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
S2E17 - The Crusaders: Origin (QAnon, pt2: how it got started)
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Are you awake yet?
In part two of CoJW's five part series on QAnon, Kayla gets into the nitty gritty mechanics of how it…
S2E16 - The Crusaders: Context (QAnon, pt1: history & context)
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Do you know how long this has been going on?
In part one of a five part series, Kayla and Chris tackle a zeitgeisty topi…
S2E15 - The Holy War (the feud over pronunciation of GIF)
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Teach the controversy.
Chris foolishly dives headfirst into the most controversial debate of the internet age.
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S2E14 - The Volunteers (Voluntary Human Extinction Movement)
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May we live long and die out.
Kayla discovers a group that exists to cease.
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S2E13 - The Streaming Service (Gaia TV)
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We hit a mother lode of madness.
Chris complains to Kayla about some extremely weird ads he's been getting on YouTube la…
S2E12 - The Carnivores (the Lion Diet)
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Science is about questions. Self help is about answers.
Kayla and Chris take a bite out of a meaty topic.
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S2E11 - The Other People (Twin Flames Universe, pt2)
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May you have the courage to change the things you can, the serenity to accept the things you can't, and the wisdom to kn…
S2E10 - The Soulmates (Twin Flames Universe, pt1)
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Do you believe in True Love?
Chris and Kayla talk about soulmates. Well, a particularly "fiery" new age version of them.…
S2E9 - The Device (The Soul Phone)
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Your call may be monitored for ghostly assurance purposes.
Turns out Kayla was holding back on the juiciest bits of the …
S2E8 - The Researcher (Afterlife Science)
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The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.9% of them are made by people who are still alive. -Joshua Burns
Kayla an…
S2E7 - The Line (Your World of Text)
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"A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came f…
S2E6 - The Coaches (Team Beachbody MLM)
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LOOK. DEEPER.
Chris & Kayla follow up on an interesting lead to a former cult-or-just-weird member. And this interview t…
S2E5 - The Tulpa (interview w tulpamancer & his tulpa)
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Cult or Just Weird revisits a topic from Season 1... this time, with a friend or two.
Chris & Kayla interview one of the…
S2E4 - The Information Hazard (Roko's Basilisk & LessWrong)
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If you look, it's already too late.
Chris & Kayla talk about a topic that some believe is dangerous merely by knowing ab…
S2E3 - The Main Course (Intermittent Fasting)
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Did you know the human body can go for 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, and 14 days without Cult or Just Wei…
S2E2 - The Appetizer (Diet Culture Primer)
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Nothing tastes as good as addressing a broken system feels.
Chris and Kayla take a bite out of a topic that's been eatin…
S2E1 - The Experts (Cult Awareness Network & Cult Deprogramming)
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"You cannot save people. You can only love them." -Anais Nin
Welcome to Cult or Just Weird... SEASON 2.
In this episode …
S1E20 - The Culties (CoJW season 1 recap)
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Awards shows are rituals of indulgent, narcissistic filler.
It's the CoJW season one finale! Chris & Kayla revisit cults…
S1E19 - The Doctor (Ben Lynch, SeekingHealth, & MTHFR)
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Yeah I get confused, that's the human in me. I reason that shit out, that's the science in me.
Chris & Kayla tap into th…
S1E18 - The Blueprints (RNA & Cell Biology Primer)
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We just took a DNA test, turns out...
To set the stage for the next cult-or-just-weird in question, Chris & Kayla dig in…