Afgespeeld
-
E.R. Fightmaster is back on the show this week!! Drew and E.R. talk about hating transphobes online, finding someone who matches your freak, self-tapes, Tall Girl, dating twins, playing a cat piano, and so much more.
Shop Billie in-store and at https://www.mybillie.com
E.R. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genderless_gap_ad/
E.R. Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@e.r.fightmaster?lang=en
Follow The Comment Section on IG!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
What is an oligarchy, exactly? Is the US entering a period similar to post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s? What do Russian oligarchs have to do with proven interference in the 2016 US election?
Julian digs into Russian history to explore parallels with modern-day America. Meet Vladislav Surkov, the architect of both Putin’s 25-year rule over what Surkov has dubbed “sovereign democracy,” and the global propaganda strategies generating our post-truth ecosystem of disinformation and conspiracies. There’s a reason why politics feels like theater these days, why democracy seems like a pipe dream.
While MAGA has a fascism fetish, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine might be a better match for Hitler on the verge, with Trump and Co acting as macho-clown versions of Neville Chamberlain.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
To hear the rest of the episode, support us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod -
In this week’s Fraud Friday, Jameela Jamil (The Good Place, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law) joins Laci in studio to discuss the basics on THE BASIC- Caroline Calloway. They dig into Jameela's earliest stint teaching English, and both become very afraid when they learn how fortune tellers scam their clients out of money. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 03/30/2020)
CON-gregation, catch Laci's new TV Show, Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu!
Follow on Instagram:
Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod
Laci Mosley: @divalaci
Jameela Jamil: @jameelajamil
Research By Sharilyn Vera.
SOURCES:
The CUT – The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghost writer Natalie
VICE — Influencer Caroline Calloway Isn’t a Scammer, Just a Self-Obsessed Mess
Caroline’s instagram- (where she is currently spiraling)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/caroline-calloway-instagram-influencer-tour-canceled-scam
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/caroline-calloway-creativity-workshop
https://www.pajiba.com/web_culture/the-case-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-creativity-workshop-tour.php
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3wwy4/cambridges-most-controversial-instagram-celebrity-gets-the-last-laugh
Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/scam.
-
Are you a single lady struggling to find love with a man? Don't fret! A twice-divorced game show host who thinks conversation is for women is here to help.
Where to find us:
Peter's newsletterPeter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseThanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
-
We're keeping the All Stars episodes coming this year!! Chris Olsen makes his grand return to the show to debrief the Golden Globes with Drew, talk about their shared obsession with Meghan Trainor, the importance of taking breaks, theatre boarding school, making your therapists laugh, the power of the Ozdust ballroom scene in Wicked, sleep paralysis, the Club Chris tour, and so much more.
Chris's IG: https://www.instagram.com/chrisolsen/?hl=en
Chris's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chris?lang=en
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
This week, the iconic, hilarious and brilliant Reb Masel is here!! Reb gives us her best legal advice and talks to Drew about staying anonymous as a practicing lawyer, graverobbing, deadbeat dad cases, penis-shaped scars, kegs in the office, the fight to protect vulnerable groups in court, and so much more.
Reb IG: https://www.instagram.com/rebmasel/
Reb Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rebmasel
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Our New York Residency begins with the hilarious Sabrina Brier on the show this week!! And to the Acotar and Vampire Diaries girls out there, this episode is FOR YOU. After discovering their deep mutual love of fairy books, Drew and Sabrina talk about why Goodreads is actually a snark page, college improv, why Shakespeare is hard, Quaker camp, writing fanfiction by hand, Sabrina’s star turn on Abbott Elementary, and so much more.
Listen to Sabrina’s new audiobook, That Friend, out now everywhere!
Sabrina IG: https://www.instagram.com/sabrinabrier/?hl=en
Sabrina Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sabrina.cinoman.brier?lang=en
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Zachariah Porter is here this week!! Drew and Zachariah talk sweating as a medical condition, seducing Jennifer Lopez, auditioning to play a two-headed bird, Zachariah’s petition to get on wig aftercare, Drew failing her psych eval for The Circle, rebranding Disney adults, tooching on the Hagrid ride at Universal, and so much more.
Get tickets to see Zachariah LIVE on “The Strip Mall Tease Tour”
Zachariah IG:
https://www.instagram.com/zachariahporter/
Zachariah Tiktok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@zzzachariah
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
We have another ALL-STARS episode for you this week team!! Tefi and Eric return to the show as a duo to explore the timeless question “what is ghosting, really?” and discuss who Tefi should date, spilling a martini on Sofia Vergara, being publicly down bad, Eric’s past working in a Best Buy warehouse, Drew has a big reveal about a new hobby she’s pursuing, Eric’s bob makes a special guest appearance, and so much more.
Tefi IG: https://www.instagram.com/hellotefi/
Tefi Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellotefi
Eric IG: https://www.instagram.com/ricotaquito/
Eric Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ricotaquito
Follow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Fellow Virgo twin Jensen McRae is here this week!! Drew and Jensen unpack the drama behind Jensen’s cutthroat college improv tryouts, how a Phoebe Bridgers parody song made her viral, Grammy Camp, fear of insects, their favorite comfort movies, being Ed Sheeran heads, and so much more.
Listen to Jensen’s new song “Praying For Your Downfall” out now everywhere!
Jensen IG: https://www.instagram.com/jensenmcrae/
Jensen Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jensenmcrae?lang=en
Follow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
It’s time to add another All-Star episode to the vault because Grace Amaku (@grace_africa) is back!! Grace and Drew talk Grace chipping her tooth on a chicken wing, explaining Tiktoks to Ariana Grande, Drew teaches Grace some Samoan phrases to impress a man, the lore of the Golden Globes shrub, how to charm your way through Hollywood, and so much more.
Shop Billie in-store and at https://www.mybillie.com
Grace IG: https://www.instagram.com/grace_africa/?hl=en
Grace Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@grace_africa?lang=en
Follow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Dylan Mulvaney returns to the show this week!! A lot has happened in Dylan’s life since she was last on the podcast almost three years ago, and she unpacks it all with Drew in an episode that covers broadway musicals, ayahuasca in Peru, glee club, jet skiing, gay cruises, running into Trixie Mattel at the DMV, and so much more. Dylan’s new book Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer is out now!
Shop Billie in-store and at https://www.mybillie.com
Dylan IG:
https://www.instagram.com/dylanmulvaney/
Dylan Tiktok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@dylanmulvaney
Follow The Comment Section on IG!
https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
The hilarious-talented-incredible Grace Kuhlenschmidt is on the show this week!! Drew and Grace unpack all of Grace’s lore, from gay awakenings to bad grades, getting Jane Lynch’s approval, Top Gun as porn, dressing as Éric Gagné for Halloween as a child, petitioning for a microwave in the school cafeteria, Grace’s duet with Phoebe Bridgers, and so much more!
Shop Billie in-store and at https://www.mybillie.com
Grace IG: https://www.instagram.com/gkuhlenschmidt/?hl=en
Grace Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gkuhlenschmidt?lang=en
Follow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Misha Brown (from Wondery’s The Big Flop) joins Laci to dive into YOUR scams, CON-gregation! It's your moment to shine. Laci and Misha read letters about a Dayton hair salon doubling as a hotspot for selling boosted clothes, a puzzling college loan collection email, a survey scam promising a three-year Netflix subscription, and a Dr. Phil-worthy pregnancy hoax packed with drama and haters. Stay schemin'!
CON-gregation, catch Laci's new TV Show Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu!
Follow on Instagram:
Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod
Laci Mosley: @divalaci
Misha Brown: @yourbestiemisha
Letters by YOU
Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/scam.
-
In this week’s Fraud Friday, Scottie Beam and Sylvia Obell hear from Laci about Richard Scott Smith—a man who promised love but instead conned a group of Midwestern women out of over $1 million. Plus, a Los Angeles family is shocked to learn that someone posted their home on Airbnb to rent it. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 01/17/2022)
CON-gregation, catch Laci's new TV Show, Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu!
Follow on Instagram:
Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod
Laci Mosley: @divalaci
Scottie Beam: @scottiebeam
Sylvia Obell: @sylviaobell
Research By Kaelyn Brandt.
SOURCES:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/style/taking-down-bad-men-is-her-job.html
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a33821604/love-fraud-richard-scott-smith-true-story/
https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a33915040/richard-scott-smith-love-fraud-now/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8644523/Richard-Scott-Smith.html
https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/what-happened-to-carla-the-bounty-hunter-from-love-fraud
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/11/30/exclusive-local-family-discovers-home-listed-on-airbnb-after-strangers-arrive-saying-they-rented-it/
Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/scam.
-
Author and publisher Rebekah Borucki joins the Conspirituality team as our first co-host for this episode. She’s got a story to tell: the culture of her publisher, Hay House, was so resistant to taking a position on the racist attitudes of some of their leading cash-cow authors that she ditched her contract and her job with the company as a diversity mentor.
We’ll be talking about the money and politics of New Age media, as well as editorial standards, ghostwriting, cult apologetics, and the responsibility of publishers to deplatform authors that are hurtling toward QAnon. New Age media isn’t all love and light—it’s a pathway into consumers’ vulnerability, and sometimes a recruitment gateway for cults.
Also this week: Derek interviews Dr Jay Mohan on his gruelling COVID front-line work as an interventional cardiologist in a Detroit suburb.
Show notes
Rebekah on toxic White Women Wellness
Rebekah on the silence of Hay House authors
Rebekah on leaving Hay House
A Critique of Abraham Hicks & the Law of Attraction
Celery Juice: The big problem with a viral Instagram ‘cure
-- -- --
Support us on Patreon
Pre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada
Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | Julian
Original music by EarthRise SoundSystem
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
We still can’t believe alt-health Bali retreat rockstar Sacha Stone called for the “evisceration” of public officials last week. Are conspiritualists really crossing over into militancy? Are the products of wellness so boring, and are the markets so saturated, that messianic influencers have no choice but to up the ante? Stone’s recent interview guest, Christiane Northrup, recently invoked the sacred power of the Sheriff as the highest law in the land for anti-lockdown folks who believe they’re being oppressed. That argument was first made by the white nationalist Posse Comitatus in the 1970s — the seed group for many of today’s militias.This week, we investigate the means by which religious cults and conspiritualists rattle sabers and poison people. Derek reviews Japan’s AUM cult as a prelude to Julian’s riveting interview with AUM expert Sarah Hightower. Julian reports on the Northrupian intersection between militia movements and alt-health ideas of “sovereignty.” Matthew discusses violence in ISKCON as the Hare Krishnas parade mask-free through Glastonbury.Show NotesRajneeshee leaders take revenge on The Dalles’ with poison, homelessCult Leaders & Psychopaths: Power Beyond the GraveWe Need to Talk about the Rise of White Supremacy in YogaEpic Yoga San ClementeAlan Hostetter playing a singing bowl in a Trump t-shirtReddit thread on Q Casualties Dating AppSex and Death on the Road to NirvanaAmy Coney Barrett uses her children in different waysWhat the Second Amendment really meant to the Founders
-- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Who’s right, who’s confused, who’s noble, who’s the bad guy?Nothing exists in a cultural vacuum. The emergence of yoga as a hugely popular and lucrative phenomenon in the West is no exception.In this bonus episode, Julian discusses a recent article that was posted, and enthusiastically liked, shared, and commented upon in sincere solidarity by yoga folks contributing to the conspirituality zeitgeist.This despite the article being written by a respected brown scholar and activist and posted by an earnest white yogi—and being about a billionaire with some questionable history.
-- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Percolating alongside racism and classism, one of the most pernicious subtexts of conspirituality propaganda is ableism. Proponents spout accusatory mantras like: “You have an immune system!,” “You’d have nothing to worry about if you were vegan!,” and, of course, “Living in fear is the real cause of disease.”
Not only do these ideas have nothing to do with virology, they also condemn everyone who is immuno-compromised, living in a food desert, or managing trauma to the margins. COVID-19 has exposed the ugliest secret of wellness culture: the glorification of the self over concern about the community.
None of this is news for disability activists. In this episode, Matthew interviews Jivana Heyman, founder of Accessible Yoga and longtime AIDS activist, about walking the anti-conspirituality line between yoga and public health. Heyman also reveals how the past and present intersect in Tony Fauci, a leading figure in AIDS research during Reagan’s tenure who is now being muzzled by Trump.
In This Week in Conspirituality, Julian looks at the fear of death through the lens of Ernest Becker and Joseph Campbell, Derek discusses free speech after Twitter removes 7,000 QAnon accounts, and Matthew tries to empathize with the “awakened” aspect of conspirituality, i.e., What have they woken up to?
Show Notes
A Force In The Universe: Brad Ramsey
Advanced Asthanga practice video with Pattabhi Jois
The Prophecies of Q
Twitter Removes Thousands Of QAnon Accounts, Promises Sweeping Ban On The Conspiracy
What Does Free Speech Mean?
As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn’t Like
Statistics & Information on Childhood Sexual Abuse
Matthew’s tribute to Jivana Heyman
-- -- --
Support us on Patreon
Pre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada
Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | Julian
Original music by EarthRise SoundSystem
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Laat meer zien
