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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We take a look at the Luddites in the age of AI and data centers and ask if their movement is best understood as one that is more religious than social.

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week, @laurenfturek.bsky.social joins us to talk about religion, politics, and good science fiction in Robert Zemeckis's 1997 film "Contact" Here or wherever you get podcasts! (Sorry about the delays and technical snafus yesterday! They should all be cleaned up now!)

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#065 - "Contact" (1997) with Lauren Turek by Pod Only Knows

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sorry! Apparently there were technical difficulties that messed the episode up! Blame the government not wanting you to know The Truth! Hopefully it'll be republished tomorrow!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you haven't seen CONTACT (or, like Kelly, it had been 30ish years), go do that! Because tomorrow you can listen to @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, @johnbrooks.bsky.social, and guest @laurenfturek.bsky.social talk about it!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This week, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social talk about Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey"! Zeus's law, Christian militarism, Emily Wilson, and more! Plus it's their birthdays today and tomorrow so you have to listen to it. Here or wherever you get podcasts!

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#064 - Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" by Pod Only Knows

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Author @michaelblanding.bsky.social joins @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social to talk about his new book, The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby. They talk about the Green family, forgeries, the Museum of the Bible, and Chad Allen. Here or wherever you get podcasts.

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#063 - The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby with... by Pod Only Knows

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

While John is still in a good mood (unaware of what fate awaits England), we talk about football/soccer as religion, the sanctification of Diego Maradona, and how the story of Brazilians blaming their loss on the rise of Protestantism is a one to take quite seriously! Here or wherever you listen!

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Football Is (The Way, The Truth, and The) Life!... by Pod Only Knows

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New episode! @kellyjbaker.bsky.social likes soccer now, @johnbrooks.bsky.social gets all nerdy about schism stuff, and we're joined by journalist @nitishpahwa.com to discuss his piece for Slate on Pope Leo's encyclical about AI! Here or wherever you get podcasts.

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#062 - Woke Pope Updates! Schism and AI Encycli... by Pod Only Knows

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There are a lot of documentaries about religion. This is technically one of them! @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, @johnbrooks.bsky.social, and @vox-magica.bsky.social swearily discuss Bill Maher's 2008 "documentary" about "religion" RELIGULOUS Here or wherever you listen to podcasts!

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#061 - RELIGULOUS with Shaily Patel by Pod Only Knows

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tune in tomorrow to hear @johnbrooks.bsky.social, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, and @vox-magica.bsky.social rant about RELIGULOUS, which is legally a movie but in no way resembles one! People loved it! It's awful!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Everybody, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, @johnbrooks.bsky.social, and @vox-magica.bsky.social watched "Religulous" and ranted angrily about what a dumb asshole Bill Maher is and in a couple days you can hear us do so!

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We're back, y'all!!!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This week, John talks to friend of the show @sarahposner.bsky.social about her new podcast, REIGN OF ERROR, and what recent revelations about Epstein tell us about him and his network Here or wherever you get podcasts.

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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Sarah Posner - On her new podcast, Epstein, and... by Pod Only Knows

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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Kelly and John are wonderful hosts and I had so much fun last year talking with them about Dickens and Christmas!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Rereleased from last year, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social welcomed @khandozo.bsky.social to discuss Dickens, Christmas, and whether or not he invented it (spoiler: No. But...) Here or wherever you get podcasts!

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RERELEASE (from 12/24): Did Dickens "Invent" Ch... by Pod Only Knows

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This week, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social catch up on a wild week in the news with Marjorie Taylor Greene's attempted redemption arc, Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures, and papal raves! Get it here or wherever you get podcasts!

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#059 – The Passion of the Marjorie Taylor Greene by Pod Only Knows

Kelly and John talk Marjorie Taylor Greene, Peter Thiel, and the Pope's newfound love of raves

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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!

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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!

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Matthew J. Cressler @mjcressler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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. 😈🖤

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We're back tomorrow with more spookiness as we talk to @mjcressler.bsky.social about THE EXORCIST!

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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.

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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...

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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

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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!

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RERELEASE: #037 – What really happened at Salem - with Kathleen M. Brown

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Bad news for fan favorite recurring POK character Ryan Walters!!! 😬😬😬

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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!

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#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!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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#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!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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)

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RERELEASE, from 2/25 - #043 – The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover with Lerone A. Martin

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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

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#043 – The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover with Lerone A. Martin

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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.

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Hilde Løvdal Stephens @hildelstephens.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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.

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

TOMORROW! @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @kellyjbaker.bsky.social welcome @vox-magica.bsky.social to talk about HERETIC! Subscribe now wherever you get podcasts.

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We're back! Catching up on a busy summer, we look at the Ryan Walters porn scandal, the DHS posting Nazi shit, and the right's outrage over Woke Superman. Here or wherever you get podcasts!

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Pod Only Knows #052 - At Last, A Woke Superman

We're back from break with Woke Superman, the DHS going full fascist Ryan Walters, poison ivy, and surgery!

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Richard Saville-Smith PhD @dranamorphosis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Had a blast talking to Kelly and John, once you start thinking about the intersection of mad studies and religious studies it is a seductive cocktail

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We talked to @dranamorphosis.bsky.social about the intersection of mad studies and religious studies in his fascinating book Acute Religious Experiences. Listen here or wherever you get podcasts!

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#051 – Acute Religious Experiences - with Richard Saville-Smith

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

EVERY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: well surely the smartest kid at MY college, according to a system that we have valorized for years for ranking intelligence, will not be able to accurately identify and describe an ongoing genocide. oh FUCK!!!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This week, @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @kellyjbaker.bsky.social are joined by @profdolfi.bsky.social to talk religion, capitalism, and goats in "Severance" Listen here or subscribe and listen to Pod Only Knows wherever you get podcasts!

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#050 - Severance - The Church of Keir

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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Have a listen to insightful commentary about the first American pope!

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The week on @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @kellyjbaker.bsky.social talk about the new pope, why MAGA and the TradCaths are (rightly) treating Leo XIV's election as an attack on them, and PRRI's survey of voters after the first 100 days of Trump 2.0. Here or wherever you get podcasts.

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Pod Only Knows #049 – Leo XIV and the future of the Catholic Church

Kelly and John talk all the Pope news, the MAGA freakout over Leo XIV, and what this all means for the future of the Catholic Church

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This week, John talked to Annika Brockschmidt (@ardenthistorian.bsky.social) about how the American Christian Right is understood in Europe, Pete Hegseth's tattoos, and more. Find it here or where you get podcasts. (Kelly was out prom dress shopping. She'll be back next time!)

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Pod Only Knows #048 – Annika Brockschmidt

John talks about the perception of the American Christian Right in Europe and Pete Hegseth's tattoos with historian Annika Brockschmidt

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Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This week, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social talk about Lord of the Flies, Yellowjackets, and The Hunger Games, and how our understanding of allegory and political and religious allusion often shifts with the realities of the day. Here or wherever you get podcasts.

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Pod Only Knows #047 – Rethinking "Lord of the Flies" in the age of MAGA

Kelly and John discuss why people maybe get "Lord of the Flies" all wrong, and why what it's REALLY about matters a great deal right now.

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