Richie T Steadman
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Mormon culture from the back row.
The Cultural Hall Podcast mixes Mormon culture, church news, faith stories, and ordinary-life tangents into loose, quick-moving conversations. It can joke about ward calls and tank tops, then turn around and ask a guest something plain and serious.
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The Cultural Hall Podcast is a Mormon-culture conversation show with the feel of a hallway that never quite empties after church. It starts wherever life is happening. A plumber may be on the way, someone is in Arizona borrowing a studio, a name is being mispronounced, or a guest has barely sat down before the teasing begins. Then the topic sneaks in. The show moves from ward-call anxiety to church news, from Mesa Easter pageant logistics to public responsibility, from reality-TV rumor cleanup to larger questions about what people reward with their attention. Its Articles of News episodes have a familiar rhythm: headlines, side comments, reality-TV detours, institutional updates, and jokes that make the most sense if the listener has spent time around Latter-day Saint culture. The interview episodes are roomier. Guests talk through comedy, prayer, mixed-faith families, leaving and staying, conversion, mission rules, LGBTQ relationships, and the ache of being close to people who no longer share the same church language. The show is rarely tidy. That is part of its usefulness. It lets a thought restart, lets a guest find the point by telling the story first, and lets a silly aside hold the door open for something sincere. Emily Susan Pack’s comedy conversation, for example, becomes a careful discussion of where the line sits between affectionate recognition and cheap dunking. The John Giles episode turns a public-service memory into a conversation about religious freedom, LGBTQ rights, and the uncomfortable feeling of realizing a church message may be aimed directly at the person hearing it. The mission-companion episode carries awkward first-transfer rigidity into a much larger story about love, family, and identity. The show can be blunt about social media fame, Mormon reality television, addiction, and public mess. It does not pretend those subjects are neat. But its basic posture is curious rather than detached, amused rather than cruel, and comfortable enough with church language to poke it without flattening it. It is for people who want Mormon culture discussed by someone close enough to know the jokes and patient enough to keep asking what they mean.
Made for: Best for listeners with curiosity about Latter-day Saint life, from members to non-members, mixed-faith families, and outsiders who want the lived texture rather than a formal explainer.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the sideways approach: a loose tangent about errands, pageants, reality TV, or ward calls becomes a path into belief, identity, family, and church politics.
A place for members and non-members, mormons and non-mormons to discuss ANYTHING to do with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Cultural Hall makes Latter-day Saint belief and culture tangible through candid interviews, church news and humor alert to sacred boundaries.
The Cultural Hall moves between guest conversations and "Articles of News" episodes, treating Latter-day Saint life as something lived through relationships, worship, entertainment and institutional change. The host asks direct questions without stripping away the social stakes.
Church news shares a pew with reality-TV chatter, so your Sunday-school brain never sits alone.
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A funny, thoughtful look at faith, family, and where a joke should stop.
It follows Emily Susan Pack as she works through how comedy can survive inside a mixed-faith life without slipping into easy mockery. Prayer, garments, Sunday dinners, and the point where a joke turns mean all come up again and again, so the shape comes from that repeated…
Church-life detail, reality-TV rumor, and a blunt impatience with not knowing what is real.
The Cultural Hall moves through Mesa, the coming Easter pageant, and a borrowed studio with an easy, familiar rhythm. The talk stays rooted in ward and neighbor details, which gives it a lived-in feel without pushing for drama.
A loose Mormon-community chat that turns a plumbing delay into church, travel, and pop-culture banter.
A plumbing delay gives the episode its starting point, then the conversation wanders through frostless outdoor faucets, a long wait window, a Mesa and Phoenix trip, a small live show, and a stop at the Mesa Easter Pageant.
A blunt look at reality-TV chaos and the culture that keeps rewarding it.
This episode spends most of its energy on the public churn around Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, then opens into a broader read on what that mess says about social media, fame, mental illness, addiction, and the rewards a culture hands out when it keeps feeding the cycle.
A missionary friendship becomes a quietly knotty story about faith, family, and attraction.
The episode follows a queer relationship shaped by mission memory: a cross-country road trip during the pandemic, being together 24-7, and a slow back-and-forth over whether the feeling is mutual.
Faith, power, history, and hard arguments.
Christian thought with room to think.
Torah talk with Shabbat-room energy.
Skepticism with a recovery room attached.
Reality creation at full volume.
Emily Susan Pack joins the show after a quick run of name jokes at the top.
This episode features a disjointed and humorous conversation with references to scriptures, pop culture like Gandalf and The Lord of the Rings, and hints at future discussions on cultural influences and personal experiences.
This episode features a humorous conversation with Verlin Yowd about his experiences with his last name and the anticipation of a potential church leadership calling as stake president.
The host reflects on personal spiritual trials and productivity in faith, then welcomes guest Al Carraway to discuss a heavenly connection despite never having met before.
The host interviews former Mesa mayor John Giles about religious freedom, LGBTQ rights, and local governance, sparked by a personal experience with Elder Oaks' message.
The episode opens in Mesa, with the hosts recording in a room next to a friend who is kindly letting them use the studio.
A plumber is supposed to call any minute.
The Cultural Hall opens in news mode.
The Cultural Hall circles a story about closeness and hesitation.
Richie Stedman and Molly Ashton spoil season four of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, covering the season three reunion, the Vanderpump Villa trip, and Michaela and Jace's announced separation.
Jenny Champoux's book on C.
The host interviews Verlin about his first time skipping church as a teenager to attend a Cheap Trick concert, sharing personal anecdotes about youthful rebellion.
This episode discusses the return of a sacred petroglyph to the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, highlighting community support and the church's role in cultural preservation.
The host discusses his plans to create a documentary about his mission experience, focusing on the stories of his district members and seeking potential investors.
This episode explores the Salt Lake Temple as a symbol of ongoing change and revelation in the Mormon church, featuring historian Scott Marianno discussing its historical significance and future rededication.