Season 4

July 23, 2025

"Saint Sydney" AKA Syd King

Syd King is an NYC based comedian originally from Indiana. Her “whitty and misguided innocence” is inspired by her Catholic upbringing, being a theater kid, and her Disney Adult proclivities. All these themes converge in her ...

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June 20, 2025

The Pope Doesn't Eat Deep Dish with Steve McNamee

Steve McNamee a musician, an educator, and lapsed Catholic….and Anne’s brother! Tune in as this sibling duo talks Chicago Pope memes, Irish excellence, and what it’s like to have a priest as your Confirmation sponsor. This ep...

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May 7, 2025

BEST OF Lapsed: Popes

We were talking about popes before it was cool. Tune in to this throwback episode from Season 1 (!!!) as Anne and Steph discuss the who, when, where, and why of the papacy. RIP Francis (seriously, we were fans). LINKS Anne’s ...

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March 8, 2025

Gabrielle Minoli i.e. @saltlacroix

Gabrielle Minoli ( @saltlacroix ) is an LA-based writer and comedy content creator. Her satirical fashion trend prediction series on TikTok and Instagram has earned her accolades such as “my Oracle of Delphi,” “sociologists c...

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Jan. 24, 2025

Singer-Songwriter Grace Leckey

"Can't Pray to Me," affectionately alternatively titled, "The Mary Song," presents listeners with Mary the Mother of Jesus' take on guns in America–that is, according to Catholic songwriter and troublemaker Grace Leckey. A mu...

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Dec. 30, 2024

Lapsed Special Holiday STORYTELLING Edition: Guilt and the Innkeeper

This week’s special post-holiday episode is a recording of a story Anne told LIVE way back in Junary 2024 with 80 Minutes Around the World as part of Lifeline Theatre’s Fillet of Solo Festival . Enjoy. Special Collection: htt...

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Dec. 12, 2024

Sascha Guinn Anderson

Sascha Guinn Anderson is a writer, a former cheese educator, a citizen of the Chocktaw nation, and a soon-to-be (Episcopal) priest! Listen in as Anne and Sascha talk rosaries, indigeneity and Christianity, and the atheist-to...

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Nov. 13, 2024

Britt Migs

Britt Migs is an award winning standup & sketch comedian living and working in NYC. You might know her from viral videos in which she plays a sassy Italian PR professional scrambling to spin the drama coming out of the Vatica...

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Oct. 30, 2024

Juan Munoz

Listen in as Anne chats with comedian/writer/actor/storyteller Juan Munoz about life as a youngest child/bilingual/queer CCD kid. Topics covered include how Mass is like drag brunch and why the witchy parts of Catholicism are...

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Oct. 16, 2024

Kelli Dunham

A comedian, a storyteller, a nurse, an author, a queer activist, and a former nun walk onto the podcast ….and they’re all the same person. Listen in as the brilliant Kelli Dunham dishes on converting to Catholicism, the less...

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Oct. 2, 2024

Talking Women's Ordination with Father Anne

Our favorite Catholic priest has returned! Father Anne Tropeano returns to talk women’s ordination, gender and sexuality in the church, following the Holy Spirit, and so much more (including an update on Old Dog Heaven). We’r...

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Sept. 17, 2024

Astrology, Tarot & Catholicism with Monica aka The Gospelle

What do Catholicism, Tarot, and Astrology have in common? Monica of The Gospelle is here to tell us! In this first episode of season 4, Anne and Monica talk mysteries of faith, Christian/pagan symbology, and the occult (or n...

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