Problematic

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

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

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?

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)

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?

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

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.

ft. kmele foster. topics including: libertarianism at odds with liberty, political philosophy broadly, immigration, trade, media, censorship, and the pandemic

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?

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