How Do Your Favorite Beauty Brands and Influencers Rate on the Cultish Scale? (With Amanda Montell)
Gloss Angeles
Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan
4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
She’s bacccckkkkk. Gloss Angeles favorite Amanda Montell has returned to our podcast to once again share her linguistic prowess with us, this time discussing the language of fanaticism and how the beauty industry uses speech to create cult-like devotion in certain communities. Amanda just released her second book Cultish, which examines the power that words have and the way people and brands use them to lure us in, from beauty influencers to MLMs. Tune in to hear the beauty brands you may not consider “cultish” but are, Amanda’s favorite beauty “cult,” and what cult we think we’d get sucked into. Plus, we’re giving away one signed copy of Cultish to a lucky Glamgeleno! To enter, head to our Instagram!
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| 0:00.0 | You know, while I was researching the book, I discovered that, like, you can think of stands as pretty harmless, but there have been these studies that have found that people who participate in standums experience psychosocial issues like depression and anxiety and narcissism and stalking behavior more than folks who aren't involved with standums. |
| 0:21.1 | I mean, we're all in the cult of Instagram. |
| 0:23.5 | I am completely beholden to Instagram in like the most disgusting way. |
| 0:28.4 | I am my own cult leader on Instagram. |
| 0:31.1 | We have become so spiritually self-focused that like I, to use a metaphor that I condemn |
| 0:37.1 | in the book, drink my own fucking |
| 0:38.6 | Kool-Aid. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm Kirby and I'm Sarah. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to Los Angeles. |
| 0:45.6 | Every week we break down the most important beauty news and launches, interview your favorite |
| 0:50.4 | beauty experts, influencers, and celebrity guests, and review our favorite beauty products of the moment as your beauty editor BFFs from |
| 0:59.2 | the beautiful and great city of Los Angeles. |
| 1:02.5 | Welcome glamgelinos. |
| 1:05.0 | We hope you stay a while. |
| 1:08.0 | Cute. |
| 1:08.7 | That's cute. |
| 1:10.7 | Amanda MFN Montel. That's cute. |
| 1:14.8 | Amanda MFN Montel, you're back. |
| 1:16.5 | This is my favorite place. |
| 1:17.7 | Good. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, you're our favorite guest. |
| 1:21.1 | Don't tell anyone else. |
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