Conspiracy Month: Morbid - Elisa Lam, False Accusations, & the Dangers of Web Sleuthing
Metal musician and filmmaker Pablo "Morbid" Vergara, who appeared in the Netflix docuseries "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel," shares what drew him to metal music and its horror-centric ...
28 Dec 20221h 1min
Conspiracy Month: Aja Romano & The Satanic Panic
Don't panic! Writer Aja Romano shares how they became interested in the history of the Satanic Panic in the US, how it ramped up in the 60s and 70s, the societal impact of horror films like The Exorci...
21 Dec 20221h 11min
Conspiracy Month: Mikey Biddlestone - What Makes Conspiracy Theorists Double Down
Lola and Meagan chat with Mikey Biddlestone, post-doc researcher at the Cambridge social decision making lab whose focus is on conspiracy beliefs, misinformation, and political psychology. They'll dig...
14 Dec 20221h
Conspiracy Month: Lisa Fazio - Why Fake News Feels Real
It's Conspiracy Month! In our first episode of the series, Lisa Fazio, Associate Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, discusses how we come to believe falsehoods, why none of us are exper...
7 Dec 202251min
Josh Lobo - What Happens When You Troll a Cult
Filmmaker and Lola's pal Josh Lobo shares his experiences as a teenager dealing with a militant small-town religious group in Wyoming. He'll discuss how trolling the group on Facebook led to them seek...
30 Nov 20221h 4min
Jan Broberg, Part 2: Seduction, Secrecy, and Realizing the Lie
Jan Broberg, kidnapping survivor and subject of the Peacock documentary Friend of the Family: True Evil (plus scripted series Friend of the Family), describes how Robert Berchtold seduced Jan's mom to...
23 Nov 202247min
Jan Broberg, Part 1: Family Grooming, Aliens, and the First Kidnapping
Jan Broberg, kidnapping survivor and subject of the Peacock documentary Friend of the Family: True Evil (plus scripted series Friend of the Family), shares her story of how a man from church befriende...
16 Nov 202254min
Trust Me 100!
Lola and Meagan celebrate their 100th episode by looking back at some of their most awe-inspiring, informative, and touching moments from their interviews with former Moonie Steve Hassan, NXIVM surviv...
9 Nov 20221h 8min
