Brief: Plandemic Takes the Promenade
An anti-vax, COVID-grievance, climate-science denying, communism panic-generating film by Mikki Willis just won “Best Documentary Feature” at the Santa Monica International Film Festival. Julian atte...
17 Helmi 202429min
193: Speaking Truth to GOOP (w/Dr Jen Gunter)
When she’s not talking to her angel guides, Christiane Northrup says that taking Vitamin D is better than the HPV vaccine for preventing cervical cancer. When Kelly Brogan isn’t denying germ theory, s...
15 Helmi 202450min
Bonus Sample: Living in the Enema Times
Selling enemas to replace psych meds, or treat cancer, or cure autism is some dangerous shit. But Matthew has a tingling sense that the wellness enema craze promises more than false health benefits. P...
12 Helmi 20245min
Brief: The Culture Warrior to Wellness Pipeline (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)
Wellness influencers are quite capable of inventing and spreading health misinformation. When it comes to culture war issues, however, they're incapable of generating original thoughts. So it shouldn'...
10 Helmi 202440min
192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)
This episode has been brewing for some time. This week we ask: which hole is coffee really supposed to go in? Because, in the contrarian and conspiratorial wellness world, a growing number of influenc...
8 Helmi 20241h 1min
Bonus Sample: The GOP Takeover of Media
Project 2025 is the libertarian conservative Heritage Foundation’s systematic governance plan for the next Republican president. The 920-page plan aims to implement the "unitary executive theory," whi...
5 Helmi 20246min
Brief: Deep Church Conspiracy (w/David Lafferty)
From the Supreme Court to Project 2025, reactionary Catholics are on the frontlines of this year’s war on democracy. Many of them bend the knee to an Italian redpilled Vatican diplomat: Cardinal Carlo...
3 Helmi 202445min
191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)
The internet has changed not only how we communicate with each other, but how we understand the world. All technologies reorient how we navigate the world. This one just feels, at times, so disorienti...
1 Helmi 202452min
