Bonus Sample: Russell Brand Is Christian Now?
Conspirituality20 Mai 2024

Bonus Sample: Russell Brand Is Christian Now?

Russell Brand has accepted Jesus into his heart and been baptized in the spirit. But does his conversion to Christianity make sense along the New Age rebel to right-wing, conspiracy-theorist radicalization pipeline? Is Brand seeking absolution for his sins, or recognizing that most of his audience are Christians “oppressed” by authoritarian libs? Julian explores how the “enlightened outsider” uses pseudoscience to justify spiritual beliefs that are actually connective tissue between conspiracism, New Age metaphysics, and faux Christian victimhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Brief: Flood the Zone (w/Dr Dan Wilson)

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Bonus Sample: Romancing the Stoned

Bonus Sample: Romancing the Stoned

So much suffering occurs because we romanticize a past that never actually existed in the belief that it's destined to become the future. In the middle we sit, here, now, with time marching forward. D...

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Brief: Reggae Muzak

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Continuing a conversation from EP142, Derek looks at the cultural damage done when musicians co-opt musical styles to promote their own propaganda, which is often at odds with the social struggles of ...

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142: Destination Rabbit Hole (w/Anna Merlan)

142: Destination Rabbit Hole (w/Anna Merlan)

Do visiting inter-dimensional spirits and stowaway UFO passengers use the LAX Airport to touch down among us? Well they do if they're in town for the Conscious Life Expo, conveniently located at the L...

23 Feb 20231h 33min

Bonus Sample: Maggie the Good Conspiritualist

Bonus Sample: Maggie the Good Conspiritualist

How does it feel to grow up in a back-to-the-land house that vibrates with the anxious passion of conspiracy theories? What would happen when the world began to disconfirm the conspiratorial lore? How...

20 Feb 20236min

141: Does Canada Want Suffering Citizens to Die? (w/Taslim Alani-Verjee)

141: Does Canada Want Suffering Citizens to Die? (w/Taslim Alani-Verjee)

Is Canada trying to euthanize the mentally ill? Self-professed "theocratic fascist" Matt Walsh says so. So does the OG anti-woke agitator, James Lindsay. Both cravenly distort Canada's proposed expan...

16 Feb 20231h 10min

Brief: Bikram Convoy Stopped by His Survivors

Brief: Bikram Convoy Stopped by His Survivors

Hot yoga tycoon and sex offender Bikram Choudhury was set to teach his sweaty pseudoscience in Vancouver starting on February 20th. But a team of yoga allies, led by a woman who has sued Choudhury for...

14 Feb 202343min

Bonus Sample: Bad News Berenson on Brand

Bonus Sample: Bad News Berenson on Brand

The Twitter Files are the grift that keeps on giving. This week, Derek and Julian look at Alex Berenson's recent appearance on Russell Brand's Rumble channel to talk about the conspiracies that only e...

13 Feb 202310min

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