This week as SPOOKTOBER continues, we’re talking about the secret society you didn’t even know you needed to hear all about. We’re entering some Irish boys clubs to find out who’s cosplaying the devil and who’s just looking for a good time. So buckle up!

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12: SPOOKTOBER: Hellfire Clubs: Pegging Ben Franklin

As we carry on with our favorite October tradition, SPOOKTOBER, this week on the podcast we’re doing a bit of a Jack Parsons revisit as we talk some sex magik. Because honestly, why not? It’s October and maybe you’re finally ready to create something sinister.

11: SPOOKTOBER FUPDATE: Creating a Moonchild, an Incomplete How To

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… October! Specifically the triumphant return of SPOOKTOBER. Our very our Treehouse of Horror is kicking off with a discussion on Curses. We talk cursed objects, cursed families, and movies so haunted they were never even made. So, you tell us— are you cursed?

10: SPOOKTOBER: Curses: Hexes, Colonizers, and Jinx’s Tits

We’re back to consulting the stars, as we let you know exactly what October has in store. Who is set to have the best month ever, and who is gearing up for the worst!

9: WHOROSCOPE: October 2021

Well, well, well… here we are tackling another conspiracy theory. This week on the podcast, we’re digging into Hollow Earth, how Laura Bush prevented us from taking earth science in high school, and which one of us remembers the important parts of eighth grade. Let’s say you’re onboard with Hollow Earth— then what’s inside? Don’t worry, we’ve got many the claim to present you with this week. So, time to grab a shovel and start digging.

8: Hollow Earth: I Didn’t Take Earth Science

Yeah, that’s right— we’re back to discuss one of Jaimi’s favorite topics, religious trauma. Why are millennials finally unpacking all of our feelings about church from childhood suddenly and does this have anything to do with why this generation is obsessed with cult documentaries?

7: WHAT THE FUPDATE: Unpacking Religious Trauma

This week on the podcast, we’re back to discussing one of our favorite things— the personality assessment. This week we’re breaking down PrinciplesYou, a new assessment that blends the Big Five, MBTI, Ennegram, and more… so yeah! A lot to unpack! We’ll talk about how this one works, what we like about this one in particular, and what makes personality assessments helpful (or not!) in general. And for all you Adam Grant fans— he had a hand in creating this one.

6: PrinciplesYou: There’s Only One Bed on this Island

That’s right you guys, we’re going there— to the moon and back down to earth to talk about how sex magik helped create NASA (yes, seriously). This week on our final installment of SPACE CAMP, we’ll discuss the entangled origin stories of both Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard. We’ll explore “the before time” of both Scientology and NASA as we dig into some weird diaries and a couple of guys who didn’t really value their wives so much. So, buckle up one last time as we prepare to yell into a headset from the 90s, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.”

5: SPACE CAMP: Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard Origin Story

We’re back to consulting the stars, as we let you know exactly what September has in store. Who is set to have the best month ever, and who is gearing up for the worst!

4: WHOROSCOPES: September 2021

Welcome back to SPACE CAMP, Cadets! This week we’re talking all about little green men… and diving deeper into what we think extraterrestrial life is actually like. Why have we painted aliens as evil villains or our smarter saviors almost exclusively. Seems like the deeper we get into this, the more our questions about aliens align with questions about a higher power… so, you ready to be probed?

3: SPACE CAMP: Aliens!

Attention Cadets! This week in SPACE CAMP we are headed straight for the declassified. Time to be more disillusioned with America or more onboard with the government’s hands in space exploration and the documenting of UFOs? I guess we’ll be the judges.  

2: SPACE CAMP: WHAT THE FUPDATE: UFO Files

We’reeeee baaaaackkkk! Welcome Cadets to SZN SEVEN! We’re starting this season off with a bang (and a new opening reel!) and heading straight to SPACE CAMP! Prep those blue jumpsuits as we launch ourselves this week straight into Jaimi’s once teased “biggest conspiracy about the moon…” We’re talking all about the space race, things that are fundamentally wrong with NASA, and of course Stanley Kubrick. So get ready for take off… we’re spending all month off this planet and out of this world.

1: SPACE CAMP: Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories

We’re back to consulting the stars, as we let you know exactly what August has in store. Who is set to have the best month ever, and who is gearing up for the worst!

26: WHOROSCOPE: August 2021

On this month’s FUPDATE, we’re thinking about the feelings and sensations we missed in 2020 while we were at home. We’re talking the visceral differences between how we respond to recorded and live music and yes— how it feels to smell people and the world again. Let’s get to it!

25: WHAT THE FUPDATE: This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain on Music.

Thrilled to jump in this week during our pre-SZN SEVEN (!) break to bring you the very best of Why Are You Like This? verbal games. So without further adieu, cue the vibraphone…

24: BEST OF: Games (Cue the Vibraphone)

Jaimi Ryan and Austin Williams talk human behavior and pseudoscience under a cloud of sage as they attempt to determine why people are the way that they are.

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