Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here.

Thank you so much for checking out my show.

Question for you.

Have you noticed lately how much pop culture is centered around Mormons?

I'm talking about shows like the secret lives of Mormon wives.

Name calling, talking down to each other threats, bringing this energy of Mormons gone wild.

Or the real housewives of Salt Lake City.

I'm sure other Mormons care that I own a tequila company.

What's important is that I don't.

You can also see it on TikTok with Mormon influencers like ballerina farm.

The entire tradwife phenomenon,

that is pretty Mormon as well. We do pray a lot. Like, God, like, help us know, like, what we're supposed to share. Help us know, like, you know, our boundaries on that with, like, our kids and

our business and all the things. One could argue that American pop culture is in the midst of a big Mormon moment.

Bridget Reid wrote about just this

for the newest issue of New York Magazine.

Title of her piece, Under the Mormon Influence.

Bridget says,

America has actually had a big Mormon pop culture moment before,

but this one, in some really big ways,

is quite different from the last one. Let's get into it.

Yes, we are in the second Mormon moment. So a little over a decade ago, if you remember when Mitt Romney was

running for president and Book of Mormon had come out, 2011, 2012, that was deemed in the media

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