TSFU: Ep. 155- Amish Cults: Beneath the Bonnet
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
You might think of the Amish as quiet, quaint folks in buggies selling homemade stuff, but there's a lot more beneath the surface. Join us as Fallon tells Ash all about the secretive world of the Amish. From shocking abuses against women and children to the dark side of puppy mills - get ready for a wild rollercoaster of revelations that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about Amish life.
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-Audio editing by Kim Shockley
-Research by Peggie Brott
-Sources:
- To be or not to be Amish: Rumspringa by Tom Shachtman
- Sins of the Amish documentary, Peacock
- Reflections and Memories of an Amish Misfit by Mary Byler
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96RGRjyTTNI&t=1576s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taK2L6hRYPo
- https://web-dvm.net/amish-are-among-the-worst-puppy-mill-offenders/
- https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/antioch-rescue-working-to-free-dogs-from-large-ohio-based-amish-puppy-mill/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15R3V8r3gR8&t=4186s
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish
- https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/social-organization/government/?doing_wp_cron=1707810677.9785380363464355468750
- https://bailingoutbenji.com/
- https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/docs/HSUS_Horrible-Hundred-2023.pdf
- https://www.humanesociety.org/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQaCuINxvpU
- https://www.amishheritage.org/this-devastating-lawsuit-destroys-your-right-to-learn/
- https://www.amishheritage.org/this-is-what-happens-when-religion-outweighs-childrens-rights/
- https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/coverings/mennonites-forgiveness-sexual-abuse-coverings-plain-amish-lancaster-county/
- https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/coverings/mennonites-amish-sexual-abuse-plain-coverings-lancaster-whispering-hope-intervention/
- https://tarrant.tx.networkofcare.org/dv/news-article-detail.aspx?id=110710
- https://www.amishbaskets.com/blogs/blog/amish-shunning-rules
- https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/heres-a-closer-look-into-whispering-hope-other-amish-and-plain-mental-health-facilities/article_db461afa-3fa2-11ea-9fa2-e329e664f8a9.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Ls34mDZpw
- https://www.themisfitamish.com/
- https://people.com/crime/sins-of-the-amish-inside-amish-sex-abuse-survivor-quest-for-justice/
- https://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature_labi_janfeb05.msp
- https://time.com/6250526/women-talking-mennonite-bolivia-real-story/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | That is a common thread. |
| 0:03.2 | If you are a woman, it's all your fault. |
| 0:05.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:05.5 | The vagina plays that devil's magic. |
| 0:08.4 | It's every time that fucking vagina magic, it'll get you. |
| 0:13.2 | Vaj-Maj, if you will. |
| 0:15.1 | That is so fucked up. |
| 0:18.2 | It's fucked up. |
| 0:20.1 | So fucked up. It is up so fucked up it is just so damn fucked up that's fucked up because you always |
| 0:33.2 | look so purty when we record these days well it's funny because it's just because I've happened to |
| 0:40.9 | do a couple photo shoots and I always record with you after because I never look like this on |
| 0:47.3 | any other days. I know I kind of miss the high bun. You're like, where's Ashley who wears the same |
| 0:53.6 | yellow shirt every day? |
| 0:55.0 | I am kind of missing your recording robe, I call it, but it's like your sweat. |
| 0:59.2 | It's a sweater, but I call it your recording robe. |
| 1:02.9 | It's my all the time robe. |
| 1:05.8 | And it is a sweater, which is why I feel okay about making it like an all-the-time thing. |
| 1:11.2 | It's your cold leader outfit, your recording rib. |
| 1:14.2 | I'm just kidding. |
| 1:15.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.3 | And you guys, welcome to our colt. |
| 1:19.5 | Just kidding. |
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