Learn more about host Amanda's Italian writing "cult" ;) It's a Live Your Life!!!  https://trovatrip.com/trip/europe/italy/italy-with-amanda-montell-oct-2024  If you’ve ever seen a... more

From TV executives abusing kids on sets to Scientology's "Celebrity Center," the cult of the entertainment business can getcha from... more

Listen to Isa's new podcast: I'm Right You're Wrong! Isa is the co-creator and former host of Sounds Like A... more

You culties preyed and preyed for us to analyze the cult of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, and at long last,... more

Catch Sounds Like A Cult host Amanda Montell, Theydy Bedbug, Rara Darling, and other special guests on tour! PAST EVENTS... more

Class is in session and boy oh boy is it perturbing. Teaching is not just a profession, it's a calling... more

Catch Amanda back on tour this summer! July 29: The Age of Magical Overthinking book talk at Elliott Bay Book Company in... more

Listen to Isa Medina NEW PODCAST – I'm Right You're Wrong on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or wherever! Isa Medina... more

Catch Amanda back on tour this summer! July 29: The Age of Magical Overthinking book talk at Elliott Bay Book Company in... more

Catch Amanda back on tour this summer! July 29: The Age of Magical Overthinking book talk at Elliott Bay Book Company in... more

Catch Amanda on tour! First of all, we are downright GIDDY to share two iconic voices on this week’s episode—not... more

Hi Culties <3 Isa Medina here, former host and co-creator of Sounds Like A Cult! With a special announcement.... My New... more

Catch Amanda on tour! Lace yourselves up for this haunting and twinkle-toed episode covering one of our most consistently requested... more

Introducing the Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spiralers, exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about. Host Amanda... more

For our ~true followers~, behold a wee bonus episode to tide you over during our mid-season break, while host Amanda... more

You culties have been THIRSTING after this episode, and it’s finally here! With the help of the piss-your-pants funny duo... more

Host Amanda's new book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality is out TODAY!!! Get your copy wherever you... more

Order a copy of Amanda's new book The Age of Magical Overthinking! Catch Amanda on tour!!! Stereotypes say that homeschool... more

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... more

Come party with Amanda on tour!!! Ahoy, and welcome to our first ever "Interview a Listener" episode of Sounds Like... more

It's a cult of one dynamic almost too frightful for this show. When your very own caregiver poisons, manipulates, exploits,... more

First of all, what the hell is going on with culty leggings companies that have too many Ls in their... more

You're invited to The Big Magical Cult Show!!! Catch host Amanda on tour this April to celebrate her new book,... more

Would you sacrifice your phone, passport, dignity, and freedom to move into an isolated pod for 10 days and compete... more

Grab your rosary and slap on your plaid skirt (although you WILL need to recite six “Our Fathers” if it... more

We have NEVER had such a hard time finding a guest brave enough to appear on the show than we... more

Sorry in advance for all the crack vs. quack wordplay coming in this week's episode, which we already know will... more

A clandestine society aimed at indoctrinating a fleet of nationalist spies with an extensive entrance process, aliases, secretive language, isolation... more

Welcome baaaAAAAaaaAAaack, culties!! Time to *ascend* to the 2024 era of Sounds Like A Cult 👽 Kicking off with a... more

Florals for spring may not be groundbreaking, but you know what is? Today’s brain-tingling interview with possibly the single best... more

Wowowow, today’s episode featuring Jill and Derick Dillard (whom you might recognize from TLC’s 19 Kids & Counting!!) has been... more

Sounds Like A Cult has covered doomsday cults, political cults, religious cults ... and this week is where they all... more

ChatGPT could never!!! Over the past year or so, A.I. buzz has obviously risen to cult status, but if you... more

iF yOuRe rEaDiNg thiS yOuRe iN tHe CuLt o.0 This week we are covering the most meta cult yet and... more

It’s me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me, here with an update to one of our most-streamed episodes of all... more

At long last, the man/myth/legend, Amanda's dad, Craig Montell, whose riveting stories of his childhood spent in the Synanon cult... more

If you've been paying attention at all, you know that this weeks cult is growing at a mighty pace. The... more

Behold, a re-air of our most popular episode of 2023—The Cult of Momfluencers—which takes on new relevance, thanks to the... more

Anyone who grew up evangelical Christian and/or plugged into teen celebrity news circa 2008 will be familiar with today's cult:... more

The Cult of Bachelorette Parties is one we have all been a part of, whether from an observational distance or... more