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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

The Way Down rewind | Examining media about cults

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been talking about cults and how they’re covered in the media. Back in 2021, we looked at the HBO documentary series “The Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin” on a couple of episodes. It is about a crazy, scary religious cult. This week, Mike’s under the weather, and we haven’t had a chance to record, so this seems like a good time to present these episodes again as one.

As a refresher, here’s the description of the doc series, “Follows the Remnant Fellowship Church, exploring the fame and power of its leader Gwen Shambling Lara as a diet guru and church leader, and the truth behind her carefully-curated image, detailing the church's controversial practices.”

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Jim.

0:10.4

So, yeah, we've been talking about cults the last few weeks, in fact, particularly cults as they are portrayed in media.

0:16.9

And we have talked a little bit about an episode that we did, or a couple of episodes we did a couple of years ago, about a religious cult.

0:25.5

It's kind of a scary religious cult.

0:27.7

And since Mike is under the weather this week, I thought I would take those two episodes and put them together into one big mug episode and pass them along to you this week as our

0:39.9

offering and our episode offering and hopefully everything will be back to normal

0:44.4

next week I enjoy these obviously it's a little bit time bound in terms of

0:49.5

our conversation outside of the

0:52.3

outside of the mini series but the the documentary miniseries but uh I think the rest of it should be a good content and a good

1:01.0

comparison to what we've been talking about the last couple weeks so anyway we'll talk to you next week and oh by the way we're having to currently having a big sale at 3 sb.co, like huge markdown.

1:11.4

So check it out.

1:17.2

I feel like I am now in like a lifelong struggle.

1:21.6

This will last the rest of my life with technology.

1:24.9

I don't know if we talk about all fair on here,

1:33.3

but like the more precise and leveled up technology gets, the more issues you may have.

1:34.7

The more fiddly it becomes.

1:40.1

Like, like, a car is way more convenient than a wagon, but there's way more shit that can go wrong.

1:40.4

Right. Like your wagon, your fucking wood axle brakes or your wheels kind of are junky and that's about it.

1:46.0

Yeah.

1:46.4

Or your horse dies. Right.

1:47.9

But you're moving slow.

1:50.0

Yeah, exactly. And you can, if you need new wheels, you can probably make them out of wood.

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