Podcast Episodes
Back to Search119: We Are Slenderman (w/Kathleen Hale)
On May 31st, 2014, Morgan Geyser stabbed her onetime best friend Bella Leutner nineteen times, while her new best friend, Anissa Weier, looked on. Al…
3 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Sample: The Consciousness Instinct
As we're all with family over the holiday weekend, here's a 2018 interview that Derek conducted with neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga after the publi…
3 years, 6 months ago
118: Detoxing From Wellness (w/Kerri Kelly)
Do you ever stop to think about whether or not you can afford organic food—and then consider that many people don’t have such an option? Is Goop’s $2…
3 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 6 | Michelle Remembers: Literal Symbols
The homestretch of our study of Michelle Remembers zeroes in on the literal symbols—and symbols gone literal—of the Satanic Panic. Archetypes, gore, …
3 years, 6 months ago
117: The Real Cost of Fitness in America (w/Natalia Petrzela)
Fitness is the beating heart of America. No, wait, that’s opportunistic capitalism. But opportunistic capitalism, as it turns out, is the beating hea…
3 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Sample: JP Sears is Definitely Binary
JP Sears constantly refers to himself as a freethinker. His increasing religiosity is counter to critical thinking, however. Derek responds to two re…
3 years, 6 months ago
UNLOCKED: Swan Song Series 2 | Teal Swan: Art & Artifice (w/Paola Marino)
In this episode of the Swan Song Series, Matthew interviews Paola Marino about why she found Teal Swan a fascinating subject to film for 2018’s “Open…
3 years, 7 months ago
Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 5 | Michelle Remembers: Themes & Framing
In the second of three episodes on Michelle Remembers, we recap its Catholic contexts, and Lawrence Pazder's quest to transcend the limitations of ps…
3 years, 7 months ago
116: History is Not a Placebo: Chinese Medicine in America (w/Tamara Venit-Shelton)
Traditional Chinese Medicine is an ancient medical system that has persisted in its homeland for countless generations before being exported to the r…
3 years, 7 months ago
Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 4 | Michelle Remembers: Context & History
There's no Teal Swan without the Satanic Panic. And there's no Satanic Panic without the 1980 publication of Michelle Remembers, by Lawrence Pazder a…
3 years, 7 months ago