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GNM is an alt health trend that has grown in popularity in recent years. It is attractive to so many (including me and my guest, once) because it acknowledges the role that emotions and trauma play in physical health and symptom manifestation, something that mainstream medicine still somehow refuses to do. But just because some aspects of an ideology are true and helpful does not mean that the entire framework is valid. Critical thinking and humility are essential tools for navigating information overload and complex frameworks, especially when it comes to health. The allure of certainty and specialized knowledge can lead people to adopt rigid belief systems that don't hold up to critical thinking, and the the zealotry of believing that your group's belief system will save the world only further strengthens unconscious confirmation bias (along with other logical fallacies common in GNM- loading the language, heads you lose tails I win, us v them thinking, bizarre antisemitic conspiracies, etc). But what might be most worrisome about this growing movement is the purity mindset demanded of its more extreme adherents- the belief that nothing outside of us can affect us if only we believe strongly enough in our own omnipotence and prove our righteousness and purity by attaining a total lack of symptoms. What is viewed as radical sovereignty and empowerment is really just outright magical thinking reinforced by an absence of humility, mystery, and the reality that ultimately we are not in control of what happens to us. The body is not a closed system; we are deeply embedded in overlapping ecologies. This episode has been years in the making, and I have been asked time and time again for my take on GNM. When I was sent Demetra's essay on the subject I knew that I had finally found the right person to have this conversation with. Her past cult experience, and my years of deep dives into culty thinking and behavior, provide a lens through which to view this phenomenon. Though we do not claim that GNM is a cult in the traditional sense, cultishness is a spectrum and GNM is definitely on that spectrum. Also its tenets are demonstrably false, and have led to death in some cases. NBD. In our Patreon bonus conversation Demetra shares her cult story- joining what she thought was a good thing, slowly realizing it wasn't, leaving, being attacked by the leader and other members, and the long “deprogramming” and stabilization process that all cult survivors undergo Demetra's essay The Culty Fraud of German New Medicine Dr. Moss's report German New Medicine- Hope or Hoax? Demetra's podcast Impolite Company on Spotify and Apple Amber's Nourishing Motherlines Substack Amber's website MythicMedicine.love  Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Mentioned in this episode: Tension Myositis Syndrome Cell Danger Response A Little But Culty podcast (the best!) Cult documentaries (by no means an extensive list)- The Vow (NXIVM), Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, Breath of Fire (Kundalini yoga), The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin Steven Hassan's BITE model Cult expert Robert Jay Lifton  

I have started a new podcast — called Impolite Company with Demetra Gray!On Spotify find it here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Ra4aPA3zV0Eay1G8Dn1Al?si=ee5917851dc642c3On Apple find it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/impolite-company-with-demetra-gray/id1788568554My new Substack: demetragray.substack.comThanks so much for being a part of this journey & I hope to see you on my new platforms in the future :)

Philippians 2:1-11

1 Peter 2:11-17

Exodus 20:1-3

Luke 4:1-13

This episode of Impolite Company is dedicated to MNPD Officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo for intervening and saving as many lives as possible at Covenant Christian School. It is with a heavy heart that we discuss the shooting at the Covenant Christian School in Nashville TN. On today's episode we discuss the tragic event that led to the deaths of 6 (3 children, and 3 adults). A 28 year old former student targeted the school because it was a soft target according to her manifesto that was found in her home after the shooting. The 28 year female struggled with gender dysphoria and identified as a man. Today we discuss not only the event itself, but also how we must protect our schools and the steps that it will take to secure our kids.#covenantchristianschoolshooting #schoolshooting #gunviolence #protectourkids

Colossians 1:15-23

Romans 13:1-7

Joshua 5:13-15

Deuteronomy 17:14-20

Exodus 20:16

Galatians 5: 13-26

John 17:20-23

Ephesians 2:11-22

Mark 12:13-17

Genesis 16:1-4a

The weekend of June 16-18th 2022 marked the Republican Party of Texas' State Convention. At State, the Party Platform, Rules, and Legislative Priorities are decided on by delegates from all over the Lone Star State. But how does one become one of these delegates? Today Scott Wingerter breaks down the process and explains some of the general inner workings of Republican Party Politics on today's episode of Impolite Company.

The first bellwether election of 2022 has occurred. Last Tuesday Republican Mayra Flores flipped the 34th Congressional District into the Red column. A district that has been controlled by the Democratic Party since 1870, and one that was carried by Joe Biden by 13 points in 2020. Is there a Red Wave Coming? Join us today on Impolite Company as Scott Wingerter breaks down the race and offers his analysis. #2022 #redwave #redwave2022 #GOPHispanic

Happy Independence Day. Today is a special day, and Scott takes just a few minutes to discuss exactly what Independence means. It's more than just the Colonies breaking free from the Crown. Check out this Special Independence Day episode of Impolite Company.

On today's episode, we talk about the bat cave. Our guest is Tommy Hoke, the founder and organizer of the Save the Bats of Huntsville Campaign. 1 million plus bats live in an abandoned cotton warehouse outside of the state prison in Huntsville. The prison wants to tear the building down, which would displace the bats, and put a horrific burden on the people of Huntsville. The bats will infest the residences of the people, and will have to be destroyed if the prison goes through with the plan. Help Save The Bats by watching today's episode of Impolite Company.

On today's episode of Impolite Company, we sit down with Councilman John Escoto of the small city of Shenandoah Texas. John is running for mayor of Shenandoah, and has had a very interesting career in government at all levels. Find out why he wants to become the next mayor, and what qualifies him for the position. The latest in our continued focus on political candidates in Montgomery County Texas, the Reddest of the Red counties in America!

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place. No topic is off limits, and the pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness is always a priority. Finding ourselves in the midst of a culture war in which “the wrong” opinion can get you “canceled” it has never been more important for our civil society to discuss the important issues, even if it is Impolite.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place. No topic is off limits, and the pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness is always a priority. Finding ourselves in the midst of a culture war in which “the wrong” opinion can get you “canceled” it has never been more important for our civil society to discuss the important issues, even if it is Impolite.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place.

Impolite Company is a show where we discuss all the things that you're not supposed to talk about in polite company, politics, religion, and all the other things that truly matter. The show follows a long form interview format allowing guests to get past talking points and sound clips. On the show, we go deep into the issues, discussing not just the topics at hand, but the philosophy, and theory behind why the guests advocate the positions that they do. This allows the guest to dive deep into the issues that they are passionate about, which is why we have them on the show in the first place.

We are a culture full of morons who buy exploding Teslas, refuse lifesaving vaccines, think eating a Kit Kat the "wrong way" is a punchable offense, and refuse to zipper merge because someone else might get somewhere 10 seconds before us. Also, Chris bought a new car and reflects on how it is impossible for car dealers to make that transaction simple. It's a lot of exposition disguised as plot on the latest episode of Impolite Company! Our theme song was written and produced by Lyfestile and Kenautis Smith. Check out their albums, "From Which I Came," and their newest release "Where I'm At" on Spotify, Apple Music, or every other platform. Support independent artists! Follow Chris on Twitter and Instagram where he's @chrisdcyr, and on Facebook. Enjoy this episode of Impolite Company Listen at the link below, or on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and whatever other platform you're into. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

Why are you letting Zuckerberg attack your psyche each morning by pelting you with memories of the past year? Isn't there a rule against a band playing Pearl Jam's "Black" at a paid gig? Should potential editors of magazines really be held liable for things they Tweeted in high school? And can you even comprehend the spiritual and emotional depths of the existential crisis created when America's greatest comfort food can't be trusted? Have fun with the latest edition of Impolite Company! Our theme song was written and produced by Lyfestile and Kenautis Smith. Check out their albums, "From Which I Came," and their newest release "Where I'm At" on Spotify, Apple Music, or every other platform. Support independent artists! Follow Chris on Twitter and Instagram where he's @chrisdcyr, and on Facebook. Enjoy this episode of Impolite Company Listen at the link below, or on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and whatever other platform you're into. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

On the newest episode of Impolite Company, Chris compares CPAC to way better conventions he's attended. Apparently, the CPAC costumes are way worse. He wonders if Reagan and Rush Limbaugh are burning in Hell together. Also, an explanation for how drinking milk ever became a thing. Have fun with the latest edition of Impolite Company! Our theme song was written and produced by Lyfestile and Kenautis Smith. Check out their albums, "From Which I Came," and their newest release "Where I'm At" on Spotify, Apple Music, or every other platform. Support independent artists! Follow Chris on Twitter and Instagram where he's @chrisdcyr, and on Facebook. Enjoy this episode of Impolite Company Listen at the link below, or on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and whatever other platform you're into. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

The pandemic continues, but that doesn't stop a significant part of the internet from being outraged by Phoebe Bridgers' appearance on SNL.  Impolite host, Chris Cyr, wonders what those people would do if they saw someone bite the head off of a bat?  The cowardice of a former president to not show up for a battle he doesn't even have the chance of losing.  Should we have had Super Bowl commercials featuring people walking around unmasked? And, why do people only pay it forward in the line of Starbucks and not in more useful places? Have fun with the latest edition of Impolite Company! Our theme song was written and produced by Lyfestile and Kenautis Smith.  Check out their albums, "From Which I Came," and their newest release "Where I'm At"  on Spotify, Apple Music, or every other platform.  Support independent artists! Follow Chris on Twitter and Instagram where he's @chrisdcyr, and on Facebook. Enjoy this episode of Impolite Company Listen at the link below, or on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and whatever other platform you're into. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

On today's Impolite Company, in the course of talking about the crazy blonde congresswoman who thinks Pizzagate was real, Chris wonders if there's a way for society to objectively identify people too stupid to be allowed to have opinions, and then allow the state to intercede and make all decisions for that objectively stupid person. You know. Basically fascism. Also, Butch Bowers, attorney at law and muscle car salesman. Enjoy Our theme song was written and produced by Lyfestile and Kenautis Smith. Check out their albums, "From Which I Came," and their newest release "Where I'm At" on Spotify, Apple Music, or every other platform. Support independent artists! Follow Chris on Twitter and Instagram where he's @chrisdcyr, and on Facebook. Enjoy this episode of Impolite Company Listen at the link below, or on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and whatever other platform you're into. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

Chris Cyr returns for Season 4 of Impolite Company and the first episode lives up to the show's name. On the agenda are American politics and the failed right wing insurrection. He wonders why conservatives of different stripes will hug each other tightly regardless of how much they disagree, whereas liberals and progressives will re-enact the fight scene from Michal Jackson's "Beat It" video over the slightest difference. Hallmark donated $11,000 to Josh Hawley's election campaign. And, people who started relationships and moved in together before the pandemic hit might be the true heroes of 2020. As always, a million other topics on tens of other tangents. Happy new year, it's Impolite Company. Our theme song was written and produced by Lyfestile and Kenautis Smith. Check out their albums, "From Which I Came," and their newest release "Where I'm At" on Spotify, Apple Music, or every other platform. Support independent artists! Follow Chris on Twitter and Instagram where he's @chrisdcyr, and on Facebook. Enjoy this episode of Impolite Company Listen at the link below, or on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and whatever other platform you're into. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

Chris Cyr has been doing comedy across the Midwest for the last eight years. A St. Louis native, Cyr works at the Helium and Funny Bone comedy clubs in the city along with producing his own shows and running an open mic. Busy guy. The host of the Impolite Company podcast and a feature at Helium, Cyr has opened for Mark Normand, JB Smoove, Kyle Kinane and Christopher Titus -- even if it meant pausing Fuller House.Follow Chris CyrFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheChrisCyrInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisdcyr/Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisdcyrImpolite Company: https://impolitecompany.com/Become a Patron!On the Zoom Comedy Show, Saturday, Dec. 5: https://www.facebook.com/events/725291855038274Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/OnTheMicWithMikePeters/)

Mollie Amburgey joins host Chris Cyr on Impolite Company for this episode's edition of "Who's Effing?". But first, a sketch about hunting a mythical creature we keep hearing about on CNN. Keep up with Mollie through her podcast, "Casually Mollie" available wherever you get your podcasts. Our theme song was written and produced by Lyfestile and Kenautis Smith. Check out their album, "From Which I Came" on Spotify, Apple Music, or every other platform. Enjoy this episode of Impolite Company Listen at the link below, or on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and whatever other platform you're into. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

This Is My Story is a special season of Impolite Company focused on telling the stories of women who have made voting an act of faith. In this first episode, we talk with Megan Westra, a Milwaukee-based pastor and author of the new book Born Again and Again: Jesus' Call to Radical Transformation. You can find Megan online at meganwestra.com (https://meganwestra.com/) and buy her book (https://bookshop.org/books/born-again-and-again-jesus-call-to-radical-transformation/9781513806747) by supporting independent bookstores. Continue the conversation with us at https://www.facebook.com/thisismystoryproject EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:    AMY SULLIVAN: I’m Amy Sullivan, and you’re listening to This Is My Story, a special season of Impolite Company.    Each week, we’ve be joined by a woman who was once solidly rooted in the world of conservative white Christianity, but whose faith and politics have since shifted. She’ll tell us that story, about what convicted her to see loving her neighbor as a commandment to shape not only how she lives her life, but also how she votes.   In this first episode, I’m talking with Megan Westra, a Milwaukee-based pastor and writer. Megan grew up in Appalachia, in the kind of evangelical community where sometimes kids rededicated themselves to Christ before they were even out of elementary school—because you can never be too sure. She’s the author of a new book called “Born Again and Again: Jesus’ Call to Radical Transformation.” It takes a hard look at the stories so many of us were taught about Christianity, unravels them, and then puts them back together with refreshingly practical suggestions for both churches and individuals who are looking to embody a different kind of Christianity.   As Lisa Sharon Harper says in her foreword to the book, “Megan invites those disillusioned by a white Jesus to be born again, again.”   And in Megan’s case, that may technically be born again, again, again. But I’ll let her tell it. This is her story.    MEGAN WESTRA: I was born and raised right on the West Virginia/Virginia border, so in the Appalachian mountains. A little bit further north than the heart of the Bible Belt, but still definitely in that part of the country. The very first church experience I had was we went to a United Methodist congregation for the first ten years of my life that my great-grandparents had helped found. I was super-super-churched—going to the United Methodist church on Sundays, but then I went with a friend to an Awana program at their Baptist church. I was a kid of the South in the 90s! If there was a church thing, I was there. Church camp, church whatever.    In my book, I talk about how I got saved for the first time when I was four years old, apparently. I don’t remember that, but that’s what my mom always told me. From the get-go—I do not have memories outside of a life that was steeped in some kind of faith.    Now, granted, growing up it was this very traditionally evangelical—like, altar calls at the end of every service, “If you were driving home from church tonight and you got in a car accident, do you know where you would go?” Right, that kind of rhetoric. And very much defined by all of the markers that we’ve become familiar with since 2016, as far as, what are the things that evangelicals care about. Well, we want somebody who says that they oppose abortion. And I want to be real clear—they say that they oppose abortion.   AS: And were those messages, in terms of what the political priorities were, cultural priorities—were those explicit? Or are those things that you just pick up from being part of the community?   MW: That we should support pro-life candidates, and only pro-life Republican candidates, was pretty explicit from really early on in my life. I remember being in elementary school, and I was watching Nickelodeon with my cousins at my grandparents’ house, and there was a kids’ election poll. I don’t even remember who was running—it was one of the Clinton terms, though. You still called in on your landline phone because cellphones weren’t a thing yet. And you pressed “1” to vote for one person and “2” to vote for the other. My cousins both called in and voted for Bill Clinton. And I was like, “I’m sorry—what? What? That’s not allowed.” That was my framework, even as a young child. You’re not allowed to do that and love Jesus.   AS: I love that you write about rededicating your life to Christ by the age of, what, 12?    MW: Yeah! The ripe old age of 12!   AS: You are not the first person I’ve talked to who felt like they must have erred at some point and had to rededicate themselves at age 8 or 10 or 12. What was your sense of what was required of you as a Christian?   MW: I don’t even know if I had a really strong sense of what that would have looked like. If someone had sat 10-year-old me down and told me my life: Megan, you are in church three days a week and you help your parents with things and you go visit your grandparents. All the little things that kids do to try to be good little humans. If somebody had sat me down and said, what else would the Lord require of you? I don’t think I could have answered that question. It more came down to this constant image of God that I was being fed, by faith leaders from the pulpit on Sunday mornings, in Sunday school lessons.  That God was angry and needed to be appeased. You had to accept Jesus into your heart. And God killed Jesus so that you could be—not even okay with God, but God wouldn’t burn you forever because God killed God’s son.    That’s such a horrible story. That’s a terrible story!   AS: Well, it’s definitely not an uplifting story, that’s for sure. You know, I really connected to the kind of Catch-22 that you write about, that if you’re a child who grows up in the church, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re already on the straight and narrow. And yet the church places such an emphasis on having a story of transformation. What do you do if there’s no turnaround that has to be effected? I’m wondering—so you’re a self-described super-church kid, you’ve been saved multiple times. What was your thinking as you approached the end of high school?   MW: I’m feel like I’m kind of a stereotype because I came up through youth group in a period when the assumption was: “When you get to college, your faith is going to be challenged. You’re going to have to work really hard to not let the ‘liberal’ professors pull you away from God. So be prepared. Be prepared to have to stand for your faith. Going into the university, be prepared to be persecuted. Be ready.”   So I went a small Christian college in part because that was, “Well, if you don’t want to be completely dragged away, you should go to a Christian college. It’ll still be hard! You’re still going to be pulled by the influences of the world and of academia! But at least you’ll have some strong Christian professors who will be helping you.”   I went to a small Christian college there in my hometown, both because that seemed to make a lot of sense and my parents really encouraged that. I didn’t give a whole lot of thought to it beyond, I need to be prepared to defend my faith, even on this small Christian college campus. And just assumed that was what I would have to do, that I would get there and there would be some professors that would be really supportive and there would be professors who would try to “lure” me away. I remember in my freshman year, all of us from a fundamentalist background whispering about a professor who didn’t believe in inerrancy.    There would be some professors who would try to lure me away. I remember in my freshman year, all of us whispering—those of us who were coming out of a more fundamentalist background: “Oh, watch out for this one professor. He doesn’t believe in inerrancy. You have to be careful in his class!” And I just laugh about that now, because I’m like, “Oh, man, I probably should have paid more attention in his class. I probably would have learned some really great things.”    AS: But it turns out that your faith was challenged in college. Just not in the way you had anticipated...    Link to full transcript of This Is My Story, Episode 1  

Coming Soon: This Is My Story, a special season of Impolite Company, focused on telling the stories of women who have made voting an act of faith. TRAILER TRANSCRIPT: I’m Amy Sullivan, and you’re listening to This Is My Story, a special season of Impolite Company.   In the conservative Baptist church in the Midwest where I grew up, women weren’t allowed to have roles in Sunday worship, outside of the music ministry. They didn’t even pass out bulletins as ushers. Although, to be honest, I’m not sure what biblical authority would have been violated there.   Instead, once a year, we’d hold Women’s Sunday, letting women pretend they were in charge for the day. There was obviously no question of having a woman preach. So instead of a sermon, every year one woman would share her testimony. Because apparently the men of the church decided that was safe. After all, it was just her own story.   They didn’t understand the power of stories.   You see, personal stories are how we relate to one another. More than that, research tells us that the most effective social change happens through storytelling, that people are most persuaded by their peers who have stood where they are. People need to feel understood, and they need to hear that change is possible.   That’s why I’ve left two decades in journalism to launch This Is My Story, a new initiative to help women tell their stories of making voting an act of faith. In each of the twelve weeks between now and Election Day, this special podcast season of the same name will tell the story of a different woman’s shift in her faith and politics, about what convicted her to see loving her neighbor as a commandment to shape not only how she lives her life, but also how she votes.   We’ll talk to women who were once firmly in the conservative Christian world. They include former street-corner evangelists, crisis pregnancy clinic workers, and a surprising number of former missionaries. You’ll hear how each of them ventured outside the bubbles in which they’d been raised, and what it was that caused them to embrace a kind of politics that’s more focused on loving our neighbors than protecting an in-group.   We would love to have you join us for this special season. Subscribe to Impolite Company wherever you listen to podcasts. And follow us on ThisIsMyStoryProject.com (http://thisismystoryproject.com) for more conversation, free downloads, and live events. It’s long past time to use the power of our stories to bring about justice and change. 

The first in a series featuring our new segment, "Who's F@*%ing?" Chris interviews Ellen Doyle, a traveling comic who's sheltering in Pennsylvania. The two discuss everything from dating apps, to the best review Ellen's ever received from an audience member. Also, CSI: Madea. Enjoy this new episode of Impolite Company. Ellen Doyle is the favorite child of two fifth generation coal miners. She was famously the fourth heterosexual to graduate from her all girls college, but has so far been unable to produce genetic proof of her love for reproductive sex due to black magic. She moved to the west coast to pursue her lifelong dream of creating reality television but has been forced into a life of stand up comedy due to the fact that everyone just watches Netflix now. Ellen has been known to being nice to animals and children (in that order) and dreams of doing comedy for poor kids in no kill shelters. So far she has had to settle for performing at the SLO Comedy Festival, The World Series of Comedy, The North Carolina Comedy Festival, Sno Jam Comedy Festival, Mutiny Radio Comedy Festival, The Paul Bunyan Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. She tours the United states in a leased 2018 Kia Sorento that is well over its miles. She has been featured at clubs, breweries, coffee shops and public restrooms across America's heartland. She owns a dog named "Ghost". Ghost was featured on animal planets "Rescue Dog to Super Dog". Ellen has no on camera credits. Dog:1 Owner: 0 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

It's one of those ranty kind of nights where Chris watched too much CNN.  The target of his ire?  Armed protesters in Michigan and elsewhere, the militia guarding an angry barber, pickup driving rednecks who murdered a man, and a rampaging herd of 200 goats. Enjoy this new episode of Impolite Company.  Or don't.  We're not cops. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

A dead cat. Survivalists. Phone sex.  Not all part of the same story.  Today's quarantine episode of Impolite Company has something for everyone. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

From the stasis of quarantine, Chris Cyr gives you the top 10 ways you can prove yourself useful to future aliens who happen to thaw you out in hopes of learning something about the human race.  Also, buy a shop vac.   It's Impolite Company time! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

Kenny Rogers is dead. That's not cool. Chris recalls some inappropriate childhood moments, along with some sweet moments involving "The Gambler." Who bought all of the Nintendo Switches? St. Louis locks down at 6:00 p.m. on Monday 3/23/2020. Impolite Company is Quarantined! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

After a long hiatus, Chris Cyr returns to the Impolite Company microphone, recording from the dining room table as he, and the rest of America, have been told to stay indoors and self isolate in order to not bring about an apocalypse. The sound you hear in the background might be the refrigerator, or it might be the hooves of the fourth horseman running down Route 66. Also, a discussion of ninja smoke bombs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/impolite-company/support

Politics and religion. The topics you aren't supposed to talk about, but can't ignore these days. Nish Weiseth (author, speaker, podcast host) is on to help us understand the disturbing relationship between Evangelicals and right wing politicians in the U.S. and what a faithful response could look like. Nish, along with Amy Sullivan, is the co-host of Impolite Company, a podcast that covers religions and politics with depth and insight. Nish's op-ed pieces have been featured in Cosmopolitan and Christianity Today, and she authored the book Speak: How Your Story Can Change the World. Check out more from Nish at https://www.nishweiseth.com/. Don't forget to head over to Theology Corner for like-minded voices, and check out Light Theory if you enjoyed the intro and outro music.   A couple of great organizations we mention in this episode: Autistic Self Advocacy Network and Refugee Council USA.

Kate Warren, aka GoKateShoot, is a photographer and creative entrepreneur whose work has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Playboy Magazine to name a few. This week's convo covered everything from pushing creative boundaries and making the art you want to see in DC, the #PussyGrabsBack and Impolite Company photo series, working with the first hijabi woman to pose for Playboy Magazine, her upcoming projects with the Hirshhorn Museum and FotoweekDC, what's good on TV and more. You just need to press play. Spread the word and follow us. All The Fly Kids on everything. Website - www.gokateshoot.com Social Media - [at]GoKateShoot