109. The language of 'brain-washing' in cults | Amanda Montell

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🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Amanda Montell is an American author and linguist, and she is here to talk about cults. Amanda Montell links: https://twitter.com/amandamontell?lang=es https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Amanda-Montell/dp/0062993151 http://amandamontell.com https://www.instagram.com/amanda_montell/?hl=es Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Suscribe to the newsletter at http://weeklyedge.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They will analyze you and break you down to build you up.
0:04.0	They'll make you feel like they see you in a way that nobody else has ever seen you.
0:08.3	They understand your personality.
0:10.3	They are noticing elements of you that have maybe never been noticed before
0:15.8	to make you feel special so that they can then say Scientology can help you with that.
0:22.1	Hello cult members I've started that being the name of the book by American author and
0:22.8	cult members I've started calling you things that relate to the
0:26.7	episode in question and today is going to be a bit cultish that being the name of
0:31.2	the book by American author and linguist Amanda Montel.
0:35.0	As you guys might know, I'm always tempted to interview people who know about cults
0:40.0	as well as people who know about languages and things like that.
0:43.6	So this is a bit of a bonus.
0:45.4	And having just had El Hardy on the podcast
0:48.1	to talk about the Pentecostal Christian Movement,
0:50.9	this is a hell of a week for cults on the edge. Even if L did refute that
0:55.2	Pentecostalism is a cult, Amanda seems more of the opinion that it is one, as is everything
1:01.2	from multi-level marketing companies to podcasts and social media
1:06.1	gurus. Her book cultish is really good. One of my favorites that I've read. She
1:11.6	talks about being kidnapped sort of by Scientologists and her
1:15.7	father's experience in a cult which she'll talk about today of course she's grown up
1:19.5	with a thorough understanding of the language of cultts and should impart on us that knowledge.
1:25.4	Statistically I'd imagine that at least some of you listening are in some form of colt probably without knowing it.
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