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A podcast about the spiritual motivations behind crime and conflict from @ibnkulthum.bsky.social, @ellehardy.bsky.social and @comradesipho.bsky.social (youtube.com/@HelltoPayPodcast)

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Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Deep in the jungles of Bougainville, a man crowned himself king, founded a bank with no money and promised salvation through spreadsheets. Sean Williams of Underworld introduces us to Noah Musingku: architect of the most absurd sovereign state you’ve never heard of podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

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26. Ponzi in paradise: the divine right of kings

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 09/15/2025 · 49m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New episode! @ibnkulthum.bsky.social on how a newlywed adventure into Afghanistan turned into one of the strangest hostage sagas of the 21st century — a tale of love, captivity, delusion and coercion — which has offered up more questions than answers app.redcircle.com/shows/163ffc...

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Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Indiana Jonesing: Raiders of the Lost Artifacts In this episode, we dig into the bizarre saga of American evangelicals, stolen artifacts from Iraq, and a DIY biblical empire-building project gone very, very wrong. app.redcircle.com/shows/163ffc...

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Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

New episode: the almighty dollar — how church became a $1.42T grift We're joined by Nathan Apffel, filmmaker of the upcoming Amazon docuseries The Religion Business

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23. The almighty dollar: how church became a $1.42T business

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 08/25/2025 · 53m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This week, the triumphant return of @comradesipho.bsky.social with an episode on the fascinating role of witchdoctors, sacrifices and sangomas in African football podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

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22. Spells and Soccer: The Secret Magic of African Football

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 08/19/2025 · 53m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

We're back with a brand new episode about the phenomenon of Narcopentecostals — your not-so-friendly neighborhood evangelical drug lords podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

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21. Gospel of the Gun: the story of church-run organized crime

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 08/10/2025 · 1h

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We're having a week off for a summer recharge, but we've got some great episodes in the pipeline. In the meantime, sign up to our Substack, and leave us a review on your podcast platform 🙏

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Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We've also hurtled into the 21st century and joined YouTube! www.youtube.com/@HelltoPayPo...

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Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We've also hurtled into the 21st century and joined YouTube! www.youtube.com/@HelltoPayPo...

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Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

*New episode* Fowl play: How Chick-fil-A's anti-LGBT owners are flocking to Hollywood We’re joined by our friend Conner from the Propagandos podcast to talk about how the famously hardcore evangelical, anti-LGBT Chick-Fil-A empire is invested in the film industry app.redcircle.com/shows/163ffc...

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Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

How did Samantha Lewthwaite, the British wife of a 7/7 bombing suspect, go on to become one of the world’s most wanted people for her roles in multiple terrorist attacks across several continents? shows.acast.com/hell-to-pay/... @ibnkulthum.bsky.social

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19. White Widow, black ops | Hell to Pay

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

New episode: The prosperity gospel, or how jet fuel can’t melt golden calves From 19th-century mentalists to multi-millionaires, we trace how a fringe theology promising health and wealth became a global juggernaut among evangelical Christians. shows.acast.com/hell-to-pay/...

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18. The prosperity gospel, or how jet fuel can’t melt golden calves | Hell to Pay

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This week, @ibnkulthum.bsky.social takes us inside the Saudi social media phenomenon of 'free masked men' — anonymous videos complaining about declining living standards and calling for the head of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shows.acast.com/hell-to-pay/...

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This week's unfortunately timely episode is on the history of Christian Zionism shows.acast.com/hell-to-pay/...

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16. Head injuries and hellfire: a brief history of Christian Zionism | Hell to Pay

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This week, we interview journalist @garethgore.bsky.social about his investigation into extreme Catholic sect Opus Dei podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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15. Opus Dei & Opus Night: the life and crimes of the bizarre Catholic sect

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 06/15/2025 · 50m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Reactionary nihilism, ideological world building, and kitty litters in classrooms: in this episode, journalist and author @katherinestewart.bsky.social takes us inside the power center of American conservatives podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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14. Reactionary nihilism: Katherine Stewart on the modern religious right

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 06/08/2025 · 42m

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elle hardy @ellehardy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New podcast episode: The siege of Glory Mountain: the preacher, the president, and the FBI podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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13. The siege of Glory Mountain: the preacher, the president, and the FBI

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 06/01/2025 · 58m

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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

New episode of @helltopaypod.bsky.social out now: open.spotify.com/episode/1IYs... featuring our very first ever friend of the pod @pontsho.bsky.social! We are talking about very very bad man Shepherd Bushiri.

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12. Shepherd Bushiri – the fugitive pastor

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Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Ep 10: Pistols, a Bible and chocolate cake: the bizarre story behind Iran-Contra In May 1986, two of President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council advisors, Oliver North and Robert “Bud” McFarlane touched down in Tehran on a secret diplomatic mission podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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10. Pistols, a Bible and chocolate cake: the bizarre story behind Iran-Contra

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 05/11/2025 · 56m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

New episode: When abortion was legalized in the United States in 1973, evangelicals supported the decision — until a machiavellian conservative Catholic activist made it about another issue entirely. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...

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9. The real story behind the anti-abortion movement

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 05/04/2025 · 50m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Teenagers, rock music, pentagrams... and a country on the brink of collapse. We dig into one of the strangest moral panics in South African history — when fears of Satanism swept through churches, schools, and headlines during the final days of apartheid podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...

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8. The fall of Apartheid and South Africa's satanic panic

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 04/27/2025 · 57m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

New episode: CIA chemist Frank Olson was found dead in suspicious circumstances after being covertly dosed with LSD. Just how deep does knowledge of his death go? Will his family able to find justice? And why the hell did the CIA send him to see a magician? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7...

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History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Aamer, Elle and Sipho explore spiritually motivated crime and conflict.

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elle hardy @ellehardy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Pope Francis’ attempts to reform the shocking levels of corruption and fraud inside the Vatican were also extremely admirable. We recently did a podcast episode about it podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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1. Money, sex and lies: The Vatican financial scandal

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 03/10/2025 · 58m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Episode 5: Alice in Ultraland: the mysterious death of a CIA scientist Frank Olson was a chemist working for the US military when he was covertly dosed with LSD. Shortly afterwards, he was found dead in highly suspicious circumstances. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

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5. Alice in Ultraland: the mysterious death of a CIA scientist

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 04/07/2025 · 53m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Episode 4: The Brazilian preachers, their 55 kids, and how not to plan the perfect murder In June 2019, Brazilian preacher Anderson do Carmo was murdered in cold blood. But was it really a robbery gone wrong — or were there more sinister forces at play? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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4. The Brazilian preachers, their 55 kids, and how not to plan the perfect murder

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 03/31/2025 · 35m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

On June 18 2023, a Sikh plumbing business owner called Hardeep Singh Nijjar was executed in a carpark in British Columbia. The Canadian government accused the Indian version of the CIA of doing the hit — and that’s only the beginning... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

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3. Smiling Buddha, hidden nukes

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 03/24/2025 · 1h 32m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Episode 2: The Afrikaner Broederbond: the secret society that shaped Elon Musk Musk grew up in a country where every government leader was a member of the Afrikaner Broederbond, an exclusively male, Afrikaner Calvinist secret society that dominated political, cultural and social life.

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2. The Afrikaner Broederbond: the secret society that shaped Elon Musk

Podcast Episode · Hell to Pay · 03/17/2025 · 50m

Hell to Pay @helltopaypod.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Welcome to episode one of Hell to Pay, where we look at how a daring midnight heist inside the Vatican exposed dark networks of fraud, money laundering and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Available on Apple, Spotify, etc podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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History Podcast · 1 Episodes · Updated Weekly