Episodes

  • Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult

    Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult
    Mar 11 2025
    Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers. (4 Part series) Sources: https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazardhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/Wayback MachineThe ZiziansSpectral SightTrue Hero ContractSchelling Orders – SinceriouslyGlossary – Sinceriously https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidonhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRghttps://zizians.info/according to The Boston GlobeInside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The IndependentSilicon Valley ‘Rationalists’ Linked to 6 DeathsThe Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIREDGood Group and Pasek’s Doom – SinceriouslyGlossary – SinceriouslyMana – SinceriouslyEffective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - BloombergThe Zizian Facts - Google DocsSeveral free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewerThis guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | VoxInadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get StuckEliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - BloombergSquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a ChorePLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not...Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – SinceriouslyIntersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – SinceriouslyInfohazardous Glossary – SinceriouslySquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google DriveThe Matrix is a System – SinceriouslyA community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | MediumIntersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – SinceriouslyA community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | MediumPLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse)Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shootingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 172

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 172
    Mar 8 2025

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

    1. The Future of Peacekeeping In Africa

    2. The Last Trial of the Fight Against Mountain Valley Pipeline

    3. The USA's Impending Telemedicine Cliff

    4. King Trump Yells at Congress

    5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

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    Sources/Links:

    King Trump Yells at Congress

    https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318104/trump-joint-address-congress-takeaways
    https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5318102/trump-joint-session-al-green-protest
    https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/05/january-littlejohn-donald-trump/
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-social-security-fraud-claims/81508815007/

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

    https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4086787/pentagon-deploys-stryker-brigade-aviation-battalion-to-southern-border/

    https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4086539/dod-statement-on-deployment-of-stryker-brigade-combat-team-to-help-secure-our-s/

    https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4086531/additional-troops-to-enhance-border-security-operations/

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-trump-zelenskyy/

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-643086a6dc7ff716d876b3c83e3255b0

    https://apnews.com/article/trudeau-trump-canada-tariffs-us-5d5ef8bd41c4567926d543a9526b2e84

    https://www.mining.com/web/copper-prices-surge-as-trump-signals-25-tariff-on-imports/

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-says-its-ready-to-fight-any-type-of-war-us-wants-till-the-end.html

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-lutnick-2b269614084027a4894aa14f3dc16227

    https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/wipp-in-carlsbad-under-doge-cuts/

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    2 hrs and 58 mins
  • Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles

    Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
    Mar 6 2025

    Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics.

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles

    Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
    Mar 4 2025

    In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon that broke the brains of every subsequent generation of French nobles.

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 171

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 171
    Mar 1 2025
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/ https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020. Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.) James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.) Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.) Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.) Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/ https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/ https://mutualaidsudan.org/ https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/ https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886 https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    3 hrs and 21 mins
  • Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp

    Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
    Feb 27 2025

    Bruno Bettelheim has now made it to the United States, where he executes his elaborate plan to fix "emotionally disturbed" children by making a nice concentration camp.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Part One: Bruno Bettelheim: The Worst Psycho-therapist

    Part One: Bruno Bettelheim: The Worst Psycho-therapist
    Feb 25 2025

    Robert tells Allison Raskin about Bruno Bettelheim, a concentration camp survivor who revolutionized child mental health care by trying to create a GOOD concentration camp for small children.

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    1 hr
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 170

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
    Feb 22 2025
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew Mutuality feat. Andrew Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's https://linktr.ee/peetslaborunion https://peetslaborunion.org @peetslaborunion https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLR6ZV4VZRBPT/checkout/2KLSQDHYHY7D3GNP7YUX62CD Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/ Mutuality feat. Andrew Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/ Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/ Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675 https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716 https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5 https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059 https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798 https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agenciesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    2 hrs and 26 mins