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A true crime documentary rarely hits like this, but Maternal Instinct starts with a scene so shocking we’re still trying to process it while we talk. We’re recording “raw, uncut, and unedited,” drinks in hand, walking through the viral story out of New Boston, Texas and the disturbing spiral around Taylor Parker and Wade Griffin. What begins as a relationship that moves way too fast turns into a maze of claims, pressure, and public posts that make it harder for everyone involved to admit what they’re seeing.

We unpack the inheritance narrative that powers the whole con: promises of millions, big purchases meant to buy trust, and a constant stream of explanations for why the money is always just out of reach. We dig into the red flags that show up early, including the too-perfect backstory, the sudden move-in, and the way questions get treated like betrayal. Then we get into the pecan farm deal and the “trust fund” runaround that feels like it should end everything, until another bomb drops.

The turning points are brutal: a vehicle that gets repossessed after being framed as a generous gift, the desperate scramble to keep the story alive, and a pregnancy claim that collides with what an OBGYN and friends say is medically impossible. We also talk about the people around the couple: who speaks up, who stays quiet, and how easy it is for a lie to isolate someone from the friends trying to help.

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Drinks, Father’s Day, And No Recap

SPEAKER_00

Hey Jesse. Hello, Lindsay. What are you having to drink today? Tonight. What is tonight?

SPEAKER_01

Me over here. You know what I did, Lindsay? You know what I did? Because this is like my. I just had my weekend. Like the whole full-on dad weekend, I guess.

SPEAKER_00

Father's Day weekend. Woo!

SPEAKER_01

So welcome everybody. And uh little Jack Honey over here because I feel like this is a Jack Honey type recap of something actually that we're not recapping.

SPEAKER_00

So we're, I mean, so what we're gonna do on this recap because normally what we do is we recap our previous episode. But we just want you to go back and listen to it. So we covered Gypsy Rose Blanchard last week, and it's a long one. We do we did a lot of work. We did a lot of work on that one. Well I did a lot of work. Jesse just joined in. But this week, what we did was we watched the viral documentary Maternal Instinct.

SPEAKER_01

She decided to destroy me. It was two nights. Two nights. She was like, let's just watch half of this tonight and we'll watch the other half, you know, tomorrow. Destroyed me two nights. I didn't even want to go to work. I didn't even want to, I didn't even want to exist.

SPEAKER_00

It's so bad. It's so bad. So we're only laughing because we've had a few. So this is hey, this is Raw, Uncut, and Unedited Drunk About Something, where we have recorded our proper episode. Yeah. And we've had our drinks, and now we're a little drunk.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and we're looking like two different ways because we have lives and we have this and we have that. And what are you drinking over there, Lindsay?

SPEAKER_00

So I've got blood orange white claw with um Sherbert Celsius. The the retro vibe. The retro vibe. My favorite. My favorite. And I keep stealing it, dude, because I'm fevery thievery freaking Celsius. And what are you having to drink?

SPEAKER_01

You just you just asked me, and I told you it was like Jack and Honey, because I feel like this is a Jack and Honey type episode.

SPEAKER_00

Like I said, raw, uncut, and unedited. Drunk about something.

SPEAKER_01

So I love your microphone.

SPEAKER_00

This is my microphone. So what we're gonna do on this episode is we are going to give our take on maternal instinct.

Why Maternal Instinct Hit So Hard

SPEAKER_01

So maternal instinct is something that Lindsay had bestowed upon me in my it should have been my slumber hour, and she decided to keep me up and make me watch my own. I asked you.

SPEAKER_00

I was like, hey, you want to watch the documentary and we'll just go.

SPEAKER_01

Of course I gotta go along with it. Whatever you want, baby. I got you, girl. Whatever, girl.

SPEAKER_00

I'm gonna stay the fuck awake forever. It was so it was so bad. It was so bad. So we're in New Boston, Texas, right? Yeah, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_01

You're right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. So the subject is Taylor Parker. She is she is the the the criminal in this situation. We have to be careful what we say on both of these aspect.

SPEAKER_01

So this thing starts off as a police chase.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm like, what the hell is happening here? Right? And then the door opens. And I'm like, oh my God. What the hell just transpired? And I'm like blown apart already.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, because there's a blurred out baby.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. And this brand newborn and biblical cords still attach, and I'm like destroyed. I mean, within the first five seconds of this.

SPEAKER_00

And this lady named Taylor Parker is saying that she just had this baby on the side of the road.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And I want you to show I want you to talk.

SPEAKER_01

You do.

SPEAKER_00

I do.

SPEAKER_01

I bet you do. I really do. Because it's a lot for me to take it.

SPEAKER_00

I just talked a lot. So Lindsay has watched this twice.

SPEAKER_01

And while I was getting a pedicure for Father's Day.

SPEAKER_00

Happy Father's Day.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so I was like, Lindsay, you watch these things two times. Like, okay, she watched it and then she's like invited me to watch it, right? And I'm like, dude, this is kind of not cool because I want to get your genuine perspective also. You right?

SPEAKER_00

Well, we have now made a pact that from now on we're gonna watch the viral documentaries that everybody messages me to watch. We're gonna watch them together both at the same time organically.

SPEAKER_01

I am so under a rock that I don't even know what's viral.

SPEAKER_00

So sometimes I want to protect you because I don't want to be protected. Like I said when we were talking about it during our pedicure, that you're not as desensitized as I am. But I want to tell y'all that desensitized as I am, this

The Chase And The Newborn Shock

SPEAKER_00

documentary really had me shook. No lie. Like I I couldn't, I could not even.

SPEAKER_01

So it is really hard for me to put all together in a recap because I was in like not in a great state of mind because I'm half awake, half asleep, and I'm completely invigorated and completely disgusted at the same time of all the things that transpired into it, if that makes sense. And then I'm fighting sleep, and then I'm completely involved, and then I'm out, and then I'm in, and then I'm like, I'm like, Well, that's why we've had we had to we had to watch it over two different two different nights because yeah, it was about an hour and a half, and by the time I get home and get my face washed and get my jammies on, Jesse's got 45 minutes tops. No, it's like yeah, she's pulling on 11 30, and I've been up since 5 30 in the morning. So I'm I'm done, dude. Like, but I'm and I usually get up about 6 30, so and I want to watch all of it, but I'm like, I got to be done. So

Taylor And Wade’s Fast Attachment

SPEAKER_01

we finished halfway through. So all the all the parts that transpired into this was uh a female that latched on to another dude.

SPEAKER_00

So the female is Taylor Parker and the dude is Wade Griffin.

SPEAKER_01

And Taylor had a history, right? She had children. She had previous was a previous marriage.

SPEAKER_00

I think so. Yes, yes, she had a previous marriage.

SPEAKER_01

There is like a whole big life that she had, but she lost a lot of weight and she hooked up with him, and he's he's kind of country. They're very not kind of.

SPEAKER_00

I just want to say, number one, first of all, uh Wade Griffin is the most blah dude that I've ever seen. Lindsay, I kind of wanted to bring that out later on.

SPEAKER_01

I kind of wanted to bring that out later on.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

What real quick though, hey, I want to show our shirts really quick and plug.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So we're wearing our Defy the Tirants local band from Crawford Frill, Florida, that we love very much. And these are their Pride shirts. And that Jesse and I have matching.

SPEAKER_01

We're matching from we went to a show and we did the things and we hang out with this band a whole lot, which had they have a show January the 11th coming up, and so do I.

SPEAKER_00

And so does Jesse's band at Retro City Arcade. Yeah. In Lake here in Lake City, Florida.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. So if you're nearly near near Tallahassee area, Crawfordville's the show.

SPEAKER_00

Go see, go see Defy the Tyrant.

SPEAKER_01

If you're near North Central Florida area, come and see us play, dude. I'm ready to go. It's our first step out. But anyhow, Lindsay, like taking all of that in and finding, she found her bow, right? And she hooked up with him.

SPEAKER_00

Who really wasn't that into her?

SPEAKER_01

He wasn't. He was just like, okay, she looks beautiful and she's all into me, so I guess I'll go along with that. He said the words, she lit up her room. I mean, she did. She was very stunning, actually.

SPEAKER_00

She was a very beautiful woman. She really on the outside.

SPEAKER_01

And so, but that aspect was her transpiring into a younger, overweight woman that did not do great with her kids, did not do great with her past relationships. Yeah, so I I lost her kids, right?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I'm I we don't know because okay, so Wade said that they had her little girl during the week. Netflix did not elaborate on her relationship with these kids, and um they did blur out their faces, and I and that's fine. They they don't they don't have to be a part of the documentary whatsoever. But they did not elaborate on what the reason was that she did not have these kids full-time, and then continue.

SPEAKER_01

So we're trying to figure out like what all of her past of history is, but she

The Inheritance Story And Big Spending

SPEAKER_01

is pushing the narrative that she has a shitload of money in her family inheritance and her mom is a tyrant that won't let her get to it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, says she's gonna inherit eight million dollars from her grandmother, but her mom is trying to keep her from that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and in the documentary, it all transpired all the way to the point where she's buying her soon-to-be mother-in-law.

SPEAKER_00

A new car.

SPEAKER_01

A vehicle.

SPEAKER_00

She talks Wade into getting a new truck. They get $20,000 side by sides.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Um and uh at this point, I'm already like, what the fuck? Like, okay, there's supposed to be some kind of oil tycoon like thing, inheritance or whatever that's coming into play.

SPEAKER_00

I'm glad you paid attention to that part because I was like, where did this money come from?

SPEAKER_01

No, I was just like, okay, so maybe the mom is a tyrant, right? Maybe she is like holding holding that against her and all the things, right? But but why? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That would have been my first question. Why is your mother doing this? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, Lindsay, lean forward just a little. Right in there. Sorry. Right in there. Because they want to see you over here on the live. Okay. Hey guys. We're over here too. I don't like it. We've got YouTube over there.

SPEAKER_00

We've got TikTok over there.

SPEAKER_01

Over here and over there. So we're gonna rechange the view. We're we're just trying new things. We're still playing, like so goddamn.

SPEAKER_00

We're almost two years into this thing and we're still new, but we're figuring it out.

SPEAKER_01

So okay, so like Taylor is portraying a lot of bullshit up on the family, on the new family and uh her new boyfriend, and she automatically moves in with him, kind of just packed up her shit, didn't have a lot of shit actually.

SPEAKER_00

And didn't put anything in the storage. That was a red flag for Wade's mom. Yeah, was she didn't have a lot of things to store.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was it was just very strange. She had very little, packed up, moved in, talked a whole lot about her past and how her mom was holding her down. And there were people from the past that knew a lot of things that should have told a lot of things that never did tell a lot of things, Lindsay.

SPEAKER_00

Well, that's a that's that was my uh a lot of my problem. So there were people, okay, so a lot of the narrators of the story. So you've got Wade's mom telling or talking, you've got Wade's friends that are talking, then you have Taylor's ex-friends that are talking. My biggest problem with the ex-friends is they knew a lot that they were not telling. Like, I would if I knew these things about this person, I would have knocked on the door. Because what Taylor ends up doing is she feels that Wade, even though she's buying him all this shit that she absolutely cannot afford.

SPEAKER_01

But she's portraying and every little step of the way, all the way to where you're gonna believe me or I'm gonna keep lying until you do.

SPEAKER_00

Right. So she she tells so she's she's buying Wade all this stuff, but she's still not feeling like that he loves her, um, because he never really does.

SPEAKER_01

Spoiler. I think the whole time is because Wade is like kind of seeing what's the obvious, but she's pushing the narrative of so many different great things, and he's trying to hang on to the money a little bit.

SPEAKER_00

I was about to say, Wade was uh liking the come-up.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Even though his mama is screaming at him, red flag, red flag. We need a red flag to wave right here.

SPEAKER_01

No, I want a red card. I like the the the whole uh you know the soccer like aesthetic or the football aesthetic where you can see.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, and then we're in worlds right now, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, the whole thing, yeah. So not that we know anything about sports, but so country boy, he has farms, he has cattle, and he likes to go hog hunting.

SPEAKER_00

He is a feral hog handler.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's capture them, sell them to somebody else, and they domesticate them for meat and whatever the fuck they do. I don't understand.

SPEAKER_00

So it really doesn't elaborate on his profession, but from what we can tell from the documentary, that's what he does.

SPEAKER_01

A lot of country, a lot of hog, and they were doing that together. They were

The Pecan Farm Deal Starts Cracking

SPEAKER_01

doing the whole country life, doing things, you know, ATVs, mud bogging, the whole thing. So now Taylor she is actually pushing the aspect of them getting their own farm together.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so she and and and the in uh the investment company or the the the mortgage brokers, I guess is what it is. Yeah. So she is, so they're in the documentary as well. And she goes to them and she tells them, hey, I've got this money coming in. Um she gives them names of people that they can talk contact because it's like a trust fund that she's saying that she's got. And they she they have to contact these people to get this money from the trust fund.

SPEAKER_01

So she gives them all these names of people to contact, and they get a hold of these people, but it's just like like the runaround, like everybody's giving them the runaround, and it's like off business hours, and then there's like weird voicemails, and there's weird things that are transpiring that doesn't connect into anything tangible as far as a tr a money transaction, and she's promising this transaction in between negotiating this whole property deal, multi-million dollar property deal. Right.

SPEAKER_00

It was called what was it called? Oh something other. Yes, something with pecan. Now we say pecan. Yeah, uh, but in Texas they say pecan, and that's it.

SPEAKER_01

Pecan farms or something, but like they they were having like this beautiful property that was gonna be a moneymaker, hundreds of acres, and it was on like a little river that went through there and everything is a really nice spot for somebody to set up and actually have a farm and have a productive.

SPEAKER_00

I was gonna say it was like it was like a pecan distribution thing, correct? A whole running business that they were looking into purchasing, and it was 20 million dollars.

SPEAKER_01

And and at Christmas, she gathered up everybody, and they were having this whole like conversation about how it's on camera doing the whole thing. Like it was it was uh like a business production full-on thing that she persuaded everybody into believing that this is gonna happen for her and Wade. And he was just like, Yeah, it's alright, whatever. And then all the all the rest of the people are just like shocked. You can see it on their face.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and but they're like they're happy for Wade at the same time. But like I said, of course, the car that she has already purchased

Repossession, The Pregnancy Claim, And Fallout

SPEAKER_00

for his mother has already been repossessed. So that's that's a red flag. Like, why why didn't you just like less end things right there?

SPEAKER_01

Right, and she told Wade's mother that it needed to go back because of a recall. And then uh Wade's mother's like, okay, well, I'm gonna call the dealership and find out what's going on. They're like, no, this is being repossessed. Because there's been those. It's not a recall for repairs. This never got paid for.

SPEAKER_00

This hasn't been paid for.

SPEAKER_01

Biggest red flag ever. It should have stopped right fucking here.

SPEAKER_00

But then Taylor throws a spoke in the in the red flag in the red flag wheel and tells Wade that she's pregnant.

SPEAKER_01

Boom.

SPEAKER_00

And then that's when, in the documentary, her friend appears, and her old OBG OBGYN appears and says, Oh, she can't have no baby. She's had a hysterectomy.

SPEAKER_01

No longer there no more. But we're not allowed to tell anybody because of confidentiality.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I mean, the doctor, I understand. They got HIPAA loss. I get it.

SPEAKER_01

But the friend, all the friends, the mom, all the people that could have came into play, she, somebody.

SPEAKER_00

But at the same time, so when she's, I mean, and this girl is crazy. She is posting about it on all the socials. This is all the socials. She's posting about it.

SPEAKER_01

On the lives, have you seen this over here? Have you seen this thing?

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

They are now just joining in, and I'm loving it because.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I put in our I put in our caption that we are put it giving our take on maternal instinct. You got glitter right here.

SPEAKER_01

Well, it's because I had a uh pedicure earlier.

SPEAKER_00

No, no, no, no. It's just it was a little bead of moisture.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I wanted that. Lindsay, don't take that away from me. Don't take away from my own wafer.

SPEAKER_00

So, okay, so now Taylor is saying that she's pregnant.

SPEAKER_01

She's lost her grip. The money is starting to fall apart, and she lost the vehicle.

SPEAKER_00

There was no money to begin with.

SPEAKER_01

Now people are starting to speculate. Now she brings in a whole pregnancy into the deal. That's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_00

And she's gets like falsified documents. Um, Wade's friends, like, okay, so they're a couple, and the his friend, oh god, I forgot to write his name down. But his his friend, I think it was Cody.

SPEAKER_01

You should remember that because he was the realest motherfucker in the world.

SPEAKER_00

He was my favorite. It was Cody. It was Cody.

SPEAKER_01

He was the realest.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. It was Cody, and I love Cody's. Like fuck Cody Quistad, that's my dog. That big fucking lying. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

What'd he say?

SPEAKER_00

So watch the documentary. Cody will be your favorite. Pull up your Google real quick.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, no.

SPEAKER_00

Well, just so I can double check. But I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure his name was Cody. So Wade's friend, the realist dude, his wife, the realist chick. Like, she does the investigative work. She presents it to her husband and says, Hey, you need to tell Wade about this shit. Well, Wade stops talking to them.

SPEAKER_01

Did we actually figure out if Cody is like his brother or that was his best friend. His best friend. Okay. So, but like he was at the farm and they did a lot of work together and they actually had a fallen out over this because Wade was kind of trying to defend her in the middle of all this. Yeah. And and a lot. Yeah. And I think Wade was just like, I'm in belief because she has pushed this whole narrative that her mom's a tyrant and she's holding back the money, and I'm not getting the money, and my dreams are getting shot out because this is the only thing I can hang on to. And all boom, all of a sudden, Taylor is pregnant. Cody. Yeah.

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