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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and this right here, this old thing, this is a little leader where I read the stories that you send to me. If you have a story you'd like to share with the cult, just send it on over to Spencer at cultleader.com. But make sure. Whatever you do, you put little leader somewhere in the subject line or the body of the email. So,

that I can find it. Things are buzzing over here at the cult compound. We're getting everything all put together for the obituary live show that's coming up. It's just around the corner. Tickets are still available at the link in the bio on Instagram at Collier Podcast. That being said, we have Miss Madison Reyes joining us once again. Hello everybody. She's basically live in here until the live show. Oh my God.

My God, I know it is a lot of work. Yeah, who would have thought? Who would have thought? I thought we could just wing it. Yeah, just let us go up there. Come on. Oh my God, we got our outfits. Oh, we tried them on. I'm excited. I'm so excited.

We will be just mourning together as one big group. No, it's so exciting. I'm so excited to be back here with the cult babes. Yeah, coming over to the cult. I feel like you're like the honorary high priestess of the cult now. I love that. Second in line to hot dog. Of course. I would never step on her toes. She's the queen. We get a lot of emails that are sent now both to the obituary email and the cult.

The cult leader email. Love it. And I knew you were coming on. So for those of you who have not yet made the transition from cult babes to cult babes slash g off. Come on. Come on. Are you waiting for? On obituary, we usually start out our episodes with some funeral related. Am I the assholes from Reddit? I figured since you'd be here today, it'd be fun if we read some cult related. Am I the assholes? Oh, they have those? Yeah, apparently.

Okay, I feel like people in cults are not self aware enough. Well, I think these are usually people talking about their relationships with other people in cults. At least the ones I came across. Got it. Got it. Okay.

Like this first one that says, Am I the asshole for practically cutting ties with my family who are in a cult? It says my parents joined a cult when I was four and I never felt particularly comfortable with the whole vibe of the group even from a young age.

They're fundamentalist Christians don't send their kids to public schools don't believe in modern medicine, whatever that's supposed to mean and go out of their way to isolate themselves from the world around them. I feel like we know a lot of people like this.

Or we've heard a lot of people like. Yeah, we like to isolate. And we don't believe in modern medicine. Oh, no way. Those aren't anti depressants I'm taking. No, you're not giving me the jab.

No way. Nice. Try Mr. government. You're going to track me going from my house to outside sometimes. But I do have an iPhone and every piece of technology.

Oh, God, yeah, God, love it. Okay, wait, sorry. Back to this story. I left the group when I was 18 to go to college. I'm now 25 and live in my life. And I don't feel the least bit bad for rejecting the group's beliefs. Good for you.

However, what really eats at me is that I have five younger siblings still in the group. That's sad. Hard. The group has some rule where they try to keep members, especially younger ones from interacting with people who have left the group.

Just as a blanket generalization, any group that you're in that does not allow you to talk to any other type of people that aren't in your group is the biggest red flag. Well, yeah, it's a Colt babe. Yeah. Welcome to the show. Hello. You haven't been listening.

I'm thinking of on to something. There's something wrong here. It's obviously a reprehensible rule and my younger siblings do contact me occasionally, which I really appreciate. However, I'm a non-confrontational person and I basically avoid contacting my family due to the rules they supposedly live by.

I have a legitimate legal case given that it's not legal to keep siblings from communicating slash seeing each other, but I really don't want to turn it into a legal battle. Should I? In a certain sense, people have the right to live how they want, even if that involves disowning me or whatever.

I think that my younger siblings are clever slash self-sufficient enough to eventually make their way out of the group, but I can't help feeling like there's something more I could slash should be doing. So would I be the asshole for practically cutting ties with my family who are in a Colt?

No, you're not the asshole at all. I do think, and it sounds like you are looking at the bigger picture of being able to still be in contact with your siblings.

I wonder what the legalities are around it. I know. If their minor is legally, I think the parents can control who they do and don't speak to.

Right. Unless maybe she's trying to gain guardianship over them. I don't know. But no, you're not the asshole. The fact that you were brought up in a Colt is terrible and the people your parents are the asshole, sorry.

Whoops, she said it. Oops, and I'll say it again. Yeah, I mean, what do we know? We're not lawyers. Just dumb bitches with microphones. I have it on my desk. Oh, I love it.

It's my favorite thing. Okay, so this next one says, am I the asshole for bringing up the Colt? My family was in even though it embarrasses my dad.

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