Could You Fall Prey To A Cult? | 10
Call Me Curious
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4.4 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
How do you recognize the signs of a cultic relationship? Could you already be in over your head and not even realize it? Actor and model Hoyt Richards knows firsthand, and tells Nikki all about his harrowing 20 year experience of being slowly brainwashed by a charismatic cult leader. Plus, learn the warning signs of how to recognize if you're in a similar toxic relationship and don't even know it.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, |
| 0:10.0 | where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, |
| 0:14.7 | or just got to know questions you have. |
| 0:16.9 | And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is. |
| 0:21.0 | Because I've got 21 questions. |
| 0:23.6 | I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson. |
| 0:28.3 | Call me curious. |
| 0:32.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:34.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:36.2 | So tell the truth. |
| 0:45.9 | I need to know that it's real. |
| 0:47.8 | Know that it's real. |
| 0:48.8 | So tell the truth. |
| 0:52.1 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:54.6 | Welcome to Call Me Curious. |
| 1:00.0 | So, listen, I admit it, I can be a little gullible at times. |
| 1:01.9 | Okay, maybe a lot, right? |
| 1:03.0 | Can we call it trusting? |
| 1:04.1 | Let's say I'm trusting. |
| 1:17.2 | Back when I was a teenager, I actually believed my friend when he told me that his parents were going through a divorce ceremony, much like their wedding. I also thought that boys had to lift their leg to pee, much like dogs. And yes, |
| 1:23.2 | only bald people wore hats. That was a fact in my mind. Yet there are some things that I know I could never, ever be talked into, like joining a cult. Of course, you know who else says that, right? |
| 1:28.7 | Pretty much anyone who's ever been in a cult. |
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