This story first appeared in the Blocked Party member newsletter. I had a shameful secret in the early 2000s. I didn’t share it with my friends or family. I engaged in a habit behind locked doors during hours when I was certain nobody would be able to hear me or catch wind of what I […]
I took a controversial and largely feared hallucinogen to understand more about Near-Death Experiences. ongrief.fireside.fm and patreon.com/ongriefpod Earlier this year, I began podcasting. The subject of choice for my initial limited series podcast was something I had been interested in for years: cults and thought reform. I loved working on it, and one of the […]
On Legal Threats On Belief: A Podcast About Cults Episode 6: Large Group Awareness Training launches today Since March, I’ve been working on a limited series podcast called On Belief: A Podcast About Cults. It has been uniquely rewarding as a project: I have learned new things every day, I’ve been the recipient of endless generosity, […]
https://www.patreon.com/karengeier I have been deeply interested in cults and coercive mind control for years. To me, there is no greater violation than to take the very essence of someone’s mind from them, unless you’re doing it for the money. So, after years of trying to come up with an idea for a podcast that I […]
If someone said you could take a simple drug that in five hour’s time would not only reset your brain, erasing years of depressive and anxious feelings, but also generally lift your mood, seemingly permanently, would you do it? I did. I suffered from anxiety and resultant depression on and off for years, ever since […]
Mitch D. is the only good and pure thing in this world since you all started being assholes on the internet Listen up, dipshits: Barely any of you can review food. Sorry, but it’s true. No one cares that you got a 96 one time on an English test in your final year of High School. […]
The conservative pundit grift machine is dependent upon two major things, like a fire triangle: 1) Financial donations and 2) Manufactured outrage. Recently, Twitter’s Bearded Boy Jesse Farrar made a tweet about drowning conservatives, which was picked up by rabid extraperiodontal nerd Charlie Kirk, who later went on Fox news to call Jesse (and his […]
Modeling is nothing like what you might see on TV or in the movies. It’s often profoundly dull, it’s rarely glamorous, and it can be extremely tiring. There are moments where you feel like a million bucks, but those are few and far between. You spend most of your days running around for “go-sees” (auditions […]
Over the Christmas break, multiple stories in the news broke about how there was a new wave of people who are spreading a very dumb idea: “White Genocide” as a justification for their alt-right (White Supremacist) views. There is nothing on this earth that is quite as dumb or as malicious as a White Supremacist, […]
Since the rise of anti-vaccine propaganda, a very hot phrase online for people who believe in things that run contrary to accepted truths is Do your own research Let’s break down what these people seem to mean for a second. Doing your own research when you’re in a medical or paramedical field means one of two […]