Was I in a Cult?

**Note: This episode originally aired in February 2022** COME SEE US LIVE!!! In LA on Sept 9, 2025 with special guest, comedian Moses Storm @ Dynasty Typewriter. LINK TO TICKETS!!  A humble upbring...

11 Aug 20251h 7min

This week, meet Jim Picariello, who, in the early '90s as a hopeful college kid hyped up on way too much coffee, thought he was signing up for a meditation class… and ended up in a tech-driven, enligh...

4 Aug 20251h 12min

Last week, we met Jorjina Broadbent — mother of twelve, former sister-wife, and low-key badass hiding in plain sight. This week? She stops hiding. We pick up where we left off: deep inside the world...

28 Jul 20251h 2min

Before he was your favorite podcast host, Tyler Measom was… just a dude with a camera and a crush. It was 2005, and Tyler found himself driving deep into FLDS polygamist territory - with his co-direc...

23 Jul 20251h

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual abuse. You've seen them — maybe at the airport with pamphlets, or quietly shopping at a farmer's market. Dressed in starched shirts, tie-ba...

17 Jul 202551min

Content Warning: This episode contains references to sexual abuse, coercion, and emotional trauma. Last week, we met Zipporah—a woman who spent 44 years inside a Utah cult so small and obscure, most ...

8 Jul 202546min

In August of 1978, one of the darkest chapters in Utah's history unfolded. A man claiming to be God became the catalyst for a tragedy that left a city shaken and a family shattered. Emmanuel David—bor...

2 Jul 202549min

(Content warning: child abuse, psychological trauma, and forced labor.) What happens when a child escapes a cult… only to be hunted, harassed, and invoiced for the "honor"? In Part 2 of Jamie Mustar...

23 Jun 202552min