Cults are good business. Brian Haggles over his number 5 pick. Cults as a replacement for family. Categories vs examples within a category. Is Jimmy Carter still alive? The tush push. Why don't they have trash cans in Tokyo?

13 - Top 5 Cults

We Just Watched... Inherent Vice

In observance of Cult Awareness Day, this episode focuses on life inside a cult, and then leaving and start life over. 

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Understanding the World of Cults

On the show next time, it's the warm dreamy grooves of New York band Cults .  It's one of-a-kind sessions from your favorite artists, and from a few, you're about to discover.  From our studios in Seattle it’s Live on KEXP.

Live On KEXP, Episode 463 - Cults (Promo)

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Library Of Babel" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the interpretation by denizens of the library explaining the books and the universe.  A number of different sects and cults arise, some of which are successfully stamped out by the authorities, at least in some portions of the library

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Library Of Babel - Cults And Interpretations Of Books

Despite the holiday, workers never stop, so labor news doesn't either! After several stories of the agonizingly slow wheels of "justice" for workers in the legal system in our Headlines, we dive into our main stories. First we check in on the teachers of Beverly and Marblehead, MA, where new contracts have finally been ratified. Next we check in on the surge of organizing by the Teamsters at Amazon locations all over the country. Healthcare workers continue to unionize in big numbers, and not just nurses, we've got three stories this week of doctors unionizing. Shen Yun, everyone's least favorite billboard, have been SHOCKINGLY revealed to be using some extremely sketchy child labor practices. Finally, we check in with the ongoing strike by Canada Post workers, and some international solidarity.

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Ep 236 - Dr. Union

On the show this time, it's the warm dreamy grooves of New York band Cults. Their latest album is called “To The Ghosts” available on Imperial Records.


Live On KEXP, Episode 463 - Cults

"The Colins" discuss serial killers, last meals/words, conspiracy theories (such as Sad Satan and the Phantom Time Hypothesis), gorillas in cinema, cryptids, Six Feet Under, Napoleon, and the symbolism of color.

Interfaith Interludes: E5 (The Phantom Earthbooth)

All songs recorded during my third round of Chemotherapy. All songs were recorded in a hospital room with a midi keyboard , laptop microphone and singing into a pillow to not disturb the other patients.  Themes vary depending on the mood of the day. Enjoy. 

History of the World

always forever demo - cults ~ slowed/pitched down

Rho Ophiuchi Composite (Chandra/Webb composite)
This is a composite image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope. Pictured is Rho Ophiuchi, at a distance of about 390 light-years from Earth. Rho Ophiuchi is a cloud complex filled with gas and stars of different sizes and ages. Being one of the closest star-forming regions, Rho Ophiuchi is a great place for astronomers to study young stars. In this image, X-rays from Chandra are purple and reveal the hot, outer atmospheres of infant stars. Infrared data from Webb's NIRCam is red, yellow, cyan, light blue, and darker blue and provides views of the spectacular regions of gas and dust.


a l w a y s  f o r e v e r  d e m o  -  c u l t s . slowed/pitched down

The one where Mulder cruises the dark web.

Fox Mulder Is A Maniac - S11E09 - "Nothing Lasts Forever"

Marcmoon sings about our current global mental state  

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An investigation of the New Age movement in America that aims to understand its appeal to women and the self-proclaimed prophetesses, like Love Has Won's Amy Carlson, who've created kingdoms for themselves within it.
 

Known for deep dives into true crime, extremist ideologies and fringe subcultures, journalist Leah Sottile turns her investigative eye toward American New Age culture. Today, tarot cards, astrology and crystals are everywhere — from Instagram and TikTok, to upscale boutiques and pricey wellness retreats. Sottile investigates how the recent surge of interest in New Age ideas speaks to a culture that is woven into the very fabric of America, and how self-professed gurus like Love Has Won's Mother God and the mysterious channeler Ramtha have built devout followings because of it. For more than a century, this pastel-colored world of love, light and enlightenment has been built upon a foundation of conspiracies, antisemitism, nationalism and a rejection of science.  


In BLAZING EYE SEES ALL, Sottile seeks to understand the quest for New Age spirituality in an era of fear that has made us open to anything that claims to bring relief — from war, the climate crisis, COVID 19, or the myriad of other issues we face. At the same time, she attempts to draw a line between truly helpful, healing ideas and snake oil. The new New Age is everywhere, and Sottile helps us sort through the crystals to find true clarity.

Blazing Eye Sees All By Leah Sottile (Audiobook Excerpt)

Bestselling YA author Melinda Salisbury exposes the dark underbelly of new technologies in this gripping thriller. 

 When keen gamer Ivy Finch is sent to the Ash Tree Foundation after an online encounter turns dangerous, all she can think about is getting through the internet-safety course her parents have signed her up for and going back to her life. Until she meets Conrad O'Connell, famous influencer and nephew of the Ash Tree Foundation's founder Dagmar Nilsson.

Conrad showers Ivy with attention and she soon finds herself drawn into his world and his work with his aunt. But Conrad isn’t telling Ivy the whole truth about the Foundation’s purpose, and Ivy is exactly what he, and the Foundation, have been looking for…

Particularly suitable for readers aged 11+ with a reading age of 8.

The Foundation: will always welcome you, By Melinda Salisbury, Cover design by Holly Ovenden, Read by Lily Anne Lefkow

Is your church just a church… or something more? 👀 In this episode, Nate and Pastor Joseph continue their deep dive into cults—how they operate, why people assume all churches are cults, and the warning signs that even well-meaning pastors can slip into cult-like behavior.

🔥 Questions we’re tackling:
🔹 Are Christian cults more of a problem today than in the past?
🔹 Has Pastor Joseph ever done something cult-like? (Be honest, Pastor.)
🔹 What makes people think all churches are cults?
🔹 What would Pastor Joseph say to someone in a cult—or someone who left the church because of cult-like behavior?

If you’ve ever side-eyed a megachurch, questioned spiritual authority, or just want to know where the line is between faithful leadership and straight-up manipulation, this one’s for you. Expect bold conversations, sarcastic banter, and maybe even some self-reflection.

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Episode 125 - Cults: Part Five

Episode 62: The University of Cosmic Intelligence

Sam tells Jon the wild story of an afrocenterist instagram cult with a host of crimes attached to its name. 

We talk 'Magna Carta or bust!', our new 'cult website review scale' and then suddenly drop the jokes as some of the terrible crimes are revealed. 

Also: why you shouldn't look directly into the camera, low quality inns and Ash does some very on brand barking. 

CW: child abuse, violence and murder

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Episode 62: The University of Cosmic Intelligence

GILDED LILY (RVBI REMIX) ------------------CULTS---------------HOUSE REMIX

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What happens when a comedian asks a pastor whatever he wants?? 😮

In the "When I Heard This" podcast, comedian Nate Robinsoff asks Pastor Joseph Tillman, M.Div. whatever questions he can think of about church in America, the Bible, Christianity, cults, sex, and well really anything! He doesn't hold much back 🤣.

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