Fixate Today, Gone Tomorrow

Welcome to part three of our series on the assassination of James A. Garfield! We are continuing our side quest into the Oneida Community, and how the member's rejection of Charles J. Guiteau played a part in making him a political assassin. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Welcome to part three of our series on the assassination of James A. Garfield! We take a bit of a detour and discuss the Oneida Community, the group that rejected Charles J. Guiteau. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Welcome to the second episode of our series on the assassination of James A. Garfield. We deep-dive assassin Charles J. Guiteau. Things get wild. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

New series alert! On today's episode, we learn about how Nikki's hyperfixations form, and meet President James A. Garfield. Note: Our sound is a bit wonky in this episode. Our intrepid producer/editor did her best, but you may have to turn your volume up. Thanks you understanding! Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Thank you for joining us for our final installment of our first book club! We finish up The House of My Mother by Shari Franke by celebrating Shari's new life, and, hopefully, never needing to talk about this family again (we definitely don't want to talk about Ruby, but we hope the rest of the family are living in wonderful peace and out of the spotlight). Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate To...

Welcome to part five of Shari Franke's book, The House of My Mother. Things have gotten bad, bad, very bad for the Franke family Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

We thought we'd get through the last two chapters of part four and start part five... but we talked for 45 minutes about two chapters. Will we ever learn? No. No we will not. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

We are back with an update episode on the Mica Miller case. Nikki is on her own, and super nervous about it, while Joy is on vacation. Don't worry, she'll be back next week! We talk about the status of the coercive control bill, the lawsuits filed against Wayne and JP Miller, the Chris Skinner investigation, and JP and Suzie Skinner's surprise wedding. Check out our YouTube Channel! Fixate Today:...

We continue talking through part four of Shari's book. Please note that we had to end our recording session abruptly before finishing part four, and then it was the end-of-the-school year shenanigans and traveling, and we couldn't find time to record. Sooooooo we'll finish the last two chapters of part four next episode and tag it at the begging of part five. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate...

We are full-speed ahead on Jodi's control of the Franke family. Shari is the only one who sees how terrible things truly have gotten. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Welcome to Part 4 of Shari's book! As Shari leaves for college, Jodi moves in and takes over the Franke home. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Welcome to part two of Part 3 of Shari's book! We continue looking at the rise of 8 Passengers and the escalation of abuse. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Welcome to part one of Part 3 of Shari's book! We keep exploring Shari's dark experience in her family home. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Phew. We made it to Part Two, Part Three of Shari's book. We continue tracing the rise of Ruby's empire. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Well, it turns out we have a lot to say about this book. We are splitting Part Two into three parts.  We continue reading Shari Franke's book, The House of My Mother. We start seeing the rise of Ruby, and how vlogging became Mormon best practice. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Listen, we did our best. We had some technical difficulties with Part Two of the book, so we're releasing Part Two into... two parts. Thanks for understanding, and enjoy this part of our episode. We'll finish up Part Two next week. Please note, our sound isn't great in this episode. We were able to record together! But we don't understand technology, so we went old-school and shared one mic. Sorry...

Fixate Today: Book Club! For our YouTube channel, we are walking through Shari Franke's book, The House of My Mother. We thought our podcast listeners would maybe want to read along with us, too! On today's episode, we are reading and discussing Part One. Please note, our sound isn't great in this episode. We were able to record together! But we don't understand technology, so we went old-school a...

How do all of these huge LDS-related true crime cases intersect? Let's talk about Visions of Glory, and what makes this book so dangerous for people looking for power within their religion. Please note, our sound isn't great in this episode. We were able to record together! But we don't understand technology, so we went old-school and shared one mic. Sorry for the sound, but it was way more fun be...

For being a part of this series, we actually aren't talking about Ruby too much. Instead, we introduced some high-profile folks that come out of the LDS church. Why are we talking about Tim Ballard, and Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell? Well, we're laying some groundwork for next week, but we'll see some striking patterns of behavior and language from these people. What links them all? Check out our Y...

Join us for a discussion on the final episode of the Hulu docuseries Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke. We talk about our feelings for Kevin Franke, the responsibility of the church, and prepare for the wackadoo next episodes. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

We are back talking about the Hulu docuseries Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke. Today, we are talking about the second episode in the series. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

We are back and chattin' about our fave gal pals, Ruby and Jodi. Actually, we are talking about the Hulu docuseries Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke. We discuss episode 1, and talk through how some of opinions and ideas about the Franke family have changed. Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

We had the absolute delight and honor to have a conversation with Sadie and Gavi, hosts of the Leaving Eden Podcast. We talk IBLP, Duggars, parenting, our personal faith, and so much more. We were stunned that they agreed to join us on our little show, and the chat was truly wonderful. Check their incredible podcast on any pod platform.

It's been a rough few weeks for JP and his father, Wayne. Let's talk about the lawsuits being dismissed filed by JP and Wayne, and the two bombshell suits filed against the Millers. We suspect we may see more suits against these two coming soon. Warnings for domestic abuse, suicide, coercive control, sexual abuse, financial abuse, religious abuse, child abuse, physical abuse, mental health. Check...

We had a plan for today's episode, and it went out the window! We talk about Joy's trip to Myrtle Beach, and our phone call with a certain embattled pastor who thinks he's the smartest man in the room... but is actually just super manipulative and flailing. We'll be discussing the newest allegations and court filings against John Paul Miller next week. Warnings for domestic abuse, suicide, coerciv...