For our season finale, we explore the iconic bond between a girl with too much money & not enough love and an animal with absolutely zero agency. Hosts Lauren McQ & Rebecca Rush know from experience that wild hearts can't be broken. You know who else knows that? HORSE GIRLS. What is a horse girl and why does everyone hate them? Why are men so jealo…

For the penultimate episode of season two: belonging, hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush retreat into the wide world of psychedelics as medicine with special guest Brittany Wilson of Original Instruction School. Brittany is an herbalist and midwife who has lived with indigenous cultures in South America and has been leading ayahuasca retreats for ov…

Lauren's Teal Swan episode as she brings us into a world she knows as intimately as her waking life -- comic book heroes, heroines, and anti-heroes. The simplicity of knowing who to root for in a land of goodies and baddies. Feeling like as a woman, one had to know more about everything and must always be ready to be quizzed on Star Wars by anyone.…

Hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush explore the ultimate in topics polite ladies don't discuss, the incredible, edible (maybe) menses. Period huts, red tents, witch imagery, gathering together to tell stories at the end of the month, religious taboos, indigenous practices, cultural taboos, herbal allies, and let us not forget Meghan Markle's work to …

Go on, have a little pyramid scheme income as a treat. Become a coffee shop missionary and have your church pay you to hang out in one all day. They aren't regular Christians, they are COOL CHRISTIANS. Hosts Rebecca Rush and Lauren McQ wanted to understand WHY people can't just be happy enough with their own beliefs and have to go trying to force t…

If there's anything more insiduous than a good ole fashioned American pyramid scheme it's once we involve the wellness industry. Snake essential oil salesman, the real customer is you, the 'salesforce', Anti MLM Reddit (ofc). Hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush bring you all the wild details on Herbalife, Doterra, and the satanic panic currently surr…

Find out why the studio Rebecca once called Yoga to SOME People shut down in 2020-- because it wasn't the pandemic. Hosts Lauren McQ & Rebecca Rush present to you the weird world of lesser known yoga cults. Comprehensive reporting and analysis of YTTP scandal & John Friend's anusara. Also, why is LA so ripe for cults (attachment wound, anyone?) Lau…

Benefit from Rebecca's seven year hyperfixation on controversial spiritual teacher Teal Swan. A stream of consciousness interview guided by cohost Lauren McQ. The Deep End documentary, the Gateway podcast limited series.The completion process, synchronicity, saying hard things, where does all this knowledge come from, implanted memories, and more. …

Call Lauren & Rebecca now for your free tarot reading and sue us later! The psychic hotline boom of the 90's and lawsuits of the 2000's. Miss Cleo, Hotline (doc), CaliforniaPsychics.com, The best reddit has to offer on the topic, the types of people that call psychic hotlines, and a behind the scenes look at both a con man and a person who genuinel…

Cohousing: Is It The Post Covid Cure All We Need? With the way the pandemic floored the rate of skyrocketing costs of living, the anguish of our isolated lives, and the terrors of climate change it wasn’t shocking to me to find out that applications at Bergholt Hall, one of Britain’s oldest farming communes increased six-fold the past year. Intenti…

For this episode Lauren McQ takes us on a ride through the Satanic Panic that swept America in the 70's and 80's. Christian fundamentalism, MK Ultra, ritualistic aspects to various serial killers MO's including the zodiac and alphabet killers. Michelle remembers, day care centers, the man who killed Halloween, and more. On Patreon Lauren discusses …

Welcome to the Burning Man missive, an ep so nice it has a Patreon twice. Documentaries were watched and Twitter weirdos hit up, but the gold came from Radical Ritual (2019) by Neil Shister, an impressive work of journalism that skillfully paints a montage of a soul exploding celebration of creative freedom. Burning things to cleanse your soul, SF …

Lauren takes the lead as we seek to understand the Disney Adult pipeline. Golden Oak (a gated disney community) & Celebration murders, a bit of a history into Walt, the feral cats of Disneyland, weddings at the park, renting the whole thing out for WHATEVER, what it's like to work at the park, and how connected we are to the Disney movies that came…

Two of the original influencers, Kenneth Hash (partygay turned tinsel town costumer) & James St James (the first celebutante turned author turned producer) join Rebecca & Lauren to discuss the Original Club Kids as they pertain to the theme of belonging and the courage to be fully who you are. The audacity to spread joy during the AIDS crisis, find…

What is straight edge & who knew it's part of punk rock history? Everyone but Rebecca, apparently. Enjoy an opinionated timeline of straight edge music and culture in the US, the different genres of punk rock and hardcore, gang activity & SX, and SX scene in Europe. Bibliography: Sober Living For The Revolution & Straight Edge: A Clear Headed Hardc…

Lauren explains why she was 'completely intoxicated' by American cheerleading. Comprehensive history, different sorts of leagues, teams, and competitions, & film & media. Former professional cheerleader, cheer captain, and prom queen Katie Fischer joins to talk about her experience giving her all to cheerleading, and the joys and challenges created…

What does it mean to be a Swifty (Taylor Swift fan)? Rebecca invites on two fellow T Swift stans to discuss, while Lauren sits back and asks questions. Digital ethnography, what it's like to love Taylor when you don't look like Taylor, growing up alongside Taylor, her 2018 political awakening (and the historical context that made it so hard to do),…

In part two of the troubled teen industry episode, Lauren covers deaths directly caused by abuse and negligence inside of TTI facilities; Rebecca details Breaking Code Silence, a multi faceted social movement organized by activists and survivors of the child abuse wrought at these facilities that is relentlessly and shamelessly working to hold thes…

Lauren and Rebecca bring on three guests that were victims of the troubled teen industry. First up McKenzie Graves, a comedian who attended the infamous Elan school (that came from daytop which came from synanon which was a CULT founded by a man who found 12 step not tough enough) while it was shut down. Second story by Sam Huber, who attended Midw…

Hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush explore the poison ivy league and the private school culture that feeds them. Guest Molly C comes on to discuss her recent experience attending Princeton Reunions, a yearly party so big it's been written up in Esquire, SOBER. Status, money, nepotism, and the pressure. On Patreon Lauren discusses attending Yale Musi…

Teen mean queens and the girls who hate to love them. Bullies, hallmarks of relational aggression, former mean girls, what makes someone a target, mean girl movies, social emotional learning, and why republicans are scared of it. On Patreon we get into our very personal stories.By McRush Productions

Welcome to season two, focused on the theme of belonging. On this episode, hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush explore the sad world of pickup artists and the women they abuse. NLP, The Game, The Attraction Method, approach anxiety, San Diego rape case, pickup companies as cults, rapey boot camps, and #TakeDownJulienBlanc. Ya goddamn war criminals! O…

For the Season One finale, Lauren and Rebecca interview social worker Angela ZHang and research fellow Kate Griffin (who also happens to be Rebecca's cousin) about their work studying the link between poverty and shame. Lunch shaming, period poverty, how military spending is prioritized over people, the book Poverty Safari, and the dominant poverty…

Welcome to the penultimate episode of the first season! This is a continuation of last week's episode on diet culture, and it's on loving (& even buying jeans for) the body you're currently in. From initiatives designed to educate medical professionals like Health At Every Size to movements like Intuitive Eating and Beauty Redefined to the Fuck It …

Diet culture is embedded so deeply into our psyches hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush didn't even realize how many of their toxic beliefs were not their own. Now a 100 billion dollar industry, they explore the history of the diet, fatphobia, the medical political industrial complex, disturbing facts (Weight Watchers has an app for kids as young as …

Is monogamy dead? Hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush are divided. Why polyamory? What's the difference between polys and swingers (hint, it's more than a generational thing)? The relationship escalator, relationship anarchy, polyamory in the pandemic, Franklin Deveaux & poly abuse, and, what Reddit wants you to know. On Patreon Lauren talks about a …

Is polyamory just gentrified polygamy? Hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush present an in depth study into polygamy in American culture and around the world. LDS, FLDS, and the the plural marriage principle, the economy of child brides, the psychological impact of polygamy on women and children, polyandry (plural husbands) around the world, polygamy t…

What constitutes cheating? Why do people cheat? And why does it hurt SO much? Hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush can't wait to tell you. Infidelity around the globe, sex workers and infidelity, microcheating, the stages of emotional affairs, trauma, betrayal, adult children, infidelity and attachment theory, and the stages of recovery from infidelit…

When you have BPD like our hosts Rebecca Rush and Lauren McQ, you attract a lot of narcissists. Most people with NPD/narcissism will never get better, so it's on the rest of us to learn to spot them & deal. Let them help you: New Age Narcissism, behavioral aspects, different types, ghosting, narcissism vs NPD, CULTS, 5 signs of narcissistic texting…

Lauren & Rebecca take on a topic that affects all of us: abortion rights. From the bible to the talmud, the ancient world to the lack of access today. Sea shanties, all of the UK being forced to travel to England, the grim situation in Eastern Europe, and the beauty of women standing in solidarity of other women - like when a 16 y/o girl in N. Irel…

In the final installment of the attachment theory series, Lauren and Rebecca investigate the mythical secure attachment style. Secures are 50% of the population and nobody we know. How to move toward building a secure base, meet your needs, and be lovingly conscious. The small good things you do in relationships add up! On Patreon we discuss close …

Lauren and Rebecca delve into the forgotten attachment style, called both mixed and disorganized, having qualities of both anxious AND avoidant. It is created when your caretaker and abuser are the same person. How we become addicted to trauma, the 6 forms of abuse, in relationships, brainwashing, dissociation, brain damage, and the power of reflec…

Attachment theory episode two - avoidants! Deactivating strategies - tools to keep love at arms length, assets to avoidant attachment style, 8 things you can do today to stop pushing love away, the phantom Ex, pining for the one, mistaking self reliance for independence. Rebecca's social media block list and Lauren's avoidant beaus on the Patreon. …

The first of a four episode series on attachment theory, Lauren and Rebecca cover the anxious attachment style. Negative self/positive other positioning, protest behavior, the need to acknowledge and accept your true needs, the anxious - avoidant trap, activating strategies, hypervigilance to social cues, core beliefs, and how attachment injuries o…

To complete the eating disorder series, Lauren and Rebecca explore the wild world of food addiction. Victims of childhood sexual abuse are far more likely to become obese adults. Bingeing after sex, just wanting to FEEL FULL. Compulsive eating as anorexia of the soul. Food is less stigmatized than alcohol but being fat? Isn't. On Patreon we discuss…

Welcome to our exploration of bulimia, whose movies all have secret in the title. Do bulimics come from chaotic families? Who knows, we basically stopped covering it in the media in 2005. Famous bulimics include Lady Gaga, Jane Fonda, Elton John, and Princess Diana. The link with addict brain, private self torture vs throwing up public, brain over …

Welcome to the first three episode arc of the podcast, on eating disorders. Anorexia is up first. Lauren & Rebecca discuss, fear foods, Karen Carpenter, Amy Winehouse, The Best Little Girl In The World, Lene Marie Fosson, Wasted, the ana creed, the thin commandments, progression of restriction, and watching the Food Network while starving on purpos…

Welcome to the first episode! Cohosts Rebecca Rush & Lauren McQ delve into the history of the modern mental asylum up to 1900. Nellie Bly's 10 Days In A Madhouse, Mad Woman's Ball, The Yellow Wallpaper, Saint Dymphna; Patron Saint of Insane, Dorothea Dix, Female Hysteria, High Royd's, and getting sectioned. Check out the Patreon for twenty minute v…