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 rest of the world—right? Well, not exactly, but that...
11 Elo 20221h 24min
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 and Michelle Smith.In this first of three segments o...
8 Elo 20228min
UNLOCKED: Swan Song Series 1 | 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 way into the mysteries of memory, fantasy, shame, an...
6 Elo 20221h 24min
115: Controlling Women's Bodies "Naturally" (w/EJ Dickson)
Matthew sits down with ace journalist EJ Dickson to explore her deep archive of reporting on the policing of women's bodies, and how it reflects on her own experience of childbirth.This episode opens ...
4 Elo 202258min
Bonus Sample: The Wellness Theory of Depression
A recent review questioning the serotonin theory of depression has revived a generations-long debate over the very notion of "chemical imbalances." While there are plenty of important debates about th...
1 Elo 20228min
114: Guns, Germs & Fear (w/Alan Levinovitz)
Life is scary. Natural disasters, violent intruders, and deadly viruses threaten our survival and endanger our loved ones. When ordinary solutions and institutions are not trusted, we may reach for ta...
28 Heinä 20221h 32min
Bonus Sample: Listening to Teal Swan’s Mom and Dad
Some of the most valuable material that comes to us from Paula Marino's Open Shadow film of 2017 is an extended interview with Swan's parent's, the Bosworths. They speak about Swan's sensory sensitivi...
25 Heinä 20224min
113: A Course in Conspiracies (w/Sam Kestenbaum)
We spend so much time on this podcast discussing the wellness industry’s paranoia around anything from the medical “establishment” or the Luciferean nature of “Big Pharma,” but there’s another devil t...
21 Heinä 20221h 1min
