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I left a spate, which is the Norse word for basically a coven, people kept asking if I was in a cult,

and I definitely thought I couldn't have been in a cult because I worked on a second master's

to be a therapist that specialized in cult victims.

It absolutely could not happen to me.

And the more I talked about it, the more I was like, holy shit.

I may have been in a cults. Welcome to was I in a cult, everyone.

Season number four.

Yes, it is.

I'm Liz Ayakuzi.

And over here I'm Tyler Meesam.

And we co-host this particular show about individuals who have been in cults or cult-like environments,

and we do it with a little bit of levity, if you don't know already.

And today we are back miraculously with season four, and I say miraculously, because

currently our dear, dear town of Los Angeles is on fire, and it is devastating. What is happening here. Somehow we're here,

but Tyler, Tyler had to evacuate his home. I did. It was Tuesday night and the fire was happening

in the palisades, but the Eden fire we didn't know about. And I just happened to go outside and

I saw the fire cresting the hill because I live in a town called Sierra Madre

cute little community and kind of my Mormon prepper automatically came out and I was like let's get out of here

pack up everything and we did we walked through the house in like 30 minutes there was a mandatory

evacuation and we packed up what we could and we put it in two cars.

And it's a strange feeling to go, what do I need?

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