Ep. 194: Dictators

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

True Crime, Cult, History, Survivor, Theology, Exfundie, Religion, Lgbtq, Christianity, Exvangelical, Documentary, Fundamentalism, Baptist, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Deconstruction, Inspirational Women, Duggars, Inspirational

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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In today's episode, we discuss how authoritarian regimes function as cults.

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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion.
0:18.0	There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways
0:30.0	welcome back to the leaving eden podcast we are your hosts my name's gavi here with my bFF, Sadie Carpenter, cult expert, cult survivor,
0:40.5	Sadie Carpenter. How are you doing today? Doing great. How are you? I am feeling good. I am
0:46.7	feeling fine. Life is so indeed divine. Today we're talking about something that is not indeed divine. We're talking about
0:55.5	like authoritarian leaders. We're talking about dictators. We're talking about how a
1:01.2	authoritarian regime can turn a country into essentially a cult. A country can essentially function as a cult. And I think that is an
1:15.7	interesting topic that I'm excited to talk about. And I've been begging kind of Sadie to do this
1:20.8	episode for several months. But now we're finally getting to it. Well, I'm glad we're finally
1:27.2	getting to it. I'm very'm glad we're finally getting to it.
1:27.9	I'm very interested to hear your research on this.
1:31.6	I don't know.
1:32.1	You weren't like skeptical on it, but you were just like, I need to see it in.
1:36.0	Mm-hmm.
1:36.8	Like when I read an episode, I write it based on a storyline.
1:42.8	Like, I think of it like a novel or a movie, like in the terms of story
1:48.6	beats. And when you are the primary person setting up an episode, like, we're going to talk
1:54.4	about this and then that and then this other thing, I don't see it the way I see it in my
1:59.5	head when I'm the lead person on writing the story of an episode.
2:04.4	So sometimes I think I come off as skeptical, but I really just need you to show like how you're going to get from point A to point B.
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