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Welcome to TrustMe, the podcast about cult, extreme belief, and the abuse of power from two firecrackers who've actually experienced I'm your resident firecracker, Lola Blonk.

And I am also a resident firecracker, Megan Elizabeth.

You are a resident firecracker, this week is part two of our interview with Sonasta Kaluigi, former member of 12 Tribes, whom you may know for their restaurant chain, The Yellow Dally,

an author of Better Than a Turkish Prison, What I Learned From Life in a Religious Cult.

So in today's episode, we're going to discuss the group's racist doctrines which were kept from him a half black man until he was deep into the group

and a very major secret that the leaders covered up and kept from their followers which would have been pretty relevant for them to know.

We'll also dive into all the twists and turns in his journey to find love and how he was prevented from being with the girl he liked and loved for years,

plus an hysterious pattern of fires surrounding the group's different properties.

Right, as we've mentioned before, including the Colorado fires that were happening relatively recently.

And we'll talk about his life now.

Cool. Megan, yeah, speaking of how people's lives are now, what's your coldest thing this week in your life?

You're really going to like this one, Lola, like I think this is going to be one of your favorite ones that I've brought thus far.

Basically they've done a new study and they have found the five traits that psychopaths share.

Would you like to know what they are? I would. Okay, we have callousness, mm-hmm, manipulativeness, dishonesty, arrogance, and cruelty.

So before this study, what we used to have were eight traits that were common in psychopaths like low vulnerability, low self-consciousness, low anxiousness, fearlessness.

But those can also be traits that people who aren't psychopaths have. So this is kind of a new narrowed focus on what they actually are.

So something to be on the lookout for. I am always on the lookout for it. This sounds like a handful of people that I know just right off the top of my head.

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