Deep Cut: Post-Cult Shame
Deep Cut pulls from our bonus episode archive to unearth previous ideas that remain relevant today. Survivor shame over what has been lost, and how one has been complicit. Apologist shame: turned insi...
29 Juli 20231h 3min
164: The Two Faces of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.
We’ve been tracking Bobby’s misinformation, contradictions, and cursed networks for three years. And now he’s having his moment, and it’s anyone’s guess how far he’ll run. But why is he so appealing o...
27 Juli 20231h 23min
Bonus Sample: EMF and 5G and chemtrails oh my!
Derek unpacks what’s really going on in conspiritualist messages about the "climate change narrative" and how they use an assault of varying degrees of credible information to conflate issues, some of...
24 Juli 20236min
Brief: The New Age Origin Story of RFK Jr’s Campaign
A granular—let’s say quantum-sized—look at how RFK Jr.’s wealthiest and most influential New Age supporters are thinking about his candidacy. Aubrey Marcus and Charles Eisenstein disclosed it all on a...
22 Juli 20231h 1min
163: The Huberman Paradox (w/Jonathan Jarry)
Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman has become one of the most popular science podcasters in the world. His regular two- to four-hour episodes feature a dizzying assault of information on topics like physi...
20 Juli 20231h 29min
Bonus Sample: Bobby Kennedy Scares You Shitless And Makes You Swoon
Bobby provokes a “disorganized attachment” response in would-be followers.This is the emotional vortex that begins to churn when a charismatic leader draws followers into a vision of the world as irre...
17 Juli 202312min
162: Is Our Book a Conspiracy Theory?
Nazis loved yoga. Rudolf Steiner set the stage for COVID denialism. Modern social justice warriors have a fondness for Hindu nationalism. Antivax activists are stuck in 19th century Gothic novels. Yog...
13 Juli 20231h 36min
Bonus Sample: On Belief
What do we mean when we say that we believe something? When the QAnon Shaman got dressed on the morning of January 6, he put on his red, white, and blue face paint, his postmodern quasi-Native America...
10 Juli 20236min
