Madness Madness!
100 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsErin and Amanda are sisters, librarians, and sister librarians hailing from scenic central Oklahoma, and in this series they examine and rank clubs, cults, MLMs and more to determine which one they'd most like to join. Join us for math and questionable singing.
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Episode 87: The Enfield Poltergeist, Ghostwatch, and (haunted) Government Cheese
November 12, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBAny of your better cheese experts will tell you there’s nothing that pairs better with a fist-sized hunk of Government Cheese than a couple of British ghost stories, one almost certainly made up, the other definitely made up. Warm up your false vocal chords for some fake ghost sounds, and learn more about the chain of government fuckery that ended with the son of a bitch Ronald Reagan offloading warehouses of third-rate Velveeta to his most hated enemy, Poor People!
Episode 86: Not Jeff, but Gef / more like NarcoNONSENSE AMIRITE
October 14, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBMy freshman year in college I (Brian) got like, Freshman Drunk at a house party where a home video was playing. My friend Jeff appeared in the video several times, and apparently every time he was onscreen I would slur, from the living room floor, "there's Jeff." The story of Gef (he's Welsh!) the Talking Mongoose seems not dissimilar, except the house where it took place was definitely harder to get to, from the sounds of things. Good thing College Brian wasn't addicted to drugs, or he migh...
Episode 85: Frank Dux gets his ass beat in Cassadaga
September 10, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBWe don't like to brag or anything, but the people behind Madness Madness have accomplished some pretty incredible feats of combat prowess, to the point where several hit movies have been based on our exploits: Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Avatar: The Way of Water, Titanic, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Jurassic World, The Lion King, The Avengers, Furious 7, Top Gun: Maverick, Frozen II, and of course Barbie. That’s more than $27 bi...
Episode 84: The Emu War and the Nimbin Aquarius Festival
June 30, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBAine’s in town! In honor of friend of the pod/friend of us as actual people, today’s episode is all Australia, all the time! There’s Corn Thins! Mike invented them! There’s Tim Tams! Some saint or another invented them! And there’s research that yields phrases like “singer Paul Joseph, Donny McCormack (ex-Nutwood Rug Band), The Larrikins and Ian Farr!” Former Nutwood Rug Band members infested the Nimbin Aquarius Festival, a surprisingly thoughtful invasion of a small town in New South Wales ...
Christian Fundamentalist Amusement Parks; Albert Broel, Frog Magnate
June 03, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBFlorida’s state government isn’t the only bunch to get a bug up its collective ass over Disney not being fundamentalist enough: Turns out there’s a storied history of Old Testament fanboys opening entire theme parks, except instead of a theme there’s the Bible, and instead of a park there’s the Bible. Today we learn more about this string of inexplicable failures, plus one man’s equally successful plan to boost Americans’ frog intake by several hundredfold. Albert Broel is the author of “Fro...
Episode 83: Christian Fundamentalist Amusement Parks; Albert Broel, Frog Magnate
June 03, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBFlorida’s state government isn’t the only bunch to get a bug up its collective ass over Disney not being fundamentalist enough: Turns out there’s a storied history of Old Testament fanboys opening entire theme parks, except instead of a theme there’s the Bible, and instead of a park there’s the Bible. Today we learn more about this string of inexplicable failures, plus one man’s equally successful plan to boost Americans’ frog intake by several hundredfold. Albert Broel is the author of “Fro...
Episode 82: Karl “Old Shatterhand” May; Richard “Signal 30” Wayman
May 19, 2023 23:00 - 2 hours - 61.6 MBLike reasonable people everywhere, we here at Madness Madness, when considering the accurate and true representation of American Indians in film, television, and literature, immediately think of Germany. Thus none of you will be surprised to learn of Karl May, creator in the 1890s of the “Old Shatterhand” novels, the Wild West adventures of the titular benevolent whitey and his “blood brother” Winnetou, a wise chief of the Apache, a formula that would in no way lead to an utterly bizarre cen...
Episode 81: Dr. John C. Lilly; Rollen "Rainbow Head" Stewart
April 29, 2023 13:00 - 2 hours - 56.8 MBWe say it a lot here on the show, but the 1960s was an era unique for its sheer volume of uninformed drug-induced white guy fuckery. Emblematic of said fuckery was Dr. John C. Lilly, who was real into dolphins and LSD and giving dolphins LSD when he wasn't floating in an isolation tank trying to miraculously make it even further up his own ass. Fortunately the '70s and '80s came along, and everybody got their shit together hahahahahaha just kidding. One guy did get an idea to put on a rainbo...
Episode 80: Madame Rachel and the Neptune Ceremony!
March 30, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 36.2 MBIf you’ve ever asked yourself, “Do I have what it takes to cross the equator? On a boat? For the first time?”, you’ll need to consider some follow-up questions: How good a swimmer are you? How do you feel about the biggest, hairiest dude on your ship being greased up and dressed like a baby? And is there a way you can take a car, plane, or train instead? We’ll examine these questions on today’s episode, plus we’ll learn how relatively straightforward it is to exploit repressive Victorian soc...
Episode 79: The Blackburn Cult and Explo '72!
March 17, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBSPRING BREEEEEAK!!!! Today we're taking a break from not talking about cults, so as to learn more about the Blackburn Cult, the proper name of which is the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, a name perhaps designed to remind people that while the Great Depression might be raging, you can still use as many words and letters as you want when naming your Jesus-adjacent child-resurrection grift. Then it's time for a ROAD TRIIIIIIP!!! To a blank spot by I-35, just north of Dallas...
Episode 78: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment and the Tar Creek Superfund Site
March 03, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBHave we all, every one of us, stared at a small humanlike doll and thought to ourselves, "What would it be like if this doll were like 35+ dudes and I starved them for six months in the University of Minnesota football stadium?" Of course we have; there's no need to even phrase it as a question. A notable fellow of science thought the same thing during World War II, and the results were the Minnesota Starvation Experiments, in which at least one dude just went full raccoon and started wander...
Episode 77: Painless Parker and the Actual Shogun Guy
February 16, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBA lot of people say dentistry lost its street cred when it started happening in "Offices" with "Sterile Instruments" and "Windows that close," and at one point the Street Dentist who legally changed his first name to Painless to avoid a lawsuit would have agreed with you. Today we learn about this ... guy ... in the history of dentistry. Plus, a look at Tokugawa Ieyasu, the actual guy at the center of James Clavell's incredibly lengthy but surprisingly pretty good historical novel "Shogun." ...
Episode 76: The Dreadnought Hoax and Ada Blackjack
January 19, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBMost days you get up, have a coffee, look at the same six gifs again, and then it's off to work. But what if you didn't have the daily grind to distract you, and you could focus on doing the things that really feed your soul? If the things that feed your soul include dressing in blackface and pranking the entire Imperial Navy, you've got some racist shit going on. But also the story of the Dreadnought hoax will be of particular interest to you! Meanwhile, if you've ever been an oppressed na...
Episode 75: Square Dancing, Sonic Booms, and a Brand New Year!
January 05, 2023 21:00 - 2 hours - 58.5 MBWhat better way to ring in the new year with a solid six months of deafening, damaging aural assaults that you're powerless to stop? Other than a bracing series of square dances, nothing I can think of! This week we learn about what would ultimately become one of the most important reasons we don't have cross-country supersonic passenger flights. We also learn about what is almost certainly the rootin'est, tootin'est American tradition of all: the venerable square dance. All this knowledge, ...
Episode 74: Troubled Gymnasts! Magazines for Ladies!
December 15, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBAre you now, or have you ever been, a Lady? If yes, were you a Lady in the United States during the 19th Century? You are doubtless familiar, then, with Godey's Lady's Book, a source of densely packed text, hand-colored fashion plates, piano sheet music, and the odd Edgar Allan Poe short story ("for the love of Godey, Montresor!"). All this, plus a look at the troubled romance between legendary circus aerialists: Lillian Leitzel, a tiny woman who is stronger than you or any man you know, and...
Episode 73: 40 Elephants, a Sci-Fi Convention, and Thou
November 25, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBYou know what's awesome? VICTORIAN LADY THIEVES. You know what else is awesome? Science Fiction! Mostly! Partly. It's complicated. Today we hear tales of both things!
Episode 72: When a Mannequin is More Than a Mannequin
November 14, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBTwo pivotal questions lie at the heart of this week's episode. One: To what extent have we been collectively missing out as a society since the practice of soap carving fell by the wayside? Two: What happens when Erin and Amanda don't call their dad?
Episode 71: Bicentennial Chiropractors!
October 30, 2022 19:00 - 2 hours - 94.2 MBBy the time July 4, 1976 had rolled around, a lot of people had put a lot of effort into crushing the whole thing into a bureaucratic logjam. A lot more people had made sure not one single American had the option of forgetting, even for a moment, that it was the BICENTENNIAL AND EVERYBODY BETTER AMERICA REAL REAL HARD STARTING RIGHT NOW, GOT IT?!? By that point, chiropractic medicine had begun to ease into a slightly less quackery-intensive version of itself (don't worry, it was still pretty...
Episode 70: Buggery and Bald Knobbers
October 06, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBToday, a lighthearted look at England's long and storied history of, as an official act, killing men for being gay. It goes back a while! It's awful and pointless, but ... uh. Well. No actual "but" there, as it turns out. We'll also examine a group of racist vigilantes of the pedigree that's only possible in central Missouri. Also they called themselves "The Bald Knobbers," and the fact that they went around beating people for moral failings while having a name only slightly less pornographi...
Episode 69: Pullman Porters and the Hitler Diaries? Nice.
September 29, 2022 21:00 - 2 hours - 62.2 MBGeorge Pullman, it should be universally agreed, was a huge piece of shit. Nobody who isn't a huge piece of shit has himself buried in hundreds of cubic feet of concrete and railroad ties to keep his employees from besmirching his corpse. Today we'll be talking about the Pullman Porters, black men and women who migrated north for a better life after the War the South Started Because They Didn't Want to Stop Owning Other Human Beings and found work—up to 400 hours of it per month! This did ul...
Episode 68: K-Tel Records and the Dionne Quintuplets!
September 15, 2022 22:00 - 2 hours - 28.1 MBIt's easy to forget the days before fertility treatments that yielded between four and thirty babies per pregnancy. It's even easier to forget 1934, since most of us weren't born yet. You know who WAS born in 1934? The Dionne Quintuplets! As was the case for a great many Depression-era babies, things didn't go as well as they could have. Speaking of the number five and the year 1934, a guy named Philip Kives WAS FIVE YEARS OLD IN 1934! After spending several years as a child, Kives went on t...
Episode 67: A 17th-Century Bi Vivant, and The Greatest Football Team Between Kansas and Texas
September 08, 2022 12:00 - 2 hours - 59.9 MBBoomeur Sooneur!! Today Erin takes a look at the practically unheard-of* football team at the University of Oklahoma, and Amanda introduces us to Julie d'Aubigny, a vastly overexposed** 17th-Century fencing master, opera singer, and lover of the ladies, who managed to do a frankly astonishing amount of L-I-V-I-N inside 33 years. Join us, won't you? * a number of people may have actually heard of OU football ** d'Aubigny is not, in fact, overexposed
Episode 66: The Ship's Cat Catches a North Korean Godzilla
September 01, 2022 20:00 - 2 hours - 70.6 MBIf you've listened to the podcast for a while, you've almost certainly been waiting literally months to hear us spend an hour and a half talking about cats. WAIT NO LONGER, MY FRIENDS! Today Amanda tells us about ship's cats, in between the times when we interrupt ourselves and each other talking about other cats. Then Erin takes us on a trip in the wayback machine to a sleepy little hamlet by the name of Pyongyang, and the time its former dictator kidnapped a couple of South Korean film lum...
Episode 65: Just Say No to the Penn Square Bank Collapse
August 25, 2022 20:00 - 2 hours - 59.4 MBThe thing about the '80s is that there was a lot of money and a lot of drugs, and they were both gonna last forever! Until they didn't. This week Erin tells us about the collapse of the Penn Square Bank, which knocked the oil business on its ass far beyond the greater Oklahoma City area, and was toooootally different than the financial collapse of 2008 you guys, OK? OK. Then Amanda takes us back to a time when the shitty actress wife of a shitty actor president told kids across America how a...
A Poor Substitution
August 18, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.01 MBRegretfully we must inform you, our avid listeners, that there is no new episode this week because Adobe is being a dick about things. We are working on these technical difficulties and will be back as soon as humanly possible.
Episode 64: The Pearly Kings & Queens and the "Irish Crown Jewels"
August 11, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBToday's show is a real study in contrasts. England's Pearly Kings and Queens (you've probably seen them even if you don't know the name) are working-class Britons who've been collecting money for charity by way of some truly jaw-dropping suits for more than a century. The person in charge of the "Irish Crown Jewels," by contrast, is ... actually exactly appropriate kind of person to be looking after English headgear that commemorates the subjugation of their very first colony, which largely ...
Episode 63: The Beast of Gévaudan & Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters
August 05, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBSometimes a stark tragedy takes the form of an imperfect history. In this case the tragedy is that the Beast of Gévaudan, a creature or creatures who spent a chunk of the 1760s taking fatal chunks out of terrified villagers of the French countryside, did not show up 200 years later in the bus containing Ken Kesey and his "Merry Pranksters" and spend at least a few minutes of the 1960s dispatching one of the shining lights of white male Boomer self-indulgence. To hell with that guy. Enjoy the...
Episode 62.5: There is Not an Episode
July 29, 2022 20:00 - 39 seconds - 533 KBVacations! You love 'em! Unless they keep your favorite podcast from having a new episode. Then you resent them, which is understandable. We'll be back next week! It's still hot.
Episode 62: The Versailles Time Slip and The Toronto Clown Riot
July 21, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBIs it hyperbolic to call it a Clown Riot when they were rioting against the Toronto Fire Department? Maybe. When clowns kick the ass of a city's fire department, and the fire department are Orangemen to a man and collectively symbolic both of municipal graft and Ulster Unionist fuckery, are the clowns immediately granted IRA membership? Friends, I've been drinking. Thus the work of parsing the intricacies of clownsmen vs. protestant quislings will fall to you, dear listener. Once you're done...
Episode 61.5: Thank you for calling, again!
July 15, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute - 857 KBYour call is very important to us. Please leave a message and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Episode 61: Chris Noel and The Hunley! [GAAAAAAASP]
July 07, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBWell fuck, it's wartime again on Madness Madness. Today we learn about legitimate national hero Chris Noel, who started her work actually supporting the actual troops in a way more useful than car window stickers in Vietnam and never looked back. We also learn about The Hunley!, a Civil War-era submarine that worked about as well as the submarine you picture in your head after hearing the words "Civil War-era submarine." Don't worry, they eventually succeeded in a mission that killed their f...
Episode 60: An IRA Horse Kidnapping and an American Icon's Slutty German Mom
June 30, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBLook, the IRA did some unforgivable things in response to some equally unforgivable things done by the Ulster Unionists and centuries of even worse things done by the fucking English. But when you kidnap a horse hailed as a national hero by the people of Ireland itself, you have officially gone too far. Today we hear the tale of Shergar, a horse who was real good at running fast, and of Bild Lilli, a doll originally made in 1950s Germany for a right-wing newspaper's gross dude readers. By 19...
Episode 59.75: Thank you for pressing six to learn more about Tom Petty
June 23, 2022 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.22 MBHello! Madness Madness is currently out of the office. You've pressed six to learn more about Tom Petty! Brian reads an excerpt from a remembrance by Warren Zanes, Petty's biographer, published a year after the absolute legend's death. You can read the full article here.
Episode 59.5: Out of Office Autoreply
June 16, 2022 13:00 - 1 minute - 791 KBHello! You've reached Madness Madness. We are currently out of the office. Please listen to your choices carefully, as our menu has changed.
Episode 59: The Abernathy Boys, Goat Testicle Surgery, and more
June 09, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBHow 'bout we just list some key items this episode has in it: Border Blasters, goat testicle implantation, rootin' tootin' child neglect, Brother Al ("A-L"), one hundred baby chicks by mail, Big Tex continuing to slowly and mechanically wave as he is engulfed in flames*, the ionosphere. Get to it! *this is quite possibly the funniest thing that had ever happened before the "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" incident
Episode 58: The Ghosts of the Crescent Hotel and the Voynich Manuscript!
May 26, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBFriends, do you like stunning stone structures perched on piney hilltops? Do you like the ghosts of mistreated sanitarium patients, dead from neglect? OK what about the ghost of a cute little orange tabby cat? OK! Me too! Let's go to the Crescent Hotel then, and learn about Eureka Springs' most haunted place! (Also one of the prettiest.) Oh, and be sure to bring a book! We'll be relaxing in the hot springs with an annotated copy of the Voynich Manuscript. The annotations all say "I don't kno...
Episode 57: Stagger Lee & Backward Masking!
May 19, 2022 22:00 - 2 hours - 60.5 MBThis week we have a look at the actual events that led to a legendary song, the most famous version of which contained the line "I've got three little children and a very sickly wife." Stagger Lee! Real shit! That there is a song that contains absolutely no hidden backward lyrics, which means it wasn't a part of the moral majority scare about rock music hiding backward lyrics that would ... subliminally make us think Paul McCartney was dead? Or something. Climb on, it's a ride!
Episode 56: The Mechanical Turk, the 1989 Oklahoma Olympic Festival, and things not being OK
May 12, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBToday we learn about automatons from hundreds of years ago, the most famous of which may have been The Mechanical Turk, which played chess with actual people in the room and got pissy with you if you tried to cheat. Then it's a personal story of a deeply unsettling babysitting gig, the 1989 Olympic Festival in Norman, Oklahoma, and the bleak shitscape that our lives as Americans is becoming. It's fucking awful! Join us. BONUS: The OK 89 Olympic Festival in its entirety, cued up to Roger Mil...
Episode 55: AAAAAA OK the tornado's over, Kit Williams' "Masquerade" cont'd, Piltdown Man
May 06, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 40.1 MBOK WELL ANYWAY now that the tornado has passed, Erin can continue talking about Kit Williams' book "Masquerade" and the real-life treasure hunt it spawned (on purpose). And Amanda can tell us a little something about some obvious straight-up horse shit that the British scientific community uncritically gobbled right up because it wanted to believe fucking England was the cradle of life, and let that sink in for a moment before you learn the hoax's name: Piltdown Man! Join us, won't you? Brin...
Episode 54: Koreshan Unity, Kit Williams' "Masquerade," AAAAAA TORNADO
April 28, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBThis week we spend some time with Koreshan Unity, which has nothing to do with Waco, the ATF, or TV movies starring the guy from "Wings" or, later, Tim Riggins. Although it might be worth debating whether the standoff in Waco would have ended differently if the Earth were hollow, as today's cult insisted it was. We also learn more about "Masquerade," a picture book by Kit Williams that purposely led to an actual real-life treasure hunt ... wait, is that a tornado siren?
Episode 53: The Mayerling Incident and the French Foreign Legion
April 21, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBGather 'round, listeners, and hear the story of what happens when dictatorships—sorry, I'm being told the proper name is monarchies—get so far up their own asses they get syphilis and start wars and basically murder literally millions of their own citizens. The Mayerling Incident was a low-key extremely important* example of this brand of royal fuckery, and we are definitely going to hear about it today. And if you're driven into a violent fury by tales like these, and run out and immediatel...
Episode 52: Code Talkers, a Con Man, and an Immortal Baby
April 07, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBToday we squint quizzically at James Bernard Schafer, a teleporting doctor who founded the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians and set out to raise an immortal baby! Until the baby's mother showed up and wanted her back. Still totally immortal, possibly.* We keep going, though, and end up with a look at “the most famous con man you’ve never heard of,” except that if you listen to this podcast you’ve almost certainly heard of him. Meanwhile, you know what's not a transparently fraudule...
Episode 51: Lyndon LaRouche and Fake Books!
March 31, 2022 14:00 - 2 hours - 82.9 MBThis week we examine a real insane person and fake books! Lyndon LaRouche ran for president 8 times and was less coherent with each successive run. Though he started out as a semi-Marxist pro-labor kinda guy, he quickly moved squarely into right-wing pro-insane bullshit territory. No matter what, there was always room in his heart for all sorts of old-fashioned racism, anti-semitism, and an undying conviction that Queen Elizabeth II was trying to kill him. Meanwhile, did you know that some...
Episode 50: Fake Cults and a Fake High School! Church of the Subgenius vs. Bishop Sycamore High School
March 17, 2022 22:00 - 2 hours - 87.5 MBThis week on Madness Madness we're out here lookin' for starters, but all we can see is a bunch of jackoffs. First off we take a surprisingly thought-provoking journey to the '80s and '90s for a look at the Church of the Subgenius, a cult that wasn't actually a cult from the heady days of heavy 'zine-ing! Straight out of Dallas, very close to our home base in central Oklahoma, this one got us right in the Gen-X Nostalgia part of our brains, the part that makes us think about how if we wanted...
Episode 49: Conspiracy Mysteries! Oak Island vs. The Fake Moon Landing
March 10, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBwe're back / from a brief hiatus / time off is a predatory bird, and it ate us // This week we step away from cults for a bit, and look instead at an ongoing mystery and a straight-up conspiracy theory! Oak Island is, as the name suggests, an island! In Canada! With a hole in it! Several holes now, in fact, since about once per generation, some dude (it's always a dude) is absolutely sure he's figured out how to get to the very bottom of it without getting flooded out like literally everyon...
Episode 48: People Unlimited Incorporated vs. The Waldorf School!
February 17, 2022 19:00 - 2 hours - 93.1 MBToday we learn how to live forever, but for real this time, from People Unlimited Incorporated! (We also take a moment to mourn the death of its founder, Charles Paul Brown, who died in 2014 NO YOU SHUT UP!) Are we ready to spend our immortal lives eating the worst food imaginable? Before we decide, we'll take a look at The Waldorf School, founded by Rudolf Steiner, who dared to ask the question, "What if we did like that Montessori lady but without applying any provable facts at all?" Stein...
Episode 47.5: Not an Episode, but an Anthem
February 11, 2022 20:00 - 2 minutes - 1.26 MBWe don’t have a new episode this week, so please accept Brian’s alternate rendition of the Terasem … anthem? from last week's show. The song might be called “Earth Seed” because every line in it has the words “Earth Seed” in it but also seriously who gives a shit. Content Warning: Some really bad white person “rhythm” comes into play and honestly the whole thing never recovers. See you next week! Ricky Williams!
Episode 47: Terasem vs. Access Consciousness
February 03, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBOne of this week's cults is a rare example of a cult not primarily being a financial grift. Terasem's founders are already super fucking rich, and so they're really more interested in your unquestioning allegiance, their own desperate desire to cheat death, and your interest in hanging out with a deeply disturbing AI automaton named BINA48. It's pitted against Access Consciousness, which is a more traditional grift, but one that has a secret star from the wide world of sports! Described as "...
Episode 46: Soka Gakkai vs. Thierry Tilly
January 27, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBThis week we're throwin' a party! A POLITICAL party! Under the smug, starfucking veneer of leader Daisaku Ikeida, a Japanese Buddhism rip-offshoot called Soka Gakkai that is also a political party? With like 20% of the vote?!? I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation (there isn't). We're also partying down in an abandoned secretarial school, in Paris! That's thanks to Thierry Tilly, a run-of-the-mill creep who bled a family of French aristocrats dry, and if you're not noting any sadness in ...
Episode 45: Ganas vs. The Sterling Institute of Relationship
January 20, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 79 MBI think we can all agree that what we really need in these troubled times are more diploma mills. How else are we gonna get more unlicensed group psychotherapists? THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. The founders of Ganas, which as it happens began as an unaccredited school for group therapy, are entirely with me on this one, and would like to interest you in a completely different, entirely legitimate diploma. But before you accept, two questions: Men, have you ever asked yourself, "Am I denying my sacr...