We take a trip to China to uncover the origins of the Falun Gong, the contradictions between superstition and science, rural ear reading, levitation, and Qigong fever.

Episode 284: Falun Gong Part 2: Qigong Fever

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: The Jetsons, More Gulf War trading cards

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248 - Wifi-Connected Vat-Grown Human Husks 05.05.23

Benjamin Fong joins us to talk about his new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st century Binge (versobooks.com/products/2981-quick-fixes). We chat about the uniquely American obsession with drugs, the war machine’s love affair with meth, the burgeoning psychedelic movement, and why everyone is so desperate to get high.

Episode 309: I Need Weed And Speed

We welcome Dr. Orisamni Burton to the show to talk through the history of American prisons as technologies of counterinsurgency, George Jackson, MKUltra, and his forthcoming book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396326/tip-of-the-spear).



Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970 – 1978: twitter.com/orisanmi/status/1661703964000133121

New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners: truthout.org/articles/new-docs-link-cia-to-medical-torture-of-indigenous-children-and-black-prisoners/

Episode 316: Carceral Warfare

We’re joined by author Sean Howe to talk about his new book, Agents of Chaos (hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-howe/agents-of-chaos/9780306923913/?lens=hachette-books), about Tom Forcade, the Yippies, the Zippies, the feds, and the fakes.

Episode 320: High Times and Misdemeanors

We visited legendary writer William T. Vollmann (Rainbow Stories, Europe Central) in his Sacramento studio for a long talk about lots of things. Part two of two.

Read his new essay “Four Men” in Harper’s: harpers.org/archive/2023/11/four-men/

Episode 331: Grief Is A Witch-Hag (Part 2)

We sit down with Thomas Morton to seek emotional truth among the shaky facts of some bestselling bullshit memoirs and a recent comedy “scandal.”

Episode 333: A Child Called Bullshit

We’re joined by Devin Thomas O’Shea to talk about the mystery of Mary Pinchot Meyer’s death. 

Bad Shot, Mary: apocalypse-confidential.com/2023/11/22/bad-shot-mary/

Episode 339: Dead on the Trail: The Potomac Murder

We’re joined by Richard Sanders, one of the producers of the Labour Files, to talk about about the leaks, the famous Labour antisemitism crisis, and the rise of Keir Starmer.

Watch The Labour Files Part 2: The Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTMF0MSXng

All parts of The Labour Files: https://www.ajiunit.com/investigation/the-labour-files/

Episode 344: The Labour Files

We take a look at the strange story of Sara Bronfman and the self-help-sex-crime-cult NXIVM’s odd forays into civil-war-torn Libya, seemingly in search of Muammar's missing riches. Featuring: the Dalai Lama, Israeli spies, the oats futures market, Ayn Rand, and Steven Spielberg.

Episode 346: Gaddafi's Gold

We take a step back and listen to some of the untold stories of the only Jewish state, and grapple with our own mixed feelings on the war, Israel, and what it means to belong.

Episode 366: Olive Branch

TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane. Every other episode is a Patreon exclusive: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod

Episode 331: Grief Is A Witch-Hag (Part 2)

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