176: Russell Brand’s Man Stans
Women journalists spend years meticulously investigating, corroborating and fact-checking allegations that Russell Brand is a serial sex offender. The result? A 6600-word masterpiece of survivor-cente...
19 Loka 20231h 20min
Bonus Sample: Inside the Church of Bleach
Four members of the Florida-based Grenon family were recently sentenced to between 5 and 12 years of prison for selling bleach. The problem? They claimed that bleach, known as Miracle Mineral Solution...
16 Loka 20239min
Special Report: RFK Jr.’s Independence Day
On October 9, RFK Jr. brought his three-podcast-bros-in-a-trench-coat campaign to Philadelphia. On a dias across from Independence Hall, he announced his anticipated departure from the Democratic part...
14 Loka 20231h 12min
175: Diagonalism (w/William Callison and Quinn Slobodian)
Quinn Slobodian teaches Modern German History at Wellesley and William Callison teaches Political Theory and Human Geography at Uppsala. We first came across their work via Naomi Klein’s examination o...
12 Loka 20231h 32min
Bonus Sample: Swamp Creatures 3: The Pirate Palace
Our main character this week is the six-degrees of authoritarians—more like one or two degrees, in fact. He’s made millions playing footsie with most of the blood-thirsty kleptocrats of the last half-...
9 Loka 20237min
Special Report: Stealing Indigenous Voices in Australia (w/Tyson Yunkaporta)
On October 14, Australians will vote in a referendum on a simple question: should Indigenous peoples be invited to form an advisory council—a Voice—to Parliament? It seemed like a shoe-in “Yes”—befor...
8 Loka 202352min
174: Everything is Chemistry (w/Drs Andrea Love & Jessica Steier)
Butcherbox Deal! Sign up today at butcherbox.com/conspirituality and use code CONSPIRITUALITY to receive ground beef for life plus $20 off your first order. We love our scicomm episodes, because they...
5 Loka 20231h 11min
Bonus Sample: Matt Christman & the Silence
On September 19, Matt Christman was hospitalized with, in the words of his colleagues on the podcast Chapo Trap House: “a sudden, severe medical emergency that will require a significant period of rec...
2 Loka 202314min
