517 - Two-Faced: John of God
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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4.6 • 179.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, Karen and Georgia sit down with journalist, podcast producer and Adonde Media founder Martina Castro to talk about Exactly Right’s newest limited series, Two-Faced: John of God. They discuss how a Brazilian spiritual leader built a global following by claiming to perform miraculous medical procedures — and what happened when the truth behind his empire began to emerge.
Two-Faced: John of God premieres Wednesday, February 4th, with new episodes in both English and Spanish released every Wednesday. The six-episode limited series is produced by Exactly Right Media and Adonde Media.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:07.0 | People who didn't do what John of God wanted them to do, they usually disappeared. |
| 0:15.0 | John of God was once Brazil's most famous spiritual healer. |
| 0:20.0 | But in this limited series podcast, we uncover the darker truth behind his global empire of faith and fear. |
| 0:29.0 | From exactly right and Adonde Media, this is two-faced, John of God. |
| 0:34.6 | Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.5 | Hello. Hello and welcome to my favorite murder. |
| 1:01.7 | That's Georgia Hardstock. |
| 1:02.8 | That's Karen Kilgariff. |
| 1:04.9 | And today we are very excited. |
| 1:09.3 | We have an amazing journalist, producer, educator who is here with us. She is the co-founder of NPR's Radio Ambulante, and she heads her own |
| 1:14.1 | multilingual podcast production company, Adande Media. And she's the creator and host of Exactly |
| 1:20.3 | Right Media's first bilingual podcast, To Face John of God, which follows the rise and fall of a celebrated |
| 1:26.1 | Brazilian spiritual healer who built a |
| 1:28.6 | holy empire and the criminal activity that made it possible and the powerful network of believers |
| 1:34.1 | who protect him even to this day. |
| 1:36.6 | Please welcome Martina Castro. |
| 1:38.8 | Yay! |
| 1:39.8 | Yay! |
| 1:40.8 | So excited to be here. |
| 1:42.5 | Yeah, you being here is incredible because that means it's happening. |
| 1:45.5 | Yeah, it's really is. |
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