The Hidden Cut

Lisa T.

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The Hidden Cut is a story-driven podcast unearthing the cultural, medical, and spiritual legacy of circumcision in the modern world. Through investigative essays and haunting revelations, it asks: what are we really cutting away? lisawritesnow.substack.com

10/30/2025 · BONUS

War of the Worlds: The Alien Psyop

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles performed a simple radio play. Within hours, the nation was in panic. Newspapers ran headlines about hysteria, and decades later, the War of the Worlds broadcast is still remembered as the night America lost its grip on reality. But was it really just an accident of storytelling? Or was something else being tested that night? In this special featurette, we go back to the broadcast that blurred the line between entertainment and fear. We recreate the moment panic spread across the airwaves—and ask the bigger question: was this the first modern psyop? This Halloween, tune in to The Hidden Cut for a chilling reminder that the line between fiction and reality has always been thinner than we’d like to believe. The Cut Continues: Get future episodes, deep-dive essays, and access to The Vault. Subscribe now to join the investigation. 🎬 Continue the Series → Next Episode: Season 1 Supercut📂 Full Episode Guide: Cold Open Think something got left on the cutting room floor?Add your notes below—we’re still editing in real time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisawritesnow.substack.com/subscribe

17 min
10/10/2025 · BONUS

The Hidden Cut: Season 2 - Supercut

You inherit a covenant before you can speak—a sacred promise written in blood and tradition. For generations, faith and family have framed it as holy, necessary, even loving. But what if the origin of this ritual was never divine? What if it was a contract—one no one remembers signing? This is The Hidden Cut: The Sacred Cut—the complete second season, gathered into one seamless supercut. Across seven episodes, we explore the ancient roots of circumcision, the evolution of ritual blood sacrifice, and how religious tradition shaped the modern medical world. From Abraham’s covenant to today’s operating rooms, this season asks: how did a biblical commandment become a normalized surgery? And what does that reveal about faith, control, and consent in our culture? Listen straight through to uncover the hidden history of ritual, religion, and the covenant that still binds us—and stay tuned for Season 3: Hollywood Medicine, where belief meets the silver screen. The Cut Continues: Get future episodes, deep-dive essays, and access to The Vault. Subscribe now to join the investigation. 🎬 Continue the Series ← Previous Episode: Season 1 Supercut→ Next Episode: Season 3 Supercut📂 Full Episode Guide: Cold Open Think something got left on the cutting room floor?Add your notes below—we’re still editing in real time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisawritesnow.substack.com/subscribe

1h 24m
10/04/2025 · BONUS

The Hidden Cut: Season 1 - Supercut

You grow up assuming your body is yours. That the people around you—your family, your doctors, your culture—made decisions in your best interest. But what if one of those decisions was irreversible?What if you never even knew it was optional? This is The Hidden Cut: The American Cut—the complete first season, gathered into one supercut. Across seven episodes, we trace how a quiet medical ritual became the most normalized surgery in American history. From television and pornography to medicine and profit, this is a story about silence, consent, and the cuts that shape us. Listen straight through to uncover the hidden history of circumcision in America—and stay tuned for Season 2: The Sacred Cut, where ritual and religion take center stage. The Cut Continues: Get future episodes, deep-dive essays, and access to The Vault. Subscribe now to join the investigation. 🎬 Continue the Series → Next Episode: Season 2 Supercut📂 Full Episode Guide: Cold Open Think something got left on the cutting room floor?Add your notes below—we’re still editing in real time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisawritesnow.substack.com/subscribe

2h 5m
09/25/2025

The Hidden Cut: S2E7 - Modesty's Revenge

They told us the body was sacred. So we let them cut the men. We covered the women. Then we uncovered the women. And the men were already numb. In this season finale, we trace how modesty — once a gesture of reverence — was weaponized into silence, and how liberation was recast as performance. From purity pledges to porn, from Abraham’s trauma-coded covenant to the craving that remains in its wake, we explore the spiritual collapse of the American bedroom. What if anger is really grief? What if withdrawal is just unspoken pain? And what if the true jailbreak isn’t rebellion, but forgiveness? This is the close of Sacred Flesh. Next, we head west — to Hollywood, to illusion, and to the women cut by the machine. Read the full essay here. The Cut Continues: Get future episodes, deep-dive essays, and access to The Vault. Subscribe now to join the investigation. 🎬 Continue the Series ← Previous Episode: Other Gods, Other Cuts→ Next Episode: The First Silent Cut📂 Full Episode Guide: Cold Open Think something got left on the cutting room floor?Add your notes below—we’re still editing in real time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisawritesnow.substack.com/subscribe

10 min
09/18/2025

The Hidden Cut: S2E6: Other Gods, Other Cuts

In this penultimate episode of The Hidden Cut: The Sacred Cut, we step outside Abraham’s tent and trace circumcision across the world’s religions and cultures. From tribal initiations to temple rituals, from African rites to Islamic practice, from ancient gods to modern medicine — the blade has always traveled farther than the covenant. Why did cultures on every continent choose the knife? What did they believe it gave them? And what wound does it leave behind? This episode explores the oldest ritual in human history — and how it became the throughline connecting faith, power, and the human body itself. Read the full essay. The Cut Continues: Get future episodes, deep-dive essays, and access to The Vault. Subscribe now to join the investigation. 🎬 Continue the Series ← Previous Episode: Submission and Identity→ Next Episode: Modesty’s Revenge📂 Full Episode Guide: Cold Open Think something got left on the cutting room floor?Add your notes below—we’re still editing in real time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisawritesnow.substack.com/subscribe

12 min
09/11/2025

The Hidden Cut: S2E5 - Submission and Identity

Circumcision didn’t just mark flesh—it marked time, power, and survival. In this episode, we follow the ritual into its bloodline politics: who was chosen, who was excluded, and what was left unsaid. From ancient purity codes to modern identity, we examine how a cut became a contract, shaping generations of men and entire nations. This is The Hidden Cut. The wounds are older than we think—and the silence runs deeper than the scar. Read the full essay here. 🎬 Continue the Series ← Previous Episode: Of Prophets and Foreskins→ Next Episode: Circumcision in Global Religion & Culture📂 Full Episode Guide: Cold Open Think something got left on the cutting room floor?Add your notes below—we’re still editing in real time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisawritesnow.substack.com/subscribe

12 min
09/05/2025

The Hidden Cut: S2E4 - Of Prophets and Foreskins

Paul declared circumcision no longer necessary for salvation—a spiritual rebrand that opened the faith to the Gentile world. But was this true liberation, or just a strategic move to grow the church? This episode traces how Paul reframed the covenant, why America re-adopted the cut through medicine and war, and how forgiveness itself can mask the blade. Read the full essay here. 🎬 Continue the Series ← Previous Episode: Blood on The Breath→ Next Episode: Submission and Identity📂 Full Episode Guide: Cold Open Think something got left on the cutting room floor?Add your notes below—we’re still editing in real time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisawritesnow.substack.com/subscribe

12 min
08/29/2025

The Hidden Cut: S2E3 - Blood on the Breath

A child’s death. A sacred silence. This episode of The Hidden Cut unravels the ritual few dare to question—metzitzah b’peh. From Talmud to New York City courtrooms, we trace the spell that binds breath, blood, and faith. What happens when protecting the sacred collides with protecting the child? Read the full essay here. The Cut Continues: Get future episodes, deep-dive essays, and access to The Vault. Subscribe now to join the investigation. 🎬 Continue the Series ← Previous Episode: The Covenant→ Next Episode: Of Prophets and Foreskins📂 Full Episode Guide: Cold Open Think something got left on the cutting room floor?Add your notes below—we’re still editing in real time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisawritesnow.substack.com/subscribe

15 min

The Hidden Cut is a story-driven podcast unearthing the cultural, medical, and spiritual legacy of circumcision in the modern world. Through investigative essays and haunting revelations, it asks: what are we really cutting away? lisawritesnow.substack.com

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Lisa T.
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2K
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18
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