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Jules and Sean talk about the origin of what we call the Protestant Ethic, and how it drives us to work longer and harder on things we never really cared about. Before that, they chat about recent reports that AT&T inspired the creation of OAN.

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Episode 1: Max Weber - Productivity Porn and the Protestant Ethic, Part 1

What could be a better own than accusing everyone who doesn't agree with you of being hypnotized. No more snowflakes, no more libtards. Instead, everyone is just under a hypnotic spell. Mattias Desmet wants to use mass formation psychosis to explain why otherwise good people don't agree with everything he says. Of course they would agree if only they just weren't hypnotized.

Jules and Sean try to make sense of Mattias Desmet's big new idea, mass formation psychosis—what it is, where it came from, and why it's just pop psychology that we'll all probably forget about in a month (or sooner).

Along the way, we chat about the red pilled retirees Eric Clapton and Van Morrison and fight to stay awake listening to Robert Malone drone on about Nazi Germany.

Sources: 

https://nypost.com/2022/01/24/eric-clapton-people-vaccinated-against-covid-under-hypnosis/ 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-malone-vaccine-inventor-vaccine-skeptic/619734/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/opinion/omicron-children.html 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cost-special-r-idUSKBN21L20C 

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/

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Episode 8: Mass Formation Psychotics

Trying to tell the story of Tartaria in a way that believers hold it is extremely difficult. The biggest issue is that the story of Tartaria is wildly disorganized. 

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There isn’t any single universally agreed upon story to tell. No one seems to have earnestly tried to build the timeline. So I might be one of the first to attempt to codify the lost history of Tartaria.

I think the lack of a coherent timeline could well be the reason that the story of Tartaria and the alleged subsequent cover up of what people think of as the “true history” is what makes it all so attractive. You can plug in an alternate telling of virtually any historical event that happened in the last thousand years.

Since most people don’t know much about the history of the Russian Empire in the 19th century or what life was like for a nomadic tribe in Central Asia in the 1700s —that vague knowledge of world history makes many people ripe to receive the retelling from anyone confidently making shit up as they go along.

Add to all that the fact that many of the authors and YouTubers who are doing most of the driving will often disagree on some of the details or just add their own flourishes and speculations as they go.

There’s a tremendous amount of riffing that people do in these videos. You’ll hear a lot of these presenters say something along the lines of, “you know, I haven’t actually thought about it like this until just now.” And then they proceed to rattle off some previously unexplored connection between the Tartarian Empire and a secret, global consortium of Jews who opposed it.

This is a truly crowdsourced conspiracy story, with thousands and thousands of people writing it collectively and simultaneously.

This episode is a recording of Sean's appearance on Karl Mamer's Conspiracy Skeptic podcast. 

http://www.yrad.com/cs/

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Episode 15: Grand Tartaria, Free Energy, and the Great Mud Flood - Conspiracy Skeptic Podcast

Is it possible that aliens have been steering humanity for years, hiding clues of their existence in such inconspicuous places as the Pyramids of Giza? Is the dawn of civilization a gift from cosmonauts from another world? Could the human race itself be the spawn of bestiality committed by Mork from Ork on our primate ancestors?

Scientists have never found evidence that we’re not actually Cylons. Surprisingly, before written language was invented in Mesopotamia, not much is written about human beings and our history. Happily, we can speculate wildly about what fantastic things could’ve been and if any pesky archaeologists get in the way of our fun sci-fi imagination, we’ll tell them they’re a buzz-kill and they’re suppressing the truth.

Sean & I booked a trip to find some experts who had open minds, unburdened by establishment archaeology, in the best place to find visitors from outer space & their fans, Arizona.

We had tickets to the Ancient Aliens Live Tour, with five of the regular cast of the eponymous History Channel show, including the guy with the hair, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos.

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Serial entrepreneur, health food maniac, and (probably) certified ozone therapist, David Avocado Wolfe has risen from relative obscurity into elite status as a Covid denying, Atlantis believing, Luciferian energy wielding superstar. 
 
A true renaissance man for the 21st century. He represents a growing new breed of politically radicalized health guru. He’s the sort of man who in one breath will recommend apple cider vinegar to treat diabetes and in the next climbs on stage to rave about the medical tyranny of mask and vaccine mandates. 
 
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Episode 35: The Neighbor of the Beast

We’re continuing our recent coverage of UFO disclosures and the UFO disclosure movement. 

We’ll be talking some more about a few of the players in the recent US House hearing on UFOs. But, to put all that in context, we’ll look back into the history of UFO disclosures. And that history is wild. What we find is a wilderness of secret government programs, psychological warfare, inveterate liars, true believers, grifters, and more than a few willing dupes.

To guide us through this world of declassified documents, unknown motives, and unknowable truths, we’re joined today by Bradley Plasier.

And always remember:

Tlön is surely a labyrinth, but it is a labyrinth devised by men, a labyrinth destined to be deciphered by men.

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Episode 39: UFO Disclosure feat Bradley Plaisier, Part 1

We're joined again by the lovely Thomas Lecaque, historian, educator, author, and destroyer of pop culture. 

Our winding conversation comes together around the core of ahistory that both fuels and is created by political grifters who would willingly do a fascism so long as they can make a few bucks.

We talked a bit about the myth of Christopher Columbus, so we held this episode back for a week or so to drop it on Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Episode 43: Speaking Ill of the Dead feat Thomas Lacacque

We’re talking with filmmaker Christopher Bell about his docuseries Miss Me Yet. Chris brings the horror and absurdity of the George W. Bush years back to life as he tells the story of a political heir who becomes president, is branded a liar and war criminal by many, and finally drifts into the semi-reclusive painterly life. 

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Happy Halloween everybody! For a special treat, we're watching one of the absolute worst films ever made, the 2020 cinematic abortion, Trump vs the Illuminati.

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Trump vs the Illuminati comes to us from (I guess you could say veteran and I guess you could say filmmaker) BC Fourteen.

(That’s his real name. He even has a wife, according to IMDB, named Jennifer Fourteen. She has post-production credits for a lot of his movies and has starred in a few of them.)

BC Fourteen has a lot of writing and directing credits. A few that stand out are Bigfoot Goes to Hell, Bigfoot vs Megaladon, and Bigfoot vs the Illuminati.

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We’re joined again today by Darren Drda!

We talked last time about his most recent book, New Age Wasteland. We spent some time with a few ghosts and ghouls operating in the New Age space and then dug into the Woo to Q pipeline.

Today we’ll spend some time on a few of the more recent influencers in the New Age movement. We also want to shed some light on what might be some of the better ideas coming out of the movement.

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Episode 44: Enough is Never Enough feat Darrin Drda

Today we’re asking the question, "what if a zany mismatched group of three liberal Gen-Xers, one Millennial and two Zoomers were thrown into a house reno’d by Chip and Joanna Gaines just as the world was ending?"

We’re going to peek into the blue pilled minds who can’t help but wonder if maybe all those MAGA, QAnon conspiracists might be on to something.

That’s correct, we’re talking about the immensely popular apocalyptic fantasy Leave the World Behind.

It’s all of that plus a dash of the supremely neoliberal mantra: everyone is responsible, but no one is to blame.

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Episode 46: Obamapocalypse - Leave the World Behind

Sean here with historian Thomas Lecaque to talk about everything wrong with Alex Garland's incoherent movie Civil War. Jesse Plemons is NOT one of those things.

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Thomas on Twitter:
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Sean's review of Civil War on Letterboxd:
https://letterboxd.com/sondes/film/civil-war-2024/

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Episode 50: Civil War, What is it Good For? feat Thomas Lecaque

We're teaming up with Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla to talk about the show that 30 years ago introduced the normies to alien abductions, secret government programs, and global conspiracies. 

Somehow, the X-Files was exactly the right show for its time. It harnessed the untapped cynicism and suspicion of the 1990s and assured us that there really might be answers out there if you know where to look and who not to trust.

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More from Robert:
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The Endangered Alphabets Project
https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/ 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1529408245 

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Premium Episode 36: Trust No One feat Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla (Unlocked)

We’re talking Kim Stanley Robinson today! And that means we’re talking about a lot of the things Kim Stanley Robinson talks about.

Joining us are some KSR experts, Matt Hauske and Hilary Strang, the hosts of Marooned! On Mars.

We get into some fan love of his writing, ingredients to make a utopia, and forcefully separating billionaires from their money!

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Episode 60: Utopian Worlds of Kim Stanley Robinson feat Hilary Strang and Matt Hauske

Netanyahu tries to get crowdfunding for the Greater Israel plan, Iran retaliates, and Biden vows to keep bailing them out from every scrape they cause.

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Premium Episode 45: Greater Israel

Welcome to 2025! It’s the month of Janus. We’re looking forward, looking back, we’re right on the edge! The New Year’s resolutions scrawled on a sepia tone bar napkin are ready to be framed and followed to the letter. 

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A few new things in store for us include a new president! Well, it’s the old president, but he’s back. He took some gap years to study abroad. We’ve got a looming Tiktok ban on the 18th. That was tried a few times before it stuck, but this time it might happen, maybe, unless it doesn’t. Let’s see, more Elon Musk, Israel is still committing genocide, Russia is still trying to occupy Ukraine, neo-nazis, Isis–again?, and I guess Tariffs, since the 30s and the 19th century didn’t extinguish that. 

Happy reruns year! All the old cast is back this season. We have the same senators and representatives that we get term after term.

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Episode 68: Incontinental Congress

The troubling history of the FBI encouraging mass shooters and the outing of a White supremacist US ICE prosecutor.

Some reading:
https://booty.substack.com/p/prior-contact-between-mass-shooters
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/



Episode 71: Glomar Responder

We could be talking about Trump punishing Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy with a humiliation ritual in the White House. Or we could talk about all the NAZI salutes at CPAC this year.
Instead, we’re escaping from the political brush fire to the world of movies. Just a few days after the Oscars, you might think we’d want to talk about any of the award winning films from the last year. 

But you would be wrong.

No, we’re looking at a movie that was released in exactly one theater, Apple TV’s streaming hit, The Gorge.

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Premium Episode 55: Engorged

Last time, we talked with Gabriel Kennedy about his exceptional biography of Robert Anton Wilson. This time, we're talking about an insane chapter in post WWII history—one that also captured Wilson’s interest.

And that would be Propaganda Due.

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Propaganda Due (P2) was originally a Masonic lodge established in 1877 under the Grand Orient of Italy, adhering to Continental Freemasonry traditions. In 1976, its Masonic charter was revoked, and under the leadership of Licio Gelli, it evolved into an illegal, clandestine organization. 

P2 operated as a radical right-wing, anti-communist, anti-Soviet, and anti-Marxist secret society, violating Article 18 of the Italian Constitution, which prohibited such secret associations. Gelli continued to run the unaffiliated lodge from 1976 to 1984. 

P2 was linked to numerous crimes and scandals in Italy, including the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano (associated with the Holy See), the murders of journalist Carmine Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and widespread political corruption during the Tangentopoli bribery scandal. The organization's activities were exposed during investigations into the downfall of Michele Sindona's financial empire.

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Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson
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Episode 72: Money, Guns, and the Vatican feat Gabriel Kennedy

While the Signalgate drama has been playing out across the news shows and editorial pages, the Trump administration has also mostly quietly continued to disappear as many people as possible.

In addition to snatching up student visa holders who have the gall to criticize genocidal Zionists, ICE, with the help of some State officials, is also targeting Chinese nationals studying and working in the US.

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Premium Episode 56: Top Missile Guys (Sample)

In the time we prepared to record this episode, Trump announced the insane tariff policy, so we had to update everything. Then we recorded and right afterward, he put it all on hold. By the time you listen to this, the stock market will have zeroed out, and we'll be staking out our new freehold on Greenland.

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Episode 73: Liberation Day Cancelled

The Wetwired take on Bezos’ glam astronauts, Nancy Pelosi refusing to release her wrinkled grip on the other well-heeled corporate Democrats, and the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang model of California politics.

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Premium Episode 57: Waste of Space (Sample)

This is Part 6 of Cold as ICE.

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We go over the ballooning Homeland Security budget and ICE's unprecedented expansion. None of this looks good for anyone in the US but as always with things like this the most vulnerable people are hit first and the hardest. 

Unsurprisingly and despite their positive comments, the real winners won't be Trump's supporters. It's the private contractors who are coming out on top. Companies like GEO Group and Core Civic are vacuuming up money as fast as the US Treasury can print it. All the while, DHS has been running a Blood and Soil ad campaign on social media.

Premium Episode 62: Cold as ICE, Part 6 (Sample)

You might think QAnon has faded away, or maybe has been just laying dormant for the last couple of years. You'd be wrong.

It’s been there all along, stewing and metastasizing beneath the surface, mostly. You can find people decoding the news all over Telegram still, and it’s absolutely thriving Twitter.

Having Trump in the Whitehouse and QAnon influencers like Kash Patel and Dan Bongino in the FBI, and all the other psychos in lower offices all over the government, means that the regular news is often QAnon news.

Always looking for the secret truth behind current events, QAnon and Sovereign Citizen accounts have taken a special interest in Trump's Executive Order sending National Guard and Federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C.

For them, these actions aren't just Trump flexing political muscles, or worse, breaking the law. For a Sov Cit or a QAnon follower, Trump federalizing law enforcement in D.C. is nothing short of a killing blow struck at the Deep State.

It's pretty nuts.

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Episode 85: QAnon's D.C. Prophecy

I guess we could call these archive releases "ReWired". 

This episode was extremely educational for us. It was part of a group of episodes where we dove into the background and origin story of a person or people who've had an outsized impact on shaping the way many Americans as well as people worldwide see themselves and their place in the world.

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As we continue our retooling of this show's format, we'll be releasing some of these older episodes that we think are especially important.From the original description:

The law of attraction permeates the world of self-help and spirituality. In this magical world, everything you think you know about the causal nature of reality is wrong. All that you experience, all that you have and are, is a consequence of the vibrations that you attract. You don’t have to explain the mechanism or prove the results, because it’s all self-evident–if you don’t get what you want, you weren’t wishing hard enough. If you want something, all you need to do is believe.

Even if you’ve never heard the words “the law of attraction,” you’ve heard its message from pop signers and film stars. Even Peter Pan knows this one weird trick to flying, “you think of a wonderful thought!” However, you probably have heard of the law of attraction from the 2006 film, The Secret.

The messenger behind the message, Esther Hicks, got the idea from 100 ghosts, whom she channels in seminars for her captivated audiences, in books, and even on cruises. Without The Secret, we wouldn’t know Esther and her spooky friends, and without Esther Hicks, there would be no film.

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This is our first conversation with independent filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell. We with him again about the feature length release, Failed State, which he co-directed.

Miss Me Yet is a chronicle of the George W. Bush presidency, which means that it also documents the early days of the War on Terror, beginning with 9/11. Chris draws us back into the early 2000s by painstakingly splicing together archival footage of Bush interspersed with commercials that amplify the cultural moments.

It seems appropriate to rerelease this episode, not just because it's the 200th anniversary of 9/11 (or whatever), but because the seeds of so much we've grown to live with and so much of what we've become numb to were planted in those years. Trump used an Iraq War era Congressional authorization for the legal pretext to assassinate Qasem Soleimani in 2020.

Of course, as we've seen many times recently, we've moved well past the need for annoying legal authorizations. Arguably though, we might not have become so inured to extrajudicial violence if we weren't first used to Congress rubber stamping it. Congress' approval was never even requested for the recent US attacks on nuclear sites in Iran.

From the original episode description:

In this episode, we talk with filmmaker Christopher Bell about his docuseries Miss Me Yet. Chris brings the horror and absurdity of the George W. Bush years back to life as he tells the story of a political heir who becomes president, is branded a liar and war criminal by many, and finally drifts into the semi-reclusive painterly life. 

Miss Me Yet is currently showing on Means TV.https://means.tv/programs/missmeyet

Find Chris bell on Twitter:https://twitter.com/UpdateTheGrids

Watch some of Chris' other films:https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell

Music:Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

We're unlocking this ep for a while because everyone should get to know Chris and hear about his docuseries Miss Me Yet.

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Cops, laws, prisons, and the military are political violence. Crackdowns on strikers and protesters are political violence. Poverty, hunger, and crime are all political violence.

The state's will is not enforced with good vibes and polite suggestions. Its defining feature is its monopoly of violence within its borders. “Political violence” as seen on TV just lacks state sanction and operates outside the monopoly of violence of the state.

The state’s policies may be determined without violent force, which is where liberals and conservatives can superficially separate themselves from political violence, by confining the term to the extracurricular activities of non-state actors. 

“There is no place for violence,” and “violence is never the answer,” aren’t aphorisms from pacifist monks, sweeping the ground as they walk to save the lives of would-be squashed bugs. It’s only the pejorative “political violence” when it’s not blessed by the state and the ideology of the speaker. This framing obscures the role of violence in all political activity.

It may not be outright dishonesty or hypocrisy when talking heads and heads of state are clutching their pearls after some kind of public violence, it’s just a terrible model of reality that confuses how violence is really valued in a liberal democracy.

There’s an Irish aphorism, “Is minic a bhris béal duine a shorn.” Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. Anyway, Charlie Kirk got shot last week.

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Independent filmmaker Jacob Gregor joins us to talk about his bleak and unsettling new film End of History. We talk with Jacob about his discomforting vision of a nameless young man who drives cross country to Alaska listening to nothing but podcasts and AM radio.

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This is the sort of man who has been living close by all along, right under your nose. You've seen him online countless times and probably didn't even notice. You didn't see him because his isn't an influencer, he's not in charge of anything, and he's never posted anything that went viral. He's a reply guy.

We chat with Jacob about his character's flat arc, making this movie, and the online-too-much guys who just want everything in the world to be like it was when they were 8 years old.

Find Jacob online:
https://x.com/JacobGorb
https://www.instagram.com/jacobgorb/

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Episode 86: Reply Guys at the End of History feat Jacob Gregor

We’re here on the eve of the end of America as we’ve come to know it, and the two of us thought, “what could be a more fitting way to honor everything we love about this country than to do one of the most American things possible?”

That would be watching a movie and then arguing about it. 

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The movie we picked to divert our attention from the machine like roll of militarism and xenophobia across the US is Paul Verhoevan’s Starship Troopers. 

That means we’re talking: propaganda, fascism, more propaganda, some xenophobia, a lot of militarism, and then even more propaganda. So, essentially, we carefully chose a movie that bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to anything happening out there in the real world.

This episode was born out of a conversation Jules and I had last week about a clip from Starship Troopers someone posted on Twitter. It was the scene of the cow in the lab getting gored to death by a giant bug.

In that clip, a couple of guys in lab coats walk a cow into a room with one of the arachnids and then hurry out before the bug gets to them. Immediately, that seemed to me like an encapsulation of the entire movie’s message. My takeaway from that scene and the move overall that fascism is stupidly overconfident, everyone is expendable, and safety is for pussies.

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First up, we have some Jordan Peterson news. His daughter says he’s under spiritual attack after being exposed to a moldy attic.

We also cover some of the comments Kamala Harris have been making during the book tour for her 2024 election memoir 107 Days. Reassuringly, pro-Palestine protesters have been showing up at just about every one of her tour stops.

We're also excited to announce that our long promised merch is here!!

We know it's tough sometimes to express your leftist feelings in public. Your ratty Che Guevara and CCCP t-shirts seem better left at home. Now you can fly your crypto-leftist flag and still be completely under the radar with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized.

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Episode 87: She’s (Still) Speaking

We’re joined by Daniella Mestyanek Young, the author of Uncultured. She was born a third generation member of an influential family, within The Family International, better known as the Children of God cult. She escaped at fifteen, put herself through school, and graduated from college as valedictorian.

Daniella joined the Army, became Captain, and she received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. She was an Intelligence Officer in one of the Army’s first Female Engagement Teams. In two tours and six years, she saw patterns in the military that were just like her experiences in the Children of God.

Here are Daniella's 10 characteristics of a cult that we talk about:

1.    Has a charismatic leader (and a skinny white woman)
2.   A sacred assumption
3.   The transcendental mission
4.   Self-sacrifice of members
5.   Limits access to the outside world
6.   Distinguishable vernacular
7.   Us versus them mentality
8.   Exploits members' labor
9.   High exit costs
10.  Ends justify the means mentality

Find Daniella online:
https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung
https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_
https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellamestyanekyoung

By Daniella's book UnCULTured
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250280114

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We know it's tough sometimes to express your leftist feelings in public. Your ratty Che Guevara and CCCP t-shirts seem better left at home. Now you can fly your crypto-leftist flag and still be completely under the radar with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized.

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We're teaming up with Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla to talk about the show that 30 years ago introduced the normies to alien abductions, secret government programs, and global conspiracies. 

Somehow, the X-Files was exactly the right show for its time. It harnessed the untapped cynicism and suspicion of the 1990s and assured us that there really might be answers out there if you know where to look and who not to trust.

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More from Bradley:
https://x.com/bpleasies
https://bwp.threadless.com

More from Robert:
https://x.com/RobertSkvarla

The Endangered Alphabets Projecthttps://www.endangeredalphabets.net/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1529408245 

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We hope everyone is having a good holiday season and you’re all getting ready for the solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, the date of the Buddha’s enlightenment (some time last week), or whatever dates you mark.

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We’ve been slowing down for the holiday season ourselves but we’ve also been working on a miniseries that we’ll release sometime in the next month or so. We’re not going to talk about it much. I can hint that it’s centered on the ground shift in longstanding Republican institutions as all the old timers figure out how to deal with all the youths raised by Discord and Pepe memes.

But we’re taking a break from that today to talk about something else we’ve been enjoying for the past year, the coverage of the convicted Jan 6 rioters who got pardoned by Trump and then almost immediately committed new crimes.

Premium Episode 65: They Fought the Law (Sample)

We're with Anthony Banua-Simon, director of the documentary Cane Fire, to talk about the colonization and exploitation of the Hawai'ian people first by corporations, then by the US military, followed by Hollywood, and finally by tourism.

Few places hold as large a place in the American imagination as Hawaiʻi. For many people, Hawai'i represents paradise. It is the exotic. But maybe above all the other ideas about Hawaiʻi, it’s at the center of so many fantasies of escape. 

In order to sustain any fantasy, we have to perfect it in our minds and turn it into a curated object. Part of doing that is learning to ignore any complications or contradictions that could break the spell. In the case of Hawai'i, those complications are the people—those pesky people, always getting in the way when capitalism is trying to have a good time.

Watch Cane Fire:
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/cane-fire/umc.cmc.77a7aja56b4olltstnkm3ts21 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zI6-HX8P9k 
https://means.tv/programs/cane-fire 
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/cane-fire?frontend=kui

Learn about Anthony's other projects:
https://anthonysimon.net/
https://anthonysimon.net/The-Experiment-Station

We're also excited to announce that our long promised merch is here!!

We know it's tough sometimes to express your leftist feelings in public. Your ratty Che Guevara and CCCP t-shirts are better left at home. Now you can fly your crypto-leftist flag and still be completely under the radar with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized.

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