84: Cults, Mind Control, & Religion
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
You asked for it, so here's our second episode about cults. We discuss Scientology and learn about Sarah's experience taking their "Personality Test." We talk about Charles Manson's Family and how he convinced people to kill for him. Plus, we analyze the "Satanic Panic" of the 80s. Susie discusses her childhood growing up in the evangelical church and why rock music was seen as coming from the devil. This episode is chock full of creepy cults, witches, rituals, and religious madness. Perfect for Thanksgiving!
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:13.9 | Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome once again to the Brain Candy Podcast with me, my bestie. |
| 0:21.0 | Suis? |
| 0:21.7 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:22.7 | How you doing, Suis? |
| 0:23.7 | Much better than last week. |
| 0:25.6 | Way better. |
| 0:26.9 | Everything's still horrible and, you know, |
| 0:29.1 | the world's going to end, but I'm just feeling better about it. |
| 0:33.0 | We're a little more chipper today. |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.6 | And there's only one way to go from here and that's up, right? |
| 0:40.2 | We just say to the minute to like think about, be contemplative, think about the state |
| 0:45.6 | of the world and now we're ready to talk about... |
| 0:49.4 | Caught ridiculous stuff again. |
| 0:52.0 | Well, not so ridiculous. |
| 0:53.5 | People love this. |
| 0:54.5 | You guys loved the last episode. |
| 0:57.6 | Whenever we go anywhere and we're like, hey, what episode did you guys like? |
| 1:01.8 | Everyone always says the episode on cults. |
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