Why Are You Like This?

This week as SPOOKTOBER continues, we’re talking about the secret society you didn’t even know you needed to hear all about. We’re entering some Irish boys clubs to find out who’s cosplaying the devil and who’s just looking for a good time. So buckle up!

As we carry on with our favorite October tradition, SPOOKTOBER, this week on the podcast we’re doing a bit of a Jack Parsons revisit as we talk some sex magik. Because honestly, why not? It’s October and maybe you’re finally ready to create something sinister.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… October! Specifically the triumphant return of SPOOKTOBER. Our very our Treehouse of Horror is kicking off with a discussion on Curses. We talk cursed objects, cursed families, and movies so haunted they were never even made. So, you tell us— are you cursed?

We’re back to consulting the stars, as we let you know exactly what October has in store. Who is set to have the best month ever, and who is gearing up for the worst!

Well, well, well… here we are tackling another conspiracy theory. This week on the podcast, we’re digging into Hollow Earth, how Laura Bush prevented us from taking earth science in high school, and which one of us remembers the important parts of eighth grade. Let’s say you’re onboard with Hollow Earth— then what’s inside? Don’t worry, we’ve got many the claim to present you with this week. So, time to grab a shovel and start digging.

Yeah, that’s right— we’re back to discuss one of Jaimi’s favorite topics, religious trauma. Why are millennials finally unpacking all of our feelings about church from childhood suddenly and does this have anything to do with why this generation is obsessed with cult documentaries?

This week on the podcast, we’re back to discussing one of our favorite things— the personality assessment. This week we’re breaking down PrinciplesYou, a new assessment that blends the Big Five, MBTI, Ennegram, and more… so yeah! A lot to unpack! We’ll talk about how this one works, what we like about this one in particular, and what makes personality assessments helpful (or not!) in general. And for all you Adam Grant fans— he had a hand in creating this one.

That’s right you guys, we’re going there— to the moon and back down to earth to talk about how sex magik helped create NASA (yes, seriously). This week on our final installment of SPACE CAMP, we’ll discuss the entangled origin stories of both Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard. We’ll explore “the before time” of both Scientology and NASA as we dig into some weird diaries and a couple of guys who didn’t really value their wives so much. So, buckle up one last time as we prepare to yell into a headset from the 90s, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.”

We’re back to consulting the stars, as we let you know exactly what September has in store. Who is set to have the best month ever, and who is gearing up for the worst!

Welcome back to SPACE CAMP, Cadets! This week we’re talking all about little green men… and diving deeper into what we think extraterrestrial life is actually like. Why have we painted aliens as evil villains or our smarter saviors almost exclusively. Seems like the deeper we get into this, the more our questions about aliens align with questions about a higher power… so, you ready to be probed?

Attention Cadets! This week in SPACE CAMP we are headed straight for the declassified. Time to be more disillusioned with America or more onboard with the government’s hands in space exploration and the documenting of UFOs? I guess we’ll be the judges.  

We’reeeee baaaaackkkk! Welcome Cadets to SZN SEVEN! We’re starting this season off with a bang (and a new opening reel!) and heading straight to SPACE CAMP! Prep those blue jumpsuits as we launch ourselves this week straight into Jaimi’s once teased “biggest conspiracy about the moon…” We’re talking all about the space race, things that are fundamentally wrong with NASA, and of course Stanley Kubrick. So get ready for take off… we’re spending all month off this planet and out of this world.

We’re back to consulting the stars, as we let you know exactly what August has in store. Who is set to have the best month ever, and who is gearing up for the worst!

On this month’s FUPDATE, we’re thinking about the feelings and sensations we missed in 2020 while we were at home. We’re talking the visceral differences between how we respond to recorded and live music and yes— how it feels to smell people and the world again. Let’s get to it!

Thrilled to jump in this week during our pre-SZN SEVEN (!) break to bring you the very best of Why Are You Like This? verbal games. So without further adieu, cue the vibraphone…

This week on the podcast we’re talking all about your hands. We dive into the historical roots of Palmistry as we explore who used it to determine generals for there army and what Biblical passages the Christians don’t want you to know it appears in. We’re talking board games from the 1970s, ancient mythology, and (just in time to close out Pride!) a time when gays folks ruled the world. So, what do you think— can we see your hands?

We’re back to consulting the stars, as we let you know exactly what July has in store. Who is set to have the best month ever, and who is gearing up for the worst!

This week on the podcast, we’re talking all about Cryptomnesia! What is it you ask? We promise you’ve experienced it— on both sides. Remember when that asshole took credit for your idea? What about when you thought something was your idea and your friend was pretty sure it was theirs? We’ll get into it… because maybe there wasn’t malicious intent. Maybe it was just accidental plagiarism. Does that make it okay? You decide— and maybe, just maybe, you’ll feel a little differently the next time your coworker claims to have thought about it first.

Happy Pride! This month on the FUPDATE, we’re talking all about compulsory heterosexuality. We’ll get into the pitfalls of assuming folks are straight until proven gay and how a system to combat that seemed to actually prove everyone must be a lesbian. Because, listen, because the male gaze has messed up plenty of us. When systems are exclusively binary space isn’t made for everybody. We’ll get into it…

This week on the podcast, we’re digging into these work partnerships that keep getting likened to marriages. Is it a compliment to be called someone’s “work wife” or is it diminutive? Or even a few steps further, is this a form of cheating when folks are already in a committed relationship? We’ll get into all of it— our own experiences with close colleagues and the times other folks’ working relationships gave us pause. So, what’s the deal— are you headed to the chapel with your work buddy? Or are you honestly asking if we can just stop making work weird...?