Bonus Sample: What We're Facing
Derek meditates on a recent conversation about the left-right divide between Ezra Klein and James Pogue. Show Notes MAGA’s Big Tech Divide: Ezra Klein Show Going Back to Cincinnati — James Pogue Insid...
10 Feb 20257min
Brief: Why Didn’t I Yell STFU at Jordan Peterson in 2017?
In the spring of 2017, Jordan Peterson first went viral by writing this in Canada’s National Post: I will never use words I hate, like the trendy and artificially constructed words “zhe” and “zher.” ...
8 Feb 202545min
243: Free Market Contrarians (w/Eoin Higgins)
Edward Snowden is largely only a public name thanks to Glenn Greenwald’s reporting, for which he was one of the contributors to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series for The Guardian in 2014. For a while, M...
6 Feb 20251h
Bonus Sample: Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 2 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)
Part 2 of Matthew’s sit down with sex-work veteran and social justice advocate Esme Providence Brown to discuss New Age / wellness antifeminist, Kelly Brogan, and how her craven politics bolster the p...
3 Feb 20256min
Brief: Anti-Social Media (w/Renee Diresta)
When asked if he thought Mark Zuckerberg’s effective ending of fact checking was in response to threats that he would “put him in jail for a very long time,” Trump replied, “Probably. Yeah, probably.”...
1 Feb 202529min
242: Executive Disorder
What the ever loving fuck. That’s our intro today. But we do have a structure. Julian’s going to review the Executive Order chaos, including the pardoning and deputizing of fascist street gangs. Derek...
30 Jan 202552min
Bonus Sample: 1950’s Alien Yoga
Full episode available here. The alien from Venus in George King’s head said: “Prepare yourself. You are to be the voice of interplanetary parliament.” It’s 1952 and the Englishman has been meditating...
27 Jan 20255min
Brief: Patients Before Profits
On Jan 10, the Oregon Nurses Association launched the largest healthcare strike in Oregon state history. Some 5k frontline caregivers from 8 Providence hospitals and 6 clinics have been holding the li...
25 Jan 202533min
