

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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Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 32min
Episode 279: Welcome To The Machine (Taylor's Version)
We snap our 78s over our knees and examine some of the industry-shattering changes that music has undergone in the recent past: how we make it, listen to it, think about it, own it, and pay for it — and who gets the money.
Thanks to Sean Agnew from Union Transfer (utphilly.com), Noah Kohll from Color Green (colorgreen.bandcamp.com/album/color-green), John Dwyer from Oh Sees (theeohsees.com), Geoff Rickley from Thursday (rosebooks.co/store/p/someone-who-isnt-me-by-geoff-rickly-paperback-preorder), Jess Williamson (jesswilliamson.com/), and Zola Jesus (patreon.com/zolajesus).
(MOBY is not mentioned in this episode we just had to put a guy as the picture and he is funny looking)

Mar 23, 2023 • 3min
Episode 278: Storm Is Coming (trailer)
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We grease up the night sticks and put on the peaked caps and head over to the grey bar hotel in order to prepare the bed for our newest guest: Donald J. Trump. We also discuss Stormy Daniel’s and Micheal Cohen.

Mar 21, 2023 • 23min
Keep the Dream Alive: One Year Later w/ John Vanderslice
We check back in with John Vanderslice, the subject of our limited series Keep the Dream Alive (soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/sets/keep-the-dream-alive), a year after its release. We chat about scraping by in the music industry, the Bay Area scene, and John's new record.
Check out John's upcoming tour dates on his instagram: instagram.com/johnvanderslice/
The final performance of TrueAnon's Year of the Smile will be on April 15 in Austin, TX: prekindle.com/event/53167-trueanon-austin

Mar 20, 2023 • 1h 15min
Episode 277: Unbank Yourself
We placed all our bets on Juicero and all our money in the bank — this is the story of how TrueAnon lost everything in the SVB collapse. Plus we talk shit about VCs.

Mar 16, 2023 • 2min
Episode 276: Holy Prepuce (trailer)
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Podcast Legends Matt Christman and Chris Wade join our funky asses for a frank discussion on their new series, HELL ON EARTH (hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast), about the Thirty Years' War. We talk printing, Purgatory, blood, looting, Christ’s Foreskin and AMORC…

Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 44min
Episode 275: Planet Money
Freelance journalist Jacob Silverman joins us to talk about the collapse of Silvergate Capital, the shakedown of crypto, and his forthcoming series on Sam Bankman-Fried and the implosion of FTX’s billion-dollar fraud.

Mar 9, 2023 • 6min
Episode 274: The Adam Waffen Show (trailer)
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We talk Power Grid and who keeps turning off the lights and why. Tweakers? Nazi Terrorists? Or perhaps both?

Mar 6, 2023 • 1h 11min
Episode 273: The Dragon Rises: Tiger's Paw
Long March? But it just started! We head down Peking’s way to look at why the US keeps shooting all the Balloons, our situationship with Taiwan, and why every US politician can’t stop talking about China.

Mar 2, 2023 • 4min
Episode 272: Cries Of The Machines (trailer)
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We take a look at the launch of Microsoft and Google’s AI-assisted search engines, try to make sense of machine learning hallucinations, and push back on the hysteric reporting announcing the arrival of chatbot sentience.
shell-song.neocities.org/
www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
www.sublationmag.com/post/the-ai-delusion

Feb 24, 2023 • 1h 2min
Episode 271: Disney Men
TrueAnon visits your home (Virgin Islands) to talk about the fallout from the controversial case levied by former AG Denise George against JP Morgan’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein—and the damning Jes Staley emails that have come out.