Scott Carney Investigates
Investigative journalist Scott Carney explores true crime, cult psychology, biohacking, fitness revolutions, climate change calamities, organ trafficking and a whole lot more. Get exclusive access and bonus material at Patreon.
Episodes
The Griftoverse Explained | A Compilation
A Grand Theory on Monetization of Lying0:00 Introduction1:38 Grifting: The Monetization of Lying: https://youtu.be/egj_7Bwl01I14:24 A Brief History of Mind Control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCtxgBL3t5c37:57 Why Did the Supreme Court Legalize Wellness Scams https://youtu.be/3ZRAP4UBkLM52:54 How Wellness Grifters Took Over America | From RFK Jr and Trump to Gary Brecka and Grant Cardone htt
Peptide Grifters Asked Me for an "Honest Review"
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Why "Christians" Hate Dan McClellan
At some point you’ve probably heard someone say “the Bible clearly states” followed by. . . well, just about anything. Does God hate gays or love them? Is Jesus the prince of peace [Isiah 9:6], or does he come to bring the sword [Matthew 10:34]? Whatever your political or religious persuasion there always seems to be a passage to back it up. But what does the Bible, REALLY say? Well, to understand
The Kid who Exposed Stanford's Fraud Pipeline
An interview with Theo Baker on his new book "How to Rule the World" Get Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/gz2fFkj6MwJoin this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PyxGKt94kLzVqkkjEgRFw/join
The Incredible Failure of the Enhanced Games
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Wait...are most jobs fake?
In 2013 the anthropologist David Graeber examined one of the strangest contradictions in modern capitalism: despite exponential gains in productivity, people were working even harder that ever. In his landmark essay called “On the Preponderance of Bullshit Jobs” and then a book a few years later, Graeber showed how as much as 37% of all jobs in capitalist societies are, well, bullshit. Or, to use
Peter Thiel's (Idiotic) Plan to Destroy the Free Speech
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Did The Most Promising Longevity Drug Fail? | Brad Stanfield
Dr. Brad Stanfield, a primary care physician from New Zealand and friend of this channel, did something heroic. He crowdfunded over $720,000 to put the “miracle drug” to the test. The results are finally in, and they aren’t what anyone expected. I brought @DrBradStanfield onto the show to talk about what they mean. Get Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/Join this channel to ge
The Maxwell-Blanche Testimony, Reenacted
Todd Blanche, who is now the acting attorney general of the United States of America interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell in July 2025. SPONSOR LINK: PlaudAI https://bit.ly/3OAlAO9 10% code code: CARNEY Notepro Amazon: https://amzn.to/4t6t6hESee the PlaudAI Summary of this video: https://bit.ly/4ukdoABSUBSTACKS:Nina Burleigh: https://substack.com/@americanpoliticalfreakshowScott Carney: https://sgcarney.
Jordan Peterson's Daughter Grifts off His Illness
Mikhaila Peterson called me a “moron.” Probably because she doesn’t want me to talk about her own health advice and control over her father’s medical care could be making him sicker than he already is.Get Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PyxGKt94kLzVqkkjEgRFw/joinScott Carney Homepage:https://www.scott
Andrew Huberman: King of the Griftoverse (a compilation video series)
This is a four hour compilation video about the reliability of the neuroscientist Andrew Huberman.04:19 Documenting Andrew Huberman's Lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thkoCYhJnc32:49 Liquid IV, LMNT, and the "Dehydrated Soda" Business Model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Tv_22ojbw49:17 Why did Huberman endorse Susanna Søberg's bad science? https://youtu.be/dODmftCtLtc1:13
The Degenerative Medicine of Adeel Khan
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Exposing the Regenerative Medicine Scam: Stem Cells, Peptides, Exosomes, and Fake Science
Is regenerative medicine a scam? Or is the science of stem cells just taking off?Get Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PyxGKt94kLzVqkkjEgRFw/joinScott Carney Homepage:https://www.scottcarney.comPatreon: https://patreon.com/sgcarneySPONSOR THIS CHANNEL:(Rate Sheet) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WZcGlb
Why is Jordan Peterson Dying?
Part 2 of my series on Regenerative Medicine, Mark Hyman, Jordan Peterson and Adeel Khan.Get Early Access on Substack Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PyxGKt94kLzVqkkjEgRFw/joinScott Carney Homepage:https://www.scottcarney.comPatreon: https://patreon.com/sgcarneySPONSOR THIS CHANNEL:(Rate Sheet) https://bit.ly/4cRa0I7
Why are the Wellness Elite Getting Sepsis?
Mark Hyman wants you to believe he’s biologically 39 years old. The 66-year-old functional medicine guru and twelve-time New York Times bestselling author has built an empire on the promise that the right combination of supplements, lifestyle changes, and cutting-edge treatments can literally reverse aging. “We can reprogram our genes back to a younger you,” he states in one way or another in coun
Epstein, Putin, Trump and $60 TRILLION in Dark Money
The Epstein files are a spotlight into the twisted life of the world’s most notorious sex trafficker and the billionaires and oligarchs that took advantage of young women and children. Even the redacted trove of more than 3 million documents by the Department of Justice proves that his ring of abuse went much farther than just to satisfy his sadism, but that the things that went on in his island w
The Unfortunate Truth about Wim Hof
This is my final report on Wim Hof—the charismatic ice-guru who exposed me to the magic of breathwork and cold exposure. Since I first met Hof in 2013 he has become increasingly erratic and even dangerous. Today a new edition of my New York Times bestselling book What Doesn’t Kill Us is officially for sale and I’d love you to pick up a copy or download the audiobook on Audible. (Incidentally, if y
The AI Trust Problem
Would you invest in something that you fundamentally don’t trust? I’m not just talking about money here. I’m talking about investing every ounce of your life’s work, the safety of your family, your children’s future. I’m talking about everything.
The High Cost of Cheap Salt: Inside the $39 Billion Hydration Scam
How Salt, Sugar, Potassium and Vitamin B took over the Influencer Economy.Get Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PyxGKt94kLzVqkkjEgRFw/join
Trump's Diabolical Plan to Gut Women's Rights
You’ve heard of Project 2025: the manifesto that has become the de facto guiding light for the second Trump administration. Its twisted Christian-nationalist agenda has brought us a wave of ICE raids across America, tax cuts for billionaire, gutted climate policies and using the FBI to prosecute and harass political opponents. Project 2025 was written by the conservative DC think tank, the Heritag
How Epstein Made Peter Attia
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How to Join the Resistance | A conversation with an Infantryman
When thousands of ICE agents descended on Minneapolis and began kidnapping people off the streets, the residents didn’t just stand by and let it all happen. Ordinary citizens like you and me spontaneously organized on Signal chats and began tracking ICE’s movements through they city. They warned their most vulnerable neighbors with whistles and car alarms and video taped arrests across the city. F
AI's Psychosis Epedemic
As tech companies attempt to deploy artificial intelligence into every possible facet of life–from education, to scheduling your calendar, to responding to emails, answering random questions, decoding DNA and even psycho therapy–we really have no idea how mass adoption of LLMs for basically every task will affect society at large. It’s sort of like we’re running a giant experiment on humanity with
The Problem with Trump’s Brain
The mental health of the American president is critical to the future of the country–and it’s clear to even a casual observer of Donald Trump that his patterns of speech, inability to state the truth on just about any subject, and the apparent joy he gets out of watching other people suffer–indicate that something strange is going on in the way he perceives the world.Psychiatrists are often reluct
Unveiling the AI Hype Cycle's Inevitable Collapse
The AI boom is a bubble and more important: when it’s most likely to finally pop.Venture capitalists and governments have invested almost a Trillion dollars in AI tech and infrastructure which has translated to AI companies being responsible for 92% of the stock market growth in 2025. Both the biggest AI boosters AND its most ardent detractors agree that the bull run will end in radical changes to
The Strange Story of a Buddhist Penis Cult
The first thing that you will notice when entering into the once-forbidden kingdom of Bhutan are its stunning landscapes. The second thing that will probably catch your eye are the tremendous number of erect phalluses that people paint on their walls. In today’s report, I want to explain why the man responsible for the striking designs might just be the original spiritual grifter. Drukpa Kunley wa
Don't Let Anthropic f*ck you.
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60. Exposing the American Gulag
What REALLY happens after ICE detains you?American GulagExposing the ICE GulagFollow Taylor: https://linktr.ee/socialworkerforthepeopleGet Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/
59. The Junk Science of Athletic Greens
A year ago I exposed the criminal past of the founder of AG1. Now we're going to talk about the science.Check out Alexis Léveillé's instagram post:https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ7SWK6vmyU/?img_index=1And subscribe to @nobullshitphysio https://www.instagram.com/nobullshitphysio/Athletic Greens is a green supplement powder that claims to meet “all your nutritional needs” with a daily $3 slu
58. The Truth Behind Trump's Assassination
Over the last few months a theory around the assassination attempt on Trump's life has circulated across the internet suggesting that the whole thing might have been faked in order to gain sympathy and turn the election to his favor. Let's look at the facts. Get Early Access on Substackhttps://sgcarney.substack.com/
57. Documenting Andrew Huberman's Lies
A few weeks ago Andrew Huberman announced that he had partnered with the sports and eyewear company Roka. Together they’ve put out a specially branded blue-blocking glasses that are designed to help you wind down and get better sleep at night. If that sounds weird to you, you’re not alone. Over the years Huberman, who a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology, has repeatedly said that that he
56. Mel Robbins and Jay Shetty are Evil (Geniuses)
A deep dive into all the ways that Mel Robbins and Jay Shetty manipulate you into promoting their content. It's both diabolical and awe inspiring.
55. Trump and Epstein: The Cover-up Explained
You already know something about the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. The story has come your way in countless short clips, tweets, social media posts and YouTube videos. There’s so much information about the two of them that it’s easy to lose the big picture in the onslaught of constant updates. So, over the last two weeks I combed over hundreds of documents and videos and p
54. Inside the Insane Doomsday Cult that Tried to Destroy the Planet
In March 1995 members of a doomsday cult released sarin nerve gas on subway lines all across Tokyo killing 13, and injuring more than 1,000 others. Shoko Asahara, the leader of Aum Shinrikyo, taught that an apocalypse would return the world to a pristine state. This end-times ideology eerily mirrored the accelerationist beliefs of the present day technological elites who aim to break down present
53. The True Story of Ashley Black's $175 Million Fasciablaster Anti-Cellulite Scam
A crooked self-help wellness guru named Ashley Black sold a skin-detaching anti-cellulite device to millions of woman since 2014. When thousands of her former-customers joined a watchdog group that claimed her device detached their skin from the underlying muscle, Black did what successful bullies always do--she went on the attack. Black sued her former customers alleging that their truthful Faceb
52. Hot Girls Updated: Why "Pornstar" Rachel Bernard wants to talk ten years after the Netflix hit
In 2015 Netflix aired a documentary about the seedy underbelly of the Miami porn industry called Hot Girls Wanted. Two filmmakers and executive producer Rashida Jones followed the stories of three 18 and 19 year olds who answered craigslist ads to have sex on camera. Over the course of the next three months the women were pulled ever-deeper into disturbing and even violent scenes in what is known
51. The Master Plan to Legalize American Corruption
It’s easy to get disillusioned with American politics. There’s a two party system that makes everything seem intractable, a general lack or transparency, and an overwhelming sense that corporate greed somehow controls everything. But it didn’t have to be that way.
This week I had the great privilege to interview investigative journalist David Sirota about his brand new limited series podcast Mast
50. The True Story of David Sinclair's Longevity Lie
The Harvard geneticist sold a fake miracle pill to GlaxoSmithKline for $720,000,000, and now wants the world to believe that he has discovered a new immortality molecule.
Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life. No one wants to die. The oldest scam in history is the longevity lie. The first writing recorded on Sumerian clay tablets recounts the story of Gilgamesh’s failed quest to bring hi
49. Y Tu Peter Attia?
A recent lawsuit by Peter Attia against his former sponsor OURA ring is a total bombshell--not because the outcome matters much one way or another, but because it outlines exactly how health influencers get paid to alter their messaging on behalf of companies and even alter the direction of scientific studies. Through the court filings I found out that he is sponsored by at least ten companies and
48. The Brainwashing Cult of Joe Dispenza
In 1985 a scientist in France named René Peoc'h very nearly proved that love can alter the quantum state of matter with an ingenious experiment involving newly hatched chickens and a robot. If you think that sounds unbelievable, then just you wait until you find out what the chiropractor to the stars Joe Dispenza did with the results.
#quantum #healing #joedispenza
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47. Exotic Plants, Deadly Consequences | The Feel Free Story
Chances are that you have never heard of Feel Free before. It comes in a shiny blue bottle sold at convenience stores across the country as a social lubricant and substitute for alcohol. It proudly proclaims that it’s primarily kava—a south east asian tree root that has lots of traditional uses. But until recently, it was less forthright about its other, much more powerful ingredient: kratom.
A f
46. The True Story of Athletic Greens (and the Real Estate Scam that Started it All)
If you’ve listened to just about any podcast in the last few years you’ve probably come across a green slurry macro-nutrient shake called AG1 (formerly Athletic Greens). The supplement shake has garnered endorsements from the most influential people in science communications—from Andrew Huberman and Peter Attia—and just about every health and wellness influencer open to an affiliate deal.
AG1’s p
45. Power, Sex and Psychopathy with Dr. Kate Balestrieri
Today we're going to talk about some hard subjects--adultery, violence, power, and psychopathy. During the last few weeks I've been in touch with many amazing people from all around the internet who are trying to understand how deep the problems with Andrew Huberman really go. One of the people I met was the sex and relationship counselor Kate Balestreri and I'm so glad that we had som
44. The New Science of Ice Bathing | Brad Schoenfeld
The science of ice bathing has been evolving a lot in the last few years. Brad Schoenfeld is a PhD in physiology and hypertrophy (literally building muscle) who just completed a metastudy analysis that showed that ice bathing after working out could kill the muscle gains. Read more on his blog post about it here:
https://www.lookgreatnaked.com/blog/
#exercise #fitness #coldexposure #icebath
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43. What's Wrong with Huberman's Science? | ft Dr. Andrea Love
So maybe you don't care about what happens in Andrew Huberman's personal life. So long as his science checks out, what's the harm? Well, I hate to break it to you but his science doesn't really check out either. From cherry-picked results to quack "protocols" Huberman frequently overextends his knowledge and starts shilling pseudoscience. This week on the show I talk to t
42. The Skeleton Business's Murderous Legacy
At its height, the bone factories in Calcutta exported more than 60,000 anatomical skeletons a year to medical programs all over the world. Most of the bones had been looted from graves and burning ghats. Still, anatomy processors made millions of dollars stealing and then exporting those bodies abroad. Today, those hundreds of tons of human remains are in closets and specimine collections all aro
41. How Sholto David took on a $1.7 Billion Pharma Behemoth
How many scientific papers are rotten with fake data? It turns out a lot more than you might think. Even some of the most well-respected medical institutions in the world have been caught out making things up in what should have been life-saving cancer research. Citizen sleuth, David Sholto came on the show today to talk about his role in unmasking more than 2000 papers that are either full of m
40. Why did the USA pay $500 Billion to Nigerian Hackers? | ft. Jack Rhysider of Darknet Diaries
Why did the US Government give $500 billion to Nigerian hackers? What is Pig butchering? How will artificial intelligence change the the way hackers operate? What is the future of cyber warfare? These are all true stories from the dark side of the internet.
Today I had the opportunity to talk with Jack Rhysider--the amazing host of the podcast Darknet Diaries ( @darknetdiaries7259 ). This conver
39. Gurus, Gatekeepers, and the Conspirituality Wellness Cult with Derek Beres of the Conspirituality Podcast
This week the author and hose of the Conspirituality podcast, Derek Beres joins me to talk about the strange axis between spirituality, wellness and conspiracy theories that have taken over the internet. We don't pull any punches in this conversation, touching on the rise of anti-vaccine conspiracies, lizard people, coffee enemas, and how the neuroscientist Andrew Huberman has seemed to shuck
38. The Night Hag: Sleep Paralysis in the Age of Insomnia
Have you ever woken up while you were dreaming, only to find that you couldn't move a muscle? Or, perhaps even more terrifying: have you woken up and felt a deep weight on your chest and sensed that an evil creature was pushing down on your chest? That, my friend, is the night hag--another name for sleep paralysis.
I recently had a chance to chat with Kate Kavanaugh @katekavanaughmbs --a wor
37. Captured by Pirates
In 2011 the journalist Michael Scott Moore was on assignment in Somalia on an assignment to document the spread of piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Just before he took a flight home, gunman stopped his car and forced him to get out. This was the beginning of 977 days in captivity. I had the opportunity to speak with Moore before he left for Somalia on his initial trip, and once he was freed. This is a
36. The Neuroscientist Who Dared to tell the truth about Meditation
When Willoughby Britton set out to study the potential negative side effects of meditation she never expected that the community would want to hound her out of her job. But that's what happened after her study on the "Varieties of Contemplative Experience" came out and she documented how one out of every ten people who start meditating have a clinically significant negative side effects.
Clinical
35. Can Technology Save us from Climate Change?
Bigger storms, receding coastlines, and unlivable heat: climate change is coming and sometimes it feels like there's nothing we can do to stop it. This week I talk with Stephen Miller who has combed the history of humankind's attempts to control nature. He has some ideas about what adaptation will look like and how big tech projects have faired over generations.
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34. How Eric Hinman Went from Schlubby at 27 to Shredded at 43
Most people seem to age in a predictable direction, but Eric Hinman seems to be an exception. In this video I dive deep into how Eric quit his corporate job selling life insurance and decided to dedicate himself full time to health and happiness. In this podcast he gives us his tips on what it means to be fit in your 40's, how to make friends at any age and how much money a person can make on
33. Dr. Casey Fiesler, and the Monkey Selfie that Shook the World
This week I spoke to Casey Fiesler, a tech ethicist, professor and rather famous TikTokker about the parallel universe of copyright litigation, fair use arguments, revenge pornography and so much more. Find more out about Fiesler's academic work here:
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32. The Cult that Demands Two Slaves a Month
I'd never heard about Dahn Yoga until Chris Flanders reached out to me. When I started digging in I learned how seriously dangerous this organization really is.
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31. Is Dan Ariely a Scientific Fraudster, or just misunderstood? The Exclusive Interview.
This is the full and unedited interview with Dan Ariely where we talk about the fraud allegations against him, the meaning of truth and so much more. Make up your own mind about what happened.
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#danariely #fraud #science
30. Shocking Stories from the Emergency Room: A conversation with Dr. Rob Orman and the strange things he's removed from people's backsides.
The one question that Emergency Room Doctors get more than any other is "what sorts of objects have you pilled out of people's rectums." I've known Dr. Rob Orman for several years now and he has stories galore: from the proper technique to remove rectal foreign bodies without damaging his patients, to how to keep up his bedside manner when operating on a known criminal with a hor
29. The Story that almost Killed Me | How Organized Crime taught me about the Future of Mainstream Media
Before I interviewed a well-known hitman in Bangalore in 2008 I told my editor at WIRED that if I didn't report back in 12 hours that he needed to call a cop that was known to shoot first and ask questions later because I was already probably dead. This story is not only about the risks that reporters take in the field, but how the changing distribution of journalism is going to fundamentally
28. The Secret History of the Mongols
The largest and most successful empire in history wasn't Rome: it was the Mongols. This week I interview Jack Weatherford the New York Times bestselling author of "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" about what made the Mongolian Empire so successful. . . and what is REALLY hidden in Genghis Khan's grave.
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27. How a Fake Guru founded a Real Cult | An Interview with the Filmmaker VIkram
The filmmaker Vikram Gandhi wanted to expose the fake spirituality of the American wellness movement by impersonating the Hindu priests he grew up around. He invented a fake yoga, intoned Sanskrit chants that were translated from the marketing materials of Nike Sneakers, the US Army and G.I. Joe and told people to trust their intuition. What he didn't expect was that some of his followers star
26. Why Liars Win
How do we reconcile the fact that lying is an incredibly effective strategy with our shared desire for truth? In the natural world all sort of creatures lie about how dangerous they are in order to survive. The Allied command lied in WW2 to confuse the Nazis before D-day, and most of us would say that the lying was justified. But lying also erodes the social fabric in general.
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25. The Death of Expertise with Jamie Carlin Watson
What is an expert? For that matter, why don't we trust them? In this week's episiode I interview Jamie Carlin Watson, a bioethicist and professor with a whole host of academic credentials at the end of his name who also happens to be an expert on the very notion of expertise. We discuss the madness that gripped the world during the COVID-19 epidemic, the fall of credenitalism and why both
24. How Doctors Think: From Medical Barbarism to Artificial Intelligence with Adam Rodman M.D.
How does the barbaric history of medicine shed light on the future of artificial intelligence? How will computers transform the way doctors think? Will patients benefit from the placebo effect if they're talking to a robot?
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23. I am Become Death: Oppenheimer and the Kali Yuga
The father of the first atom bomb quoted an ancient Hindu scripture when he saw the mushroom cloud exploding over the New Mexico desert. His immortal quote "I am Become Death, destroyer of worlds," framed the dawning of the age we live in today. I recently saw the Chirstopher Nolan's film on Robert Oppenheimer and it got me wondering about the famous passage. It's not just a bada
22. How to Start a Cult
In 2004 I was invited to join in sexual union with a room full of beautiful people in robes at the Osho compound in Pune. When I arrived there a few days earlier I saw hundreds of people speak in tongues together as they accessed their own spiritual truths. This was my first, by hardly my last, experience from the inside of cultic thinking and practices. This month a new TV show appeared Netflix s
21. Awe and Self-Transformation
Do psychedelics actually make you a better person, or do they just make you feel like you're a better person. In this show I begin with the notion that spaceflight fundamentally transforms the consciousness of astronauts who blast off the surface of earth, the tendency for space tourists to snap selfies with the planet, and the marginal utility of getting 1% better every time you take a cup of
20. Exorcism, EXvangelicalism and Private Jets: How Josiah Hesse Came to Reject Jesus and Stop Worrying about the Rapture
Josiah Hesse memorized his bible, let the Holy Ghost into his heart, and tithed 10% of everything to his evangelical church. It was only later when he realized how wrong it all had been. Now a pioneer of the EXvangelical movement, Denver-Journalist Josiah Hesse explains how it all went down, and what it means for the rest of christian America.
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19. Darkness and Deep Time: An interview with Clark Strand
Electric illumination changed humanity's relationship with darkness. Clark Strand, author of Waking Up to The Dark wants us to reclaim lost human states of consciousness by turning off the lights.
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18. Fame is a Mental Illness
What is it about being famous that turns people into shadows of their former-selves? And what does that mean for the rest of us who seek micro-levels of fame on social media platforms?
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17. The Future of Legal Psychedelics
Joshua Kappel helped lead the effort to legalize psychadelic drugs in Colorado, and what happened here might be a model for what happens in the rest of the country. Are we ready for mail order MDMA?
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16. How Not to Die From Breathwork: A conversation with Patrick McKeown
This week I talk with Patrick Mckeown, the best selling author of The Oxygen Advantage and The Breathing Cure about looming problems in the broader breathwork community as the global movement gains in popularity. Mckeown has studied the Buteyko method for 21 years and worries that some of the more dramatic breathing practices that have gained popularity around the world can lead to serious consequ
15. The Rise and Fall of the Wim Hof Empire
Thirteen deaths; a $67 million lawsuit; lies, cover-ups and a near-fatal enema. After being Wim Hof's most public proponent and doing his method for ten years, investigative journalist Scott Carney reveals the story he never wanted to tell about what he thinks might be the impending demise of the Wim Hof method. Get Exclusive Updates, Behind the Scenes Peeks and Advanced Content on Patreon Subscri
14. Our Simulated Universe
What does it mean to live in a simulation? Is it a simulated universe that lives on the silicone chips of an alien computer (or a future computer invented by humanity itself)? Is it a simulated universe that runs on the karmic seeds described in ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts? Or are we a Blotzman Brain floating through the ether long after the heat-death of the universe? I think those are all f
13. Divine Mathematics
Probabilistic math makes the same assumption that shamans, Catholics, Mormons, Hindus and every other faith all make--that there's a fundamental force in the world that makes the world what it is. In this podcast I examine the assumption that physicists make that randomness correctly describes the most basic structure of the universe. Some people won't like this.
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12. The Real Hero of the Alamo: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna is the most important person in the history of North America that you probably know nothing about. If you have any impression at all about the "Napoleon of the West" it's that he executed all of the defenders of the Alamo and Goliad. You might think of him as a murderer and a traitor. Mexicans think of him as one of the most corrupt dictators in their coun
11. The Monk who F*cked Everything: a Brief History of Print Capital from the Tibetan plateau to Modern America
This is the story of the convoluted path that Buddhism took form India Tibet, and Tibet into your yoga studio at home.
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10. Forget Brown Fat. Forget Wim Hof. Neuroscientist Otto Muzik redefines the secrets of the placebo effect
Otto Muzik is best known to me for his research papers on Wim Hof's abilities that connected the iceman's abilities to the mysterious power of the placebo effect. The Wim Hof method website frequently cites the study and there is another paper in the works. But Muzik has a lot to say about the science of brown fat and the organization around him called "InnerFire" that might make
9. DNA is not a Blueprint
The language that we use to discuss the role that DNA has in creating the proteins that make up our body is incredibly deterministic and not at all what actually happens at the cellular level. When you build a house a single centralized set of instructions makes a lot of sense. But when you consider that DNA exists in every single cell--we have to reassess what it means to build an organism where
8. The Power of Lightly-Held Beliefs
What makes a good skeptic? Is it dismissing things that don't conform to your own beliefs about how the world should work from a scientific perspective? Or is there a more nuanced approach that allows you to -- occasionally-- change your mind? This episode is about how I think we should all take a step backward and realize that much of what we think we know about the world is probably wrong, a
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