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Join us around the fireplace for our Halloween episode of Gilded!

Topics covered: cultural skepticism of ghosts and the supernatural, Ghost Whisperer aka Gilmore Girls for slightly goth bitches, our first horror movies, our shared strange spooky experience at a desert makeout point, Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, Hat Man and its potential psychological or paranormal implications, Robert the Doll, Gef the Mongoose, the Bell Witch, the Swiss folk tale Sennentuntschi and Dr. Hole’s pitch for a modernized American reimagining thereof, El Cucuy, Kuchisake-Onna (the slit mouthed woman), near-death experience auditory hallucinations, aliens as a cover for nefarious government activities, Elon Musk’s pork skin, the CIA vampire psy-op in the Philippines, Mokele Mbembe, and North Sentinel Island. We read the following listener-submitted ghost stories, interspersed with discussion: Studio City Haunting, A Haunting in LA, and The Woman in the Walls.

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Oct 27, 2024

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Discover the dark secret of oreo coke zero satanic ritual abuse in episode 6 of gilded podcast

Topics discussed: Oreo Coke Zero satanic ritual abuse; a tasting of Oreo Coke Zero as requested by marianoleonczik, friend of Gilded Podcast. The deeply unsettling film Cure (1997) dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa; a brief history of hypnosis and mesmerism and its impacts on society today. Direct-to-Amazon trough slop House of Spoils (2024, ft. Steven Seagal apparently, dir. by Who Cares) as a subpar horror-themed The Bear ripoff; anthropomorphized wet cardboard queens Ariana DeBose and Camilla Cabello. The Monroe Institute’s the Gateway Tapes, binaural beats and consciousness, lucid dreaming and nightmare experiences (ft. big cats and Chuck E. Cheese tunnels), helicopter parenting and its consequences, exotic pet ownership, the post-COVID dog ownership landscape. Pickup artists, male manipulators, and The Art of Seduction by vacuous balding moid Robert Greene; why Jordan Peterson proves that incels need healthy father figures; the manosphere. Media’s influence on dating expectations, social media, body image, and societal standards of attractiveness; modern dating culture and the pressure on women to appear self-confident; overcompensation in self-presentation and insecurities; bimbo feminism and Y2K nostalgia. Manipulation tactics in salesmanship and everyday life and their parallels to the stages of demonic possession. Triggers: 30 Sales Tools by Joseph Sugarman; identity formation in marketing; makeup's role in self-perception and identity; the psychological impact of altering appearance through makeup; evolution of fandoms and online spaces and today’s dire lack of community. The Substance (2024), dir. Coralie Fargeat; body horror as representation of the female experience; mainstream discussions on women's experiences in film; declining movie theater etiquette; Dr. Hole’s brilliant movie theater bathroom break innovation ideas. The Diddy allegations; Suge Knight's recent interview with Chris Cuomo; Jeffrey Epstein and abusive networks; industry-wide issues of normalized abusive behavior; the Franklin scandal and Satanic Panic as cover for abuse; Blink Twice (2024), dir. Zoe Kravitz and its commentary on power dynamics; why certain personality types are drawn to positions of power. We close out this cheerful episode with a short Gilded Tale read by Dr. Hole and a guided hypnosis for inner peace read by Ariana.

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Oct 11, 2024

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Spend a little bit of time with us on your sunday afternoon

Spotify | Apple In Gilded Episode 5, Theater Kids is as Theater Kids Does, nunjournal and I talk about: Bella Hadid nootropic beverage and 1980s actresses named Jennifer misinformation, the radical resistance of pronouncing Glossier with an R at the end, being Ebony Dark‘ness Raven Dementia Way, BookTok midwittery and female goonery, high IQ mobile games, AI relationship apps, "the talking stage," Perfect Blue and its eerie connections to the death of Selena Quintanilla as outlined in Surreal Idol by Meg Sipos, Ariana Grande's identity confusion mimicry and stone-cold SpongeBob homewrecking, Chappell Roan's meltdowns and why Dr. Hole would fire her if she were her annoying donut shop employee, why curly-haired redheaded Midwestern girl representation matters, Jeanette McCurdy's Hit Book I'm Overjoyed that my Mother is Deceased, child stardom, being fujoshi weeaboo Batman, malevolent female autism fakery and the pathologizing of women's intellectual interests/idiosyncratic personality traits, gender as performance and the compression of womanhood within the gender binary. We announce our upcoming scary stories episode and ask listeners to send in their scary, weird, or creepy Halloween stories

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Sep 15, 2024

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Starting over

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” — Anaïs Nin This is uncharacteristically raw and personal, even for me, and pretty heavy! I know many of you have seen me posting through it and I feel safe to talk about it openly now that I’ve safely landed at the start of my new life. It’s honestly even a little bit embarrassing but I think it’s important to share. I’ve never publicly mentioned it on here, but I have a husband; as of Friday, we’d have been together for 11 years, and we’ve been married for 3 years as of 2/22. I realize now that I wanted to explore what I looked like outside of my relationship with him because I had lost that. This is why PI.FYI has been so meaningful to me as a space to express myself and connect with people—to rediscover my voice. I had been living a lie this entire time, to others but worst of all to myself. He’s been verbally and emotionally abusive, physically but without touching me, to the point that every day I spent with him I was in danger. I’ve been shrinking myself and walking on eggshells to avoid making him insecure and provoking his casual put-downs and fits of rage, while hanging on for dear life to the threads of good I could see. I’ve wanted so badly to leave, more than anything, but I felt like there was no way out and that this was just something I would need to endure indefinitely—but someone who is so very dear to me helped me see that I have wings to fly, not by acting as my savior but by reminding me of my own power. The emotional safety they built and the gentle care they showed me made me feel like I could open up to them. With their encouragement I was brave enough to tell the truth to my friends, my family, my boss, and they have received me with warm, loving and open arms and rallied to support and protect me. The financial and  logistical aspects were the most intimidating to me and it’s going to be tough for a while but I’m going to be better than okay! Now I’m opening up to you. This isn’t the only abuse I’ve suffered in my life, and my old therapist told me she believed it was my mission to share my strength and light with others to inspire them and show them that change is possible. I hope that by sharing this, I can reach even just one person who is going through something similar and show that they are not alone, and they are not weak. People with certain backgrounds may be more vulnerable to abuse, but it can happen to anyone. It thrives in darkness, shame, and isolation—and breaking that silence is the first step toward freedom. Leaving is the scariest thing I have ever done but I have so many angels around me, and I am endlessly grateful. Thank you for being here with me 💌

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Never changing

My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebody—be it a relative or one of my best friends—was to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too 💌

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Finally Quitting the job that you hate

Schedule sent my resignation email for the morning, effective immediately ✅💅

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Feb 27, 2025

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