205: GLORIOUS

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Hi Babes! This week we’re exploring Gloriavale, ‘a christian community home to more than 90 families.’ They swear they’re not a cult…but if it looks like a cult, and it quacks like a cult…I’ll let you be the judge. We’ve got a prophet, a compound, and a whole lot of blue.

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Sources:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/why-they-wear-blue-the-weirdest-customs-from-inside-gloriavale.html https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/68166569/men-groomed-to-have-underage-sex-in-gloriavale-ex-member-says https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300241979/gloriavale-the-daily-life-the-dark-side-and-uncertain-future-explained https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloriavale_Christian_Community ‘Daughter of Gloriavale’ Lilia Tarawa Lilia’s Tedx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7mBbXxJYA&t=626s

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0:17.1	On Cult Leader I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press media and
0:20.6	other resources cannot always be verified, sources can be found in the show notes.
0:50.6	Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.
0:54.8	I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and if you're new here, Cult Leader is a podcast about
0:58.5	cults, moi to mehem, false profits.
1:01.7	Sometimes aliens, I have listened, it's whatever we stumble upon that week, you get what
1:05.2	you get and you're gonna like it.
1:06.9	How's it going, babes?
1:08.1	We are in for a story today.
1:10.1	We're just gonna get right to it.
1:11.4	It's a story that checks every box on the cult list of requirements.
1:16.5	We need to just write this out one day.
1:18.3	Like, alright, it has this, it has this, it has this.
1:20.4	I've been deep dive in, looking into some lesser known cults lately.
1:24.4	Starting with Raylism, last week honestly, it's not that it's necessarily unknown, but
1:29.2	ones that I haven't really looked into too much, I haven't been inundated with information
1:35.0	about it.
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