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Hi, Sounds Like a Cult.
My name is Amanda and one of the cultiest things that I think about Leonardo DiCaprio is the fact that we all call him Leo and we know exactly who we're talking about.
Hi, this is Alex from Philadelphia.
The cultiest thing about Leonardo DiCaprio is that he's always referred to as having boyish charm and yet he's constantly snubbed by awards and he just doesn't seem to have the same amount of spotlight.
And love that others get.
So I've always wondered if there was something sinister there.
Leonardo DiCaprio is culty because he his dating of only 25 year old women and younger.
I think he's stuck and I think that maybe a good cross section of society is stuck there too.
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.
Every week on this podcast you're going to hear about a different cultish group from the zeitgeist from Mom Floyd Influencers to church camp to try and answer the big question, this group sounds like a cult.
But is it really?
And if so, which of our cult categories does it fall into?
A live your life, a watch your back or a get the fuck out level cult.
After all, not every modern day group that that looks all fanatical and fringy is actually all that destructive.
And yet there are plenty of groups that seem totally acceptable and mainstream, yet they could low key ruin your life in a cultish way.
Sometimes those people are celebrities, heartthrobs, movie stars.