Podcast Episodes

Bonus Sample: Project 2025 on Worker's "Rights"

Project 2025's plan for workers is clear: crush unions, eliminate minority protections, curtail reproductive health care benefits, and make the workp…

1 year, 7 months ago

Brief: Cult of the Lamb Anti-Cult School? (w/Riley MacLeod)

We cover conspiracy theories, spiritual abuse, and religious and right-wing extremism. We cover showmen and charismatics suffering from King Victim C…

1 year, 8 months ago

215: Divinely Protected

Two landmark Supreme Court decisions—the Trump immunity case and the overturning of the Chevron doctrine—represent the legal institutionalization of …

1 year, 8 months ago

Bonus Sample: Project 2025's Plan: Let It Burn

Project 2025's approach to environmental issues is pretty straightforward: deny climate science, dismantle the EPA, clear a path that prioritizes cor…

1 year, 8 months ago

Brief: Project 2025’s “Bloodless” Coup

While speaking on Steve Bannon’s podcast, The War Room, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts recently stated, “We are in the process of the se…

1 year, 8 months ago

214: Aubrey Marcus is Totally Not a Cult Leader

Today we’re looking at a lavish infomercial put out by New Age oligarch and RFK Jr superfan Aubrey Marcus, in which he tries to show the world that h…

1 year, 8 months ago

Bonus Sample: You Can’t Do Religion on the Internet

Back in 2011, Ward and Voas wrote that conspirituality was a mainly-online movement, and they were right about that. They didn’t do fieldwork at even…

1 year, 8 months ago

Brief: The Freebirth to Born-Again Pipeline

The stress of influencing in the New Age / alt-med world is rough. You have to pretend to know everything, from vaccine science to the origins of aut…

1 year, 8 months ago

213: Yoga for Gaza, Yoga for Israel

Can yoga bring hostages home? No. Can yoga stop a genocide? Also no. But this won’t stop earnest practitioners from instrumentalizing practice for bo…

1 year, 8 months ago

Bonus Sample: The Prophet & the Electrical Storm

What does it really mean to be a prophet, found a religion, and persuade millions of people that god speaks directly to you? 

And what does this god t…

1 year, 8 months ago