Catch Sounds Like A Cult host Amanda Montell, Theydy Bedbug, Rara Darling, and other special guests on tour in Chicago & Minneapolis!!! July 13: Minneapolis, MN — The Big Magical Cult Show at Cedar Cultural Center (buy tickets here!) July 14:

The Cult of Teachers

9 days ago 1h 10m

Catch Amanda on tour with The Big Magical Cult Show in Chicago & Minneapolis this July! 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

The Cult of Family Vloggers

16 days ago 58m 27s

Catch Amanda back on tour this summer in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle!! 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 ti

Right or Wrong? Nepo Babies (Preview of Isa's New Podcast!)

16 days ago 26m 14s

Listen to Isa Medina NEW PODCAST – I'm Right You're Wrong on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or wherever! Isa Medina is the Former Host and Co-Creator of Sounds Like A Cult Podcast. Follow Isa on IG @isaamedinaa for info about her live stand up come

The Cult of Jam Bands

23 days ago 55m 38s

The Cult of Glossier

Jun 4th, 2024 1h 7m

The Cult of Tradwives

May 28th, 2024 1h 18m

Catch Amanda on tour! 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** First of all, we a

What happened to Isa Medina?

May 28th, 2024 6m 8s

Hi Culties <3 Isa Medina here, former host and co-creator of Sounds Like A Cult! With a special announcement.... My New Podcast is Coming! I'M RIGHT YOU'RE WRONG hosted by Isa Medina & Lydia Keating. Click to subscribe on Spotify, Apple or wher

The Cult of Ballet

May 21st, 2024 1h 3m

Catch Amanda on tour! Lace yourselves up for this haunting and twinkle-toed episode covering one of our most consistently requested topics: Ballet! Despite the tutus and baby pink palette, this ruthlessly competitive industry often seems less l

The Cult of Narcissism

May 14th, 2024 1h 1m

Introducing the Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spiralers, exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about. Host Amanda is elated to share her latest audio project, based on her New York Times-bestselling book The Age o

The Cult of Nostalgia

May 7th, 2024 39m 31s

For our ~true followers~, behold a wee bonus episode to tide you over during our mid-season break, while host Amanda is on book tour and in production for the new MAGICAL OVERTHINKERS podcast (coming May 15)! Nostalgia is a warm-and-fuzzy copin

The Cult of Stanley Cups

Apr 16th, 2024 55m 45s

You culties have been THIRSTING after this episode, and it’s finally here! With the help of the piss-your-pants funny duo from the Add to Cart podcast, Kulap Vilaysack and SuChin Pak, host Amanda unpacks the evangelical fanaticism surrounding t

The Cult of Manifestation

Apr 9th, 2024 50m 33s

Host Amanda's new book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality is out TODAY!!! Get your copy wherever you buy books (including audiobooks). The book is about magical overthinking in the Information Age—how our deep-rooted

The Cult of Homeschooling

1 Apr 2nd, 2024 1h 16m

Order a copy of Amanda's new book The Age of Magical Overthinking! Catch Amanda on tour!!! Stereotypes say that homeschool kids are a little, well, ~quirky~ but is that because they grew up in a "cult" of sorts? The American homeschool landscap

The Cult of Rae Dunn

Mar 26th, 2024 1h 3m

Order Amanda's new book! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Age-of-Magical-Overthinking/Amanda-Montell/9781668007976 Get ready to live, laugh, love, and possibly get into an “aisle fight” over this longgggg overdue episode, featuring t

The Cult of Cruise Ships

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 2m

Come party with Amanda on tour!!! Ahoy, and welcome to our first ever "Interview a Listener" episode of Sounds Like A Cult!!! Could you imagine a more tantalizing subject for this week's ~dive deep~ than this gazillion-dollar industry of floati

The Cult of Munchausen by Proxy

Mar 12th, 2024 1h 17m

It's a cult of one dynamic almost too frightful for this show. When your very own caregiver poisons, manipulates, exploits, and lies to you for personal gain... it's the cult of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome, a nightmare phenomenon made internat

The Cult of Lululemon

Mar 5th, 2024 1h 6m

First of all, what the hell is going on with culty leggings companies that have too many Ls in their brand name: LuLaRoe, Lululemon... sounds like a conspiracy!!! Anyway, after many long years of listener requesting this topic, Sounds Like A Cu

a culty announcement 👽

Feb 28th, 2024 2m 11s

You're invited to The Big Magical Cult Show!!! Catch host Amanda on tour this April to celebrate her new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking. Half the events are star-studded bookstore stops (where she'll be in conversation with the likes of

The Cult of Love Is Blind

Feb 20th, 2024 55m 11s

Would you sacrifice your phone, passport, dignity, and freedom to move into an isolated pod for 10 days and compete against a sorority of strangers in search of True Love™, all for a world of fiendish reality TV consumers to see??? Sounds like

The Cult of Catholic School

Feb 13th, 2024 1h 14m

Grab your rosary and slap on your plaid skirt (although you WILL need to recite six “Our Fathers” if it rides even one millimeter above the knee!!!) because this week’s theatrical episode is here to validate and possibly trigger all our former

The Cult of K-Pop

Feb 6th, 2024 1h

We have NEVER had such a hard time finding a guest brave enough to appear on the show than we did for the week's episode on the flashy, fanatical, downright culty (sorry!!!) world of K-Pop. Thank goddess that Lai Frances, music reporter and exp

The Cult of Chiropractors

Jan 30th, 2024 57m 19s

Sorry in advance for all the crack vs. quack wordplay coming in this week's episode, which we already know will push some buttons! Obviously #notallchiropractors, but it’s definitely scary how this industry of psuedo-doctors is entrenched in a

The Cult of the CIA

Jan 23rd, 2024 1h 2m

A clandestine society aimed at indoctrinating a fleet of nationalist spies with an extensive entrance process, aliases, secretive language, isolation from the outside world, and no clear exit strategy... sounds like a cult, but it’s actually Am

The Cult of Amazon

Jan 16th, 2024 1h 11m

Welcome baaaAAAAaaaAAaack, culties!! Time to *ascend* to the 2024 era of Sounds Like A Cult 👽 Kicking off with a damn bang—the most colossal cult we’ve ever covered (as in ~1.5 million employees and 310 million users colossal). It's the multi-