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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ✨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...

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 will get to hear the first two episodes of each season, but...

✨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 her version of the story of the birth of Jesus and...

"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 child stars went through while working at Nickelodeon from the...

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 serpents, oh my! Michelle was in a Pentecostal cult for many of...

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 figuratively and literally. This is a story of murder.... but...

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 think) and killed many people and destroyed countless...

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... every freaking time! The Program: Cons, Cults, and...

"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 Ivy Ridge involved cult-like tactics, a rules system with...

"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. In "Where The F**k Am I?", we see "former students of the...

We saved the mother of all f****d 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 killed many people and destroyed countless lives.Wait... the...

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. ✨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...

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. ✨If you'd like access to over 140 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...

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. ✨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 new FREE version that you can try with no...

TW: This week we discuss the brutal murder and torture of enslaved persons in the U.S. in the 1800s. Upon further research (unfortunately after the recording of the episode), Ash found that "slave" is no longer a politically correct term, but it IS used throughout the episode. If that word or the subject matter is particularly upsetting to you, you might want to skip this one. Happy Black History Month! This definitely isn't a happy story, but this history is very important. This week we...

PATRONS GET TSFU EPISODES ON TUESDAYS INSTEAD OF FRIDAYS, AND THIS WEEK YOU CAN GET IN ON THAT ACTION TOO!⁠ This story is leading Netflix's Top Ten right now for a damn good reason, this case is BANANAS y'all! We couldn't wait until Friday to tell you about it so we released this week's episode early. Feel the luxury that Patrons do, no waiting for the weekend for these babies!⁠ ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get...

If someone told you to give a stranger an electric shock, to the point where you're severely harming and possibly even killing that stranger... would you do it? What if they were in a white lab coat with a clipboard? The Milgram experiment is one of the most famous and controversial psychological experiments on obedience and has had a lasting effect on understanding “obedience, authority, and human behavior” as well as group dynamics. ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't...

Note: This episode was recorded a couple of months ago! Two weeks ago, on Saturday February 3, 2024, a 12 year old boy was found dead by authorities, naked from the waist down, at Trails Carolina, a "wilderness therapy" camp in North Carolina. This happened just 5 1/2 weeks after the release of Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare, a Netflix documentary that reached the top ten, detailing the start of the "therapeutic wilderness camp" industry. "Out-of-control teens across America were sent to a...