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I'm Paige Wesley.

I'm Marie Bella.

Welcome. What was that voice? It was yours. It was all mine. I'm still going through puberty so.

There might be some cracking. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

So as you guys know, we don't always cover cults.

I say that, like, we've not covered cults before.

We really only have not covered a cult one other time and that was with our Kelly.

And in a way you could definitely argue that it had cult like stuff. Right. Just like this one. Just like this one is not technically a cult, but it has very cult-like attributes, if you will.

And there are several people that follow this one specific figure and they have ideas that they have formed around it and they are acting on behalf of what the figure and what they think would please him?

I mean, when you think about it, we have like certain benchmarks that you and I look at to

to determine whether or not something is a cult.

And one of them is, you know, a lining behind one figure that has unconventional beliefs,

another one is active recruitment,

physical or monetary sacrifices

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