John Rapp

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52 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 24 Jan

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Planet Money · A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch · 24 Jan 2026 podcast

It turns out that's a very attractive price.

If an exception for use of a controlled substance is permitted for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, we do not see why there can be no consideration of a similar exception in

for the 130 or so members of the church at issue here.

While you cannot encourage someone to commit crimes, you can counsel them on the likely consequences of a presumptively illegal course of conduct.

So that's a lot of what we do.

You're just saying in a public document that

You know, here's all the things we're doing, and here's our address, and this is how we order our sacrament, and basically you're confessing to crimes, right?

And it just has a list of what constitutes, you know, a presumptively legitimate religion.

You know, I literally help people write Bibles.

I mean, that's a big part of what I do.

How do you write a new Bible?

I say, look, send me everything you've got.

And typically they got a lot.

My latest client is like the octo-god with like eight personalities appeared to me in a dream.

And, you know, sometimes you got to really remember, you know, the early days of Mormonism and a few others had some very odd stories too.

So I typically take all that and then I'll take things I know from other cases, codes of ethics, bylaws that I've seen work for churches.

And we translate that vision, that storyline into a canon or, you know, some people actually call it a Bible.

That's one of my favorite parts.

I just think that's fun.

So...

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