Pod Only Knows
Hosted by Dr. Kelly J. Baker and John Brooks. Kelly and John invite other people from the wide and wild world of religious studies to talk to them about why and how they do what they do and why their work matters to us all. They also talk to each other about the ideas, stories, and histories that fascinate them and that they think you should know about, too.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#004 - UFOs as Religion - with Toby Ball
Toby 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 researcher…
01:18:51 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
Weekend Chit-Chat Episode #2 - There Are No Spoons
This 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 …
01:10:49 |
Sat 17 Jun 2023
#003 - Magic's a Messy Bitch - with Dr. Shaily Patel
When 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 s…
01:09:47 |
Tue 06 Jun 2023
Weekend Chit-Chat Episode #1 - The Middle Way
In 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 remind…
00:44:03 |
Sat 27 May 2023
#002 - Dr. Megan Goodwin on public scholarship in religious studies
This 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 po…
01:06:50 |
Tue 23 May 2023
#001 - Mike 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: …
01:01:16 |
Tue 09 May 2023
Metamorphosis - Hard to Believe becomes Pod Only Knows
Next 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 t…
00:41:12 |
Tue 02 May 2023
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