Maternal Instinct: The Red Flags Everyone Ignored
The Lo Life
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5.0 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s The Lo Life, Lo is joined once again by resident true crime junkie Hayley Orrantia for an episode filled with jaw-dropping stories that prove truth really is stranger than fiction.
The episode kicks off with the unbelievable true story of the woman responsible for kidnapping thousands of babies across America and how she managed to get away with it for decades. It’s one of the most shocking scandals in U.S. history, and the details are almost impossible to believe.
Then, Lo and Hayley dive into Netflix’s Maternal Instinct—breaking down the lies, manipulation, shocking deception, and the question that had them yelling at the screen: How were so many red flags ignored? Without giving away the biggest twists, they unpack the psychology behind the people involved, why warning signs are so often dismissed, and how one unbelievable story spiraled into tragedy.
Whether you’ve already watched Maternal Instinct or you’re simply obsessed with unbelievable true crime stories, this episode will leave you questioning just how well we really know the people around us.
Grab your coffee, buckle up, and get ready for a wild ride.
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| 0:00.0 | We keep it moving, yeah, we're going to a brand spanking new episode. |
| 0:16.1 | Fresh out the kitchen, we've been cooking in la cuisine, making you a delicious, bold, |
| 0:20.4 | a flavorful spicy caliente |
| 0:22.1 | sizzling fajita platter of the low life podcast ready for you to sink your chompers into |
| 0:27.0 | i'm your flaming hot and spicy seasonally depressed white wine drinking tuckie finger licking |
| 0:33.5 | ice coffee sipping mushroom microd, hot mess of a host. |
| 0:39.5 | Lo'd in so von, Rumpf. |
| 0:42.5 | And I'm so happy to be here with you today. |
| 0:44.7 | There is no place I'd rather be than right here in this moment with you right now. |
| 0:49.5 | I hope you're having a great day and a beautiful week and you're feeling good. |
| 0:53.4 | But if you are struggling with |
| 0:54.6 | your mental health right now, if you're feeling anxious, depressed, overwhelmed. If you're just |
| 0:59.5 | trying to get through the week, hell, just get through the day. I understand that as someone |
| 1:04.1 | who has struggled with my own mental health and been very honest about depression and anxiety. |
| 1:09.0 | And when life throws curveballs my way, I've navigated those |
| 1:13.1 | obstacles here live with you on the podcast. And so as someone who has circled a drain and didn't |
| 1:20.0 | think I was going to be okay, I just want to remind you that you've got this. I promise you, |
| 1:24.9 | you're going to be okay. You will get through this. Just take it one |
| 1:27.7 | hour at a time. And the fact that you're here right now, listening to the low life podcast, you're giving yourself a wind, boo, some dopamine for the soul, some serotonin for the ear holes. You're choosing to escape for an hour and enjoy a podcast. That's good for you. I was just talking with one of my girlfriends, and she said, Lo, do you ever run out of things to talk about on the podcast? Like, you've been doing this podcast for years now. Do you run out of things to say? I mean, like, how do you figure out what to even talk about on the show or what topics to explore? I feel like you've probably talked about everything at this point. Like, what's left? |
| 2:02.4 | And we're cracking up, and she's not the first person to ask me that or assume that I'd probably |
| 2:07.7 | struggle to figure out what topics to explore. But my answer to that will always be, I will never |
| 2:13.9 | run out of things to talk about. I'm a yapper. I freaking love to talk. I could talk to |
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