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IDU: How do people get involved in cults?

Charles Manson documentaries continue to fascinate us 40 years later for a reason. We are intrigued by cults and looking for a satisfying explanation for why people join in the first place. Most of us boldly claiming "that would never happen to me!" But could it? Author of "Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism" Amanda Montell joins William Shatner on this week's episode of 'I Don't Understand' to discuss what makes cults so fascinating and terrifying.

IDU: How do people get involved in cults?
Join host William Shatner and seek to answer fascinating and timely questions that pique the natural interest of everyone but that are too-often overlooked by establishment media. “I Don’t Understand” is for curious intellectuals who’d rather be educated than merely entertained by their TV, coming face to face with some of today’s most perplexing conundrums with each mind-blowing episode.