The Synthesizers

On this episode we discuss memories and how they create who we are. How do our recollections shape our consciousness and existence?

Synthesizers Podcast Version 2.0 coming soon.

Join us as we talk to former Pastor, now Atheist, Matthew Bridge. He shares personal stories and we talk Atheism, Religious Trauma, and Indoctrination. We also pretty much end up being interviewed by our guest!

We dive in to questions about the afterlife this season. (Big surprise given we always tend to end up there in conversations anyway.) This week is Reincarnation.

In this episode we discuss toys, trading cards, games, stuffed animals.....all the things from our childhood that shaped us.

In this episode we discuss the latest hearings on UAP's and the claims and revelations by government officials and witnesses about non-terrestrial tech and non-human biologics.

On this episode we are very vulnerable with our struggles with our past, the present, and the depths which depression can take you. There's hope. There's struggle, but freedom is there in the distance. It's a journey to find it.

A wide ranging conversation about death, losing ones we love, the afterlife, and what the Bible doesn't say.

In our new season we return to honest and open conversation on various topics we find interesting, disturbing, and fun. Politics, aliens, religion, Philosophy, music, art, etc..... On this episode we jump around many topics as we start off the season. From Marjorie Taylor Greene, culture wars, religious intrusion, philosophy, and theology - a little bit of everything.

The Children Of God was a sex cult founded by David Berg, a failed evangelical preacher who rebranded himself in the 60's as a guru and prophet for a new generation. In this episode we discuss the history as well as the horrific details of their practices involving gospel prostitution and pedophilia. This is the first time the former member discusses her experience growing up in the cult. Warning: Interview contains graphic descriptions and topics.

The Children Of God was a sex cult founded by David Berg, a failed evangelical preacher who rebranded himself in the 60's as a guru and prophet for a new generation. In this episode we discuss the history as well as the horrific details of their practices involving gospel prostitution and pedophilia. This is the first time the former member discusses her experience growing up in the cult. Warning: Interview contains graphic descriptions and topics.

The Children Of God was a sex cult founded by David Berg, a failed evangelical preacher who rebranded himself in the 60's as a guru and prophet for a new generation. In this episode we discuss the history as well as the horrific details of their practices involving gospel prostitution and pedophilia. Warning: Part 1 and 2 both contain graphic descriptions and topics.

The Children Of God was a sex cult founded by David Berg, a failed evangelical preacher who rebranded himself in the 60's as a guru and prophet for a new generation. In this episode we discuss the history as well as the horrific details of their practices involving gospel prostitution and pedophilia. *Warning: Part 1 and 2 both contain graphic descriptions and topics.

In this episode we dive again in to the lives of the leaders of Heaven's Gate, and the gruesome ending of largest mass suicide ever committed on U.S. soil.

In this episode we dive in to the lives of the leaders of Heaven's Gate (Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles), some of their history, beliefs, and our thoughts related to our religious upbringing and it's connection to early incarnations of Heaven's Gate. Oh, and of course we have to touch on current news regarding UFO's.

In David Koresh: The Sinful Messiah part 2 we continue to examine the cult of The Branch Davidians. It is a fascinating horror story surrounding a charismatic, young preacher who believed himself to be the linchpin to the apocalypse–and the 80 cult members who followed him to their violent deaths/suicides. The Synthesizers take an in depth look at how the cult leader recruited, indoctrinated, and controlled the minds of its devoted (Christian) members–as well as the government's response and role in the catastrophic outcome. Throughout the conversation we examine our own fanatical Christian upbringings in the Bible Belt and the churches, camps, and schools we attended that used cult practices to indoctrinate us into the faith.

In David Koresh: The Sinful Messiah we examine the cult of The Branch Davidians. It is a fascinating horror story surrounding a charismatic, young preacher who believed himself to be the linchpin to the apocalypse–and the 80 cult members who followed him to their violent deaths/suicides. The Synthesizers take an in depth look at how the cult leader recruited, indoctrinated, and controlled the minds of its devoted (Christian) members. Throughout the conversation we examine our own fanatical Christian upbringings in the Bible Belt and the churches, camps, and schools we attended that used cult practices to indoctrinate us into the faith.

What is a cult? In this episode we start our second season where we will be focusing on cults. We go through those characteristics that define a cult. And we also discover some groups and movements most assume to be cults but are in fact just extreme belief systems that don't share cult characteristics.

On this podcast we discuss the history of FOX News and we discuss various other mainstream media and how the presentation of information has changed a population's perceptions and attitude. We then find ourselves discussing the cults - and familiar characteristics of that mindset - that have infiltrated our culture.

On this podcast we dive in to the day of the Freedom March or Insurrection that occurred on January 6 and discuss where we were, what it means for our democracy, the "Black Mirror" feeling of the extreme beliefs, and what it means for us.

In this podcast we come to terms with the fact that our podcast is indeed geared toward exvangelicals to an extent. We didn't plan it...but we can't deny that is where we are...and have been for a long time. Our upbringing and current/past beliefs are always there in ourselves as a reference point we see life through. Then we also discuss the Jeffrey Epstein situation and the insanity of life in this moment we live. You know, a normal day.

Misinterpretations of the Christian scriptures can be funny and also destructive-spiritually for sure, but also politically. How do we navigate themes that have been read into the scriptures, ideas that have mutated, and the crazy extremes that are the antithesis to the teachings of Yeshua (Jesus.) More importantly how did the antithesis become an accepted mindset in popular Christianity.

What is normal? What do we shun or accept simply based on our or our tribe's view of normal? In this episode me and Chris find our conversation leading us into some unanticipated areas.

In this podcast we begin a discussion on evil, the demonic, satan, the devil, mental health, etc... We will continue to dive in to this in future podcasts, but we are just glad Chris survived the story he tells so that we could have this conversation.

In this episode we enter the realm of ghosts and demons. A haunted house. A mysterious handshake. What is real? What is psychological? What is mystery?

In this episode Chris discusses his business trip to China, the atrocities, and technological advances that have integrated themselves in to normal life...primarily AI.

In this episode we are trying to figure out what to call ourselves as a podcast.

In this podcast we discuss mortality and questions revolving around cultural upbringing and our recent experiences with death.

In this podcast we discuss QAnon and the effects on our personal lives and the world.