TSFU Ep. 184- A TALE OF TWO CULTS: Unification Church and Sanctuary Church (Part I)- The Moonies

That's So Fcked Up

Ashley Love Richards

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Kristen sets the stage for Sean Moon's gun-toting, far-right extremist, antigovernment and anti-LBGTQAI+, Pennsylvania-based World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church (aka Rod of Iron Ministries), by telling Ash all about Sean's dad... leader of The Unification Church (aka The Moonies)!

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0:00.0	That is so fucked up. It's fucked up.
0:05.0	So fucked up. It is just so damn fucked up. That's fucked up.
0:17.7	Okay, Kristen.
0:19.1	Take two. Take two. Do you have your microphone? My microphone is clipped to my
0:25.2	lapel. No, no, it's a lapel mic and it's clipped to my shirt this time. You guys, I'm, I'm like a baby,
0:33.0	a baby podcaster again. I forgot that I did 600 episodes and I forgot how to record and I don't know
0:38.8	what to do with my hands and me and Kristen just got about three minutes into the recording
0:43.5	and I said, oh, my microphone is three feet away from me across the room. So maybe we should
0:50.5	take this from the top. Here we are. And roll it. So, hey everybody.
0:55.1	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:57.0	This is That So Fucked Up, a podcast about things that make you say, ugh.
1:02.0	Ugh.
1:02.7	That's so fucked up.
1:04.9	Hey, guys, I'm your host of this show that you've been probably listening to for a while now.
1:10.3	And my name is Ashley Love Richards.
1:13.2	So awkward.
1:14.2	So fucking awkward.
1:16.7	And I'm Kristen Jones.
1:18.5	One of my co-hosts, kind of my main co-host for a while now.
1:22.1	You've kind of been my main girl in the house.
1:26.1	We did have Erin.
1:27.4	Slay. You slay. You slay. We did have Erin.
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