This week, a reporter from the Military Times broke a story of the Army's less-than-stellar response to domestic violence.... again. Army Private Jonathan Lauture liked to beat his wife, but what he didn't like was being interrupted while doing so. When 22-year-old Jason Lindsay came to Lauture's apartment one night in 2019 — witnesses say he was there to help Lauture's wife, who was being assaulted at the time — Lauture shot him six times after Lindsay entered the apartment. From there, a failure of all systems occurred because our world is broken. The Army said, "Let's try to ignore this," and Lauture said, "Thanks, I'll keep beating my wife." Now the Army is trying to say "Oops, our bad," but we're not buying it.

In this episode, Amanda talks about her 7-year-old daughter's hesitation to wear a dinosaur tee-shirt (aka, how to tell your kids gender stereotypes are a bunch of malarky) and then we delve into what the hell happens when men try to tell women they're not allowed to earn, keep or control their own money (spoiler alert: they're not supposed to do that). Financial Planner and survivor Saundra Davis, founder of Sage Financial Solutions (www.sagefinancialsolutions.org) talks with us about reclaiming one's empowerment around money after abuse, how the racial pay gap makes things suckier for survivors of color, and how to plan your financial future (because it won't always be like this).

In another tired attempt at victim-blaming, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has proposed his country's rape crisis would be abated if us women would just stop showing so much of our provocative skin suits, but failed to explain why fully covered women, and also children, are raped on the daily. But hey, as long as men don't have to take accountability for anything, why logic? Next, Jenna and Amanda discuss a viral TikTok of a twatwaffle abuser psychologically tormenting his kid for shits and giggles and what kind of lifelong effects domestic violence can have on children. We delve into our ACE scores (find yours here: https://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-score/) and talk about why everyone should know theirs in order to get ahead of the shitstorm childhood trauma can cause.

Britney Spears got her turn to speak and told us what we all feared -- her dad's on a major power trip and she's under his complete abusive control. This deserves discussion. In the second part of the episode, Jenna and Amanda discuss a dude named Lusbu Jean, an abusive murderer who killed his girlfriend Natasha Nazien and her 15-year-old son, and shot and injured her other three children in Florida on June 7. The media called it a "domestic outburst of gun violence." I guess, anything to avoid calling it domestic violence or femicide or place any accountability on the murderer behind the gun. How media continues to miss an opportunity to educate the masses on the pattern of power and control that abusers use to keep luring women to their own deaths.

Bill and Melinda gates announced plans to end their 27-year marriage this past May and allegations immediately begin to circle Bill surrounding his penchant for trying to hit on some of his female employees. Dirty, but not predatory. At least ... not yet. Then came some flight logs that showed Bill met with convicted rapist of teenagers, Jeffrey Epstein, on his private jet. Multiple times. And dined with him at some shady exclusive dinners funded by Epstein. Of course, Gates says, "We were business bros" and Epstein says nothing because he's hiding somewhere on Rape Island.... we mean, he's dead because he died by suicide in 2019 while in prison. What is it with men and money and their desire to buy women? Do they just get bored buying gold bathroom faucets after a while? Speaking of men with unlimited amounts of money and power, we also bring Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk into this conversation wherein Jenna schools Amanda on the fact that Musk has a child named Bleep Bleep Bloop.

Welcome to Season 2! Same format, new crop of toxic a-holes. In this episode, Jenna and Amanda give you an update on some of the abusive men we covered in previous episodes — I bet you're curious as to what Marilyn Manson is up to. Oh, just being accused of rape by a fifth woman. Meanwhile, Rep. Matt Gaetz still claims there's nothing wrong with having sex with children. After that, we delve in the amazing and inspiring story of one of our new superheroes, Samra Zafar, a woman with dreams of becoming a doctor who was forced to marry a complete stranger at 16 and, wouldn't you know it, that complete stranger was — you guessed it — abusive and controlling. Relegated to living in their basement with her two children, denied an education, she never gave up hope that someday she'd go to college and find her freedom.

What do Mara Wilson (of Matilda/Mrs. Doubtfire fame) and Britney Spears have in common? Both women—along with many, many more—have been targeted by the Hollywood fame machine that often takes cute, young stars, tries to turn them into sexpots and then watches their creations crash and burn, selling it all to us as entertainment. Earlier this year, Wilson penned an op-ed for the New York Times speaking out against the sexualization of young women in Hollywood and why she felt for Spears, who's dealing with her own nightmare fall-out after her 2007 "breakdown." Jenna and Amanda delve into both women's journeys, the latest on the #FreeBritney movement, how we are all complicit in what went wrong and why the media we choose to ingest matters.

On June 10, 2016, while visiting friends in San Diego, former Marine Raymond McLeod strangled to death his 30-year-old girlfriend Krystal Mitchell before fleeing to South America. In Episode 16, we delved into McLeod's life on the run and how he's recently been put on the U.S. Marshal’s Service 15 Most Wanted fugitive list. Krystal's badass mom, Josephine Wentzel, has been searching for McLeod since her daughter's death, vowing to make his life a living nightmare until he's found. She recently spoke with Amanda about what she's discovered via the AngelsofJustice.com project, how we can help(Internet sleuths, report), and what gives her strength to take on this manhunt while also raising her two young grandchildren left behind.

Abusive partners can brainwash victims to a point where they don't even realize what they just endured was domestic violence until years after they've escaped. In this episode, we break down how it took a freelance writing gig about domestic violence for Shelley to realize a previous partner was actually more than just a toxic a-hole, he was a dangerous and manipulative abuser escalating his power and control. Getting out just in time, she considers herself "one of the lucky ones." From revenge porn to a near-fatal motorcycle ride, "Alex" knew exactly what he was doing in order to keep his ex-girlfriend terrified enough to stay and our guess is he's still out there doing it to a new women. Hi, lack of accountability, party of one, your table is ready.

In 2016, Phoenix-resident Raymond McLeod murdered his 30-year-old girlfriend, Krystal Mitchell, while they were visiting friends in San Diego. The scary-AF-looking heavily tatted ex-Marine bodybuilder then thought he could blend in seamlessly if he fled to South America ... and unfortunately, he may have been right. Or, people there don't follow true crime. He's managed to escape capture for five years and the U.S. Marshals Service recently placed him on their Most Wanted List with an unprecedented reward of $50,000 for anyone with information leading to his arrest. After telling Mitchell's story and being even more convinced dating is a complete hellscape, Amanda and Jenna invited on security expert and author Spencer Coursen (www.coursensecuritygroup.com), whose first book "The Safety Trap" hits shelves May 18. As a nontoxic male whose job it is to keep people safe, Coursen offers up some smart takeaways on how to avoid or get out of relationships we know are rife with danger.