Bentinho Massaro Sucks Part 1

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

A Little Bit Culty – Imagine a narsty blend of an Instagram influencer, spiritual huxter, Winklevoss twin, and Hugh Hefner’s ghost. These are the vibes that Bentinho Massaro is serving. He’s got all the scary charisma and shiny trappings of a culty overachiever, like thousands of social media followers, a grandiose plan to build a fully enlightened society by 2035, and he even claims to vibrate at a higher frequency than other humans. He’s also already achieved a rite of passage that’s becoming all too common among culty fuckwads: His name in headlines concerning the suspicious death of one of his followers at a Sedona retreat. Our trio of guests in this double episode whistleblower extravaganza are coming forward to call bullshit on Bentinho’s special brand of mindfuckery. Jade Alectra, Keilan McNeil, and Jacqueline Graham were pulled into his mad world, and got themselves out. But they aren’t going radio silent. Oh hell no. Because they want you to know that this so-called millennial spiritual guru is less of a messiah and more of a walking, talking human Fyre Festival. In part one, Jade, Keilan, and Jacqueline share what made Bentinho seem so alluring and transformational at first, and what happened when shit started getting real. ~ 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. ~ A Little Bit Culty is proud to support the #IGOTOUT project, which empowers survivors of cultic abuse to share their stories online as a catalyst for education, prevention, and healing. Learn more at igotout.org ~ For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy “Anthony” Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @alittlebitculty ~ CREDITS: Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames Production Partner: Citizens of Sound Producer: Will Retherford Associate Producer: Jess Tardy 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
0:12.1	are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion,
0:15.8	group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.8	Hey everybody, I'm Sarah Edminson.
0:31.8	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy.
0:34.2	And we just want to welcome you to season three of a little bit culty.
0:38.8	Once upon a time we were in a cult called Nexium.
0:42.0	We didn't know it was a cult when we joined because as a wise man once said,
0:46.3	nobody joins a cult. They joined a good thing.
0:48.8	For a minute it was a good thing. That's where we met, fell in love, got married,
0:52.7	started a family. The stuff of story books.
0:55.7	Even the part where we woke up escaped, became whistleblowers and helped bring it all down.
0:59.9	You call that shitcho a story book? Seeing the mastermind of Nexium
1:03.1	gets sentenced to 120 years in prison, that's a story book ending if you ask me.
1:07.4	The whole thing was captured on HBO's Hit Docu series The Val.
1:11.4	A new season is coming out any moment if it isn't out already by the time you hear this.
1:15.6	And I published a memoir called Scarred, which is available anywhere books are sold.
1:19.8	And now we have a podcast.
1:21.5	Every week on a little bit culty we call on experts, advocates, fellow survivors,
1:25.5	and whistleblowers to help us unpack what's going on in the cultiverse.
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