This Is Life with Lisa Ling - Season 1

First aired: 9/28/2014 8 episodes

Episodes

1. Sugar Daddies, Sugar Babies

Aired: 9/28/2014

In the last decade, a host of websites have sprung up with a mission to match wealthy older men with young, attractive women, and for both parties, it can be an alluring opportunity. Dive into this world of youth, beauty, money and sex as Ling asks questions of Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies alike: Why did you choose this lifestyle? Once you get deep into this world, can you ever go back to conventional relationships? And what are the true costs and benefits when sex, money and power are on the line?

2. Unholy Addiction

Aired: 10/5/2014

Utah, home of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has the lowest rates of tobacco use and alcohol-related deaths in the nation. Yet, every year more people in Utah are dying from prescription drug overdoses than are dying in car accidents. In this episode, Lisa travels to Salt Lake City to discover how the hard hit LDS Church is battling an epidemic that is wreaking havoc on its faithful followers.

3. The Genius Experiment

Aired: 10/12/2014

Lisa examines the question- can we manufacture genius; a genius sperm bank created by eccentric millionaire and businessman Robert Graham has produced 200 progeny in their 20s and 30s in hopes of being created more intelligent than their peers.

4. Filthy Rich

Aired: 10/19/2014

Lisa Ling goes inside this modern day boomtown and explores its new women pioneers.

5. Jungle Fix

Aired: 10/26/2014

Lisa goes inside the hidden, mystical world of Ayahuasca, and investigates the popularity of this unregulated form of self-exploration, the power and consequences that can come along with its ingestion.

6. Road Strip

Aired: 11/2/2014

Lisa Ling goes inside Crane's world and that of other traveling strippers who leave their home turf to travel to areas that are more lucrative.

7. Gay Rodeo

Aired: 11/9/2014

An exploration of the Gay Rodeo Association.

8. Called To The Collar

Aired: 11/16/2014

Lisa travels to the Midwest, where more Catholic men are being drawn to the priesthood than anywhere else in the county, in a time where the Catholic population is on the rise, but the number of Catholic priests is dwindling.