Cult Favorite

A podcast about all those cult documentaries you love to binge watch hosted by religious studies professors @merindasimmons & @michaeljaltman.

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Charles Manson was mundane. Listen to our new episode to find out why.

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NEW EPISODE
We're talking about "The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" on Netflix. How do we respond when someone doesn’t follow our social scripts about wealth and power?

Spotify: https://t.co/3xIQBJrN2N

Apple: https://t.co/8vwEnwnrZX

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🚨 New Cult Favorite episode! 🚨

We dive into Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, the wild Netflix doc exploring the chaos, controversy, and cultural impact of the king of trash TV. 🎤💥

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/6W61t3rZhB

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NEW CULT FAVORITE EPISODE! This week we talk about Netflix documentary OneTaste: Orgasm, Inc. —the story of boss babe Nicole Daedone, who made big business out of personal pleasure. Hers is a love story between capitalism and heteropatriarchy. https://t.co/nHnsPsKWli

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Our first episode of 2025 is here! Let's discuss Breath of Fire (Max, 2024). It tells the story of Yogi Bhajan, 3HO, Guru Jagat, and kundalini yoga! Along the way we talk about the cult documentary genre, conspirituality, and Robin Hood (the fox one)
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"How to Become a #Cult Leader (Netflix, 2023)"
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23 Dec 2024 [1:15:21]
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Our season finale is here for your holiday travel listening pleasure!! https://t.co/OHDWdPtIus

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NEW EPISODE! Let's talk about aliens, the cult documentary genre, Raëlianism, and all sorts of interesting stuff! For this episode, we watched Raël: The Alien Prophet (2024) on Netflix. Give it a listen and tell us what you think!
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NEW EPISODE!

This week we watched The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin from HBO/Max We talked about 1980s diet culture, patriarchy in conservative American Protestantism, gender politics and anti-fat bias, and authenticity.
https://t.co/JG317AVwFU

[Casey Logan A'Hearn @CaseyLogan0122]

Great episode from @CultFavoritePod today y’all! There’s a ton regarding control, evangelicalism, eating culture, authority, etc.

I learned about Christian diet books, the 80’s, autocratic and academic politics, and parenting tactics.
https://t.co/oFBJB7TQLH

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Probably need these for Mike and Merinda whenever we get to a Waco episode

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@jakebarrett25 Thanks!!!

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@CaseyLogan0122 Thanks!!

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Y’all, this episode was so good. Amazing way to celebrate ten episodes!

Loved it when Merinda accidentally stumbled into celestial marriage theology.

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New episode!!

Mike convinced Merinda to watch Secret Lives of Mormon Wive! We talk genre, gender, sexuality, power, audiences, tradwives, the capital of "cute," and Mormon Media.
Listen now!

https://t.co/UKGw9VDZpA

[Casey Logan A'Hearn @CaseyLogan0122]

@CultFavoritePod my favorite quote today was “Everything is professional wrestling.” By @MichaelJAltman cause like.. yeah let’s mull on that 😂

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Take a trip with us to the early 1980s in rural Oregon, where the town of Rajneeshpuram nestled next to the town of Antelope. Insider/Outsider politics ensue on multiple fronts, including but not limited to: religion, race, economics, voting rights, immigration, and salmonella.

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This is for the show.

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y’all watch the debate, I’ll be watching the secret lives of mormon wives tonight

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On Labor Day, our new episode discusses “Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion” and the labor exploitation in the fast fashion industry. Join us! Listen!

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New episode! We talk Jonestown, personal narrative, and why people feel compelled to make things make sense. Along the way, we learn why Mike doesn’t like sad movies. Detours include: Ethan Hawke’s Hamlet remake (we love you, Julia Stiles), Black Christmas, and climate change.