Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-06-26
Books mentioned on Part Two: David Berg and the Children of God (ft. Ed Helms)
David Berg starts the 1970s as a wildly popular cult leader and immediately goes insane. Robert walks Ed Helms through the invention of "flirty fishing" AKA prostitution for Jesus and a bunch of other nightmare fuel.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cults in Our Midst
Discussed“The first like professional like psychiatrist type figure to describe this was a Margaret Singer in a book called Cults in Our Mist and she describes lovebombing this way.”
Where to get it
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Left Behind
Left Behind by Tim F.
Discussed“Do you have you ever heard of the Left Behind books? Oh yeah, sure. I mean it became a TV series. It became a TV series. There's a movie with Nicholas Cage that they made that I was it didn't do well enough to make sequels of but like Yeah, these are pretty prominent.”
Where to get it
