Name: This Is Life With Lisa Ling
Uploaded: 2025-04-23T03:15:08.000Z
Description: Award-winning journalist Lisa Ling goes on a gritty, breathtaking journey to the far corners of America.

Award-winning journalist Lisa Ling goes on a gritty, breathtaking journey to the far corners of America.

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Websites have sprung up matching wealthy older men with young, attractive women. Lisa Ling dives into a dating pool centered on youth, beauty, money and sex.

Sugar Daddies, Sugar Babies

Lisa Ling unpacks how prescription drug addiction has taken root in one of the most clean-living communities in America.

Unholy Addiction

More than 30 years ago, an eccentric millionaire who believed the human race was in decline came up with the idea of selectively breeding children for intelligence. Lisa visits with the people born out of his experiment.

Super Sperm

Lisa Ling explores the booming oil industry in North Dakota as more women seek opportunity in the area despite hardship, hard labor and danger.

Filthy Rich

Lisa Ling takes a road trip alongside four traveling strippers, who leave their homes in order to chase more profitable prospects.

Road Strip

Lisa Ling uncovers why thousands of Americans are flocking to the Amazon rainforest to drink a psychedelic plant mixture called ayahuasca.

Jungle Fix

Go behind the scenes with Lisa Ling to the International Gay Rodeo Association, where more than 5,000 registered members are bucking stereotypes.

Gay Rodeo

Lisa Ling visits a predominately Roman Catholic town to uncover why a growing number of young men are drawn to the priesthood.

Called to the Collar

Two children of imprisoned Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints prophet Warren Jeffs are interviewed.

Children of the Prophet

Lisa relives her life as a 1990s raver by embedding with a new generation of electronic music fans at a festival called Mysteryland.

Electronic Woodstock

Lisa examines the "one-percenter" Mongols Motorcycle Club.

Inside Mongol Nation

Lisa Ling accompanies 13 inmates who are preparing for an unprecedented father-daughter dance.

Fatherless Towns

It's a deep dive into the competitive fashion world, as Lisa Ling meets girls vying to be the next top model who discover it's not all glitz and glamour.

Faces That Sell

What is it like to see death daily? Lisa Ling visits the dedicated men and women at the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.

America's Busiest Coroners

Lisa Ling attends a pickup artist training boot camp in the desert where she explores what draws men to the lifestyle.

The Seduction Game

Lisa Ling travels to Detroit to meet one of the most controversial religious groups, the Satanic Temple, as they unveil a monument dedicated to Satan.

The Satanists Next Door

Lisa Ling gains unprecedented access to the Los Angeles County Jail to understand what it takes to manage the country's busiest jail.

Locked Angeles

Join Lisa Ling as she steps into the cage with three female fighters who are turning the sport of mixed martial arts on its head.

Women Who Fight

Is the gentler approach to heroin use being applied equally to the rich and poor, Black and White? Lisa Ling goes to Chicago to investigate.

The Black and White of Heroin

Lisa Ling travels to the most famous legal brothel, Dennis Hof's Moonlite Bunny Ranch, to meet the women who are making a living off lust.

21st Century Brothel

Meet ambitious young people in San Francisco, who hope to become the next Mark Zuckerberg.

Silicon Savants

Lisa Ling embeds with the Philadelphia Police Department to explore how new technology is changing what it means to be an officer in America.

Wired Philly

Should rapists be allowed to have visitation with their child? Lisa Ling talks with sexual assault survivors who are fighting this in court.

Sins of the Father

Lisa Ling investigates why some women seek a romantic companionship with a prison inmate.

Prison Love

Lisa Ling explores the worlds of Tantra and surrogate partner therapy - two unique approaches to sexual healing.

Sexual Healing

Lisa Ling traces her family roots to find out what it means to be Chinese in America and explores the diverse movement of immigration from China to the US.

Chinese in America

What are the legal and social consequences of convicting adolescents and young adults of sex offenses? Lisa Ling investigates.

Age of Consent

Lisa Ling embeds with The Patriot Movement - an extremist militia deep in the Arizona desert, preparing for foreign and domestic threats.

Patriot Movement

Lisa Ling meets three different African-American Muslims and learns about how Islam is reshaping lives in the Black community.

America's First Muslims

Open-minded singles, couples and throuples show Lisa Ling that love doesn't always come in pairs.

Modern Love

Lisa Ling investigates the dark, shocking and sometimes dangerous underbelly of Las Vegas that few get to see.

Lost Vegas

Lisa Ling takes a look inside the exciting and emotional competition that is the world's most prestigious transgender beauty pageant.

Transbeauty

Lisa Ling meets with people in the LGBTQ community who are seeking acceptance from those closest to them.

This Is Life With Lisa Ling

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