Kitchen Table Cult Pod

About Kitchen Table Cult Pod

Kitchen Table Cult unpacks all the things Kieryn and Eve learned at the kitchen tables of their childhoods in conservative Christian homeschooling families. Every week we take your questions and drill down on various topics about Quiverfull, the Religious Right, and our childhoods in high-demand groups (otherwise known as cults). We’re not surprised about the rise of Trump, Christian fascism, or evangelical white women voting for someone like Mike Pence, and we want to take you back through the beginning of it all to explain why.

Publisher

Kitchen Table Cult Pod

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jul 2018

Latest episode

7 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

13 of 140 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Shiny Happy Special Episode

   Hosts Eve and Kieryn discuss personal updates, including Kieryn's appearance in "Shiny Happy People" season 2 and progress toward an Associates degree, in this interview episode.

2. 

   18 Jul 2024TRANSCRIPT

   S6E12: Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs

   Kieryn and Eve discuss the German family who sought (and were temporarily-ish granted!) asylum in the US to be allowed to homeschool their kids because Germany takes the rights and education of Children seriously. Show notes: https://tinyurl.com/romeikenotes This episode was produced by the lovely Mary Steffenhagen!

3. 

   27 Jun 2024TRANSCRIPT

   S6E11: Usurping Democracy with Bureaucracy

   Kieryn and Eve explain the updated policy agenda of the Christian right. We talk about the various tools Christian nationalists plan on using to usurp democracy regardless of who wins the presidential election this year. We dive into Project 2025, the little known and even less talked about Convention of States, and the bureaucratic mechanism at the crux of it all. Notes: Read Kieryn's reporting for prism - https://prismreports.org/2024/05/20/christian-nationalist-playbook-usurp-democracy/ This episode was originally made as a test episode for a major media company, our producer was Mary Steffenhagen!

Inside a recent episode

Shiny Happy Special Episode

Published 7 Aug 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So that's the plan and I just I'm paying the out of state tuition fee obviously because I live in Germany so it's 10 times the in -state tuition cost so next semester is gonna cost me $4 ,000 and I am 3 ,000 shy of hitting that goal. What are you gonna be taking? I'm gonna be taking a survey of mass media so like journalism 101 California geography because I needed geography class and global issues in social sciences so I'm getting a social sciences degree so it's global issues which I'm assuming spans probably genocides and history and things that may or may not still actively be happening in the world as we speak and what issues those are globally and then I think the journalist class is gonna be really interesting I just did a six credit summer session so it's six credits in like six weeks basically for introduction to U . […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

166 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

59 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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Social presence

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YouTube

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Engagement

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