<p class="">You should totally watch the YouTube cooking show <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1of9ELYwB623fWaAMRDVFA" target="_blank">Grandpa Kitchen</a>. Why? A sweet Indian grandpa cooks <a href="https://youtu.be/z6ChNc6jyAw" target="_blank">huge dishes of food for orphans</a>. And when he dies, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCTUoBMk-GE" target="_blank">they make an episode of his funeral</a>. What about this Western gaze upon the food rituals of others, though?</p>

052 THE RETREAT (the Kitsch Corner is back, with two personal accounts of a men's retreat)

Weird Religion is a podcast for people who think religion is weird but love it anyway. Your hosts, Leah Payne and Brian Doak, are both professors, authors, and pop culture aficionados, whose interests range from archaeology and history and linguistics to LARPing and The Walking Dead. Episodes tackle some piece of media highlighting the wonderful weirdness of religious experience—a documentary, a television show, a Twitter scandal—and use that as a &quot;thread&quot; on which to hang reflections on a wide variety of topics. Cults. The perils of fame within the evangelical world. Church attendance. Atheism. Gamer communities. Millennials and avocado toast. It's all here.