A podcast about all those cult documentaries you love to binge watch hosted by religious studies professors @merindasimmons & @michaeljaltman.
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9 May 2025
Charles Manson was mundane. Listen to our new episode to find out why.
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21 Apr 2025
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: open.spotify.com/episode/6ek…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
ALT Cult Favorite Episode 26 The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker
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24 Feb 2025
🚨 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: buff.ly/434EMIy
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10 Feb 2025
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. open.spotify.com/episode/4sV…
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28 Jan 2025
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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23 Dec 2024
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23 Dec 2024
Our season finale is here for your holiday travel listening pleasure!! open.spotify.com/episode/3lu…
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9 Dec 2024
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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21 Oct 2024
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.
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21 Oct 2024
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.
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23 Sep 2024
Probably need these for Mike and Merinda whenever we get to a Waco episode
23 Sep 2024
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23 Sep 2024
Y’all, this episode was so good. Amazing way to celebrate ten episodes!
Loved it when Merinda accidentally stumbled into celestial marriage theology.
23 Sep 2024
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!
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23 Sep 2024
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!
open.spotify.com/episode/2qP…
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23 Sep 2024
@CultFavoritePod my favorite quote today was “Everything is professional wrestling.” By @MichaelJAltman cause like.. yeah let’s mull on that 😂
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10 Sep 2024
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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10 Sep 2024
This is for the show.
10 Sep 2024
y’all watch the debate, I’ll be watching the secret lives of mormon wives tonight
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3 Sep 2024
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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27 Aug 2024
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.
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19 Aug 2024
Part 2 of our episodes on Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults is posted! Find it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!
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19 Aug 2024
Episode 5 is posted—part 2 on Heaven’s Gate. @CultFavoritePod
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