Podcast Episodes

166: QAnonAnonymous Goes to Hollywood (w/Travis View and Jake Rockatansky)

In 2017, 4chan user "Q" started LARPing as a Deep State insider with predictions about Hillary Clinton and the pedophile cabal. 10 months later, the …

2 years, 7 months ago

Bonus Sample: Disgust Management

Notes from Matthew in response to a great question from a listener:

How do you keep from hating these people? The blasé unimaginative crackpots like A…

2 years, 7 months ago

Special Report: Marianne Williamson’s Ex- Staffers Speak Out

Seven ex-staffers who worked on Marianne Williamson’s campaign have written an open letter describing her campaign as an “exercise in deception.”

Matt…

2 years, 7 months ago

Brief: Kombucha Krash

GT Dave's kombucha origin story is the stuff of legend—at least how he frames it. But when the LA Times broke the story of a judge awarding workers n…

2 years, 7 months ago

165: Outrage Machine (w/Tobias Rose-Stockwell)

Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a media researcher, writer, designer, and author of the new book, Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts D…

2 years, 7 months ago

Bonus Sample: Psychedelic Fundamentalism

Altered states exist on a spectrum, from enhancing human flourishing to perpetuating dangerous delusions. Daniel Pinchbeck’s recent comments on our b…

2 years, 7 months ago

Deep Cut: Post-Cult Shame

Deep Cut pulls from our bonus episode archive to unearth previous ideas that remain relevant today.

Survivor shame over what has been lost, and how on…

2 years, 7 months ago

164: The Two Faces of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.

We’ve been tracking Bobby’s misinformation, contradictions, and cursed networks for three years. And now he’s having his moment, and it’s anyone’s gu…

2 years, 7 months ago

Bonus Sample: EMF and 5G and chemtrails oh my!

Derek unpacks what’s really going on in conspiritualist messages about the "climate change narrative" and how they use an assault of varying degrees …

2 years, 7 months ago

Brief: The New Age Origin Story of RFK Jr’s Campaign

A granular—let’s say quantum-sized—look at how RFK Jr.’s wealthiest and most influential New Age supporters are thinking about his candidacy. Aubrey …

2 years, 7 months ago