Mommy doomsday
Rogan, who has been accused by critics of spreading misinformation on COVID and providing a microphone for far-right figures, signed an exclusive deal with Spotify last year. Spotify revealed the most popular podcasts on its platform for 2021 - with controversial talk show “The Joe Rogan Expe r ience” taking the No. This episode has everything: an orgy at the Papal Palace where they threw chestnuts all over the place like a horny game of Boar on the Floor baroque methods of poisoning, including a key covered in tiny spikes, a fancy ring shaped like a lion with fangs that punctured the skin, and poisoned ladies’ gloves truly hair-raising methods of increasing fertility and powerful women who may or may not have been as bad as they’ve been portrayed by the history books and media.In today’s podcast roundup, Spotify and Apple have released their year-end rankings and lists of the top podcasts of 2021, among other news from the world of audio entertainment. Both families’ histories are absolutely riddled with royal intrigue, sexy scandals, and poisonous plots, giving our hosts plenty to sink their teeth into as they imbibe colorful cocktails made with blue Curaçao, a nod to the blue-blooded subjects. They go long on this episode about two of the most powerful and infamous dynasties in European history, the Borgias and the Medicis. Hosts Nick and Sinead are two British history buffs who pair fancy cocktails with old-timey-wimey poisoning crimes for a delightfully macabre treat. The Poisoners’ Cabinet, which celebrates its one-year anniversary with this season finale, is the kind of podcast that I keep in my back pocket and binge when I want something a bit lighter than usual it’s more like a British murder mystery you’d find on AcornTV than the latest straight-from-the-headlines special on Oxygen. (This scenario did not include accommodations for their spouses, Charles Vallow and Tammy Daybell.) Things get creepy quickly, and we hear about it directly from those who knew Lori and Chad in interviews conducted by Morrison and relayed in mesmerizing, disturbing detail. Daybell and Vallow quickly became close and began to plot out a new reality - a community of fellow believers located in Rexsburg, Idaho. The second episode cracks open the specifics of Vallow’s religious beliefs and the person who exposed her to them - Chad Daybell, the leader of a group obsessed with the end times and who believed he’d had 31 previous lives.
Yet, in a new podcast hosted by Keith Morrison and produced by Dateline and NBC News in partnership with Neon Hum, we get a closer look at how this all played out. We also know about the other deaths that took place in Lori’s orbit (including that of her former husband) and the connection she had to a doomsday cult. By now, we know the fate of Lori Vallow’s two children, JJ, 11, and Tylee, 17, who went missing in September 2019.