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Back in the good old days of cults, you kind of had to have the charisma and just the organizational

skills to get a bunch of people in the same room to get up on a pulpit and preach at them for

a few hours to compel them to keep coming back IRL. Now, especially with the pandemic, I mean,

speaking of like the perfect conditions for a cult, it's not really possible as much to meet

in person, but what's also making this time so cult is that you no longer have to be able to

manipulate an individual standing in front of you. You just have to be able to manipulate an

algorithm and that's a whole lot easier to do.

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fan of exposing cults, scams, manipulative organizations in the way that they operate. Today's episode

is no exception. Amanda Montel, author of Cultish, joins us to discuss how cults co-op to the words

we use in order to control us and affect our behavior. We'll cover MLM scams, QAnon, Scientology and

all the usual suspects, but we'll focus on how these groups use language to confuse and control

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