Society & Culture Episodes
April 16, 2024
S6E3 - The Cryonauts: Guide
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- You're not dead til you're warm and dead. Chris & Kayla finish their cryonics facility visit with the help of a VIP "tour guide." --- *Search Categories* Science /…
April 9, 2024
S6E2 - The Cryonauts: Tour
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- I am the mediocre architect of my afterlife. - Glen Nesbitt Chris & Kayla take a tour of the very cool place they were headed to last episode. --- *Search Categori…
April 2, 2024
S6E1 - The Cryonauts: Expedition
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- If a man die, shall he live again? - Book of Job 14:14 Chris and Kayla hotfoot it to a cold storage facility. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Commo…
Feb. 25, 2024
S5-and-a-half: Patreon Discussion of Season 5
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Chris & Kayla recap the experience of experiencing things for Season 5 of Cult or Just Weird. (previously published on CoJW's patreon: ) --- *Patreon Credits*...
Nov. 21, 2023
S5E11 - The Full Circle (Death Cafes)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. -Albert Camus Chris and Kayla contemplate that one thing that joins us al…
Oct. 24, 2023
S5E10 - The Secret Knowledge (Theosophy)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself. -Plato Chris and Kayla attend class at another small local group... whose presence & influence is worldwide & ubiquitou…
Oct. 10, 2023
S5E9 - The Criminals (Hare Krishnas, pt2)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible." -David Brin Chris and Kayla explore the nature of power and learn …
Sept. 26, 2023
S5E8 - The Chanters (Hare Krishnas, pt 1)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- "Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces." - Martha Graham Chris and Kayla go to a restaurant. Kind of. Don't worry, we'll repeat ourselves. --- *Se…
Aug. 29, 2023
S5E7 - The Gambler's Meritocracy (American State-run Lotteries)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- It's hard to detect good luck--it looks so much like something you've earned. - Frank A. Clark Chris and Kayla visit a liquor store to try and resurrect the American…
Aug. 1, 2023
S5E6 - The Hams & Their Eggs (the LA Breakfast Club)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- FVNEM? FVNEX? Kayla and Chris get up at the crack of dawn to try and solve a cryptogram from 1925. --- *Search Categories* Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoi…
July 4, 2023
S5E5 - The Collective's Legacy (Objectivism's reception & effects)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. - Theodor Adorno Chris tries to land this Ayn Rand plane in an objectivel…
June 20, 2023
S5E4 - The Collective's Architect (Ayn Rand's life)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Who is Ayn Rand? Chris and Kayla try to answer this ocean of a question, exploring the many rivers and tributaries that feed it. --- *Search Categories* Anthropologi…
June 6, 2023
S5E3 - The Collective's Dogma (Objectivist beliefs)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- I am evolving and it’s so damn beautiful. -Anonymous Chris ponders the philosophical orb with Kayla, and finally comes out as a cultist himself. Objectively speaking. …
May 9, 2023
S5E2 - The Ecstatics & their DJ (Ecstatic Dance)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- The body says what words cannot. --Martha Graham Kayla and Chris explore the roots of human bonding...set to music. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; New Reli…
Nov. 29, 2022
S4E18 - The Heavy Weight (Fat Liberation & Acceptance)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” -Audre Lorde Kayla & Chris have a healing...