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Rick Alan Ross is an American deprogrammer, cult specialist, and founder and executive director of the non-profit Cult Education Institute. Frequently appearing in the news and other media, discussing groups some consider cults. Ross has intervened in more than 500 deprogramming cases in various countries. (Wikipedia) Get Rick's book, "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out" here [https://amzn.to/4kD471c]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Helen Bond is Professor of Christian Origins at the New College, University of Edinburgh, and former head of the School of Divinity there. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2023, she co-authored a book with Joan Taylor called Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples [https://amzn.to/4lnjwEk]. Watch the documentary version here [https://youtu.be/17QWDhomle8?si=MguR-xBT36cJatGH]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Sheehan Quirke is The Cultural Tutor. A writer on history, art, and architecture with millions of followers, he is also the author of the forthcoming The Cultural Tutor: Forty-Nine Lessons You Wish You’d Learned at School, which is currently available for preorder here [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458970/the-cultural-tutor-by-quirke-sheehan/9780241742853]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

David Pakman is an American progressive political commentator and host of  @thedavidpakmanshow  [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCvixJtaXuNdMPUGdOPcY8Ag]. Buy David's book, The Echo Machine here [https://amzn.to/4efNAim] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and popular science books. Buy Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity here [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008684995/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_PFDC88RCPKSRBNEVT6QJ?linkCode=ml1&tag=cosmskep-21]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]