Special Halloween Message from Amanda & Kyle

10/31/23 • 5 min

The Cult I Left Behind

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9 - Shiny Happy People Review Part 1

Amanda and Kyle talk through the first episode of Shiny Happy People, a documentary about the Duggar family and their TLC show 19 Kids and Counting. The Duggars are part of the IBLP cult, and Amanda and Kyle discuss the many ways Amanda's story overlaps with the Duggar story, Josh's sexual assault scandal, and what life was like growing up under Bill Gothard's influence.

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10 - Shiny Happy People Review Part 2

Amanda and Kyle recap episode two of Shiny Happy People. They discuss Josh Duggar's sexual assault of his sisters and the Ashley Madison scandal in which Josh was implicated. Kyle asks Amanda to explain the IBLP cult concept of eye traps, and they discuss the complexities of being a female in the cult. This episode is a wild ride of burning various items in to avoid satanic influence, spiritual gifts, parentification of children, and how parents in the cult went about breaking a child's will. Amanda and Kyle also discuss the public abuse of children that comes up in the second episode of the documentary, and Amanda explains Bill Gothard's teachings on authority.

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