Brief: Olympics for Dopers
The Enhanced Games promises to display the "true potential" of athletes by letting them use any sort of performance enhancement drugs available when it launches in Las Vegas in 2026. Yet why would a g...
16 Aug 202534min
270: Kennedy's Bloodbath
The implications of awarding Robert F Kennedy, Jr with a position he’s completely unqualified for are becoming clearer by the day. While he’s made numerous egregious and dangerous moves as Secretary o...
14 Aug 202559min
Bonus Sample: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)
Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of h...
11 Aug 20255min
Brief: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)
Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of h...
9 Aug 202543min
269: The Book of Gwyneth
In her new biography of Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Odell calls Goop “a powerful platform for spreading health misinformation.” So many topics Goop has covered favorably—yoni eggs, coffee enemas, celery juic...
7 Aug 20251h 2min
Bonus Sample: The '80s Zen Master Con Man
Everything about Zen Master Rama was fake—except for the piles of money he made. His black belt in paranormal martial arts, three past lives as a Buddhist teacher, 31 meditation albums he claimed to c...
4 Aug 20256min
Brief: DJ Khaled of Pseudoscience
Strange billboards have been popping up all over Los Angeles featuring disgraced Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes, and an unidentified man listing a new URL—one that redirects to the Theranos websit...
2 Aug 202523min
268: Rogan’s Christian President
We catch up on three figures this week. First is Bari Weiss, who's trying to sell her upstart media org, The Free Press, to Skydance for a reported $250 million, just days after the network's merger...
31 Juli 20251h 14min
