Mormon culture critique with teeth and receipts.
Not So Molly Mormon mixes personal memory, sharp humor, and direct criticism of Mormon culture. Recent episodes move from LDS leader reverence and abortion teachings to Heretic, missionary rules, LGBTQ rights, and old church-adjacent media.
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Not So Molly Mormon is a Mormon culture conversation show with a restless comic engine and a very low tolerance for sanctified nonsense. It is fast. The speakers joke, interrupt, double back, and then lock onto a serious point when a church teaching, cultural habit, or official-sounding phrase starts to reveal something harsher underneath. Recent episodes show the range clearly. A Mormon Mount Rushmore discussion becomes a critique of leader worship, whitewashed historical memory, and how LDS-friendly media can miss obvious context. A response to the general conference talk “Cherishing Life” turns into a pointed conversation about abortion, medical care, bishops, church leaders, and the violation of needing religious permission around medical care. The Heretic two-parter uses a horror film plot to talk about missionary rules, belief, manipulation, obedience, surveillance, fear, and the way religious systems can make danger feel normal until it is too late. Another episode brings Jake in to discuss LGBTQ rights, an Idaho petition, MoveOn involvement, Obergefell versus Hodges, and the larger stakes of privacy and civil rights. The show also circles back to its own archive, older episodes, pandemic-era conversations, the Young Women’s Journal, LDS bullying culture, and comparisons between Mormonism and the Quiverfull movement. It is not neutral, and it does not try to sound detached. The editorial force comes from lived experience, group memory, and the feeling of people naming things they once had to swallow politely. The comedy can be messy and sideways, but the critique is usually aimed at power: church leaders, gender rules, institutional image management, and the habit of dressing control up as care. Personal updates sit beside big arguments. Babies, work stress, Sunday coffee, Patreon catch-ups, and friend banter all share space with heavier material. That combination keeps the show from feeling like a lecture. It feels more like a sharp, emotionally fluent debrief among people who know the culture from the inside and are no longer trying to protect it from scrutiny.
Made for: For listeners processing Mormon culture, LDS authority, or religious control through candid conversation rather than polished neutrality. It especially suits people who want humor alongside serious critique of gender, sexuality, medical autonomy, and church power.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge comes from its mix of in-group fluency, rapid-fire friendship, and willingness to move from a joke to a hard institutional critique without softening the conclusion.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Frank, irreverent conversation reveals how Latter-day Saint doctrine and authority shape bodily autonomy, queer rights and ordinary decisions.
Not So Molly Mormon turns Latter-day Saint teachings, leadership and culture into frank conversation led by Katie, with Sarah or guest co-hosts including Jake and Dusty.
General Conference meets a vodka tonic, and you get the debrief they definitely did not authorize.
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A church-president poll leads Katie and Sarah into a funny, pointed critique of monuments, whitewashing, and LDS editorial blind spots.
Katie and Sarah return to an LDS Living poll asking which church presidents belong on a Latter-day Saint Mount Rushmore. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young may be predictable choices, but the hosts are less interested in the ranking than in what the premise quietly overlooks.
Katie and Dusty use a General Conference talk to examine abortion, medical care, and religious authority over women's bodies.
"Cherishing Life" turns Elder Neil L. Anderson's General Conference talk into a charged conversation about church authority, abortion, and medical choice.
A poisoned pie pushes this Heretic discussion into belief, control, and unstable reality.
Part two of Not-So-Molly Mormon's discussion of Heretic follows the poisoned pie and alleged resurrection into a broader reading of religious control. Katie and Jake pick up with Mr.
Heretic turns missionary house rules into an uneasy discussion of safety, gender, and religious control.
Katie and guest co-host Jake look at how Heretic turns Mormon missionary rules into horror. Their best exchange starts with the blueberry-pie invitation.
A sharp, angry, darkly funny conversation about petition-driven LGBTQ-rights activism.
A Sunday recording gives the episode a darkly funny start, with Sabbath rules becoming the first target before Katie and Jake turn toward LGBTQ-rights activism.
A river-guide metaphor becomes a sharp, funny test of Mormon leadership claims and leaving the church.
Sarah and Katie take a General Conference promise about local church leaders as seasoned river guides and press it against the work those leaders are asked to do.
A Mormon children's lesson becomes a funny, pointed look at scripture, lesson materials, and borrowed certainty.
A Sunday school lesson on Helaman's 2,000 stripling warriors turns into a sharp, funny look at Mormon teaching, religious imagery, and the promise of miraculous protection.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Sarah reveals the Mormon painting of 2,000 shirtless, ripped white warriors that every church displays.
Why do the hosts call Elder M. Russell Ballard 'Masturbating Melvin' and what's his boat-themed talk about?
Two hosts chat about post-Christmas life, work frustrations, and cultural quirks.
Two Mormon women reflect on their podcast's history and past episodes, discussing how time has passed quickly.
Katie and Sarah open with LDS Living's June 27, 2025 article, "Whose Faces Belong on a Latter-day Saint Mount Rushmore?" and immediately connect it to Mount Rushmore's 60-foot presidents and the Black Hills.
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Jake Taylor's Idaho petition against House Joint Memorial 1 reaches more than 11,000 signatures as Newsweek covers the effort on February 12, 2025.
Hosts Sarah and Katie reflect on their podcast's six-year journey and the evolution of topics discussed.
Two Mormon women chat about family life, including nursery photos and Father's Day, in a casual podcast format.