Bonus: Diversity Has Always Mattered
Diversity has lost some of its strength as a term in our bifurcated world, and yet in nature diversity has always mattered. Our apprehension of using the word points to our further alienation of natur...
23 Nov 202045min
26: Return of the Repressed, Or The Drugs Paula White is Not On (w/Brian Muraresku)
Trump’s personal pastor Paula White seizes the podium to speak in tongues and prophesize that angels from Africa will certify her master’s electoral victory. Evangelical Kenneth Copeland laughs maniac...
20 Nov 20202h 13min
Bonus: Digital Soldiers, Purity Tests, & Word Magic
As more of the world has gained access to mobile internet, populism, and the perception (rightly or wrongly) of government, corruption has steadily increased. But what is “populism?” How do populist i...
16 Nov 202028min
25: Waking Up from Cancel Culture (w/Clementine Morrigan & Jay from F*cking Cancelled)
On Election night, Mikki Willis, JP Sears, Del Bigtree, and the conspirituality glitterati gathered in Austin for a prayer meeting for Donald Trump. Willis pitched his new documentary and complained a...
13 Nov 20202h 37min
Bonus: Sh*tposting and The Embodiment Conference
Mark Walsh, the proprietor of The Embodiment Conference, was recently challenged by cultural somaticist Tada Hozumi in an Open Letter, penned by Hozumi in lieu of accepting the invitation to speak at ...
9 Nov 202046min
24: Body Politic Recovery (w/Tada Hozumi)
This week could have been worse; what comes now must get better. If we’ve learned anything over these six months, it’s that QAnon is to conspirituality as Trump is to the political status quo. We can ...
6 Nov 20202h 2min
Bonus: COVID Fatigue & Empathy (w/Dr. Ali Haider)
Derek talks with Dr. Ali Haider about being on the frontlines of COVID-19.Dr. Haider is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University Medical School. He received his medical degree from Alber...
2 Nov 202032min
23: Election Resilience (w/Hala Khouri, Lissa Rankin, & Tara Stiles)
When we started this project six months ago, we could feel the cliff-edge of the election on the horizon. We could sense that our footholds of community, reasonable conversation, and consensus reality...
29 Okt 20202h 18min
