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That's So Fcked Up

TSFU: Ep. 148- The Troubled Teen Industry: "The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping" Part I

That's So Fcked Up

Ashley Love Richards

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5541 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

"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 Academy at Ivy Ridge return to the now-shuttered school and reflect on the horrors they endured during the time in the program." - Netflix

TW: child abuse of every kind.



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-Audio editing by Dallas Hernandez.

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0:00.0

Because you sound just like my stepmom.

0:04.5

It's crazy.

0:05.6

Oh, oh my God.

0:09.0

I just realized that, like, if I would have not been adopted by my best friend's family,

0:16.8

there's like a good fucking chance that my stepmom would have tried to send me to these ones.

0:21.7

Like a thousand fucking percent my stepmom would have sent me to one of these if I went and lived with them.

0:29.4

She'd know about this shit.

0:31.9

That is so fucked up.

0:34.9

It's fucked up.

0:36.6

So fucked up. It is up so fucked up it is just so damn fucked up that's fucked up and action action fallon

0:52.9

and then I sit still. Oh, my God.

0:55.7

You guys, we were just sitting here talking about some things that I would like to do that Fallon was

1:03.5

like, we should be recording.

1:04.7

And I was like, I am not going to say that on the record because, well, here I go, you guys.

1:15.9

I'm horsing real early into the episode.

1:18.8

There's going to be a lot of that.

1:20.7

Oh, my goodness.

1:22.1

We're not even into the episode in your horsing.

1:24.7

I know.

1:25.6

It's just like I can't even express my true real feelings

1:30.1

about this, all of this because it's violent. Yeah, I can't say some stuff on recording because my

1:41.5

feelings are violent for heck of a better word.

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