Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matt, John, and Randy talk with two marijuana experts. The first, a entrepreneur who grows and sells marijuana, legally. The other, Cheech and Chong’s best friend and friend to the podcast, Micah Nickolaisen. Learn a little bit about every hippy’s favorite pastime and find out if marijuana should be legal. Spoiler alert: yes, the answer is yes!

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile The Infants pay a brief but special tribute to the recent remarkable words and message of Elder David A(hole) Bednar, and to the huge Packer-sized stick shoved up his member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ass. Special thanks to Lily Allen for nailing it so completely. Matt asks, “Hey Glenn, where was...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn pays tribute to Kevin, his childhood friend. The guy who was in a private plane crash when he was 5 years old and lost all feeling in his legs; the guy who saw his wheelchair as a mark of his worthiness, or lack their of, and tragically took his own life at the young age of 31. Glenn was asked to speak at Kevin’s funeral back in November 2002, and rec...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In 1984, Elder Ronald E Polman delivered a talk titled “The Gospel and the Church” in General Conference. It emphasized the importance of an eternally divine gospel being delivered through a man-made fallible church. The Brethren did not like this message, and made him re-write the talk to make the church as eternally divine and infallible as the gospel. Th...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Fun fact: this episode was almost titled “ Communist-lead Negro Guerrilla Units .” Why? Find out for yourself as Randy, Glenn, and Matt welcome Anissa and Kim back to the podcast to smack down a 1967 conference talk from Ezra Taft Benson called “Civil Rights: Tool of Communist Deception.” Fair warning: do not drink any dark liquids while listening to this e...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matt Long talks with John Dehlin about the recently re-released article on their website, titled, “Effectiveness of Church Approach to Preventing Child Abuse.” Spoiler alert: Matt was not impressed. http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/effectiveness-of-church-approach-to-preventing-child-abuse

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matt, Randy, and Glenn smack down Elder Nelson’s recent address to BYU-H students. America’s favorite dancer Benji Schwimmer joins us for the second half. And Randy’s favorite celebrity Gwenyth Paltrow may or may not make a special appearance as well.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What the heck is going on with this Captian Moroni rancher guy up in Oregon who is defying the US Government? Isn’t there an article of faith somewhere about honoring governments, or something like that? Either way, listen in as Matt talks with Special Infant Guest Drew about the whole crazy story and its cultural ties to Mormonism.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Bob walks us through the parallels between Mormonism and the game Diablo 3. What if Mormonism ultimately is just a role-playing game?

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile John, Glenn, Matt, and Tom review the new Star Wars movie, discuss the Mormon fascination with Star Wars in general, and then geek out about super hero movies and random pop culture.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In a best-of clip-show for the ages, and at finally for at long last, Dennis pulls back the proverbial curtain and introduces you to Billy, Sandy, Jasper, and Jim of Brainfard Productions, the actual real sorta-genuis-types behind Infants on Thrones. No joke. Unless it is. Thanks for a fun 2015. And who knows…

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Sage Turk returns to Infants on Thrones with his Listener Essay “Disproving Santa Claus.” Jake and Tom join in the conversation as “apologetics” turn towards the satirically ridiculous and the absurd – for once. No, that was not a chiasmus.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Does anything say Christmas more than the Jazz Singer, Neil Diamond himself? In the tradition of phenomenally inspiring Primary Christmas Programs, President Infant-Monson narrates a sacred Christmas story as sung by the Mormon Tab-and-Apple Children’s Chorus and the legendary Neil Diamond. Listen in for the big reveal of the true identity of Santa Claus.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Ho Ho Ho and happy birthday Jesus! Celebrate all the Holidays this and learn the reason for the season by listening to Scott and Matt discuss how grateful Dallin H. Oaks is to get Holiday cards. Cuz he is. He really really is. As long as they are the right ones.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Listen in as Brother Jake gives a poetic year-end review of the goings-on of Mormonism, along with some suggestions for holiday purchases to brighten the holiday mood. All items available here: http://www.askbrotherjake.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn reflects on the role that Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender issues played in his life in coming to an understanding of what it really means to follow the teachings of Jesus, and what it really means to not. In the process, he hopefully finds a few things to actually be thankful for approaching this Thanksgiving 2015.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile IOT listener Sage conducts man-(and-women)-on-the-street interviews at the LDS Mass Resignation event held in Salt Lake City on Saturday, November 14, 2015. Thanks Sage!

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile How is this new LDS policy impacting real lives of real people? Why would a gay couple even want their children to be involved in the Mormon church? And how does a gay person even have children in the first place? Scott conducts two interviews with men whose families are directly impacted by the LDS Church’s Children Alienation and Exclusion policy. Listen...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Listen in as the Infants answer questions from reddit users. Yes, it really is exactly as fascinating as it sounds. Click here to read all of the questions and answers from the Reddit AMA: Reddit Ask Me Anything/

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Do you love the Mormon Church?  Do you love their new totally Christ-like policy of alienation and exclusion for children of certain kinds of abominable parents?  Do you love the magical songs of Disney?  Do you love Infants on Thrones’ sing-a-long smack downs?  Well, if you love all that stuff right there, then this is the episode you have never known you...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tom is joined by his brave and excellent wife to interview another couple, Neal & Naomi, and discuss some of the difficulties of living in a mixed faith marriage. Neal & Naomi’s podcast Unequally Yoked can be found here: http://unequally-yoked.net

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What’s worse than murder and rape? The only sin so powerful it punishes innocent children for the “sins” of their parents even if, you know, that doesn’t sound like Mormon Doctrine… In this episode, Bob, Matt, Randy, and Scott discuss the new policy changes from the Mormon Church that set apart homosexuality as a sin unlike any other. Children of same-sex m...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile The Infants will be conducting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit this upcoming Monday, Nov 9th, at 10:30pm ET. Go to the link below to send us questions, and log in with your reddit account on Monday to interact with the Infants. We will also be recording our behind the scenes commentary and responses to your questions, and publish that as a future episode...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Three years ago, the still-learning-how-to-walk Infants released an episode called FEAR. In as close to a RadioLab style as we could muster, we explored the world of ouija boards, evil spirits, night terrors, lucid dreaming, and a hodgepodge of other somewhat-fear-related topics. Some of that original episode was even pretty good. Today Matt and Glenn refle...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile John, Scott, Randy, Jake, and Matt Smack down Dan Peterson’s recent blog post about the doctrinal “thin gruel” the Community of Christ offers its members, and what it reveals about the myopia of the LDS view. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2015/10/dissatisfied-liberal-mormons-find-refuge-in-the-community-of-christ.html