The Cult of Mormon #MomTok

Sounds Like A Cult

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Comedy, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Who’s your #mommy culties: Taylor or Whitney? That’s right, fresh(ish?) off the release of Hulu’s Secret Lives of Mormon Wives reality series (for which Amanda and Reese attended a blissfully tinsel-adorned premiere party #notsponsored lol), this week we are covering the cult of Mormon MomTok. This coalition of young Mormon mothers turned TikTok stars raises a truly baffling number of questions: Are these girls really Mormon? Does that matter? Where are their garments? Are they even friends? And most importantly, will MomTok survive the "swinging scandal" that overtook headlines a few years back, earning these gals their own TV show?!?!?!??!?! Grab your heaviest Stanley, fill it with Fruity Pebbles ;) and settle in to have all of your most sacred prayers answered. Potentially cultier than the sum of its cults (and trust us there are plenty), Reese and Amanda are determined to get to the bottom of the drama-filled, diet Dr. Pepper flavored mom-strosisty that is #MomTok.

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0:00.0	The views expressed on this episode, as with all episodes of sounds like a cult, are solely host opinions and quoted allegations.
0:06.1	The content here should not be taken as indisputable fact. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only.
0:13.0	Mormon-Tik-T Tik-Tock feminism must be one of the strangest forms of feminism that exists.
0:22.0	On one side you have got the Mormon wackadoodeliness. On the other side you've got this like
0:26.8	swinger pseudo scandal. It's just like Tik-Tock cotton candy.
0:31.6	Yum yum yum yum Yum Yum Yum.
0:35.3	This is Sounds Like a Cult, a show about the modern day
0:39.0	cults we all follow.
0:41.0	I'm your host Amanda Montel, author of the book's cultish and the Age of Magical Overthinking.
0:45.3	And I'm Reese Oliver. Sounds like a cult's coordinator and today's co-post.
0:50.5	Every week on this show, we discuss a different fanatical fringe group from the cultural zeitgeist,
0:56.0	from manifestation to Montessori schools to try and answer the big question.
1:01.0	This group sounds like a cult, but is it really?
1:04.0	And if so, which of our cold categories does it fall into?
1:14.0	Live your life, watch your back, or get the fuck out.
1:18.0	After all, cultish influence can show up in so many unexpected cultural pockets these days and not all of them are equally
1:24.8	destructive.
1:25.8	So true, Reese.
1:26.8	Thank you, Amanda.
1:27.8	I've just, I've been watching the actual live television news like I know it's so addicting.
1:38.0	It's like the telejournalist's dialect it's such an earworm, and it's so bizarre.
1:44.8	Today we are discussing the cult of Mormon mom talk.
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