Hard to Believe
Host: John Brooks
Religious studies teacher and amateur theologian John Brooks goes from frequent guest to host of his own show where he and special guests explore the world of human beliefs at the intersection of popular culture, religion, philosophy, myth, and all that is esoteric, unexplained, and misunderstood. All the answers you never knew you wanted to questions you never knew you had.
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- Hard to Believe #080 – Garry Stevens on “The History in the Bible”
- Hard to Believe #079 – This is the Way: The Tao of the Mandalorian – with Mike Manzi
- Hard to Believe #078 – Gladiator 2: Christ Killer – with Joe Two and Brian Rodriguez
- Hard to Believe #077 -Nick Fuentes, Ye, and Gen Z Antisemitism – with Amanda Moore
- Hard to Believe #076 – Dr. Joshua Bowen
- Hard to Believe #075 – #FreeCasey: Casey Anthony and the Murky Ethics of True Crime – with Jenn Tisdale
- Hard to Believe #074 – Shannon Foley Martinez
- Hard to Believe #073 – The Monster That Made Bram Stoker
- Hard to Believe #072 – The Heathen Queen
- Hard to Believe #071 – Some Personal News!
- Hard to Believe #070 – To Suffer the Slings and Arrows – with Robert Boog
- Hard to Believe #069 – Ms. Marvel and the Muslim Superheroine – with Dr. Safiyya Hosein
- Hard to Believe #068 – The Georgia Guidestones (RIP) – with Jess Collins
- Hard to Believe #067 – The Bible and Abortion with Jess Collins and Mike Manzi
- Hard to Believe #066 – Rolling Stone’s Alex Morris: On how we go to the end of Roe (and what happens next)
- Hard to Believe #065 – The Myth of the Second Amendment – with Joe Patrice
- Hard to Believe #064 – Leaving God with John Follis
- Hard to Believe #063 – The Internet and the Cult of Free Speech – with Fredrick Brennan
- Hard to Believe #062 – The Truth Is Out There – with “Strange Arrivals” host Toby Ball
- Hard to Believe #061 – John Masefield and The Box of Delights – Featuring Philip W. Errington and Piers Torday
- Hard to Believe #060 – Santa’s Stranger Friends – with Mike Manzi and Jess Collins
- Hard to Believe #059 – Should You Believe In Saint Nicholas? – with Joey Lewandowski and Teddy Smith
- Hard to Believe #058 – Margaret O’Connor – Mary Priest and the Ordination of Women
- Hard to Believe – Season 1 Rerelease – Lane Wilcken: The Artist and Author (“The Forgotten Children of Maui”) on Reviving and Preserving Cultural Traditions
- Hard to Believe #057 – Matt Murdock Goes to Confession: The Catholicism of “Daredevil” – with Matthew J. Cressler
- John joins Brian Rodriguez and Cara Gael O’Regan for High School Slumber Party – “Garden State”
- Hard to Believe #056 – Mark Ryall – Who Wants to Live Forever?
- Hard to Believe #055 – Mary Shelley: The Making of a Monster
- Hard to Believe #054 – Midnight Mass – with Dr. Kelly J. Baker and Dan Colón
- Hard to Believe #053 – BYRNE THE CHURCH 2 – End of Days (1999)
- Hard to Believe #052 – Brandan Robertson – God and Aliens
- Hard to Believe #051 – Dr. Jonathan Farley – On how we should and shouldn’t think about mathematics
- Hard to Believe #050 – BYRNE THE CHURCH – Stigmata (1999)
- Hard to Believe #049 – Alex Morris – Young Evangelicals and the Climate Crisis
- Hard to Believe #048 – Dr. Kelly J. Baker – The Klan, Jesus, and Trump
- Hard to Believe #047 – DISINFORMATION: Part 3 – Rule by Deception
- Hard to Believe #046 – Maria Against History – The twilight of the Romanovs in their own words
- Hard to Believe #045 – Polybius – The weird story of the evil mind control video game that never existed
- Hard to Believe #044 – Rev. Dr. Marcia Ledford – The Religious Left in the Age of Trumpism
- Hard to Believe #043 – Michael Blanding – “North by Shakespeare”
- Hard to Believe #042 – Beware the Killer Clowns – with Chelsey Weber-Smith
- Hard to Believe #041 – Nicolas Cage and the Quest for the Holy Grail
- Hard to Believe #040 – Octavia of Earth – with Anand Kalra
- Hard to Believe #039 – Fred Grewe – On what the dying can teach us about living
- Hard to Believe/The Contenders – “Shirley” – An Epic Crossover Event
- Hard to Believe #037 – Bry Jensen – Host of “Pontifacts”
- Hard to Believe #036 – Into the Storm – with Teddy Smith – A Discussion of Cullen Hoback’s Documentary Series on Q
- Hard to Believe #035 – Witch Life – with Hilary Whitmore, Kanani Soleil, and Courtney Weber
- Hard to Believe #034 – PhD: Parenting is HarD – with Robin Wilkins
- Hard to Believe – Bonus Mini-Episode: Shakespeare Authorship with Sebastian Major
- Hard to Believe #033 – Bard to Believe – The Oxfordian Case for Shakespeare – with Steven Sabel
- Hard to Believe #032 – DISINFORMATION: Part 2 – The Mysteries of Rasputin and Anastasia
- Hard to Believe #031 – Chris Kluwe Shouldn’t Exist
- Hard to Believe #030 – Fake History with Sebastian Major – Host and Creator of the Podcast “Our Fake History”
- Hard to Believe #029 – Metamorphoses – with Nina MacLaughlin, author of “Wake, Siren”
- Hard to Believe Weekend Bonus Episode – The Haunting of Cage Club
- Hard to Believe #028 – DISINFORMATION: Part 1 – The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- Hard to Believe #027 – The Flat Earthers with Daniel Clark – Director of “Behind the Curve”
- Hard to Believe #026 – I (Still) Want to Believe – The Stories That Will Define And Shape Our Strange Times
- Hard to Believe #025 – The Christmas Chronicler – Gerry Bowler on Santa Claus
- Hard to Believe #024 – Israel, Palestine, and the Science of Making Peace – with Gil Bar-Sela
- Hard to Believe #023 – Why the End is Always Near – with Dr. Lisa Vox
- Hard to Believe #022 – Speak of the Devil – with author Joseph Laycock
- Hard to Believe – A Very Special Episode: QANON
- Hard to Believe #021 – The Life of Aleister Crowley – With “Perdurabo” Author Richard Kaczynski
- HTB Flashback: Hard to Believe #008 – Prof. Kris Lane on Christopher Columbus, Washington Irving, and the Toppling of Outdated Statues
- Hard to Believe #020 – Pastor June Joplin
- Hard to Believe #019 – Emmy Nominee Liza Richardson
- Hard to Believe #018 – Greg Garrett – Cultural Theologian
- Hard to Believe #017 – Mandisa Thomas – Founder of Black Nonbelievers
- Hard to Believe #016 – Kevin S. Decker – Pop Culture and Philosophy
- Hard to Believe #015 – The Lovecraftian – H.P. Lovecraft biographer S.T. Joshi
- Hard to Believe #014 – Author JW Rinzler
- Hard to Believe #013 – Cats! (Not the Movie!)
- Hard to Believe #012 – Tony Ortega – On the Past and Uncertain Future of Scientology
- Hard to Believe #011 – Roger Moorhouse – The July 20th Plot – Part Two
- Hard to Believe #010 – The July 20th Plot – Part One
- Hard to Believe #009 – The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade with Andrew Phillip Smith
- Hard to Believe #008 – Prof. Kris Lane on Christopher Columbus, Washington Irving, and the Toppling of Outdated Statues
- Hard to Believe #007 – Lane Wilcken and The Forgotten Children of Maui
- Hard to Believe – Tulsa: A Brief History of the 1921 Greenwood Massacre
- Hard to Believe #006 – The Devil’s Drink
- Hard to Believe #005 – Beyond the Wall
- Hard to Believe #004 – Linda Kay Klein
- Hard to Believe #003 – The New World
- Hard to Believe #002 – The Antichrist
- Hard to Believe #001 – I Want to Believe
