Jane Borden

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Alison Rosen

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Writer Jane Borden joins us to talk about her sensational book Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives Americawherein she traces this country's fundamental and foundational cultishness from the puritans to MLMs and beyond. Jane and I used to work at Time Out New York together and I am so impressed by this tome. Plus, it's funny. We talk about religion, the Church of England, when she started noticing cult like thinking in America, covering cults for Vanity Fair, thought-terminating cliches, materialism, the hairstylist she recommended to me, improv, this present political moment and so much more. Plus we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and Podcast Pals Product Picks.

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0:00.0	Hey Allison, Rosen,
0:03.0	Allison is your new best friend
0:06.0	Allison, Allison, we've heard the good times never end.
0:12.0	Allison, Rosen, too, in a way to get some pants again.
0:17.0	Allison, Rosen, Rosen's your new best friend.
0:24.2	Hey, everyone. Hi, hello. Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen is your new best friend.
0:29.3	I am sitting here in Pod Cabin with author Jane Borden. She has a new book out,
0:36.1	Cults Like Us, Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America.
0:39.6	It is fascinating and so well done. And we will get into that. And also, Jane is my former
0:46.7	co-worker from Time Out New York. And we have a lot to catch up on, about with. So please put your
0:53.2	hands together for Jane Borden.
0:55.9	Thanks.
0:56.7	Hello.
0:57.4	It's so good to see you.
0:58.6	It's good to see you too.
0:59.9	This is fun.
1:01.4	I am torn between wanting to like catch up on the all the whole like, what have you been doing?
1:07.3	What's been going on in your life?
1:08.9	And possibly to gossip about people we know
1:11.8	but then also wanting to get into this book um you know at time at new york when i was there
1:18.2	you headed up the comedy section and then you wrote this book which is like i feel like you should
1:24.8	get like a pulitzer or no bell or I mean, come on. There's notes. There's an
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