the Wikkid podcast
church upbringing gone wrong, depression... and music
Displaying all 6 Episode of the Wikkid podcast with the tag “cults”.
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Episode 39: Beware the Cripple (part 1)
April 27th, 2022 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 25 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
It's pretty hard to talk to people when they've got you cast in a different story from the one you feel you're living. Religious groups that split up family relationships. Trying to interact with family and friends from a group that's kicked you out of it. The difference between getting kicked out and leaving voluntarily.
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Episode 35: Please Come With Us
March 2nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 28 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
Getting the boot or walking away from one's birth culture. Doesn't matter whether you're fundamentalist Christian, Orthodox Jewish, Muslim, Sikh or Mormon... it's quite the mind effword. A bunch of stories, including people who were excommunicated and shunned for being gay. An elaborate music collaboration manages to get the song done two hours before the podcast airs...
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Episode 34: Get 'Em Out
February 16th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 35 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, john douglas, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northern pikes, therapeutic
Is evil a thing? Are some people, and do some people do, evil? (What did John Douglas, the man who invented the profiling of serial killers for the FBI think?) When you realize your fear and disgust, respect and acceptance responses are programmed into you.
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Episode 33: Just A Kid
February 2nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 21 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
Kids these days! Having your perspectives and concerns invalidated in a church circle if you were in your 20s, hadn't got married and had kids. Have modern kids been coddled? (yes). Can we do anything about that? (probably not.) The importance of bike rides. Boredom as the mother of invention, and if there's insufficient boredom?
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Episode 32: The Voice of Death
January 19th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 56 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
Pleasure, joy and happiness. Targets for offense, shame and "correction"? Why? Is getting annoyed about anything that brings other people joy, but not you, more common than we want to admit? Idols.
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Episode 31: Red Sweater
December 15th, 2021 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 19 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
A silly little song, a violent bible reading and a very unfunny revisiting of messed up church attitudes about sex, with Angel DeSantis talking in detail in the middle of the episode about being born into and growing up in The Children of God/The Family, a pedophile sex cult. (warning, this episode contains a trigger warning, and trigger warnings in and of themselves are found to increase stress and alarm.)