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
S3E16 - The Tundra Mouse (interview w Director of Pleistocene Park, Nikita Zimov)
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We must cultivate our garden.
Chris gets to talk to a scientist of mammoth significance, clarifying and context-ifying a…
S3E15 - The Conspiritualists (interview w Matt Remski of Conspirituality pod)
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It can poison your soul.
Chris and Kayla talk with one of their favorite conspiracy theory/spirituality/cultic studies w…
S3E14 - The Cheat Codes (Gravoboi Codes)
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“Separate text from context and all that remains is a con.” - Stewart Stafford
Kayla takes a break from watching TikToks…
S3E13 - The Crusaders: Reprise (QAnon update w QAA's Travis View)
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All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
Chris & Kayla seek an expert to help deliver an update on…
S3E12 - The Virtuous Cycle (Pleistocene Park)
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Small steppes can have Mammoth effects.
Chris takes us on a journey to the far reaches of the Earth to find some unintui…
S3E11 - The Lab Coaters (Self Realization Fellowship, pt2)
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I don't want to believe. I want to know.
-Carl Sagan
Kayla sciences even harder on the Self Realization Fellowship: th…
S3E10 - The Guru (Self Realization Fellowship, pt1)
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There are disciples who seek a guru made in their own image.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Kayla enlightens Chris about an infl…
S3E9 - The Blue Curtains (abuse in the Amish community)
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Abusive systems rely on guilt, gaslighting, and isolation. You need not be perfect. You are not crazy. And you aren't al…
S3E8 - The Shared Experience (Throawaylien)
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I want to believe... but take this story with a bowl of salt.
Chris abducts Kayla's scheduled episode slot to disclose a…
S3E7 - The Benevolent Association (Hop Sing Tong)
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Good or bad, who's to say?
Chris & Kayla walk by an interesting building in LA's Chinatown, which turns into a whole ful…
S3E6 - The Instructors (Zumba, pt2)
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It's a societal thing, not a Zumba thing.
Kayla finally reveals the shockingly large full extent of Zumba's power and in…
S3E5 - The Dancers (Zumba, pt1)
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Ditch the workout. Join the party.
Kayla and Chris dance their way into the beginnings of yet another wellness-based mov…
S3E4 - The Architects (the Tartarian Empire)
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Chris takes us on a journey to a land that is simultaneously far away,…
S3E3 - The Desire (the Nugget couch)
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When you tell people they can’t have something it makes them want it more.
Kayla takes Chris down the rabbit hole on a t…
S3E2 - The Immunity (Antivax)
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Out of an abundance of caution, we are making this podcast.
Chris doesn't hesitate to take us on the longest CoJW episod…
S3E1 - The Herd (Vaccine Science & History)
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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
In the first episode of CoJW's third season, Chris sets up the scie…
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S2E20 - The Crusaders: Resolve (QAnon, pt 5: tie up & words of resilience)
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It is because of hope that we suffer. It is through hope that we change things.
In the fifth and final CoJW-does-QAnon e…
S2E19 - The Crusaders: Casualties (QAnon, pt 4: friends, family, and ex-members)
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People are hurting.
In the fourth installment of Cult or Just Weird's QAnon deep dive, we hear from real people whose li…
S2E18 - The Crusaders: Apophenia (pt3: QAnon as alternate reality game)
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This Is Not A Game.
In part three of the five part COJW series on QAnon, Chris takes a hard look at the human psychology…