Season 1 · Episode 92
How Did Mormon Moms Take Over Pop Culture?
The Sam Sanders Show · KCRW
February 17, 202627m 57s
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Show Notes
<p dir="ltr">The moment is Mormon. From <em>The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City</em>, to <em>The Bachelorette</em>, to popular TikTok accounts like Ballerina Farm, women of the LDS faith are dominating pop culture right now. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Sam breaks it all down with author and journalist Bridget Read. Her latest piece for <em>New York Magazine</em> is titled: <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/mormons-pop-culture-secret-lives-bachelorette.html">U<em>nder The Mormon Influence</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr">Bridget unveils the ‘<em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZgXQPWNcwtk">receipts, proof, timeline…everything</a></em>’ behind this phenomenon. Plus, could all this new attention radically change the religion and its followers?</p>
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