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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry, and this is a little leader where I read the stories that you send to me.

If you have a story you would like to share with the cult, you know what to do. Just send it on over to Spencer at Cult Leader.com.

We're going to be Friday Babes. This week on Cult Leader we had part 2 of the Church of Satan with Madison joining us for those episodes and that was so much fun.

I'm enjoying seeing everyone's messages about Satanism, the Church of Satan, Satanic Temple. There's just so much to discover, so much to learn.

Okay, wait, speaking of, because a lot of people were sending this to me, somebody tried to burn down the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts, which is just so fucked. There was this crazy guy who just went and set their porch on fire because he claimed that they were devil worshipers and that he wouldn't lose any sleep if anyone in that building got hurt.

This 42 year old Daniel Lucy from Chelsea showed up in Salem, goes to the house, and then he pours like lighter fluid, leaves a Bible, and a copy of the US Constitution on the porch, and sets it on fire.

Luckily nobody was hurt, but there was obviously damage to the building, but just like, what an asshole. Clearly it doesn't know anything about the Satanic Temple.

Luckily they were able to quickly identify and arrest him, but speaking of Madison, we celebrated our one year anniversary of obituary with a very special episode this week looking back at the year in review, and I forgot how much insanity there was from death erections to exploding coffins, and while a lot of wild obituaries.

You gotta love it. I'm trying to think what else happened this week. I'll tell you this, I am sore today, I am physically exhausted. Did you even work out if you didn't tell people about your workout? Who knows?

But last week I got together with my friend Heidi, and we went to a soul cycle-esque spin class together, and I have not done a group workout class like that in a very long time pre-pandemic.

I had a lot of fun, I went again yesterday, I'm going again tomorrow, so watch out because I'm entering my fitness era, but I'm telling you this, because I had forgotten how good mentally it feels to do something like that.

Like I was talking to my therapist about it this week, because I was like, I don't like the gym, because I lose focus so easily, and I'm sure that's just like my ADHD.

When I go to the gym, I have a very hard time like keeping myself on track or keeping myself motivated, so I really thrive when I'm in a group setting.

I'm the person I love a class where the instructor is yelling at you like, you need to keep going, go, go, go, go, go, because that is the only way that I will keep up.

So hey, if you need to shut your brain off, try a group workout, that's my mental health PSA of the day. I know some people work better when they can like have their routine, and they go to the gym, and they go do this set, this set, this set, no, no, no, no, no, no, I can't do it, I just need someone to yell at me all the time.

In some outer space news, I guess we'll call it, I don't know how to transition to this. We've talked about aliens I'd hear before, should we do another one? I want to selfishly, because I want to learn more about the Roswell incident, maybe we can do like a list episode, maybe we'll do a list episode of people that have claimed to be abducted by aliens, I feel like that would be fun.

And I don't think we've done that before, maybe we should, not next week, because that's done already, and I think you guys are going to love it, but maybe the week after we can do something, something extra terrestrial.

We've been so caught up in earthly religious drama, maybe it'll be a fun little episode to do in between. Well, anyway, the whole reason I'm bringing this up is because I want to talk about this article I read from LiveScience.com, or LiveScience, I never know.

About this story that came out last week from China, where they claimed that they may have received signals from aliens, but then they suddenly, like, retracted their claim, which I found to be odd.

This article says, China says it may have received signals from aliens. Scientists have yet to roll out human radio interference as the signal source.

China is claiming that its enormous sky-eye telescope may have picked up trace signals from a distant alien civilization, according to a recently posted and subsequently deleted report by Chinese scientists.

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