Ep. 92 Eckankar: Sticky Knives

Cult Podcast

Paige Wesley & Armando Torres

True Crime, History, Comedy

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We're hella sick this week so we decided to take a light and silly romp through the history of Eckankar and it's eccentric leader Paul Twitchell. In this episode Paige takes Mando and Andrea through the life of a man who joined several other cults, befriended L. Ron Hubbard, and may or may not have had a thing for sharp objects. Also, we're doing another live show! On June 29th at 7:30pm we'll be at The Comedy Palace in San Diego. Want tickets? They're $10 and on sale now! Hope to see ya there.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is our monitors and you're listening to the show before the show and with us we have
0:05.4	Andrei Kacetu!
0:07.4	Yay! We got a great episode for you. It's Paige this week we We are dying of sickness. So sick. So it's a real silly one. I like it a lot though. We make a lot of fun jokes and talk some theology. A little bit. But before we do that, we got some five-star reviews and some news.
0:26.0	Let's start with the news.
0:28.0	First and foremost, guys we're doing another live show.
0:31.0	Live show.
0:32.0	We're doing a live show in the San Diego, California area. So much in the area that it's in San Diego, California.
0:39.3	Thank you for clarifying. We're doing it at the comedy palace on June 29th at 7.30 PM. Our live show is the same hour and a half show that we debuted in Kansas City at Panic Fest. It covers the Chicago Rippers.
0:54.6	It's super dope.
0:55.8	It's so much fun.
0:57.2	Yeah, Raimondo wrote the episode and it's bananas.
1:00.2	I spent like what, what was like six months researching? Working on that months working it's some of the best jokes
1:04.8	we've ever written some of the best research we've ever done and one of the weirdest
1:08.5	and also most convincing speculation zones I think I've ever made in my entire life.
1:13.0	It's bananas.
1:14.0	It's great.
1:15.0	It's also there is something to be said for watching the show with a bunch of other
1:19.0	cult podcast listeners.
1:20.0	Yeah.
1:21.0	It's such a cool experience.
1:22.0	It's so much fun. It's also the weirdest thing to watch you all go, yeah
1:27.6	It makes me so happy. It's my favorite thing I feel like I'm so celebrated and welcome. I'm like, oh.
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