The Cult of Pilates
Sounds Like A Cult
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3.9 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 1:27.6 | cult, are solely host opinions and quoted allegations. The content here should not be taken |
| 1:32.2 | as indisputable fact. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. I really had no idea there |
| 1:38.3 | was like quite this level of infighting and controversy within the Pilates world. It's |
| 1:43.8 | kind of nuts. |
| 1:45.0 | I can't help but draw parallels with modern gynecology |
| 1:49.0 | and how our entire childbirth and gynecology is built on a science that they use |
| 1:55.7 | slaves to build the science and the research that we still use today. |
| 2:05.6 | They're still teaching the same shit that they were 10 years ago, which was also wrong 10 years ago. This is Sounds Like a Colt, a show about the modern day cults we all follow. |
| 2:11.6 | I'm your host Amanda Montel, and I'm an author. |
| 2:13.6 | And I'm your co-host, Chelsea Charles, an unscripted TV producer and lifelong student of pop culture sociology. |
| 2:21.5 | Every week on the show, we discuss a different fanatical fringe group from the cultural |
| 2:26.3 | zeitgeist, from sleepaway camp to in-cells, to try and answer the big question. |
| 2:32.3 | This group sounds like a cult, but is it really? |
| 2:35.0 | And if so, which of our three cult categories does it fall into? |
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