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

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

Reese Jones is living every San Fransico tech guy’s wet dream. Create a company, sell it to Motorola for $205 millions dollars, and meet a hot, blonde girlfriend who doesn’t hold back in the bedroom. A lifestyle some would be jealous of even after Reese gets kidnapped. Three men jump out, blindfold him, force him into a car at gunpoint. Next thing he knows, Reese is being led through seven different rooms, representing the seven deadly sins. One is lust. Another is gluttony. Then, envy. Reese is bound to a chair while his girlfriend has intercourse with what is described as ‘a buffet of people.’ After all seven rooms, all seven sins, Reese is reborn. Which just means he’s now cloaked in white, standing on a rooftop deck while his blonde girlfriend waits for him in the distance: “Happy Birthday.” That’s what you get as a present when you’re worth $200 million dollars and your girlfriend is the founder of One Taste, a company that helps women meditate and reach an orgasm. Every tech guy’s wet dream right? That’s until Reese gets wrapped up in one of the strangest, potential trafficking cases, and his girlfriend, Nicole Daedone, wellness company CEO ends up in the same prison as none other than Ghislaine Maxwell.   Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bad a being baddaboo. Jealousy is a very normal, natural human emotion. Obviously, some people are just more jealous than others. Some people are just wired to be jealous as well. It could be part of something called retroactive jealousy. There's things like jealousy OCD, relationship OCD. And there are a lot of ways that people who have that try and tame that jealousy. One of which is imaginal exposure is what they call it.

One redditor describes it as, basically I have a, dedicated 30 minute session every day, usually in the mornings, where I stand on an exercise mat and I do something akin to meditation. So they say that they imagine their partner cheating or imagine these things that trigger a lot of jealousy in them and they walk through it. So typically when they have these intrusive thoughts of jealousy, they will want reassurance from their partner. They'll get angry at their partner even though their partner didn't do anything. They'll start getting very insecure and start divulging in very reckless behavior or unhealthy behavior. But this time, they have to sit there with these thoughts, trigger that anxiety, and just

write out the symptoms. Do not let yourself fall into the compulsions of wanting to call your partner, text your partner, see what they're at, try to find my friends on their phones, all of that. You just don't do it. And the longer that you can sit with these physical symptoms without compulsively seeking out these anxiety- quelling things, the better you get. at jealousy, the better you can tame it. And at the warehouse, the communal living center for One Taste, which is a woman's wellness company, they deal with a lot of jealousy. And they do

something completely different from imaginal exposure. They just do exposure. The warehouse is filled with the most diehard supporters of One Taste and of Ome, the meditation practice that women are supposed to orgasm in. The ones that Ome at least two times a day, they all the most live, eat, breathe, sleep, one taste, and a lot of them live in what's called the warehouse. It's a building that has been converted into what I can really only describe as worse than a dorm. There are just twin-sized IKEA beds all lined up in this open space. It feels like one of those asylum pictures with thin sheer curtains separating the beds. Each person is assigned a research partner upon entry into the warehouse.

Hi, welcome. Love that you're going to live with us. here's your research partner. If you're a man, your research partner is going to be a woman, and yet they literally only have two genders, and they're like, okay, well, if you look like a man, we're going to give you a woman to sleep with. Sometimes it's your first time meeting your research partner before you jump into bed with them, which is exactly what happens to Rachel. Rachel is very important.

Rachel is laying there in this tiny little twin-sized IKEA bed, and she's laying next to her research partner, and it's very uncomfortable. The troubling part is her boyfriend. Rachel has a boyfriend. Well, I guess now it's an ex-boyfriend. He broke up with her like eight hours ago. He is sleeping in the bed right next to her with his new research partner. They don't let you pick.

Yeah. He's just one sheer curtain away on the bed next to her, and he's just laying next to another girl. Less than eight hours after he broke her heart. When they got to one taste, they drove all the way across the country to join Warehouse at One Taste. and they were both so excited for this journey together. But once they got there, he pulled her to the side and told her, look, Rachel, I love you. But now that we're here, I really want the full experience, you know?

I mean, not just like the oming with strangers, but I want like the full, full experience, aka he wants to be with other women. And she just has to lay there in this bed. And she remembers thinking in the dark the very first night, God, this is so wrong. I should not be doing this. But then there's another part of her thinks,

but this is what I signed up for it, right? I mean, to be able to explore what it means to open my sex? At One Taste, everybody is taught feeling jealousy isn't necessarily a good or bad thing. It's just a thing you feel. Ask yourself, what does that jealousy feel like? Is it burning in the chest? Perhaps it feels like ice in the stomach?

Just be present with that sensation. Nicole Daydone, the founder of One Taste and soon-to-be alleged cult leader, is a very confusing figure. It's hard to say whether she is, a charismatic business leader or if she's like a wannabe profit. But with her very blonde hair, she's got a cheeky smile. She teaches all of the one-taste employees and members that if a sensation is too strong,

you have to find pleasure in it, especially if the sensation is negative. She calls it getting off on any stroke. When something makes you uncomfortable, hurt, or sad or angry, you have two choices. You can be a victim to those feelings, or you can get off on it. When she said get off on it,

Like get off on it. I don't think it's figurative. Wow. And there's a woman named Anna who joined One Taste. She starts living at the warehouse and she is, she believes Nicole. Everything that Nicole is saying makes sense and there's like a thousand people around Nicole all the time. That's like, hey, listen to what Nicole is saying because she changed my life. So Anna starts trying to do that.

Anna is dating a guy named Bill and he also works inside of One Taste. Bill's been a part of One Taste way longer than Anna, and he is fully immersed. He is comfortable with the lifestyle. He's always oming with random women, sleeping with random women, switching research partners all the time. The connections flow with everybody, because that's how connections flow. They flow with energy. He loves being non-monogamous.

Anna is new to all of this. She loves Bill. She wants to be with Bill and only Bill. And she's also dedicated to One Taste and she's trying to make it work. So it's very confusing. And she has all of these big feelings. of jealousy, and the one-taste members encourage her to follow what Nicole says, do the exposure therapy. So she sits down on the staircase one night, and it's very quiet, it's very tense,

and then the room is just filled with really intense noises of flesh that is slapping together because she is forced to sit and watch Bill have intimate relations with another woman. Anna is sitting there watching, and she is repeating in her mind what she was taught, to which is any intense feeling is a turn on. Any intense feeling is a turn on. And that rhetoric, that feeling is what leads Nicole Daydone to abuse countless one-taste members and lead them to do things that they don't want to do, such as sleep with investors, have relations with the genders that they are not attracted to, basically give up their mind, body, and soul for Nicole Daydone. Who wants to create the next Whole Foods of Wellness?

This is part two of one taste. We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support the Minnesota Immigration Rights Action Committee. They are fighting to end the immigration raids and deportations happening in Minnesota. This episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support Rotten Mango's growing team, and we'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes are available about Rotten Mango Podcast.com. Today's case is really heavy in regards to CSA, and to be really specific,

there are going to be mentions of essay against previous. essay victims, with situations of these victims being forced to recreate their original essay experience in their, I guess, second essay. There will be mentions and stories of members of the queer community being forced into situations where they're forced to have intimate relations with people and genders in which they are not attracted to. So please take care of yourself if this is too much. Additionally, statements and quotes have been condensed for brevity, though all the information

is publicly available. With that being said, let's get into it. it is perfectly orchestrated pre-planned that's how every body in its predetermined place nobody even needs to communicate everybody knows their position it is like a chase you have the ones that are going to chase down the target you have the ones that control the border so that they can't get past and then you have the one that's waiting at the end this is the final hunt this is where like the last lioness female lion is waiting. This is how a group of female lions hunt. They like to circle their prey and run with the prey, circling them in until finally the last lion, the female lion standing,

she rams her body into the prey and knocks them over. And it's very interesting because when they hunt in packs, everybody has a predetermined position that they almost have a calling to. So whether it's the chasing aspect or being on the side lookout or you're the one that rams into the prey for the final attack, each one of them, even if they change packs, they have the same position when it comes to hunting. They've almost always fulfilled that role. It's very interesting. This is how they kill.

The female lion that pounces on the prey, they're usually the biggest in size, the heaviest, so they use their body weight to knock the prey down. And then they sink their three-inch retractable claws into the prey to hold it in place, and then they bite. They clamp down on the neck

before slowly suffocating the prey. Lions are stranglers. Other big cats, cougars, usually they'll sever the prey's spinal cord with a bite. Lions like to clamp their mouths around the prey's throat and hold down until the prey is slowly out of oxygen and it dies. And sometimes, a lot of times, it takes a long time. For the average medium-sized prey, so take a zebra, for example, sometimes it takes 10 to 15 minutes. A buffalo, a buffalo is the worst because lions can't generate enough pressure on their thick neck. the buffalo has thick necks to fully close the airway. So it could take an hour.

Wow. And the worst part is they hunt in packs. And sometimes while one lion is holding down the neck for almost an hour at times, the other lions start eating. Wow. The eating order is almost always the same, starting with dominant males, then the female lions, and then the cubs receive whatever remains. Now this is like when food is scarce.

When there is abundant amount of food, sometimes the mother lions will get very angry at everybody else until their cub eats. So it really depends on the lion pack and it depends on the resources available. But OneTaste members are sitting around this long conference table staring up at the screen. It's likely that there is a red-headed woman standing in front of them. Rachel, she's the head of sales. She clicks off the video of the lions hunting down and eating their prey. Some people probably want to wince, but they don't because

I mean, it's very graphic. Why do we all want the zebra to live, even though we know exactly what's going to happen? And after videos like this, Nicole Daydone, the owner of the company focusing on wellness for women, meditations for women where you rub down there for 15 minutes, like a new form of yoga, she will tell the group, we are like that.

We are the lions. We aren't doing anything wrong. This is how we eat. And who are the zebras? All the potential clients of one taste, she's telling her sales team, this is what we're doing. Everybody outside, they're asleep. She would call them muggles, like from Harry Potter. They don't know magic.

They're living in the Matrix. So get to selling. That's the message here. Rachel would tell the sales team, the universe is made of love. And sales is love. Therefore, the universe is made of sales. What do we say when someone tells you that you're pressuring them to spend 10, thousand dollars on a one taste course you say there is no such thing all pressure is internal

selling a one taste course takes a certain level of skill and art it's first of all 16 000 how do you cold call someone and ask for 16 000 dollars to help them learn how to own they have the hot seat notes remember if you listen to part one of the video podcast or part one and two of the audio podcast one taste would hold open mics and they would host all of community building centers that you pay $10 to get into with the hopes of seeing somebody's private parts. You know why everybody's coming. You're not here to network. You're here to see a real life own demonstration. You're here to see a woman's downstairs. But they have a way of not making it feel overtly. Like it's fun. They make it feel like fate. Let's say you're walking downtown.

You've never heard of Ome. You've never heard of any of these people. They're not going to say, hey, do you want to come to our club basically and see a vagina? You're going to see a booth of people giving out free coffee. You're like, okay, well, I already drank a coffee, but do I want a second coffee? I mean, it's free. So then you head over to the booth. Someone hands you a coffee and then very loudly asks you, how's your O? Once the last time you had a big O, you look at the sign next to the coffee, because that's a weird question. And it just says, the pussy knows. It's like ominous. Like, it's fate. Like, I was supposed to be walking down this sidewalk in downtown San Francisco. And then you were supposed to hand me the coffee. This feels like,

something is happening. How can you not go? Then at these little meetings, they have hot seats. They bring someone up to the middle and they start asking them questions for the next 30 minutes. Typically, they already know what everybody's occupation is. The person that gets the hot seat is likely the most vulnerable, or it is someone who they think has a ton of money. And they're really smart about it. If couples come in together, they will analyze the couple's dynamics. If one of the couple has money or one of them is the one spending the money, then they'll try to see how important the other couple is. So let's say we go to an event together and you're the one paying for it, then they're going to see our relationship dynamic.

And if they decide I'm very important to you, they're going to use all their energy winning me over first instead of you. Oh, I see. Because if they win you over, but I'm on the side being like, no, babe, I think that's really weird. I think we should go home. Then they think it's moot point. Right, right, right. So you win their partner over first.

And then the partner is also encouraging them like, hey, babe, we should try it out. Like, I think it'll be fun. I think it'll be a cool weekend. And then now they're also talking to Mr. Moneybags like, hey, your partner thinks it'll be a great weekend. We think it'll be a great weekend. It's going to be fun. Right.

They study everybody's dynamics. So they put a lot of the vulnerable people or the people with money in the hot seat. And for 30 minutes, they ask you who you are, what your desire is, your biggest fear in life. What do you think fear stands for? You're wrong. Fear stands for fake evidence appearing as reality.

That's what they'll tell you. this is exactly why you need to invest in the course right now. Just though whenever you hear any speakers say those four words, just run the other way. You got to run. You got to run. Okay. And there will be people in the sales team during the hot seats in the very back with their little laptops, typing in every little detail about you so that they can call you afterwards and sell you a $16,000 course.

The fear of paying rent or going into debt, you think that's what's stopping you. But in reality, you're not thinking about what you can become and how much more you can achieve and how much more money you can actually make once you take this course. I hate sales. I suck at sales. During these offerings, or during these gatherings, One-Tay sales members are marking everybody. So they call them marks. Of course they do.

They have the hot seat. They also have meditation, death meditations, where everyone will lay down, close their eyes and think about dying, like really think about dying. Think about it really hard. You're on your deathbed. What do you regret? Blurt it out loud for our sales team to write in our notes. What do you regret?

What goals did you not achieve? What held you back? Where and how did you not let love into your life? Who do you want to forgive? If that doesn't work, the sales team has what they call fluffers. Do you know what a fluffer is? Okay, it's like a term. It's a myth in the adult entertainment industry.

where in between video takes, a person will come in to help the parties maintain their excitement for their jobs. Okay. I believe if I'm not mistaken, the idea in and of itself adds intrigued to the industry. However, most people I can see on Reddit, so I did see like a few, I'm a fluffer, AMA, right? Ask me anything. And a lot of them seemed... Fluffer comes in between scenes to keep you aroused. Yes.

By doing what? you know what okay all right by doing things downstairs typically on guys because visually physics wise

they need to maintain a certain yes right because you know when you watch those videos it seems like you know the pizza man just came in and everything happened all at once

and it was a spur of the moment thing but it's probably like any movie that's made there's like 50 different takes of one scene there's 20 different cameras and there's a lot of different pauses in between. I'm sure it's not as seamless as we imagine. And so there's this whole idea that fluffers exist. And I think the idea in itself is intriguing and maybe turns people on.

However, I don't think it's real. Because the more that I went down on the Reddit threads, a lot of people are like, this is the biggest myth of the adult entertainment industry, like maybe really long back in the day. But a lot of these people are saying, you know how much cheaper pills are than labor? So we just pill up the guys. That's it.

That's how someone in the industry put it. But Rachel created a term for what she called fluffers on her sales team. Rachel is the redhead who's in charge of sales. She is Nicole Daydone's right-hand woman. She's also the one that came, drove all the way across the country to one taste with her boyfriend. And her boyfriend is like, hey, babe, I want to break up. That's Rachel. Oh, the guy was sleeping next to her.

Yeah. Wow. She goes just head first all in on One Taste and Nicole notices. Nicole notices like a handful of women that she is prepping and grooming to be next to her. And Rachel is one of them. Typically, these are younger, attractive One Taste members who are told to wear short mini skirts. And it's very interesting because One Taste does this crazy mental game where they teach these women. it is an honor to be a fluffer.

Because get this, right? A woman's erotic body has its own gates. When the body is activated, she can transmit sensations dependent on her skill. And she can almost aim it at people like a weapon. She does this simply by drawing her own attention down to her body, putting the whole of her consciousness into her erotic self. They're basically saying that the more in touch with, yourself and ohm you are, the better you are at rubbing that energy off on people.

So if you're a fluffer, that means you have really powerful energy. Like you have a gift to the world that is this warm, radiating presence. You make people feel a certain way. And they also say, but at the end of the day, because there is workplace code, fluffers should not be the ones taking the credit card. We should bring them in. they do the fluffing, and then we bring somebody else in,

not wearing a mini skirt, to take the credit card. Wait, what's the difference between a fluffer and the... Because they want to skirt around the... We never want to be questioned for, are people buying prostitution? Are people paying money to one taste

so that they can get late? Ah, I see. So fluffers are employees of one taste, but they're not getting home from the employees. They're getting home from like a different, like participant or they're promising. Sometimes they're promising. Okay, okay.

You know, sometimes they're saying, well, if you join, then we can own together. Right. So you're putting, the employee is this young woman in mini skirt and like talking to you and making you, okay, got it. Basically promising you the world without promising you the world. But she should not be the one taking the credit card because they don't want to be accused of running an illegal brothel. Got it.

So it's like this weird mind game. They tell the employees, you have the craziest energy in the world. Like you radiate energy. So we need you to get these people to open up. However, don't take the credit card because we don't want to be accused of prostitution. Because that's not what you're doing. Okay. So who's taking the credit card?

Just another employee that's not in miniskirt. Yeah. Not a fluffer. Okay. And the fluffer is there to express their energy. Yeah, that's the nice way they would put it. Sometimes Rachel and Nicole would just be blunt, where they would just tell you, like, get them to think that they're going to fuck you. I think a lot of people would initially believe that it's impossible for so many people to prescribe to some of these beliefs.

Like, can you really convince somebody that they're energetically so contagious that they're the fluffers? It's interesting because if you watch some of these seminars, these conferences held by leaders of one taste, I think they sold it. to the point where even when they would sit on bar stools giving lectures, a lot of them would sit with their legs wide open, wearing a skirt. It's not a mini skirt, so you can't see everything, but you can like, it's an open skirt, almost as if there is like a ray of sunshine just emitting out of their downstairs parts. I genuinely believe people like Rachel believed in this entire concept wholeheartedly.

Interesting. 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. he says that he and his female co-worker 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 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. Hmm, did they say what happened afterwards? Is it just more awkward or did they just... They just moved on. Oh, okay. The warehouse is not for the week.

You 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. They'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 One Taste 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. And 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.

I 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 Ome 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 laundry mat to wash all their bedding and towels, which is a lot of bedding and towels.

But that facility was called brainwash, which was ironic. The laundry mat 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 one taste and for Reese Joan to keep investing money into one taste. So how did egg meet? How did that come about? No one knows how Nicole Daydon 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 She 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

Rees Jones or 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 woman 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. with him 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 going to 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. But 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 Ome. There will be two rounds of Ome, one with one partner, and then you immediately switch with another partner, and then that's your second Ome of the day. Then you do what Nicole calls fear inventory, where you write down your biggest fears and worries,

and 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. 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 of you. This is like the same exact thing, which is wrapped up in journaling. Like that's like wellness journaling. Fear 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. 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. Then another afternoon Ome session followed by teaching the evenings public sessions. So they have their own personal, private ome sessions, and then they teach public sessions.

Or you spend the whole day in the kitchen just in this giant vat, like the 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. They'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 going to do.

We're going to handcuff you together for an entire week. And 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, you'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. just 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 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. And 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. 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. I was sorting through Nicole's videos. There's so many videos. Her blog posts, 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 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 Ome 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? And if all these members turned employees now work for Ome, 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 will steal the food.

Yeah, but they wouldn't steal all the food, but they would steal a good chunk. And 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.

Interestingly, 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 bedbugs 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 going to move out until the bed bug situation is fixed. And then I'm going to 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 bedbugs 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. The leader comes late, leaves early. They can

not 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 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. Keep 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 where 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? But 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. Women would leave. There would be no reason for women to stay. And so there could be potential legal implication.

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. They 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 BJ basically. Yeah, so they go from selling courses on OM and being a master stroker. And now they're like, okay, well, we should cater more to like men who are like going to buy these courses for their wives and their girlfriends. So we should sell courses. Yeah, on like hey, buy this one for your girlfriend. Yeah. How much are they selling this? for like thousands of dollars they start false 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 North Strum for I think $200 million.

She becomes like an executive. It's like one of those personal stylist subscription boxes for clothing. She sells her entire business to Nordstrom for $200 something million. And she joins one taste as an executive. And she apparently has this video where she's like just sing 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. Oh, wow. Wow. Nicole also has a whole section dedicated in her book for this, where she even lists out how to prepare for such s-thing-the-d activities, starting with part one, the preparation.

Look 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 Wente says he was so uninspired at his software job and he was feeling really suffocated because he has a young son. He'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 is 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. I 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 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. Like 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. And 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.

Yeah. 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 could. 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. Part 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 messages 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. 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. Women might be through the nexus of power in human physiology, psychology, motivation, and growth. Sexual energy. A woman turns this power on through call. Call is hardwired into the basic biology of our species by evolution and nature, displays its power everywhere. In the animal world, call can provoke males of nearly every sexually reproducing species to fight, sometimes to the death or exile, over females.

They've evolved physical features, cumbersome, antlers. and dears, bright and heavy feathers and birds such as the peacock that give them access to females while making them vulnerable to predators. In our near-cousons gorillas, the ovulation of a female, her call sends a signal drawing the male to her across 200 miles. Research has found that lap dancers earned 81% more tips when they were during ovulation compared to when they were menstruating, whether we are conscious of it or not, whether we want it or not, cyclic changes make the woman more attractive. The power of call is simply a

fact of life. Call is likely the strongest force on the planet. Women move the world by being fully who they are. Women hold true power. It's not because sometimes women can be smart, okay? Or we're competent people. It'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 Ome 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 Ome. 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 she would apparently call them. And side note, none of the members, even if they're working 80 to 100 hours at One Taste, they're not getting paid. A ton of members spent like $100,000 on One Taste 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 100 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. They'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. She 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 her 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? I'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, 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. No, 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 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 at one of those lectures, you're the one being owned. And Nicole goes, see, did you hear that everyone? We hit the bottom. That's the bottom desire. And the members 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. One 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 and 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? Yeah.

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. She's fulfilled.

Yeah. Nicole claims she made him into a king, aka forced lower-ranking women to have intimate relations with him. Okay, well, I guess force is a very strong legal word, but rather persuaded a lot of lower-ranking women to have intimate relations with him. She 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 man-servant, 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 own energy and young people. And if you're uncomfortable being with someone 30 years older than you, the same age as your dad, or oming 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 OM energy that rubs off on young people. And it's about learning how to get off on any stroke, right? Can you find Ome 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 and to help wealthy rich people achieve them 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. What 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 omes and you're sleep deprived. Like 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 home. And so when you're doing like five, 10 oms 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. People would ponder who's going home to visit their family members and they would be encouraged to keep their trips 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 Delvey. There's just a lot going on. The legal process is like a whole story of itself. So with that being said, I will see you in the next one. Stay safe.