Brews With Boos

Krissy cracks open a beer and immediately picks a fight with the sentence every single one of us has said while watching a cult documentary: “Yeah, but I would NEVER join a cult.” Bitch… you sure about that? 👀🍺

Part 4 of Who Invented Evil? flips the script again because after spending October figuring out where humans find evil, what happens when somebody walks into the room and says, “I know exactly what’s wrong with the world… and I can save you”?

This week we’re getting into what the fuck a cult even IS, why smart, educated, successful people absolutely end up inside them, how “we finally understand you” can quietly become “only WE understand you,” and why cults didn’t disappear when robes and communes went out of style, babe… they got a fucking rebrand.

And then the Long Pour goes completely off the rails. Jim Jones and the beginning of Peoples Temple nobody talks about enough, Synanon somehow going from addiction recovery to a FUCKING RATTLESNAKE IN A MAILBOX, Rajneeshpuram and the words salad bar bioterrorism, Keith “Vanguard” Raniere turning executive self-improvement into NXIVM’s absolute nightmare, Aum Shinrikyo going from spirituality to NERVE GAS, and even the anti-cult people occasionally making us go, “HOLD ON BITCH, YOUR SOLUTION WAS WHAT?!”

Because nobody joins the horrifying ending we see in the documentary. They join the community. The purpose. The healing. The promise. They join the answer. And somewhere along the way, the really dangerous question becomes… what happens when the answer becomes a person?

So grab a drink, Ghosties, because we are once again asking the question that will not leave us the fuck alone this Halloween:

Who’s the bad guy here… and who the fuck told you?

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Krissy cracks open a beer literally called Satanic Panic and immediately asks the question America probably should have asked a hell of a lot sooner: who’s the bad guy here... and who the fuck told you? 👀🍺

This week, Who Invented Evil? barrels headfirst into the absolute cultural fever dream of the Satanic Panic, where secret cults were supposedly hiding in daycares, heavy metal was corrupting teenagers, Dungeons & Dragons was apparently a gateway drug to Lucifer, backwards records had Satan whispering instructions, therapists were uncovering buried ritual-abuse memories, and television was basically screaming, “THE DEVIL IS IN YOUR SUBURB.” Krissy digs into how this shit actually snowballed, from Michelle Remembers and McMartin Preschool to BADD, Judas Priest, Geraldo, law enforcement “occult” training, the FBI eventually asking where the fuck all the evidence was, and the cultural fallout that helped shape cases like the West Memphis Three.

And because this is Brews With Boo’s, we are not just laughing at how batshit some of it sounds. We’re asking the uncomfortable part: what happens when scared people genuinely believe they are fighting evil, and fear starts deciding what counts as proof? Because once everybody already knows what the monster is supposed to look like, it becomes dangerously easy to find one.

Grab a drink, bring your bullshit detector, and prepare to say “BITCH, WHAT?!” approximately every nine minutes.

Who’s the bad guy here... and who the fuck told you?

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Krissy cracks open a beer and immediately starts asking the question nobody warned her would require several thousand years of historical fuckery: what the hell even IS a witch, and who decided she was evil?

This week on Brews With Boo’s, we’re continuing Who Invented Evil? by digging into the messy history of witchcraft, back before the pointy hats, broomsticks, green skin, and Satan somehow getting added to everybody’s résumé. We’re talking folk healing, curses, cunning folk, harmful magic, demonology, witch-hunting manuals, suspicious livestock deaths, supernatural Help Desks, and the absolutely bonkers cultural group project that eventually created the witch we picture today.

Then the Long Pour takes us to Scotland in 1590 for the story of Agnes Sampson, a respected healer who gets pulled into the North Berwick witch trials after tortured accusations begin spreading through the community. And bitch... this story has EVERYTHING. A teenage queen getting absolutely bullied by the North Sea, King James making an unwanted return to the podcast, tortured confessions, secret witch gatherings, Satan allegedly showing up to church, a fucking cat being accused of WEATHER ASSASSINATION, royal dirty laundry, magical murder plots, and one very important question:

Were they uncovering evil... or building the monster they already expected to find?

Grab your drink, bring your suspicious face, and come get historically nosy with me because apparently this week we are prosecuting the fucking weather.

👻🍺 Who’s the bad guy here... and who the fuck told you?

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Krissy cracks open a beer and kicks off spooky season by asking a question that absolutely did not need to become this much of a fucking problem: who invented evil?

With a Monk’s Blood in hand, we’re digging into the messy, weird-as-hell history behind Satan, demons, possession, and the devil we all think we know. Because somehow we got from a serpent in a garden asking if anybody wants a snack to horns, Hell, exorcisms, demonic possession, green vomit, and an entire horror genre being like, “Yep, seems right.”

But here’s the problem: the snake in Genesis isn’t actually introduced as Satan. The Satan we meet in Job is hanging around the heavenly meeting like he has a fucking calendar invite. God brings Job up FIRST, permission gets handed out, and suddenly the nice clean “God good, devil bad” version some of us grew up with has a whole lot more explaining to do. Then Enoch crashes the party, demons start getting backstories, possession enters the chat, other religious and spiritual traditions completely fuck with the idea that evil even needs one supernatural bad guy, and eventually humans do what humans do best: start pointing at each other and claiming they know exactly where evil lives.

So how the hell did all of these different stories, interpretations, fears, accusations, books, folklore, religion, and eventually Hollywood get mashed together into the Satan we picture today?

Ghosties, welcome to WHO INVENTED EVIL?, our October rabbit hole into one very uncomfortable question:

Who’s the bad guy here... and who the fuck told you? 👻🍺😈

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Krissy cracks open a beer and accidentally falls headfirst into one of the messiest royal rabbit holes in history.

What starts as research into the Book of Enoch somehow turns into King James VI & I, the thirteen-month-old baby king who grows up surrounded by murder, kidnappings, religious chaos, witch trials, demonology, political paranoia, suspiciously powerful favorites, thirty-six barrels of gunpowder, and one Bible he absolutely did NOT personally write.

We’re talking Mary, Queen of Scots, a murdered father, an embalmed heart in the mail, witches allegedly traveling in sieves, Satan holding church, James publishing an actual demon handbook, the Gunpowder Plot, poisoned tarts, a possible poisoned enema, George Villiers becoming the royal thirst trap to end all royal thirst traps, and finally the question that started this whole disaster: did King James actually remove books like Enoch from the Bible?

Spoiler: no.

But somehow the real story is WAY more unhinged.

Grab a drink, Ghosties. This is King James: brilliant, paranoid, dramatic, wildly opinionated, and armed with several kingdoms and absolutely no mute button. 🍺👻📖👑

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Krissy cracks open a beer and immediately regrets asking one extremely simple question: how much of the Lizzie Borden story do we actually fucking know? Spoiler alert, Ghosties: apparently NOTHING can behave normally in Fall River. We’re talking Victorian family money drama, basement toilets, suspicious real estate, violent food poisoning, prussic acid, a mystery note nobody has ever seen, Uncle Horse Business sleeping in the future murder room, three pears carrying the legal weight of an entire defense team, a handleless hatchet that refuses to cooperate, a burned dress, courtroom skulls, barn dust, secret lovers who probably weren’t secret lovers, alleged illegitimate sons, historical telephone, and eventually GHOSTS because apparently the living had 130 years to solve this shit and accomplished fuck all. Krissy digs past the nursery rhyme and into the actual testimony, trial evidence, contradictions, alternate suspects and absolute circus that turned an acquitted woman into America’s permanent axe murderer, while repeatedly asking the only reasonable question left: WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING? Grab a drink, protect your pears, and buckle up, because Ryan Murphy made Krissy open tabs and now everybody has homework. 🪓🍺👻

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Krissy cracks open a beer and dives headfirst into the absolute chaos surrounding the Lindsay Clancy case, because after five rewrites, four-plus hours of recording, and eight hours of editing, we have QUESTIONS, YOUR HONOR?!

This isn’t an episode arguing that Lindsay is innocent. It’s about what the Commonwealth was actually required to prove, what reasonable doubt really means in THIS case, and why so many pieces of the timeline, testimony, medical evidence, expert opinions, medications, memory, technology, and Patrick’s version of events left people with questions. We’re breaking down the things the internet keeps mashing together, the difference between postpartum mental health diagnoses, what Lindsay may actually remember versus what she was told afterward, the infamous timeline, the Apple Watch and devices, the experts, the contradictions, the mistrial chaos, and yes… Patrick gets a healthy serving of side-eye without us accusing the man of anything.

Basically, if your entire understanding of this case came from TikTok comments saying “she pled guilty” or “there’s literally no reasonable doubt,” grab a drink. We need to talk. 🍺👻

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Krissy cracks open a beer and dives headfirst into two cults that apparently looked at Earth and said, “Yeah… we’re gonna need a spaceship.”

First up, Love Has Won, where Amy Carlson becomes “Mother God,” Robin Williams somehow gets recruited into the Galactic group chat, colloidal silver becomes a terrible idea, Hawaii gets very understandably pissed off, and things eventually end with a mummified body wrapped in Christmas lights. Cool cool cool.

Then we head straight into Heaven’s Gate, where Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles build an alien theology out of Christianity, UFOs, weird little rules, literal “Away Team” language, a comet, matching Nikes, and more than twenty years of slowly convincing people that maybe Earth was just the waiting room.

This episode was absolutely not the one we planned to record, which honestly makes it better. It’s late, the beer is strong, the research is fresh, and Krissy is basically yelling “CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT?” into a microphone while trying to keep everyone from joining a cosmic death cult.

Everybody get back in the car.

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