Podcast Episodes

Brief: Yes, Huberman’s Behavior Matters

In response to Kerry Howley’s meticulous reporting on the deceptions of Andrew Huberman in New York Magazine, Huberstans around the world are braying…

1 year, 11 months ago

199: Inside Anti-Abortion Christian Nationalism (w/Rob Schenck)

Reverend Rob Schenck spent 30 years on the front lines of the Evangelical war against Roe V. Wade. He blockaded abortion clinics, screamed at women i…

1 year, 11 months ago

Bonus Sample: Conspirituality and the Imaginary Children (Series Intro)

In this series of audio essays, Matthew will examine how children as symbols—but not persons with their own internal lives—are at the center of consp…

1 year, 11 months ago

Brief: Unmasking Jay Shetty (w/John McDermott)

Former monk turned spiritual influencer to the stars, Jay Shetty, has amassed 15 million followers on Instagram. He’s interviewed Michelle Obama, Kim…

1 year, 11 months ago

198: Holy Food (w/Christina Ward)

Does God have a recipe? That’s the first line of the blurb of Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat: An Amer…

1 year, 11 months ago

Bonus Sample: Ketamine Soul Mates

Dolphins, drugs, new age music. Isolation tanks as a portal into other dimensions. True love and fake aliens. Julian shares a personal love story fro…

2 years ago

Brief: RFK Jr Hijacks the “Crisis in Masculinity” (w/Natalia Petrzela)

Masculinity, in all its wounded and preening anxiety, is the perennial currency of American populism.

America’s foremost public historian on fitness a…

2 years ago

197: Psychic Surgery (feat Brad Abrahams)

The “healer” mutters prayers, flutters his hands over the patient’s belly, then rubs his fingers close to her navel. A stream of what looks like bloo…

2 years ago

Bonus Sample: How to Stamp Out Racists (and more)

At what point do you tune someone out and no longer consider them worth considering? Is their entire catalog of thought defined by one encounter you …

2 years ago

Brief: The God Pivot: Rogan, Brand, & Huberman

Being a chaos agent is exhausting. The internet never ends. It’s so abstract, groundless. At some point, all of your content seems stale and redundan…

2 years ago