Cults I'd Join

Oh, you thought you were going along just living your best life... BUT YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW YOU HAVE A TWIN FLAME and NOTHING CAN WORK OUT IN LIFE WITHOUT THEM! Also, only two people can find your tw…

Happy solitude season, everyone! It's been a long lonely winter and we have MISSED you! Cults I'd Join will be kicking off Season four NEXT WEEK, but this week, we thought we'd gift you an appetizer …

Can you even??? Season 3 is wrapping up, and we're talking all things culty from the last 12 episodes. Which was the best? Which was the worst? Who had the best clothes? Has Ameran already joined the…

We saved this one for last because The Farm is a dreamy dreamscape for dreamers (and yuppies), and we can't wait to stroll down First Street, Second Street, and so on, with YOU! If you don't already …

This one is a two-parter because... we'd love to give you a good reason, but it's because our hosting platform just stopped recording mid-episode, so parts one and two are unceremoniously stopped and…

Surprise, you guys! It's New Year's Eve and the wrap-up to our first year as a new podcast. Thanks to all of you new friends, we're rounding out our first year with 26k downloads and in the top 25% o…

Elohim City has been called the most dangerous compound in America. It's been called God's word in boot leather, a low-rent trailer park, and the underground railroad for right-wing extremists. Cults…

Well everyone, Ameran and Jesse have found their cult, and you can find us hanging with the Essenes in... Portland? Austin? The desert? That's right, a mystic religion that lived and disappeared in a…

Ever think to yourself... "I'd love to join a high control cultish group, but I'd ALSO love to develop an eating disorder, and also encourage that in others..."? And after that, did you ever think "M…

No spoiler alert needed on this one, we all know how it ends. But do we all know how it begins? How things went in the middle, or even how a tragedy like this unfurled its road? Today we're talking a…

It's another phat-bottom girl y'all, and this time... she's wearing exploitative leggings! Follow along as Ameran takes us on another journey through MLM land. They've got drama, they've got victimiz…

Amish. Commune. Amish-commune! AMISHCOMMUNE!!! Or close, anyway. What percentage do you think Jesse is in on this one? Is a million percent a real number? Is Ameran packing her plain black bags? Welc…

It's fictional utopia time and this season we're joining... The Village! M. Night Shyamalan, we see you. And you see our love for super sweet bustles, window-pane fabric, and suspicious locked wooden…

Another doomsday cult who has it all figured out and isn't going to burn like the rest of us. YAWN. But this one has a kick: it's made up of only a handful of people and a few of them are the walking…

Oh hey, FLDS! Did you think we wouldn't stop by for a visit? We think your PERFECT hair (we're not kidding), your sweet prairie dresses (again, LOVE), and your drama-drenched communal history are exa…

Don't tread on me! Posse comitatus! God is my authority! Where is your postmaster?!?! All these code phrases and more are about to be available to make you free too, for the low, low price of... one …

You may or may not have heard of IBLP, but you've definitely run into some of their famous adherents in the media... 19 kids and a smattering of criminal charges, anyone? IBLP has it all—matching bib…

It's a wrap on Season Two, and in lucky episode 13, we take a little stroll back through all the groups we covered and the best and worst take-aways from the lot of them. Has Ameran changed her mind …

One of us considered just posting her wedding pics for this one, but decided against it. They make her miss her Golden Retriever. CSA has it ALL... end of the world, concerning weaponry issues, reall…

Female orgasm... ever heard of it? Turns out, it's not a myth, and these folks are REALLY into it! By which we mean they found a way to monetize it, cultify it, and really wring every bit of joy out …