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This Family Vlogger Is Disgusting... _ Ruby Franke Update · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: Ruby Frankie a controversial family vlogger who shocked the YouTube
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Speaker 1: space and raised eyebrows around the world. Her vlogs were
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Speaker 1: not the happy family channel videos you would expect from
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Speaker 1: a YouTuber, but instead a nightmare of child punishing her
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Speaker 1: children in ways that some people would rather just receive
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Speaker 1: the belt, and the drama eventually spread so large that
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Speaker 1: not only was she convicted in court, but an entire
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Speaker 1: Hulu docuseries was created to show the horrors that happened
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Speaker 1: not only in front of the camera but behind it. Crime, conspiracy, cults,
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Speaker 1: serial killers, and murder, all things that I love to consume.
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Speaker 1: And I know you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful,
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Speaker 1: intellectually mind freak. But yesterday we are talking about the
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Speaker 1: infamous Ruby Frankie. We all know how much I love
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Speaker 1: family blogging channels, don't we. They're my favorite. And by
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Speaker 1: they're my favorite, I mean I feel like they should
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Speaker 1: be illegal. I don't like him. I don't like him
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Speaker 1: one bit. I did cover Ruby Frankie very briefly in
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Speaker 1: a video, maybe like a year ago, didn't go deep
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Speaker 1: dive into it. But she's resurfacing on the internet and
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Speaker 1: in court, and because of this docuseries. So I figured
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Speaker 1: we'd do a deep dive into this match. So without
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Speaker 1: further ado, let's unback, say bounce, go Mark five down
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Speaker 1: the highway, slam on the brakes, and must through this
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Speaker 1: windshield into this pos family blogger together.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: Ruby was born in Utah in January of nineteen eighty
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Speaker 1: two to Chad and Jennifer Griffiths, growing up with three sisters, Ellie, Julie,
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Speaker 1: and Bonnie. Her family was born in Utah, which was
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Speaker 1: also deeply involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of
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Speaker 1: the Life, Saturday Saints, the LDS Church. We've done a
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Speaker 1: lot of videos about that. You can go watch those ones,
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Speaker 1: but some shady stuff sometimes, which is better known as Mormonism.
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Speaker 1: And this belief would shape not only her life, but
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Speaker 1: her children's as well, and later in life, she would
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Speaker 1: marry Kevin Frankie, a former professor of engineering at Bringham
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Speaker 1: Young University in Provo, Utah, on December twenty eighth, two
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Speaker 1: thousand and Together they adopted a structured approach to parenting,
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Speaker 1: which was heavily influenced by religious beliefs. They emphasized obedience,
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Speaker 1: self reliance, and regimented lifestyle for their children, often framing
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Speaker 1: these values as essential for their growth and success, which like,
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Speaker 1: on the surface, you know, to each the realm, that
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Speaker 1: doesn't sound so bad. I guess you know. If you're
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Speaker 1: for religion against religion, that's that's your own thing. But
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Speaker 1: so far we seem okay, buckle up. So as the
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Speaker 1: couple's family grew, Ruby saw an opportunity to document their
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Speaker 1: lives and share her parenting philosophy with a broader audience.
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Speaker 1: So the launch of The Eight Passengers in twenty fifteen
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Speaker 1: marked the beginning of her vlogging career and the end
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Speaker 1: of these kids' safe, private childhood. Just can't I can't stand.
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Speaker 1: I can't. I can't stand these people. I can't stand
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Speaker 1: people that exploit their children. Jail. Oh wait, she's already
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Speaker 1: in it. I'm giving it away. Let's continue. So Ruby
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Speaker 1: felt the need to share this part of her life.
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Speaker 1: A lot of mothers think their way of teaching and
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Speaker 1: raising their child is the best way. Not all mothers.
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Speaker 1: I think a good mom always thinks there's room for improvement.
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Speaker 1: I think that makes a really good parent. But Ruby, nay, nay,
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Speaker 1: she thought she was perfect. But sometimes I just want
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Speaker 1: to share their life experience and document their children, which
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Speaker 1: again is like okay on the surface if it's just
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Speaker 1: here and there and it's with you know, friends and family,
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Speaker 1: not with the entire world and every moment of their lives.
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Speaker 1: So in twenty fifteen, she created the channel eight Passengers,
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Speaker 1: a joke that mentioned how many people were along for
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Speaker 1: the ride in her face family of eight. It's not
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Speaker 1: that funny, it's not that funny, herself, her husband, along
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Speaker 1: with her six children, Sherry, Chad, Abby, Julie, Russell and Eve,
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Speaker 1: and her audience began to expand with her semi relatable
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Speaker 1: content about raising children and experiences as a mother, and
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Speaker 1: she had a pretty loyal fan base of moms and
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Speaker 1: others entertained and even inspired by her take on parenting,
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Speaker 1: and eventually she would reach her peak of popularity, garnering
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Speaker 1: around two point five million subscribers on her over one
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Speaker 1: billion views by mid twenty twenty, which is insane. However,
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Speaker 1: with more eyeballs on her channel, people began to realize
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Speaker 1: that she definitely wasn't an ordinary family channel and something
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Speaker 1: was off about her treatment of her children. And the
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Speaker 1: treatment of her children was mostly on camera, the only
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Speaker 1: way the audience could see their lives are going, since
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Speaker 1: they're not only on flip phones, but because she's the
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Speaker 1: only one allowed to use technology and record, at least
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Speaker 1: from what I could gather, no texting at the dinner table,
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Speaker 1: no texting. But I mean her punishments are insanely ironic
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Speaker 1: by nature, because she would be punishing her child for
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Speaker 1: texting at the dinner table while she had a huge
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Speaker 1: camera pointed in their face. The irony is just spelt
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Speaker 1: out all over the place. And one of the worst
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Speaker 1: controversies was the admission on camera in one of the
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Speaker 1: vlogs of one of the children, which was Chad describing
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Speaker 1: how he was grounded from his room for seven months.
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Speaker 1: What did he murder? Someone? That's a jaious.
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Speaker 3: What I bedroom was taken away for seven months and
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Speaker 3: then you give it back like a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: I don't think her viewers.
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Speaker 1: So instead of sleeping in his bed, he had to
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Speaker 1: sleep on a bean bag, and his mother was sitting
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Speaker 1: next to him, laughing and smiling like it was the
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Speaker 1: funniest thing ever. Oh, my son has a perfectly fine
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Speaker 1: room and what he did wasn't that big of a deal.
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Speaker 1: But it makes for great content. So tell us how
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Speaker 1: miserable you are. Chad just sick, sick. I hate her.
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Speaker 1: So I don't like this. So wait, wait, wait, what
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Speaker 1: is the reason he would deserve such a punishment? You know,
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Speaker 1: ask yourself that. Well, the reason that's been in my head.
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Speaker 3: It's pretty funny. But now I look back in this depression.
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Speaker 3: We never told our viewers that I will rustle up
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Speaker 3: at two in the morning and told him that we're
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Speaker 3: going to Disneyland and he has to pack. And he
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Speaker 3: got up and made his bit on neatly and then
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Speaker 3: packed all his clothes in the suitcase and he walked
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Speaker 3: out the door. And I'm like Russell, and he's like,
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Speaker 3: why don't have you.
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Speaker 1: If that's grounds for grounding your child and banning them
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Speaker 1: from the room for seven months, I should literally be
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Speaker 1: in a thirty year sentence in my parents' basement right now.
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Speaker 1: Like so mild, so innocent, Like that is funny. That
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Speaker 1: is some shit I would pull, Like they just weren't
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Speaker 1: allowed to be kids, Like it doesn't harm anyone, maybe
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Speaker 1: a couple people a little sleep deprived for tonight. My god.
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Speaker 1: So when he's laughing and telling the story, she looks
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Speaker 1: at him very displeased, stating that if it's so funny,
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Speaker 1: maybe he needs more time to learn his lesson. And
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Speaker 1: he wasn't even in his room. He was sent to
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Speaker 1: the family room and had to sleep there for seven months,
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Speaker 1: not his bedroom, the family room, Like I can't even imagine,
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Speaker 1: Like just he made no privacy for seven months as
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Speaker 1: a at this point, I don't know exactly how old
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Speaker 1: he is, but a teenage boy. And I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't have that option, but to have
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Speaker 1: that option and it just to be stripped away from
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Speaker 1: a person that you think that's supposed to protect you
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Speaker 1: and respect you, and it's just it just it makes
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Speaker 1: me really sad. It makes me really sad for this kid.
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Speaker 1: Like obviously they're at a point where they are privileged,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time, other side of the coin,
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Speaker 1: they're living in a prison. And they even talk about
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Speaker 1: the daughter next to them who got her phone taken
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Speaker 1: away for months, stating that they can't call their friends,
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Speaker 1: And then they change the topic and talk about how
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Speaker 1: they can't hang out with their friends, to which Ruby
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Speaker 1: says they can hang out with their friends with no problem. However,
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Speaker 1: what she doesn't realize is that their friends live far away,
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Speaker 1: and that they can't hang out with them since they
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Speaker 1: have no communication with them. And I think she realizes
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Speaker 1: that her kids literally have no friends and can't hang
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Speaker 1: out with friends if they do have them, not only
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Speaker 1: because they can't say them, but probably because they judge
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Speaker 1: how their mother treats and disciplines them. She's creating a
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Speaker 1: cult in her own home, or she did create a cult.
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Speaker 1: She's isolating her children, and she's controlling them, not in
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Speaker 1: like a motherly way, like how you're supposed to teach
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Speaker 1: your kids stuff and you know, protect them from you know, harm.
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Speaker 1: She's just a menacing cult leader amongst her family. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's just awful to watch, and there is no
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Speaker 1: smiling from the children other than to cope, not out
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Speaker 1: of fun or excitement about their lives, but literally just
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Speaker 1: to cope. You can see her face too, you can
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Speaker 1: tell that she's realizing what she's doing to her children,
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Speaker 1: but just refuses to change. Just a classic, classic narcissist.
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Speaker 1: And it's hard to justify this behavior. And it seems
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Speaker 1: that the audience also agreed with this, thankfully, considering I
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Speaker 1: had to make this video. You can tell people did
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Speaker 1: not like the response.
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Speaker 4: To this.
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Speaker 1: But another horrible disciplinary action was the lunch deprivation incident,
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Speaker 1: and this incident involved the six year old daughter Eve,
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Speaker 1: and according to Ruby in her vlog, she states, her
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Speaker 1: daughter's teacher texted her and told her that her six
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Speaker 1: year old did not pack a lunch.
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Speaker 2: I just got a text message from you's teacher. She
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Speaker 2: said that Eve did not pack a lunch today and
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Speaker 2: can I bring a lunch over to the school.
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Speaker 1: And she would then ask Ruby to bring a lunch
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Speaker 1: for her because she's at lunch without food. And Ruby
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Speaker 1: says this happens frequently, and she knows her teacher is
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Speaker 1: uncomfortable with her not having a lunch and it would
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Speaker 1: ease her discomfort if she did have a lunch. Her
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Speaker 1: six year old daughter is going to school with no
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Speaker 1: lunch as a punishment. She's starving her children as punishment frequently.
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Speaker 1: But instead of doing what a loving mother would do
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Speaker 1: and bring a lunch, she texts the teacher back.
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Speaker 2: I responded and just said Eve is responsible for making
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Speaker 2: her lunches in the morning, and she actually told me
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Speaker 2: she did pack a lunch, and.
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Speaker 1: The natural outcome is that she's going to have to
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Speaker 1: be hungry. That's what Ruby Frank said about her daughter.
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Speaker 2: So the natural outcome is she's just going to need
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Speaker 2: to be hungry.
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Speaker 1: So her six year old daughter forgot to pack her
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Speaker 1: lunch and is going to have to suffer the consequences
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Speaker 1: and just be hungry. But that is not the worst part,
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Speaker 1: believed or not. The worst part is is that Ruby
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Speaker 1: doubles down stating that.
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Speaker 2: And hopefully, hopefully nobody gives her food, and nobody steps
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Speaker 2: in and gives her a lunch.
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Speaker 1: Bitch, what oh my god, I want to go undertake
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Speaker 1: her on her fest and just but I mean, like,
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Speaker 1: this is an evil woman. The fact that she's straight
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Speaker 1: faced talking about her six year old child in that way,
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Speaker 1: hoping they starve for lunch to teach them a lesson
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Speaker 1: about packing their lunch is actually the definition of evil.
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Speaker 1: And her punishments just go on and on the things
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Speaker 1: that most people would probably just get grounded for or
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Speaker 1: like their phone taken away for, like you know, a
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Speaker 1: week or something, but not this family. The Ruby is
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Speaker 1: just like to the extreme and it passed that line.
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Speaker 1: And another notable punishment she gave to her children was
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Speaker 1: at the table filming them and their reaction, ready to
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Speaker 1: give them possibly one of the dumbest punishments, and this
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Speaker 1: punishment was putting all of their stuff in a bag.
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Speaker 1: If they wanted something out of the bag, they had
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Speaker 1: to pay for it cash, like real money, cash money.
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Speaker 2: Do you have something in the bag that you would
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Speaker 2: like out, you can pay cash for it. So you
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Speaker 2: learn the value of your items.
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Speaker 1: And this was to teach them to understand the value
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Speaker 1: of their items. They could also do a chore equivalent
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Speaker 1: for the cost of the item as well, but to
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Speaker 1: make things more fun, whatever they didn't buy back out
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Speaker 1: of the bag by the end of the day would
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Speaker 1: be thrown in the trash. How fun, mom? How fun? What?
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Speaker 1: Like there was a there's a moment in there where
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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, there may be a lesson in there summer,
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Speaker 1: you know, earning your stuff. I get that, But then
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Speaker 1: throwing it in the trash just insane. And I mean
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Speaker 1: I could go on and on about how much she
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Speaker 1: mistreated her own children and how her obnoxious whining and
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Speaker 1: behavior was just appalling, but that would literally take hours
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Speaker 1: and hours, and I don't want to spend that much
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Speaker 1: oxygen on this bitch, all right, So I digress. We'll
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Speaker 1: move on. Hei Hi so finally, peer pressures from the
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Speaker 1: audience steered drama channels and others to look into this
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Speaker 1: family channel, pointing out the horrors going on camera, so
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Speaker 1: cps and dcfs were called to check on the children. However,
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Speaker 1: no action was taken during those times, and this happened
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Speaker 1: multiple times. The neighbors knew of their actions, but were
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Speaker 1: unable to do anything about it. Unfortunately, so her audience
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Speaker 1: began to turn on her, realizing she was not this
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Speaker 1: good family mom she pretended to be because it was
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Speaker 1: impossible for her to hide from her true colors even
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Speaker 1: from behind the camera. And things would just get worse
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Speaker 1: when Ruby would make a new friend named Jody Hildebrandt,
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Speaker 1: a self proclaimed mental health counselor, and Jody owned and
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Speaker 1: ran Connections Classroom, which was a life coaching program to
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Speaker 1: promote extreme ways of parenting and strategies, and Ruby became
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Speaker 1: closely knit with this business with Jody, with videos like
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Speaker 1: this to be relatable to parents who experienced the same things.
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Speaker 2: You guys, it is time for back to school. This
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Speaker 2: is what morning school routines used to look like in
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Speaker 2: my home before I knew about structure and boundaries.
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Speaker 1: Yet have you brushed your teeth or fixed your hair.
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Speaker 1: And Ruby was already in with this strict way of parenting,
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Speaker 1: and having Jody in her life was encouraging this lifestyle
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Speaker 1: even more, like an echo chamber of bad ideas, and
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Speaker 1: it became so extreme that her husband began to dislike
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Speaker 1: the treatment she was doing towards her children. Oh, I'm
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Speaker 1: glad he disliked it. Step up, bitch, Sorry, I'm getting
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Speaker 1: really mad. I'm getting really mad. I also need to
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Speaker 1: put my glasses on. But this eventually would lead to
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Speaker 1: Ruby kicking Kevin out of the house. It's insane that
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Speaker 1: she would just continue this horrible mindset though, thinking it's
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Speaker 1: best for her family with her equally insane therapist friend Jody.
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Speaker 1: But we'll come back to talk more about her husband
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Speaker 1: because it's just a rabbit hole with him as well.
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Speaker 1: His unfortunate name Kevin, which is my dog's name, and
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Speaker 1: he's a precious little angel, not the husband my dog.
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Speaker 1: And Ruby would continue to fall out of more relationships
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Speaker 1: that of her siblings and her extended family as well,
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Speaker 1: and her obsession with Jody's teachings even made her two
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Speaker 1: oldest children, Cherry and Chad, become distasteful of her becoming
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Speaker 1: vocal about her sick relationship with her new friend, and
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Speaker 1: it might have been more than just a little friendship.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of things. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of things going around online, and I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: say any things I don't know for sure. So they
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Speaker 1: had already been kicked out of the house due to
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Speaker 1: them being above the age of eighteen, which is exactly
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Speaker 1: what she wanted out of her children when they turned
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Speaker 1: eighteen to get the at a Dodge, My kid, they're
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Speaker 1: not welcome to kin live with me after the eighteen
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Speaker 1: I am very straightforward to that. Chad had been kicked
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Speaker 1: out of the house during her friendship with Jody, a
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Speaker 1: problem that stemmed from him doing what teenage boys do
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Speaker 1: you know or whatever. I don't want to say it.
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Speaker 1: I don'tee it's weird, but he did those things, made
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Speaker 1: out with his girlfriends behind his mom and Jody's back
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Speaker 1: while they were in the house. He confronted Jody saying like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I did these things, and he felt like he needed
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Speaker 1: to confess to Jody, and by doing that, needed to
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Speaker 1: confess to his mother as well. So he would go
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Speaker 1: up to his mother and be like, hey, I'm struggling
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Speaker 1: with this. You know, I know I shouldn't be doing this,
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Speaker 1: but I am doing this doing what most boys would
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Speaker 1: not do. Most guys would just keep it to themselves.
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Speaker 1: But this, this guy is just like putting it on
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Speaker 1: the table, being vulnerable with his mom trying to get help,
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Speaker 1: and what she did was just to kick him out
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Speaker 1: of the house.
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Speaker 4: Jody thought would be a good idea for me as
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Speaker 4: part of my repentance process to tell my mom, so
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Speaker 4: I pretty much confessed to her that, you know, while
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Speaker 4: Jody was in the home, I was viewing biography, I
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Speaker 4: was making out with girls at nighttime behind your back.
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Speaker 4: And I have never seen my mom more distraught, and
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Speaker 4: I have never seen her more red in the face.
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Speaker 4: I was seventeen at this time.
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Speaker 1: Great parenting ten points to Ruby and Jody, and that
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Speaker 1: brings us to one horrifying day, specifically August thirtieth, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three. Something would completely change Jody Ruby and her
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Speaker 1: children's lives in an instant. On August thirtieth, at twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, a twelve year old boy was seen knocking
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Speaker 1: on the door of his neighbors.
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Speaker 5: I just had a twelve year old boy soul appere
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Speaker 5: at my front door asking for help, and he'sa said
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Speaker 5: he had just came from a neighbor's house, and we
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Speaker 5: know there's been problems at this neighbor's house.
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Speaker 1: This boy was asking for some food and water, shown
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Speaker 1: skinny and with duct tape around his ankles, and when
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Speaker 1: examined closer, injuries to his wrists and ankles were severe,
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Speaker 1: leaving damaged tissue and and the boy ringing the doorbell
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Speaker 1: asked for the police, and he was obviously thin and starving,
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Speaker 1: So the neighbor gave him a banana and some water
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Speaker 1: and waited for the police to come and arrive. And
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Speaker 1: after a deep examination of the boy at the hospital,
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Speaker 1: they found cayenne, pepper and honey had been used to
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Speaker 1: dress his wounds and this was due to them trying
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Speaker 1: to stop an infection so they wouldn't have to bring
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Speaker 1: them to the hospital and lie about what had happened
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Speaker 1: to him. And looking into more details, the boy describes
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Speaker 1: how he wasn't at his mother's house, but his mother's friend,
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Speaker 1: Jody Hildebrand's, and he then, after being placed into safety,
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Speaker 1: describes how there's another child at the house which was
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Speaker 1: his sister, and this part is honestly one of the
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Speaker 1: saddest things I've ever seen. When police find her, she's
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Speaker 1: in a closet, just sitting on the floor alone. She
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Speaker 1: doesn't speak, She's sitting on the floor, not moving, no reaction,
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Speaker 1: and police described she was so thin they couldn't even
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Speaker 1: discern her from a boy or a girl, especially with
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Speaker 1: the buzz cut that she had. So she refuses to
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Speaker 1: move or leave the closet, possibly out of fear due
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Speaker 1: to JODI's instructions telling her she had to stay where
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Speaker 1: she was and obviously starving. Police would bring her a
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Speaker 1: pizza and some soda to help ease her fears and
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Speaker 1: getting something into her system, and reportedly she just stared
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Speaker 1: at the food and the drink for several minutes, not moving,
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Speaker 1: not eating, not drinking, just totally paralyzed in fear. And
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Speaker 1: after four hours four hours, she would finally stand up
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Speaker 1: and leave the closet. And afterwards both Jody and Ruby
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Speaker 1: were arrested Q bitches, and in the arrest you could
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Speaker 1: see Ruby annoyed in the handcuffs, the cadacity, and later
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Speaker 1: when detective's questioner, she's seen blinking like a psychopath and
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Speaker 1: completely silent. It's honestly just sick. And when she finally
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Speaker 1: responds to a question, it's to wait for her lawyer.
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Speaker 1: And Jody equally insane telling detectives. If they knew all
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Speaker 1: the pieces of the story, they'd have a lot of empathy,
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Speaker 1: like just shut the up, put some duct tape around
20:12
Speaker 1: your mouth, shove you in a closet, and not give
20:15
Speaker 1: you food. How about that now? Yeah, probably not, that's
20:19
Speaker 1: probably not a good thing to do. Prison. Yes, if
20:23
Speaker 1: you knew all the pieces, I think you have a
20:26
Speaker 1: lot of empathies for what's going on. But according to
20:29
Speaker 1: police questioning and the evidence alongside, the young boy had
20:33
Speaker 1: slept outside and wrote jail in pebbles, meaning he was
20:38
Speaker 1: thinking about calling the police, not for help, but to
20:41
Speaker 1: absolve himself from the crimes his mother said he committed.
20:46
Speaker 1: The brainwashing that happened in this household is astonishing. When
20:51
Speaker 1: I say she's a cult leader and Jody it is
20:55
Speaker 1: it is just just like Jim Jones. They don't like
20:58
Speaker 1: they are right up there with him and knowing that
21:00
Speaker 1: the young twelve year old boy thought he was the
21:03
Speaker 1: one who was going to be arrested and not his
21:05
Speaker 1: mother and her friend is insanely telling about just all
21:10
Speaker 1: that happened. And a day before all of this, she's
21:14
Speaker 1: seen on JODI's channel with just crocodile tears Ruby that
21:18
Speaker 1: is saying she's staying firm and how she's mothering her children.
21:22
Speaker 1: And this happened while they were obviously tied up in
21:26
Speaker 1: this exact house, which is horrifying to think about.
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Speaker 6: You wonder where I've been on my vlogs.
21:33
Speaker 3: Do you wonder why I left you too? To see
21:36
Speaker 3: my kid?
21:37
Speaker 1: No amount of money and I'm telling you, I was making.
21:42
Speaker 6: Millions and I left it because my kids were being
21:45
Speaker 6: hurt with entitlement.
21:47
Speaker 1: They were being hurt. And she was then charged with
21:50
Speaker 1: six counts of felony aggravated child. However, we wouldn't know
21:54
Speaker 1: if she would suffer for her crimes until later that year.
21:58
Speaker 1: Ruby was held without bab and the media was all
22:02
Speaker 1: over this. Any sort of influencer that is charged with
22:05
Speaker 1: something is immediately national headlines, as we know, and to
22:09
Speaker 1: no one's surprised. Everyone celebrated the fact that she was
22:12
Speaker 1: finally caught and arrested and were eagerly awaiting details of
22:16
Speaker 1: what would happen to her, including myself and before Jody
22:19
Speaker 1: Hildebrandt could be charged, she immediately surrendered her license as
22:23
Speaker 1: a counselor. I can hope so. And on December eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Ruby pleaded guilty to four counts of
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Speaker 1: the second degree aggravated child's charges, and in the proceeding
22:33
Speaker 1: they talked about how she would for children, one story
22:36
Speaker 1: involving her young son working outside for several weeks without
22:40
Speaker 1: any protection, which caused him to be severely burned, and
22:45
Speaker 1: Jody herself was also charged with four counts. On December
22:47
Speaker 1: twenty seventh of the same year.
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Speaker 7: Miss Frankie, how do you plead to count one aggravated
22:53
Speaker 7: childs a second degree felony guilty? To count three aggravated
22:57
Speaker 7: childs a second degree felony guilty, Count five aggravated child
23:02
Speaker 7: a second degree falony, And to count six aggravated child
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Speaker 7: a second degree faility, with.
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Speaker 3: My deepest regret and sorrow for my family and my children.
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Speaker 1: Guilty. And we wouldn't get any more news until February
23:15
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, when they would finally receive their sentencing.
23:18
Speaker 1: On February twentieth, twenty twenty four, the sentencing hearing would begin,
23:22
Speaker 1: and they read off the situation Ruby and Jody had
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Speaker 1: put the kids in, describing it as a concentration camp
23:28
Speaker 1: where she starved and neglected them.
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Speaker 7: From May to August in twenty twenty three, Miss Frankie
23:33
Speaker 7: and her business partner held her two children, ages nine
23:36
Speaker 7: and eleven turning twelve, in a concentration camp like.
23:40
Speaker 1: Setting, and they were even emotionally so badly that they
23:43
Speaker 1: believed the punishments that they were receiving were earned and deserved. Heartbreaking,
23:49
Speaker 1: like so heartbreaking. However, the defense had taken an interesting side.
23:53
Speaker 1: They're trying to pin it all on Jody and avoid
23:56
Speaker 1: as much punishment against Ruby as possible, and yes, she's
24:01
Speaker 1: accepting her punishment, but they frequently mentioned how most of
24:04
Speaker 1: it falls on Jody, as if it's not the mother's fault,
24:08
Speaker 1: as if they're not her children, and oh, you know,
24:11
Speaker 1: she's responsible for her children and the care she puts
24:14
Speaker 1: them in. You know.
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Speaker 8: Ruby realizes that she still has work to do in
24:18
Speaker 8: shedding those thinking herrors and to re establish a better
24:22
Speaker 8: and correct pattern of thinking and behavior. Ruby realizes that
24:26
Speaker 8: changing her thinking, re establishing relationships, and heeding are not
24:32
Speaker 8: simple or easy tasks however, she gets committed, committed to
24:37
Speaker 8: doing that work. I would like the court to know
24:40
Speaker 8: that Ruby Frankie is a delightful, respectful and responsible person.
24:45
Speaker 8: She has often to feedback and addressing the consequences of
24:48
Speaker 8: her actions head on, and now ready to address her
24:52
Speaker 8: honor and accept your judgment.
24:54
Speaker 1: And Ruby then makes her own personal statement talking about
24:57
Speaker 1: how she followed counseling guidance from her friend Jody and
25:00
Speaker 1: that in turn is the reason for her unchecked reality
25:04
Speaker 1: as if she wasn't doing all of this before. Sorry,
25:07
Speaker 1: I just I can't. I can't take anything seriously that
25:10
Speaker 1: comes out of her disgusting, foul bitch mouth. Sorry, oh
25:14
Speaker 1: my god, I need to settle down. She's right there
25:16
Speaker 1: with Casey Anthony for me, just now, remorse, I don't care.
25:20
Speaker 1: I don't care. So she spends the majority of her
25:21
Speaker 1: time thanking the officers, the medical staff or lawyer exact
25:26
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Only at the end does she
25:28
Speaker 1: talk about her children, which is why, in my opinion,
25:31
Speaker 1: she doesn't care what she has done against her children,
25:34
Speaker 1: only that she got caught and was in trouble and
25:37
Speaker 1: her crocodile tears. Honestly, mean, zip, nothing, nada, because you
25:43
Speaker 1: talk about all these other people that you put above
25:47
Speaker 1: your children, just like in your own life. And as
25:50
Speaker 1: for Jodie, she has her own statement as well, and
25:53
Speaker 1: weirdly enough, she seems more humane about it, despite her
25:56
Speaker 1: being a huge reason for the towards the children, or
26:00
Speaker 1: at least furthering and encouraging Ruby to earn them more.
26:03
Speaker 1: And I say this because she mentions the children first. Wow,
26:08
Speaker 1: first see take notes Ruby. Although Jody's a piece of
26:11
Speaker 1: shit too, I sincerely love these children. But in the end,
26:15
Speaker 1: they both received the same sentence, one to fifteen years
26:18
Speaker 1: terms in prison, served consecutively for each of the four
26:21
Speaker 1: counts of child to which they pleaded guilty, and this
26:24
Speaker 1: is one of the harshest punishments ever given in recent
26:27
Speaker 1: child cases. However, they're more likely to serve around thirty years. Honestly,
26:32
Speaker 1: I think it should be the rest of their miserable lives. Personally,
26:36
Speaker 1: there should be no chance these just wastes of oxygen
26:40
Speaker 1: should ever step foot outside of a jail and be
26:42
Speaker 1: allowed to be near children of any kind. And Ruby's
26:47
Speaker 1: sister Bonnie made a YouTube video titled I Am not
26:51
Speaker 1: my sister, I am not my sister's crimes. And in
26:54
Speaker 1: the video she talks about how she knew her family
26:57
Speaker 1: was strange, but she never knew what was going on
27:00
Speaker 1: and why is that. Well, Ruby, like we talked about before,
27:03
Speaker 1: cut off her family from knowing anything that was going on.
27:07
Speaker 1: She knew she was weird, but didn't have a clue
27:10
Speaker 1: what was going on behind closed doors, and she could
27:12
Speaker 1: be seen crying after learning the horrors her sister had done.
27:15
Speaker 1: She said they worked behind the scenes legally to try
27:18
Speaker 1: to fix things. She couldn't just go there and bust
27:21
Speaker 1: in because if she did that, she could go to
27:22
Speaker 1: jail for breaking and entering. So how could she help? However,
27:26
Speaker 1: her most important point, which we'll get into, is that
27:29
Speaker 1: the only person who could have directly gotten involved and
27:32
Speaker 1: helped those kids was Kevin. Remember Kevin the father. Kevin,
27:38
Speaker 1: as mentioned before, was in the vlogs in eight Passengers,
27:42
Speaker 1: Ruby's husband, and Kevin is a less talked about character
27:45
Speaker 1: in all of this, as he witnessed the and eventually
27:48
Speaker 1: just left her in twenty twenty two, but never went
27:51
Speaker 1: back to help you know, his children, who you know
27:55
Speaker 1: were being by you know, his wife. Kavin Frank would
28:00
Speaker 1: state that he was unaware of the extreme ways she
28:03
Speaker 1: was parenting. However, he talked about how Jody was able
28:07
Speaker 1: to avoid the law because she never answered her door
28:10
Speaker 1: and more not.
28:11
Speaker 9: Answer the door, not speak with authorities, the CFS or police,
28:15
Speaker 9: just remain silent, and as long as everybody remained silent,
28:20
Speaker 9: then within a specified amount of days, typically thirty, the
28:24
Speaker 9: case closes by itself.
28:26
Speaker 1: But what's weird is the interrogation he had with detectives
28:29
Speaker 1: and his reaction to learning the information. He's seen crying
28:33
Speaker 1: about what's going to happen to his wife, because he
28:35
Speaker 1: loves his wife, you know, the wife that's his children,
28:39
Speaker 1: and he has no reaction to anything. He's just stone
28:42
Speaker 1: cold and just it just feels and a little eel.
28:47
Speaker 1: Not gonna lie. It's my opinion, Okay, not saying he
28:50
Speaker 1: did anything. Well, I'm just saying he didn't do anything.
28:54
Speaker 1: And I can say that because he didn't. But just
28:56
Speaker 1: look at his reaction to the officer saying he doesn't
28:59
Speaker 1: know how he'd feel if he wasn't able to see
29:02
Speaker 1: his kids.
29:03
Speaker 5: Tough guys, and how I feel my heart out.
29:15
Speaker 1: Now. You can say he's in shock, but I see
29:18
Speaker 1: someone involved because he says, I trust her.
29:23
Speaker 9: I trust her.
29:26
Speaker 1: Okay. So the dude is either spineless and guilty or
29:29
Speaker 1: just ignorantly guilty. There's no way he didn't know, you know,
29:33
Speaker 1: and he blames Jodie for everything. But if all of
29:36
Speaker 1: that doesn't convince you, here's police bodycam footage of him
29:40
Speaker 1: asking why his daughter isn't going to be arrested for
29:44
Speaker 1: the robbery of his personal items.
29:47
Speaker 10: Explained to me again why this was not robbery because
29:50
Speaker 10: it's a civil issue. It's you, guys are family. She's
29:53
Speaker 10: been in the house before, you haven't been in the
29:55
Speaker 10: house in a year. She had interest in the items.
29:59
Speaker 10: She didn't take the with the intention to deprive you
30:01
Speaker 10: of them. So that's the theft code. We have to
30:04
Speaker 10: prove intent to deprive you of the items, and that
30:07
Speaker 10: wasn't her intent in having them. So the detective sergeant
30:10
Speaker 10: said that we're not gonna charge her for anything.
30:16
Speaker 1: Okay, But yeah, no, he's totally. He's totally a loving
30:22
Speaker 1: father who just really loves his kids and wants the
30:24
Speaker 1: best for his kids and everything, you know. Totally totally.
30:29
Speaker 1: Oh and did I mention this was two days after
30:31
Speaker 1: Ruby was arrested. Yeah, so after his wife got arrested
30:35
Speaker 1: for his children. He tried to get his daughter arrested
30:39
Speaker 1: for taking stuff that was hers. Yeah, great guy, Definitely
30:43
Speaker 1: innocent in all of this. Definitely not guilty, you know,
30:50
Speaker 1: can't say that anyway. Sherry Frankie, the oldest sibling who
30:54
Speaker 1: was kicked out at eighteen years old, has been pretty
30:57
Speaker 1: vocal and she's very straight up. She says Jody isn't
31:00
Speaker 1: the reason for the abuse. She was like that before,
31:04
Speaker 1: not this spineless viewpoint that Kevin takes. But she's firm
31:08
Speaker 1: with what happened.
31:09
Speaker 6: Narratives in the media kind of pinpoint Jody is the
31:13
Speaker 6: reason that things went wrong, and Ruby was good until
31:16
Speaker 6: Jody came. But I wanted to show that like that
31:19
Speaker 6: wasn't the case and that wasn't my experience.
31:22
Speaker 1: And it's hard to pinpoint her kid's perspective towards their father,
31:26
Speaker 1: But it seems like Chad, the son who was kicked
31:28
Speaker 1: out at seventeen, seems to hang around his father, at
31:31
Speaker 1: least in interviews. What does happiness look like for you.
31:35
Speaker 4: Guys, enjoying time with my siblings, It's it feels a
31:39
Speaker 4: lot more free.
31:40
Speaker 9: It's wonderful to be surrounded by my children and there's
31:42
Speaker 9: laughter again. We have a lot of new furry friends
31:46
Speaker 9: are home to the zoo. It is a zoo, and
31:48
Speaker 9: it's funny because they chew up all the floorboards and everything.
31:54
Speaker 9: And I'm just thinking, if Ruby was here, she'd be furious.
31:57
Speaker 9: But Ruby's not and I don't care. I'm happy.
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Speaker 1: I do believe people can change. But there's got to
32:04
Speaker 1: be some accountability for him. You know, there's no chance
32:08
Speaker 1: he had no clue what was going on. I mean,
32:10
Speaker 1: we know he knew what was going on because he
32:12
Speaker 1: was there for the vlogs. But again, the media has
32:15
Speaker 1: been talking about this frequently, with the new Hulu show
32:18
Speaker 1: that came out earlier this year on February twenty seventh,
32:21
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and the show called Devil in the Family.
32:24
Speaker 1: In the Fall of Ruby, Frankie shows clips and videos,
32:27
Speaker 1: interviews and more about all perspectives that had happened during
32:31
Speaker 1: the whole ordeal. And it opens up all that has
32:33
Speaker 1: happened and shows the absolutely disgusting horrors Ruby Frankie committed
32:38
Speaker 1: alongside Jodi Hildebrandt, and honestly, the whole thing is just
32:41
Speaker 1: unbelievably disturbing. With clips shown of how she was treating
32:45
Speaker 1: them and the arrest footage playing alongside. It's just all horrifying.
32:49
Speaker 1: But intentionally, this awareness of family vogging has opened up
32:53
Speaker 1: how people include children in their media. And we've seen
32:56
Speaker 1: things similar to this in the news before with the
32:59
Speaker 1: Daddy O fire and the horrors those children went through
33:02
Speaker 1: for entertainment. So the fact that this still happening really
33:05
Speaker 1: shows that something needs to change. And it also talks
33:08
Speaker 1: about what was really going on with Jody and Ruby
33:11
Speaker 1: and why they were so secretive about their lives. Some
33:14
Speaker 1: people on TikTok have been insinuating a possibly private and
33:18
Speaker 1: secret romantic relationship between the two.
33:21
Speaker 5: I am not gay.
33:24
Speaker 1: Life and I mean her own son. Chad talks about
33:27
Speaker 1: his own theories on how he thinks that his mom
33:30
Speaker 1: and Jody could be gay, personal opinions, and also I
33:35
Speaker 1: just need to shout out Chad for being hilarious because
33:39
Speaker 1: he's making fun of his mom for like a pen
33:42
Speaker 1: face that he does. He's just he's got a great
33:44
Speaker 1: sense of humor and I appreciate that, you know, for
33:46
Speaker 1: all the shit that he's been through. But anyway, according
33:58
Speaker 1: to Sherry, that they had a weird vibe. She mentions
34:02
Speaker 1: the fact that no one would move in with their
34:04
Speaker 1: therapist and the fact that Jody was in her bed
34:08
Speaker 1: before she moved out. And Sherry the oldest, has her
34:11
Speaker 1: own book which involves more details about her life and
34:15
Speaker 1: the strangeness and the awfulness of Jody and Ruby. So
34:18
Speaker 1: what about the family now, Well, it seems Chad is
34:22
Speaker 1: in real estate and is glowing. He seems much happier
34:25
Speaker 1: and can laugh off all the horrible trauma. Humor does
34:28
Speaker 1: really heal a lot of wounds in my personal experience
34:32
Speaker 1: as well. But I really hope that he's doing well.
34:34
Speaker 1: And Sherry is happily married and states that she does
34:37
Speaker 1: not want to share anything about her wedding, her husband,
34:39
Speaker 1: or her children on the internet and that they deserve privacy,
34:43
Speaker 1: but privacy that she wasn't given, which is huge in
34:47
Speaker 1: her beliefs. Let's just give a round of applause for Sherry.
34:50
Speaker 1: What a good and actually good mom. And it seems
34:54
Speaker 1: the rest of the children, Abby, Julie, Russell, and Eve
34:56
Speaker 1: have all undergone psychological assessments and treatment to recover from
35:01
Speaker 1: their and that they were taken into custody by the
35:04
Speaker 1: Division of Child and Family Services Supposedly they're all in
35:07
Speaker 1: contact with their father, Kevin, who is trying to rebuild
35:11
Speaker 1: their trust. But currently they are in state protective custody,
35:14
Speaker 1: which is exactly what they need to be safe and
35:16
Speaker 1: away from their evil mother and questionable father. But in
35:22
Speaker 1: the end, it all boils down to an evil mother
35:25
Speaker 1: who becomes overly controlling of her children, putting it all
35:29
Speaker 1: on display for the world to see. And I personally think,
35:32
Speaker 1: as you guys know, if you've watched any of my content,
35:34
Speaker 1: I think it's just really bad for parents to film
35:39
Speaker 1: their family like they're in a frickin like docuseries or movie.
35:44
Speaker 1: I don't think it's good. It's not only creepy, but
35:47
Speaker 1: puts too much of their lives on display, and it's
35:50
Speaker 1: not something they can consent to, and sometimes it even
35:53
Speaker 1: goes to their head. I just don't think it's ever
35:55
Speaker 1: positive in any way to make your child the enter
36:00
Speaker 1: of your content. I think, you know, sharing your kid
36:03
Speaker 1: here and there, it's okay, and I think you should
36:06
Speaker 1: be able to do that. Just be aware of what
36:08
Speaker 1: is out there. I mean, we haven't even touched on
36:10
Speaker 1: the fact that there is just creeps in every crevice
36:14
Speaker 1: of the Internet. And that they are preying on the
36:17
Speaker 1: children that are posted. So I think it's just good
36:20
Speaker 1: to know for parents out there. If you're going to
36:22
Speaker 1: post your children, just know that there are negative effects
36:27
Speaker 1: of that or can be. I don't have kids yet,
36:29
Speaker 1: y'all won't see them. If I haven't tell you what
36:32
Speaker 1: tell you that right now, you'll never see them because
36:34
Speaker 1: I can't. I just I won't ever do this. I
36:37
Speaker 1: won't ever do this to my kid because they deserve
36:40
Speaker 1: privacy until they're of age and they can make their
36:42
Speaker 1: own decisions. And that is just my personal personal thing,
36:46
Speaker 1: but very much, especially because I am already a public
36:50
Speaker 1: facing person. So anyway, I'm out of breath. Hate takes
36:53
Speaker 1: me out. Anyway I've enjoyed the video or not enjoyed it.
36:56
Speaker 1: Please let me know what other deep dives you want
36:58
Speaker 1: me to do below. These are always always the family
37:00
Speaker 1: stuff always gets me. I don't know why. I think
37:02
Speaker 1: it's just because it's close to home. It's close to
37:04
Speaker 1: YouTube home, and I know people in this space, and
37:07
Speaker 1: it just kids. Man, kids are so innocent. They deserve better.
37:10
Speaker 1: And I'm glad all these kids are now on the
37:12
Speaker 1: up and Ruby and Jody, maybe Kevin you suck