Interview with Travis View: QANon & Modern Conspiracies
If you have managed to avoid the phenomenon of QAnon up until now, then congratulations! Your life is likely better for not knowing. Sadly many of us have been forced not only to learn about the 'enig...
25 Mar 20231h 48min
Interview with Worobey, Andersen & Holmes: The Lab Leak
The question of the SARS-CoV-2 origin: whether it was a zoonotic spillover from a wet market, or an engineered virus that escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is seemingly a debate that will ...
11 Mar 20232h 46min
Dave Rubin: A Pointless Partisan Pundit
Dave Rubin has always sought out a career in the spotlight, beginning with stand-up comedy and then becoming a pundit (of sorts) on shows like the Young Turks. From there he (in)famously came to prese...
8 Mar 20232h 15min
Bill Maher: A boozy, stoned, liberal take on classic anti-vax tropes
Bill Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host from the tail end of the baby-boomer generation. He's principally a centrist liberal in terms of his political leanings, ...
24 Feb 20232h 10min
Daniel Dennett: It's Evolution Baby
In this episode, we take a bit of a detour from current trends and examine a talk by the philosopher Daniel Dennett on evolution. Dennett rose to public prominence as one of the so-called four horseme...
2 Feb 20232h 34min
"Mini" Decoding of Konstantin Kisin's Oxford Union speech
Recently the Oxford Union (based in Oxford but distinct from the university) hosted a debate on "whether woke culture has gone too far". A very fresh question, and it's been good to see people finally...
20 Jan 20231h 7min
Interview with Coffeezilla on Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and modern scammers
In this episode we are joined by the irrepressible "Coffeezilla" (aka Stephen Findeisen), a man who is, it's fair to say, kind of a big deal on YouTube. And rightly so! His channel focuses on exposin...
13 Jan 20233h 6min
Elon Musk: The Techno Shaman
So here we are rounding off 2022 with a Guru of the moment, Elon Musk.Trust us, we want to stop hearing about him as much as you do but we have long had him scheduled as the finale for the tech season...
29 Des 20222h 27min
