Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- You're not dead til you're warm and dead. Chris & Kayla finish their cryonics facility visit with the help of a VIP "tour guide." --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Cryonics --- Further Reading https://www.alcor.or…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- I am the mediocre architect of my afterlife. - Glen Nesbitt Chris & Kayla take a tour of the very cool place they were headed to last episode. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Cryonics --- Further Reading https:/…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- If a man die, shall he live again? - Book of Job 14:14 Chris and Kayla hotfoot it to a cold storage facility. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Cryonics --- Further Reading https://www.alcor.org/ https://en.wikipe…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Chris & Kayla recap the experience of experiencing things for Season 5 of Cult or Just Weird. (previously published on CoJW's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/season-5-bonus-95443966) --- *Patreon Credits* Michaela Evans, Heather Aunspach, Alyssa Ottum, David Whitesi…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. -Albert Camus Chris and Kayla contemplate that one thing that joins us all. --- *Search Categories* Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Death Cafes --- *Further Reading* …

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself. -Plato Chris and Kayla attend class at another small local group... whose presence & influence is worldwide & ubiquitous. --- *Search Categories* New Religious Movement; New Age​ --- *Topic Spoiler* Theosophy --- *Further Rea…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible." -David Brin Chris and Kayla explore the nature of power and learn some shocking stories about the group du jour in this part two. --- *Search Categories* New Religious Moveme…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces." - Martha Graham Chris and Kayla go to a restaurant. Kind of. Don't worry, we'll repeat ourselves. --- *Search Categories* New Religious Movement; Anthropological --- *Topic Spoiler* The Hare Krishnas / ISKCON --- *F…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- It's hard to detect good luck--it looks so much like something you've earned. - Frank A. Clark Chris and Kayla visit a liquor store to try and resurrect the American dream. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Destructive --- *Topic Spoiler* The American State-run Lott…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- 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* The Los Angeles Breakfast Club --- *Further Reading* https://twitter.com/labreakfastclub https://www.labr…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- 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 manner. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler*…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- 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 interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Objectivism & Ayn Rand --- *Further Reading* https://en.wi…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- 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. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Objectivism & Ayn Ra…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- 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 Movement; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Ecstatic Dance --- *Further Reading* Professor …

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Experience is the teacher of all things. - Julius Caesar Kayla and Chris kick off Season 5 by going to a cult within a cult... culturducken. --- *Search Categories* New Age; New Religious Movement --- *Topic Spoiler* The Source Family --- *Further Reading* http://martinost…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur C. Clarke Kayla and Chris end the season on a topic with a twist unlike many others covered on this show. --- *Search Categories* New Age; New Religious Moveme…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.'" - Randall Munroe Keep an eye on this one- Chris talks to Kayla about a particular type of therapy that has been gaining in popularity…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "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 conversation about a topic that weighs heavily on all of us. --- *Search Categories* Destructive; Science / Pseu…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed- or erased by some exceptionalist point of view. -Ari Aster Chris & Kayla mix things up a bit by analyzing a cult that doesn't even exist. --- *Search Categories* Internet Culture; Common interest/Fandom; Anthr…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. -Dean Ornish Kayla & Chris explore a much-maligned fandom on the internet, and learn a little bit about themselves and humanity along the way. --- *Search Categories* Inte…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. - Russell Lynes Chris & Kayla partake of an ancient (relatively speaking) autumnal ritual. --- *Search Categories* Business; Internet Culture; Common interest/Fandom --- *Topi…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- All is Number. Chris helps Kayla square her understanding of a well known but little understood historical character. --- *Search Categories* New Religious Movement; Science/Pseudoscience; Anthropological --- *Topic Spoiler* Pythagoreanism --- *Further Reading* https://en.…

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible." -Howard Schultz Grab your favorite iced, sugary, coffee-adjacent beverage, because Kayla and Chris have an episode brewing, featuring a conversation with some…

"Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things." - Vernor Vinge Kayla and Chris tell another side of the classic MLM story - the downfall. And we've got a special interview here to give us all the dirt. --- *Search Categories* MLM; Internet culture; Business; Science/Pseudoscience; Alt Medicine/Wellness --- *Topic Spoiler* Black Oxygen Or…

“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 Age; Internet culture --- *Topic Spoiler* Teal Swan and suicidality --- *Further Reading* Emmengard s…