Ep 30 – LIVE from the beach (w/ Mike Dewar)
Former co-chair of the youth wing of the Canadian Green Party (and current Objectivist Partyboat Nihilist) Mike Dewar flies Shawn and Aaron down to Tofino to catch some waves, ponder possibilities, and...
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Ep 29 – Science! Literacy vs. Dissent (w/ Matt Berkowitz) – A World Peace Summit
Aaron and Matt hash out the role science should play in shaping our opinions, discourse, and public policy (with some help from moderator Shawn), covering tons of topics, from vaccines, epistemology, and...
Ep 28 – Infinite Fucking Student Loan Debt (w/ Charlene Sayo)
Aaron and Shawn are joined by Charlene Sayo, a writer and podcaster, for a wide ranging discussion on everything to do with post-secondary education and how it bumps up against neoliberalism, classism,...
Ep 27 – Listen and Live Forever (w/ Zoltan Istvan)
If you listen to this episode, we promise you will live forever. Aaron and Shawn avoid having their podcast die and succumb to the curse of the ’27 club’ by having an...
Ep 26 – The Bible as a Revolutionary Toolkit (w/ DJ Matt Hogan)
Jesus was a communist! Hear all about how and why the bible is a revolutionary’s handbook and the antecedent for modern Individualism, Existentialism, Democracy, and Communism as Shawn and Aaron are joined...
Ep 25 – The Objective Spectacular
Shawn and Aaron literally get a huge inheritance in real life, but the podcast will stay the same as it always was: hard hitting common sense. Leave your political correctness at the...
Ep 24 – SocialTarianism
Shawn and Aaron talk about the left/right quadchotomies, libertarian socialism, strategies for populist cross aisle collaboration, and the decentralized nonviolent resistance movement. Theme Song Performed by: Punkerslut Synchronicity Book Club: Jonathan Haidt...
Ep 23 – REFORLUTION
Reform? Revolution? Is there an inherent conflict between idealism and pragmatism? We figure out how to change the world and more in part two of our exciting portmanteau trilogy! Theme Song: Arrested...
Ep 22 – POLIGION
Shawn and Aaron talk politics and religion, and how they might not be so different after all. Theme song performed by: Dope Creature
Ep 21 – Ronald Reagan’s Welfare C.R.E.A.M.
This week, Aaron and Shawn explore the touchy intersection between personal empowerment and blaming the victims of systemic social issues. They also talk money, houseless people, starving African children, and find a solution to...
