We're wrapping up Olivia's two-part episode on the Westboro Baptist Church - this time with a healthy dose of... empathy? Is that empathy I feel? Wuh oh. Featuring: irony, a sad old man, and loving the sinner.

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Episode #052 - Steve Drain Walk Into Lava Challenge

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone fit in neat little boxes? It certainly would be easier to say the Westboro Baptist Church and its members were born evil and will stay evil - but life just isn't that simple. Today, Olivia is revisiting one of her oldest episodes on the most hated family in America. Get reacquainted with the Phelps family - this time with extra detail - and get ready for next week's Part II. At least the audio quality is better this time around, eh? Featuring: The God Rectum, paternal trauma, and reaping the rewards of narcissism. 

Episode #051 - REWIND: Revisiting the Most Hated Family in America

Literally someone's penis turns into a monster. It's time for a terrible-movie-minisode, courtesy of Noodle on YouTube, where we review the most senseless movie we've ever seen. Is it a tongue-in-cheek comedy goof-fest? A horror a la John Carpenter? Who knows? The filmmakers certainly didn't. Featuring: The aforementioned penis monster, a bug with a woman's head, and fully visible movie set pasties.

Naptime Nightmares #046 - Kamillions (1990)

NOTE: Stay until after the end music to hear a shoutout to our patrons! We love ya! This topic was admittedly a beast, and there are a million other details that could have gone into it, but here she is. Part 2 of Brooke's Heavy Hitter episode on Capitalism and Christianity. This time, we dive into the historical intersection between the two, how they justify each other through time, and how they became weapons of nationalism and white supremacy. Featuring: the U.S. as a business, churches that have record labels, and the origins of "One Nation, Under God."

Episode #050 - Intersecting Capitalism and Christianity

Look, I get that it's supposed to be a campy, bad horror movie, but that won't stop us from complaining loudly about it. Because Leprechaun, starring a constantly sour-faced Jennifer Aniston and a constantly-gleeful Warwick Davis, is, like, the best trashcan of a film I've ever seen. The script, the effects, the cinematography -- all the worst of the worst. I adore it. It's awful. Featuring: seven full minutes of running in the woods, thirty seconds of rolling up a bucket from a well, and death by pogo stick.

Naptime Nightmares #045 - Leprechaun (1993)

Welcome to our first two-parter ever! In addressing Capitalism in Christianity, Brooke lays the groundwork by covering the basis of Christianity in a historical context - and how it was perverted by the zealotry of Paul of Tarsus.  Featuring: dogma, self-inserted baggage, and a really cool Jewish radical 

Episode #049 - Christianity Isn't What You Think It Is

Jared Hess and Tyler Measom's new hit documentary Murder Among the Mormons has unearthed the "black eye" on the Mormon Church, and boy howdy - it's a doozy. Dive into one of the strangest stories we've ever heard, and find out just how dark the underbelly of the rare book and document scene can get. Featuring: ozone, a genius, a monster, and the blurred line between the two.

Naptime Nightmares #044 - Murder Among the Mormons (2021)

Hey there, #Girlboss! Did you know that linking feminism and ethics to consumerism actively perpetuates Capitalism and exploitation? This week, Olivia starts off our Capitalism series by unpacking how Capitalism has weaponized women's roles as primary household shoppers to condition us to believe we can buy our way to a better world. Spoiler alert: we can't. Featuring: Mac red lipstick, Greenwashing, and absolutely hating Jeff Bezos. As usual.

Episode #048 - Feminism + Capitalism = Girlboss

WE HAVE RETURNED. Boy, I'm sure glad nothing stressful happened during the three months we were gone! We welcome you back into the nightmare fold with the worst movie we have ever seen. Ever. Like, for real. Ever. Utoya Island, directed by Vitaliy Versace, is a masterpiece of trash. The gold standard of bad taste and worse execution. The film equivalent of waterboarding. And yet, here we are. Watching all 90 minutes of it.  Find out who Vitaliy Versace is, who he'd like you to think he is, and what gives his interpretation of a real-life terror attack the top spot in our list of horrific films. Featuring: eating a banana, anacondas and sharks, and a ten minute-long static shot of a lake.

Naptime Nightmares #043 - Utøya Island (2012)

In the closing of our Internet series, we watched the documentary The Social Dilemma, which gave us... mixed feelings. Ultimately a vessel for a few good nuggets of insight, we discuss whether the doc went far enough the draw conclusions in light of information most people already knew. Featuring: Marco Rubio for some reason, "Hello fellow kids," and a child with a hammer.

Naptime Nightmares #042 - The Social Dilemma (2020)

Congratulations! You are now about to hear the episode that completely broke Brooke! Suffer with us as we try to untangle the web of paranoid delusion that is QAnon. We start at the humble beginnings on 4chan and 8chan, slowly working our way to the very real and very concerning movement that exists today. Are you ready to go down the rabbit hole?  We're not. Featuring: Draco Reptilian aliens, maritime flag signals, and a pizza restaurant.

Episode #047 - QAnon, More Like Q-Begone

I know we were due for a heavy hitter, but (in case you haven't noticed) the world is falling apart and we wanted to focus on some positivity for an hour. Join us as we redirect our mental energy to the good in the world (except for in the last ten minutes or so), and try to feel better. It's the least we can do. Featuring: no more coal burning, sustainable energy, and polio eradication

Naptime Nightmares #041 - Gong Noise 5: The Gong Legacy

This is the worst movie we have ever seen. Period. In an hour and a half, Shane Dawson's Not Cool managed to fit in wall-to-wall (TW) sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, fatphobia, pedophilia, and, for good measure, actual sexual assault and rape - all of which is played as a joke. It is the most uncomfortable series of scenes we've ever had the displeasure of viewing. Our brains are different now. Listen to us suffer so you don't have to.  Featuring: Class-A narcissism, full frontal nudity, and a couple edibles.

Naptime Nightmares #040 - Not Cool (2014)

It's the start of a new series, and this time we're taking on the World Wide Web. Olivia kicks us off with yet another stunning example of overt racism, sexism, ableism, etc. etc. etc. of Shane Dawson, who is still somehow hero-worshipped on YouTube. We take a broad look at his behavior over the years, culminating in the latest karma-geddon incident, and discuss why (white) people are so hesitant to hold him fully accountable. Featuring: loser behavior, white fragility, and learning our lessons

Episode #046 - Shane Dawson Should Be Yeeted Into the Sun

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode touches on explicit descriptions of sexual assault and abuse, attempted murder, prison abuse, mental health issues, racism and police brutality, and other sensitive subjects. Please listen with discretion and with your own emotional health in mind. As we close out our Serial Killers series, we decided that we should focus on something that rarely gets attention in the True Crime community. Oftentimes, police officers are seen as the bumbling inconveniences at worst and heroes at best when it comes to murder cases. But the truth of the matter is: the police are no one's friend. Murders get solved and people go to prison, but there is no justice under a system that disproportionately targets, wrongfully imprisons, and kills Black people. The 1989 Central Park Jogger case and the story of the Exonerated 5 illustrates just that.

Episode #045 - When They See Us (2019)

The podcast that asks the question: What keeps you up at night? Hosts Brooke and Olivia discuss a variety of topics from cults to genocides to conspiracies to plagues. Are you interested in learning more about corporate greed, human exploitation, and the many, many things that can kill you? Do you want to leave feeling broken with a complete lack of faith in humanity but, like, in a funny way? Then welcome home, son.

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