Sorry about the audio issues! This is an earlier episode we recorded using an online recording tool. Rookie mistake, and we hope you enjoy it nonetheless!

Want to use your charisma for power and money?  

Kellie and Sean explore the techniques that multiple cult leaders have in common so you can apply them to starting your own oppressive commune and collect all the Rolls Royces you want! 

Want to walk us through your indoctrination plans? Email us at [email protected]

Our intro and outro music is by Commuted. Find him at https://commuted.bandcamp.com/

Our art is by Jennifer Walker. Find her at https://www.jenniferwalker.design/

Sources for this episode:

Podcasts/Audio

Healthcare Triage. How New Drugs are Developed. Dr Aaron Carroll, Dan Skovronsky. 3 May 2019

“                                              “ Can We Cure Alzheimer’s Disease? Dr. Aaron Carrol, Dr. Liana Apostolova. 31 July 2018

Stuff You Should Know

• Is it Possible to Brainwash Someone? 
• How Cult Deprogramming Worked 

Last Podcast on the Left

• Children of God
• Jonestown 
• Heaven's Gate 
• Jonestown Death Tape
• Charles Manson
• L. Ron Hubbard
• Aum Shinrikyo 
• Rasputin 
• Order of the Solar Temple 

Cults

• Charles Mason 
• Heaven’s Gate 
• Dwight York, United Nuwabian Nation 

Oh No Ross and Carrie 

• Scientology 

The Daily 

• Caliphate 

Books

• Road to Jonestown – Jeff Guinn
• Combatting Cult Mind Control – Steven Hassan
• Power of Persuasion – Robert V. Levine
• Let Our Children Go! – Ted Patrick
• Heaven’s Harlots – Miriam Williams 
• Hostage to the Devil - Malachi Martin
• Closing the Gate - Deb Simpson
• Jonestown Survivor -- Laura Johnston Kohl
• Bad Science -- Ben Goldacre

Movies 

Wild Wild Country 

Organizations/Individuals

FOCUS     

Internet Articles

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Patrick
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming
• https://psychotherapytoronto.ca/ritual-abuse-cults-and-captivity-2/
• https://cultinformation.org.uk/article_caring-for-cult-victims.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/1980/08/30/archives/ted-patrick-convicted-of-seizing-woman-said-to-have-joined-cult.html
• http://www.eyesteelfilm.com/deprogrammed
• https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers
• https://www.centerwatch.com/images/infographics/Understanding-Clinical-Trials-Infographic-low.png
• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/