I started listening to the episodes in chronological order, and the early content hasn’t aged very well. For proclaiming that they’re so “scientifically-minded,” their analysis was highly unscientific and riddled with confirmation bias from the perspective of white, cis, hetero, Los Angeles folks. Their takes were fairly mean-spirited and immature, oftentimes sounding like high schoolers bashing on people outside of their immediate friend circle. By today’s standards, the early episodes read as narcissistic, arguably a bit racist, and the Mormon arc felt like a long con that was increasingly uncomfortable to listen to the deeper they got into the organization. Granted, they worked on this show together for *13 years*, which is a long time for personal and professional growth. High odds the show (and their perspectives and approaches) get better(?), but I’m not sure I’m willing to investigate their content much further to find out.

I love and miss Oh No Ross and Carrie! Both the investigations and the hosts. If you love learning about fringe science, spirituality and paranormal events presented by delightful, brilliant friends, then this is the podcast for you too!

Ross and Carri are a breath of fresh air in a time of increasing fake news, climate deniers, and conspiracy cults. As a grad student studying science education this show is pertinent and timely. And funny! 2024 Update- As we say goodbye so ONRAC what I will miss most is my friends Ross and Carrie! As they shared their lives, pets, thoughts, and investigations with us, each episode left me feeling like I’d just spent an afternoon hanging out with my science geek friends. Which is ONRAC. I’ll miss you both. I’ll miss being witness to your friendship. I’ll miss getting updates on your lives. But more importantly, I wish you healing and happiness and success in the next ventures.

I enjoyed many of their investigations including Scientology and Mormons all the way down to ear candling. Their chemistry is usually enjoyable and their insights are often enlightening. I recommend going through their catalog and listen to any of the episodes with titles that sound interesting ti you. The show is over now which is mostly a good decision as it has been in decline for several years now. They rarely did any investigations anymore and the show was more of a casual conversation between friends. While these conversations were pleasant to listen to, it wasn't the reason I was subscribed. Goodbye you two. You've been a part of my life for over a decade, but all things come to an end.

I wrote a review five years ago and gave this five stars. This is still my favorite podcast and it wholeheartedly deserves five stars as you wrap it up. I just want to say thank you for all of the years of fun and learning. I plan to relisten to all of it. I feel like a dear friend is moving far away. You will be missed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

A long overdue review for my favorite podcast. I started listening when I was 12 years old and I'm now in my 20s. Ross and Carrie are funny, thoughtful people that have truly shaped who I am today. I also want to make special mention of Carrie’s interview episodes which she approaches with so much tact and skill that absolutely blew me away the first time I listened to one... I graduated from journalism school last year and am doing work I love, so thank you for helping open that door for me, Carrie.

Thanks for all the investigations, insights, and laughs. Much love.

This truly is the most influential podcast I’ve ever listened to. Ross and Carrie are both amazing, insightful people. They have taught me so much about the world around me, while remaining hilarious the whole time! I wish Ross and Carrie all the luck in their future endeavors and thank them for the amazing work they have put out into the world. And remember, Owl owl owl

This is a wonderful overall podcast I have enjoyed listening to for more than 6 years. Ross and Carrie have put out some exceptional investigations over the years and I still find I get a lot out of it. Listening to the episodes, especially pre-COVID (during which their format and investigations obviously had to change) is really enjoyable and something I’ve gotten a lot out of. But I do want to comment on two things which have given me some pause especially more recently. Firstly, it feels like the type of things these two lovely people feel drawn not only to investigate but just their core interests have shifted. Much less interested in traditional fringe religious groups, and much more interested in the ancient alien related sphere, and Carrie on the fringe psychology/trauma sphere. As much as I miss those types of episodes on things like Scientology, I’d be very happy to hear about more of these psychological topics too be they investigations on their own or things she has looked into for her book but didn’t make the cut. But the topics lately have felt like the hosts weren’t all that interested in them themselves at times, and I hope that can change. The other thing is to please give us a bit more transparency with what the schedule is going forward. We don’t have a right to y’all’s personal business and i totally respect the need for privacy, but after so many years you have built up not just a base of dedicated listeners but a group of people who care about your wellbeing and happiness. Cutting back on the number or frequency of episodes is totally fine and we’ll completely understand, let us know if one of you is dealing with a lot on your plate or taking a step back to focus on something else, we’ll be right here when you’re ready to jump back in. But please just tell us so we can know what to expect going forward. You don’t have to go into why, just let us know “what.”

Ross and Carrie are fearless, honest, funny, and crazy smart. They go to places that I have an unhealthy fascination with and then demystify, unpack, and explain them. They remind me that it’s a strange, funny world, and also that many people who seem dangerously unhinged are still reasonable- given one or two absolutely bonkers premises.

The hosts are entertaining, and I’ve enjoyed many of the episodes. That said, I was very disappointed in how routinely they misstate or misinterpret scientific findings to support their preconceived opinions. Occasionally, this includes making misleading health claims that could do actual damage. Of course, no one knows *everything*, but it would be preferable to just admit a lack of knowledge. Science demands intellectual humility, which both of these hosts could really benefit from. I recommend the show, but take anything they say about nutrition and health (even when it’s stated with complete confidence) with many grains of salt.

I thought I was listening to Pro homeopathy show but really all they are doing is making fun of the subject. What is disappointment. I guess I missed the premise of their show

I can’t get past the ads that infect my other podcasts. So have not heard. Don’t want to

I like getting to tag along on the adventures in woo by proxy. I like that they treat the various practitioners with respect and kindness. As the episodes can be long on info and short on climaxes, I tend to use this as my putter-around podcast. I like to play this while I am engaged in house work. Overall a fun glimpse into a world that feels foreign, allowing me to feel like an arm chair anthropologist.

I don’t even use Apple Podcasts to listen and I haven’t even finished the most recent episode, but I needed to download this app so I could leave this review. I’ve been an avid weekly listener since 2017 (Amazing Facts!) and I have never once thought that Ross was “the smart one” (absolutely no offense to Ross intended since you’re both so funny AND smart). I cried when I heard you say that. So I felt like you needed to know

Here is why I appreciate Ross and Carrie 1. Sometimes you just want to take a break and listen to people who think like you do. It may be a little mean, but every once in a while, I get to laugh at people can believe ridiculous things. 2. That being said, they aren’t all that mean. Most of the time they are really empathetic to the people they investigate. 3. They remind me to question my own beliefs and to consider if they are falsifiable. I still attend church and enjoy being a mildly faithful person, but my ideas about faith change all the time and I am not warming up any pokers for those who disagree with me. Ross and Carrie remind me to think about what it would take to change my mind. 4. It’s fun to hear about Ross’s work. Good reminder that working for Disney does not make you a magic elf And to those who are leaving reviews about Carrie being shrill, consider your implicit sexism of being accustomed to male voices over the radio.

With a wide range of esoteric topics, Ross and Carrie are just skeptical enough, cynical enough, kind enough, honest enough, funny enough and intelligent enough to keep me tuning in each week.

Carrie and Ross have kept me entertained endless hours and offer wonderful insights into belief systems and spirituality.

After years of subscribing and supporting, I’m out. It comes down to: Carrie defending pedophilia as a sexual orientation, her smug high school bully attitude, and her surprise screeching/yelling. There have been many fantastic episodes and it’s a great listen for lots of people, but the issues above make the show a negative and stressful to listen for me.

Then this podcast is for you. I was really hoping to hear a researched and journalistic take on a spiritual cult… but honestly these 2 really just like to spend time gloating in their obvious intellectual superiority over the people they’re investigating. If that’s your thing then enjoy!

Great show, the hosts have good banter. Topics are fun, don’t neglect the early episodes which offer deeper dives into well known cults.

Been listening to these two for so long I don’t even know. They are so funny and their work is so solid!

One of my favorite podcasts. I always stop whatever I’m listening to and switch to your newest episode to listen to it instead.

If you want to explore the realms of pseudoscience, without falling victim to it, this is the podcast for you! The host are entertaining, without directly making fun of those who "make the claims".

This is my favorite podcast. I’ve been listening for years and it’s so good still. Ross and Carrie are super open minded and fair to every investigation that they do. As a bonus I feel like I’ve learned a ton over the many years I’ve listened

Guys, when Carrie yells “Read Factfulness!”, do it. She’s right. I just finished it and it’s great. The podcast is cool too.

Kind of creeped me out when Carrie felt the need to go, “pedophilia is an orientation” in Sound of Freedom, while trying to differentiate from child sex abusers. Also they seem to be drifting into low-effort topics instead of looking into fringe religions like they used to.

Look forward to the “new year prediction” and “year end prediction review” episodes every year and this year did not disappoint!

Hey Tansy, I know you’ve been looking for a reliably funny-but-smart podcast to get into, so let me be the first (but certainly not the last) to sing for you the praises of ONRAC. It’s contemporary, it’s adorably dorky, it’s comforting, and its hosts navigate sensitive topics with equal parts thoughtfulness and snark. Give this a listen so you can leave your own 5-star review and narrowly sidestep the wrath of the Highest Circle of the Akashic Records (or whatever), a gang of heavenly bureaucrats who are for some reason really hung up on podcast visibility. P.S. In the event that this message does not reach a Tansy, it would also be appropriate for a Markus or a Janelle.

I found these two hosts to be hard to listen to. In their episode on a Bashar event, they were consistent in their snide and demeaning remarks, which included jabs about age, body type, voice, and an Indie Gigi campaign. The hosts remind me of those kids in high school who made fun of everyone around them. This is not what one would expect from a show about spirituality and the paranormal. I found the female host’s negative comments about a famous relative of Daryl Anika’s to be puerile and unnecessary. This is behavior often found in people who are not comfortable with themselves. I expected more, and stuck with the show hoping for something more positive and objective. Alas…

It’s so rare you find a show that can have fun thinking about the paranormal and extraordinary without either believing it whole-cloth or mocking it. Ross and Carrie are genuinely open-minded and go into owl their investigations with a true curiosity even if they don’t walk away believing. But above owl else, I appreciate that Ross and Carrie are quick to correct their mistakes and own up to anything they got wrong.

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I have listened to ONRAC for years now and am always impressed by how much I laugh and learn from these two. I appreciate their respect for their subjects and the open minds they exhibit during their investigations. I find it amusing that as a Evangelical Southern Baptist, this podcast, out of all the thousands out there, is my most beloved. Please listen to all of the wonderful ONRAC episodes and prepare yourself for a very educational and hilarous time. Thank you, Ross and Carrie, for the years of insight and joy.

Long time fan and the show has not lost its touch!

I’ve been a fan since I first discovered ONRAC while on a solo cross-country road trip in 2019. I was instantly hooked, and spent the majority of my remaining 30 hours of windshield time diving into their impressive back-catalog of adventures into the heart of so many corners of the world of woo-woo. Their hands-on approach to separating the wheat from the chaff in the realms of pseudo/fringe science and the occult is respectful, fair, and oftentimes hilarious. And while they pull no punches with the true grifters, Ross and Carrie balance that hard line with empathy for the the sometimes well-meaning folks out there - many of whom are simply searching for answers in this mysterious world. It’s one of the aspects of this show that I appreciate most. I look forward to each episode, and hope that Ross and Carrie continue this mission for many years to come.

The backlog is just as fun and interesting as the current episodes. I love these two so much. They’ve been a comfort for years.

I was a huge ONRAC fan from the beginning through about 2020ish? I don’t have an exact episode where this started bugging me. I feel like some of their episodes where groups that are based on legends are “investigated,” it ends up sounding like two cis white people making fun of indigenous and other cultural movements lately, rather than cults. Go to a Southern Baptist church where they’re speaking in tongues and voting to strip people of their rights, instead of coming for relatively harmless spiritual ideas that a) bring people comfort (some of which are silly; I’m not arguing that) or b) being ignorant of ideas way older than them that have been incredibly meaningful to people who have been silenced by white Christian patriarchy. I don’t care if they personally aren’t spiritual. That isn’t the point. Their Kabbalah episodes were pretty antisemitic and like. Guys, I promise you, we Jews have enough issues without feeling disrespected/made fun of by investigative reporters who are genuinely worthy of admiration and who are better than that. I fell in love with Ross and Carrie because they investigated things that are dangerous or fascinating (and because I also love hot drinks). But they’ve become mean-spirited the past few years, and at the expense of some of their fans who are actively marginalized. Ross and Carrie, I believe you are both better than this. Get back to your investigative roots, and for f—-s sake, check your privilege.

A wide variety of topics presented in a smart, thoughtful way. I really enjoy the relaxed, unscripted presentation by two people who use language so well, are naturally curious and do solid research. The follow-up episode on the child trafficking film was excellent but one note—seriously, TMI on the kidney stone.

the very best (also the very best opening music)

So to get this out of the way: I’m a Christian, I go to church and everything. I was attracted to this show because I love to learn about the beliefs of others, and I believe the best way to share the love of Jesus with people is to first understand their background. Well, Ross and Carrie may be disappointed in me, because I’ve become a bit of a proselyte for their podcast. I recommend it to everybody I can. Ross and Carrie are so kind and considerate during their investigations, and they ask amazing and insightful questions that I love to consider as if I were the one who had to answer. They aren’t afraid to stand up and confront people if it comes to that (something I don’t do very well), and they convicted me to have the courage to address some ignorance expressed by people in my own life. If you can keep an open mind and accept having your own biases and beliefs challenged from time to time, and/or if you care about other people and need a healthy dose of conviction, this is a podcast for you. I think everyone has something to gain by listening.

I am hooked on this podcast since I started listening. As a rationalist and scientist, I can barely listen to someone give me a 10-second summary of their horoscope without rolling my eyes, so the idea of attending one of these sessions strikes me as impossible. This is why their tag line speaks so strongly to me: They go so I don’t have to, and I appreciate that. I listen to this podcast with my kids, because it is a workshop in critical thinking. The Gail Thackray episode (383) is a particularly splendid example of how they pull this off. Typically, one has had an experience or researched something and the other listens along with us, to the story. As it rolls out, the one of them that is the listener makes comment on the various problems as they arise, breaking down what is fundamentally wrong or harmful about the approach. In this case, Carrie recounts her attendance to a course on past-life regression healing with Gail Thackeray, and, while she does, Ross breaks down his major objections, which in this case were fascinating. Like I said, I would roll my eyes and walk away from Gale Thackray, but Ross gives respect to every person they interview or research and in this case, he kept talking about all the past-life explanations offered by Gale Thackray being “inefficient.” My kids were in the car and I backed up and replayed key sections so they could understand what he meant. He’s referring to the rule of science that you prefer the most efficient explanation. Thackray explains birthmarks as wounds of various sorts from a past life and explains conflicts with bosses as memories of those reincarnated people having tortured you in a past life. None of this is helpful for the listener or efficient, when bad feelings about your boss are nearly universal and birth marks are just how skin works sometimes. No further explanation needed. His analysis was great. When he’s telling the story, Carrie’s analyses are equally insightful. Her highlighting the current weird obsession with trauma is particularly elucidating. In their investigations, they could make fun of people, but they are kind and generous. Can’t recommend the podcast enough.

ONRAC is always on the top of my list of podcasts I recommend to others.

The best!!!!

I love Ross and Carrie and suggest them to anyone who asks for recommendations! I love how respectful they are towards anyone they feel are earnest in their beliefs, and how they give honest feedback about their experiences. 10/10!

They cover one topic over 6+ episodes and end a lot of them promising the next episode will have the interesting information. It doesn’t come. Kind of a podcast equivalent of getting paid per word. I understand they have to pay the bills but it gets really tedious after awhile.

This is a dangerous podcast. It’s two people taking 3rd party interpretations of some of other person that they’ve decided to speak down about. I listened to the Bashar episode. And they totally misquoted him in every kneecap shot they chose to take. This is a gross representation of how humans have the capacity to take cheap shots at others to feel like they have a higher authority to seek control. It’s super fear based, and is not beneficial at all. This is a crass, mean spirited, source of “entertainment.” Inaccurate, misquoted information, that was followed up with making fun of someone for the sake of claiming to know better than others. Smh. Seriously, Misguided. For example, there are 5 “rules” and she misrepresented the first 3 rules. Not worth putting energy into.

I’ve been listening for at least 5 years, if not longer. Ross & Carrie are brilliant and very funny. Even with the depth and difficulty of some of the topics they cover this is one of my comfort shows (and I’ve listened through it at least 3 times). If you haven’t already tried it out I highly recommend it.

Ross and Carrie are just straight up fun to listen to. They make me laugh, they make me think. This podcast has made me a better person.

I listened to this show for a year or two and decided it wasn’t for me. The journalism and storytelling are great. What bothered me was how the premise was to secretly infiltrate whatever group was involved, gain their trust, then verbally kneecap them with a crow bar for the sake of laughs and self righteousness. It feels like listening to a bully tell their life story. I’m pro-science and nonreligious, but the way this show is conducted just feels mean-spirited and crass. Do better.

i love oh no ross and carrie, gotta be up there on my list of top five white people like ever