Amanda Montell
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1,990 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Amanda Montell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's like I am legend.
Yes, oh my god, that's so true.
And we'll talk about who the potential cult leaders in this space are, but it kind of reminds me, we did in our season one an early episode on the cult of flat earthers, which like when you first hear about it, it just sounds like a joke.
It doesn't sound like a real thing, it doesn't sound like something that you should take seriously, much less that's dangerous.
And then you look into it and you realize that it is this like gateway to
so much more vile conspiratorial thinking.
And that transition from like nine years ago to like having an incel in the White House is really so fucking frightful and shows the power of this cult.
And
it's like classic, super misogynistic patriarchy, whatever, things that have existed for a long time, but just like turbocharged by the internet.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
Reese and I talk about this periodically because there are some sort of very like self-victimizing internet figures who will get like canceled here and there and wonder why, why me?
Whereas everyone else is looking at them and being like, cause you're fucking scary.
And we were like, oh, those people have incel energy, even though they don't like meet the profile of an incel.
And I think you're getting to
Exactly the psychology and motivation there where they have this like the world against me sort of like external locus of control thing going, like a conspiracy theorist, but married with this nihilistic internet humor and irony that allows them to defend until the cows come home that this is a bit, this is a joke, this is a community also of people who get.
it until yeah everyone else on the outside is like bro you're like a terror threat
Well, Reese is the future because she's very young.
So Reese, how do you feel?
Yeah.
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