From the Vault: Mystery Cults, Part 4
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe dive into the world of Greco-Roman Mystery Cults. What exactly were the Mysteries and how did they factor into religious practices of the day? Find out… (part 4 of 4) (originally published 3/13/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.3 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Bo Your Mind. |
| 0:12.4 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:14.1 | It is Saturday, so we have a vault episode for you. |
| 0:16.4 | This is part, what part is this? |
| 0:18.7 | This is part four of four in our mystery cult series that we've been rerunning. |
| 0:24.3 | This one originally published 313, 2025. |
| 0:27.7 | This should wrap it all up. |
| 0:29.3 | Let's jump right in and enjoy it. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:43.7 | Music Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:47.5 | And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with the fourth and final part in our discussion of the mystery cults of the ancient Greco-Roman |
| 0:55.4 | world. We had a break in the series on Tuesday of this week to air a conversation that we had |
| 1:01.8 | about amphibians with Mark Mandika of the Amphibian Foundation in Atlanta. And now we're back |
| 1:07.9 | to finish our business with the mysteries. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah, by the way, we also aired the interview because I was out of town to attend the IHeart Podcast Awards in Austin. |
| 1:24.1 | At South by Southwest, we were nominated for Best Science Podcast, which was awarded to Allie Ward's ologies, well deserved. |
| 1:26.3 | And I got to chat with her briefly, which was nice. |
| 1:28.3 | But seeing as how our nomination might have some new eyes on stuff to blow your mind, you might be wondering, |
| 1:33.0 | well, why is a science podcast talking about mystery cults and religion? Well, we talk about a lot of |
| 1:39.0 | things here on stuff to blow your mind. We consider ourselves a science and culture podcast, |
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