Mormonism w/David Archuleta—Pt2: "Dev-OUT"
Was I in a Cult?
Liz Iacuzzi
4.5 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In Part 1, David Archuleta was the church's golden boy - the voice, the fame, the perfect Mormon billboard. In Part 2, that billboard comes down.
David goes on a two-year Mormon mission to Chile post fame, confronts the darkest chapter of his life, and finally faces the one thing he spent decades praying would go away. Tyler gets personal about his own loss. And David sings for us again.
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| 0:00.0 | The views, information, or opinions expressed by the guest appearing in this episode solely belong to the guest and do not represent or reflect the views or positions of the hosts, the show, podcast one, this network, or any of their respective affiliates. |
| 0:17.9 | Welcome back, friends, comrades, compatriots. |
| 0:25.8 | Strangers. |
| 0:27.8 | People in the abyss. |
| 0:30.5 | Welcome. |
| 0:31.5 | Robots. |
| 0:32.5 | No. |
| 0:33.7 | No robots? |
| 0:34.7 | Stay away robots. |
| 0:36.4 | Do not listen to our show robots. |
| 0:38.4 | I, for one, welcome our robot overlords. |
| 0:41.4 | This is Wazianicult, and I'm Liz Ayacuzi. |
| 0:45.1 | And I'm Tyler Isam, and we have Rob with us today, who, as you know, he pipes in every |
| 0:50.6 | once in a while on some of our shows. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm still here, everybody. I didn't get fired. Don't worry. |
| 0:55.0 | Nope. Long time listener. First time caller. |
| 0:57.8 | How has the cave been treating you, Rob? It's okay. I was staring at my shadow for a while, and that's really all the entertainment we have down there. Sorry, we forgot to bring you food a couple days in a row. Yeah. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.8 | There's some bugs you can find on the floor. |
| 1:11.7 | You're a resourceful young man. |
| 1:13.1 | You'll be fine. |
| 1:13.7 | There's some bugs you can find on the floor. You're a resourceful young man. You'll be fine. |
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