Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Want to hear the real reason Mormon leaders don’t want women to hold the priesthood? In a follow-up interview to last week’s “Unrighteous Dominion” episode, Michelle and Adam join Glenn, Jake, and Matt to explain why they secretly recorded the bishop who likes swimming’ suits, and they share another secretly recorded discussion with the bishop, where Michel...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile This is the audio to Glenn’s Sunstone presentation given on July 30, 2016, where Glenn explains the type of Mormon he was before and after his graduate studies (culminating in a MA Thesis Japanese Lost Tribes stories and a half-finished dissertation on Mormon Humor), and walks through some of the reasons why — for him — faith ultimately yielded to education...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Should LDS Bishops ask 7-year-old children if they “touch themselves” or if they show their private parts to others? Jake, Matt and Glenn dramatically and critically re-enact a real live secretly recorded bishops interview with a real live secretly recorded bishop.  If you believe that Prophets instruct Apostles, and that Apostles instruct General Authoriti...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Benji takes us on a journey of the Mormon Matrix and tackles the ever-growing accounts of suicide ravaging the LGBT Mormon youth. Featuring conversations with a mother and a father of gay teens and mixed with badass music.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In the 5th episode of the NAG, Sage and Glen explore the labels that define us (or don’t) and how it may or may not be possible to redeem or redefine the term ‘Atheist’. Featured Song: God – John Lennon cover by the Bluebeat

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In a manly display of manly manliness, Matt, Tom, Randy, and Glenn discuss BYU’s bid for the Big 12 conference and read through a letter signed by multiple LGBT advocacy groups urging the Big 12 to pass on BYU due to its anti-LGBT policies. Jocks gonna jock.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tune in this week as Sage interviews the wildly talented R. John Williams from the band Faded Paper Figures .  Together they talk about the power of music to transform us, to enlighten us and to best express all of our pent up ex-Mormon angst.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn makes a few announcements, reads a few listener emails, and shares the earth shattering new scripture for serious Wing Eaters: The Word of Wingdom .  Yes.  It is every bit as stupid as it sounds. Text can be found here: The Word of Wingdom

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matt and Glenn continue their in-car post-Sunstone discussion — this time about magic, marijuana, and three patterns.  And rituals.  And what it means for something to be weird.  And other things.  And Matt demonstrates the gracious way to embrace defeat, and ignorance, and shame.  Darkly.  Again.  And sometimes Glenn writes really weird episode description...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matt and Glenn talk about their recent experience at Sunstone and a bunch of other fun, thought-provoking, interesting stuff — including three-patterns like that one — and tease a few future episode topics.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn, Jake, Randy, and John give Elder Holland’s recent Education Week address, “ Bound by Loving Ties ,” the Olympic-sized smacking down it needs. And the one it deserves.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Listen in on the latest installment of the New Atheist’s Guide as Jake and Sage discuss The Devil–with a cameo appearance from the Lord o’ Darkness himself. (Spoiler alert: he has issues.)

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Bob, Jake, John, and eventually Randy get together to discuss politics and Mormonism (but mostly politics) in the context of the United States presidential election of 2016.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Sage’s New Atheist’s Guide (N.A.G.) continues with episode 2–a conversation with Bob about hope.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Let’s face it: atheists have a bad rap, and some of that is richly deserved–the smug self-righteousness with which many wield their God-free worldview is about as charming as a menthol enema. However, losing your faith doesn’t have to lead to the dark path of douchebaggery, which the honorable Sage Turk aims to illustrate in an exciting new series:  The New...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Listener and fan of the show, Jake sits down with Tom and Kim Gustavsson to talk about his listener submitted essay titled, “Verbal JiuJitsu”. Kim’s company and website:  http://accendeo.com/ “We must try to penetrate our most secret self, and examine our being from all sides. . . . And so, for the first time in my life perhaps (although I am supposed to me...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile How to discuss the scriptures with your kids.  Or at least how Glenn did it.  And recorded it.  One time.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn sits down for a brief discussion with his mother about her faith crisis and elicits her sage advice for listeners of Infants on Thrones.  Which starts with how to get an IOT T-Shirt (or super awesome mug) of your very own.  Check out the T-Shirt Tab on our website, infantsonthrones.com.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile A never-Mormon from England stumbled across Infants on Thrones and tells us who she is and what she thinks.  A woman comes to terms with her reaction to her drag Queen husband.  A physician who suffers from Crohns Disease explains the psychological and emotional impact of daily chronic pain, and a way that understanding changes the traditional narrative of...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile John Hamer teaches Glenn, Randy, and Jake a thing or two about the LDS priesthood. And its origins. And its authority. And its power. And the magical-ness of the Mormon Worldview. And it is funny. And informative. And will tickle your ears, warm your hearts, and engorge your brains. Do not seek the treasure (we thought you was a toad).

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Ever wonder why the Infants are such smug, dismissive, judgmental, black-and-white thinking ex-mormons who are no better than the smug, dismissive, judgmental, black-and-white thinking Believing Mormons who they smugly and dismissively mock, and bully, and disrespect again and again and again? Well one listener named Jeremy has and asked the question, “Why...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Infants on Thrones will be at Sunstone once again this year, July 28-30. Listen in to what we are planning. You will also find a filthy dirty outtake from our latest clean recording with John Dehlin, the Reluctant Atheist. This is a short one. But you’ll love it. Or you won’t. We swear.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile An occasional knee-slapping, borderline insightful, completely infantile review the 2003 movie The Book of Mormon Vol 1: The Journey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijknQ5qJWkc

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Seven of the Nine Infants gathered for a weekend in Vail Colorado and recorded their response to some listener feedback and a smackdown-of-sorts to a newspaper article about (former) Mormon PR Boss Michael Otterson.  So listen in as Glenn, Tom, Randy, Jake, Matt, John, and Scott sit around the same table and talk into a single microphone for once.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Randy is joined by Bob and special guest Aaron Tunell to discuss LDS Inc.’s Perpetual Education Fund, a program started in 2001 to help students in developing countries. But all is not as it seems on the surface.