Revisiting ‘The Vow’: Season 2 Recap with Ayla Fitzpatrick

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by Better Help.

Do you have a million questions about season 2 of HBO’s The Vow? Do you want to be part of a super exclusive club full of people that are rock and roll as fuck? Do you get a buzz out of supporting culty content creators and storytellers?

Then you should totally join our Patreon, where we unleash a whole slew of bonus content for our nearest and dearest listeners. But while we’ve traditionally reserved our coverage of The Vow for said exclusive cult—sorry, I mean club—we’re making an exception today and sharing some of it with all of our listeners. If you like what you hear, just know there’s plenty more of it available for an extremely agreeable price. If you’re not interested, don’t worry, we still love you! Just less. (Kidding)

On today’s episode, we’re recapping our feelings about the entire second season with special guest Ayla Fitzpatrick, who previously worked in Albany, New York at News10ABC covering NXIVM, focusing on Keith Raniere’s arrest and the ensuing trial. Even though she’s no longer a journalist, she loves to keep up to date with all things cultiverse—just like you guys!

So what did we think about being featured less heavily in this season? Did NXIVM actually cure Tourette’s syndrome (hint: no!), and was the whole documentation and conversation around this triggering or retraumatizing for us? Well, you’ll just have to tune in to find out.

Did we mention you should follow us on Patreon? Okay, that is all.

Also…

Hear Ye, Hear Ye:

The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit cultier, those are the hosts,
0:03.6	and don't reflect the official policy or position of the podcast, right, sir?
0:07.6	Correct.
0:08.3	Any of the, quote, fire content, I prefer lava content provided by our guests, blog
0:13.3	responses, or authors of the opinion, and are not intended to malign a religion,
0:18.4	a group, a club, an organization, business individual, anyone or anything, unless, sir?
0:23.9	Your douchebag.
0:24.6	Yeah, I mean, pretty much.
0:26.8	Also, we're not doctors, psychologists or wizards.
0:29.5	We're just two non-experts trying to make you a friendly and formative podcast based on our
0:34.0	experience that we've turned into wisdom.
0:35.6	Okay.
0:36.0	Good talk.
0:36.8	Okay.
0:37.6	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:49.4	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit cultier,
0:55.8	aka a LBC.
0:57.5	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
1:00.8	We've been there and back again, a little about us.
1:03.6	True Story, we met and fell in love in a cult, and then we woke up and got the hell out of
1:08.8	dodge.
1:09.3	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Vow, now in its second season.
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