Catch Sounds Like A Cult host Amanda Montell, Theydy Bedbug, Rara Darling, and other special guests on tour! PAST EVENTS BELOW (MORE DATES COMING SOON): July 13: Minneapolis, MN — The Big Magical Cult Show at Cedar Cultural Center (buy tickets here!) July 14: Chicago, IL — The Big Magical Cult Show at the DEN (buy tickets here!) DATE & VENUE CHANGE To subscribe to Amanda's new Magical Overthinkers podcast and listen to (or watch!) the rest of today's episode on monogamy, click here :) If we can love our children and friends separately but equally, why not our romantic partners? Such is one of the many compelling thought exercises in favor of polyamory, a relationship structure that is by no means new, but has experienced an explosive recent surge in popular media—everywhere from New Yorker thinkpieces to Succession plot lines to reality shows like Couple to Throuple. Some questions, though: Is polyamory really more "natural" than monogamy? Why do some people make being "poly" their whole personality? Who even has time for multiple partners? (And is it prude to ask such things???). This week's episode is actually a feed drop from the Magical Overthinkers podcast (because host Amanda is *not* a podcasting monogamist ), featuring the brilliant philosopher and host of the Overthink podcast, Dr. Ellie Anderson. Listen for a sparkling discussion of romance, jealousy, history, and media, and consider subscribing to Magical Overthinkers wherever you get your pods! To order Amanda's new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, click here. Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod @amanda_montell @theydy.bedbug @mxraradarling
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This is sounds like a cult, a show about the modern day cults we all follow.
I'm your host, Amanda Montel, author of the books Cultish and the Age of Magical Overthinking.
I'm also on tour right now putting on this really wacky, wishy weird, fun live show in Chicago and Minneapolis in July, so I really hope you come to that ticket links are in our show notes or@amandamontel.com events every week on sounds like a cult we choose a different fanatical fringe group from the cultural zeitgeist, from peloton to purity culture, and analyze it to try and answer the big question, this group sounds like a cult, but is it really?
This week's episode is going to be a little titty bit different.
This was actually supposed to be a dark week.
We weren't gonna release an episode of sounds like a cult this week for the 4 July break, but I decided to take the opportunity to introduce you culties to a couple of things you may want to know about.
Stick around because we're going to get into today's topic, the cult of monogamy, a little bit later.
But the first thing I want to share with you on this sticky summer day is this live show that I am currently in the middle of touring.
Earlier this year, in celebration of my new book, the Age of Magical Overthinking, I went on book tour, but I decided to make it over the top and ridiculous.
So I created this variety show called the Big Magical Cult show.