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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

215 - NXIVM Cult

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

A look into Keith Raniere, the NXIVM sex cult, and the manipulative power of MLMs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Nexium Sext cult, founded by Keith Creepy-ass super punchable face,

0:04.8

Renere in 1998, and its height, this Nexium had nothing to do with acid reflux medication,

0:11.0

and counted thousands of members, including celebrities,

0:13.8

heirs and erasers who all paid thousands, sometimes millions of dollars,

0:18.5

to attend a never-ending stream of bullshit classes at various Nexium training centers.

0:25.1

Line at the intersection of a multi-level marketing scheme, self-help group,

0:29.6

and occasionally an adult summer camp, Nexium was a true cult.

0:34.1

For a few diehards, it kind of still is. People started publicly worrying about how dangerous this

0:39.1

cult might be all the way back in 2003, but it wouldn't be until 2017, when the New York Times

0:45.9

published an article about one of its former members being literally branded by cattle as a part

0:52.0

of an initiation into a secret sex cult within Nexium that the group's true and terrible practices

0:58.2

will be brought into the light and finally exposed. We'll meet some people, seemingly ordinary

1:03.1

people that so desperately wanted someone to lead them to enlightenment. They allowed themselves

1:08.4

to be slowly manipulated into pain, to participate in weirder and weirder exercises,

1:13.9

until they finally agreed to be actual slaves. And part of basically a heron,

1:19.2

we'll meet Keith Reineri, the devious and perverted mastermind at the center of all of this,

1:23.2

who used his experience at AMway of all places, a Michigan-based multi-level marketing company,

1:28.5

and then borrowed a lot from Scientology to make people think he was some kind of once-in-a-lifetime

1:33.5

guru spiritual Jedi, who had the answer to all of your and all of the world's problems.

1:39.7

But he wasn't, isn't a guru, he didn't have any answers. Not really. Keith Reineri is just a man,

1:45.6

a really selfish, sick and bad man who convinced people to do what he wanted, even if what he wanted

1:50.7

was to sexually exploit and degrade them, was the only way for them to lead an ethical and lightened

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