Podcast Episodes

239: Conspiracy Of Dunces

Like it or not, 2025 is here. What happens in post-truth America when formerly fringe conspiracy theorists, religious extremists, pseudoscience-peddl…

1 year, 2 months ago

Bonus Sample: The Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention

George van Tassel was the original UFO contactee. He claimed to have been visited by aliens from Venus in 1953, which led to him hosting thousands of…

1 year, 2 months ago

Brief: Trump the Babyface, Trump the Heel (w/Abraham Josie Reisman)

Journalist and author Josie Reisman says we can’t understand the Trump era without understanding his life-long pro-wrestling fandom, and his bonds wi…

1 year, 2 months ago

238: Diary of a CEO Bro

British entrepreneur and investor Steven Bartlett launched his podcast, Diary of a CEO, in 2017. He quickly found an audience in the tech world, whic…

1 year, 2 months ago

Relief Project #6: Rebecca Solnit

Happy New Year’s Eve!

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

Writer, historian, and activist R…

1 year, 2 months ago

Bonus Sample: Why Big Wellness Hates Ozempic

Ozempic might be all the rage among people who want to lose weight, but wellness influencers and MAHA acolytes are raging against the antidiabetic me…

1 year, 2 months ago

Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine

We've been highly critical of The Free Press in the past, but a recent memoir-article about grappling with a familial history of polio by Jana Kozlow…

1 year, 2 months ago

Unlocked: “What will happen?” (asks a 12 year-old)

A special Patreon bonus unlocked episode as we enjoy the holidays with our families and friends.

Matthew got The Question on the morning after the ele…

1 year, 2 months ago

Bonus Sample: Blessed NeoKayfabe of Santa Claus

“If you grow up with it, religion is real until you realize it is also imagined. And after a period of disenchantment or even depression that associa…

1 year, 2 months ago

Brief: My Dad Became a MAGA Power Broker (w/Julia Tucker)

Jeffery Tucker is the founder of the MAGA thinktank Brownstone Institute. In 2020, Brownstone published The Great Barrington Declaration, with lead a…

1 year, 2 months ago