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
165: Outrage Machine (w/Tobias Rose-Stockwell)
Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a media researcher, writer, designer, and author of the new book, Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It. The book deal...
3 Aug 20231h 14min
Bonus Sample: Psychedelic Fundamentalism
Altered states exist on a spectrum, from enhancing human flourishing to perpetuating dangerous delusions. Daniel Pinchbeck’s recent comments on our book inspire Julian’s journey into psychedelics, the...
31 Jul 202311min
Deep Cut: Post-Cult Shame
Deep Cut pulls from our bonus episode archive to unearth previous ideas that remain relevant today. Survivor shame over what has been lost, and how one has been complicit. Apologist shame: turned insi...
29 Jul 20231h 3min
