Mike Altman
@MichaelJAltman
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co-host of @CultFavoritePod and religious studies professor writing a book about pro wrestling titled ‘Wrestling with Religion: Working Theories of Culture’
Tuscaloosa, AL
Joined August 2009
Charles Manson was mundane. Listen to our new episode to find out why.
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We released a new episode of @CultFavoritePod this morning! We're talking about "The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" on Netflix. How do we respond when someone doesn’t follow our social scripts about wealth and power? Spotify: https://t.co/XwC60k5XXN Apple: https://t.co/RUistDekK2
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🚨 New Cult Favorite episode! 🚨 We dive into Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, the wild Netflix doc exploring the chaos, controversy, and cultural impact of the king of trash TV. 🎤💥 🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/YCfjsKMxRL
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NEW CULT FAVORITE EPISODE! This week we talk about Netflix documentary OneTaste: Orgasm, Inc. —the story of boss babe Nicole Daedone, who made big business out of personal pleasure. Hers is a love story between capitalism and heteropatriarchy.
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NEW CULT FAVORITE EPISODE! This week we talk about Netflix documentary OneTaste: Orgasm, Inc. —the story of boss babe Nicole Daedone, who made big business out of personal pleasure. Hers is a love story between capitalism and heteropatriarchy.
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We are BACK!
Our first episode of 2025 is here! Let's discuss Breath of Fire (Max, 2024). It tells the story of Yogi Bhajan, 3HO, Guru Jagat, and kundalini yoga! Along the way we talk about the cult documentary genre, conspirituality, and Robin Hood (the fox one) https://t.co/RdyHjPwRl2
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if you pin your opponent on the Fortnite logo you win bonus v-bucks
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I turned on the new wrestling show on Netflix and it took 32 minutes for any wrestling to happen.
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Less censorship for WWE on Netflix. They keep saying “professional wrestling.”
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I want to write an entire essay about that RAW on Netflix intro.
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On this fourth anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, our Uncivil Religion project is still a great resource thinking about the symbols, rituals, and rhetoric that day and afterward.
uncivilreligion.org
A Curated Resource of Media from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021
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I want to know the lessons @davemeltzerWON learned from Wicked.
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Nothing makes for better conversation in the car than a discussion of what makes a good cult documentary!
Our season finale is here for your holiday travel listening pleasure!!
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This is a great episode! Don't miss it!
NEW EPISODE! Let's talk about aliens, the cult documentary genre, Raëlianism, and all sorts of interesting stuff! For this episode, we watched Raël: The Alien Prophet (2024) on Netflix. Give it a listen and tell us what you think! https://t.co/YAMOQFPgjm
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if you can't cite yourself, how the hell you going to cite someone else?
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this weekend will be my first AAR/NAASR (my first conference really) since 2019
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Linda's previous experience in higher education was paying Tom Cole's college bills that one year
BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump is nominating the billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department, tasked with overseeing an agency Trump has promised to dismantle.
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