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And now we’re waterboarding people and fake channeling spirits, are we? Welcome back to another episode of Serving Cult! This week we are continuing to dissect the doc, The Deep End; it just gets weirder. 

Prepare for the weirdest role-play you've ever seen, where asking a polite question might get you "inhabited" by a spirit. Molly the investigator steals the show and should be in every cult doc—she spo...

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses topics including emotional manipulation, psychological abuse, and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised.

We couldn't resist diving back into The Deep End for another episode of Serving Cult. This time, we're continuing to unravel the chaotic universe of Teal Swan—spiritual guru aka raging narcissist.

Teal is furious about her...

Because we just can't stay away, we're back with another episode of Serving Cult, and this time we're diving into The Deep End. Meet Teal Swan, the YouTube sensation, spiritual guru, and, well, raging narcissist.

Get ready as we plunge into a world where spiritual leaders go full cult, ticking off our cult bingo card: white people doing weird shit, kumbaya singing circles, and, of course, bare feet galor...

This week, we're taking a different approach to the podcast and bringing you an episode that is simply…random. In this episode, Elizabeth and Taylor dive into the darkly glitzy world of Brandy Hellville: The Cult of Fast Fashion. Think unsupervised teenagers in short shorts as a breeding ground for eating disorders.

Also, Meri Brown from *Sister Wives* is apparently leveling up from reality star to cult...

Hey there, cult lovers! This week, we're switching gears a bit for our devoted cult following. Before we dive into our usual podcast review antics, we're taking a detour to discuss something intriguingly adjacent to cultish behavior: 'Quiet on Set', a docuseries shining a light on the dark underbelly of beloved Nickelodeon shows from back in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Get ready for a wild ride as we u...

Strap in for the wild finale of our deep dive into The Synanon Fix, where things go from quirky rehab commune to full-blown, “What the hell is even happening?” territory. Our fearless investigative reporter has all the juicy details.

As we wrap up this saga, it's clear Synanon was more soap opera than utopia. Join us for this rollercoaster ride through one of history’s most insane cult catastrophes and r...

This week's recap of The Synanon Fix kicks things off with a bang—a fatathon complete with a marching band. Yep, you heard that right, a fatathon. And trust us, that's just the beginning. 

And just when you think it can't get any weirder, we drop the bombshell—it's an eating disorder cult. Yeah, let that sink in. Join us as we peel back the layers of control and chaos of the Synanon Fix! Grab your snacks, this one's gonna be a wi...

This week we are continuing our dive into the new cult docu-series called, The Synanon Fix. In episode two, we leave behind heroin addicts and are in full-on cult mode with gentle silent raves, women shaving their heads in the name of feminism, and something called “the sex room.” 

This new cult series checks all the boxes on the cult bingo card as Chuck, the cult leader, introduces more restrictions as ...

Here come the Dopefiends! 

This week we are leaving behind the Duggars and diving into heroine addicts with a new cult docu-series called, The Synanon Fix. In this new series, we are introduced to Chuck, an alcoholic who believed that Alcoholics Anonymous just wasn’t enough, so he started a rehab center for recovering drug addicts…with a catch. 

From well-dressed dop-fiends screaming profa...

In this episode, we review the final episode of the docuseries, Shiny Happy People. We dive into more charges against Joshua Duggar, Jim Bob Duggar’s oldest son, and his being caught with child pornography. We eventually see some change as women begin to speak out about the abuse happening at IBS and people begin to leave! 

Join us as we talk about how the speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, uses his so...

Trigger Warning: We talk about child sexual abuse in this episode. If that is triggering for you we recommend skipping this episode and joining us next Thursday for another new episode! 

This episode is anything but shiny and happy as we continue the traumatic experience that is watching and reviewing Shiny Happy People. Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, we uncover even more d...

Welcome back, cult lovers! In this episode, we are exploring more of Shiny Happy People. This cult docuseries will have you convinced that toys are demonic and women shouldn’t be treated as people…well we hope you are not actually convinced! 

In this part three, we talk more about how Jim Bob Duggar exploited his daughters for money, why IBLP should NOT be compared to real boot camp training, and how Co...

Welcome to another episode of Serving Cult! We’re back talking about the Duggars again and it just keeps getting worse. In this episode, we continue to dissect the new docuseries, Shiny Happy People. 

This week, we focus on Josh Duggar, the eldest of the Duggar children, and uncover some of the scandals he's involved this. This episode is not for the faint of heart, as we touch on child victims being force...

Today, we delve into the often controversial world of reality TV and conservative ideologies as we dissect the new docuseries, Shiny Happy People. Join us as we unpack the representation of gender roles in the popular show, "19 Kids and Counting."

In this episode, we put the spotlight on the Duggar family, touching on the inherent discrepancies of public figures who preach one thing yet prac...

Welcome back to another episode of Serving Cult! This week, we explore the last episode of, Escaping Twin Flames, and after this docuseries, we are indeed ready to escape! This last episode takes an even weirder turn as Jeff transitions the cult from a spiritual to a religious organization in the name of tax cuts, forces cult members to get gender-changing surgeries, and tries to brainwash his followers into thinking t...

Welcome back to Serving Cult! In this episode, we dive deeper into this new cult documentary series called Escaping Twin Flames. This second episode takes us away from matchmaking and finding true love and brings us into a whole new world of MAP, which is all about finding your life's true purpose.

Jeff has become the self-proclaimed Jesus Christ, everyone gained 70 pounds, and the army gets involved. Lis...

In this episode, we venture into a new cult documentary series called Escaping Twin Flames. This series begs the question, would you pay 10 million dollars to find your twin flame? Well, some people would! In this breakdown of the first episode of Escaping Twin Flames, we meet Jeff and Shaleia, the original twin flames “power couple” who have convinced their followers that they can help them find their twin flame…in e...

Welcome back to another episode of Serving Cult, where we mock cult leaders one cult doc at a time and learn the lessons so we don’t accidentally join one.

On this third episode of season three, we are diving into...Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God. On this final episode of the cult doc series, Love Has Won, we discover why love has in fact not won. In this final episode, Amy Carlson aka mother god goe...

This week everything gets even crazier in episode two of Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God. We learn that father god and Taylor are rocking the same hairstyle and apparently, there's some Father God's multiverse?  Also, Mother God may not be all-powerful because the alcohol and drug abuse starts to catch up with her and she starts to turn blue…Join us in this episode to learn all the ways to NOT join a cult!