Contain Podcast

About Contain Podcast

Full archive: www.patreon.com/contain Hybrid music label, publishing imprint, and research platform--long form episodes, interviews, and videos. C, 2019, CDs/Books/Shirts: WWW.CONTAINCONTAIN.COM.

Publisher

Contain

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

14 Jan 2020

Latest episode

18 May 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 207 episodes have a transcript.

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   18 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   223. Other Right Hand w/ Spike Fuck *Preview*

   Host [Host Name] interviews Spike Fuck about theology, music, and the tension between faith and the modern world.

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   18 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   222. *Preview* Unreadable Worlds

   Host Arthur Penn and guest Warren Beatty explore living within incomprehensible systems, discussing paranoia, surrealism, and economic theories.

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   11 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   221. Retirement Extreme *Preview*

   Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/221-retirement-145269332?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link (https://www.patreon.com/posts/221-retirement-145269332?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Topics: Jacob Lund Fisker's Early Retirement Extreme book and blog, the history of Social Security, Arte Povera, Ramellzee and Gothic Futurism, Icarians, Oneida, and Shakers, Gothic Monks and the Printing Press, Rotting Cabbage as art, What is Status?, Jef Gey's ecology, saving money in 2026, cultural expression before the state, Autonomy through self-reliance and context, retirement and the polymath, Know How vs. Knowledge, Jannis Kounelis, Nicolaus Steno Originally published 12/8/25

Inside a recent episode

223. Other Right Hand w/ Spike Fuck *Preview*

Published 18 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Um, you know, a good mood is, is everything's going to be okay. And, and I, you know, again, that might be the same for everybody else, but I don't know. Point is that like, with the music, back then and, and now it's, it is something that has been like, uh, hugely cathartic. And so, and, and it's a way to deal with this like, um, self obsession and like, naval gazing thing that I have. And I think that we're all probably all driven by like, um, out like bass once in desires, but music feels like slightly more elevated than, than the content of what I'm seeing about, which is struggles and sort of like desires and, um, and, and, and like a, yeah, bad moods and like sort of bad, um, I don't want to say trauma because I sort of, I, I, I think it's like, that's a loaded term that I think is just, uh, useless at this point. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

4,818,331

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

73 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

192 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

93

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