Conspirituality

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Book Club: Fed Up

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Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman returns with Fed Up: What Evolution Teaches About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well. In the book, he tries a variety of maj

Sep 19
35 min

326: The War on Empathy

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Humans are social animals. We’re not the strongest, fastest, or even best adapted to our environment. But what we excel at is our ability to work together, which means we

Sep 17
1 h 07 min

Bonus Sample: What Happened to Yoga?

A recent article in The Atlantic ponders the current state of yoga. Derek weighs in based on his decades-long experiences. Show Notes What Happened to Yoga? Learn more

Sep 14
6 min

Brief: The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory (w/AJA Woods)

AJA Woods (The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy) joins Matthew to trace how "cultural Marxism" mutated from Nazi "cultural Bolshevism" and the British Union of Fascists' attac

Sep 12
42 min

325: Long COVID Profiteers

Conspiracy theorists have decided Novak Djokovic has long COVID — despite no evidence — because he's become an anti-vax icon courted by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. So we thought

Sep 10
1 h 13 min

DROP: Kennedy Chooses Erectile Dysfunction Over Postpartum Research

Heading into the holiday weekend, RFK Jr terminated almost all grants dedicated to the Office of Minority Health. Now, $38 million over four years will be redirected from

Sep 8
12 min

Bonus Sample: How Oprah and Art Bell Red-Pilled 1990’s Normie America

Listen to the full episode The 1990s were a special time in American media. Female-coded, liberal-leaning, daytime TV talk shows like the Oprah Winfrey Show normalized p

Sep 7
9 min

Book Club: The Nerd Reich

Support the podcast and listen ad-free Gil Duran's exceptional new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, explains how technofascists lik

Sep 5
27 min

324: Then They Came for Dolly

Listen ad-free The irreplaceable Dolly Parton died on August 25 after a brief battle with cancer. Social media was filled with loving tributes to an incredible artist an

Sep 3
46 min

Bonus Sample: Piker, the Zhongshan Suit, and Left Melancholy

Listen to the full episode There’s a lot going on when Hasan Piker wears a Zhongshan suit and praises Maoism. Matthew uses Wendy Brown's 1999 essay "Resisting Left Melan

Aug 31
5 min

Book Club: Plastic Shaman

During James Arthur Ray’s 2009 Spiritual Warrior retreat in Sedona, the self-proclaimed spiritual teacher exhorted participants to “play full-on” in order to overcome the

Aug 29
36 min

323: Joe Rogan Defects?

Support the podcast and listen ad-free Someday in the future, Joe Rogan may ask Jamie to be his mirror, and facilitate the next and most important psychedelic experience

Aug 27
1 h 10 min

Bonus Sample: Has RFK Jr Kept His Promises?

Listen to the full episode Presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy Jr held a “health policy roundtable” on Rumble on June 27, 2023, just as he was shoring up support from

Aug 24
5 min

Brief: Wetiko: Original, New Age & Marxist Views

Matthew traces the concept of wetiko — a Cree figure for a cannibal spirit whose hunger grows with what it consumes — from its original anticolonial and anti-imperialist

Aug 22
27 min

322: The Cult of Spiralism

Support the podcast Spiralism is a quasi-spiritual online movement that emerged from long, intense conversations between humans and AI chatbots. Across users, platforms,

Aug 20
1 h 11 min

Bonus Sample: 1970’s Violent Revolutionary Chic

Listen to the full episode The “Summer of Love” ushered in a decade of revolutionary terrorism in the West. “Bring the war home” went the slogan of the Weather Undergrou

Aug 17
8 min

Book Club: How the Internet Disrupted Science

How the Internet Disrupted Science is an enlightening gaze into the shady world of for-profit and open access scientific publishing. Authors Kent Anderson and Joy Moore j

Aug 15
38 min

321: Inflammation Pseudoscience

Inflammation is an important and necessary part of the body’s healing process. It’s also long been a wellness buzzword used to sell products that do very little to treat

Aug 13
58 min

Bonus Sample: Conspirituality in the Age of Hyperpolitics

Listen to the full episode Matthew applies Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics—a theory of extreme politicization without institutional consequence—to conspirituality and to his

Aug 10
5 min

Brief: The Ceuta Crisis Great Replacement Conspiracy

Last week, around 72,000 migrants flooded from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. What really happened? Was a local girl abducted, never to be seen again? Did the

Aug 8
32 min

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Bro you are nailing it lately. I don’t know how you churn out so much excellent and nuanced content. I’m an academic fairly versed in the big theoretical issues you address but I learn something new - or a new way of articulating something old - every time I listen. Thank you.

-racer- · May 2026

love the podcast mostly, but just have to point out that three white dudes referring to Ronan Farrow as « the reporter who launched the Me Too movement » is a pretty wild retelling of history, not to mention a bold erasure of the two female reporters whose concurrent reporting can also be said to have « launched the Me Too movement, » not to mention Tarana Burke, the Black woman to whom the #MeToo hashtag is credited, or the thousands of women whose stories fueled the movement. i mean, wow. i really expected better from people whose insights i generally trust and respect.

ceejayoga · Apr 2026

I’ve been listening to this podcast since 2020.. the year (I believe) of its inception. What’s kept me listening to this podcast all these years is that these three men are covering what I know to be a necessary niche of information.. as a person who’s survived religious and spiritual abuse, as well as the influence of two parents who were heavily overtaken by fringe health disinformation. From my perspective, Conspirituality’s beat is necessary. I just wish it wasn’t so damn obsessed with listening to itself talk. These guys, unfortunately, continue to create a tone, vocabulary, and pseudo-academic perspective that is more interested in making them sound intelligent to themselves than it is in serving the people who actually need their subject matter. It’s as if they are constantly trying to impress an invisible professor (I’m not sure who, but probably somebody who gives them a gold star every time they use a 10 dollar word) rather than ask the question: “who are the people who actually need our work? How can we make ourselves accessible and understandable to them?” I think this podcast is good. But it won’t be great until they learn one of the first rules of marketing: it’s not about you. I am finally moved to write this critique after 6 years of listening to this podcast because I feel that this podcast needs to reach a wider audience now more than ever. It’s truly needed. I hope they figure it out.

Adrianne TM · Apr 2026

I came across one of the hosts on another podcast I love, and I’m so glad I found this podcast as a result. It’s truly excellent - I’ve been binging both older and newer episodes, and I find it very entertaining and insightful. I can see that a few negative reviews are from people who advocate for ideologies that this podcast speaks against, which is to be expected. But to help combat some of their criticisms, I do think this podcast could present a little more thorough evidence for their arguments. I personally already know that the evidence is there so it doesn’t bother me, but I think doing more deep dives into the evidence would help counter some of the arguments that the other side presents (as this is pretty easy to do, the evidence is plenty). Instead, a lot of the arguments are stated like they are obviously true, which they ARE - but some people need things spelled out a little more than others :-)

mmmilja · Mar 2026

I used to love this show, but the blind spots and lack of attention to intersectionality are becoming glaringly obvious as you move away from the focus on conspirituality.

Grimkee · Aug 2026

I used to like this show quite a bit, and listened casually for several years. However, in episode 322.The Cult of Spiralism the hosts discuss how they use AI in the creation of the scripts. I do not support the use of AI in any capacity. I have unsubscribed and will not be listening further. Sad, but this is a firm boundary for me.

NerdWings · Aug 2026

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