My name is Mark Vissente. I'm a director, producer, writer, and troublemaker. I'm most known as the director of the film What the Bleep Do We Know, and as one of the next team whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The Vow. Let's just say, I know a thing or two about cults. I don't consider myself a cult expert, but I'm definitely an expert in being screwed over, waking up,

and knowing how to spot them.

And let me tell you, they're everywhere.

My mission is to help people see patterns of abuse across multiple contexts.

From personal to family, to group, to societal.

It's all the same pattern at every scale.

As you'll hear, I have a pretty salty approach to most things.

So there might be some blasphemy.

One or two sacred cows might get knocked over,

and there'll likely be some foul language.

You never quite know what you're going to get,

because it really does depend on what the fuck is on my mind.

All right, Hello, everybody.

Today I'm going to head into territory that I guess angels fear to tread.

The first thing I want to talk about is there's this reel that I posted on Instagram and also TikTok, which has gotten about combined.

It's almost at a half a million views.

And it's a little piece from John Cleese, which I don't think was from a television show.

I actually think it was from a political campaign of some sort.

And it's really interesting because a lot of people have reposted it, which is cool.

And there was a reason I posted it.

But I really am interested in the fights that have broken out around that particular

reel.

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