Inside the Call Center Cult

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week, Frank and Dan dig into the shocking story of a Florida pastor who ran a $50 million call center cult, complete with forced labor, starvation, and abuse in the name of God.

They also cover: Kristi Noem funneling Homeland Security funds to churches, the Taliban refusing to let men rescue women after an earthquake, a chaplain abusing detainees in ICE custody, and a Mormon columnist caught in a predator sting. Listener emails tackle everything from schizophrenia stigma to Dobson’s “strong-willed child” legacy.

And in the final segment: the Wall Street Journal’s profile of ex-Mormon TikTok influencers—and why Utah Senator Mike Lee is losing his mind over it.

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Epsiode 716

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, everybody.
0:19.1	Hi, friends.
0:20.1	Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. It's thank God I'm atheist.
0:24.7	Were we a couple of atheists, just normal dudes who don't believe in God, just try to make sense of this crazy mixed up, overly religified world.
0:37.0	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:38.2	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:39.5	And coming up on the show today, Dan, the Wall Street Journal, not a, not a publication we
0:45.9	tend to go to that rag for, for all of our stories, ran of a great story this week
0:53.0	about the rise of ex-Morman influencers on TikTok.
1:00.5	I don't know if you and I read the same article because I saw a hit piece about the Mormon church.
1:06.2	Well, that's what that's what Mike Lee saw as well, our esteemed Utah senator. Oh, to the,
1:13.5	our senator from Utah. So yeah, we're going to be shitting on Mike Lee, uh, coming in the,
1:20.1	in the, in the, you're not going to want to miss that. It's always open season on Mike Lee.
1:23.5	Mike Lee is he, he, he is a diarrhea fart of a person.
1:31.0	He's really he's unbelievably awful.
1:33.3	So piece of shit.
1:34.7	We'll be getting that to, or we'll be getting to that in the second half of the show.
1:40.0	But first, we have stories. Yeah. Things that happened from the news this week, including,
1:48.7	and I'm going to get started with this one, Dan, the ongoing fallout over the thoughts and
1:56.7	prayers that were extended to the families.
2:00.9	We're still doing thoughts and prayers. We're still doing thoughts and prayers.
2:02.6	We're still doing it?
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