The True Crime Podcast, Sacred Scandal, returns for a second season to investigate a led sexual abuse at Mexico's La Luz del Mundo Mega Church.

Journalist Robert Garza explores survivor stories of pure evil experiences at the hands of a self-proclaimed apostle who is now behind bars.

I remember as a little girl being groomed to be his concubine, that's how I was raised. It is not wrong if you take your clothes off for the apostle.

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What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II? An opera singer who burned down an honorary to kidnap her lover,

and a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils, haven't comment.

They're all real women who were left out of your history books.

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I'm Bridget Todd and for the last three years I've been answering questions about technology, the internet, and how it shows up in all of our lives.

On my award-winning podcast there are no girls on the internet, but it feels like we're in kind of a weird moment when it comes to tech, and even I don't know where we're headed.

On the brand new season of there are no girls on the internet, we'll hear from the women and other marginalized people creating a better, brighter, and more inclusive tech future.

Listen to the new season of there are no girls on the internet, on the IHOR radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

The first several episodes of this podcast have gotten a more enthusiastic reaction than I could have ever guessed. I'm very grateful for that.

The motivation for doing this show comes out of a very deep fear I feel towards where this country is headed and what might happen if our present destructive course is not somehow arrested and averted.

So I'm glad that this has gone the podcast equivalent of viral. I'm proud that so many people have reached out to tell me the impact it's had on them.

But I'm also troubled by some things, and I hope you'll indulge me in a little bit of creative narcissism as I analyze my own work, because the success thus far of it could happen here has also given me a very clear understanding of some of its flaws.

For one thing, it's become very clear to me that this show has terrified an awful lot of people. To some extent that was my goal from the beginning.

I've been scared about this for a long time, and I wanted political moderates and liberals to see the dangers I see.

But a number of people have reached out to me and expressed feelings of hopelessness, and an earpanic feeling that there is nothing they can do to stop this.

It was my plan to build to an episode about, you know, things people could do to help make the Second American Civil War less likely, and in this series on an optimistic note.

There's certainly more than a little bit of narcissism in that as well, but from a storytelling standpoint, it makes sense to keep building tension right up until the end, and then close out on a hopeful note.

However, this is not just an exercise in storytelling. It's a work of journalism, and given the kind of emotional impact podcasts have on their listeners, I think it would be irresponsible to go that long without providing some suggestions for how folks might stop all of this.

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