

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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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

Aug 7, 2023 • 3min
Episode 310: The Plane Truth (trailer)
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We settle a score with our greatest enemy yet: the airline industry. We aim the furious gun of knowledge at the airplane and demand that it reroutes to a place no airline has ever flown: The Truth.

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Aug 3, 2023 • 1h 4min
Episode 309: I Need Weed And Speed
Benjamin Fong joins us to talk about his new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st century Binge (versobooks.com/products/2981-quick-fixes). We chat about the uniquely American obsession with drugs, the war machine’s love affair with meth, the burgeoning psychedelic movement, and why everyone is so desperate to get high.

Jul 31, 2023 • 5min
Episode 308: Jeffrey's Palace (trailer)
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We delve into letters to the pedophile and try to figure out exactly why Epstein was trying to broker a meeting between Jes Staley and the bagman son of the Senegalese President, Karim Wade.

Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 29min
Episode 307: Lite Power
We’re joined by booze journalist Dave Infante (twitter.com/dinfontay) to talk about the hidden history of the Coors family and their funding of the New Right — plus, developments at Anchor Brewing.
Dave is the editor of Fingers (www.fingers.email), an independent newsletter about drinking in America, and a contributing editor and columnist for VinePair.

Jul 21, 2023 • 4min
Episode 306: White Hammer (trailer)
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We discuss the Q Diffusion movie Sound of Freedom and the pushback it got from the right — including from Owen Benjamin, who we use as a case study in the non-existent line between “online” and real life.

Jul 18, 2023 • 24min
🤖📠 TRUEANON SPECIAL TRANSMISSION 📠🤖
While on vacation in a foreign land, Brace stole an artifact imbued with dark magical powers and now everything is upside down — he’s sick, he can’t think, all his underwear is gone, etc. REAL new episode coming this week !!!!

Jul 13, 2023 • 8min
Episode 305: Bloodless Hype Machines (trailer)
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We welcome back our friend, author Douglas Rushkoff, to discuss what’s real and what’s fake about the AI publicity push, the next phase of the internet, and human connection in the oppressive techno-future.

Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 27min
UNLOCKED: Episode 288: Falun Gong Part 3.5
We interview former Epoch Times writer Steve Klett about his time working for the Falun Gong-owned newspaper in 2016. We discuss his experience with a Dutchman, potential labor trafficking, and what it means to be a human bot.
Follow Steve's new Mark Fisher podcast on Patreon, YouTube, or Anchor:
patreon.com/user?u=92745822
youtube.com/@LostFuturesPodcast
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lost-futures

Jul 6, 2023 • 3min
Episode 304: Scando-nistas (trailer)
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Comedienne Sarah Sherman is back to discuss Bravo TV’s wilderness of mirrors and the myriad of psyops at play in the Vanderpump Rules, universe while Brace does the girls a solid and recounts #Scandoval from memory.
Sarah merch, live shows, and more: linktr.ee/sarahsquirm