Episode Transcript: #2137 - Michelle Dowd

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Thanks for coming in, Michelle.

Thanks, Joe, for having me.

My pleasure.

I love your man cave.

Oh, thank you.

I really do.

It's awesome.

Yeah, it's fun.

So, when I heard your story, I was like, this sounds completely insane.

And just to fill people in, just explain what happened.

Well, I was born into a cult, a high control group that I didn't know to call a cult because, you know, I was born there.

You were a child.

That was my whole experience.

My grandfather started in 1931, so my mother was also born into the cult in the 1940s.

Wow.

My dad was, let's just say he was 12 when he first met my grandfather, who would later become his father-in-law.

And my grandfather became his father figure.

So my mom was married off to this man who was a follower of her father, and I am the second child of their union.