Society & Culture Episodes
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Aug. 1, 2023
S5E6 - The Hams & Their Eggs (the LA Breakfast Club)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- FVNEM? FVNEX? Kayla and Chris get up at the crack of dawn to try and solve a cryptogram from 1925. --- *Search Categories* Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler*...
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July 4, 2023
S5E5 - The Collective's Legacy (Objectivism's reception & effects)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. - Theodor Adorno Chris tries to land this Ayn Rand plane in an objectively satisfying...
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June 20, 2023
S5E4 - The Collective's Architect (Ayn Rand's life)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Who is Ayn Rand? Chris and Kayla try to answer this ocean of a question, exploring the many rivers and tributaries that feed it. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Common...
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June 6, 2023
S5E3 - The Collective's Dogma (Objectivist beliefs)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- I am evolving and it’s so damn beautiful. -Anonymous Chris ponders the philosophical orb with Kayla, and finally comes out as a cultist himself. Objectively speaking. ---...
2
May 9, 2023
S5E2 - The Ecstatics & their DJ (Ecstatic Dance)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- The body says what words cannot. --Martha Graham Kayla and Chris explore the roots of human bonding...set to music. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; New Religious...
Guest: Dr. Rupert Till
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Nov. 29, 2022
S4E18 - The Heavy Weight (Fat Liberation & Acceptance)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” -Audre Lorde Kayla & Chris have a healing...
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Nov. 1, 2022
S4E16 - The Fandom (Furries & Fur Science)
Cult or Just Weird
Guest: Dr. Courtney Plante
10
Aug. 23, 2022
S4E11 - The Antidote (suicidality & Teal Swan)
“Human connection is the suicide killer." Chris and Kayla revisit a former topic that's reared its head in mainstream culture again to talk about why this person continues to amass power...and what the other options are. --- *Search Categories* New...
Guest: Dr. Catherine Griffith
10
Aug. 9, 2022
S4E10 - I Didn't Know it Was Wrong[tm]! (how abusers react to accountability)
Cult or Just Weird
5
May 31, 2022
S4E5 - The Banking Dynasty (The Rothschild Family)
Cult or Just Weird
Guest: Mike Rothschild
1
April 5, 2022
S4E1 - The Informed Public (Mike Caulfield interview on info literacy)
Cult or Just Weird
Guest: Mike Caulfield
19
Dec. 14, 2021
S3E19 - The Old New Religious Movement (The Amish)
Cult or Just Weird
Guest: Lizzie Hershberger