• Chris and Anya Live
    May 28 2026

    Thank you Bejinha, Midwest Timecapsules, John Climenhaga, david price, Ryan Hichens, and many others for tuning into this live video with Anya Kaats! Join us for our next live video in the app.



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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • 725 - ROMA 109
    May 21 2026
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    What are some of the potential unintended positive consequences of this shitstorm we’re all living through in 2026? Is there a way to question the US/Israel relationship without being accused of anti-semitism?

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    3 mins
  • 724 - Ryan Norbauer (Retro-futurist)
    May 19 2026

    Ryan is an aspiring underachiever. He’s worked for NASA, planned and conducted his own scientific research at the CDC, and served as a foreign affairs analyst/speechwriter in the British Parliament; he’s founded four companies and he’s published peer-reviewed scholarship in fancy-pants journals across two separate academic disciplines. All this misguided, insecure early-life ambition mostly just taught him how disappointing and anticlimactic status-driven accomplishments can be. (His words.)



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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • 723 - AROMA 11
    May 14 2026
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    We respond to a listener's question about our own addictive behaviors and addiction in general. How to engage with the inner voices. Why would one be sexual with a close friend? Why do some men prefer to scan the radio stations even if they don’t like the music very much? Upcoming Substack live about DTF St. Louis.

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    2 mins
  • 722 - Guustaaf Damave (AI Expert)
    May 5 2026

    Guustaaf Damave is a Dutch technologist and writer based in Taiwan. He has been writing a weekly newsletter about AI, culture, and the future since 2023. You can read it at guustaaf.substack.com. He is also the author of The Minimum You Need to Do Before AI Changes Your Life: A No-Panic Checklist for Normal People in an Abnormal Moment. Learn more about the situation we all face here.



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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 720 - Daniele Bolelli
    Apr 27 2026

    Author, historian, professor, podcaster, father, partner, son, funny and smart dude. Daniele is a man of many dimensions. We just bullshit for an hour or so, but I’d like to think it’s Grade A Prime bullshit. After this, we went out for Thai food. Wish you’d been there.



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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • 719 - AROMA 10 (Revolutionary Bath)
    Apr 24 2026
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    Is violence ever justified? Is structural violence different from interpersonal? What about violence against property? What about when property is violent against us? Is the US/world approaching a tipping point? Deep issues considered from a shallow bathtub.

    https://warehousefire.watch/

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    2 mins
  • 718 - ROMA 107
    Apr 18 2026
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    Conspiracies and collapse. Felt the lightning. Waiting on the thunder.

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    5 mins