Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBonus Sample: Swan Song Series: Close to Home
We can't understand Teal Swan without understanding the Satanic Panic. And we can't really understand that historical disaster with out feeling our w…
3 years, 8 months ago
110: Temple of the Gun
Rosaries made of shell casings. A breakaway Unification Church sect that holds rituals with gilded ARs. JP Sears on the gun range. The unholy America…
3 years, 8 months ago
Bonus Sample: The Chapels in Our Brains
Matthew introduces Julian to the solipsism of an old Catholic catechism. Julian remembers meditating on non-duality. What spaces in our brains do the…
3 years, 8 months ago
109. Who’s Afraid of Teal Swan? (w/Jon Kasbe)
If the world has become too much to bear—and the bots know it from your search history— you will likely find Teal Swan. She will appear, an angel of …
3 years, 8 months ago
Bonus Sample: Giving Up the Gun
After becoming global leaders in gun manufacturing in the 16th century, Japan banished all guns from their country for two centuries. How did this ha…
3 years, 8 months ago
108: Downeast with Christiane Northrup (w/ Mooncat, Andy O’Brien, & Alyce Ornella)
Half-a-million Facebook followers. Hundreds of videos in a series called “The Great Awakening.” Christiane Northrup, the matriarch of New Age women’s…
3 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Sample: Julian Goes to Church
Julian recently attended his first Catholic funeral and found himself equal parts supportive friend and atheist anthropologist. This week, Matthew dr…
3 years, 9 months ago
107: An Open Letter to Aubrey Marcus
Aubrey Marcus really wants to not be a cult leader. He really wants Fit For Service to not be labeled a cult. He’s come out and said so, in a bold bu…
3 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Sample: Jordan Peterson, Derrick Jensen, and the Anti-Trans Laugh Emoji
An audio essay from Matthew about how anti-trans ideology can so curdle the soul that an otherwise progressive eco-activist—Derrick Jensen of Deep Gr…
3 years, 9 months ago
106: Conspiracy Dojo (w/Stephan Kesting)
We've gone deep on yoga communities infected by conspiracy theories. We've looked at essential oils and supplements influencers peddling in misinform…
3 years, 9 months ago