Podcast Episodes

Relief Project #8: Blair Hodges

The eighth installment of Matthew’s Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person. 

Friend of the pod Blair Hodges joins Matthew to talk …

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Bonus Sample: Scientology’s Sci-Fi Religion

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, start a religion.” With those words, prolific sci-fi pulp fiction writer L. Ron…

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Brief: Make Apartheid Great Again

Given how much shit the zone is being flooded with right now, you might have missed Donald Trump screaming about the supposed mistreatment of white S…

1 year, 1 month ago

244: Battle for the Onesies

As of recording time, RFK Jr has not yet been confirmed to the HHS Secretary position by the Senate. That might change by publication date. But if we…

1 year, 1 month ago

Bonus Sample: What We're Facing

Derek meditates on a recent conversation about the left-right divide between Ezra Klein and James Pogue.

Show Notes

MAGA’s Big Tech Divide: Ezra Klein …

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Brief: Why Didn’t I Yell STFU at Jordan Peterson in 2017?

In the spring of 2017, Jordan Peterson first went viral by writing this in Canada’s National Post: 

I will never use words I hate, like the trendy and…

1 year, 1 month ago

243: Free Market Contrarians (w/Eoin Higgins)

Edward Snowden is largely only a public name thanks to Glenn Greenwald’s reporting, for which he was one of the contributors to a Pulitzer Prize-winn…

1 year, 1 month ago

Bonus Sample: Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 2 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)

Part 2 of Matthew’s sit down with sex-work veteran and social justice advocate Esme Providence Brown to discuss New Age / wellness antifeminist, Kell…

1 year, 1 month ago

Brief: Anti-Social Media (w/Renee Diresta)

When asked if he thought Mark Zuckerberg’s effective ending of fact checking was in response to threats that he would “put him in jail for a very lon…

1 year, 1 month ago

242: Executive Disorder

What the ever loving fuck. That’s our intro today.

But we do have a structure. Julian’s going to review the Executive Order chaos, including the pardo…

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