ALBC at SXSW with Sarah Berman & Amanda Montell

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A Little Bit Culty – A Little Bit Culty took the show on the road, and brought you back this season 3 finale from Texas as a souvenir. In this episode, Sarah and Nippy host a live panel with Sarah Berman and Amanda Montell, in front of a real, actual human crowd of SXSW-certified cool kids. But first, the hosts celebrate the birthday of a certain golden boy, and respond to all the “Bad Vegan” hullaballoo. Lots to cover in this one, so let’s hit it. About Our Guests: Amanda Montell is a writer, language scholar, and the author of two critically acclaimed books: Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism and Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (HarperWave). Her books have earned praise from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and others, and Amanda is currently developing Wordslut for television with FX Studios. She is also the creator and co-host of the comedy-cult podcast, Sounds Like A Cult. Find her on Instagram @amanda_montell. Sarah Berman is an investigative journalist based in Vancouver covering crime, drugs, cults, politics, and culture. She is a former senior editor at VICE and past contributor to Adbusters, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun and other publications. Her debut book Don't Call it a Cult has drawn praise for its searing and insightful reportage of the rise and fall of NXIVM. Support the ALBC Pod: This podcast thing is a labor of love, but we also like money just fine. By listener request from you magical beasts that download our show every week, we’ve made a link where you can support A Little Bit Culty with a one-time, weekly, or monthly contribution. Your support will be repaid in cosmic love and light. To make a contribution and help us keep this pod rolling, just smash this link. Other Semi-Important and/or Critical Things You Should Know: The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Check out our Linktree to sign up for our mailing list. We’ve got some fun things coming your way soon. It rhymes with T-shirts. Okay, it’s t-shirts. – Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts
0:04.1	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:08.1	Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion
0:13.2	and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization,
0:17.6	business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.8	Hey everybody, I'm Sarah Edminton.
0:31.6	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy.
0:33.9	And we just want to welcome you to season three of a little bit culty.
0:38.4	Once upon a time we were in a cult called Nexium.
0:41.7	We didn't know it was a cult when we joined because as a wise man once said,
0:46.0	nobody joins a cult. They joined a good thing.
0:48.5	For a minute, it was a good thing. That's where we met, fell in love, got married,
0:52.4	started a family.
0:53.6	The stuff of story books.
0:55.5	Even the part where we woke up escaped, became whistleblowers and helped bring it all down.
0:59.6	You call that shitcho a story book?
1:01.3	Seeing the mastermind of Nexium get sentenced to 120 years in prison,
1:05.1	that's a story book ending if you ask me.
1:07.2	The whole thing was captured on HBO's Hit Docu series The Vow.
1:11.2	A new season is coming out any moment if it isn't out already by the time you hear this.
1:15.4	And I published a memoir called Scard, which is available anywhere books are sold.
1:19.6	And now we have a podcast.
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