Cult or Just Weird
Join Chris & Kayla on their journeys of humor, discovery, and the absurd as they try to answer the question...
is it a cult, or just weird?
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 91 minutes
- Episodes
- 117
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2024
S6E3 - The Cryonauts: Guide
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You're not dead til you're warm and dead.
Chris & Kayla finish their cryonics facility visit with the help of a VIP …
S6E2 - The Cryonauts: Tour
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I am the mediocre architect of my afterlife. - Glen Nesbitt
Chris & Kayla take a tour of the very cool place they we…
S6E1 - The Cryonauts: Expedition
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If a man die, shall he live again? - Book of Job 14:14
Chris and Kayla hotfoot it to a cold storage facility.
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S5-and-a-half: Patreon Discussion of Season 5
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Chris & Kayla recap the experience of experiencing things for Season 5 of Cult or Just Weird.
(previously published on…
S5E11 - The Full Circle (Death Cafes)
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There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
-Albert Camus
Chris and …
S5E10 - The Secret Knowledge (Theosophy)
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Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself.
-Plato
Chris and Kayla attend class at another small local group... wh…
S5E9 - The Criminals (Hare Krishnas, pt2)
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible."
-David Brin
Chris…
S5E8 - The Chanters (Hare Krishnas, pt 1)
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"Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces." - Martha Graham
Chris and Kayla go to a restaurant. Kind o…
S5E7 - The Gambler's Meritocracy (American State-run Lotteries)
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It's hard to detect good luck--it looks so much like something you've earned. - Frank A. Clark
Chris and Kayla visit…
S5E6 - The Hams & Their Eggs (the LA Breakfast Club)
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FVNEM? FVNEX?
Kayla and Chris get up at the crack of dawn to try and solve a cryptogram from 1925.
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S5E5 - The Collective's Legacy (Objectivism's reception & effects)
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. - Theodor Adorno
Chris t…
S5E4 - The Collective's Architect (Ayn Rand's life)
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Who is Ayn Rand?
Chris and Kayla try to answer this ocean of a question, exploring the many rivers and tributaries tha…
S5E3 - The Collective's Dogma (Objectivist beliefs)
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I am evolving and it’s so damn beautiful. -Anonymous
Chris ponders the philosophical orb with Kayla, and finally comes…
S5E2 - The Ecstatics & their DJ (Ecstatic Dance)
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The body says what words cannot.
--Martha Graham
Kayla and Chris explore the roots of human bonding...set to music.
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S5E1 - The Wives & Their Father (the Source Family)
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Experience is the teacher of all things. - Julius Caesar
Kayla and Chris kick off Season 5 by going to a cult within a…
S4E20 - The Religious Service (The Aetherius Society)
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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur C. C…
S4E19 - The Magic Eyes (EMDR)
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"Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing …
S4E18 - The Heavy Weight (Fat Liberation & Acceptance)
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"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
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S4E17 - The Keening (Midsommar)
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Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed- or erased by some exceptionalist point of view.
-Ari Ast…
S4E16 - The Fandom (Furries & Fur Science)
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The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. -Dean Ornish
Kayla…