From a Book Cult to The Weigh Down Cult: “Oops, I Joined Another Cult!”
Was I In A Cult?
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🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest thought she was just signing up for a summer job. And then, years later, she thought she was just joining a church. What she got instead?
Cults. TWO OF THEM.
Meet Aydrea — writer, stepmom, and lover of rules. In college, she joined a company that promised purpose, leadership, and a paycheck. Instead, she got cold showers, commission-only “training,” and a summer knocking on strangers' doors… while carrying 40 pounds of encyclopedias.
But plot twist: just when she thought she’d moved on, community came calling again. This time through a church weight loss group, …where Diet Mountain Dew became her spiritual practice, and hunger was a sign of holiness.
Funny, sharp, and disarmingly honest, Aydrea shares what it’s like to look back and realize oh, cool cool… I joined TWO cults. And maybe more importantly, how the craving for belonging can sneak us into places we never meant to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Please note, this episode discusses carrying heavy books that one should never be forced to carry in their life. |
| 0:07.1 | Please listen accordingly. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:11.1 | I don't mind a hierarchy. |
| 0:12.9 | I like rules. |
| 0:13.8 | I like knowing what to do. |
| 0:15.0 | And that has led me into a couple of situations that were very culty. |
| 0:19.6 | One involved selling educational products in small town USA, and one was a more sort of |
| 0:27.5 | traditional religious-based cult-like experience. |
| 0:46.5 | Welcome everyone to Wasa an Occult, this show featuring badass individuals who survived, well, obviously, cults. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Liz Ayakuzzi. |
| 0:48.7 | And I'm Tyler Meesum. |
| 0:55.7 | And holy moly, guys, this Friday, we are doing our first ever live show at the Napa Valley Stream Fest in downtown. |
| 0:58.8 | Beautiful Napa, California. |
| 1:04.0 | And if you happen to be lucky enough to get yourself to Napa this weekend, it is guaranteed to be a great time. |
| 1:07.0 | I shouldn't make that guarantee, but it should be fun. |
| 1:12.6 | We are in the Friday morning binge block because who wants to hear about Colts on a Friday morning. I do. We do. We do. It's April 25th at 11 a.m. Come see us. Make fun of each other in the |
| 1:20.5 | flesh. Special guest is Moses Storm. If you've never seen Moses, he is wildly funny, much funnier |
| 1:26.7 | than Tyler. Visit. |
| 1:29.3 | I'll go with that. I don't disagree. But can he make a documentary? We are very, we are very |
| 1:36.5 | excited to have Moses as our guest. Check out his special trash white ahead of time if you're |
| 1:42.1 | interested. Napa Valley Streamfest.com. |
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