Brief: Fascia Facts vs Fictions (w/David Lesondak)
The online pseudoscience clearing house, Human Garage, treats fascia as a cure-all to nearly every disease imaginable. Yet as today's guest, David Lesondak, Senior Structural Integrator and Fascia Spe...
13 Jan 202435min
188: Everybody Wants to Save the Children (feat Esme Providence Brown)
What happens when white knights role-play at saving all the children? What impacts do they have on the actual realities faced by trafficked children and adults? And how does their propaganda—rolled ou...
11 Jan 20241h 29min
Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo Wants America to Return to 1776
Rightwing activist Chris Rufo recently led the charge in helping oust Claudine Gay from the Harvard presidency. While the charge is plagiarism—a charge Gay herself acknowledged—the reason for Rufo’s i...
8 Jan 20246min
Brief: RFK Jr’s New Director of Propaganda
On January 6, 2021 Del Bigtree took the stage at the MAGA Health Freedom Rally a few blocks away from where Donald Trump had just instigated a riot. He joked about how the former president was a hard ...
6 Jan 202426min
187: Project 2025: An Authoritarian Conspiracy
Last year, the Heritage Foundation published a 920-page document that lays out the conservative organization’s road map for the next Republican president’s first four months in office, which could ver...
4 Jan 20241h 20min
Bonus Sample: Secular Person of Faith: pt 2 (w/Brad Onishi)
Friend of the pod and Straight White American Jesus host Brad Onishi returns to pick up with Matthew where they left off in their discussion of post-religious spirituality. They discuss what happens a...
1 Jan 20246min
Brief: Secular Person of Faith: pt 1 (w/Brad Onishi)
Friend of the pod and Straight White American Jesus host Brad Onishi joins Matthew for a New Year’s discussion of post-religious spirituality. Onishi fills out the details on a nascent identity that m...
30 Dec 202341min
186: Coaches Coaching Coaches
Life coaching is big business. The life coaching industry was worth $1.5 billion in 2022 and is considered one of the fastest growing industries in America. The International Coaching Federation repor...
28 Dec 20231h 7min
