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Episode 98: THE END OF THE SHOW AND THE END OF HISTORY

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

John returns and they finish out the show by finishing Fukuyama's book and reflecting on the experience of working on the show. Thanks to all of...

Episode 96: [UNLOCKED] The End of History and the Last Man: Our Pessimism

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John begin their series on Fukuyama's seminal The End of History and the Last Man. They talk through its context, Fukuyama's backgro...

Episode 97: [UNLOCKED] The End of History and the Last Man pt. II: The Old Age of Mankind

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Kelly rejoins the boys to talk about Fukuyama's weird liberalism, econ theory, the triumphalism of the 90s, Fukuyama as an OG anti-Islamic ty...

Episode 95: [UNLOCKED] Sanctions and Self-Interest ft. Phil Cunliffe

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Cunliffe joins Emmet to talk about his opposition to the UK's sanctions against Russia, the politics of self-interest, what happened to the n...

Episode 94: Engineering Engineers ft. Mark Nelson

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Nelson returns to the pod to talk with Emmet about becoming an engineer. They talk about the history of the profession in America, how engineers ...

[teaser] Leo Strauss and the Three Waves of Modernity ft. Alex Priou

26 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Priou from the New Thinkery podcast sits down with Emmet to talk about Leo Strauss and his posthumously published lecture "The Three Waves o...

Episode 92: The Dirties ft. PsyOp Cinema

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brett and Thomas from PsyOp cinema join Emmet to talk about the school shooter movie The Dirties (2013). They talk about Columbine, the role media pla...

[teaser] Latour and the Problem of Science ft. Jacob Shell

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Geographer and author Jacob Shell joined me to talk about his obituary of the late Bruno Latour who rose to prominence critiquing science and then tur...

[teaser]Democratic Pluralism ft. Michael Lind

22 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Author Michael Lind joins Emmet to talk about his research speech on democratic pluralism in the 21st century. They discuss regime type, managerialism...

Episode 89: The Agony of the New Left ft. Leighton Woodhouse

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Leighton Woodhouse joins Emmet to talk about the New Left of the 1960s and the values of the managerial class. They talk about progressive ...

[teaser] Millennial Canon: Napoleon Dynamite, Juno, and Scott Pilgrim

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kat Dee joins Emmet to talk about movies they couldn't stop texting each other about which they think define, in part, the millennial vibe. They t...

[teaser] Shock of the New: The Future That War

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and Josh wrap up their series on the Shock of the New. They discuss the modern art museum, Hughes's sick burns on everyone and everything,...

Episode 88: Oceania Has Always Been At Culture War With Eastasia ft. Michael Cuenco

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, rep...

[teaser] Shock of the New: From Munch to Warhol

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Josh and Emmet talk over episodes 6 and 7 of Robert Hughes's The Shock of the New. They get into Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Rothko, and the dawn of t...

Episode 87: The King and the Duke: So Long, Vince McMahon ft. Oliver Bateman

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

King of The Work and co-host of What's Left, Oliver Bateman joins Emmet to talk about the illustrious career of pro-wrestling mogul Vince McMahon ...

[teaser] The End of History and the Last Man: The Old Age of Mankind

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Kelly rejoins the boys to talk about Fukuyama's weird liberalism, econ theory, the triumphalism of the 90s, Fukuyama as an OG anti-Islamic ty...

[teaser] The End of History and the Last Man: Our Pessimism

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John begin their series on Fukuyama's seminal The End of History and the Last Man. They talk through its context, Fukuyama's backgro...

Episode 86: California Uber Alles ft. Robert. Bryce

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

6-time author and host of the Power Hungry Podcast Robert Bryce sits down with Emmet to talk about the downfall of California, his time covering the B...

[teaser] The Boys Are Back In Town Bull Sesh

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're back! This one opens with some housekeeping, then we move on to talk about the energy crisis, regionalism, localism, PMC intermediation, Am...

Episode 85: School Shooters, Nihilism, and Child Sacrifice ft. Geoff Shullenberger and Default Friend

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits Geoff Shullenberger and Default Friend to talk about their respective articles on the Uvalde shooting, school shootings in general, "z...

[teaser] Don't Say Disney ft. Geoff Shullenberger

30 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Geoff came onto the pod to talk about what's going on with conservatives and Disney, though it's really a conversation about cultural power, L...

Episode 84: Why Do Movies Suck Now? ft. Will Tavlin

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Will Tavlin joins Emmet to talk about how the democratic promise of digital filmmaking turned into the current top-down Marvel hellscape we all live i...

Episode 83: The Dying Bird of Authentic Humanness ft. Default Friend

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DF and Emmet take a look at Phillip K Dick's 1972 lecture "The Android and the Human." They dive into his idea that we can learn about o...

Episode 82: A time to build, but what? And how? (cross-post with the Ryan Research podcast)

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recording times got bungled to do travel constraints, but here's an hour-long preview of Emmet's appearance on the Ryan Research podcast (the ...

Episode 81: The Religious Cult of Fandom ft. Monia Ali

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Monia Ali of the Exiled Fan Substack sits down with Emmet to talk about the cultic aspects of fandom, how marketers think about hijacking our need for...

[teaser] Futures Past: On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History p. I

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John began their reading of Koselleck's Futures Past. They situate his context, layout his questions and method, and then open the first...

Episode 80: Did the Industrial Revolution even happen? ft. John Constable

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scholar John Constable joins Emmet to discuss his recent lecture given at the Mont Pelerin Society last year entitled, "Misconceptions of the &#3...

Episode 79: What's Wrong With American Cities? ft. Xander

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Xander sits down with Emmet to talk about what's going on with American cities. What happened to them? Why won't congestion die? Do we have to...

The True And Only Heaven 11: Right-Wing Populism and the Revolt Against Liberalism

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John finish Lasch's book and reflect on it as a whole. They considered some Roman historians at the top, summarize this final chapter, a...

Episode 78: The Political Biography of a Zoomer ft. James Lynch

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Lynch, a producer at Breaking Points and contributor to Newsweek, sat down with Emmet to talk about what it was like to politically come of age ...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 10: The Politics of the Civilized Minority

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Canada Mike joins Emmet to talk about the second to last chapter of Lasch's book. They talk about how liberalism went from a political position to...

Episode 77: When You Die Online You Die in Real Life ft. Default Friend

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DF and Emmet had such a good time talking about early internet history they decided to do it again. This time, they're looking at humdog's sem...

Episode 76: A Rape in Cyberspace ft. Default Friend

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Default Friend returns to talk with Emmet about Julian Dibbel's famous essay, A Rape in Cybserpace, which presaged our digital social experience b...

Episode 75: The Shock of the New pt. 1: The Mechanical Paradise

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John begin their new series on Robert Hughes's documentary series The Shock of the New. This first installment takes on early modernism....

Episode 74: Welcome to the Desert of the Political ft. Anton Jager

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anton Jager sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current ...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 9: The Spiritual Discipline Against Resentment

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John take on the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr and his impact on neocons and MLK. Then they look at Lasch's interpretation of MLK's inte...

Episode 73: American Canon: Joan Didion's "Insider Baseball" ft. Luke Thompson

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Thompson returns to talk with Emmet about Joan Didion, who recently passed. They focus on her essay "Insider Baseball," her coverage of...

Episode 72: The Art of Forgetting

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and Mike discuss medieval techniques of memory and forgetting. They discuss Cornelius Agrippa's assault on those techniques as an assault on...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 8: Work and Loyalty

02 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John work through questions of the democratization of work and culture in the era of mass production and mass culture. They also trace the r...

Episode 71: Closing Your Loop ft. Josh Bregman

29 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and returning guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about the movie Looper. They look back at what makes it such a successful film, but also what ...

Episode 70: Where Are We Now?: Thinking with Agamben

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and Mike talk about Agamben's book, Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics, and reflect on life since the pandemic. They discuss Carl S...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 7: The Syndicalist Moment

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a teaser! Subscribe to our Patreon to get the rest, plus two exclusive episodes a month. We return to our Lasch series and talk about George...

Episode 69: Brain Smart: Common Core and The Downfall of the Humanities ft. Catherine Liu

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor of film and media studies and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Catherine Liu joins Emmet to ta...

Episode 68: All That Is Culture Melts Into Porn ft. Mary Harrington

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Contributing editor at Unherd Mary Harrington joins Emmet to talk about why everything feels like porn, the smooth hell of life online, the culture of...

[teaser] MacIntyre - Human Dignity: A Puzzling and Possibly Dangerous Idea?

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and Mike hash out MacIntyre's provocative lecture at Notre Dame's conference on the idea of human dignity in the secular age last month....

Episode 67: The Imperial Vampire Castle II: Standpoint Bureaucracy and the CIA's New Dialect of Power ft. River Page

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

River Page joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory...

Episode 66: Guns, Coal, and Power: Three Takes on Human Development and the Illusion of Progress

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Canada Mike and Emmet take a look at three pieces to consider different lenses for human development. The first is an essay on Engels by Wolfgang Stre...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 6: "No Answer But An Echo"

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John forge ahead through the longest and most difficult chapter in Lasch's The True And Only Heaven. They question his use of Thomas Car...

Episode 65: The High Church of Wokeism ft. Joseph Keegin

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sat down with Joseph Keegin to talk about his pice for Tablet, The High Church of Wokeism, which traces certain elements of woke ideology back t...

Episode 64: Solving the Opioid Crisis ft. Percy Menzies

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with Percy Menzies of Assisted Recovery Centers of America to talk about the opioid epidemic in America. Percy walks through the histo...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 5: The Populist Campaign Against "Improvement"

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John dive into Lasch's overview of populism. They start to get glimpses of Lasch's commitments here. Touring classical conceptions o...

Episode 63: Public Writing, Public Thinking ft. Oliver Traldi

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Writer and philosopher Oliver Traldi sits down with Emmet to talk about what it means to be a public intellectual today, what being a writer's rea...

Episode 62: The Coming Wave of Sex Negativity ft. Default Friend

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Default Friend returns to ex.haust to talk about the death of sex positivity, the coming wave of sex negativity, affinity community online, how our id...

Episode 61: Two Piece: Resigning from Being Superfluous

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet, John, and Canada Mike talk through two pieces: one on the superfluous men of history by Alex Gendler and another about bullshit jobs and people...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 4: The Sociological Tradition and the Idea of Community

17 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John forge ahead in the Lasch reading. This time they watch Lasch take on Burke, Marx, Weber, Tonnies, and more. They discuss development th...

Episode 60: Double Feature '84: The Terminator and A Nightmare on Elm Street ft. Josh Bregman

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's Halloween season. To help celebrate, Emmet and frequent guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about two favorites: The Terminator and A Nightma...

Episode 59: Political Ossification ft. Luke Thompson

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Political consultant and podcaster Luke Thompson joins Emmet to talk through the problem of political ossification. They talk through realignment theo...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 3: Nostalgia ft. Canada Mike

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Canada Mike fills in for John for the third installment of our series on Lasch's True and Only Heaven. Mike and Emmet detail Lasch's argument ...

Episode 58: American Canon: John Milius

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John discuss the life and times of writer and director John Milius, looking specifically at his movies The Wind and the Lion and Conan the B...

Episode 57: Into the Fairy Castle ft. Sam Biagetti

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with historian, podcaster, and writer Sam Biagetti to talk about his latest piece for American Affairs, "Into the Fairy Castle: T...

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 2: The Idea of Progress Reconsidered

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this one, we embark on the second chapter of Lasch's The True and Only Heaven to talk about his historical understanding of progress and his un...

Episode 56: This Film Is Dedicated to the Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan ft. Phil Cunliffe

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet talks with author and cohost of Aufhebunga Bunga Phil Cunliffe about the bungled evac of Kabul, the Afghanistan War's aimlessness, historica...

Episode 55: Ex.haust Birthday Q & A

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate ex.haust's one year anniversary, Emmet and John respond to listener questions. This one was really fun to do. Thank you all so much f...

[teaser] The MILF Hitler Theory ft. Canada Mike

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a teaser. To hear the full episode subscribe to our Patreon. In this one, Emmet and Mike discuss cultural narcissism, Mike's MILF Hitler...

Episode 54: "My Hand Is A Fleshgun": Culture Without Context Ft. Alexi and Sam from Nymphet Alumni

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with Alexi and Sam from the fashion and culture podcast Nymphet Alumni to talk about how culture does or doesn't get handed down, ...

Episode 53: The Lasch Files: The True and Only Heaven pt. I

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John begin their series on Lasch's book The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics." They lay out the general premise, deba...

Episode 52: American Canon: HP Lovecraft and Harlan Ellison ft. Canada Mike

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Canada Mike, Emmet, and John discuss HP Lovecraft's "Call of Cthulu" and Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.&q...

[teaser] After Virtue: The Final Episode

15 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In our final installment of the After Virtue series, we provide an overview of MacIntyre's closing arguments, pose complicating rebuttals, and con...

Episode 51: Strength Is Never a Weakness ft. Bill Coyne

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Strength coach and powerlifter Bill Coyne joins Emmet to talk about his pilgrimage to Westside Barbell, the strongest gym in the world, the history of...

Episode 50: Real Eyes Realize Real Pfize Ft. Canada Mike

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and Canada Mike return to their bread and butter: vaccine supply chains. People have been asking for a vaccine update, so Mike and Emmet hashed ...

[teaser] Two Piece: Ranciere's Emancipated Spectator and Plato's Meno

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this one, talk through a Ranciere essay and a Platonic dialog, both deal with epistemology and politics. We had a lot of fun considering and juxtap...

Episode 49: The DENNIS System for Death Cults: Degrowth, Consumerism, and the Environmental Movement ft. Space Commune

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alex and Fox (a return guest) from Space Commune join Emmet to talk about their new documentary--Consumerism: Can We Buy a Better World? What Happens...

Episode 48: What We Talk About When We Talk About Conservatism ft. Micah Meadowcroft

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with Micah Meadowcroft, an editor at The American Conservative, to talk about some of his recent writing, a view of the right from the...

[teaser] American Canon: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

18 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John and I are back with another canon ep by request. This one's about one of our favorite short stories. We talk through the story, then ruminate...

Episode 47: How Did We Get Here? Ft. Sterling Bartlett

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with comic book artist Sterling Bartlett to talk about his comics "How Did We Get Here?" and "Kali, Yuga, Eschaton.&quo...

Episode 46: Map v Territory, or, Statistical Modeling for Poets ft. Canada Mike

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Canada Mike returns to talk about the theoretical basics of statistical modeling, which turns into a discussion of discourse, democracy, expertise, co...

[teaser] After Virtue IV: The Tradition of Virtue

04 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In our second to last installment on After Virtue we look at Aristotle's impact and the origins and extension of virtue ethics from Homer to the M...

Episode 45: I Make An Honest Living!: Pain & Gain, Wolf of Wall Street, and the Financial Crash

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Bregman comes back on the pod to talk with Emmet about two movies that came out in the same summer that sought to capture post-crash America: Pai...

Episode 44: Astroturfing the Thunderdome ft. Fox Green

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with Fox Green of Space Commune to talk about how his town is being astroturfed by billionaire-funded NGOs, political fandom, the revo...

[teaser] Visions of Heaven and Hell - 1994

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John and I watched a forgotten Channel 4 documentary on the early internet from 1994. It's a very weird message in a bottle. This is a wide-rangin...

Episode 43: American Hardball: Scorsese's GoodFellas and McKay's Vice

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John talk about America's delight in self-serving, cruel narcissists via the movies Vice and GoodFellas in addition to an essay by Jim S...

Episode 42: "It All Ends in Pizza": Brazilianization and Life in the Undeveloping World ft. Alex Hochuli

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Writer and co-host of the Aufhebungabunga podcast Alex Hochuli joins Emmet and John to talk about his latest article in American Affairs: "The Br...

[teaser] After Virtue III: WTF Is a Fact?

06 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John and Emmet talk about facts, bureaucracy, science as a social process, the social telos of internet moderation as a culture, and more. This is a...

Episode 41: A Brief History of the American Electricity Grid From the 1920s to Closure of Indian Point ft. Edgardo Sepulveda

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure...

Episode 40: "We all saw that idea come home": The Imperial Vampire Castle and Its Fixed Ideas

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. We talk about the maj...

Episode 39: Energiewendon't and the Nordstream Connection ft. Mark Nelson

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Nelson returns to the pod to explain Germany's Energiwende policy and its dependence on Nordstream 2 pipeline from Russia. Emmet and Mark tal...

[teaser] Life and Death at Jasper Mall

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss the movie Jasper Mall, which follows the small-town Alabama mall's decline over the course of a year. They discuss the movie, what kill...

Episode 38: The Culture of Confession ft. Default Friend

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with Default Friend of After the Orgy about her piece on the Culture of Confession, the emotional history of the internet, millenial b...

Episode 37: Based and Nukepilled ft. Madison Czerwinski

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Founder of the Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal, [Madison Czerwinski](@Madi_Czerwinski), sits down with Emmet to talk about the closure of the Indian...

[teaser] American Canon: TS Eliot's "Tradition and Individual Talent"

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John talk about Eliot's essay on what it means for a writer to fit into a tradition. We talk about what that means for us, how we shape ...

Episode 36: I Went Down to the Piraeus Yesterday with Robert Downey Jr.: Watching RDJ's Cocaine '92 Election Doc ft. Josh Bregman

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Token Gen-Xer Josh Bregman joins Emmet to discuss Robert Downey Jr.'s documentary about the '92 election, The Last Party. They discuss the NGO...

Episode 35: Two-Piece: Gentry Elites, Dead WASPs, and the End of Fair Play Culture

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John discuss two articles and try to fine-tune their understanding of who the American elites are and how they've changed over time. Do ...

[teaser] Bull Sesh: Decline, Decadence, and the Aesthetic Education of the Soul w/ Canada Mike

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A discussion of Ontario's lockdown and the fight over the grid in Texas turns into a longer conversation about decadence vs. decline, aesthetic ed...

Episode 34: Long Live the New Flesh!: Getting Videodromed with Geoff Shullenberger

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and Geoff Shullenberger talk about a mutual favorite film: Cronenberg's Videodrome. They talk about how it pre-empted our fractured digital ...

Episode 33: Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of the American Electric Grid ft. Meredith Angwin

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet and John sit down to speak with Meredith Angwin about her new book, Shorting the Grid, on America's fragile electric grid. We talk about how...

[teaser] After Virtue II: The Waning of Telos and the Problem of Human Rights

04 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the full episode by subscribing to our Patreon! John and I had fun with this one. We talk through MacIntyre's analysis of the failure o...

Episode 32: The Lasch Files: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of Psychopolitics

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a brief addition to the Lasch Files, we discuss his essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom."...

Episode 31: Thinking Through Happiness, Misery and Freedom ft. Ashley Frawley

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emmet sits down with Ashley Frawley to talk about her work on the semiotics of happiness, the knowledge class, and the how to think about freedom. Ash...

Episode 30: TFW NO GF: A Pro-Friendship, Anti-FUDposting Movie Review

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We review Alex Lee Moyer's documentary TFW NO GF. We talk about loneliness, the shitty American media class, the value of friendship, and a whole ...

[teaser] Understanding SolarWinds, Cybersecurity, and Attribution ft. CyberCharles

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, CyberCharles joined Emmet to break down what happened with the big SolarWinds hack, how digital supply chains work, how citizens should th...

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