That's So Fcked Up Ashley Love Richards

Hi friends! This episode is a hodgepodge of updates around our mental health, Ash's recent lapse in sobriety and why she's glad she's not in AA, and what's happening on TSFU in the coming weeks. We've got a special interview and Patrons are getting a brand-spanking new episode of Ash Learns the Bible!

Ash also kicks off the show telling Fallon about a problematic singer that she recently discovered on the interwebs. Let us know if you're interested in more content like that, Ash is into it and wondering if y'all are on the same train. Please reach out and let us know! And as promised, we've provided some mental health and addiction resources below.

Mental health and addiction resources:
https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helplinehttps://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-helphttps://dialecticalbehaviortherapy.com/I've personally found DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) to be very helpful for my mental health and sobriety. It's about learning and utilizing skills including mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance.https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/sober-factionI don't have personal experience with this group but its come highly recommendedhttps://smartrecovery.org/I don't have personal experience with this group but its come highly recommendedhttps://alcohol.org/alcoholics-anonymous/alternatives-to-the-aa-approach/I have not tried or verified all of the groups on this pagehttps://www.oarhealth.com/resources/alternatives-to-aa-the-many-paths-to-sobriety-or-semi-sobrietyI have not tried or verified all of the treatment suggestions on this page, but it's a lot of useful information

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Note: this episode originally aired in September 2021. Chad Daybell is currently on trial and the episode starts with an update of what's happened since our original episode aired.

Cam covered the story of Lori Vallow and her fifth husband Chad Daybell, and the disappearance of several of those around them. Daybell is the author of several Doomsday books and was the leader of a small cult, of which Lori was a devout follower.  When Lori started to refer to her children, Tylee (16), and JJ (7), as zombies people began to worry a little, but not too much.

Once no one could find or speak to the children, and Lori gave conflicting stories of their whereabouts, for six months, she was finally arrested in February of 2020. The story leading up to the disappearance of Tylee and JJ, and the elopement and subsequent arrest of Vallow and Daybell in Hawaii, is stranger than fiction.

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Happy Saturday friends! This week's episode is a bit late because there's so much up to date info in it!

OJ is dead, as most of you probably know. Ash gives the deets surrounding his death. If you'd like to hear our previous episode on the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, that episode is available exclusively to Patrons here.

Netflix's Baby Reindeer is a phenomenal show that Ash tells Fallon a bit about and highly recommends! Watch here. The gals discuss the important fact that more awareness is finally being brought to male victims and stalking cases. You can find our "Lover, Stalker, Killer" episode that they refer to here.

And at the end, our non-Patron friends get a little taste of this week's TSFU Presents episode that Patrons got on Tuesday!
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-Audio editing by Gaytrice Perdue and Dallas Hernandez.
-Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oj-simpson-death-lawyer-end-came-quickly/https://time.com/6967483/baby-reindeer-netflix-true-story/

Note: This episode originally aired in December 2022.

There has been a recent resurgence of talk about the Synanon organization, thanks in part to documentaries released on Max and Paramount+. So we decided to reach back to December 2022 for a re-release of our Synanon episode.

Synanon started out as an alternative to AA, a rehab program for "dope fiends", but quickly turned into a sinister and deadly cult. Synanon was also the basis for many of the programs that we see today in the TTI (troubled teen industry).

In this special bonus episode, Ash is joined by badass survivor Jen Carole, whose parents were murdered by Josef DeAngelo aka the Golden State Killer. Jen grew up during the 60s and 70s in Southern California, when are where Synanon began.


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-Audio Editing by Nicole Peek.

Where do we even start with "Dr." flipping Phil. He's not a licensed anything, accept for a-hole, and hasn't been for years. He's known for berating and being abusive towards guests, enabling victims of addiction, exploiting mental illness, and maybe best of all, sending multiple kids to Troubled Teen institutions.


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-Research by Erin Collins.
-Audio Editing by Dallas Hernandez.
-Sources:
https://choicesseminars.com/https://www.courtroomsciences.com/https://www.meritstreetmedia.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_McGrawhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctors_(talk_show)https://www.drphil.com/https://www.turnaboutranch.com/https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/10/time-oprah-winfrey-beefed-texas-cattle-industry/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfycZcHgFAhttps://www.nickiswift.com/1421397/x-times-dr-phil-sued-by-former-tv-guests/https://www.today.com/popculture/10-5m-settlement-dr-phil-diet-plan-suit-wbna15014778https://www.breakingcodesilence.org/turn-about-ranch/https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/karla-rodriguez/bhad-bhabie-dr-phil-turn-about-ranch-accusations-explainerhttps://casetext.com/case/mahaffa-v-mcgrawa href="https://stage29.tv/#shows" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer...

Have you seen the colorful ads enticing you to come experience "China before Communism" through the art of song and dance at a Shen Yun performance? What about the far-right wing newspaper "The Epoch Times" that preaches misogynistic, racist, homophobic and prejudiced views? They're both owned by the dangerous cult of Falun Gong which Ash tells Caitlyn and Lindsey about this week!

Caitlyn co-hosts PNW Haunts & Homicides, a podcast about true crime, the paranormal, and all kinds of spooky sh*t in the Pacific Northwest! Lindsey is the co-host of Ye Olde Crime, a podcast about spooky, strange, and surreal stories of the past. Support your local indie podcaster and check them both out today, wherever you listen to podcasts!


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-Audio editing by Dallas Hernandez.
-Research by Kristen Jones.
-Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gonghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4477070-shen-yun-advertises-5000-years-of history-in-dance-why-does-china-call-it-an-anti-society-cult/ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/12/shen-yun-falun-gong-traditional-chinese-dance troupe-china-doesnt-want-you-to-see https://arbiteronline.com/2023/03/14/a-look-into-the-mysterious-roots-of-shen-yun-is-the-morriso n-center-unknowingly-hosting-a-front-for-a-cult/ https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/cult-shen-yun-dance-troupe/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachings_of_Falun_Gong#Controversies a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Springs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer...