You don’t need us to tell you who Lily Phillips is. She’s Lily Phillips. This is Mad That.

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Joe Pistone is an FBI legend. At the height of the Mafia in the 70s, Joe went undercover as Donnie Brasco and embedded himself in the Bonanno crime family, working his way up the ranks until he was about to become a made man. He single handedly revolutionised undercover work and brought one of New York's most prominent mafia family to its knees, with Joe having to live out the rest of his life in witness protection with a bounty on his head. His life is a literal movie. Oh, and he's friends with Johnny Depp. This is Mad That.

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Skipp Townsend is a former gang member. For 27 years he was a prominent member of the Rollin 20s Bloods in LA, spending his time dealing drugs and warring against rival factions of the Crips gang. Nowadays he's a grandfather and is on the frontline trying to bring peace between gangs in Los Angeles who are committed to bloodshed. This is Mad That.

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Katy Morgan-Davies is a survivor. Born into a reclusive cult in London where her biological father Aravindan Balakrishnan ruled with an iron fist, Katy didn't exist on paper. She had very limited knowledge of the outside world and was trapped inside through abuse and indoctrinated threats of an omnipotent greater power called JACKIE (an acronym for Jehovah, Allah, Christ, Krishna and Immortal Easwaran) that could make disasters happen. It took her 30 years to escape her father's ideological prison and start her life properly. This is Mad That.

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David Packouz, at one point, was one of the biggest arms dealers on the planet. Alongside his former friend Efraim Diveroli, David secured a $300 million arms contract for the Bush administration to supply weapons for the Afghan War, before breaching that contract and getting arrested by the US government - all at the age of 25. This is Mad That.

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James Fullington (AKA The Sandman, AKA Hak) is a hardcore wrestling icon. He is a five-time ECW World Champion, and a former performer for the likes of WWE and WCW. He also spent his 21st birthday in prison and would drink a can of beer, before smashing the can over his head, every time he walked to the ring. This is Mad That.

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Naomi Schwartzentruber is a former member of the Schwartzentruber Amish community - one of the strictest and most conservative Amish collectives. She abandoned her Amish life at the age of 17 and went on to become an exotic dancer in Vegas, as well as battling against drug addiction. Nowadays she's a mother who makes her own jam. This is Mad That.

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John Kiriakou is a former CIA agent who blew the whistle on the agency's use of waterboarding and inhumane tactics to get information from targets, and subsequently served time in federal prison. He was at the forefront of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and has had multiple attempts on his life. This is Mad That.

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A cult, the FBI, a load of firearms, and a denim-wearing Messiah bent on the end of the world. This is Mad World.

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Harry and Carl answer all of your questions - asked by Finnlay K - and look back on a wild few months. This is Mad That.

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