The Hidden Cut

Season 1 - The American Cut

Circumcision is everywhere in America—on our birth charts, in our bathrooms, in our beds—but almost no one talks about it. Until now.

This season explores how the American model of circumcision became so normal, so profitable, and so culturally untouchable.

We trace the silence, the shame, the marketing, the trauma—and the profit trail.

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📂 Episode Guide

Listen to the Season 1 Super Cut of all 7 episodes.

1. The First Cut
The cut that started it all—on the body, and in the culture.
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2. Comic Cuts
Circumcision on TV, in jokes, and why we learned to laugh it off.
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3. The Rough Cut
Porn, pleasure, and what we lost when we couldn’t feel anymore.
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4. The Deep Cut
Trauma, memory, and what babies remember that no one talks about.
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5. The Reflex Cut
Redefining erectile dysfunction—the nervous system’s quiet rebellion.
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6. The Choice Cut
Who’s profiting, who’s silent, and what language won’t let us say.
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7. The Recut
A reckoning with the American man—and the wound he was never allowed to name.
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Season Two - Sacred Flesh

We trace the origins of circumcision in scripture, explore ancient rites of blood and belonging, and ask hard questions about what happens when faith meets flesh.

📂 Episode Guide

Listen to the Season 2 Super Cut of all 8 episodes.

Bonus - The Ritual Never Ended
A global history of circumcision—and the contract we’re still upholding.
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1. In The Beginning
A brief history of the blade.
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2. The Covenant
Circumcision in Judaism: Contract, Identity & the Sacred Mark
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3. Blood on The Breath
Metzitzah B’peh and the Modern Scandal
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4. Of Prophets and Foreskins
Christianity and Circumcision: The Brand Pivot
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5. Submission and Identity
Circumcision in Islam: Tradition Without Command
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6. Other Gods, Other Cuts
Circumcision in Global Religion & Culture
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7. Modesty’s Revenge
Sex, Shame & the Spiritual Collapse of the American Bedroom
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Stay tuned for Season 3: Hollywood Medicine coming soon.