The Crumbling

Sophia, V, and Davin start a journey through the history of right
libertarianism (libertarian capitalism), starting with its ideological
 forebears, and laying out some definitions. They discuss some of the
 greatest sh*t-talkers in philosophical and political history - French
 people in the 18th and 19th centuries. They discuss a bit of the history
 of socialism, and how that relates to the inception of the...

Sophia and V continue the two part interview with Aly Wane, an 
immigrants' rights activist, about his history with the work, his thoughts 
about our current moment, how we got there, and where we can go 
next. The connections between this and the prior interview with David 
Livingstone Smith are discussed, as well as ideas on dehumanization. 
The parallels between the oppression of transgender people, 
i...

Sophia, Davin, and V embark on the first episode of a two part 
interview with Aly Wane, an immigrants' rights activist, about his history 
with the work, his thoughts about our current moment, how we got 
there, and where we can go next. The "post-truth" moment is 
discussed, and how that informs the specific atrocities that we're all 
seeing laid out before us right now, in May 

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Sophia, V, and Davin interview David Livingstone Smith, a professor of 
philosophy at the University of New England. The crew take a deep 
dive with Professor Smith into his area of expertise - dehumanization. 
They talk about how he got started studying dehumanization, how it 
arises, how it leads to genocides and other atrocities, and how it relates 
to our ongoing epistemic crisis (or, as we like to call ...

Sophia and V are once again schooled by Davin on the court...the 
actual court, though, and not physically on it, and really it's other people 
that got schooled...but you get it! They talk about how a certain UConn 
athlete (!!!) accidentally revealed the truth of how student athletes were 
compensated (or not), and how things have changed since then. The 
connection between this kind of exploitation and pa...

Finally, Davin gets to tell a story! He fills the other co-hosts in on the 
story of the exploitation of NCAA athletes, prior to the push for 
some of them unionizing. He describes the conditions that led up to 
that movement, showing how the league continuously profited off 
of them, while denying them any chance at making money from 
their work.
 Also, two announcements:
 Tragically, Andrew has left ...

Returning for Part 2 of their deep dive into labor history. with a (mostly) serious panel discussion, Sophia and Andrew explore where we stand today, the historical impact of labor movements, and how they can help us build a future rooted in trust, authenticity, and solidarity. Join the conversation on the past, present, and power of collective action.

Featuring 
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T he co-hosts have a chance to chat with the journalist Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell and the upcoming book Fight To Win, about how labor movements provide a way to build a society based on trust, where disinformation doesn't have a chance to flourish. They also ask her what killer metal records have been coming out lately. 

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• Josh Heltke
• Liz Jaik...

The co-hosts are rounding out the journey through showing how 
climate change disinformation has led us to where we are now. They 
discuss the second Trump administration, and how it has, through 
DOGE and its own actions, buried information on climate change in 
order to benefit the American kleptocracy. They discuss the details of 
grants and other funding from the federal government that would aid 
res...

Sophia , Andrew & Devon are joined by comedian and science educator Annam Choudhry 
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. They all continue on the climate change journey, this time 
discussing the careers of two men who both worked for the Cato 
Institute (a right wing think tank co-founded by Murray Rothbard, one of 
the Koch brothers, and another person), and we're Fox News 
contributors. Those men h...

The co-hosts continue their series on climate change, this time discussing both the mechanics of damaged caused by climate change and the escalation of disinformation in the 1970's and 1980's. Perry Como comes up, but nothing about climate change is a magic moment. Sophia loses her mind thinking about the reproductive habits of the eastern cottontail. The group has launched a site on beehiiv where you can check out all of ...

 The co-hosts talk about how the 1960's had such bad air quality that parts of 1965 were compared to the days after 9/11 in New York. They also learned that that year was just awful in general, and may rival 2020 and 2025 for sheer audacity in being a bad and uncertain time to live. The recurring villain makes a return trip because how could the American Petroleum Institute leave anything good and decent alone? The co-host...

 The hosts open the discussion on climate change. They talk about how the potentials for climate change were discovered in the 1800's, and how it was identified to be happening in the early 1900's. They go on to discuss how disinformation started very quickly, funded by the petroleum industry. The AI co-host finally reveals his secret identity: Davin DuBois. That shouldn't mean anything to you, as he's just a guy, but he's...

 The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Kash Patel, how he got where he is, and more importantly, what he intends to do with power if confirmed. They read one of his childrens' books, which is perhaps one of the worst things ever committed to paper. The glowing poo is revealed.      
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 The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Roy Cohn, in order to show the parallels between his life and Kash Patel's. The discussion centers around his role in McCarthyism, as a lawyer for Trump, and why his life was so consequential, despite him being a corrupt and inept jerk. They also get into how some shoes have a sport mode, and why this is perhaps silly. The AI requests new training data. 

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 The co-hosts chat it up with Taylor Lorenz, in an interview that spends a lot of time talking about another interview: the one that she did with Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the account Libs of Tiktok, who used her platform to build massive harassment campaigns against queer people and their medical providers. They talk about how GamerGate laid the foundations for the current "Groomer Panic," and Taylor gives some sage...

 Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate set the stage for a lot of modern events, including the Groomer Panic, where people blamed the existence of queer youth on queer adults. The group talks about how this was spread largely by people like Chaya Raichik, who used her Twitter page, Libs of Tiktok, to spread mass panic across the conservative media ecosystem, and thereby people all over the world that share the ideolo...