How Candace Owens Happened, pt. 3: Going Max
Candace Owens didn’t invent the conspiracy that France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron is secretly transgender. Instead, she scaled it into a sprawling narrative about elite corruption, satanic power str...
5 Mars 48min
How Candace Owens Happened, pt. 2.5: Team God vs Team Satan
Post Daily Wire firing, Candace Owens didn’t just go independent—she went cosmic. Converting to traditionalist Catholicism, she reframed culture war as holy war, casting politics as “team God vs. team...
19 Feb 28min
How Candace Owens Happened, pt. 2: The Persecution Feedback Loop
From fringe YouTuber to “the new face of Black conservatism,” Candace Owens’ rise wasn’t inevitable, but the system that rewarded it was. In part 2 of the miniseries, Cristen traces how Charlie Kirk, ...
7 Feb 51min
How Candace Owens Happened, pt. 1: Becoming Red Pill Black
Before Candace Owens became an overnight right-wing media star, she wanted to rid the internet of trolls with her anti-bullying startup, Social Autopsy. But then, it collided with Gamergate, and a red...
29 Jan 33min
Therapy Speak or Conspiracy Theory? with Amanda Montell
What do vision boards and Princess Diana conspiracy theories have in common? They both rely on a kind of magical thinking called proportionality bias. It's one of many cognitive biases that Sounds Lik...
6 Nov 202539min
Paranormal Women, pt 3: From Blue Beam to Blood Libel
What did last year's drone mystery have to do with an antisemitic myth that won't die? Medievalist and conspiracy scholar Elise Wang connects the dots between the West’s 900-year-old conspiracy theory...
29 Maj 202536min
Paranormal Women, pt 2: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
Before alien abduction became pop culture cliché, there was Betty and Barney Hill. Why did this couple's 1961 roadtrip define the abduction narrative for generations, and what did their biracial marri...
22 Maj 202545min
Paranormal Women, pt 1: From Saucers to Starseeds
UFOs aren't a basement boys' club anymore. From Pentagon disclosures to TikTok starseeds and alien romance novels, belief in extraterrestrials is getting spiritual, feminine-coded, and algorithmically...
15 Maj 202538min
