That's So Fcked Up
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!
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April 29, 2024 • 30 mins
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 y...
Ash also kicks off the show telling Fallon about a problematic singer that she recently discovered on the interwebs. Let us know if y...
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April 28, 2024 • 104 mins
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 ...
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 ...
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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 rec...
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 rec...
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April 17, 2024 • 90 mins
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...
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...
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April 12, 2024 • 69 mins
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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April 9, 2024 • 71 mins
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 podca...
Caitlyn co-hosts PNW Haunts & Homicides, a podca...
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April 5, 2024 • 59 mins
In 2014, two friends named Kris Kremers (21) and Lisanne Froone (22) headed from their home in the Netherlands to Panama to go on a trip to go sightseeing, and with the goal of doing community service. On April 1st, they left their host family’s house in Panama to go on hike and disappeared in the forests of Panama.
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April 2, 2024 • 57 mins
TSFU Presents is BACK! This season Ash is joined by various friends from other awesome indie podcasts! Our first episode is with Alecia Watson from Twisted & Uncorked! Ash and Alecia go down the Project Modern Day Knight rabbit hole, PMDK is an $18,000 bootcamp for men who wants to go from beta boy to Alpha Man. It's a toxic masculinity mess... here we go!
This is the first season that will be half Patreon exclusive... everyone ...
This is the first season that will be half Patreon exclusive... everyone ...
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March 29, 2024 • 16 mins
✨If you want to hear the rest of this episode and ALL FOURTEEN of the other Bible episodes, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! We started this segment over a year ago with Genesis (the first book, for my other Biblically-challenged friends)!✨
Happy Good Friday! That works as a special holiday greeting to our friends who celebrate and also just a nice greeting for everyone else haha!
In the Christmas episode, Ash first told...
Happy Good Friday! That works as a special holiday greeting to our friends who celebrate and also just a nice greeting for everyone else haha!
In the Christmas episode, Ash first told...
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March 27, 2024 • 110 mins
"The untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside '90s kids' TV; hearing harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today." - Investigation Discovery
Ash and Fallon dig into the new docu-series "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV". Ash summarizes the four part series that details the trauma that many chi...
Ash and Fallon dig into the new docu-series "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV". Ash summarizes the four part series that details the trauma that many chi...
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March 26, 2024 • 44 mins
It's Women's History Month and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than to talk about the OG women of like... the entire world (according to some), Lilith and Eve! Haven't heard of Lilith? It's because she was pretty naughty, so we're excited to introduce her to you!
In Ash's first ever Bible lesson back in 2022, former co-host Michelle took Ash back to the very beginning in The Garden of Eden... creation, nudity and serp...
In Ash's first ever Bible lesson back in 2022, former co-host Michelle took Ash back to the very beginning in The Garden of Eden... creation, nudity and serp...
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March 22, 2024 • 55 mins
Linda Hazzard billed herself as a "fasting specialist" despite no formal medical degree and little training. She believed that all diseases came from food, and starving was the only cure. She opened her “sanitarium” in Olalla, Washington in the early 1900s, calling it Wilderness Heights. But residents of the small town called it "Starvation Heights" because of the countless patients who went to see Hazzard... and vanished. Both fig...
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March 19, 2024 • 53 mins
Ash and Fallon wrap up "Psychotic Psychology" and the insane story of Project MKUltra.
During the early Cold War and Korean Wars, in the late '40s and early '50s, the CIA became a super paranoid and obsessed spy agency, working on the notion that communists might have perfected some kind of a drug or technique that could control the human mind. Project MKUltra lasted through the '50s and '60s (at least that's what they want us to ...
During the early Cold War and Korean Wars, in the late '40s and early '50s, the CIA became a super paranoid and obsessed spy agency, working on the notion that communists might have perfected some kind of a drug or technique that could control the human mind. Project MKUltra lasted through the '50s and '60s (at least that's what they want us to ...
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March 18, 2024 • 81 mins
The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it deserves! Ash and Fallon break down the third episode, and there's some good news at the end of this one!
In the final episode, "Follow the Money", we find that, "with programs around the globe and exorbitant tuition, money was rolling in — but where was it going? A trail of dodgy dealings leads TO THE TOP." - Netflix
Omg y'all finally someone said it besides me... ev...
In the final episode, "Follow the Money", we find that, "with programs around the globe and exorbitant tuition, money was rolling in — but where was it going? A trail of dodgy dealings leads TO THE TOP." - Netflix
Omg y'all finally someone said it besides me... ev...
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March 16, 2024 • 65 mins
"Years after being sent to a disciplinary school, a woman who is haunted by her experiences decides to expose the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry." - Netflix
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping is in the worldwide top ten on Netflix for a very good reason! The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it deserves! Fallon breaks down episode two.
In "Mind Control", we see that "daily life at I...
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping is in the worldwide top ten on Netflix for a very good reason! The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it deserves! Fallon breaks down episode two.
In "Mind Control", we see that "daily life at I...
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March 15, 2024 • 86 mins
"Years after being sent to a disciplinary school, a woman who is haunted by her experiences decides to expose the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry." - Netflix
"The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping" is in the worldwide top ten on Netflix for a very good reason! The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it deserves! Ash tells Fallon about the first episode in this explosive 3-part docuseries...
"The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping" is in the worldwide top ten on Netflix for a very good reason! The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it deserves! Ash tells Fallon about the first episode in this explosive 3-part docuseries...
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March 12, 2024 • 49 mins
We saved the mother of all fucked up psychology studies for last... MKUltra. During the early Cold War and Korean Wars, in the late '40s and early '50s, the CIA became a super paranoid and obsessed spy agency, working on the notion that communists might have perfected some kind of a drug or technique that could control the human mind. Project MKUltra lasted through the '50s and '60s (at least that's what they want us to think) and...
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March 8, 2024 • 27 mins
This week Fallon tells Ash about Lake Lanier, is a reservoir in north central Georgia that stretches across 5 counties, with 695 miles of coastline. It's an extremely vacation spot, and it's also a place which is famous for tragic deaths, hauntings and UFO sightings.
TW: racial violence.
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TW: racial violence.
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March 7, 2024 • 56 mins
In a 1967 World History class in Northern California, teacher Ron Jones turned about 200 kids into enthusiastic would-be Nazis. The "experiment" that he conducted went from a one day exercise in obedience to a week long lesson in terror and shame.
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March 1, 2024 • 50 mins
Two teens from Canada go on a killing spree and murder three victims. Yet at the end of this story, we end up with five bodies...
TW: gun violence and suicide.
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TW: gun violence and suicide.
✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 150 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 n...
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