WELCOME SISTREN - to the Church of the Unkind Laughing Thing - where improv comedy meets investigative journalism.

Each season we review one of the weirdest cults that we can find for the express purpose of lampooning, for our sarcasm pleases the eldritch entity known as the Unkind Laughing Thing (praise his spindly fore-tendril!)

So join us in the great hall for worship and deliver up your laughter as a sacrifice to the one true god.

Ben thinks this is a podcast where he and Hunter try to be better people by reading big books.

Hunter thinks it’s an audio seminary on moral improvement via literary masterpieces from the greatest authors contemporary and historic.

The rest of us just listen.