If you’re interested (even remotely) in cycling, you’ll adore The Cycling Podcast. The hosts have a great rapport and Montell has written a number of books, including Cultish, which specifically looks at the language used by cults to do all kinds of things, like create exclusivity and ensure followers stick around. This is a great podcast because it's chatty and, at times, quite informal and yet you learn something juicy, fascinating and important on every listen. They interview experts, analyse language use, identify power structures and speak to people with first-hand knowledge about their experiences, taking things that might sound a bit like a cult to ultimately ask: but are they a cult? Author and linguist Amanda Montell and comedian and filmmaker Isa Medina put all kinds of popular figures, communities, fitness classes and sports under the spotlight.

But it turns out that many of these communities might be 'a bit culty' and that's the premise of Sounds Like a Cult. When you hear the word 'cult' you probably don't think of CrossFit, cheerleading, Instagram therapy, MLMs and wellness gurus. The high school scene, the shifting statements to police, the prejudices, the sketchy alibis, the scant forensic evidence - all of it leads back to the most basic questions: How can you know a person’s character? How can you tell what they’re capable of? In Season One of Serial, she looks for answers.(Image credit: sounds like a cult/apple podcasts) She discovered that the trial covered up a far more complicated story than the jury – or the public – ever got to hear. Sarah Koenig sorted through thousands of documents, listened to trial testimony and police interrogations, and talked to everyone she could find who remembered what happened between Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee.

Some people believe he’s telling the truth. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was sentenced to life in prison. A high-school senior named Hae Min Lee disappeared one day after school in 1999, in Baltimore County, Maryland. A month later, her body was found in a city park.

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