurlpiq3q

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My interview on Generation Cult, a podcast about people raised in cults. I appreciate that host Dhyana Levey also grew up in one, so we connected on how a childhood in utopia felt fine most of the time (see Mixed-ish, ep. 1), as opposed to focusing on scandal like most media covers cults. But we go there too though, of course 😉 Fun Fact: Generation Cult is recorded in the same Oakland studio Glynn Washington—who did the Heaven’s Gate podcast and grew up in a cult—records Snap Judgement. - #generationcult #moonies #teddyhose #cults #unificationchurch #sanctuarychurch #voxexplained #guns #guncontrol #sga #excult #exmoonie https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Fqv8FA1Zz/?igshid=lgnl5m5dgutg

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The 2nd season of Vox’s Explained on Netflix kicked off yesterday, featuring myself and other cult survivors/friends sharing our stories and knowledge. It was great to have it featured on their homepage and narrated by the star of Get Out, Lakeith Stanfield. I’ve learned so much from this series, so was happy to contribute through it. Cults and extremist groups happen, let’s talk about it. - #voxexplained #netflixexplained #netflix #cults #cultsurvivor #teddyhose #documentary #docuseries #janjalalich #moonies #personalstory https://www.instagram.com/p/B26yoDbgHoG/?igshid=582oifx0ualj

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From the Climate Strike in San Francisco yesterday ✊🌎 - #climatestrikeSF #climatestrike #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #globalclimatestrike #sanfransico #imwithgreta #globalwarming #protestsigns #meme #extinctionrebellion #itmfa (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2sJXIXA15o/?igshid=msi6734dcb8x

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Ready with my sign to join the Global Climate Strike tomorrow ✊🌎 - #globalclimatestrike #climatestrike #protestsigns #memes #climatechange #gretathunberg #sanfrancisco #globalwarming #illustrator #greennewdeal #change #itmfa (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2oF3gqgNhp/?igshid=y2lk831p1075

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Part 2 of my interview on the IndoctrNation Podcast. In the wake of the mass shooting epidemic in the US, I read an excerpt from Sun Myung Moon’s order for church members to prioritize selling guns to the US. As a multimillionaire with businesses, political influence, and thousands of followers around the world, also founding The Washington Times which Fox News and other far right sources often reference, I don’t doubt he and members of his family—particularly his son’s offshoot group requiring members to own AR-15s (in the image)—have everything to do with this problem of our times. From Moon’s order to church members in 1969, @12:30 of the interview: “All [church members] must take an interest in guns now that I am doing business with guns while on earth...If I told [members questioning this] that we had sold 50,000 or 100,000 guns in Japan, the American members would feel compelled to sell even more than that. I went around the United States and investigated. America is a golden market; it is virgin soil. There are unlimited resources there, which is why it is possible to sell more than these numbers.”

Listen on: Stitcher | Apple/iTunes | Google Play | Soundcloud

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I feel lucky to have been interviewed about my research on cults, and my childhood in the Unification Church (the Moonies) on the Indoctrination podcast with Rachel Bernstein. As a longtime therapist, she is a wise and engaging host who gives proper insight in her responses and concluding summaries. It’s what really makes this podcast stand out.

I go into rituals like waking up at 5am every Sunday, reciting a militaristic pledge to a picture of the cult leader as a family, and more. I think it’s important that people understand the power of social influence by charismatic, “promised land” figures/groups, and that anyone is susceptible to it.

Listen on: Stitcher | Apple/iTunes | Google Play | Soundcloud

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Wedding photo booths are fun. Glad the happy couple can look back fondly on my being murdered by a celebrity, on their special day 🖤 - #photobooth #funny #lol #kyloren #wtf #photoboothwedding #photoboothprops #photoboothfun #photoboothparty #deadmansparty #penguintie #originalpenguin #latergram (at Monterey, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0DC4hkg8lA/?igshid=1mj3m3h3ecvwe

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My 5 min stand up comedy set about growing up in the Moonies and cults. This was for a class run by DJ Demers (America’s Got Talent, Conan) as part of MaxFunCon 2019 in LA. I am also in episodes 5 & 9 of A&E’s Cults & Extreme Belief available on Hulu and Amazon.

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Stay tuned! 🎥 - #teddyhose #interview #personalstory #videoshoot #behindthescenes #nda #staytuned #production #comingsoon #media #journalism (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxkjQNDgVfs/?igshid=uluxwq53cyoe