WE'RE BACK BABY! Coming back with a cult-like religious sect, the Remnant Fellowship Church, created by one woman with a dietetics education and hair as high as the heavens. Within Gwen Shamblin Lara's hair--I meant *church*--lies a murder investigation, fraud, greed, restrictive dieting via starvation, and child abuse, all ending in a tragic plane crash. On this episode Maggi and Sierra drunkenly ponder the story of another cult leader and her beginnings, as seen in the HBO Max docuseries "The Way Down". What can we say, you came for the story and stayed for the terrible accents and "What's not a cult but feels like a cult" hot takes.

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On our debut episode, hosts Maggi and Sierra dive into part 1 of the complex history of the NXIVM cult. Things get tipsy and wild as we discuss the cult and founder Keith Raniere, as seen on the HBO documentary “The Vow”.