For the purposes of this podcast, we define a cult as organizations that rally behind

an entity or leader who espouse beliefs outside the norm, organizations that require physical

or monetary sacrifice as a condition of membership, organizations in which the doctrines follow

by the leaders are different than that of the followers, organizations in which isolation

is encouraged either by commune living or by a policy of disconnection from outside relationships.

In organizations that actively recruit new members, all cults might have some or all of these

traits and as always, these are our opinions. Thank you for tuning in to cult podcast on page Wesley

and it's just me right now. Yay! I'll get to it. I'm going to explain why you're here first.

Mikey, we're not here yet. You're not here yet.

Mikey, you've been in the closet for a while. So Armando unfortunately had a death in the

family this week. Yeah. Right as we were about to record and so he needs to handle some

arrangements and things with his family. So obviously he is not here. Also please don't contact

him about it. He needs to spend time with his family and handle some stuff. He'll explain what he

chooses to explain when he gets back, but we're giving him some space. So in the... Our hearts go out.

Our hearts go out. Love that guy. In the meantime, because we wanted to make sure that you guys

still had something to listen to on Monday, Mikey and Todd are here with me today.

Yay! I have no idea what I'm doing. I know. I know. Page would not tell us what we are

doing here today. Yeah. Okay. Here's the thing. We were right in the middle of Theranos.

Theranos episode two is wild and hilarious. I love the Theranos episode. We don't want to like...

Like we don't want to ruin it by trying to introduce another cult and make it more confusing.

Right. Right, right, right. But we had just recently done like a conversational episode. So we

wanted to do something a little bit different. If you've been listening to us for a long time,

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