Love Has Won: Andrew-Ryan Profaci on His Time with Mother God (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our conversation with Andrew-Ryan Profaci, we pick up right where things get extra bananas: the “quantum hoax,” the moment he pulled back the curtain on Love Has Won’s manufactured enemie...
18 Dec 202532min
Love Has Won: Andrew-Ryan Profaci on His Time with Mother God (Part 1)
This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. In the first of this two-part episode, we finally go inside Love Has Won with someone who was actually there, and who tried to stop it from the inside out. We ...
15 Dec 202545min
Amanda Montell: Cultish and Coded Language, Revisited (Part 2)
Amanda Montell returns for round two, diving into what she's learned since Cultish dropped: Instagram comment wars as tribal battlegrounds, "platforming" as a thought-terminating cliché, and why under...
11 Dec 202535min
Amanda Montell: Cultish and Coded Language, Revisited (Part 1)
Amanda Montell—author, linguist, and our reigning three-time champion guest—returns in studio to talk about the newly released paperback edition of Cultish, the book that launched a thousand cult-disc...
8 Dec 202535min
A Little Bit Extra: Post-Thanksgiving Word Salad and Listener Voicemails
We’re back for A Little Bit Extra Thursday filled with Thanksgiving word salads and gallows humor. We chat about the last few truly bonkers weeks, share a long-awaited update on the book (spoiler: it’...
4 Dec 202527min
Anthia Gillick on OneTaste: Strokes, Sex, and Shame
When does sexual empowerment cross the line into cult control? Following Ellen Huet’s OneTaste expose, we sat with Anthia Gillick—former OneTaste “insider,” survivor, and truth-teller—for a deep dive ...
1 Dec 202554min
Real Housewife and Bad Mormon: Heather Gay on Surviving Mormonism (Part 2)
We’re back with the second half of our conversation with the unstoppable Heather Gay: housewife, truth-teller, and newly minted slayer of Mormon silence. Heather gets real (and really funny) about wha...
27 Nov 202539min
Real Housewife and Bad Mormon: Heather Gay on Surviving Mormonism (Part 1)
Heather Gay, Real Housewife, “Bad Mormon,” and faith deconstruction trailblazer, joined us to talk about her journey from devout church girl to outspoken survivor. She shares what made Mormonism so ma...
24 Nov 202538min
