Deep Cut: What Will Yoga Do to Our Children?
Deep Cut pulls from our bonus episode archive to unearth previous ideas that remain relevant today. News from Alabama: after a 23-year ban on yoga in schools, generated by a Republican moral panic, Go...
19 Aug 20231h 14min
167: Straight White American Jesus (w/Bradley Onishi)
Dr. Bradley Onishi, is the author of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism - And What Comes Next. He is the co-host of the excellent Straight White American Jesus pod...
17 Aug 20231h 25min
Bonus Sample: The Anxiety of Wellness
Are you ready to live your best life ever? Because if you’re not always on volume 10, eating the purest foods and shouting your truth at every turn, you’re certainly doing life wrong. Derek looks at ...
14 Aug 20236min
Brief: Documenting Michelle Remembers (w/Sean Horlor & Steve Adams)
Following up on our review and coverage of Satan Wants You, Matthew talks with Canadian filmmakers Sean Horlor and Steve Adams about how they excavated the origin story of the Satanic Panic movement. ...
12 Aug 202339min
166: QAnonAnonymous Goes to Hollywood (w/Travis View and Jake Rockatansky)
In 2017, 4chan user "Q" started LARPing as a Deep State insider with predictions about Hillary Clinton and the pedophile cabal. 10 months later, the online antifascist world assembled its emergency po...
10 Aug 20231h 28min
Bonus Sample: Disgust Management
Notes from Matthew in response to a great question from a listener: How do you keep from hating these people? The blasé unimaginative crackpots like Aubrey Marcus, the gaslighting meanderings of RFK J...
7 Aug 20239min
Special Report: Marianne Williamson’s Ex- Staffers Speak Out
Seven ex-staffers who worked on Marianne Williamson’s campaign have written an open letter describing her campaign as an “exercise in deception.” Matthew analyzes the open letter, and contextualizes i...
6 Aug 202317min
Brief: Kombucha Krash
GT Dave's kombucha origin story is the stuff of legend—at least how he frames it. But when the LA Times broke the story of a judge awarding workers nearly half a million dollars in back and overtime p...
5 Aug 202327min
