

TrueAnon
TrueAnon
TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane. Every other episode is a Patreon exclusive: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod
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Sep 18, 2023 • 1h 26min
Episode 320: High Times and Misdemeanors
The hosts discuss their personal experiences with smoking weed and introduce their guest, Sean Howe, who wrote a book about the founder of High Times Magazine. They delve into the influential figure of Gary Goodson and explore his journey from counterculture to mainstream media. The podcast also explores complex alliances, smuggling techniques, and surreal moments smoking weed with Robert Heinlein.

Sep 14, 2023 • 3min
Episode 319: How Larry Met Barry (trailer)
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A minor surge in Gay Obama Panic on the right leads us to investigate reformed human trafficker Larry Sinclair’s claim that he performed fellatio on then-Senator Barack Obama in Gurnee, Illinois.

Sep 7, 2023 • 1h 24min
Episode 318: B For Ebola
The podcast discusses the Ebola outbreak rumor at Burning Man, the eerie atmosphere at festivals, the history of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the market for fake information, and the film F for Fake's exploration of art forgery.

Sep 4, 2023 • 3min
Episode 317: Haters And Losers: It's All Love (trailer)
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We get online to talk a little shit and go over some of 2023’s biggest losers, from two of the biggest haters.

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Aug 31, 2023 • 1h 14min
Episode 316: Carceral Warfare
Dr. Orisamni Burton discusses American prisons as technologies of counterinsurgency, George Jackson, MKUltra, and his book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. They explore gaslighting, the politicization of prison rebellions, and the connection between prisons and radical social movements. They also delve into the use of counterinsurgency tactics, experiments in Vacaville Medical Institution and Lexington, and drug-induced hallucinations. Finally, they discuss the possibility of drug-based comedy genres.

Aug 28, 2023 • 7min
Episode 315: Libertarian Noir (trailer)
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We’re joined by Professor Raymond Craib, author of Adventure Capitalism (amazon.com/Adventure-Capitalism-History-Libertarian-Decolonization/dp/1629639176), to talk about libertarian exit, high adventure in the West Pacific, soldier of fortune Mitch WerBell III, and anarcho-capitalist Caribbean coups.

Aug 24, 2023 • 1h 21min
Episode 314: Life, Liberty, and Squat Chilean Businessmen
The podcast explores the downfall of Galt's Gulch Chile, a farming community based on Ayn Rand's principles. It covers lawsuits, arrests, scammers, and a shooting at a Chilean protest. The hosts discuss charter cities, C-steading, and the scamming of Galt's Gulch. They also touch on the rise of a right-wing folk hero in Chile and analyze content creation and an HBO documentary.

Aug 17, 2023 • 4min
Episode 313: Help Me Find My Frens (trailer)
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SBF’s arrest, mixed with his brother’s desire to buy an island in order to do unregulated medical experimentation, leads us towards the weird world of ultra-libertarian Charter Cities.

Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 24min
Episode 312: The Romance of International Skyjacking
The podcast explores the concept of 'skyjacking' during a beautiful period in world history. It discusses Elon Musk's claim of booking a fight with Mark Zuckerberg, various incidents and strategies related to hijackings, motivations behind skyjackings, the infamous DB Cooper hijacking, the presence of angry Vietnam War veterans, the decline of skyjackings, and the evolution of airplane hijackings since 9/11.

Aug 10, 2023 • 5min
Episode 311: Actuarial Nightmares (trailer)
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We talk with our ol’ friend Jathan Sadowski about regimes of actuarial governance, AKA The Insurance Industry; how highly financialized insurance products have come to have such power over our lives and what new capacities technologies and networked devices are unlocking in the Insurance Industry’s quest to capture more and more value.
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology by Jathan Sadowski: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03063127231186437