We watch some episodes from the Jordan-Peele-hosted revival of The Twilight Zone and talk about the old series and the horror of being trapped. We ruminate on creepy doll horror like Talky Tina. Brian tries out the second joke from his stand-up routine. Leah tells the legend of the china doll.

036 THE HORROR (Twilight Zone revival, stand-up comedy, and creepy doll horror)

Weird Religion is a podcast for people who think religion is weird but love it anyway. Your hosts, Leah Payne and Brian Doak, are both professors, authors, and pop culture aficionados, whose interests range from archaeology and history and linguistics to LARPing and The Walking Dead. Episodes tackle some piece of media highlighting the wonderful weirdness of religious experience—a documentary, a television show, a Twitter scandal—and use that as a &quot;thread&quot; on which to hang reflections on a wide variety of topics. Cults. The perils of fame within the evangelical world. Church attendance. Atheism. Gamer communities. Millennials and avocado toast. It's all here.

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Weird Religion is a podcast for people who think religion is weird but love it anyway. Your hosts, Leah Payne and Brian Doak, are both professors, authors, and pop culture aficionados, whose interests range from archaeology and history and linguistics to LARPing and The Walking Dead. Episodes tackle some piece of media highlighting the wonderful weirdness of religious experience—a documentary, a television show, a Twitter scandal—and use that as a "thread" on which to hang reflections on a wide variety of topics. Cults. The perils of fame within the evangelical world. Church attendance. Atheism. Gamer communities. Millennials and avocado toast. It's all here.

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036 THE HORROR (Twilight Zone revival, stand-up comedy, and creepy doll horror)

036 THE HORROR (Twilight Zone revival, stand-up comedy, and creepy doll horror)