Part 3: Woman Creates 'Sex Cult' In Silicon Valley That Runs On Investors, Orgasms & SA Victims

25:32Interesting. And they thought that's how you close a sale. If you're not good at closing a sale, maybe you just need to own more. That's the sentiment at one taste. If you're tired working 80 to 100 hour work weeks, well, that's just too damn bad. Go home. If you need more energy, go home. One former member says there's this adage at one taste. When the sensation is high, you can either fuck or fight. And one time I had tension with one of my coworkers and Rachel said something like, right this, like this right now. No, we're not doing this. You guys go fuck and don't come back to work until you've done it.

26:05He says that he and his female coworker walked out of there and they were both looking at each other like this is really strange right like we just got told at work our employer is telling us that we need to go do it before we come back to work but they they believed it because it's part of one taste culture that if you are dealing with something emotionally challenging or uncomfortable then you have to push through it for growth so they had this really awkward uncomfortable intimate experience and then went back to work and that was that Did they say what happened afterwards is it just more awkward or they just they just moved on Okay, the warehouse is not for the week.

26:45You go to live there with 49 other roommates You do not have like a second of privacy even when you're in the bathroom Most of them don't have stalls so they had fixed it where there's toilets and sinks, but there's no stalls In just one open room. That's the bathroom. That's all you get There's this private little cubby section, like little lockers, but it's a tiny little box. And that is all you have for your personal belongings. The main room has 15 beds filled with 30 people fighting for oxygen at night. All just next, right next to each other, like sardines, except for these little sheer curtains.

27:18They're fighting for some peace and quiet. It is common that most nights you see at least a few beds shaking from intimate relations. And it is very common for OneTaste members to sit at their foot of the bed and watch other members do it. So there's like this huge voyeurism that's involved with One Taste. They're enjoying the show. I mean, one might think that that's the most exciting part of the day, but it's not. The most exciting part is when Nicole wakes up from her bed. For the longest time, Nicole, the founder of One Taste, lived at the warehouse. And everyone brings her her favorite tea mug with the mug handle on the right side.

27:52And every morning, Nicole sits in her bed and starts rambling her newest version of what can only be described as the ramblings of a lunatic. in my opinion. This is supposed to be one taste heaven. They even have someone in there who does quote-unquote orgasmic haircuts, which is like a little too on the nose or on the tip as they say. Some days it feels almost normal. People say there would be times where it feels like a giant family minus all the intimate relations and the om sessions because that would be weird. But they say that's the part that gets you because a lot of these people come from vulnerable backgrounds.

28:25I think it would be very difficult for someone in a very stable upbringing who's not searching for a bigger picture in life to then go join a dorm with 50 other people and om every day. I think it's a very specific person that they're looking for at the warehouse. And so to have this huge family of people, they would all just cook dinner. They would clean. They would sit around the dining table, goofing around, helping each other with chores. Ironically, they would go to the local laundromat to wash all their bedding and towels, which is a lot of bedding and towels. But that facility was called Brainwash, which was ironic.

28:59The laundromat is called Brainwash? Yeah. And then other days, you see a group of young women leading Nicole's very wealthy tech boyfriend, Reese Jones, up to the bathroom to do things that they probably maybe didn't want to do, but they were willing to do for Nicole and for the greater good of OneTaste and for Reese Jones to keep investing money into OneTaste. So how did egg meat? How did that come about? No one knows how Nicole Daydone met Reese Jones. But she always finds herself in these wealthy tech circles. She finds herself talking to the founder of Zappos who sold it to Amazon for a billion dollars.

29:36She finds herself talking to people like Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Ferriss. Like she's just everywhere. So they're dating. Yes. And the guy, what's his name again? Reese Jones. Reese Jones will come to the facility. He doesn't live there. No. He will come here and then he will do it. Yeah, with a bunch of Nicole's right-hand women. It was actually positioned as an honor to serve Reese Jones because you were picked to do something that was so crucial for one taste. That is crazy. So I'm assuming the guy invested a lot of money. A million dollars. A million dollars. Yeah. and did he when this all fall apart was he a part of this was he yeah he is in the court documents because oh it gets really bad like he had live-in handlers is what they called it so Nicole actually ends up sending people to live with him that's full-time because I guess she doesn't want to be the one doing things full-time with Reese Jones Reese Jones looks fucking crazy I'm not gonna lie to you okay like he just he is crazy I don't think he's a good person that's my personal opinion That's not being a good person is not against the law.

30:44But I'm just saying, I don't think he's a great person. Right. So, yeah. I mean, how long were they together for? It's crazy because she sends handlers to Reese Jones after they break up. Allegedly. I see. We'll get there. Okay. So most days in the warehouse, the schedule is very cutthroat. You wake up at 7 a.m. You immediately head to the group home. There will be two rounds of OM, one with one partner, and then you immediately switch with another partner. And then that's your second OM of the day. Then you do what Nicole calls fear inventory, where you write down your biggest fears and worries.

31:22And it's crazy how, I don't know what it is, other cults, when you hear about the way that they do things, it sounds very culty. Like they're in the middle of nowhere. They're making their own bread. That's not very culty, but you get what I'm saying. They're isolated. There is a rural aspect. They're making their own vegetables and they all have these different things where there's like a huge religious aspect. So you have to confess your sins to the religious person. And like, that's how they gain power over you. This is like the same exact thing, but just wrapped up in journaling. Like that's like wellness journaling.

31:51Fear inventory is you write down your biggest fears and worries, and then you share them with a partner so that you can get it out of your system. You don't want it trapped inside of your body. So like, theoretically, this sounds like something that you would listen to in a self-help podcast, but you're telling me that they're not taking detailed notes of every single person's fear inventory and then using it against them when they try to leave or when they try to stop buying courses or if they, God forbid, want to go to the police. Then they do yoga, cooking, cleaning, and then sitting around a giant table making sales calls.

32:24Then another afternoon OM session followed by teaching the evenings public sessions. So they have their own personal private OM sessions and then they teach public sessions or you spend the whole day in the kitchen just in this giant vat like huge tub stirring up olive oil beeswax for the organic lube that they sell yeah really yeah and the trickiest part of the living situation is definitely the research partner matching situation research partner is a fancy way of saying your bed partner the person that you're going to share this ikea full-size twin bed with for however long until something comes up or someone wants to switch, which is really never that long.

33:05They're called research partners because they're trying to be cheeky. They say everyone in the warehouse is here for the greater mission of studying sensuality. And because we're all science-minded people here, why is it always a woman and a man in bed together? Why can't you be research partners with your friends who are the same gender? Or like, God forbid, maybe you like the same gender. Because you have to balance out the energies, they said. The energies are tied to gender, according to Nicole. But really, it just seems like all of this is because couples will often come into one taste together and it's alleged that when the higher ups felt like their personal connection was getting in the way of their connection to one taste they'll break them up they'll split up the couples give them new research partners and just stir the pot nicole starts allegedly controlling everyone who's dating who they're breaking up with who's doing what i mean she would be so involved in everybody's relationships like let's say a couple is fighting she would sit them down and say here's what we're gonna do We're going to handcuff you together for an entire week.

34:04And if you don't like each other by the end of the week, then you guys are going to break up. She's like a therapist, relationship counselor. I mean, everybody is miserable. In another incident, there was one member who was starting to pull away. And Nicole orders that member's boyfriend. So she's trying to leave. Nicole orders her boyfriend to break up with her. And this is so out of nowhere that this member is in such a vulnerable spot that she goes to Nicole for guidance and Nicole wraps her little grubby tentacles around her all over again. It's worse if you have a relationship with someone outside of one taste and if you don't dedicate your entire life to the entire company, then you would be considered, quote, selling out, selling out on your purpose.

34:46You're sleeping on the mission. And the mission is a lot of the times really unclear. Sometimes it's like writing down your five darkest desires. And I had to go on Reddit to look at what people might say. So imagine that you have to write down your five darkest, deepest desires. Then you walk out with this piece of paper to the busiest street in San Francisco and you find a person and you tap on their shoulder and you read it out loud. In the bedroom, physical abuse, being punched, kicked, choked, tied up, truly beaten. That's my desire. Another one. I've always had a dark desire to have intimate relations with someone while they're talking on the phone with their spouse.

35:22Just say it to a stranger and I don't know what they're getting out of this. Also, there's kind of a consent concern here. We don't know how the old the people they're approaching are. We don't know if this is out of earshot of children. We don't know if anyone consented to hearing about someone's weirdest, darkest desires in the bedroom. We also don't know how in-depth people would go. I feel like maybe the listed above is dark, but it could be darker. It could be more descriptive. It could be terrifying. It could be like, my deepest, darkest desire is to find a short woman and kill her. Like, you don't know.

35:53And they could be saying this to a short woman. it's unclear what anyone is even gaining from all of this sometimes one taste members were encouraged to film themselves having intimate relations and then they would have to play it for everybody else to watch later on and people would make commentary nicole would be like oh my gosh look at how beautiful that is other times they were told if you're a guy grab a banana peel the banana and let's say some guy named mark would hold it right in front of his real banana but he's wearing clothes and then girls would come one by one and just like lick the fruit the real fruit i don't know it's just weird they're already all doing it i don't know why they need to do these weird exercises and for women it would be cut open papayas and they would touch the papaya i what is the purpose nicole we don't know this is all coming from a woman nicole who is very particular about things and half the time it doesn't make sense i was sorting through Nicole's website.

36:53I was sorting through Nicole's videos. There's so many videos. Her blog post, I don't know half the things that she's saying. She has this whole blog post dedicated to making jokes and she has some holiday jokes that she doesn't like. Quote, Ho ho ho is a good starter, but no cheesy, Santa wants to know if you've been naughty jokes. So I guess ho ho ho is a good joke. Santa wants to know if you've been naughty is not a good joke. She's a very weird person. and the business of OM is not very lucrative at first. It's hard to differentiate between members and employees. It's hard to say, when does someone stop becoming a customer and start working for One Taste to convert more customers?

37:33And if all these members turned employees now work for OM, they live in the warehouse, you have to feed all these people. How do they eat? Philip America is a nonprofit that One Taste would volunteer for and their position would be to go and collect excess food that grocery stores were going to throw away and they would haul it to food banks. But on the way to the food banks, not all the food makes it from the grocery store. So they take a ton of the food and that's how they eat. So they told Philip America, I'm going to deliver food for you, but they won't steal the food. Yeah, but they wouldn't steal all the food, but they would steal a good chunk.

38:10And one member says, it was a sleazy yet ingenious way to not pay for food. But even Nicole starts getting very disillusioned by the living conditions. She doesn't like people hearing her use the restroom. She doesn't like running into people who want to tell her their problems every two seconds. She just wants some privacy. And the overhead, the responsibility of running these one-taste living quarters, she starts slowly passing that responsibility on to people like Rachel. The communal living houses start being run by OM moms. They would be the ones in charge. There was also a situation where the original warehouse was infested by bedbugs, just like latching onto every single person.

38:46interestingly it almost becomes a plague level status but weirdly one day's never had a serious outbreak of stds you have to be tested before you join but it's the bed bugs that do them in a lot of people move out because they were just tortured by being itchy every single night so they thought i'm gonna move out until the bed bug situation is fixed and then i'm gonna move back in but once they moved out they have a moment of clarity where they're like what the fuck was that what was i even doing with my life it was kind of like the great reset a lot of people just leave and they called it like the great plague of one taste the bed bugs yeah and it's during that great reset of the bed bugs that nicole moves out to live with her then boyfriend reese jones this is before they break up and nicole learned through all these different cult leaders that you need to distance yourself from day-to-day stuff the leader lives in the penthouse they don't sell courses people come to them for advice.

39:41The leader comes late, leaves early. They cannot be too accessible or the leader is going to be eaten alive. And it works. Nicole gets turned into some sort of celebrity. Every time she visits the warehouse, everybody is freaking out. They're frantically cleaning up, getting dressed, getting her favorite fruit, her green tea mug with the handle on the right side. And when she leaves, they sit around and talk about her visit for hours. Like, what does she say to you? Oh my God, she said this thing and it changed my life. And I was thinking about it and I I felt like it came at the right time. She becomes untouchable and she focuses purely on the part of her business that she probably deems the most important, the money.

40:18Keep the investors happy. At the end of the day, this is Silicon Valley. And since a lot of the investors are wealthy men, Nicole tries to think of ways that they would be more likely to stay plugged in to one taste. They briefly tried to offer male stroking. So instead of a woman laying down for meditation, a man would lay down and a woman would be stroking. That was offered to the higher ups and there were courses being taught on how to help men meditate. However, there was a real concern that was happening in one taste that it's fine with the higher ups because they're already enlightened, right?

40:53But if the general public finds out about it, it could ruin everything. They would have hordes of men outside and then someone is going to call the BBB, Better Business Bureau. Someone's going to call the cops. It's going to be a whole thing. It's going to be a prostitution bust. I mean, they would just come in the masses, woman would leave. There would be no reason for woman to stay. And so there could be potential legal implications. So they had to keep it very tightly wrapped up only for the top tier members. But if you're a top tier member and you're really interested, you can also purchase their video courses on how to S the D.

41:26They call it COCK sucking, like really intensely, but they say it, okay, I'm going to censor it for YouTube, but they have these like promotional videos where they're standing in this very wholesome, sophisticated room and they say things like, we're going to talk about cock sucking. I'm usually, I don't think I'm someone to shy away from intimate conversations like that. However, it's like the aggressive repetition of the term, you know, and contrasting it with the videos where everything is so well lit and angelic looking and then you have a happy couple sitting side by side and it feels like an ad for a pharmaceutical company and you don't even know what the medication is to treat until the very end of the infomercial that's what it seems like is the energy and they just keep saying cock sucking like it's a delicate butterfly's name so they're selling a course on yeah bj basically yeah so they go from selling courses on ohm and being a master stroker and now they're like okay well we should cater more to like men who are like gonna buy these courses for their wives and their girlfriends so we should sell horses yeah on like hey here buy this one for your girlfriend yeah how much are they selling this for like thousands of dollars they start who falls for this exactly they they also try to push this rhetoric that is anatomically incorrect that women have a a sensory point in the back of their throat that is just as pleasurable as downstairs and i just have to say you're so dumb nicole i hate you okay that's what i have to say about that but they would sell these videos and they would try to state these anatomically incorrect pieces of advice they even created a how-to where joanna van vleck the creator of trunk club goes down on a man in real time giving a step-by-step tutorial i mean she's like a multi-millionaire who is she she sold trunk club to nordstrom for i think 200 million dollars she becomes like an executive it's like one of those um personal stylist subscription boxes for clothing she sells her entire business to nordstrom for 200 something million dollars and she joins one taste as an executive.

43:44And she apparently has this video where she's like just S-ing the D and giving us a tutorial. And she says that she used to just do these actions to be a good partner. But now she does it because she loves it. She said, I had so much fear. I don't want anyone to see me like this. Anyone, especially not him. Until I learned that at the other side of it, that he felt so much more in his body when I was willing to be vulnerable like that. sometimes my brow is furrowed it's not pain it's that fine line where pure electricity is jolting through my body it feels like the most bliss and discomfort i've ever felt at once i look forward to the day when every woman in the world practices this for her own self so is she an investor of one taste yeah okay so wow wow nicole also has a whole section dedicated in her book for this where Ishi even lists out how to prepare for such S-ing the D activities, starting with part one, the preparation.

44:45Look at your man. See him for all who he is, for his strength and for his toughness, as well as for his vulnerability and his disappointments. Feel the love you have for him. Feel the desire you have for him. Then if your desire is truly there, ask him gently and kindly if he will allow you to S his D. they also just kind of lose the plot at some point and they just start teaching bdsm courses where they're like whipping each other and they start leading everyone around on leashes again nothing wrong with bdsm or any sort of specialized interest in the bedroom as long as everyone is consenting adults i don't know what that has to do with home overall the nicest thing to call nicole is a weird ass pick me another former member of one day says he was so uninspired at his software job and he was feeling really suffocated because he has a young son.

45:37He's like, I just like my life sucks. And he tells Nicole, she comforts him and tells him, yeah, you are the father of this child, but that was the mother of this child's choice to let him be born. And you don't have to dictate your life based on the decision of the mother of your child. She's the one that ultimately decided to have this kid. Again, I really hope they're picking her at jail. But at some point, it does feel like One Taste loses track of what they're doing. They're just shooting arrows in the dark. They're just trying to see what's going to stick, what's going to bring in the most revenue.

46:12I mean, Nicole even starts doing orgasmic rebalancing. There is a clip of this in, I think it was in the Netflix documentary or it was in the Vice documentary. There's so many documentaries on this too. But it's where someone is laying down on a massage table on their back and nicole is just like dry humping them sniffing them massaging them everyone's fully clothed but she's like she's like trying to bite at them like she looks like someone who maybe potentially has rabies i don't know like it just is weird like gyrating on her yeah and it's just it's really weird and what what what what's the what is this called she's transferring her orgasmic energy to that subject okay but it's just like a lot of like grunting and like grabbing and groping and like her back is hunched and she's like convulsing and it's like you could have just seen a therapist and we would have all been fine but she's very dead serious on this she's for real she's like growling at one point

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49:59Like I said, she knows her audience. If she thinks the audience is going to receive this well, she's going to do it. She knows if a tech group really likes the occult. Like I said, she'll bring in these meditation practices where they bring in snakes, where they bring in like these ritualistic things. Sometimes it's as simple as zipping everyone up in body bags. Like if you get a tech group, tech bros that are super existential, they're like, what is the meaning of life? All I do is code, code, code, code, code. What is AI going to do to us? You zip them up in body bags and you leave them in the dark to contemplate death.

50:31and then you open up the bag and you let them be reborn yeah and then one guy he said that this happened to him and he was just like crying he was sobbing and he had this moment where he saw through nicole's facade because nicole took him in her arms and was like cradling him caressing him and he had this moment of clarity where he's like i know what you're doing you try to be my mommy like to get people to latch on to her like that yeah yeah yeah and he's saying it as what he didn't fall for it or he saw it and then still liked it he liked it a little bit but i think eventually he left because he was like i think that she's full of shit okay yeah but ultimately it comes down to do whatever it takes to sell a course like a modern day courtesan one former member says very often you would usually see a young attractive woman somehow encouraged or paired up with a guy who had money for OM sessions.

51:28Part of it very often was to get a guy who had money, even though that was never the advertised reason. The advertised reason was that it was to help OM grow. Another member says, they would specifically go for a lot of rich tech guys. And the message is, you can make any man do anything you want, giving Nicole all his money, as long as you know how to handle them. Nicole calls it the call with a capital C. C-A-L-L. It is the power that females are born with. This is like the strongest power in the universe and only females have it, okay? She writes in a self-published article, the most accessible way to understand the force of a call.

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53:28It's because I'm ovulating. So that's why I should be killing it in the world right now. It's so weird. And she would try to convince people that you're using your power of call to get people signed up to OM to these courses. And you're actually helping them because they don't even know what they want. They don't even realize how much they need OM. And then sometimes if Nicole trusts you, apparently she would just close the doors and tell you, hey, go get that guy all excited and hot and bothered and make sure he comes back. Sometimes she would call her inner circle of women sacred prostitutes, which I hate that word, but that's what she would apparently call them.

54:06And side note, none of the members, even if they're working 80 to 100 hours at OneTaste, they're not getting paid. A ton of members spent like$100 ,000 on OneTaste buying all these courses. Then they make it to be part of their sales team and they would get commission, but it would be the tiniest commission of all the courses they sell. Sometimes they would work a hundred hours a week, get paid$300 a month. It doesn't even make any sense. And it leads a lot of people initially to have a hard time understanding why anyone would even want to listen to Nicole, especially if they're not on an isolated farm in the middle of nowhere.

54:37They're in the middle of San Francisco. This is not a typical cult-like environment with the promise of the great wrath coming that's going to wipe out everyone but everybody who follows the selfless leader who needs to be tended to every second of every day. Why are people listening to Nicole? One former member says, when she locked eyes with me, it was like she unlocked something in me. I don't know. She always seemed angelic. She seemed godlike. One thing Nicole would say very often is, one taste is her vehicle to God. Her own ex-husband says Nicole would borrow ideas and methods from Scientology.

55:13She would study Scientology apparently. She herself has stated in a seminar once, my philosophy with anyone I've ever loved is test every minute, especially at the beginning. Don't let anything settle yet because you're learning the way a cat walks around a room in order to know how to fall. You're learning their algorithm. What happens when I do this? What happens when I do that? What happens when I pull back? What happens when I text back quickly? What happens when I give you a compliment? What happens when I withhold a compliment? What happens when you see me look at somebody else? What happens when you look at somebody else and you test those things?

55:47I'm a big believer in emergent training. She believes the secret to authentic connection is to learn all the broken parts of you and then try to fix it and tell them that you're the only one that can fix it, basically. Another says when you're looking at Nicole and she's looking back, back she looks into your eyes and it just looks like you're being completely seen like down your soul including everything yuck and all especially yuck and all while you're just being embraced in this gaze you're also being you know picked apart like you're under a microscope and so she starts playing this game with me which is like pulling desires so one woman says you know she was like what do you want what do you want and she's fishing she's pulling them out so i say i want to have more intimate relations.

56:35No. What do you want? I want to have more O's. What do you want? I want more fun. What do you want? I want more community. So she's like, come on, what else? You know, this is how it goes. And so finally I get down to my deepest desire and I've never spoken it out loud. And I say, I want to have a baby. And she's like, uh-uh, not so fast. What else? And I'm thinking like, that's it. What else? So I just think of saying what I think that she wants to hear. Okay, I want to be part of a demonstration, which is that one of those lectures, you're the one being owned. And Nicole goes, see, did you hear that everyone?

57:14We hit the bottom. That's the bottom desire. And the member said that's not at all what she wanted. It was just weird because it's like this pattern where Nicole will keep digging and digging until you're exhausted. And then you just give her the answer that she wants. They say, quote, this is how Nicole manipulated people. She agreed that something was true if it matched what she wanted to hear. If you said something she didn't like, she called it a lie or that's not the end of your desires. If you had any doubt, she knew how to increase that doubt until she told you what was true and that became what you believed.

57:44One former member that was part of Nicole's inner circle for a really long time, I mean since the beginning, he joined with his wife. So this is a guy and he's saying this about Nicole while he's married. He says, you know, in those movies, like this is Nicole's essence, you know, in those movies where you're standing at a cocktail party and a woman walks in the door and the music changes and it's an important plot point. Well, there was no music change, but I knew it was an important plot point. That is how I described the first time I saw Nicole. Not his wife, Nicole. Eventually, Nicole gives him an ultimatum to either leave his wife or leave Nicole in one taste.

58:23And he chooses Nicole. And she brags about it later saying, I told him, what do you want? Because I can give you what you want. Even though I knew I had heavy, heavy competition. She's referring to his wife. She looked like a Playboy bunny, but I knew I could handle it because I had bravado. And he had all these wild fantasies that I knew I could give him. She says he had to give me everything. His wife, his money, his obsession, his pride. He had to move wherever I wanted to go. And he had to work every day, 18 hours a day for me, doing whatever I wanted without complaint. And this guy spoken out?

59:02Yeah. And who is this guy? Do we know? I mean, he's not like a outspoken member of One Taste where he says that he was victimized, but he is outspoken in the sense of he's everywhere in a lot of the clips because he was there for such a long time. and he was like a right-hand man for her for a while. So he divorced his wife because he wants to have all these fantasies fulfilled? Yeah. Nicole claims she made him into a king, aka forced lower-ranking woman to have intimate relations with him. Okay, well, I guess forced is a very strong legal word, but rather persuaded a lot of lower-ranking women to have intimate relations with him.

59:42She says, there were a lot of guys that I could take and make into kings, but he offered me willingness to have his ego hit again and again. And if you're willing to be a manservant, then you can become a king. One member says, I thought that was a space that was supposedly woman positive. You know, it would be safe. But once your boundaries for who you're willing to sleep with become more malleable, it could be molded into whatever was advantageous for the company at the time to help meet their goals. And Nicole had a really sick way of doing it. she would have these dedicated seminars about how old people are really good at bringing out ohm energy in young people.

1:00:21And if you're uncomfortable being with someone 30 years older than you, the same age as your dad, or ohming with someone who is a senior citizen and gets discounts at the movie theater, you need to lean into it because uncomfortable means that you're growing. And old people generally have a very overwhelmingly positive ohm energy that rubs off on young people. And it's about learning how to get off on any stroke, right? Can you find Aum in every moment of your life, even when it's someone who is older than your dad and gives you the ick? She's not always around the bush about it. Sometimes she would tell you straight up, one taste runs on two currencies, money and orgasm.

1:01:01And to help wealthy rich people achieve Aum is just part of the growth. To make sure the business exists and survives. That's it. people would say you would have been told to do aversion practice which is when you think of the most disgusting thing ever and you go sleep with them but a lot of the times those disgusting things were just investors rich old investor dudes and if you don't do it they would bully you and tell you that you have golden pussy syndrome where you think your private parts are golden and it is interesting i don't know how many people okay i don't know how important this aspect of it is, but a lot of former members do point to the fact that you are told to have so many ohms and you're sleep deprived.

1:01:45Like every single night, there's no privacy in these communal living areas. You have no privacy. You're sleep deprived. And then you're told anytime you're stressed out or you're not hitting sales markets to go ohm. And so when you're doing like five, 10 ohms a day, your brain gets really foggy. So they're saying it's like you just have this very clouded feeling. You're overstimulated physically, sexually. There's no privacy, emotionally overstimulated. You're just overstimulated to the point where you can't even think clearly. And the little amount of times that members were leaving the communal living, such as the holidays, very tense times for one taste.

1:02:22People would ponder who's going home to visit their family members and they would be encouraged to keep their trip short and they would be grilled before they go. What's your plan? How are you going to not fall asleep? How are you not going to turn into a muggle? When asked by a reporter if One Taste was a cult, Nicole responds, you could ask the same thing of Apple. One member says, no, it was the religion. Orgasm was God. And Nicole was like, Jesus or Muhammad. And that is where I leave you with the part three of the audio podcast for One taste. Part four is going to be up very quickly and that will be the final part of One Taste, but stay tuned because it is a whole legal battle where Nicole hires very similar people that Sean Diddy Combs had hired for his trial and yeah, also hires a lot of people that overlaps with Harvey Weinstein and Adele Vey.

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