Cult Podcast

Cult Podcast

A podcast. About cults. Duh. Tune in each week as we cover groups ranging from Japanese Death Cults to the Violent Alt-Right. A perfect way to remember: Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid!

Episodes

July 23, 2025 80 mins

We’re back with the first earnest part of our new series on the Troubled Teen Industry. Join Paige as she takes Mando through the very hopeful beginnings of a movement that would ultimately turn upsetting. 

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to listen to ...

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We're BACK baby. Join Paige and Mando as they get back into the groove, catching up and telling you about their dumb, busy lives. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, we're starting a brand new series!

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to listen to Armando’s new show, ...

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This week join Paige and Mando as they sit with Todd from Horror Virgin to discuss the scariest topics known to humans. Death. Woof. I promise, it's more fun than it sounds.

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to listen to Armando’s new show, Boyfriend Mat...

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We're back! This week Mando finishes up his series on Brother Louv and the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church. Join Paige as she learns about the Miami Jamaica connection and we learn a new rule about being a good cult leader. It comes second to "never set a doomsday".

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click o...

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May 6, 2025 72 mins

We’re BACK! Join us as Mando takes Paige through the early life of Brother Louv, formerly known as Thomas F. Reilly, and the path that led him towards a life of kick ass crime. 

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to listen to Armando’s new show, Boyfriend...

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We're BACK with our final installment on a woman literally named Prophet. Listen along as Paige tells Mando about Ms. Prophet's takeover, remarriages, and the fall of the whole damn thing. 

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to listen to Armando’s new sho...

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We're BACK with an episode that takes us back to our roots, baybee. I'm talking theosophy, I'm talking terrible husbands, I'm talking randomly selecting famous figures from the past to be your "previous lives". Yeah. This one got everything. Join Paige as she takes Mando through the life of Elizabeth Prophet and the beginnings of the Church Universal. 

PANIC FEST is THIS WEEK, if you want tickets to our show on March 30th click the...

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We're BACK, baybee! Rising from the dead to give you a life update and also to ask you to join Paige as she takes Mando through the tumultuous timeline of Hobby Lobby, the only craft store that asks "What Would Jesus Do?" And then...mostly ignores that question actually.

PANIC FEST is coming up in just a week, if you want tickets to our show on March 30th (We got the date wrong in the episode so so so sorry) click the link here or ...

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We're finally back, we survived our city being on fire and the only thing that will make us feel better is some good old fashioned Orel. 

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to listen to Armando’s new show, Boyfriend Material, click this link right here or...

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December 23, 2024 69 mins

We're back this week for a very merry episode full of screaming about weight and people who use pseudo-science to "treat" it. Trust me, you're gonna love it. 

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to listen to Armando’s new show, Boyfriend Material, click th...

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December 16, 2024 56 mins

We're back with quite possibly one of the funniest names in history. Join Paige as she takes Mando through the life and times of televangelist and preacher: Oral Roberts. A man who really blows.

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to listen to Armando’s ne...

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December 9, 2024 62 mins

We're back with a wild one folks. Join us as Paige takes Mando through the story of Micah Kat and the sleepy town of Bodegraven, which is essentially just Dutch Pizza Gate. But like...not "dutch pizza". We get into it.

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like t...

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We're BACK with another episode in our series on health and wellness folks. This week, Paige brings a great story and takes Mando through the life and times of an alien touched guru and his line of successful restaurants and funk bands. 

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also al...

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November 13, 2024 71 mins

We're BACK with an episode recorded back before the end times. This thing is like a dang ol' time capsule. Boy, we were filled with so much hope. But also, we're finally talking about the father of Chiropractic, the bone ghost king himself, D.D. Palmer!

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patr...

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We're BACK with more water-based cults. Which, sadly, doesn't mean they wash away with water. In fact, they get STRONGER around the stuff. Join Paige as she takes Mando through the ebbs and flows of a water cult.

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to lis...

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October 10, 2024 56 mins

We're BACK with another episode on the wild and wacky treatments Paige tried while at a "wellness retreat". Join her as she takes Mando through the life and times of a cold plunge cult, and join Mando in not wanting to try it!

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’...

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October 2, 2024 72 mins

We're BACK with a story that involves everything you care about: Amusement park rides, baseball, a weird split in a group that the law has to intervene on. Join Paige as she takes Mando through the House of David!

Also, we have a Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our website and click on the Patreon tab.

Also also, if you’d like to lis...

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We're coming to you LIVE from Burbank, CA with the Cult Podcast Annual Party to Stop the End of the World! Join us for a fun cult, guest stars, and recorded evidence that Armando told people he planted a bomb somewhere.  If you want to to watch the vide recording of the show, it is up on our Patreon! [Insert Air Horn Noises Here] If you'd like to donate and join our cult, please visit www.patreon.com/cultpodcast or visit our web...

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We're back from the dead with another episode on wild health resorts and cults of personality. Join us as Paige takes Mando through the life and times of a man with the same hairdo as Pennywise the Clown. An apt description, and one that becomes way too fitting later on.

 

Also, if you enjoy the world and living in it, consider attending the Cult Podcast Party to Stop the End of the World in Burbank, CA on 9/22 at 5pm! Click the li...

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We’re BACK with an episode on both Paige’s cult experience and a group that kind of perfectly sets up our new series. Join us to hear Paige take Mando through a Japanese “foot reading cult” and the leader who claimed to be Jesus.

 

Also, if you enjoy the world and living in it, consider attending the Cult Podcast Party to Stop the End of the World in Burbank, CA on 9/22 at 5pm! Click the link here for tickets or visit www.flappersc...

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