Danny Gold & Sean Williams - Mafias & Organized Crime
Episdoe 34: From the Burmese mafia to Nigeria's Black Axe, journalists and hosts of The Underworld Podcast Danny Gold and Sean Williams compare the world's mafias, cults, and organized crime groups. T...
9 Juni 20211h 1min
Taylor Brown - Tech CEOs
Episode 32: Charisma. Grand Ideas. Unchecked narcissism. What's stopping the world's tech CEOs from becoming our new 21st century cult leaders? Former corporate executive Taylor Brown joins Lola & Mea...
26 Maj 20211h 3min
Dianne Lake - The Manson Family, Part 2: The Tate-LaBianca Murders
Episode 31: Lola and Meagan dive deeper with Dianne Lake, aka “Snake,” the youngest member of the Manson family, and her co-author Deborah Herman. They discuss the LSD-fueled lifestyle on Spahn Ranch,...
19 Maj 20211h 9min
Dianne Lake – The Manson Family, Part 1: Meeting Charlie
Episode 30: You’re a teenage girl in the late 60s, bouncing between communes, when a charismatic man and his group of young women welcome you with open arms. You were looking for a family, and now you...
12 Maj 20211h 6min
Janja Lalich - Democratic Workers Party and Bounded Choice in Cults
Episode 29: How far would you go for your ideals? Sociologist and author Janja Lalich chats with Lola and Meagan about her time in the 70s as part of a radical Marxist-Leninist group called the Democr...
5 Maj 202153min
Avital Ash - Orthodox Judaism
Episode 28: Traditions! Are they helpful customs that keep us connected to our history? Or can they become too rigid and hinder the personal and intellectual growth of those who observe them? Comedian...
28 Apr 20211h 18min
Anna LeBaron - Ervil LeBaron, the "Mormon Manson"
Episode 27: You've only met your dad twice, but you know he's the prophet. You live in abject poverty, forced into child labor. And you often have to move your entire household in the middle of the ni...
21 Apr 20211h 31min
Kilian Aulenbacher - Church Universal and Triumphant
Episode 26: Kilian Aulenbacher went from a German kid who spoke zero English to harvesting crops and hanging out in bomb shelters on a Montana commune, as a member of the Church Universal and Triumpha...
14 Apr 20211h 4min
