Best Conspirituality Podcasts (2026)

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Bonus Sample: What My Late Mom Would Have Thought About Jordan Peterson 5:33

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Matthew reflects on the fifth anniversary of his mother’s death and revisits how her life, trauma, and values helped him understand the appeal—and fatal flaw—of Jordan Peterson’s worldview. Toughness can be an expression of love without becoming a politics of cruelty. Show Notes 33: Manipulating the Hero’s Journey Learn more about your ad choices. …

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Brief: Class Wars on Christmas 35:30

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Have you seen the “Grinch prank” video trend? Bad parenting, yes. But also a nod to the conflicts, ancient and modern, embedded in Christmas. Contrary to what Bill O’Reilly would tell you, there has never been a “war on Christmas.” Rather, Christmas itself has always been a battleground over love, dignity, and resources. What we’re really fighting …

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289: Big Wellness’s Nicotine Gambit [feat Mallory DeMille] 50:19

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In 1965, the US passed the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, the reason every pack of cigarettes has a warning label informing you about the potentially harmful effects. Since then, numerous regulations, educational drives, and taxation initiatives have made smoking less appealing and harder to do. In the contrarian wellness space, ni…

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Holiday Favorites: The Tape Library 58:56

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Happy Holidays! This week, we're sharing an episode of one of our other favorite podcasts, The Tape Library. This episode is a chilling exploration of the Arctic’s most haunting legends — from phantom trappers to the doomed Franklin Expedition — as we uncover the truth behind the frozen north’s darkest mysteries. Keep up with Conspiracy Theories! Y…

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Bonus Sample: Alien Abduction Mack Daddy 5:59

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Listen to the full episode In 1994, Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatry professor John E. Mack became one of the most pedigreed proponents of UFOs, alien abductions, and the alien-hybrid breeding scheme. He was introduced to celebrated painter, amateur hypnotherapist, and UFO researcher Budd Hopkins by transpersonal psychologist Stan Grof. Ho…

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Brief: Nicki Minaj Goes MAGA 36:28

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Turning Point USA's AmFest 2025 saw a record number of attendees pour into Phoenix last weekend to watch a host of MAGA and MAHA luminaries proclaim they're raging against the Deep State—even though their coalition is now the Deep State. Derek and Julian look at the conference through the lens of the white, Christian Nationalist identity politics o…

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UNLOCKED: Chatbot Awakening to Love and Enlightenment! 51:25

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An unlock of a bonus episode from earlier this year. ⁠Access all of our bonus episodes here⁠. Happy holidays, everyone! -- -- Earlier this year, a spate of news stories told of chatbot users travelling through the looking-glass right into Conspirituality. Paranoid conspiracies, spiritual awakenings, even falling head-over-heels in love with the sim…

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Holiday Favorites: Otherworld 39:46

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Happy Holidays! This week, we're sharing an episode of one of our other favorite podcasts, Otherworld. In this episode, a woman checks into a hotel while visiting her family for Christmas only to find that she may be sharing her room with a shadowy presence. Keep up with Conspiracy Theories! YouTube: ⁠⁠@ConspiracyTheoriesPodcast⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@the…

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Bonus Sample: The Monetization of MAHA 8:16

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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 of HHS. After making $100,000 in licensing fees, he transferred the trademark to his anti-vax compatriot, Del Bigtree, before it was transferred again to former Kennedy security lead, Gavin de Becker. C…

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Brief: Dr Mike vs MAHA 34:25

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Dr Mike has become one of the most effective debunkers of science misinformation. His second appearance on the uber-popular show, Jubilee's Surrounded, pitted him against 20 fans of RFK Jr. Derek and Julian discuss the debate, as well as the value of Jubilee in an oversaturated media environment. Show Notes 1 Doctor vs 20 RFK Jr. Supporters (ft Doc…

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288: Conspirituality Live with Dr Jessica Knurick 1:06:22

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Derek sits down with Dr Jessica Knurick at the Eudemonia Summit for this special live recording. They discuss combating health misinformation online, what MAHA gets right and wrong, whether or not "nutritionist" should be a protected term, and Jessica's possible political ambitions. Show Notes Dr Jessica Knurick on Substack | Instagram Learn more a…

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BEST OF 2025: Time-Slipping Through Europe 46:14

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Every December we step back and reflect on some favorite episodes from the year…today we're declassifying our best of 2025 picks. This summer we traveled to every continent… and through time. For our second pick, we’re revisiting Time-Slipping Through Europe. Our team is already digging deep into stories we want to tell in 2026, so drop us a sugges…

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Bonus Sample: Marx’s “Atheism” vs. the Capitalist Religion of Everyday Life 5:31

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Listen to the full episode Matthew explores Marx’s “opium of the people” passage by placing it back into the philosophical and political project it came from. Marx was not attacking religion in some essential way, but criticizing the conditions that make religion necessary as a consolation. The problem is not faith itself, but the suffering — inequ…

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your mind on spring 37:41

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Something is always emerging, and one can hear, see and hence participate in it. the question is not whether you are part of it but how? a new subjectivation that lets you hear the voices of reverberating biopoetic forces, streams, you and i are part of, a different way of being and becoming. rhizomes of interdependence we have never actually left …

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Brief: Demonic Karl Marx ATTACKS Private Property and DESTROYS Religion 40:49

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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 critique of capitalism. J. Edgar Hoover, Ronald Reagan, and a raft of Evangelical blowhards cast communism as satanic and civilization-ending, a narrative now accelerating through Trump-era rhetoric, and P…

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287: She Did Nuzzi RFK Jr Coming 58:54

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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 reporting on? Most of that should stay between Olivia Nuzzi and her therapist. What we do know is that American Canto, Nuzzi’s new book, is a memoir (or maybe novel) made for the conspirituality age, in w…

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BEST OF 2025: Three Men Escaped Alcatraz, Evaded the FBI, and Lived Secret Lives 43:12

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Every December we step back and reflect on some favorite episodes from the year…today we're declassifying our best of 2025 picks. This episode actually happened because of listener requests, so please keep dropping suggestions in the Spotify comments and on social! We’ll be back in January with brand-new episodes. Thanks again for an incredible 202…

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Bonus Sample: “Joe Rogan of The Left” Glazes China 5:58

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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 potential “Joe Rogan of The Left,” who might bring young voters, especially working class men, back into the Democratic Party. But Piker’s livestreams from China raise controversial questions. Is he whi…

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Brief: Have Tech Bros Killed Psychedelics? 28:41

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"Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really? Derek and Julian break down the performative nature of this stunt and discuss the growing right-wing influence on psychedelics culture. Show Notes Bryan Johnson Has Discovered Shrooms, and He Really Wants You to Know It Si…

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286: RFK Jr’s Great Crusade 1:08:18

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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 of America’s public health system. A new longform article in The Atlantic offers an inside look at the history and current thinking of this man, as insightful for what it offers as telling for what it …

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My Roman Empire: The Death of Nero 46:46

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They say Roman Emperor Nero played his fiddle while watching his own empire burn. He neglected all leadership duties, and killed his own family. Then, he died by suicide. But some historians believe this is all the product of a two-thousand-year-old smear campaign, invented to cover up the fact that Nero was actually murdered. Keep up with Conspira…

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Bonus Sample: How Does Andrew Wakefield Keep Getting Resurrected? 5:53

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Listen to the full episode. With the CDC recently updating its website with anti-vax propaganda under the direction of RFK Jr, disgraced and disbarred physician, Andrew Wakefield, is back in the news. In fact, Senator Ron Johnson even tweeted out that he deserves an apology. He must be relying on short attention spans, given all the ways Wakefield …

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Brief: Black Friday’s Wellness Extravaganza 34:24

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Derek and Julian survey all of the incredible, life-changing deals going down this weekend in Wellnesslandia. Show Notes Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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285: Can Peter Attia Live Forever? 1:11:18

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In the wildly popular biohacking and longevity space, Peter Attia is often cited as one of the leading luminaries. His straightforward, science-backed approach seems to cut through the noise in a space dominated by fit bros and wellness grifters who always seem to have a product to sell. But the man who dropped out of residency at Johns Hopkins to …

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The Rothko Scam 48:39

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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Manhattan’s Knoedler Gallery made about $80 million selling art by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and other Abstract Expressionist icons. But in 2011, the truth came out: the paintings were forgeries. The buyers were scammed. Employees at the Knoedler claimed they, too, were victims. But were the…

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Bonus Sample: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 2) 4:49

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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 traumas of the Paris Commune. Marx sees it as an imperfect but historic prototype of a workers’ transitional state, cut down before it could consolidate power. Bakunin reads it as a betrayal of anarchist pr…

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Brief: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 1) 43:28

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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 authoritarianism and the fragmented resistance against it. How did the American far right end up using Leninist strategy more effectively than the American left? And what does that say about our own mov…

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284: When Prophecy-Science Fails (w/Thomas Kelly) 1:12:12

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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 spaceships to transport her and her followers to safety. When the hour came and went and nothing happened, she and her followers made up a Bible’s worth of excuses, saying that the group's penitence …

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Tesla's Death Ray 50:06

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Nikola Tesla patented over 300 inventions. When he died, the US government confiscated 80 trunks of his notes and blueprints… and only returned 60 to his heir. In his lifetime, Tesla tinkered with weather control machines, alien transmission readers, and a “death ray” that would revolutionize society. The missing trunks may be evidence that these i…