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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry, and this is a little leader.

Our weekly catch-up where I also read the stories that you send to me. If you have a story you'd like to share with the cult, send it on over to Spencer at Cult Leader.com and put little leader somewhere in the subject line or the body of the email.

So I know where to find it. Come on, what are you waiting for? I know we got some stories out there. What a week. Yesterday we finally announced the obituary US tour and I am so excited. If you haven't listened to my other podcast obituary, yes, should.

I hope to see a lot of cult babes out there on the road. I know a lot of you were at our show. We did here in August. It's just going to be so much fun. If you were at that show or you listened to it, I like to incorporate a little cult leader into the live shows. So be there or be square. That's all I'm saying. All of the details can be found on our website obituarypodcast.com.

Lots of different cities on there. Some of them I've been to is some of them I have not and I just can't wait. Also because it's been asked already.

Cult Leader will be released on the same schedule while we're gone. I would never leave you hanging. The only thing that is going to maybe be a little different is little leaders. Not sure how many I'll be able to get out on the weeks that we're gone.

But it shouldn't affect anything too much. Just know that the main episodes will be released on their regular schedule. As far as anything else, we'll just have to wait and see what happens. And I think that's all. Get your tickets.

Alright, let's get into it. Happy Friday babes. I am craving a weekend where I close all of my curtains, turn off my phone and just hibernate. It's all I want to do. I'm talking postmates everything. Watch movies. Just be a total shut in. So if you have any movie recommendations, drop them now. You know, I love a thriller, a suspense film. And you guys never steer me in the wrong direction.

I might even read a book this weekend. We'll see what happens. I'm actually very behind on my leisure reading. Curious to know how many of you are like me and just have a stack of books that you're waiting for the perfect time to open. Like, oh, when I go on vacation or when I have this mysterious downtime that I don't think is ever coming.

I'm actually listening to a book right now. I think it on one of the audible ads right now, but there's a book called Your Brain's Not Broken. And if you have ADHD, highly recommend it. My therapist is who recommended it to me because, well, surprise, surprise, I have ADHD if it wasn't painfully obvious.

I think that's why it personally always lean towards reading books by like my favorite author Augustine Burrows so much because his style of writing is like these little stories compiled into a book. And it's really easy to pay attention. It's also why I like doing the list episodes on here from time to time because I know if I personally was listening to a podcast.

I like to hear a few mini stories versus one long one sometimes because it's just easier to pay attention. I know everyone has their preferences, so we got to mix. I mean, sometimes the long stories really pull you in, but you're coldly just got a short attention span.

Okay, with that, let's move on to something different. Some news for the week. Lori Valow, Chad Debel, Doomsday Mom. They've been back in the headlines lately because their trials coming up, it is slated to begin on April 3rd.

You already know I will be glued to the screen waiting for updates to share with you guys. I did read that they aren't allowing any cameras inside the courtroom, so everything will probably just come out in the papers or in the articles online.

Afterwards, Nate Eaton for the East Idaho Times has been on this case from the get-go I know I talked about him in some of the Doomsday episodes that we did.

So he's who I'm following for updates. I was reading an article he put out, I think on Tuesday of this week where he wrote that prosecutors are planning to present sufficient evidence that shows Lori Valow, Debel, intended for her two children and Tammy Debel to die, in that she participated in the killings of her kids.

That's according to court documents that were filed last Thursday from Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood and Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsay Blake. The prosecutors also expressed serious reservations about Debel's request to meet with her husband Chad, and they argue that her alleged actions make her eligible for the death penalty.

In a separate court filing, prosecutors responded to Lori's request to meet with Chad in person and talk with him on the phone for strategy sessions ahead of her trial.

So these two are still very much in cahoots. I thought they would have turned on one another by now, but I guess not.

But yeah, they're apparently not letting them do that. It says the state has serious reservations about allowing the co-defendants to have face-to-face or other communication directly with each other according to the prosecutors.

The state recognizes that the defendants have agreed to not use any evidence or information. They may obtain through any discussions or meetings against each other. Nevertheless, the state is not willing to make a similar agreement.

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