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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Amanda Montell is an author, linguist, and podcaster with a new book 'Cultish' on "how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language" to manipulate followers and cultivate power.
In the interview she offers fantastic insights that cover not only guru linguistics but also the social dynamics of modern cults and 'cultish' phenomenon.
We learnt a lot from Amanda and hope you will too!
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0:00.0 | And the Hello and |
0:18.0 | welcome to the coding gurus. |
0:20.0 | It's the podcast. |
0:21.0 | We're an anthropologist, Chris Kavanaugh Chris Kavanaugh and me psychologist Matt Brown. We listen to the |
0:25.9 | greatest minds the world has to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about. |
0:30.8 | Now sometimes we have experts on to help us understand other |
0:35.0 | gurus. So Chris, tell us who do we have today? |
0:38.0 | Yeah, so we have Amanda Montel and offer, Linguist and I think also has a show coming out relatively soon but also a |
0:50.1 | podcast host and offer of Word Slut a feminist guide to taking back the English |
0:57.4 | language and more recently or not I think coming out this month, |
1:03.2 | cultish the language of fanaticism. |
1:06.8 | And I actually came across Amanda's work |
1:10.4 | through the conspiratoriality guys where she did an interview and there was so much |
1:16.8 | interesting stuff there that I thought it would be good to have a discussion and |
1:21.6 | after listening to her podcast that was confirmed. |
1:26.0 | So neither of us have read your book yet, Amanda, which I'm very sorry about, mainly because it's |
1:31.8 | not out yet. |
1:32.8 | But I still have pieced things together |
1:35.3 | from your content and all their interviews. |
1:37.9 | And so I have a bunch of questions, |
1:40.4 | but thanks for coming on. |
1:43.0 | Oh, thanks so much for having me. |
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