The Cult of The Duggars

Sounds Like A Cult

Studio71

Comedy, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Wowowow, today’s episode, which originally aired in December of 2023, features Jill and Derick Dillard, whom you might recognize from TLC’s 19 Kids & Counting!!! Imagine this: You’re born into a family that’s already a little ~abnormal~ because your parents are super religious and you have 200 siblings or whatever, then a reality television network comes knocking with promises of money and glory, slaps your whole clan of loved ones into a giant pair of golden handcuffs, a bunch of exploitation ensues, and one day you wake up and realize you’ve spent your childhood in an insane f*cking cult??? The “cult” of reality TV families, focused on The Duggars, is today’s subject of discussion, and what a juicy convo it was. Of all the reality TV family shows, which do YOU think is the cultiest?? Subscribe to Sounds Like A Cult on Youtube! Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod, @amanda_montell, @reesaronii, @chelseaxcharles. Thank you to our sponsors! Find exactly what you’re booking for on https://Booking.com, Booking.YEAH! For your next trip, treat yourself to the luxe upgrades you deserve from Quince. Go to https://Quince.com/slac for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order. Start earning points on rent you’re already paying by going to https://joinbilt.com/CULT Head to https://www.squarespace.com/CULT to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code CULT Please consider donating to those affected by the Los Angeles Fires. Some organizations that Team SLAC are donating to are: https://mutualaidla.org/ https://give.pasadenahumane.org/give/654134/#!/donation/checkout https://shorturl.at/SGW9w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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.
0:06.5	The content here should not be taken as indisputable fact. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only.
0:12.2	And then we try to resolve the conflict with my parents before we even got to the point where we needed to leave the show.
0:17.8	So that was our first step of like, okay, this is not okay.
0:24.9	We need to stand our ground. And then later, work sorting through things and facing a lot of backlash, little things even that other people would say are little, but huge in my circle.
0:30.3	Like wearing pants and nose ring and leaving the show. We end up in this meeting with my
0:35.4	parents that does not go very well and realize, like, you can't change other people.
0:42.7	This is Sounds Like a Cult, a show about the modern day cults we all follow.
0:48.2	I'm Amanda Montel, author of the book's cultish, the language of fanaticism, and the age of magical overthinking.
0:54.4	Every week on the show, you're going to hear about a different culty group from the cultural
0:58.7	zeitgeist, from Swifties to the Supreme Court, to try and answer the big question.
1:05.0	This group sounds like a cult.
1:07.0	But is it really?
1:13.8	And if so, which of our cult categories does it fall into?
1:18.3	A live your life, a watcher back, or a get the fuck out?
1:21.8	After all, the word cult is up to interpretation.
1:25.6	It's my personal belief that we're living in the cultiest era of all
1:29.7	time. For better and for worse, there is now a cult for everyone. And this week, I am amped,
1:37.0	because we're going to be talking about the cult of reality TV families with two very special
1:43.0	guests, none other than Jill and Derek Dillard.
1:46.7	They are a married couple that you might recognize from the smash hit controversial
1:53.1	reality show on TLC, 19 kids and counting Jill's former last name was Dugger because she was one of the Dugger sisters.
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