Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchToday is Tomorrow w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (BONUS)
Episode 165
Justin Rogers-Cooper returns to explore the 1993 Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day, a deceptively straightforward film that pulses with dark insights …
6 years, 5 months ago
School's Out Forever w/ Brendan O'Malley
Season 2 Episode 164
Brendan O'Malley is a historian and teacher whose experience with his school's abrupt closure was the subject of a fascinating, wrenching piece in C…
6 years, 6 months ago
Waging Peace w/ Susan Schnall
Season 2 Episode 163
Susan Schnall served as a nurse in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. Her experiences treating wounded Marines at Oak Noll Naval Hospital in Oakla…
6 years, 6 months ago
Doomsday Politics w/ Bill Black
Season 2 Episode 162
With Trap favorite Bill Black joining us, a conversation about David's irrational fear of spiders leads into a wider consideration of existential pol…
6 years, 6 months ago
Circling the Eschaton w/ Erik Davis
Season 2 Episode 161
Writer and cultural critic Erik Davis joins us to discuss his fascinating, often startling new book, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary …
6 years, 7 months ago
Growth Mindset w/ KJ Shepherd
Season 2 Episode 160
KJ Shepherd is a Ph.D. historian whose research focuses on the history of American standardized testing and the "test preparation" industry it spawne…
6 years, 7 months ago
Subtext Becomes Text w/ Eli Valley
Season 2 Episode 159
Eli Valley is a comic artist and writer with an intense, visceral aesthetic that perfectly captures the rotten politics of our age. His acclaimed ant…
6 years, 7 months ago
Mapping the Zone w/ Liz Ryerson
Season 2 Episode 158
Liz Ryerson is a musician, writer, and teacher whose work explores the ideological and aesthetic landscape of video games and cult media. Her podcast…
6 years, 7 months ago
Above the Law w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper
Season 2 Episode 157
Justin Rogers-Cooper returns to continue our discussion of this Summer of Strangeness, this time taking on the Jeffrey Epstein case: who's connected…
6 years, 8 months ago
Cartoon Reality w/ Daniel Pinchbeck
Season 2 Episode 156
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of a number of books that explore big subjects like human consciousness, psychedelic drugs, shamanic cultures, and the…
6 years, 8 months ago