Cold Open
Four shows. One voice. Start here to see how it all connects.
A Guide to Lisa Writes Now
Welcome. If you’re new here, this is your starting point.
If you’ve been following along, this is your recap—and your next step.
Lisa Writes Now is home to four original series:
The Hidden Cut – investigative storytelling and cultural analysis
The Deeper Read – a narrative Bible study for the spiritually curious
The Hot Cut – pop culture satire with a scalpel
The Vault – a subscriber archive of receipts, research, and raw files
These projects are all part of one larger mission:
To trace what’s been removed, revised, or left on history’s cutting room floor—and to cut back in.
🎧 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.
Below, you’ll find all 7 episodes, in both audio and essay form. Feel free to listen in order or skip around. Just don’t look away.
📂 Episode Guide
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.
→ Listen or Read
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.
→ Listen or Read
7. The Recut
A reckoning with the American man—and the wound he was never allowed to name.
→ Listen or Read
Up Next: Season Two - Sacred Flesh
Coming soon.
Season 2 dives deeper—into religion, ritual, and the sacred logic that keeps the knife in circulation.
We’ll 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.
What is covenant? What is sacrifice? And what if it was never supposed to be this way?
Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss a thing.
📚 While You Wait: The Deeper Read
Every week, I publish a companion series: The Deeper Read—a narrative Bible investigation that reads like a script breakdown of the oldest story ever told.
We’re reading Genesis like the subversive screenplay it is. We’re tracking who wrote it, what they left out, and how its edits still shape modern culture.
If The Hidden Cut is the film, The Deeper Read is the commentary track.
📂 Episode Guide
1. The Power of Translation
Why every sacred text is a remix—and how translation shapes what we believe.
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2. Genesis Writers’ Room
Pull back the curtain on Genesis and meet the editorial team behind the myth.
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3. The Blood Feud
Cain and Abel star in the first murder mystery.
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4. The Bloodline & The Breach
Long lives, vanished prophets, and divine hybrids.
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5. The Flood & The Fine Print
Deals made, bloodlines erased, and a sacrifice that changed everything.
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6. Producer Credits & The Babel Psyop
How fear of scattering sparked the first information war.
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🔥 In the Meantime: The Hot Cut
Satire, scandal, and short-form takedowns.
The Hot Cut is where pop culture gets sliced, scandal gets spiced, and secrets get exposed.
These quick-hit episodes dive into what’s trending—and what’s hiding in plain sight. Think: celebrity edits, industry cover-ups, and why no one will say whether Tommy Lee is circumcised (and why that matters more than you think).
Perfect for the scroll, the commute, or the kind of mood where you want your truth with a twist.
📁 Coming Soon: The Vault
A private archive of research, receipts, and raw files—curated for paid subscribers.
This is where I house the links, timelines, clippings, and sources that feed each cut.
If you're the type who likes to follow the thread yourself, you’ll want access to this.
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Thanks for being here. Season One is just the beginning.
See you soon for Sacred Flesh.
Yours in the cut,
Lisa