194: The Power Worshippers (w/Katherine Stewart)
January 6, 2021. MAGA hats, tactical gear, American flags, poles turned into clubs. Another flag appears: white, with a blue corner square containing a red Latin cross. Another that proclaims “Jesus i...
22 Feb 20241h 10min
Bonus Sample: Your Gut Isn't Leaking
The Cleveland Clinic's website states that leaky gut is a "hypothetical condition." Yet Cleveland Clinic physician, Mark Hyman, claims that leaky gut is at the foundation of autism, depression, cancer...
19 Feb 20246min
Brief: Plandemic Takes the Promenade
An anti-vax, COVID-grievance, climate-science denying, communism panic-generating film by Mikki Willis just won “Best Documentary Feature” at the Santa Monica International Film Festival. Julian atte...
17 Feb 202429min
193: Speaking Truth to GOOP (w/Dr Jen Gunter)
When she’s not talking to her angel guides, Christiane Northrup says that taking Vitamin D is better than the HPV vaccine for preventing cervical cancer. When Kelly Brogan isn’t denying germ theory, s...
15 Feb 202450min
Bonus Sample: Living in the Enema Times
Selling enemas to replace psych meds, or treat cancer, or cure autism is some dangerous shit. But Matthew has a tingling sense that the wellness enema craze promises more than false health benefits. P...
12 Feb 20245min
Brief: The Culture Warrior to Wellness Pipeline (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)
Wellness influencers are quite capable of inventing and spreading health misinformation. When it comes to culture war issues, however, they're incapable of generating original thoughts. So it shouldn'...
10 Feb 202440min
192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)
This episode has been brewing for some time. This week we ask: which hole is coffee really supposed to go in? Because, in the contrarian and conspiratorial wellness world, a growing number of influenc...
8 Feb 20241h 1min
Bonus Sample: The GOP Takeover of Media
Project 2025 is the libertarian conservative Heritage Foundation’s systematic governance plan for the next Republican president. The 920-page plan aims to implement the "unitary executive theory," whi...
5 Feb 20246min
