Brief: Tech-Bro Mormonism (w/Blair Hodges)
We know Bryan Johnson gobbles 100 pills a day. He pumps his son’s plasma through his veins. He does light therapy on his junk and wants to live forever. But do we understand how Johnson’s fascinations...
18 Jan 202547min
240: Bryan Johnson’s Impossible Blueprint
In January, 2023, Bloomberg published an article about how tech entrepreneur turned longevity stan, Bryan Johnson, spends $2 million a year in an attempt to live forever—or at least until age 200, as ...
16 Jan 20251h 1min
Clarity Lab: Fighting Cancer Misinformation
A one-time drop of Derek's new podcast, Clarity Lab, the official podcast of Siris Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit building a free educational platform and curating social media channels that feature ex...
14 Jan 202535min
Bonus Sample: Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 1 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)
Matthew sits down with sex-work veteran and social justice advocate Esme Providence Brown for the first of two chinwags about our famous New Age / wellness antifeminist, Kelly Brogan, and how her crav...
13 Jan 20255min
Brief: Vinay Prasad’s Pick-me Campaign
UCSF epidemiology and biostatistics professor Vinay Prasad's star rose when he compared the US response to Covid-19 to the beginnings of the Third Reich in October, 2021. Though a less famous contrari...
11 Jan 202536min
239: Conspiracy Of Dunces
Like it or not, 2025 is here. What happens in post-truth America when formerly fringe conspiracy theorists, religious extremists, pseudoscience-peddlers, and wannabe authoritarians become a government...
9 Jan 202554min
Bonus Sample: The Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention
George van Tassel was the original UFO contactee. He claimed to have been visited by aliens from Venus in 1953, which led to him hosting thousands of people at the annual Interplanetary Spacecraft Con...
6 Jan 20256min
Brief: Trump the Babyface, Trump the Heel (w/Abraham Josie Reisman)
Journalist and author Josie Reisman says we can’t understand the Trump era without understanding his life-long pro-wrestling fandom, and his bonds with one of his closest friends, WWE tycoon Vince McM...
4 Jan 202546min
