The Vow

My Brilliant Career, Evil Angels, Dead Calm.

Yeah, The Vow, The Daughter.

Loved at

movies with the, obviously.

or yeah I don't know what they were called but they were great and she and I watched them together in my bed and that was awesome but it's chaos at my house when am I supposed to watch a movie

okay that was a bad time to ask but I basically I'm just wondering on so on Labor Day we Charlie and I I just needed a chill activity and in the afternoon it was like three o'clock and so we watched the vow which I've never seen that before I thought I had and so then I was like oh this is a bad idea because I can I do not know what's about to happen you know what I mean that like feeling of like so I did skip over some some parts that were just like she doesn't need to see this scene type deal um but Like, she loved it.

And I was like, are we here? Did we make it? Like, we can watch.

When can I watch The Notebook with her? That's my question.

That is a good one.

Good, good ones.

Well, The Vow has Rachel McAdams or something.

Isn't she the

We woke up from a cult.

The whole wild ride ended up in The Vow on HBO and in my memoir, Scarred.

Now, after eight seasons of hearing every kind of culty story imaginable, we've bottled up everything we've learned into a book, also called A Little Bit Culty.

It's available now in all formats on Amazon, Audible, and where fine books are sold.

And then you look back because you have more awareness or something bad happened and you go, oh, I wasn't in a cult, but they did behave like that.

Which happened to us a lot

after the vow.

People reached out from around the world, still do, saying thank you for giving me the language for what happened.

I talk a lot about MLMs, which is also how I sort of got into this.

I was watching The Vow at the same time I was watching LulaRich, and I was watching them side by side, and I'm going, "Oh, my God, they're the same thing.

MLMs are a cult." And of course, I find out I wasn't the only one to figure that out, but it gets you into looking at some of these people.

So I started looking at Jessi Lee Ward and Belle Gibson and then Jessica Ainscough.

He's not cutting corners the way Noah and what's-her-name were doing.

No, The Vow.

Like you said, cheating on each other.

The Vow is it.

Nah, 50 First Dates, bro.

Nah, I don't care about no funny shit.

Let's move on.

The Vow.

And I'm Anthony Nippy Ames, and this is A Little Bit Culty.

We woke up from a cult, and that journey was captured in The Vow on HBO and in my memoir, Scarred.

Now, on this podcast, we break down the shame and secrets that make these experiences so destructive with honest conversations on how seemingly benign groups can cross into the cultiverse, and how to spot and recover from trouble if it happens to you.

Each week, we bring in expert survivors and whistleblowers to explore red flags, resilience, and even share a few laughs, because sometimes you gotta laugh.

It has been obviously a traumatic and very heavy ride.

Thank you.

It wasn't actually until a few years after my mom's passing, I was actually watching The Vow, so shout out to you guys, where I really started seeing what happened to our family and the trauma that we experienced as something entirely different than what we had thought.

And you will talk about these themes of gaslighting and narrative control and-

But before we get there, I just want to make a quick confession.

So I'm not a huge fan of Adam Sandler movies.

Whoa, okay.

I was not quite expecting that reaction.