For the purposes of this podcast, we define a cult as organizations that rally behind

an entity or leader who espouse beliefs outside the norm.

Organizations that require physical or monetary sacrifice as a condition of membership.

Organizations in which the doctrines follow by the leaders are different than that of

the followers.

Organizations in which isolation is encouraged, either by commune living or by a policy

of disconnection from outside relationships.

Organizations that actively recruit new members.

All cults might have some or all of these traits and as always, these are our opinions.

Thank you for tuning into Cult Podcast on Page Wesley.

And I'm Armando Torres.

And this week we have kind of a different episode because Armando has been traveling.

We're trying to kind of play catch-up so we're going to do a couple different cult news

stories that have been in the news.

But we're also going to answer a bunch of your questions that you submitted on social

media.

Yeah.

It's been a wild few days.

I just got back from Texas and boy, are my bowels tired.

Everything there contains dairy and I had so much barbecue which I know this is going

to sound like such a stupid fucking thing to say.

But I had no idea that Texas was like known for barbecue.

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