CLASSIC: A Digital Cult? The Strange Story of Bentinho Massaro

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.2 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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One person's cult is another person's inarguable truth, and over millenia many spiritual or cultural belief systems have been called cults. Typically organizations called cults have a few commonal traits, one of the chief of which is isolation. So can cults continue to exist in the digital age, where the average smartphone user is only a few clicks away from learning almost anything they desire? What do these movements look like in the era of instantaneous communication? Join the guys as they delve into the strange concept of digital cults.

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0:00.0	Last season, millions tuned into the betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception.
0:05.1	I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal.
0:10.3	Ashley Litten was helping her husband set up a business fanmail account when she discovered
0:14.3	a terrible secret. I saw a hidden folder, and I opened it. What the hell did I just see?
0:23.3	Listen to season two of betrayal on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your
0:28.2	podcasts. From the executive producers of Hell and Gone comes a new podcast investigating the
0:35.0	serial murders orchestrated by South African cold leader Cecilia Stein. She conditioned
0:40.0	them to be monsters. In the world of murderous cults, if Charles Manson is king,
0:45.3	Cecilia Stein is queen. She was telling people the Bible since she was going to kill,
0:50.5	but actually she was taking revenge. Listen to Queen Havoc and her murder cult on the iHeartRadio app,
0:56.5	Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Queen Charlotte, the official podcast,
1:02.8	we're stepping behind the scenes and the drawing boards of this team to experience the life
1:08.6	breathes into the Bridgerton prequel. Listen to the leaps executive producer and series director Tom
1:14.1	Verica took to capture the feeling that puts that lump in your throat. And you've got to catch
1:19.6	creator Shonda Rhymes. She's dropping gems, diamonds, and mics. You can listen to Queen Charlotte,
1:25.7	the official podcast every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or anywhere you listen to
1:31.7	your favorite shows. A fellow conspiracy realist, we're doing an episode on cults today. This is a
1:39.8	classic episode where Matt, as you recall, off air, I probably said this with great regret. I had
1:47.7	to admit there was a bad Ben. Ben Tino? Yes. Yes, Ben Tino. Masaro is to some a thought leader,
2:00.6	to some a prophet, to supporters. It's a person who has changed their lives to critics.
2:08.8	This is a bad Ben has been accused of cultic practices has been accused of some untoward behavior.
2:20.2	And we really dig into this in our episode just heads up everyone. A lot of stuff has happened
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