Voicing Doubt: Ian James Corlett on Leaving the Jehovah’s Witness Faith
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
As the voice of iconic cartoon characters, major TV networks, and national brands, Ian James Corlett has been heard by millions of people. But until now, he’s never publicly rocked a mic to share his own story as an ex-Jehovah’s Witness. Ian joins Sarah and Nippy for a rollicking ride through the denomination’s history, and his journey from born-and-raised JW and church elder, to unapologetic apostate. He has a few choice things to say about why JWs appear to be leaving the denomination in droves, as well as some memories to share about that one time a fellow voice actor by the name of Sarah Edmondson tried to recruit him into NXIVM.
About Our Guest:
You may have heard Ian James Corlett in the Emmy-nominated Dinosaur Train, in CartoonNetwork’s zany Johnny Test, or in the latest Disney Jr hit: Vampirina. And going further back, Ian originated the iconic English dub voice of Goku in Dragonball Z as well as voicing other 90’s icons such as Megaman, and Bob in Reboot. Learn more:
Ianjamescorlett.com
Instagram: @ianjamescorlett
Twitter: @ianjames007
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts |
| 0:04.1 | and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors |
| 0:12.1 | are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, |
| 0:16.6 | organization, business individual, anyone or anything. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to a little bit culty, a podcast about what happens when something that |
| 0:33.8 | seems like a great thing at first goes to the dark side and takes you with it. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm your host, Sarah Edminson. And I'm also your host, Anthony Ames, aka Nippy. |
| 0:43.0 | Sarah and I met, fell in love in a, quote, self-help organization that turned out to be |
| 0:47.6 | a mega cult cult nexium. We got out of there together and on our way out we helped shut it down. |
| 0:54.6 | Our journey as nexium whistleblowers was captured in detail in a |
| 0:57.6 | docu-series called the vow on HBO and also on the front page of a newspaper. |
| 1:02.4 | New York Times, babe. Right. Have you heard of it? |
| 1:04.8 | Each week on a little bit culty we talk with other former cult members and whistleblowers |
| 1:09.6 | plus experts in things like cultic abuse and coercive control. |
| 1:13.6 | We also turn the mic over to advocates and clinicians with wisdom to share on |
| 1:17.3 | recovering from everything from MLMs and toxic religion to bad romances with raging narcissist. |
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| 1:44.2 | Hello, huh? |
| 1:50.2 | Hello, huh? Means goodbye. |
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