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% of podcasts overall—imagine if we learned how to advertise!!! We are LOVING the discussions we get to have with you online, we are loving the community y'all are creating and we are so thankful for everything this past year has given all of us.
And that is the long way to say, here's a gift to you! It's our first episode from our Patreon subscription level, free as a bonus on your regular feed! We just wrapped recording our Patreon Season One today, and we are so happy to have a little giftie to give each of you as we bring in the new year. 
Happy everything, and please enjoy our chat about Women Talking!
P.S. you're gonna be surprised at who ISN'T joining this cult...

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

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Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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 I'd Join calls them people we no longer see at Thanksgiving. 

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

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Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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 brief window alongside Jesus (yes, THE Jesus), seems to have new converts and new leaders all over the place. We can't put a finger on who's got the best line to God, but we CAN tell you that white linen clothing, live foods, and a difficult relationship with gourds is a big YES from the team here at Cults I'd Join. We dig you Essenes, you ethereal weirdos, you! Now, could somebody pass the kombucha? 

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

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You can find Jesse on all the things @ lewdlinens

Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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 "More specifically, I'd like that group to also be super snooty, dress like we're all in late 1990's Glamour Shots, and occasionally be at least associated with murder..."?

If this is you, then wish and wait no longer, friends! This is the group for you! Come on down to the Remnant, a church that is also a weight loss program—all your issues addressed in one place! And YES, there are some SERIOUS hair styles awaiting you at the pulpit. 

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

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You can find Ameran on the Insta @ amawren
You can find Jesse on all the things @ lewdlinens

Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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 about the Branch Davidians—before, during, and after David Koresh. And yes, its members give us plenty of humanity and even some great levity—our favorite is definitely the good old-fashioned corpse-off! Come on in to talk all things Waco with us, and please keep in mind that you're here at Cults I'd Join, so please remember to take off any preconceived notions and leave them at the door when you come in!

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

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You can find Ameran on the Insta @ amawren
You can find Jesse on all the things @ lewdlinens

Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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 victimizing marginalized people, they've got rotting pants with questionable pattern mixing, and yet again, they've got Mormons (#notallmormons)! Put on your stretchiest pants, friends, grab your inexplicably high down payment, and let's get this party started! 

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

Love Cults I'd Join? Want to join all the communal fun with us? 
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You can find Ameran on the Insta @ amawren
You can find Jesse on all the things @ lewdlinens

Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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? Welcome to the Hutterites, another branch of our good friends the Anabaptists, who have been living fully communally since the 1500s. A peaceful religion, a time-tested community of goods, and some FABULOUS head scarves. Come be a Hutterite with us for a bit, we say WILLKOMMEN to you!!!

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

Love Cults I'd Join? Want to join all the communal fun with us? 
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You can find Ameran on the Insta @ amawren
You can find Jesse on all the things @ lewdlinens

Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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 boxes lurking in the shadowy corners of the world's coziest houses. Get on the bus friends, this week we're hand-knitting some GORGEOUS shawls, strenuously avoiding the bad color, and joining The Village! 

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

Love Cults I'd Join? Want to join all the communal fun with us? 
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You can find Ameran on the Insta @ amawren
You can find Jesse on all the things @ lewdlinens

Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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 embodiment of everything a cult might call evil. Trigger warning for all things child-related in this one, and an extra trigger warning for anyone fully overwatching pretty girls LITERALLY GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Spoiler alert: she doesn't get away with it forever. 

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

Love Cults I'd Join? Want to join all the communal fun with us? 
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You can find Ameran on the Insta @ amawren
You can find Jesse on all the things @ lewdlinens

Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show! 

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 exactly how we want to spend an afternoon, if not an eternity. Also, at least one of us is all about the sister-wives, but no one still likes all the blood-atonement. See you on the compound, FLDS! 

Original song and performance by Devon Sproule

Love Cults I'd Join? Want to join all the communal fun with us? 
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You can find Ameran on the Insta @ amawren
You can find Jesse on all the things @ lewdlinens

Super special thanks to our theme song creator, the incomparable Mz. Devon Sproule, we are lucky ducks to have a piece of her sweet sound on our show!