Cult League

After attending the recent Furnace Festival in Birmingham, Alex and Cris talk about our experience at the event and the music scene that formed us. The highlights include As Cities Burn (4:45), Cave In (17:45), Every Time I Die (19:40), Zao (21:13), Converge (30:01), The Bled (31:56), Beloved (42:55), Glassjaw (48:00), Further Seems Forever (49:02).

In this episode we dig into the cult of cults, Heaven's Gate, and compare with our own cult-like experiences in the evangelical world.

We're still here! The Cult is back with a timely episode recorded immediately after the Super Bowl where we discuss the greatness of Tom Brady, halftime shows, and extended highlights from our fantasy football league.

On the eve of the election we talk way too long on the forbidden topic of politics, what shaped our political worldview, where we stand now on some on certain hot topic issues, and our election predictions. 

One of the most memorable chapel days at our Christian high school was when the notorious Kent Hovind (aka Dr Dino) came and blew our minds on his scientific teachings of the earth being only 6,000 years old (as timelined in the bible), dinosaurs roaming the earth with man (and still existing today), and the evolution fairytale as taught by modern atheist scientists. Now we're seeing a new Christian movement of dinosaur deniers entirely, and we just don't know how to make sense of it. We also ask some other pressing questions like, what is a god day? And is there wind in space? We guarantee you too will end this episode with more questions than answers.

Imagine the worst troublemaker in high school becoming a mega-church pastor. In this long awaited episode we track down our old friend Pastor J (Sophmore Retreat's 2001 Yankfest Champion) to recall his pre-Christian days at the Christian Academy and how much his life has changed since.

Another retrospective of our young teenage days and lose it with Sam's discovery of a special toy, Jones' experience watching clubhouse smut with the Minnesota Twins, Seth's reasons for frequent restroom breaks at his family's butcher shop, Skinner wearing out VHS tapes, Alex hacking scramble erotica, humping pillows, and participating (or not participating) in a lewd contest at a class-retreat now infamously known as Yankfest. Later we cap the discussion with how to parent with porn being "out there" and an insightful message from Seth.

In this episode we remember our own discovery of fire and our pyro phase.

Our record of disciplinary issues at the old Christian Academy.

We answer the question, what is the value of a crushed up cookie? Our buddy Colt joins us to tell some old stories, one of which includes teenage pregnancy!