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8th Oct 2024

Supplementary Material 16: Riding a Phoenix to Rescue the Gurusphere

We plunge ever deeper into the convoluted world of guru punditry and are dazzled at the theatrics at the 'Rescue the Republic' event, inspired by the profound insights of Eric Weinstein on political speeches, and thrilled at Michael Moynihan's hard knock interview with the moderate heterodox thinker Megyn Kelly. Join us won't you?

00:00 Introduction and Health Check Adventures

04:15 Exploring the GuruSphere and GuruCon

08:57 Matt and Chris Debate Round 1: The Unholy Alliance

16:35 Russell Brand and Jordan Peterson's Prayer Time

24:51 Bret's Amazing Metaphor: David and the Phoenix

36:01 Matt Taibbi's Speaking Truth to Power with the Bible

40:24 Rage Against the War Machine

43:25 Eric Weinstein's analysis of Kamala Harris

58:44 Joe Rogan's Bias and Broken Conspiracy Prone Brain

01:13:53 Michael Moynihan softballs Megyn Kelly

01:26:11 Cynical Chris and Moderate Megyn: Alex Jones & Tucker are right!

01:32:57 Hard Knock Heterodoxy

01:47:35 Matt and Chris Debate Round 2: Left and Right

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Decoding the Gurus
A psychologist and an anthropologist try to make sense of the world's greatest self-declared Gurus.
An exiled Northern Irish anthropologist and a hitchhiking Australian psychologist take a close look at the contemporary crop of 'secular gurus', iconoclasts, and other exiles from the mainstream, offering their own brands of unique takes and special insights.

Leveraging two of the most diverse accents in modern podcasting, Chris and Matt dig deep into the claims, peek behind the psychological curtains, and try to figure out once and for all... What's it all About?

Join us, as we try to puzzle our way through and talk some smart-sounding smack about the intellectual giants of our age, from Jordan Peterson to Robin DiAngelo. Are they revolutionary thinkers or just grifters with delusions of grandeur?

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Christopher Kavanagh

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A Northern Irish cognitive anthropologist who occasionally moonlights as a social psychologist. Chris has long standing interests in the psychology of conspiracy theorists and pseudoscience. His academic research focuses on the Cognitive Science of Religion and ritual psychology. He lives happily in Japan with his family.

Matthew Browne

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An Australian psychologist and numbers-guy. He does research on all kinds of stuff, but particularly enjoys looking into why people believe the things they do: religion, conspiracy theories, alternative medicine and stuff. He's into social media in the same way people slow down for car accidents.