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Pod Only Knows#051 – Acute Religious Experiences - with Richard Saville-Smith
This week, Richard Saville-Smith joins Kelly and John to talk about his book Acute Religious Experiences – Madness, Psychosis, and Religious Studies, which was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.
Saville-Smith is an independent researcher who focuses on the intersection of madness, mental disorders, and acute religious experiences, from a mad studies perspective. He earned his PhD in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2020.
They discuss the relatively little-known academic field of mad studies - which seeks to destigmatize and depathologize the concept of madness - and how the fields of psychiatry an...2025-06-1059 min
Pod Only Knows#050 - Severance - The Church of Keir
Apple TV's Severance wrapped its long-awaited 2nd season recently and left us with more answers than questions.
But some answers! We (sorta) know what Severance is really all about, and we (sorta, maybe) know what Lumon is up to now!
So while we wait the ungodly eternity for Severance to return, John and Kelly invited scholar Niki Dolfi on to talk about the cults, religious allusions, identity, and goats.
Niki Dolfi researches Christian Nationalism and white supremacy (among other things) and explores the intersection of religion and popular entertainment. She enjoys Brit...2025-05-281h 14
Pod Only Knows#049 – Our Pope Watch Has Ended
Last week, the Catholic Church absolutely shook the world by electing Robert Prevost - an Augustinian from Chicago - Pope Leo XIV, making him the first ever American pope.
Immediately, MAGA lost their collective minds, calling Leo XIV a woke Marxist and an anti-Trump liberal.
Leo XIV's election was, without question, a statement by the Church directed squarely at MAGA and Donald Trump, but so many questions remain about what happens next.
Kelly and John share their thoughts about the selection of Prevost, what it means that he chose the name...2025-05-131h 06
Pod Only Knows#048 – Annika BrockschmidtThis week, author and journalist Annika Brockschmidt joins John to talk about the perception of the American Christian Right in Europe, the possibly intentional downplaying of Christian Nationalism in Trump 2.0, and Pete Hegseth's tattoos.
Annika Brockschmidt studied History, German Studies, and War and Conflict Studies in Heidelberg, Durham and Potsdam. She is a freelance journalist and author, Worked for the capital city studio of German public-broadcaster ZDF and produces the podcasts “Kreuz und Flagge” And “Feminist Shelf Control”.
She is senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches and writes for example for German daily newspaper Tagesspiegel, German online magaz...2025-04-291h 01
Pod Only Knows#047 – Rethinking "Lord of the Flies" in the age of MAGAWilliam Golding's 1952 novel Lord of the Flies is one of those books most of us of a certain age were forced to read in high school and pretty much universally hated.Often presented as a bleak meditation on human nature, Lord of the Flies certainly isn't that. But why were its real themes - the destructive nature of colonialism, the inconsistency between the ideals of democratic nations and their actual values, and how and why fascists tend to rise the top - so routinely overlooked for so long?Here, we suggest it's because Lord of the...2025-04-151h 01
Pod Only Knows#046 – The MAGA Attack on Higher EducationHigher education is under attack in a way few saw coming.Maybe they should have, and maybe that's part of the problem.Institutions of higher education have been a laser target of the Trump administration's authoritarian project in its first two months. And while authoritarians have long prioritized going after and dismantling academic institutes, this strategy also includes the cynical use of major wedge issues (namely Israel/Palestine) and the manipulation of emotionally-charged, religiously-oriented terminology like "antisemitism"There is, as they say, a lot going on here, and we can't get to it...2025-04-0157 min
Pod Only Knows#045 – Roko's Basilisk, Pope Watch 2025, and Paula WhiteBefore you listen to today's episode, you should know that knowing about Roko's Basilisk can doom you forever.Still here? Great.This week, John and Kelly explore a few of the religion stories that have surfaced in recent weeks, including what happens and if when Pope Francis dies soon, and the evangelical backlash of Trump appointing Paula White as the White House Faith officer. Then, we take on Roko's Basilisk, an unhinged thought experiment about the moral imperative of helping to develop super-intelligent A.I. that, as it happens, also helps explain Elon M...2025-03-0456 min
Pod Only Knows(Edited Reissue) #024 - Simulation Theory, or Young Earth Creationism for AtheistsWe recorded this about a year ago, for the 25th anniversary of the release of THE MATRIX.But since Elon Musk now controls the country, we're republishing an edited-down version because it's important to know how Musk thinks.Next episode, we'll be talking about a number of the other beliefs that shape Musk's worldview, among them Roko's Basilisk, so this episode is good preparation for that conversation.************************************************************************************In 2003, Oxford University philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper titled Are Y...2025-02-2747 minPod Only KnowsChris Kluwe - On standing up for others, being a nerd, and his first science fiction novel "Otaku"This is a republished episode from John's former podcast Hard to Believe featuring an interview with Chris KluweIn light Kluwe making national news with his recent act of anti-MAGA civil disobedience, we decided to republish an interview John conducted with Kluwe in 2021, in which he describes, among other things, how he came to be an activist and advocate for justice causes.Here is the original descriptions of that episode:********************************************************************Chris Kluwe was an accomplished NFL punter with the Minnesota Vikings. Then...2025-02-211h 01
Pod Only Knows#044 – The Lord of the Right: Tolkien, Fascism, and Race - with Marika RoseWhat's the deal with the far-right's obsession with Tolkien?Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is, ostensibly, a story of different races coming together to defeat a shared enemy - one that intends to shroud the world in darkness and despair.Or...is it?If you ask billionaire fascist Peter Thiel - whose surveillance company Palantir is named for an evil crystal ball in Lord of the Rings - the answer isn't so simple. Nor is it for self-proclaimed "Tolkien guy" and Thiel protege JD Vance.Is the fascism-leaning right-wing and the Tra...2025-02-181h 10
Pod Only Knows#043 – The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover with Lerone A. MartinThis week, Kelly and John are joined by Lerone A. Martin to discuss his unfortunately timely and prescient book, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.Martin is the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor in Religious Studies, African & African American Studies, and The Nina C. Crocker Faculty Scholar. He also serves as the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.He's is an award-winning author. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover was published in February 2023 by P...2025-02-041h 01
Pod Only Knows#042 – Jason Kirk on "Hell Is A World Without You"Writer and journalist Jason Kirk's debut novel, Hell is a World Without You, was released in December of 2023 to wide acclaim.Hell is a World Without You tells the story of Isaac Siena, an Evangelical teenager living in Pennsylvania at the turn of the millennium who struggles with the dual-challenges of adolescence and his faith. The novel is drawn from elements of Kirk's own life and is set against the backdrop of an America in the wake of Y2K and on the verge of 9/11.Kirk is a senior editor for The Athletic and cohosts th...2025-01-211h 10
Pod Only Knows#041 – A Load of Comstock - The life and times of Anthony ComstockAnthony Comstock might be the most significant American that it's entirely possible you've never heard of. A zealous Christian crusader against so-called "obscenity" in the late 19th century, he is the namesake of the Comstock Act, the interstate commerce law that the Heritage Foundation plans to use to curb access to abortion pills and pornography.Born in Connecticut in the mid-1800s, Anthony Comstock grew up with regressive Victorian ideals in a puritanical New England household. His self-loathing and religious zeal lead to a life of bullying and persecuting countless men and (more often) women, driving many...2025-01-071h 22
Pod Only Knows#040 – Did Dickens "Invent" Christmas? - with Kristen Hanley CardozoThe 2017 film The Man Who Invented Christmas, starring human treasure Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, is a lovely bit of an anachronistic historical revisionism (though, to be fair, it gets a number of things right both in fact and in, pardon the pun, spirit). But it also perpetuates an increasingly popular myth - that Charles Dickens...well...invented Christmas. At least, that is, Christmas as we think of it today.There are a lot of reasons why this seems true, and, yes, Dicken's A Christmas Carol played an enormous role in a Victorian revival and redefining of Chr...2024-12-241h 07
Pod Only KnowsRERELEASE (12/19/23) Ghosts of Christmas Past - with Sara Cleto and Brittany WarmanKelly is away, so our next new episode will be released in two weeks.This is a rerelease of an episode originally published on December 19th, 2023.But Scrooge was all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.So Charles Dickens described...2024-12-1055 min
Pod Only KnowsRERELEASE (11/21/23) - Unraveling the Thanksgiving Myth - with Dr. David J. Silverman(Rerelease from 2023)What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than to have Kelly and John ruin it for you?Just kidding! We're not here to cancel Thanksgiving and we hope you have a lovely one.But holidays are weird things - we often celebrate them without really examining why, or how we arrived at the myths and rituals that emanate from their core.And Thanksgiving is, in many ways, our strangest holiday - a secular celebration that is at once also an aggressively religious one, built around a series...2024-11-281h 25
Pod Only Knows#039 – Breath of Fire: Conspirituality, Fraud, and the Prosperity DharmaDirected by first time documentary directors Haley Pappas and Smiley Stevens, Breath of Fire was released on MAX in October as a four-part documentary series.Breath of Fire is based on the 2021 Vanity Fair piece The Second Coming of Guru Jagat by Hayley Phelan, who also appears in and executive produced the series.It tells the story of Kundalini yoga practitioner turned de facto cult leader/professional grifter Katie Griggs, known to her followers as Guru Jagat. Throughout its four hours, Breath of Fire touches on some recurring themes and questions, such as the power of...2024-11-261h 08
Pod Only Knows#038 – Welp...what now? - with Andrew TobolowskyWe'll just cut to the chase - this week sucked and the next four years are going to be very dark and very difficult.But we're not here just to rage and doomcast. This Kelly and John were joined by fellow religion scholar Andrew Tobolowsky to try to provide some perspective on what's ahead, what the fight is going to be, the role Project 2025 will and won't play, and why the more likely challenge will be living through a chaotic nightmare as opposed to a Christian Nationalist dystopia.Andrew is on BlueSky at @andytobo.bsky...2024-11-111h 10
Pod Only Knows#037 – What really happened at Salem - with Kathleen M. BrownThe Salem Witch Trials may well be the single most notorious and iconic event of America's colonial period. Every Halloween, Salem, Massachusetts, hosts untold thousands of tourists who revel in the city's occult history and reputation as America's haunted capital of spookiness.But as well-known as the Salem Witch Trials are, they remain a hotbed of historical inaccuracy and misconception.So what exactly happened? How did a sleepy, growing Massachusetts town become the epicenter of witch hysteria? Did everyone go insane, or were the Salem Witch Trials perfectly consistent with the worldview of Salem's citizens.2024-10-291h 06
Pod Only Knows#036 – HELL HOUSE (2001) - with Jason BivinsGeorge Ratliff's 2001 documentary Hell House chronicles the development of the 10th annual Hell House Halloween production put on by Trinity Church in Texas.A Hell House is a variation on the Halloween haunted house tradition, in which actors play out horror movie scenarios as guests move room to room to be frightened out of their minds. But Hell Houses are, instead, tools of Christian indoctrination and recruitment, taking visitors through scenes of horror that led people to hell, like abortion, suicide, or being other than heterosexual.Ratliff's film captures a pretty specific moment in the E...2024-10-171h 12
Pod Only Knows#035 – Sarah Posner - Humor vs. Rage and The Ohio Blood Libel"They're eating the dogs" is already enshrined as one of the most memorable and iconic (and insane) phrases ever to enter the arena of American politics.Donald Trump is a ridiculous, unserious, and increasingly gullible person, and his amplifying of a fake story of Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets in front an audience of tens of millions is a new low even for him."They're eating the dogs" has been memed and remixed to death already, sometimes to hilarious effect. And plenty of experts on the authoritarianism highlight the need to...2024-10-011h 05
Pod Only Knows#034 – Thomas Lecaque - Why the right can't stop loving the Crusades (and other losers)This week, in part inspired by the anniversary of 9/11, Kelly and John invited Thomas Lecaque on the show to talk about the ways the Christian right frame the Crusades and other violent failures to justify their own acts of political and religious violence.Thomas Lecaque is an associate professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. He specializes in the nexus of apocalyptic religion and political violence. He has written for the Washington Post, Religion Dispatches, Foreign Policy and The Bulwark, among others. He has recently turned his attention to colonial America, examining the...2024-09-171h 07
Pod Only Knows#033 – “Jesus Camp” (2006) with Megan GoodwinJesus Camp was 2006's other big documentary, nominated for the Academy Award for documentary feature but losing out to a little film called An Inconvenient Truth.Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (and timed, coincidentally, to the appointment of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court) it mainly follows three young evangelical Christians as they prepare to attend the Kids On Fire summer camp, run by a youth pastor named Becky Fischer.Largely through interviews with Fischer and the children, Ewing and Grady paint a picture of an emerging movement to indoctrinate young people in ord...2024-09-031h 16
Pod Only Knows#032 - Stockholm Syndrome: The Story of a Dumb IdeaStockholm Syndrome is a really good MUSE song. Unfortunately, it's not a good anything else.0On a recent episode of television's worst show, The Five on Fox News, panelist Jessica Tarlov, herself Jewish, asked her fellow panelist Greg Gutfeld why Jews tend to be Democrat and not Republican. His answer? Stockholm syndrome.Most people could probably give a decent summary of what Stockholm syndrome supposedly is - the phenomenon of a hostage coming sympathize and even identify with their captor - but few of them would be able to accurately recount the story that gave ri...2024-08-1350 min
Pod Only Knows#031 - Project 2025 (and why you should really, really care about it)Project 2025 has (finally) become an enormous national news story.But while its goals (which go after everything from contraception to the Department of Education) have rightly been in the spotlight, it's also important to understand that, far from being the fantasy wish list of a group of fringe conservatives, it is in fact a project of a major think tank, decades in the making.It comes out of the Heritage Foundation, an organization founded by anti-democratic far-right Christian nationalist Paul Weyrich and currently run by the like-minded Kevin Roberts...whose upcoming book has a forward...2024-07-301h 04
Pod Only Knows#030 - "Marjoe" (1972) with Megan GoodwinThe 1972 film Marjoe won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. And then it spent a long time having largely been forgotten until it was restored and rereleased in 2005.Marjoe is an intimate look at the life of Marjoe Gortner, who rose to fame in the charismatic evangelical revival world as the world's youngest preacher until he was ultimately unmasked as a fraud, trained (often through torture) to deliver sermons with fake piety while fleecing untold crowds of true believers.The film starts with Marjoe in his twenties having made a comeback, fully aware he wa...2024-07-161h 00
Pod Only Knows#029 - Thou Shalt Not Violate the 1st AmendmentWell it's been a heck of a week of bad news, and even before the Supreme Court decided the the president was king, Kelly and John decided to look at two news stories likely to play into next year's Supreme Court decisions: Louisiana's new Ten Commandment school mandate and Oklahoma's new requirement to include the Bible in its public school curriculum.On the surface, both of these measures are clearly, explicitly unconstitutional, and both have plenty of precedent to back up their unconstitutionality.But in this episode we argue...2024-07-0255 min
Pod Only Knows#028 - Dr. Matthew Taylor on An Appeal to Heaven, Alito, and the NARWe're back for season two, and we're kicking it off by talking to Dr. Matthew D. Taylor about that weird An Appeal to Heaven flag that got Justice Samuel Alito in so much trouble!Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Muslim-Christian Relations from Georgetown University and an M.A. in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. His book, Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America (Cambridge University Press), offers an introduction to the oft-misunderstood Salafi movement in the U.S. by way of comparison with American Evangelicalism.He is also the creator of...2024-06-181h 12
Pod Only Knows#027 - DeSantis v SatanLast month, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill authorizing Florida school districts and charter schools to adopt a policy for chaplains “to provide support, services, and programs to students"...provided those chaplains aren't Satanists."We're not playing those games in Florida. That is not a religion," DeSantis said of Satanism. "That is not qualifying to be able to participate in this."The thing is, though, Satanism most definitely is a religion, and in the case of The Satanic Temple it is a religion in the eyes of United States tax law.DeSantis may...2024-05-071h 01
Pod Only Knows#026 - Dr. Richard NewtonDr. Richard Newton is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Religious Studies department at the University of AlabamaFrom the University's website:Dr. Newton's areas of interest include theory and method in the study of religion, African American history, the New Testament in Western imagination, American cultural politics, and pedagogy in religious studies. His research explores how people create “scriptures” and how those productions operate in the formation of identities and cultural boundaries.In addition to an array of book chapters and online essays, Dr. Newton has published in the Journal of Bi...2024-04-231h 00
Pod Only Knows#025 - Eclipse Day Special! - featuring journalist Emily McFarlan MillerIt's Eclipse Day, so we're releasing a day early!The solar eclipse that will be visible for much of the United States today had evoked all kinds of reactions, from overbooked hotels in wholly unprepared corners of the country to end times zealots declaring it a warning from God.Eclipses have always been a source of wonder and religious interpretation, and if Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter feed is any indication, there is no sign of that slowing down anytime soon.But do eclipses also have a place among the more level-headed, mainline religious...2024-04-0856 min
Pod Only Knows#024 - Simulation Theory, or Young Earth Creationism for AtheistsIn 2003, Oxford University philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper titled Are You Living in a Computer Simulation, thus giving rise to the modern incarnation of Simulation Theory, which posits that our experienced reality is actually the product of an advanced (possibly future-self) civilization running a simulation experiment.But the paper on might have been written off as a useful thought experiment had it not been for the popularity of the 1999 film The Matrix, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, and its two sequels, which came out the same year as Bostrom's paper.In th...2024-03-2653 min
Pod Only Knows#023 - Sarah PosnerSarah Posner has been covering the Christian right and Christian Nationalism for more than a decade. A regular contributor to MSNBC, her works has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Salon, The Nation, The American Prospect, Al Jazeera America, and many other publications.Posner is the author of 2008's God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters and 2020's Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind.She joined Kelly and John last week, on the eve of the State o...2024-03-1256 min
Pod Only Knows#022 - God's Army with Amanda MooreFor the last couple years, Amanda Moore has spent her time covering the far right on her Substack The Turtle DiariesAmanda infiltrated the far right during the final year of the Trump administration and has written about her experiences in publications like The Nation.She recently went to the Texas border to cover the arrival of "God's Army" - a group of truckers (possibly) who took it upon themselves to defend the border from an "invasion" and maybe possibly kick of the 2nd Civil War (they didn't).Amanda joined Kelly and John...2024-02-271h 00
Pod Only Knows#021 - Dr. Nicole SymmondsThis week, Kelly and John talk to Dr. Nicole Symmonds, who works as an Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics and, it happens, used to work a few cubicles down from John at Beliefnet a decade and a half or so ago.Dr. Symmonds' work sits at the intersection of Christian ethics and women, gender, and sexuality studies. She explores Black women’s embodiment, particularly the practices of liberative embodiment they craft as a method of resistance to domination and as a simulation of freedom.Dr. Symmonds identifies as Black Catholic, a religious tradition that follows th...2024-02-131h 13
Pod Only Knows#020 - Dr. Judith WeisenfeldAs a nice break from all the doom and gloom in the world (and the depressing stuff we often cover), we decided to ask the wonderful Dr. Judith Weisenfeld to come talk to us about her life and work.Judith Weisenfeld is the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Associated Faculty in the Department of African American Studies and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Effron Center for the Study of America.Her research focuses on early twentieth-century African...2024-01-301h 12
Pod Only Knows#019 - The Cult of Peloton?Is Peloton a cult?Well, Kelly owns one, so she is uniquely qualified to answer.In all seriousness, a Google search for terms like "peloton cult" or "fitness cult" yields a lot of results.Fairly or not, the fitness equipment company Peloton has been accused of fostering cult-like behavior in its customers. And the same can be said for branded workout companies like CrossFit and SoulCycle.But why? And is there anything to this?In this episode, Kelly and John ask those very questions, and explore what thinking about f...2024-01-161h 03
Pod Only Knows#018 - David Feltmate - The Simpsons, Religion, and Other Stuff34 years ago, in December of 1989, Fox aired Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, a Simpsons Christmas special, the de facto pilot to the subsequent primetime sitcom, and a cultural phenomenon was born.To people of a certain age, The Simpsons is part of the cultural DNA. And as an animated sitcom, it had unique license to explore elements of American culture that no other series could. And one of those elements was religion.The Simpson family went to church. They lived in a multicultural, multiethnic (but still predominantly white and Christian) community. They exposed aspects of...2024-01-021h 20
Pod Only Knows#017 - Ghosts of Christmas Past - with Sara Cleto and Brittany WarmanBut Scrooge was all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.So Charles Dickens described Ebenezer Scrooge's encounter with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in his beloved 1843 classic A Christmas Carol.And while A Christmas Carol is best known as the endlessly-adapted and reimagined cornerstone of modern Christmas storytelling, it's al...2023-12-191h 11
Pod Only Knows#016 - A Brief History of the War on ChristmasIt's December, which means it's time for everybody's racist uncle's favorite holiday tradition, the War on Christmas.Every year, sure as silver bells chime and lit wreathes line the streets of America's most aggressively white suburbs, Fox News delights eager viewers by trotting out this year's new battlefront narrative: Gay nutcrackers at Target! Insufficiently Christmassy Starbucks cup! Liberals cancelling Rudolph!If you ask Fox News and your least-favorite relatives, there is a War on Christmas...and there always will be.So Kelly and John are here to lay down so facts, starting with...2023-12-0559 min
The Delta FlyersJohn Billingsley - Tissue of LiesThe Delta Flyers is a weekly podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. This week’s episode is an interview with John Billingsley.For more information, or to donate to the Hollywood Food Coalition organization, visit https://hofoco.org/We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeillAnd a special thanks to our Ambassadors, the guests who keep coming back, giving their time and energy into making this podcast better and better with their thoughts, input, and inside knowledge: Lisa Klink, Ma...2023-11-271h 02
Pod Only Knows#015 - Unraveling the Thanksgiving Myth - with Dr. David J. SilvermanWhat better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than to have Kelly and John ruin it for you?Just kidding! We're not here to cancel Thanksgiving and we hope you have a lovely one.But holidays are weird things - we often celebrate them without really examining why, or how we arrived at the myths and rituals that emanate from their core.And Thanksgiving is, in many ways, our strangest holiday - a secular celebration that is at once also an aggressively religious one, built around a series of supposedly historical events that seem to...2023-11-211h 25
1999: The PodcastSTIGMATA: "St. Frankie" - with Kelly BakerStigmata was, impressively, the 49th-highest grossing movie of 1999, finishing just ahead of House on Haunted Hill at 50th (which is upcoming in this round!)It made $50 million domestically and just shy of $90 million worldwide on a $29 million budget.Opening at #1 on September the 10th at over $18 million on a spooky box office weekend that saw The Sixth Sense take second with $16 million and ALSO opening, Stir of Echoes, debuting at $5.8 million in 3rd, the music video of a movie was directed by, appropriately, a music video director named Rupert Wainwright and cowritten by Tom Lazarus...2023-11-131h 49
Pod Only KnowsMike Johnson - Christian Nationalist Wolf in Normal Guy ClothingMike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House or Representatives.And what the media seems to think you should know about him is that he's very nice, he's smart. he's well-respected by his colleagues, he's personally liked by Democrats, and he's conservative Christian. Oh, and did we mention he's nice? Mike Johnson - real nice guy!What we think you should know about him, however, is that he is now the most powerful Christian Nationalist in the country - possibly in the history of the country. And Mike's niceness masks some truly dark intentions. Beca...2023-11-071h 02
The Delta FlyersPANCAN with Armin, Kitty, Frakes, Billingsley, and Juan CarlosThe Delta Flyers is a weekly podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. This week’s episode is a special interview with Kitty Swink, Armin Shimerman, Jonathan Frakes, John Billingsley, and Juan Carlos Coto as they discuss their connections to pancreatic cancer and pancan.orgTo support Team Trek, visit: purplestride.org/teamtrekWe want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeillAnd a special thanks to our Ambassadors, the guests who keep coming back, giving th...2023-11-0643 min
Pod Only KnowsHalloween Special - NEVERMORE: Poe, Pain, and "The Fall of the House of Usher"Jenn Tisdale joins John and Kelly to talk about Edgar Allan Poe and the new Netflix series from Mike Flanagan The Fall of the House of UsherLike he did for Shirley Jackson with The Haunting of Hill House, Flanagan's series remixes and reimagines much of Poe's work and life story to create something haunting, timely, and revelatory, exposing themes in Poe's work and digging into the author's sense of morality and justice.For this Halloween special, they discuss the role that fears of pain and death play in narrative, what Carla Cugino's Raven character...2023-10-311h 13Pod Only KnowsReligion of Fear - Horror in Conservative Evangelical America - with Jason BivinsJason Bivins is a specialist in religion and American culture an is the author of 2008's Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism. He has also published multiple articles, review essays, and occasional pieces on religion, politics, and culture in the United States.His most recent book is Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America’s Obsession with Religion (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, April 2022).A child of the era of the Satanic Panic - the unfounded moral hysteria around devil worship that gripped much of the US and Canada in...2023-10-251h 13Pod Only KnowsMidnight Mass Rerelease - From Hard to Believe 10/20/2021 (RAIN DELAY FILLER CONTENT!!)Mike Flanagan's "Midnight Mass" revisits a lot of the themes of much of his previous work: grief, death, trauma, loss (and you can listen to our discussion of his "Haunting Of" Netflix series here).But it also covers some a lot of new ground, including the complicated relationship between human beings and the religions they build. It is a show grounded as much in humanity as it is in horror, and it asks more questions than it answers - and, in this way, it demonstrates an understanding of what religion is and how it works that is...2023-10-241h 21Pod Only Knows(Emergency Alert) Chit-Chat Episode #5 - The 5G FEMA Zombie EndtimesIf you've been feeling a little off lately, it's probably because FEMA recently tested a new emergency alert system and it activated the nanotech in your covid vaccine and now you're a zombie.As least, that's what a disturbing number of people on the right thought would happen.And maybe some of them still think it DID happen?You can find all about that in Matt Shuham's piece in the Huffington Post here:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fema-wireless-emergency-alerts-system-test-conspiracy-theories-zombies-5g_n_651c71bfe4b00623d35ea98fSo this...2023-10-1452 minPod Only KnowsThe Power of Christ Compels You - Catholic Horror with Matthew J. CresslerHorror would be nothing without Catholic horror. From crucifixes to demon possession, from Dante's "Inferno" to the "The Nun II", Catholic imagery and imagination have shaped horror for centuries.But the intersection of Catholicism and horror has a dark real-world connection, as well. The Hero Priest trope at once masks and alludes to a hidden legacy of clerical sexual abuse, and the threat of hell lingers in the imagination of so many believers.This week, we talk to our friend Matthew J. Cressler, a scholar of Catholicism and longtime fan of William Friedkin's 1973 classic "The...2023-10-101h 10Pod Only KnowsWeekend Chit-Chat Episode #4 -The White Christianity to Western Chauvinism PipelineIn this Weekend Chit-Chat, we discuss:How the Klan of 1920s used mainstream acceptance and the mantle of Christianity to push their agenda in the center of American life, and we ask how the descendants of that group, like the Proud Boys, have altered those tactics in ways that seem radically different on the surface but maybe aren't so different after all.We talk absurd memes, the "it's just a joke!" defense, and tapping into pop culture references to appeal to the modern mainstream.But, hey, soccer! Soccer's good!2023-09-3048 minPod Only KnowsChick Tracts - with Chelsey Weber-SmithIf you happen to fall within a certain (fairly broad) age range, there is a very good chance that somewhere, at some point, you have encountered Chick Tracts.Jack Chick's horrific, over-the-top, feverish warnings about what happens if you don't accept Christ before you DIE!!!! have literally littered city streets and coffee shop tabletops for decades.Chick Tracts are outlandish and, if you don't happen to be an ultra fundamentalist end times Christian, deeply offensive. But they are also interesting and, from an artistic perspective, clever and accomplished. In fact, purely in terms of how man...2023-09-261h 11
The Delta FlyersEthan PhillipsThe Delta Flyers is a weekly podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. This week’s episode is an interview with Ethan Phillips.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeillAnd a special thanks to our Ambassadors, the guests who keep coming back, giving their time and energy into making this podcast better and better with their thoughts, input, and inside knowledge: Lisa Klink, Martha Hackett, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Robert Beltran, Tim Russ, Roxann Dawson, Kate Mulgrew, Brannon Br...2023-09-1857 minPod Only Knows#010 - Religion and The Labor Movement - with Dr. Heath CarterFor many, Labor Day is not much more than the end of summer movie season, a reason to have a cookout, or the symbolic beginning of the school year. It's the holiday we talk least about, in large part because the labor movement is one of the most underexamined areas of American history.So in honor of Labor Day, Kelly and John talked to Dr. Heath Carter, who has written extensively about the sometimes helpful, sometimes hostile role religion has played in driving the labor movement.Heath is an associate professor at Princeton Theological Seminary...2023-09-121h 11
The Delta FlyersTim RussThe Delta Flyers is a weekly podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. This week’s episode is an interview with Tim Russ.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeillAnd a special thanks to our Ambassadors, the guests who keep coming back, giving their time and energy into making this podcast better and better with their thoughts, input, and inside knowledge: Lisa Klink, Martha Hackett, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Robert Beltran, Tim Russ, Roxann Dawson, Kate Mulgrew, Brannon Br...2023-09-1134 min
The Delta FlyersRoxannThe Delta Flyers is a weekly podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. This week’s episode is an interview with Roxann Dawson.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeillAnd a special thanks to our Ambassadors, the guests who keep coming back, giving their time and energy into making this podcast better and better with their thoughts, input, and inside knowledge: Lisa Klink, Martha Hackett, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Robert Beltran, Tim Russ, Roxann Dawson, Kate Mulgrew, Brannon Br...2023-09-0428 minPod Only Knows#009 - Deus Ex Machina - Jesus Chatbots and the Religion of A.I.#009 - Deus Ex Machina - Jesus Chatbots and the Religion of A.I.Did you know A.I is not just the title of one of the best movies of the 21st century - it's a also a thing that's making a lot of news??Well, we did, because we're very young and hip and with it.In this episode, we consider the implication of some of the emerging areas of A.I. - like ChatGPT - on religion.First, Kelly spent some time chatting with Jesus on two different platforms - a text based interface where users can ask Jesus questions and get text message...2023-08-291h 08
The Delta FlyersSeason 8This episode was recorded in early July 2023, before the SAG Strike.The Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Season 8. Garrett and Robbie discuss what they would have liked to have seen in a hypothetical season 8 of Voyager.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeill2023-08-2845 min
The Delta FlyersLooking BackThis episode was recorded in early July 2023, before the SAG Strike.The Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Looking Back. Garrett and Robbie discuss the beginnings of Voyager, and take a look at the whole journey of making the show.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeill...2023-08-2158 minPod Only Knows#008 - Solomon Missouri - Twitter's PastorIt's Kelly's birthday (John's was yesterday...) and so we decided to talk to one of her favorites - Solomon Missouri, known to those in the know as Twitter's Pastor.In his own words, Rev. Solomon Missouri's ministry focuses on sexuality and spirituality outside and beyond church walls. We talk about how he stumbled into his role as Twitter's favorite spiritual leader, where Christianity is going, how he ministers to atheists who are still looking for community and support.You can find out more about his on his website here: https://www.solomonmissouri.com/...2023-08-151h 09
The Delta FlyersEnd Game Part IIThis episode was recorded in early July 2023, before the SAG Strike.The Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Endgame, Part II. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Endgame Part II:A time traveller forces Captain Janeway into a deadly showdown with her nemesis, the Borg Queen, and a ro...2023-08-141h 19
The Delta FlyersEndgame Part IThis episode was recorded in early July 2023, before the SAG Strike.The Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Endgame, Part 1. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Endgame Part I:In the year 2404, the Federation and the re-assembled crew of Voyager are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ship's return to Earth, 23 ye...2023-08-071h 24
Conspirinormal PodcastConspirinormal 453- John Brooks and Kelly J. Baker (Pod Only Knows)Recorded July 25th, 2023https://www.patreon.com/conspirinormalWe are joined by the crew from the Pod Only Knows Podcast. Kelly J. Baker and John Brooks tell us about why they started their show and how it is influenced by their field of Religious Studies. We dig into how the current conspiracy theory climate has been influenced by the long history of Christianity and why are people in the United States so obsessed with the Zombie Apocalypse?Check out Kelly and John's Podcast at:https://www.cageclub.me/pod-only-knows/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/conspirinormal-podcast/donations2023-08-031h 37
Conspirinormal PodcastConspirinormal 453- John Brooks and Kelly J. Baker (Pod Only Knows)Recorded July 25th, 2023https://www.patreon.com/conspirinormalWe are joined by the crew from the Pod Only Knows Podcast. Kelly J. Baker and John Brooks tell us about why they started their show and how it is influenced by their field of Religious Studies. We dig into how the current conspiracy theory climate has been influenced by the long history of Christianity and why are people in the United States so obsessed with the Zombie Apocalypse?Check out Kelly and John's Podcast at:https://www.cageclub.me/pod-only-knows/2023-08-031h 36Pod Only Knows#007 - Preparing for War - Brad Onishi on the threat of Christian NationalismDr. Bradley Onishi is the author of the recent Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism and What Comes Next as well as the co-host of the podcast Straight White American Jesus, which focuses on the the state of Christian Nationalism from a variety of angles.He joined John and Kelly to talk about his book, his experience growing up in California and converting to evangelical Christianity (which he would later go on to leave), and where exactly we are in the fight for a secular democracy in America.You can find ou...2023-08-011h 18
The Delta FlyersRenaissance ManThis episode was recorded in June 2023, before the SAG Strike.The Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Renaissance Man. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Renaissance Man:When Captain Janeway is taken hostage, The Doctor must fool his crewmates and assume their identities knowing that one false move wi...2023-07-311h 28Pod Only KnowsWeekend Chit-Chat Episode #3 - Your True Authentic SelfOn this chit-chat, we try to define what we mean when we say "authentic", what is "the true self", and we are all so prone to dividing religion into "real" and "fake".Also - fitness cults, the console wars, Coke and Pepsi, and Haruki Murakami.For this episode, we looked at work by Chrissy Stroop (https://religiondispatches.org/christian-nationalism-is-authentically-christian-and-according-to-a-new-poll-most-white-evangelicals-are-supporters/), Jessica Grose (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/opinion/religion-fitness.html), and David Chidester (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242807/authentic-fakes)2023-07-291h 01
The Delta FlyersHomesteadThis episode was recorded in June 2023, before the SAG Strike.The Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Homestead. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars. This week they are joined by Ethan Phillips!Homestead:The Delta Flyer crash-lands on an asteroid, where the crew find a group of Talaxians who are being ou...2023-07-241h 27Pod Only KnowsDr. Shreena Gandhi - Yoga, White Supremacy, and CasteShreena Gandhi is a part of the Religious Studies Department at Michigan State University, where is primarily teaches classes on religion and race in the Americas.She is currently finishing up edits on a manuscript, A Cultural History of Yoga in the United States, which looks at the impacts of race, gender and class on how yoga is practiced and commodified in religious and secular spaces.And she is working on two other projects: one on religious seeking in the colonial and post-colonial global south, which uses her grandfather’s writings and books as primary ev...2023-07-181h 16
The Delta FlyersNatural LawThis episode was recorded in June 2023, before the SAG Strike.The Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Natural Law. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars. Natural Law:Seven of Nine and Chakotay crash-land on an isolated planet where they are surrounded by a primitive tribe of hunter-gatherers.We want to...2023-07-171h 28
The Delta FlyersFriendship OneThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Friendship One. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars. Friendship One:Captain Janeway must gain the trust of an alien society crippled by a nuclear device launched from Earth in 2067.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our...2023-07-101h 29Pod Only KnowsIs July 4th a Religious Holiday?This week, Kelly and John take on July 4th and ask if it's possible to wrestle it away from the darker side of American history as well as its increasingly Christian Nationalist connotations.Even though (or maybe because) America is not, in fact, a Christian nation and has no official religious identity, is July 4th a religious holiday? Has the project of state that (purportedly) guarantees freedom of religion and keeps the government (purportedly) independent of any religious affiliation actually made American history and its icons objects of religious devotion?Also this week: The good...2023-07-041h 00
The Delta FlyersAuthor AuthorThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Author Author. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars. Author Author:The Doctor writes and publishes an incendiary holonovel that defames the crew, Paris' tampering offends the author, and The Doctor's rights fall into question.We want to thank everyone who makes thi...2023-07-032h 07Pod Only Knows#004 - UFOs as Religion - with Toby BallToby Ball is the host and creator of the series Strange Arrivals, a production of iHeart Radio an Aaron Mahnke's Grim and Mild.The recently-concluded third season of his show looks at UFO researchers who developed theories to explain the phenomenon and the consequences those theories had for people who believed they had experienced the paranormal.In the finale, Toby explores the ways in which belief in aliens via the UFO phenomenon functions as a modern religious movement, including the ways in which it pierce the boundaries of an obsession to become something more like a...2023-06-201h 18Pod Only KnowsWeekend Chit-Chat Episode #2 - There Are No SpoonsThis week was the tenth anniversary of the release of the The Last of Us on PlayStation 3.The critically-acclaimed HBO television adaptation aired earlier this year, and so we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at its themes and messages, especially where it concerns religion.Visions of the apocalypse can serve as great platforms to explore ideas about human nature, but, while they tend to be interested in the philosophy of religion, they often drop the ball when it comes to the actual depiction of religious people.Ho...2023-06-171h 10Pod Only KnowsMagic's a Messy Bitch - with Dr. Shaily PatelWhen you work in religious studies, sometimes you get to work on really cool subjects, like Dr. Shaily Patel, who works on magic.For centuries, magic had been an integral part of religion. So much so, in fact, that it's hard to really see it as a separate category.So when did we start removing magic from religious practice and putting into the wands of boy wizards and teenage witches, or the hands of bearded old men? Why is magic a Vegas act instead of Church liturgy?The short answer is Christianity.2023-06-061h 09
The Delta FlyersThe VoidThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is The Void. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars. The Void:The Voyager is sucked into an inert layer of subspace from which no-one has ever escaped, and where the trapped ships must compete with each other for resources to survive.We wan...2023-05-291h 23Pod Only KnowsThe Middle WayIn the first weekend episode, John bring Kelly the topic of the Buddhist teaching of The Middle Way.One of the first breakthroughs in Siddhartha's journey to become the Buddha, the Middle Way reminds us that in order to be successful in our quests, we must center ourselves in moderation. This means avoiding the pitfalls of thinking in terms of extremes - that the answer to our problems is probably not ever the opposite of whatever caused them.As a society, and as a culture, we suck at this. And, worse, we tend to confuse...2023-05-2744 minPod Only KnowsDr. Megan Goodwin on public scholarship in religious studiesThis week, Kelly and John talk to Dr. Megan Goodwin about the importance of getting religious studies out to the public and the challenges and tools for doing so.Dr. Goodwin is the co-host of the podcast Keeping it 101: A Killjoy's Introduction to Religion. Her formal expertise is in issues of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and American religions. She is the author of the 2020 book Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions as well as the forthcoming Cults, Inc.Here she talks to your hosts about her journey into religious studies, why peo...2023-05-231h 06
The Delta FlyersProphecyThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Prophecy. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars. Prophecy:The Voyager comes across a Klingon ship, the crew of which believe that B'Elanna's unborn child is the saviour they have been seeking for over 100 years.We want to thank everyone who makes thi...2023-05-221h 29
The Delta FlyersRepentanceThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Repentance. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars. Repentance:Voyager rescues a prison warden and a set of prisoners that are scheduled to be executed testing their own ethical beliefs.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our...2023-05-151h 09Pod Only KnowsMike Rothschild on his upcoming book "Jewish Space Lasers"Mike Rothschild, author of the acclaimed 2021 book The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, is set to publish his follow-up, Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories, in September.The book covers the history of the antisemitic conspiracy theories surrounding the Rothschild (to whom Mike is not related) family and how they set a new model for framing Jewish people as responsible for major world events.Mike joined Kelly and John to discuss the book, its title (a joking reference to a conspiracy the...2023-05-091h 01
The Delta FlyersLineageThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Lineage. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars. This week they are joined by Roxann Dawson for the full recap!Lineage:The news that B'Elanna and Paris are expecting a child brings back painful memories for B'Elanna, who takes drastic action to alter the genetic make-up of he...2023-05-081h 38
Pod Only KnowsMetamorphosis - Hard to Believe becomes Pod Only KnowsNext week, we release the first official episode of Pod Only Knows. But to ease the transition from Hard to Believe, Kelly and John took some time to explain the idea and format of the new show and to let listeners get to know them both a little better.2023-05-0241 min
The Delta FlyersShatteredThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Shattered. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Shattered:When the Voyager is fractured into different time periods, it is up to Chakotay to convince Janeway of what has happened and return the ship to one single time-frame.We want to thank everyone who makes th...2023-05-011h 31
History in the BibleBonus: Behind the Scenes with John Brooks of Pod Only knowsIn this bonus, John Brooks of the “Pod Only Knows” podcast interviews me about the genesis and making of my show. I think it turned out pretty well. This episode formed the last show of John’s former podcast, “Hard to Believe”. It is published here with his kind permission. With his new podcast, “Pod Only Knows”, John is off to fresh ventures, along with Dr. Kelly J. Baker. They are both from the serious world of religious studies. In their new show, they take a sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent, and always curious, look at the way religion shows...2023-04-3035 min
The Delta FlyersFlesh and BloodThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Flesh and Blood. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Flesh and Blood:The Hirogen species sends Voyager a distress call when their holographic prey become too cunning and cannot be defeated.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, st...2023-04-241h 51
The Delta FlyersNightingaleIn loving memory of John EspinosaYour light shines bright throughout the infinite cosmos.The Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Nightingale. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Nightingale:Power goes to Harry Kim's head when he takes command as captain of a crippled alien ship un...2023-04-171h 22
The Delta FlyersBody and SoulThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Body and Soul. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Body and Soul:When attacked by a species that detests holographic beings, Seven of Nine downloads the Doctor's program into her implants.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, st...2023-04-101h 15
The Delta FlyersInside ManThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Inside Man. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Inside Man:Direct from Starfleet, a hologram of Barclay arrives with instructions to get Voyager home within three days.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Re...2023-04-031h 06
The Delta FlyersCritical CareThe Delta Flyers is a weekly Star Trek: Voyager rewatch & recap podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. Each week Garrett and Robert will rewatch an episode of Voyager starting at the very beginning. This week’s episode is Critical Care. Garrett and Robbie recap and discuss the episode, and share their insight as series regulars.Critical Care:The Doctor must sidestep a tyrannical hospital administrator who kidnaps him and forces him to treat only privileged patients.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with ou...2023-03-271h 18
Better Sax PodcastBob Mover's House of HarmonyBob Mover is a virtuosic saxophonist who performed with Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, Lee Konitz and countless others over a long career.
Visit https://www.bobmoverjazz.com/ to sign up for Bob Mover's weekly online masterclass sessions every Saturday.
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Charlie Parker, Roland Kirk, Bill Evans, Roy Eldridge, Richie Kamuca, Ira Sullivan, Walter Piston, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Wynton Kelly, Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, Jaki Byard, Al Cohn, Phil Woods, Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk, Jimmy Lyons, Cecil Taylor, Saul Frompkin, Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Hank Jones, Al...2022-10-1455 min
1999: The Podcast10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU: "Sonnet" - with Kelly J. Baker10 Things I Hate About You has become a generational favorite, joining the ranks of The Breakfast Club and Fast Times at Ridgemont High among the teen movie pantheon. Filmed on a $13 million budget, it made $38 million at the domestic box office, making it the 53rd top grossing movie of the year (one ahead of Fight Club). It would go on to break $60 million worldwide.But while it boasted a very impressive cast of very good actors, it had virtually no star power, and the central draw was a virtually unknown young actor named Heath Ledger. Neither Joseph G...2022-08-221h 25
Organized Chaos PodcastEpisode 31: Scream 3, Peacemaker 1-3, & The Karate Kid IISend us a textCongratulations! You've found the great single episode of any podcast ever!In this episode, we discuss:- Scream 3 7:50- Peacemaker 1-3 52:30- The Karate Kid II 1:17:17Recorded January 17, 2022Bobby Quarters:https://www.facebook.com/BobbyQuartersmediahttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkz8zBMjwH9WfI7Ghd4iVIQJEMS Art Studio:https://www.etsy.com/shop/JEMSArtStudioAll third-party material used for parody and criticism under fair use. No copyright infringement intended.Podcast hosted by Robert Setlock, III...2022-01-191h 39
Total Movie RecallTMR 049 – Thriller & An American Werewolf in London This week on Total Movie Recall, our bodies go through some changes that we don’t know how to deal with as we take in a John Landis double feature with Thriller & An American Werewolf in London. We really just need somebody to talk to about it. What’s that, Dad? You’re busy? Okay, I’ll just go on the internet and learn some deeply ingrained, problematic attitudes about Michael Jackson, Nazi monsters and Van Morrison tantric sex cults. d. John Landis Special Effects: Rick Baker The Making of Thriller (1983) Starring...2020-11-301h 55
Black-Eyed N BluesKeep On Driving | BEB346Playlist:
The Nick Moss Band feat. Dennis Gruenling, Crazy Mixed Up Baby,
Brooks Forsyth, Cast My Dreams To The Wind,
Kelly Richey, Lies,
Americana Kitchen, Living Out Loud,
Ruzz Guitars Blues Revue, Back Home To Stay,
The Swamp Stompers, I’ll Finish You Boy,
Reloaded, Devil’s Kiss,
Johnny & Jaalene, Good Looking,
Shari Puorto Band, Outta My Mind,
Regina Bonelli, Playin’ In The Dirt,
Hadden Sayers, I Feel Love,
Lee Ainsley’s Blues Storm, Crosshairs,
Mike Zito, It’s All Good,
Dale Bandy, Get It On,
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Climate Change – PBS NewsHourShields and Brooks on Hurricane Harvey unity, climate change politicsWatch Video | Listen to the AudioMILES O’BRIEN: In addition to the grueling work of rescue and recovery on the ground, Hurricane Harvey has stirred up political challenges and marked the first natural disaster on President Trump’s watch.
For what’s at stake, we get the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That’s syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Gentlemen, good to have you with us.
To what extent has the storm on Friday and what has ensued changed what’s going...2017-09-0214 min
Nothing But The BluesNothing But The Blues #437Watermelon Slim and The Workers (Rattlesnake); Jimmy Rogers (Looka Here); John Mayall (Goin' Away Baby); Patty Reese (Your Love); Starlite Campbell Band (You're So Good For Me); Meena Cryle and The Chris Fillmore Band (Lord Have Mercy); Popa Chubby (The Catfish); Billy Boy Arnold (Catfish); Jimmy Bowskill and Carlos Del Junco (Can't Lose); Muddy Waters (When The Eagle Flies); Mississippi Sheiks (I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You); Old Man Kelly (Bootlegger Blues); Ronnie Baker Brooks (Times Have Changed); Kelly Joe Phelps (Hobo's Son); Bow Thayer (Country Blues); Jimmy Wilson (Jumpin' From Six To Six).2017-01-281h 01
Working Class AudioWCA #093 with David BarbeDavid Barbe has a two pronged career. He has been the Director of the University of Georgia Music Business Program since 2010. On the creative side, he has worked on hundreds of recording projects as engineer, producer, musician and writer. Over the past few years, projects have included Deerhunter’s “Halcyon Digest,” Drive-By Truckers “It’s Grerat to Be Alive” and “American Band,” New Madrid “magnetkingmagnetqueen,” and “Sunwimmer,” and Muuy Biien “Age of Uncertainty” to name a few.David moved to Athens in 1981 to study journalism at UGA. He got involved in the local music scene, playing in a variety of bands, most notably Mercyland a...2016-09-261h 05