42: Deradicalizing From Digital Hate (w/Caolan Robertson)
Imagine that you’re 25 years old. You grew up Irish, gay, and online. When the Orlando Pulse massacre explodes, you go to YouTube for the news. You watch Milo Yiannopolous and Gavin McInnes fake-kiss ...
11 Mar 20212h 19min
Bonus Sample: Cats and the Meaning of Life
Humans will never be cats. In his new book, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life, the philosopher John Gray argues that we can learn a lot about how to live from them—namely, how to calm ou...
8 Mar 20218min
41: Snark Tank
Two episodes in our catalog haunt this podcast. In episode 6, Steve Hassan advised listeners to treat people under the undue influence of QAnon and conspirituality with welcome and respect. Castigatio...
5 Mar 20211h 26min
Bonus Sample: Stranded On The Lifeboat: Escaping The Large Group Awareness Cult
One-hundred-and-twenty seekers filled the LA hotel ballroom. We sought the life-changing experience that could only happen by holding in our pee, being religiously on-time, and taking full responsibil...
1 Mar 20215min
40: White Supremacy: Grift and Gravity (w/Michelle Cassandra Johnson & Daniel Lombroso)
Around 2015, the alt-right movement erupted online to both provoke and monetize MAGA momentum and distort and defame the real-world progress symbolized in Barack Obama and agitated by Black Lives Matt...
25 Feb 20212h 8min
Bonus Sample: Anti-Masker at the Skating Trail
One of the precious bright spots for our family in this long dark winter of COVID has been outdoor skating. Other than the walking trails, it’s the only thing that the city has kept open. I take our b...
22 Feb 20219min
39: How to Talk about Conspiracy Theories (w/Anna Merlan)
What are we learning about conspiracies, conspiracy theories, and those who hold them? How are we maintaining our optimism that facts are real, that they can be discovered, and shared? How will we con...
18 Feb 20211h 58min
Bonus Sample: How to Debate on Social Media
The medium of social media is both relatively new and socially challenging. But this doesn’t mean we can’t have healthy debates. In this sample from our Monday Patreon bonus episode, Derek investigate...
15 Feb 20216min
