Cult to Comedy: Shannon Payton on Turning Trauma into Humor

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Shannon Payton, perhaps better known online as “Shanny Pants,” is a hilarious mother of three whose Tiktoks (etc.) have turned her into a viral queen, with her videos even appearing on TVs across the nation via The Kelly Clarkson show. It’s crazy to think that, for the first 31 years of her life, Payton was actually living something more similar to The Culty Clarkson show (we’re so sorry, we had to try), having grown up in Northern California within a community that her grandparents originally joined as a non-denominational bible study club before it turned into a fear and shame-based cult, ruled by a wacky shithead who loved “marking” (ex-communicating) anyone who questioned him, and who also forbid women from wearing pants or basically being like, humans with any rights or autonomy whatsoever. Fun!

This is one of our lighter episodes for sure, so if you want to end your year with a laugh, don’t miss out!

Shanny Pants on Kelly Clarkson

Shanny Pants on TikTok

Shanny Pants on Facebook

Shanny Pants on YouTube

Shanny Pants on everything else

Also…

Hear Ye, Hear Ye:

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. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit cultier, those are the hosts,
0:03.6	and don't reflect the official policy or position of the podcast, right, sir?
0:07.6	Correct.
0:08.3	Any of the, quote, fire content, I prefer lava content provided by our guests, blog
0:13.3	responses, or authors of the opinion and are not intended to malign a religion,
0:18.4	a group, a club, an organization, business individual, anyone or anything, unless, sir?
0:23.9	Your douchebag.
0:24.6	Yeah, I mean, pretty much.
0:26.8	Also, we're not doctors, psychologists or wizards.
0:29.5	We're just two non-experts trying to make you a friendly and formative podcast based on our
0:34.0	experience that we've turned into wisdom.
0:35.6	Okay.
0:36.0	Good talk.
0:36.8	Okay.
0:37.6	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:49.4	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippie, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit cultier.
0:55.8	aka a lbc.
0:57.5	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
1:00.8	We've been there and back again, a little about us.
1:03.6	True story, we met and fell in love in a cult, and then we woke up and got the hell out of
1:08.8	dodge.
1:09.3	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Val, now in its second season.
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