Forget adrenochrome. There's a very real network of private companies extracting blood plasma from financially precarious Americans and selling it (and its derivatives) for piles of money on the global market. They target parts of the country in economic decline and incentivize plasma sellers to become repeat visitors to their centers, despite the physical downsides of the process. Our guest this week is Kathleen McLaughlin, author of Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry.

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Kathleen McLaughlin: https://twitter.com/kemc / https://kemc.substack.com
Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Blood-Money/Kathleen-McLaughlin/9781982171964

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Music by Max Weber. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 221: Plasma Vampires & the Blood Business feat Kathleen McLaughlin

A dark, intelligent goo lives in and around us. It may be an alien life-form. This is a conspiracy theory that features chemtrails, free energy, mysterious diseases, Joni Mitchell, demons, aliens, AI, transhumanism, nanobots, the Bush family, child sacrifice, geo-engineering, and narcissistic personality disorder.

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Brad Abrahams: https://twitter.com/LoveAndSaucers / https://bradabrahams.net

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Music by Pontus Berghe, NAP, DJ Death. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Premium Episode 203: Black Goo Anon (Sample)

Prof. Richard Wolff uses a historical analogy to analyze America’s future role in the world.

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As the institutions of the Commonwealth fail to cohere, politics descend into conspiracy theory and culture war.

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We placed all our bets on Juicero and all our money in the bank — this is the story of how TrueAnon lost everything in the SVB collapse. Plus we talk shit about VCs.

Episode 277: Unbank Yourself

Part of our live reactions to the breaking news of Donald Trump’s indictment.

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Hey Gumshoes! So excited to announce a new Patreon reward: podcast commentary tracks. Soon we’ll be offering a behind-the-scenes look at how all your favorites got made, from the people who made them.

To start us off, Brace, Liz, and Yung Chomsky go back to 2019 to walk through the recording of our every first episode, The Ep-Files. Enjoy, and as always, like and subscribe! 

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Investigator Tier

We talk to beverage journalist Dave Infante about Bang! Energy’s wacky CEO Jack Owoc, and the rise of sodas intended to purify your mind on the market.

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Welcome to Movie Mindset! In this inaugural episode, Will and Hesse guide you through two of the collaborations between director Tony Scott and star Denzel Washington, Man on Fire (2004) & Deja Vu (2006). Join us as the ultimate auteur of the action-thriller meets the ultimate American leading man in these two propulsive explorations of justice, time, duty, depression, vengeance, destiny and sick-ass explosions.

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727 Teaser - Guantanamo Ron

We look at Ron DeSantis’ freakout when asked about his history administering Guantanamo Bay’s torture program.

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727 Teaser - Guantanamo Ron

Blake Masters (NOT THAT ONE, Blake is the creator of Showtime’s Brotherhood, and writer for Rubicon, Law & Order: LA, and Falling Water among many other shows) joins us to discuss the ongoing WGA writers’ strike. Will and Blake touch on the transforming landscape of Television, fair compensation in the age of streaming, standing creative professionals’ ground against AI, and how entertainment unions fit into the larger world of American organized labor. And also, how all TV writing eventually leads back to Columbo.

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