182: Recovering from Conspiracy Theories (w/Stephanie Kemmerer)
Conspirituality30 Nov 2023

182: Recovering from Conspiracy Theories (w/Stephanie Kemmerer)

What is it like to get red-pilled, find a fragile community of peers, and then come out on the other side? What are the personal, social, and political wounds that make conspiracy theories feel like medicine—or a drug? What is the difference between debunking theories and healing wounds? Today the trio discusses excerpts of an interview Matthew recorded with Stephanie Kemmerer, a former conspiracy theorist and now public educator. Stephanie is part of a newly formed non-profit called The American Information Integrity Alliance and co-facilitator of the support group DOUBT: Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together. Kemmerer’s journey tells us a lot about how people fall into the rabbit hole, how they can claw their way back out. But she also suggests that the rabbit hole is really a hole in the culture, and that there’s plenty we can do to fill it in. Butcherbox Promo: Sign up today at butcherbox.com/conspirituality and use code conspirituality to choose your free steak for a year and get $20 off. Show Notes American Information Integrity Alliance D.O.U.B.T. (Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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299: American Jihad

299: American Jihad

As black rain falls from the smoke-choked skies of Tehran, the US and Israel continue their war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the start, Trump officials have seemed only to disagree on bo...

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Bonus Sample: Michael Parenti Went to a Yoga Ashram

Bonus Sample: Michael Parenti Went to a Yoga Ashram

Matthew found out that the late Marxist historian Michael Parenti went on a yoga retreat at the Sivananda Ashram in the Bahamas. He clocked the BS immediately—unlike Matthew when he showed up in space...

9 Mar 5min

Brief: Bishop Bootlicker Barron

Brief: Bishop Bootlicker Barron

Matthew digs into the fascism-enabling political theology of Bishop Robert Barron and the rightward slide of Big Catholic media. From his early admiration of Thomas Merton—carefully stripped of his an...

7 Mar 45min

298: MAHA’s Glyphosate Meltdown [feat Mallory DeMille]

298: MAHA’s Glyphosate Meltdown [feat Mallory DeMille]

Despite saying “I believe glyphosate causes cancer” a few weeks ago, RFK Jr quickly pivoted when his boss declared an executive order calling for the ramping up of glyphosate under a 75-year-old defen...

5 Mar 49min

Bonus Sample: On Death & Being Human

Bonus Sample: On Death & Being Human

Cult leaders, religious fanatics, dictators, and charlatans all have one thing in common: they exploit our fear of death. Humans act out “immortality projects” in the form of religion, culture, and po...

2 Mar 8min

Brief: Re-reading Casey Means

Brief: Re-reading Casey Means

Casey Means was grilled by some Senators at her hearing for nomination of Surgeon General on Wednesday. Others lobbed softballs. Derek revisits the book that made her a star on the MAHA circuit, Good ...

28 Feb 25min

297: The Epstein Satanic Panic

297: The Epstein Satanic Panic

It’s hard for some people to accept that the normalized and unbridled accumulation of wealth and power is a selection process for apex predators, who wind up having overwhelming influence over the sys...

26 Feb 1h 22min

Bonus Sample: MAHA’s Silence is Deafening

Bonus Sample: MAHA’s Silence is Deafening

MAHA isn’t a health movement. It’s a marketing engine driving activist propaganda. Derek looks at Tony Lyons, one of MAHA’s key architects, and his recent strategic memo sent to Republican leadership ...

23 Feb 5min

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