POPAPOLOGISTS with LAUREN AND CHAN
Weekly Trash
Josie Van Dyke
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
We are Dumpster Deep Diving the sisters behind the iconic podcast “Popapologists” ! We chat about their upbringing, them having different religious beliefs at a young age, college, starting the podcast (the first time), deleting the podcast, faith, career changes, restarting the podcast, meeting their spouses, sister fights, blowing up online and then getting canceled, learning lessons, Taylor swift and everything in between!
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| 0:49.3 | Hello everybody. Welcome to weekly trash, the safe place to cleanse your mind, body, and soul of all that trash you consume this week so you can consume some more tomorrow. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm your host, Josie Van Dyke, and I am sitting next to two incredible sisters, so studying, so hot. Chandler and Lauren from Pop Apologists. Hi. Hi. Welcome to Weekly Trash New York City. We're so excited to be here. Thank you for having us. I'm so excited. You guys are here. The Trashers are obsessed with you guys. Do you guys have a name for your listeners? Um, the pop apostles. The pop apostles. I'm obsessed. Okay, is that like a, so you guys have Mormon ties? Oh, yeah. Deep. All right. We're |
| 1:20.8 | going to get into that. I need to dumpster deep dive, you guys. I need to know everything about you. |
| 1:25.4 | You guys are sisters, obviously. I think I know who's |
| 1:28.6 | older. You're older, right? Okay. By how much? By five years. Wait, that's me and my sister and I feel like |
| 1:34.3 | we hate each other. If she's listening, Julia, I don't hate you. But like growing up, I feel like |
| 1:39.9 | we were not close at all. To be very clear, Lauren and I were not friends until I basically turned like 17. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay, good. |
| 1:48.0 | We did hate each other. |
| 1:49.0 | Okay. |
| 1:50.0 | I don't think we... |
| 1:51.0 | Like, we didn't vibe or click. |
| 1:53.0 | I think that we would have clicked if you hadn't stayed Mormon for so long. |
| 1:57.0 | But, Chamon was like a boring Mormon. |
| 1:59.0 | Okay. |
| 2:00.0 | First of all... We're getting right into it. I'm upset. Okay, I'm like a boring Mormon. Okay. Oh, we're getting right into it. |
| 2:01.2 | I'm upset. |
| 2:01.5 | Okay. |
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