Conspirituality

Bonus Sample: The Monetization of MAHA

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode RFK Jr trademarked MAHA in a giant swath of categories, including many he now advocates for in his position as Secretary o...

Brief: Dr Mike vs MAHA

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Mike has become one of the most effective debunkers of science misinformation. His second appearance on the uber-popular show, Jubilee's Surrounded...

288: Conspirituality Live with Dr Jessica Knurick

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Derek sits down with Dr Jessica Knurick at the Eudemonia Summit for this special live recording. They discuss combating health misinformation online, ...

Bonus Sample: Marx’s “Atheism” vs. the Capitalist Religion of Everyday Life

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode Matthew explores Marx’s “opium of the people” passage by placing it back into the philosophical and political projec...

Brief: Demonic Karl Marx ATTACKS Private Property and DESTROYS Religion

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew examines how Karl Marx has long been framed as a demonic threat to religion and private property — a tactic that sidesteps Marx’s actual c...

287: She Did Nuzzi RFK Jr Coming

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How does an elite Millennial politics reporter wind up having phone sex with and giving campaign advice to the 70-year-old emerging fascist she’s re...

Bonus Sample: “Joe Rogan of The Left” Glazes China

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode here Hasan Piker just spent two weeks in The People’s Republic of China. The famous streamer is often invoked as being a...

Brief: Have Tech Bros Killed Psychedelics?

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really? Derek and Julian brea...

286: RFK Jr’s Great Crusade

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

RFK Jr is one of the greatest perpetrators of a firehose of falsehoods that we’ve ever covered. The stakes were raised when he was installed as head...

Bonus Sample: How Does Andrew Wakefield Keep Getting Resurrected?

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode. With the CDC recently updating its website with anti-vax propaganda under the direction of RFK Jr, disgraced and disbarre...

Brief: Black Friday’s Wellness Extravaganza

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Derek and Julian survey all of the incredible, life-changing deals going down this weekend in Wellnesslandia. Show Notes Influencers made millions p...

285: Can Peter Attia Live Forever?

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the wildly popular biohacking and longevity space, Peter Attia is often cited as one of the leading luminaries. His straightforward, science-backed...

Bonus Sample: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 2)

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus episode is Part 2 of Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism.  I start in the 1870s with Marx and Bakunin fighting over the joys and tra...

Brief: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 1)

22 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this first of a two-part series, I dig into a century-long debate within revolutionary politics—one that now shapes the fault lines between MAGA ...

284: When Prophecy-Science Fails (w/Thomas Kelly)

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1954 a doomsday alien cult headed up by Chicagoland housewife Dorothy Martin was waiting for the cataclysmic flood that would herald the arrival of...

Bonus Sample: Temple of Blood & Fire

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They offered initiation into ancient Christian mysticism, ritual communion with the spirits, an understanding of reincarnation, and the destined trans...

Brief: Does Calley Means Get Anything Right?

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

RFK Jr's senior advisor and supplements salesman, Calley Means, has repeatedly fabricated the story of Abraham Flexner and the birth of the modern med...

283: Guys

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Back in June, we published an episode about the "Speaking with American Men" (SAM) project, a $20 million initiative designed by political consultants...

Bonus Sample: MAHA Inaction

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode The nonprofit organization (and its adjoined Super PAC), MAHA Action, is leading semi-regular Zoom calls featuring a host ...

Brief: Taylor Swift Goes MAGA?

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Taylor Swift: Nazi sympathizer, freshly-minted racist, MAGA trad wife. Or so proponents of a recent conspiracy theory would have it. For years, the mo...

282: Mutual Aid Against ICE

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When restaurants and cafes in Portland and elsewhere link into networks of food pantries and soup kitchens, will mutual aid feel real in the US? When ...

Bonus Sample: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 2)

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode on Patreon Part 2 follows the money flowing from US agencies and interests to anti-Liberation Theology figures in Latin Am...

Brief: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 1)

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first of a two-part deep dive into how U.S. foreign policy stared down the political threat of Liberation Theology by promoting Evangelica...

281: Jeffrey Tucker, MAHA Dandy

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Meet the man who built RFK Jr’s kitchen cabinet” goes the title of a recent investigative article in Politico. Yet that man, Jeffrey Tucker, is...

Bonus Sample: Chatbot Awakening to Love and Enlightenment!

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this year, a spate of news stories told of chatbot users travelling through the looking-glass right into Conspirituality. Paranoid conspiracie...

Brief: The Man Who Lives With 16 Cats

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Social media has been filled with clips of Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for mayor of NYC. He's been proving quite the foil for Andrew Cuomo's ...

280: Peter Thiel is Definitely Not the Antichrist

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is no cuck philanthropist. The co-founder of Palantir is leading his company at the bleeding edge of mass surveillance, f...

Portland Has (Not) Fallen (For It)

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode on Patreon After attending the No Kings rally in Portland on Saturday, Derek shares some thoughts about the week leading u...

Brief: “Weird Stephen” Miller

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Miller is once again making headlines for saying the quiet part out loud. Derek and Julian look into this strange little man from Santa Monica...

279: They’re Shooting the Priests

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ICE is on the loose in our cities, acting with seeming impunity. They've repelled from Black Hawk helicopters, thrown journalists and protestors to th...

Yallidarity (w/Nathan Evans Fox) [Introducing Antifascist Dad Podcast]

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hey everyone… special drop today: the inaugural episode of Matthew’s new side project, Antifascist Dad Podcast.  Matthew sits down with songwrit...

Bonus Sample: Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus (Pt. 2)

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Full episode on Patreon Part 2 moves from Christofascist spectacle to the “mushy middle” of liberal Christianity—why it so often blesses order ...

Brief: Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus (Pt. 1)

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this first installment of Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus, Matthew revisits Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s journey from the theological classrooms o...

278: This Podcast is Illegal

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our podcast is not actually illegal—yet. Thanks to Trump’s recent Security Presidential Memorandum, NSPM-7, or “Countering Domestic Terrorism an...

Bonus Sample: Death is Just A Doorway

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The People’s Temple in Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, The Order of the Solar Temple. All cults that ended in tragic mass suicides. How could such lofty...

Brief: He’s Coming For All Vaccines

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

RFK Jr posted a seven-minute video earlier this week that assures us that vaccines aren't all that great, actually. Derek reads the studies Kennedy re...

277: TikTokTylenol [feat Mallory DeMille]

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did you hear about the pregnant woman who ingested too much Tylenol just to “own Trump” and is now on a ventilator and will likely not wake up, of...

Bonus Sample: The Wellness Civil War

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode here. When RFK Jr announced that Tylenol might be implicated in autism, he forefronted correlative research that has yet ...

Brief: MAGA’s Censorship Hypocrisy

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

MAGA congressman Clay Higgins recently sent a letter to top tech executives demanding subservience when it comes to "acceptable" speech. This comes tw...

276: Inventing Saint Charlie Kirk

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Kirk became the latest victim of gun violence in America on September 10. And he wasn't the only person shot on a school campus that day, nor ...

Bonus Sample: Antifascist (Autistic) Christianity — Simon(e) Weil (Part 2)

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The second installment in a two-part exploration of Simon(e) Weil for the ongoing Antifascist Christianity series and the Antifascist Woodshed project...

Brief: Antifascist (Autistic) Christianity: Simon(e) Weil (Part 1)

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew begins a two-part exploration of Simone Weil—French philosopher, mystic, and antifascist activist—through the lens of autism, embodiment, ...

275: It’s Never the Guns

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Less than two weeks after a shooter unloaded 500 rounds at the CDC in Atlanta, RFK Jr gutted that agency's violence prevention research by firing 100 ...

Bonus Sample: The 9/11 Rorschach Test

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The events of September 11, 2001 changed the world. Julian reflects on several interpretations of what they meant, proposing that each is a kind of Ro...

Brief: MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Derek worked for nearly 10 months on a NY Times opinions video, "You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories," which was published ...

274: Is Rogan REALLY Leading a Death Cult?

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If it wasn't all so tragic, politics might seem like a bad joke. But how did comedy become so unfunny, so politically toxic?  From his hideout in a ...

Bonus Sample: How Wellness Influencers Became Radicalized

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Biostatistician Halbert Dunn's 1961 book, High Level Wellness, set the stage for the modern wellness movement. Derek reads it alongside some of today'...

Brief: Conspiracies Down Under

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The recent killing of two police officers (and wounding of a third) in Porepunkah, Australia has highlighted the dangers of sovereign citizen-style co...

273: Trump Will Die

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump is still alive, though a lot of folks are excited that won't last. Maybe it’s testimony to the allure of the fantasy that he really is powerfu...

Bonus Sample: Antifascist Christianity: Bonhoeffer (Pt 2)

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew recounts the story of a young, hoity-toity soft-nationalist German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer who discovered the radical soul of ant...

Brief: Antifascist Christianity: Bonhoeffer (Pt 1)

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew recounts the story of a young, hoity-toity soft-nationalist German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer who discovered the radical soul of ant...

272: Jillian Michaels is the Biggest Loser

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The unavoidable question of the week: why is Jillian Michaels on CNN commenting on slavery, exactly? As it turns out, Netflix provides the answer. T...

Bonus Sample: The Beatles’ Billionaire Yogi

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Levitation, world peace, and blissful enlightenment were all essential to the hippie counterculture. But it came at quite a price. Maharishi Mahesh Yo...

Brief: Ground Zero Grifting

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Plandemic creator Mikki Willis recently hosted an hour-long webinar to promote his supplements company. Marketed as a storytelling hour to share the p...

271: The Miseducation of PragerU

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The right has waged a war on “woke” Sesame Street for generations. When the party passed the 2025 Recissions Act, they were finally able to take a...

Bonus Sample: The Naturopaths Are At It Again

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In preparation for this Thursday's episode on PragerU, Derek looks at one of the propaganda organization's videos featuring naturopathic practitioner,...

Brief: Olympics for Dopers

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Enhanced Games promises to display the "true potential" of athletes by letting them use any sort of performance enhancement drugs available when i...

270: Kennedy's Bloodbath

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The implications of awarding Robert F Kennedy, Jr with a position he’s completely unqualified for are becoming clearer by the day. While he’s made...

Bonus Sample: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-p...

Brief: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-p...

269: The Book of Gwyneth

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In her new biography of Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Odell calls Goop “a powerful platform for spreading health misinformation.” So many topics Goop has c...

Bonus Sample: The '80s Zen Master Con Man

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everything about Zen Master Rama was fake—except for the piles of money he made. His black belt in paranormal martial arts, three past lives as a Bu...

Brief: DJ Khaled of Pseudoscience

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Strange billboards have been popping up all over Los Angeles featuring disgraced Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes, and an unidentified man listing a...

268: Rogan’s Christian President

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We catch up on three figures this week. First is Bari Weiss, who's trying to sell her upstart media org, The Free Press, to Skydance for a reported ...

Bonus Sample: "Natural" Snake Oil?

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

MAHA hates petroleum-based food dyes. Yet, as Derek unpacks, many of the main influencers in this movement monetize products synthesized by the same e...

Brief: Mehdi Hasan vs Jordan Peterson

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mehdi Hasan's recent Jubilee appearance has blown up—and so has criticism of the entire media operation. Derek and Julian discuss the value and pitf...

267: Epstein Never Died

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Epstein’s name is being screamed into the headlines again. The late and former self-described best-friend of Donald Trump's highly suspiciou...

Bonus Sample: Galloway and the Mooch: The Lost Boys of Capitalism (Pt 2)

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the horizon: a new liberal-center manosphere, yearning to reach out to the young men poached by Trumpism, but offering what, exactly?  Professor ...

Brief: Galloway and the Mooch: The Lost Boys of Capitalism (Pt 1)

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the horizon: a new liberal-center manosphere, yearning to reach out to the young men poached by Trumpism, but offering what, exactly?  Professor ...

266: Jubilee’s Body Image Debates

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Body image is a phenomenon that has long simmered below the surface of the wellness industry. We’ve spent years covering the hard and soft eugenics ...

Bonus Sample: Globalize The Intifada?

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Protest slogans are designed to pack a punch. They communicate potent emotions and persuasive ideas to the public while galvanizing activist allies. A...

Brief: Vaccination, a Delusion?

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1898, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace published a pamphlet entitled, "Vaccination a Delusion; Its Penal Enforcement a Crime." This work be...

265: Guru Rehab

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We return to the ongoing saga of Aubrey Marcus. As a wealthy, anti-vax New Ager who campaigned for RFK Jr (before going MAGA), he’s a pole star for ...

Bonus Sample: Purity Tests & Coalition Building

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zohran Mamdani's win in the NYC democratic mayoral primary has been filled with deflections and pivots so that politicians and pundits don't have to f...

Brief: The Liver King Crash-Out

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On June 24, Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, was arrested in Austin for threatening Joe Rogan. The infamous raw organ "primal" influencer has since ...

264: The Mamdani Effect

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Tonight we made history," grinned Zohran Mamdani as his supporters cheered with delight, "I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York...

Bonus Sample: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” Vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 2)

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learn...

Brief: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 1)

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learn...

263: The Apostle Assassin

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Dad went to war last night” read Vance Boelter's text to his family in the early hours of June 14. This was sent after his shooting rampage aimed...

Bonus Sample: The Two-For-One Guru of MSIA

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

He built a lucrative seminar empire in the 80s, owned an Italian Villa, founded a “spiritual university,” and travelled the world with a harem of ...

Brief: MAHA Mass Casualty Horizon

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What dangers does an RFK Jr HHS pose to Americans, really? Derek dives into science writer's Laurie Garrett's work, who spoke to the dangers we're fac...

262: Dems Ask “What is a Man?”

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

takeover—legacy media and Democratic strategists have the same question on their lips: What is going on with young men? Though Kamala Harris won the...

Bonus Sample: The Bethesda Declaration

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2020, three contrarian medical professionals published The Great Barrington Declaration to great applause by the pro-business, anti-closure...

Brief: The Ghost Lab

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cable travel channels are filled with haunted houses and other paranormal activity, beyond History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and cryptozoology conten...

261: Where Are They Now?

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From 1999-2002, VH1 ran a show called “Where Are They Now?” The irregularly produced series wondered aloud what happened to former cultural icons ...

Bonus Sample: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 2)

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a...

Brief: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a...

260: Aubrey Marcus's Polyamory God Bomb

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Megamillionaire supplements and New Age life coach tycoon Aubrey Marcus recently claimed the goddess Isis told him that he must impregnate both his wi...

Bonus Sample: Has Nonviolence Been Debunked?

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Support Conspirituality on Patreon. Does the word protestor conjure a masked figure in black clothing smashing windows and lighting fires or a weeken...

Brief: The FDA Amateur Hour Podcast

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad claim they're going to open the "black box" at the FDA, an agency they're now both employed at. So they started a podcas...

259: MAHA is Project 2025’s Trojan Horse

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve been talking about RFK Jr for years, and even dedicated an entire chapter to him in our 2023 book—and we’re going to keep covering him. Si...

Bonus Sample: A Master Class in Wellness Propaganda

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Calley Means is one of RFK Jr’s top advisors. Alongside Tucker Carlson, Means has claimed responsibility for shepherding Kennedy into Trump’s camp...

Brief: The Gospel of MAHA Apologetics

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After being confirmed as Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr started installing his cabal of wellness influencers and contrarian doctors across the government's ...

258: Pope Bob Vs. Trump World

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The most annoying convert TradCath in the world, JD Vance, whose cherubic face belies all his bootlicking aggression, gets his moment with Pope Bob. U...

Bonus Sample: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 2)

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew is back today for more with Ben Case: profiling Gene Sharp and the (non)politics of strategic nonviolence, plus his strange funding sources. A...

Brief: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 1)

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You may have grown up with the term “nonviolence” shining like a pole star over every discussion of how we accomplish socio-political change. But ...

257: AI Gurus

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The chat bot flashes its elipsis at the bottom of the screen. What is it thinking, what does it want from you, what do you want from it? Beneath those...

Bonus Sample: The UFO Race-War Apocalypse is Coming!

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It begins with a failed human sacrifice in Detroit in 1932. Some would say it actually starts with an evil god-scientist who created the first white p...

Brief: What Will Universal Healthcare Actually Require?

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022, Oregonians passed Measure 111, which amends the state constitution to declare access to affordable healthcare a right for every citizen. As i...

256: Quacks, Cancer, and Kangen Water (feat Mallory DeMille)

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cancer, as physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee writes, is the emperor of all maladies. The disease—the over 200 different diseases all falling...