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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: How Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Conversion therapy is a misguided attempt by religious zealots to convert people from gay to straight. News flash - it doesn't work. Learn all about this abhorrent practice in this classic episode.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.8

Good day, everyone. This is Chuck here on a Saturday with a Selects episode about conversion

0:10.8

therapy. Boo! And you know what? Regardless of what you think about conversion therapy,

0:16.7

it doesn't work. And so that's why this episode is titled, How Conversion Therapy doesn't work from November 2019.

0:23.5

And if you're wondering, before you listen,

0:25.2

what is conversion therapy?

0:26.6

That's when parents try to make their LGTBQ,

0:32.5

let's just put it in that whole bucket,

0:34.5

child, not that.

0:36.4

And it's just not possible because that's who they are.

0:39.6

So I hope you enjoy this episode.

0:41.6

And if you don't, keep it to yourself.

0:48.2

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:59.4

Hey. a production of iHeartRadio Hey and welcome to the podcast.

1:00.5

I'm Josh Clark.

1:02.3

There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

1:04.2

There's guest producer Josh over there.

1:06.1

Don't be confused, everybody.

1:09.0

There are more than one Josh in the world.

1:28.5

It's nice to hear you finally admit that. It's taken a long time. A lot of therapy. Hey, nice segue. It's like a short stuff. I'm like, let's get to it. Let's get going. Well, I have a COA to issue. You know what cracks me up is people who are still like, what does that mean? it out you can email eventually some people will uh yeah so my c oa is just a personal c oa that i'm going to

1:34.2

try and just disguise my disdain for this entire topic okay but i might not do a great job about it

1:41.1

well you've already shown your hand all right right, good. That's my COA.

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