#058 – THE EXORCIST EFFECT with Joseph Laycock by Pod Only Knows
Scholar and author Joseph Laycock joins us to talk about his book "The Exorcist Effect" and how movies influence what and how we believe.
Spooky season isn't over yet!
The one and only @josephlaycock.bsky.social joins @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @kellyjbaker.bsky.social in a follow-up to our last episode where we discuss the cultural impact of THE EXORCIST
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
11.11.2025 13:50 — 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
Pod Only Knows #057 – THE EXORCIST with Matthew J. Cressler
Our friend and Catholic horror expert joins us for Halloween to talk about his favorite movie, 1973's The Exorcist!
Happy Halloween! Our old friend @mjcressler.bsky.social joins us as @johnbrooks.bsky.social finally gets @kellyjbaker.bsky.social to watch THE EXORCIST. We talk Catholics, horror, demons, and curses in history's weirdest Christmas release!
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
28.10.2025 13:03 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Friend of the @podonlyknows.bsky.social pod here, hyping this fun convo. I could talk #TheExorcist for days, especially with these two brilliant and beautiful humans. 😈🖤
28.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#057 – THE EXORCIST with Matthew J. Cressler
Spotify:
28.10.2025 13:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pod Only Knows #057 – THE EXORCIST with Matthew J. Cressler
Our friend and Catholic horror expert joins us for Halloween to talk about his favorite movie, 1973's The Exorcist!
Happy Halloween! Our old friend @mjcressler.bsky.social joins us as @johnbrooks.bsky.social finally gets @kellyjbaker.bsky.social to watch THE EXORCIST. We talk Catholics, horror, demons, and curses in history's weirdest Christmas release!
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
28.10.2025 13:03 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
We're back tomorrow with more spookiness as we talk to @mjcressler.bsky.social about THE EXORCIST!
27.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Oh God, I am knee deep in my own work on white Christian nationalism this morning because I want to sound like I know what I'm talking about when I talk to a reporter.
Y'all, I have been researching this stuff for 19 years.
Imposter syndrome is a jerk.
21.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 69 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
Pod Only Knows #056 – Paranormal America with Darryl Caterine
Darryl Caterine joins Kelly and John to talk about the religious dimensions of America's obsession with the paranormal
Happy Halloween!
For our first spooky season episode, @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @kellyjbaker.bsky.social talked to Darryl Caterine about the paranormal and the religious in America!
Here, or wherever you get podcasts.
www.cageclub.me/darryl-cater...
21.10.2025 13:34 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
RERELEASE: #037 – What really happened at Salem - with Kathleen M. Brown
No new episode this week due to scheduling challenges, but we're going back to back for the next two Tuesdays.
In the meantime, please enjoy this episode from last Halloween on the Salem Witch Trials.
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
14.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Bad news for fan favorite recurring POK character Ryan Walters!!!
😬😬😬
06.10.2025 21:20 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#055 – Taylor Swift: Christian TradWife Extraor... by Pod Only Knows
Kelly and John talk about the right's obsession with the idea that Taylor Swift is secretly, deep down one of them!
It's Taylor Swift Album Week! (Or so John is told)
This week, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social talk about the Christian right's obsession with Taylor-as-TradWife, Pete Hegseth's love of massacres, and bid a sad farewell to recurring character Ryan Walters!
30.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
#055 – Taylor Swift: Christian TradWife Extraor... by Pod Only Knows
Kelly and John talk about the right's obsession with the idea that Taylor Swift is secretly, deep down one of them!
It's Taylor Swift Album Week! (Or so John is told)
This week, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social talk about the Christian right's obsession with Taylor-as-TradWife, Pete Hegseth's love of massacres, and bid a sad farewell to recurring character Ryan Walters!
30.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Coming up TOMORROW on Pod Only Knows, we (okay, just Kelly) celebrate the new Taylor Swift album by asking the question: Why the fuck is the Christian right so incapable of being even a tiny bit normal about Taylor Swift?
Subscribe to POD ONLY KNOWS wherever you get podcasts!
29.09.2025 16:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
RERELEASE, from 2/25 - #043 – The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover with Lerone A. Martin
Given recent events, we have decided not to release a new episode this week. Instead, we are re-releasing our conversation with Lerone A. Martin from February, in which he discusses his book The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover (which seems pretty relevant right now)
16.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
#043 – The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover with Lerone A. Martin
For *waves around at America* reasons, we are not releasing a new episode this week, but will rerelease our episode with Lerone A. Martin about his book THE GOSPEL OF J. EDGAR HOOVER tomorrow & will be back in 2 weeks.
In the meantime, if you don't want to wait & haven't heard it already, it's here
15.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
(Both real examples, btw)
05.09.2025 12:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The best thing about doing this show is the number of reps who see that it's a show about religion, pretend they have listened to it, and send us an email asking us to book their client who wrote a book about how Christians are being persecuted in America or how TDS should be in the DSM.
05.09.2025 12:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This was a great experience! Glad to get a chance to talk about Dobson and his legacy. Thanks @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social for inviting me.
02.09.2025 18:27 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Pod Only Knows #054 – James Dobson - with Hilde Løvdal Stephens
(Sorry about John's audio quality in this one!) Hilde Løvdal Stephens joins Kelly and John to talk about the life and times of James Dobson.
(Sorry about the audio on this one!)
@kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social were delighted to have @hildelstephens.bsky.social talk to us about the life and legacy of the late James Dobson.
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
02.09.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
jamie alert. free palestine
Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
My book, SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE, is on sale now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separation-of-Church-and-Hate/John-Fugelsang/9781668066898.
Opti-mystic writer & futurist, dad of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
Mad studies in conversation with psychiatry & religious studies. Also #Celt #indyref2 #psychedelics. https://independent.academia.edu/RichardSavilleSmith
Isle of Skye
Book: Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis & Religious Studies (Bloomsbury)
Professor of religious studies, especially the history of religion in the U.S. Knitter of all the things.
Look for me wherever there are cats
A podcast that explores moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, and how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture
One Liberal Democrat, One Republican Pastor. Each week we explore issues that meet at the intersection of faith ⛪ and politics🏛️ Not Right. Not Left. UP.
Website: www.faithfulpolitics.us
I hate him so much I made a podcast about it.
On sale: 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely' https://amzn.to/3nciFKa; in the movie 'Going Clear'; Blog: http://tonyortega.substack.com
I make podcasts about tech, identity, and the internet.
Creator: There Are No Girls on the Internet podcast on iHeartRadio.
Host: Mozilla’s IRL podcast
Dog Mom to Anderson & Truman, Head of Creative & Managing Executive Producer at Cool Zone Media. She/Her.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
Cool Zone Media is a podcast network that doesn’t mince words: we are living through the collapse of the known, and the birth of a new unknown.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
🦉🐈⬛ Folklorist Virgils sipping chai in black eyeliner
✨ Wanna re-enchant your life through folklore?
⬇️ Courses, book club, and more @
www.carterhaughschool.com !
PhD in Folklore and 19th Century British Literature / Teacher / Writer / Fond of Faerie Tales, Synchronicities, and the Gothic Fantastic —> Learn with me at carterhaughschool.com 🐈⬛🐈🐈
Helping religion scholars communicate with the public since 2018.
www.sacred-writes.org
Raised by Witches. Mostly writes about Paganism. Union thug, technically a doctor, editor at The Wild Hunt: https://wildhunt.org
I host Unscripted Moments: A Podcast About Propagandhi, The Classical Ideas Podcast, and like to ride my bike. I live in Buffalo and I'm from Missouri.
https://linktr.ee/UnscriptedMomentst
The dapperest of ducks.
I mock and I know things.
QAnon analysis featured in Vice, Newsweek, Daily Mail, CBS News.
Historian, professor, author. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark