The 3 Best Problematic Podcast Episodes
1) #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. ...Show More
2) #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 ma...Show More
3) #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
4) #15 — Barrier World
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 collaps...Show More
5) #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 ide...Show More
6) #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 ...Show More
7) #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, gen...Show More
8) #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
9) #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 u...Show More
10) #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 t...Show More