Survival Is Resistance: Prison, Protest, and The Price of Freedom

Author and activist Nasrin Parvaz on being imprisoned and tortured in Iranian prisons, and dealing with trauma through creativity

Apr 5 • Mike Freedman

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The March Weird

That's AI, Alibaba and the Forty GPUs, suspicious mines, the Lego propaganda movie, hot dog search poison, CCPeeping, the coldest of emails, definitely…

Apr 3 • Mike Freedman

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March 2026

Lawyering Against the Machine: The Human Cost of AI and the Fight for Tech Justice

Melodi Dinçer of Tech Justice Law on AI-induced delusions, wrongful-death lawsuits, and the dangers of chatbots rewriting our reality

Mar 22 • Mike Freedman

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1:11:15

February 2026

The February Weird

#77: Ind-AI, regulators mount up, (Department of) War of Words, "you" is more than just you, the trailer trail, Internet-e-Tabaqati (Iran's "class-based…

Feb 27 • Mike Freedman

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Slowly, Then Suddenly: Surveillance, Social Rupture and Citizens’ Consent

War scholar Professor David Betz on why he thinks civil war is inevitable and how failing governments resort to tyranny

Feb 15 • Mike Freedman

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1:22:47

Making The Machine That Makes Us: AI, Consciousness, and Human Creativity

Philosopher and engineer Nell Watson on how AI may shape us more than we shape it, and why that might be a good thing

Feb 1 • Mike Freedman and Nell Watson

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January 2026

The January Weird

#76: Britannia waives the rules, eye on Iran, Lovejoy comes for VPNs, the edifice complex, Grok-blocked, don't believe (all) the shite, Big Apple…

Jan 28 • Mike Freedman

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Democracy In An Age Of Permanent Crisis

Professor Richard Youngs discusses rising authoritarianism, "in-between" regimes, our crisis of governance, and the danger of limiting democracy to save…

Jan 18 • Mike Freedman

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1:28:19

The World Turned Upside Down: England's Puritan Dystopia

In our first-ever Christmas Special, Dr. Fiona McCall discusses what happens when a society tears down its institutions in the name of moral purity and…

Jan 4 • Mike Freedman

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December 2025

2025: The Year In Weird

O Come Alaa Ye Faithful, digital unfreedom, AI & FIMI, surveillance gets up in your face, the global war on dissent, Iran takes the cake, my two cents

Dec 30, 2025 • Mike Freedman

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Episode 154: Michael W. Green on Why $140k Is The Real Poverty Line

Simplify Asset Management's Chief Strategist explains how poverty in the US is misunderstood and why wealth inequality matters

Dec 21, 2025 • Mike Freedman and Michael W. Green

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Episode 153: Robert Joseph Greene on Censorship and the Hidden History of Gay Romance

The author discusses how historians covered up gay romance, why Russia wanted him arrested, and the philosophy of why democracies fail

Dec 7, 2025 • Mike Freedman

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