4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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This week, with the help of special guest Dan Savage (relationships advice columnist and host of the Savage Lovecast), Isa and Amanda are talking about cults of one: toxic relationships. How are toxic lovers (and friends and bosses) similar to cult leaders? What cult-like tactics do these “charismatic” abusers use to lure people in and make them stay? This illuminating episode proves all you need to understand followers of groups like NXIVM and Scientology, is what it feels like to fall in love…
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0:00.0 | We talk about a lot of really fun subjects on this podcast, but I do think something we always do is kind of slip into a British accent when we feel uncomfortable. |
0:07.3 | That's so true, babes. |
0:09.8 | And that's what we're gonna do all week when we're in London town. |
0:15.0 | Dude, I am so fucking excited. We're doing our first ever London show on Friday, May 26th at 6.30pm, at the Lester Square Theatre in London. |
0:26.4 | It's going to be fucking lit. |
0:28.2 | Which by the way, why is Lester Square Theatre spelled like that? That was like like Heistr. |
0:32.8 | We are so excited for the stamp show. |
0:36.3 | We're gonna have games. We're gonna have audience participation. |
0:39.4 | And of course, we're gonna have our juicy analysis while diving into a much requested and never before discussed top secret cult. |
0:48.5 | You cannot hear this cult subject matter on any episode because it's what we do for our live show, so you really have to be there. |
0:55.5 | And then meet us after the show by some merch. |
0:58.9 | We're there to chat with you, babes. |
1:00.6 | Tickets are on sale now at SoundsLikeAkult.com and at the link in our IG bio. |
1:06.3 | Again, that's Friday, May 26th, 2023, aka this year. |
1:10.5 | At 6.30pm, we will see you there at Lester Square Theatre in London. |
1:15.2 | See you there, babes. |
1:25.9 | This is SoundsLikeAkult. A show about the modern day cults we all follow. |
1:30.4 | I'm Esa Medina and I'm a comedian. |
1:32.3 | I'm Amanda Montel, author of the book Cultish the Language of the Nautical. |
1:36.0 | And we're just two pals who are obsessed, not just with cults like Nyxia and QAnon, |
1:40.1 | but groups that put the cult in culture. |
1:42.6 | Like this week's topic, the cults of toxic relationships, |
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