WTF - Stories and Advice

We start with swearing in Spanish and Paris trip plans, then dive into a Reddit story that genuinely floored us.
A 27-year-old guy comes home and finds his fiancée in bed with his own father. He records it, punches his dad, and threatens to send the video round. From there it spirals: he tells his mum, who at first believes the lie that he was the abusive one, until he sends her the proof. He cuts off the whole family, moves out, starts therapy, gets his STD tests back clean, and rebuilds his life in a refurbished cabin. Then the updates keep coming. His mum leaves his dad, and his ex turns up pregnant, with nobody sure if the father is him or his father.
Caroline and Daryl thrash out the big question: can you forgive a betrayal this deep, and should he? Plus a few of our own wild family scandal stories, modern prenatal DNA testing, and the TikTok baby-daddy drama doing the rounds.
We wrap with our recommendations and the usual chaos.
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00:00 Swearing in Spanish
01:01 Paris Trip Plans
02:27 Podcast Intro
03:06 The Fiancé and Father Twist
05:47 Backstory and Red Flags
08:13 Caught on Camera
10:40 The Aftermath
12:56 Telling Mum the Truth
15:34 Cutting Ties
16:55 Therapy and the New Cabin
21:11 Reconnecting With Mum
24:08 Can You Forgive This?
25:50 Our Own Family Scandal Stories
41:31 Wrap Up
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Listener Amanda has carried this for twenty years. At nineteen she fainted at the feet of the new guy in town, Weston, who pulled a homemade spirit board out of his backpack, letters written in blood. The giggling stopped when it spelled out HELL, HELP, HELL, HELP on its own, and a tall shadow appeared in the chair beside her. Add a wrong videotape, an Exorcist that played itself, and two decades of cold, dark nightmares. Amanda wants to know if something followed her home, and whatever happened to Weston.
Caroline explains why she begs people to leave Ouija boards alone, shares her park ranger dream, the priest who fixed it, the nine grapefruit story, and how to cut cords and call in your angels. Daryl shares his zombie dream breakthrough. Plus dick-pic dating disasters, the prison planet theory, and why hell might be cold, not fiery.
They wrap with show picks (Widow's Bay, Vikings, Mrs. Maisel) and a Pizzagate tease.
And Weston, if you're out there, Amanda has questions.
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Three short letters, three very intimate problems, two hypnotherapists who have heard worse. A 24-year-old worried her hookup stole her energy.
A divorced 42-year-old who can't get there with his new partner. A 31-year-old who has been faking it for three years and can't take it anymore. Caroline and Daryl get into chakras, freezer spells, why your medication might be the actual problem, and why a vibrator in bed is not the criticism your boyfriend thinks it is.
Plus: homemade mayo, the smoothie that will change your life, and a warning about creatine that nobody else is telling you.
To find more out about Caroline Cranshaw & Daryl Gove 

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00:00 — Tinfoil hats and a dog in a cone
03:42 — Letter one: soul ties and the hookup that lingered
14:22 — Letter two: the divorcé who can't finish
22:35 — Letter three: fake it till you make it
30:26 — Recommendations: mayo, smoothies, and the creatine warning
38:31 — Outro
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Filth warning: this one's a doozy. Not for the easily scandalised, but you knew that...
A married dad writes in with a problem that started with one sneaky kitchen wank and escalated into something that's about to get him fired, arrested, or both. Caroline and Daryl read the letter, try to keep straight faces (mixed results), and then deliver some genuinely serious advice underneath the chaos, because this is an addiction, not just a punchline. 
Then Daryl unveils his Danger Wank Hall of Fame: six famous men, six very public mistakes, six cautionary tales. Plus: Daryl prods a dead possum with a stick for noble reasons, and a brief history of hedgehog rehab.
It's stupid. It's also weirdly useful. Classic WTF.
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Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold open: possums, hedgehogs, and Daryl's big heart
03:16 — Welcome to WTF and the letter
16:58 — Advice time: why this is serious, actually
24:42 — The Danger Wank Hall of Fame
39:55 — Get help, you'll be fine, wrap up

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⚠️ Trigger warning: this episode discusses harm to an animal. If that's not for you, skip this one and we'll see you next time.
A listener writes in about her brother's golden retriever, his new fiancée who never warmed to the dog, and the day everything went very, very wrong. Caroline and Daryl read the letter, try to work out if the family's suspicions are warranted (spoiler: they think so), and dig into the red flags everyone missed. Plus: dodgy neighbours, hypnosis for the chronically noise-tortured, and Caroline's daughter staging an intervention about her mum's screen time. Also some recommendations and a mild rant about American reality TV.
Filth level: standard WTF. Sense of justice: unfulfilled.
To find more out about Caroline Cranshaw & Daryl Gove 

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Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold open chaos and biceps as a love language
05:14 — Welcome to WTF and trigger warning
07:53 — The letter
15:31 — Did she do it? We discuss
18:08 — Caroline's neighbour from hell story
24:34 — Back to the letter
25:34 — What we're watching: Project Hail Mary, Your Friends and Neighbours, Last One Laughing
32:56 — Why American reality TV is somehow worse then Aussie and the UK
34:43 — Nervous system regulation (no, not with cocaine)
36:53 — Outro and one piece of practical advice
 
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