The Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story - Cultish Response

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Jeff Durbin

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4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Cultish, Jeremiah Roberts and Andrew Soncrant respond to Netflix’s The Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story. They examine how Mormonism’s emphasis of personal revelation can become a breeding ground for cult leaders who claim to “hear from God,” and how institutional trust plays a role—highlighting the fact that Jodi Hildebrandt was listed as an approved therapist by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This episode explores the dangerous mix of spiritual authority, therapeutic language, and unchecked influence—and why discernment matters. What happens when personal “revelation” overrides accountability? How should Christians evaluate spiritual authority claims made by therapists, influencers, or church-approved leaders? Tune in to Find out! Partner With Us & Be Part of the Mission to Change Lives: HERE SHOP OUR MERCH: HERE Please consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel: CultishTV.com Cultish is a 100% crowdfunded ministry.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up, everyone? This is Jeremiah Roberts, one of the co-host here at Coltish.
0:03.9	The super sleuth right here with him. Hey, so happy 2026, everybody. It is the new year. And just want to remind you, as before we start the new podcast, that we are 100% crowdfunded. So if you want to partner with us, allow the gospel to get around the world and to allow more content like this to be here, the again, regular basis go to the cult of show.com.
0:23.1	You can partner with us, become a one-time giver or you want to be month, do it monthly. You can do that too. And with all that being said, enjoy this latest podcast. It was a lot of fun doing it talking about the Netflix documentary, Evil Influencer, the Jody Hillibrand's story.
0:38.4	What a wild documentary.
0:39.4	We had a fun conversation and enjoy the podcast.
0:45.3	My name is Eddie and I was in a call.
0:51.0	Planet Earth about to be recycled.
1:01.0	Your only chance to survive or evacuate is to leave with us. It started as an effort by a charismatic creature to build a new society, but it ended, of course,
1:06.0	with the tragic deaths of more than 900 people.
1:09.0	Please, for God's sake, let's get on with it.
1:11.6	We've lived.
1:12.4	We've lived, there's no other people have lived and loved.
1:15.1	We've had as much of this world as you're going to get.
1:17.6	Let's just be done with it.
1:18.9	Let's be done with the agony of it.
1:20.7	This is the revolutionary suicide.
1:22.8	This is not a self-destructive suicide.
1:25.2	So they'll pay for this.
1:26.3	They brought it upon us.
1:32.0	You're in a cult.
1:33.3	I love you, and I want you out of it and with Christ.
1:36.9	But you're...
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