Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
TW: This epoisode contains discussion about religious cults and child physical and sexual abuse.
This docuseries currently streaming on Amazon Prime explores the controversial Duggar Family, who starred in TLC's reality show 19 Kids and Counting. Not only does the movie address the family's behaviors, including olderst son Josh Duggar's history of child sexual abuse, but it also dives into Bill Gothard and the cult-like practices of his church, The Institute in Basic Life Principle (IBLP). TLC sanitized the Duggar's dedication to the fringe teachings of Bill Gothard. Exploitation of children, both sexual and otherwise, is endemic in Gothard's organization and teachings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the psych legal pop podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm the therapist, Tess Brigham. |
| 0:14.4 | And I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. |
| 0:17.0 | So today we are talking about shiny, happy people, which is really not shiny or happy at all. |
| 0:25.5 | This is a four-part documentary that was on Amazon, which is about the IBL, wait, the I-B-L-P Institute and Basic Life Principles, |
| 0:39.4 | the worst-named church-slash cult ever. |
| 0:45.5 | And it involves the Duggers, |
| 0:48.8 | which is part of the TLC show 19 kids and counting. |
| 0:53.8 | And so I should, we should start off by giving you a trigger warning. |
| 1:00.8 | I mean, this is the show talks about cults. |
| 1:04.5 | It talks about, well, technically it's a religious organization, but has a very |
| 1:08.1 | cult feeling, talks about sexual abuse, childhood, physical |
| 1:14.2 | abuse. So if this is something that is not something you want to learn about, read about, |
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| 1:41.2 | Tune in on Tuesdays for Sisterwives and Thursday for documentaries, and we'll see you. Yeah, we're trying to find more positive documentaries. Yes, we are. Trust me. But it's hard to find, as we've said before. And this was a documentary that a lot of people were, you know, talking about and were interested in. And I was too, and I first heard about it. but you know, talking about and, yeah, and we're interested in. And I was too when I first |
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