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Was I In A Cult?

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re taking it back to where it all began: our very first episode. Meet Johanne Hanks, who went from BYU grad to plural wife to party planner for Jesus in a yuppie Mormon doomsday group called The True and Living Church. You know… TLC.

Faced with the fear of an impending apocalypse, Joanne and her husband move to a small Utah town to live "Mormonism on steroids", which means wearing long underwear, communicating with the dead, prophetic visions, odd temple rituals, cookies with Jesus, and the law of celestial marriage (aka polygamy).

We’ll be back next week with one of the OG MLMs… May Kay. Pucker up for that one.

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Johanne’s Book: “It’s Not About the Sex, My Ass”

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, I'm Liz Ayakuzi.
0:09.7	And I'm Tyler Mesa.
0:13.1	And this is...
0:15.5	Was I an occult?
0:16.6	Was I in a cult?
0:17.3	No, we have to say it together.
0:18.5	I tried.
0:19.4	And this is... Was I in a cult? Oh, we have to say it together. I tried. And this is, was that?
0:21.8	Was I an occult?
0:23.0	Oh my God.
0:23.8	Just fix it, Rob.
0:24.9	Make us say it together.
0:26.4	Let's try it one more time.
0:27.3	And this is.
0:28.1	Ready, Rob, one, two, three.
0:30.1	Was I an occult?
0:32.2	Nailed it.
0:32.9	Look at us now.
0:33.7	We are so evolved, so polished.
0:36.0	Not really. But speaking of evolution, guys, we are
0:41.1	taken a little trip down memory lane today. Yeah, that's right. So this week, we had to
0:48.2	heal some sick kids, catch up on production so we could keep bringing you some new episodes
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