Short Suck #15 - Ruby Franke

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On August 30th, 2023, Ruby Franke, a recently very popular Youtuber and "momfluencer" was arrested, along with her therapist, boss, and mentor, Jodi Hildebrandt, and charged with six counts of aggravated child abuse. Both are now in prison. What happened to the woman who over two million people used to look to for parenting advice?

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0:00.0	Welcome to another edition of Time Suck Short Sucks. I'm Dan Cummins and today I'll be sharing the story of Ruby Frankie.
0:07.5	What a fall she took from YouTube Grace!
0:11.0	The 42 year old mother is six from Utah and current inmate
0:14.8	number 262747 at the Utah Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City was once a very
0:20.4	popular Yituber. Her channel called Eight Passengers, a reference to a family of two
0:26.0	parents and six children, had over 2 million subscribers, many of whom watched her for parenting
0:31.3	and homeschooling advice.
0:33.2	Viewers enjoyed a window and to this family's seemingly wholesome and happy life in suburban
0:38.1	Central Utah.
0:39.9	Ruby was a popular mom-fluencer.
0:42.1	And as Ruby's fame grew grew so did a variety of concerns
0:45.8	about the way she and her husband Kevin disciplined and raised their children. Then in
0:50.5	2021 Ruby started working with a deeply troubled and manipulative marriage and family therapist
0:55.6	Jody Hildebrandt and under Jody's terrible family destroying horrific guidance
1:01.6	Ruby became convinced that her children were possessed by demons,
1:04.8	and that in order to save them, she needed to psychologically and physically abuse them in ways
1:09.3	that included everything from holding their heads underwater, tying them up, and denying them access to both food and water.
1:16.0	Careful with us content creators.
1:19.0	What you see is not always even close to the truth.
1:25.0	Words and ideas can change the world.
1:28.0	I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.
1:30.0	I have a dream.
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