a collaboration with jessica dang and anirudh pai. topics including: UFOs, the inability to grasp "crazy" data, the book of the damned, my essay "fire in the sky," conspiracy theories, and the collapse of consensus reality
21 Sept 2020
#14 — Cernovich
ft. mike cernovich. topics including: mike's background (and separating fact from fiction), media, social media, tech censorship and the new public square, influencer culture, tribalism (and guild identity), ascendant populism, conspiracy theories, and navigating this new media environment
31 Jul 2020
#13 — Cigarettes and Soylent
ft. john coogan. topics including: addiction, socially-acceptable addictions v. taboo addictions, diet, dieting, nutrition, Soylent of course, technology you can’t escape, and contemporary marketing. how do we navigate that fight or flight social media attention heist?
9 Jul 2020
#12 — The Wilson Documents
ft. deep prasad. topics including: UFO sightings in colares, brazil, zimbabwe landing, rendlesham forest, technology and sightings (why don't we see more of these?), memory, mass hysteria, separating fact from fiction, and finally the wilson document (massive government coverup + aliens, duh)
8 Jul 2020
#11 — Risk
ft. professor steve fuller. topics including: right to self, risk aversion, the roots of risk aversion, risk aversion and progress, political monoculture in the social sciences, identity politics, gender, and where is this identity stuff all going?
22 Jun 2020
#10 — From Behind the Iron Curtain
ft. anna gat. topics including: youth under communism, communist hungary, intellectual communism vs. the workers, performative rebellion, western spiritual malaise, and fighting back against stasis
14 Jun 2020
#9 — JUMP
bonus episode. check out my essay "jump" as narrated by yours truly. long story short, I think that twitter is a weapon of mass destruction and we're all at existential risk of instantaneous global madness because of it. thoughts on why, and a few potential solves.
10 Jun 2020
#8 — Live Free or Die
ft. kmele foster. topics including: libertarianism at odds with liberty, political philosophy broadly, immigration, trade, media, censorship, and the pandemic
21 May 2020
#7 — Mom and Pop Porn Shop
ft. rachel mason. topics including: circus of books, rachel's new netflix documentary following the life of the mom and pop gay porn shop her family owned and ran, her unlikely upbringing, her mom's unlikely religious background, the world of porn and gay porn, larry flint, the bounds of free speech, queer cinema, contemporary LGBT activism, and is pete buttigieg gay enough?
13 May 2020
#6 — The Man with a Pussy
ft. buck angel. topics including: gender dysphoria and buck's coming of age, adult entertainment, the gay community, politics and sex, sexuality, gender, the twitter mob, woke homophobia, navigating the trans athlete controversy, and speaking ones mind no matter what
6 May 2020
#5 — The Media is Dead, Long Live the Media
ft. katherine boyle. topics including: the death of kobe bryant, and the controversy surrounding the ensuing media coverage, narrative polarization, the new dominance of personality driven news, recode vs. balaji, the disastrous manner in which tech press has covered the pandemic, the mono narrative, and does rush Limbaugh NEED the New York Times?
22 Apr 2020
#4 — Shadow Capital
ft. katherine boyle. topics including: the elusive nature of power, the press, the influence of tech, the defense industry, what increasingly seems to be a very dangerous china, and silicon valley — shadow capital of the united states
17 Apr 2020
#3 — Multidimensional Alien Beings, Duh
ft. deep prasad. topics including: UFOs, quantum, government conspiracies, aliens (duh), multidimensional intelligence, the future of humans, simulated realities, and are we living in one?, bending the rules of the matrix, and the nature of intelligence
8 Apr 2020
#2 — Sex, Guns, CNN
ft. robby soave. topics including: the laws that govern sex, cultural attitudes toward sex, media's role, the nature of polarizing content, marxism, free speech, hate speech laws, and censoring your grandfather's facebook memes
30 Mar 2020
#1 — Right to Self
ft. josiah zayner. topics including: synthetic biology, gene therapies, the FDA, CRISPR babies, and the ethics surrounding genetically modifying humans, the politics of liberty, and do we have a right to our own body... or not?
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