Eric Wycoff Rogers, a community organizer and author of the Critical Hedonist Manifesto, joins Zarinah Agnew, a neuroscientist and guerrilla scientist, to delve into the politics of pleasure. They discuss how capitalism manipulates desire, promoting unsustainable consumption. Both guests advocate for critical hedonism as a transformative approach to pleasure that fosters community collaboration. They challenge current economic values and encourage a reimagining of pleasure to enhance well-being, social ties, and collective joy.