web02.fireside.fm Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:27:04 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) the Wikkid podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Cults” https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/tags/cults Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400 Being raised in a strict fundamentalist Christian group in the 1980s can cause some very predictable problems. Depression can be a Christian teenager's most constant companion despite church promises to the contrary. Dark humour, and even darker music, can help. This podcast is centered around the songs I wrote to deal back then, and what happened when I then picked away at recording workable versions of them for decades. contact me with questions and comments at wikkidperson@gmail.com or on Twitter @WikkidPerson en-ca serial church upbringing gone wrong, depression... and music Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore Being raised in a strict fundamentalist Christian group in the 1980s can cause some very predictable problems. Depression can be a Christian teenager's most constant companion despite church promises to the contrary. Dark humour, and even darker music, can help. This podcast is centered around the songs I wrote to deal back then, and what happened when I then picked away at recording workable versions of them for decades. contact me with questions and comments at wikkidperson@gmail.com or on Twitter @WikkidPerson no home recording, guitar, depression, fundamentalism, plymouth brethren, wikkid, wicked, wikked Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore wikkidperson@gmail.com Episode 39: Beware the Cripple (part 1) https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/39 1a972edf-c703-4216-801a-6e9357180c31 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 39 Beware the Cripple (part 1) full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 2:25:08 no 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. Playing with Plato. Narcissism and gnosticism. Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Angel DeSantis, Children of God, cults 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. Playing with Plato. Narcissism and gnosticism.

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]]> Episode 35: Please Come With Us https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/35 41c08c3d-75ed-4d02-9c61-dc3541b072dc Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 35 Please Come With Us full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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... 2:28:31 no 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... Additional Musicians Guitar and riffwriting: Troy Tuttle Drums: George Turcotte (YouTube music channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsYyXQ7ItRMjEN8FNn9LrPw ) Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Angel DeSantis, Children of God, cults 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...

Additional Musicians

Guitar and riffwriting: Troy Tuttle
Drums: George Turcotte (YouTube music channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsYyXQ7ItRMjEN8FNn9LrPw )

]]> 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...

Additional Musicians

Guitar and riffwriting: Troy Tuttle
Drums: George Turcotte (YouTube music channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsYyXQ7ItRMjEN8FNn9LrPw )

]]> Episode 34: Get 'Em Out https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/34 346c88c5-82c0-4241-922d-3d31275c1c50 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 34 Get 'Em Out full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 1:35:53 no 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. Additional Musicians George Turcotte: drums and "alright!" Dave Whelen and Joel D'amour: voices in sound montage Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Angel DeSantis, Children of God, cults, Jay Semko, The Northern Pikes, John Douglas 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.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums and "alright!"
Dave Whelen and Joel D'amour: voices in sound montage

]]> 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.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums and "alright!"
Dave Whelen and Joel D'amour: voices in sound montage

]]> Episode 33: Just A Kid https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/33 909d0942-52af-4883-bc84-3c40e6e85b2b Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 33 Just A Kid full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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? 2:21:34 no 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? Additional Musicians Debbie Michelin: singing bowl and vocalizations Evan Sauve: drums Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Angel DeSantis, Children of God, cults 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?

Additional Musicians

Debbie Michelin: singing bowl and vocalizations
Evan Sauve: drums

]]> 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?

Additional Musicians

Debbie Michelin: singing bowl and vocalizations
Evan Sauve: drums

]]> Episode 32: The Voice of Death https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/32 3d8bab8d-dbb8-41c1-a940-3d2360afff4c Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 32 The Voice of Death full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 1:56:08 no Pleasure, joy and happiness. Targets for offense, shame and "correction"? Why? Is enjoying a thing "idolatry" and cheating on God? Is getting annoyed about anything that brings other people joy, but not you, more common than we want to admit? Do we all have an inner Grinch? (we do.) Pop music, Harry Potter, gym selfies, TV, comic books and pants... the things we gave up to keep our church status. If it makes you happy, it can't be that good, right? Economist, Season 3 interview contributor Evan emails drum parts played on a digital kit to be used on this week's song! (This week, I go as Pink Floyd as I possibly can...) Additional Musicians Evan Sauve: drums Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Angel DeSantis, Children of God, cults Pleasure, joy and happiness. Targets for offense, shame and "correction"? Why? Is enjoying a thing "idolatry" and cheating on God?

Is getting annoyed about anything that brings other people joy, but not you, more common than we want to admit? Do we all have an inner Grinch? (we do.)

Pop music, Harry Potter, gym selfies, TV, comic books and pants... the things we gave up to keep our church status. If it makes you happy, it can't be that good, right?

Economist, Season 3 interview contributor Evan emails drum parts played on a digital kit to be used on this week's song! (This week, I go as Pink Floyd as I possibly can...)

Additional Musicians

Evan Sauve: drums

]]> Pleasure, joy and happiness. Targets for offense, shame and "correction"? Why? Is enjoying a thing "idolatry" and cheating on God?

Is getting annoyed about anything that brings other people joy, but not you, more common than we want to admit? Do we all have an inner Grinch? (we do.)

Pop music, Harry Potter, gym selfies, TV, comic books and pants... the things we gave up to keep our church status. If it makes you happy, it can't be that good, right?

Economist, Season 3 interview contributor Evan emails drum parts played on a digital kit to be used on this week's song! (This week, I go as Pink Floyd as I possibly can...)

Additional Musicians

Evan Sauve: drums

]]> Episode 31: Red Sweater https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/31 b7f6c0f7-cf58-4089-b235-aae421fccfed Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 31 Red Sweater full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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.) 2:19:10 no 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.) Additional Musicians My Washing Machine: percussion George Turcotte: drums and additional percussion Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Angel DeSantis, Children of God, cults 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.)

Additional Musicians

My Washing Machine: percussion
George Turcotte: drums and additional percussion

]]> 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.)

Additional Musicians

My Washing Machine: percussion
George Turcotte: drums and additional percussion

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