‘Uncultured:’ Daniella Mestyanek Young on COG and the US Military (Pt. 2)

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is Sponsored by BetterHelp. We’re back for part 2 of our interview with Daniella Mestyanek Young, the badass author of Uncultured: a Memoir. In her book, Young gets into the nitty gritty of growing up in the Children of God cult, now known as “The Family International,” with their horrifying pedophilic practice called “Law of Love.” In part 2, we dive deeper into Young’s time as a Captain in the US Army—a role that threw Young back into the trenches of misogynist and coercive abuse resembling the neglect she survived in her childhood.

How did military personnel respond to Young’s whistleblowing? What did she endure during her hazing as a new soldier? And why did another captain tell her she’d “probably get raped” on a certain military deployment?

Listen to find out—and make sure to catch part 1 first!

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Please note, this series includes details of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you, or someone who know, is a survivor of sexual assault, abuse, grooming, child abuse, or human trafficking, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers support at 800.656.HOPE (4673).

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit quality are those of the hosts,
0:04.0	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:08.3	Any of the fucking maizeball content provided by our guest,
0:12.0	bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion and are not attended to
0:15.2	malign any religion group club organization, business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.1	We're not doctors, not psychologists, and we're certainly not the AP.
0:22.2	It's associated press for those of you listening at home.
0:24.8	We're two non-experts, we found ourselves making a little podcast that people happen to like.
0:29.6	Okay.
0:30.4	Okay.
0:40.7	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:43.1	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit
0:48.5	quality.
0:49.5	aka a LBC.
0:51.1	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
0:54.5	We've been there, and back again, a little about us, true story,
0:58.0	we met and fell in love in a cult, and then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge.
1:03.0	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Bow.
1:06.7	Now in its second season.
1:08.3	I also wrote about our experience in my memoir,
1:10.8	SCART, the true story of how I escaped next year, the cult that bound my life.
1:15.2	Look at us, couple of married podcasters who just happened to have a weekly date night.
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