49: Tik Tok Fulfillment Center (w/Abbie Richards)
On the road to the screen, a rich story can flatten into propaganda. On the road to the influencer economy, a complex teaching can degrade into a conspirituality meme. As the Oscar glitter fades, we l...
29 Apr 20212h 16min
Bonus Sample: Post-Cult Shame
Survivor shame over what has been lost, and how one has been complicit. Apologist shame: turned inside out and externalized as aggression. Popular shaming, which tries to deflect attention from how ...
26 Apr 202110min
48: Traumatic Influence (w/Kyra Haglund & Hala Khouri)
Teal Swan’s suicide-teasing trauma pseudo-therapy has cast a spell over millions. Kaia Ra is an up-and-coming contender, selling divine jewelry and a channeled text about how to transcend QAnon-type n...
23 Apr 20212h 11min
Bonus Sample: Vanillaroma
We don’t get “well” until everyone has an opportunity to tap into the resources needed to live. This week, Derek reads a 2006 essay from one of his closest friends, Dax-Devlon Ross, about being pulled...
19 Apr 202115min
47: Is An Ethical Cult Possible? (w/Jamie Wheal)
How do we tease apart the gold from the dross? What can be salvaged from a subculture marred by charismatic con-artistry, power abuses, and the toxic ingredients that lead to conspirituality? Founder ...
15 Apr 20212h 51min
Bonus Sample: Gaia & The Map to Nowhere
With over a half-million paying subscribers, Gaia is the world’s largest spiritual media streaming service. Have they have played a role in redpilling the Q-Age demographic? With a little help from Ke...
12 Apr 20216min
46: Back to the Vax (w/Lydia Greene & Heather Simpson)
Our EP10 guest, Center for Countering Digital Hate founder, Imran Ahmed, has been bringing the heat. His “Disinformation Dozen” white paper made a huge splash, prompting a conference call with Nancy P...
8 Apr 20212h 26min
Bonus Sample: Pray & Work
Matthew offers a meditation on Brandolini’s Law — “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it” — and accepting the hopelessness of altruistic rep...
5 Apr 20218min
