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New: Secret Societies I, Part 6 - Templars and Cathars

Season 4, Ep. 6

Yes, many of you, including notably the 40 Year Old Boy, Mike Schmidt, noticed that I made a typo in the numbering of the show last time. Regardless, we're back on track now, delivering the properly numbered 6th episode of our Secret Societies series, which bridges the gap between the Templars and the Cathars. On paper, the Knights of the Temple don't have much to do with the heretical Good Men, but they both ran afoul of the Catholic Church, which led to their demises. And not coincidentally, they're both the locus of historical conspiracy theories. We'll be spending more time with the Cathars next time, as well. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed creating it.

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