Don't drink the cool head.

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 followed 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.

And 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 into cult podcast on on Page Wesley and I'm Armando Torres and with

this we have more research yeah I don't know when this episode is coming out but for your I guess

understanding we are recording this immediately after we recorded the episode that just came out on Monday.

And I did a lot of research, okay? I did, I think we mentioned on the last episode the

original research document that I wrote for this episode was about two to

three times longer than any episode I've ever written before and that was after I took out all of the

interesting side stories that I rabbit hold down but I have one that I liked and I wanted to share it with you.

So this is a bonus episode.

This is a 0.5 episode.

All right, it's gonna be very short,

it's gonna be very sweet, and this is my way of making it up to you for being gone for so many weeks.

So here are the sources and I feel like it's going to become pretty apparent what this episode

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