Jane Borden - Cults Like Us

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Author Jane Borden joins Penn, Matt, and Reddi on Zoom to discuss her new book Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America, and explore the role and roots of cults in America, the American monomyth, theories on evil, how all of this factors into today's political thinking, and lots more.

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0:00.0	This is Penn Sunday School.
0:03.0	And to our listening ears,
0:07.0	Oh, nature sings and round the streets, the music of the streets.
0:13.0	And here we go.
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0:25.2	I'm Matt Donnelly, and we're broadcasting from various places around the United States.
0:43.3	With us today, a very special guest, Jane Borden, author of Cults Like Us, a cult writer in general, now a awesome book, here to talk to Penn and us about our possible cult. Here's Penn Gillette.
0:45.3	Wow, was that shitty?
0:48.3	Yeah.
0:49.3	Terrible job at that.
0:50.3	Really awful.
0:51.3	Anyway, this is bad.
0:53.3	My brain said, I'll get a bit.
0:55.5	And then it didn't come.
0:56.8	You just, all you wanted to do was just do the thing, are we a cult thing at the end?
1:01.2	Yeah, yeah.
1:01.7	And I didn't start it right.
1:02.5	You didn't set it up.
1:03.7	Not at all.
1:04.5	You were totally.
1:06.4	I was late.
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