268 episodes

That's So Fcked Up is a true crime lite podcast primarily about cults, but also murder and other generally awful things. TSFU brings you enthralling stories while looking at what causes them to happen. Join host Ashley Love Richards as she and her various co-hosts discuss what inspires people to do the awful things that they do. Nature? Nurture? Society? Let's investigate from our couches together!

That's So Fcked Up Ashley Love Richards

    • Comedy
    • 4.6 • 460 Ratings

That's So Fcked Up is a true crime lite podcast primarily about cults, but also murder and other generally awful things. TSFU brings you enthralling stories while looking at what causes them to happen. Join host Ashley Love Richards as she and her various co-hosts discuss what inspires people to do the awful things that they do. Nature? Nurture? Society? Let's investigate from our couches together!

    TSFU INTERVIEWS: Author and Cult Survivor Shelly Snow Pordea

    TSFU INTERVIEWS: Author and Cult Survivor Shelly Snow Pordea

    WE HAVE A NEW SEGMENT, AND THIS IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST OF THREE THAT WE'RE ROLLING OUT! WE PRESENT TO YOU "TSFU INTERVIEWS..."! This is a new segment where Ash, Fallon and friend of the podcast Chauntee Pitts will interview survivors, authors and all sorts of other incredible guests!

    In this first conversation, Ash and Shelly Snow Pordea discuss Shelly's new book, 'The Cheating Wife,' which explores the themes of abuse, control, and the patriarchy within the context of a fictional story. They also touch on their own experiences with religious cults and the importance of raising awareness about the treatment of women within these systems. Shelly emphasizes the need for informed consent and proper training for counselors within religious organizations.

    The conversation highlights the importance of challenging societal norms and promoting empathy and understanding. Ash and Shelly also discuss the harmful messages and beliefs perpetuated by religious institutions, particularly regarding gender roles and sexuality. They explore the damaging effects of the patriarchy and the pressure it puts on both men and women. Shelly shares her personal experiences growing up in a strict religious environment and how it influenced her writing. They also touch on the importance of finding a safe and supportive community and the need to ask questions and challenge dogma.


    ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment!

    🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/
    🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU
    ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast
    📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329
    🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218
    📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/
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    👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

    • 1 hr 3 min
    TSFU UPDATES: Ash Relapsed and AA Sucks, Mental Health Stuff and Shanin Blake Shenanigans

    TSFU UPDATES: Ash Relapsed and AA Sucks, Mental Health Stuff and Shanin Blake Shenanigans

    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

    ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment!
    🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/
    🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU
    ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast
    📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329
    🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218
    📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/
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    👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

    • 30 min
    TRENDING TOPIC: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, Murderous Doomsday Couple

    TRENDING TOPIC: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, Murderous Doomsday Couple

    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.

    ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment!


    🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/
    🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU
    ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast
    📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329
    🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218
    📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/
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    👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

    • 1 hr 44 min
    TSFU PRESENTS PREVIEW: Kundalini Yoga... and Some Updates on OJ's Death and Netflix's "Baby Reindeer"

    TSFU PRESENTS PREVIEW: Kundalini Yoga... and Some Updates on OJ's Death and Netflix's "Baby Reindeer"

    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!
    If you want to continue hearing entire TSFU Presents seasons (instead of just the first 2 out of 4 episodes), join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! You also get monthly bonus Ash Learns the Bible episodes, early release ad-free episodes, access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and so much more!


    🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/
    🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU
    ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast
    📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329
    🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218
    📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/
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    👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

    -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/

    • 1 hr 2 min
    TRENDING TOPIC: Synanon- Drug Rehab Turned Dangerous Cult

    TRENDING TOPIC: Synanon- Drug Rehab Turned Dangerous Cult

    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.


    ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment!

    🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/
    🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU
    ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast
    📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329
    🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218
    📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/
    🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/
    👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

    -Audio Editing by Nicole Peek.

    • 1 hr 30 min
    TSFU: Ep. 151- Unqualified AF: Dr. Phil and Decades of Destruction

    TSFU: Ep. 151- Unqualified AF: Dr. Phil and Decades of Destruction

    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.


    ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment!

    🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/
    🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU
    ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast
    📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329
    🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218
    📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/
    🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/
    👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

    -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...

    • 1 hr 9 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
460 Ratings

460 Ratings

Green197844 ,

Work

I listen to y’all while I’m at work. I work as a cashier at Walmart. I do think that y’all should do a reality show about cashier’s it would be awesome.

AlwaysaTiger1969 ,

Glad to be back

I really missed you guys. I’m almost caught up. I’m on Episode 3 of the Natalia Grace saga. So, about 25 episodes to go and I’ll be caught up. Once I get caught up, I’ll start watching live too.

NappyDresser ,

Cult/TC talk with Amanda Knox?!

Most excellent treat! Thanks, Ash, love the pod cast!

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