117: The Real Cost of Fitness in America (w/Natalia Petrzela)
Fitness is the beating heart of America. No, wait, that’s opportunistic capitalism. But opportunistic capitalism, as it turns out, is the beating heart of fitness. Yet fitness has a soul too—in fact, ...
25 Aug 20221h 9min
Bonus Sample: JP Sears is Definitely Binary
JP Sears constantly refers to himself as a freethinker. His increasing religiosity is counter to critical thinking, however. Derek responds to two recent videos that detail his religious thinking and ...
22 Aug 20226min
UNLOCKED: Swan Song Series 2 | Teal Swan: Art & Artifice (w/Paola Marino)
In this episode of the Swan Song Series, Matthew interviews Paola Marino about why she found Teal Swan a fascinating subject to film for 2018’s “Open Shadow.” They discuss aesthetics, the mystery of p...
18 Aug 20221h 49min
Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 5 | Michelle Remembers: Themes & Framing
In the second of three episodes on Michelle Remembers, we recap its Catholic contexts, and Lawrence Pazder's quest to transcend the limitations of psychiatry through mystical nightmares. We then explo...
15 Aug 20228min
116: History is Not a Placebo: Chinese Medicine in America (w/Tamara Venit-Shelton)
Traditional Chinese Medicine is an ancient medical system that has persisted in its homeland for countless generations before being exported to the rest of the world—right? Well, not exactly, but that...
11 Aug 20221h 24min
Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 4 | Michelle Remembers: Context & History
There's no Teal Swan without the Satanic Panic. And there's no Satanic Panic without the 1980 publication of Michelle Remembers, by Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith.In this first of three segments o...
8 Aug 20228min
UNLOCKED: Swan Song Series 1 | Close to Home
We can't understand Teal Swan without understanding the Satanic Panic. And we can't really understand that historical disaster with out feeling our way into the mysteries of memory, fantasy, shame, an...
6 Aug 20221h 24min
115: Controlling Women's Bodies "Naturally" (w/EJ Dickson)
Matthew sits down with ace journalist EJ Dickson to explore her deep archive of reporting on the policing of women's bodies, and how it reflects on her own experience of childbirth.This episode opens ...
4 Aug 202258min
