Episode 1196 - Cults Like Us with Jane Borden

Matt & Mattingly's Ice Cream Social

Matt Donnelly, Paul Mattingly, Jacob Smith

Comedy, Society & Culture, Arts

4.9 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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SUMMARY: Jane Borden returns to talk about her book "Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America." Jane delves into subjects like how excess population spurs cult creation, how cults push for isolationism and factualizing, the need to promote critical thinking as a way out of cult behaviors, and do corn flakes stop the impulse to masturbate? Plus Scoop Mail and Scoopardy.
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0:00.0	It's that time. It's time to thank you the ice cream truck drivers. Thank you so much ice cream truck drivers.
0:09.2	Right now I'd like to thank Jeff Harris, Jonathan, David Walker, Blue Line Scoop, Darren Cunningham,
0:15.3	Christy Salinas, Christine Ellsessor, Scoop Desjure, Scoop Brady, and Fifi.
0:20.7	If you want to be an ice cream truck driver, just like these fineure, Scoop Brady, and Fifi.
0:24.2	If you want to be an ice cream truck driver, just like these fine folks, help deliver that fucking ice cream straight to your fucking ear holes.
0:26.8	Go over to preaching fun.com.
0:28.5	That's where you can go to sign up to be an ice cream truck driver, and who knows.
0:33.4	Life you save may be your own.
0:39.1	Oh shit.
0:39.7	Jacob.
0:40.3	Yes.
0:41.1	There's a scoop at the front door of our...
0:43.3	Oh, hilarious.
0:45.0	I'll go answer it.
0:46.1	Here's some music.
0:47.4	Hey, Johnny.
0:48.4	Do you want to go to an ice cream social?
0:51.1	Yeah, I'd love to.
0:52.1	I'll start the show first, so then I'll go get it.
0:53.9	We apparently have a guest.
1:00.1	I guess they're going to come in to take.
1:02.9	We have a guest, and we have another guest as well.
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