203: Is This a Joke? (w/Neal Brennan)
Conspirituality25 Apr 2024

203: Is This a Joke? (w/Neal Brennan)

Neal Brennan has upped the artistic ante in stand-up comedy. In Netflix specials like "3 Mics and Blocks" he’s explored loneliness, isolation, and the mental health fallout of growing up the youngest of 10 in a Catholic family with an extremely unwell father. In the process he’s made some of the great mysteries of family pain and inner turmoil more tolerable. And—he’s a fan of our podcast, because in his search for relief, he’s tripped through the land of psychedelics, where conspirituality can sour the active ingredients. Neal joins us today to talk about his weird journey through the plant medicine scene, to wonder whether emotional and spiritual healing makes him funnier, and to answer our questions about how today’s comics are dealing—or not—with their supersized role as political pundits. His new special is called Crazy Good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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59: Is Rudolf Steiner Dead Yet? (w/Jennifer Sapio)

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Bonus Sample: True Colors

Bonus Sample: True Colors

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58: NXIVM: Recover & Educate (w/India Oxenberg)

58: NXIVM: Recover & Educate (w/India Oxenberg)

How do we avoid being the subject of—and feeding the market for—trauma porn? If anyone knows, it’s India Oxenberg, who in less than two years (while under the unforgiving glare of a media firestorm) w...

1 Juli 20211h 53min

Bonus Sample: A Conspiracy Theory of Everything

Bonus Sample: A Conspiracy Theory of Everything

Matthew debriefs after the Mike Rothschild interview, looking at QAnon’s “Conspiracy Theory of Everything” as a hyperobject and spiritual dilemma.Show Notes‘A reckoning for our species’: the philosoph...

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It’s only been eight months since Q stopped posting, but Mike Rothschild has been able to corral the firehose of data into the first major journalistic study of the fever dream that has tortured milli...

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Bonus Sample: Playing Shaman

Bonus Sample: Playing Shaman

The race to capitalize on the world’s wellness needs in a post-pandemic society—well, at “post” as we can pretend to be—was unavoidable. Derek reflects on the continually unrealistic marketing promise...

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56: Critical Race Theory in Real Life (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)

56: Critical Race Theory in Real Life (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)

In June 2020, equity consultant and journalist Dax-Devlon Ross—who you might remember from Conspirituality 4 that very same month—published an essay called “A Letter to My White Male Friends of a Cert...

17 Juni 20211h 27min

Bonus Sample: Doomsday Prophecy & Spirituality Porn

Bonus Sample: Doomsday Prophecy & Spirituality Porn

Humanity has an apocalypse fetish. But wrapped up In the doomsday death wish is a utopian fantasy of the ascension that comes after a fallen and sinful world is purified by cataclysmic fire. Whether t...

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