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Episode 326: Palestine
<html><p>We’re joined by Akram Salhab, a Palestinian activist based in Jerusalem, to talk about Gaza, the West Bank, refugees, and more.</p></html>
UPDATED: Episode 75: The Lobby
<html><p>In light of the current situation in Palestine, we are re-uploading this episode, recorded in 2020 with Noah Kulwin, with a brief new introduction. You can check out the other episodes mentioned here: </p><p><strong>Episode 131</strong>: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-131-pt-1-46466625" target="_blank">Norman Finkelstein Part 1</a> <br/><strong>Episode 132:</strong> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/46617424" target="_blank">Norman Finkelstein Part 2</a> <br/><strong>Episode 281:</strong> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-281-next-81129240" target="_blank">Next Year in Jerusalem</a> </p><p>__________</p><p>We welcome back Noah Kulwin to discuss the explosive yet basically unseen Al-Jazeera documentary The Lobby detailing illegal lobbying efforts by the Israeli government and just why you literally have not seen this film</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTzCgnbENCKuz7fqU12xNBce" target="_blank">The Lobby UK</a></p><p>The Lobby USA:</p><p>* <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSjXhMUVKE" target="_blank">Episode 1</a><br/>* <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XytkI7afHcQ" target="_blank">Episode 2</a><br/>* <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-Dm4pO0xY" target="_blank">Episode 3</a><br/>* <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1OgxfCT044" target="_blank">Episode 4</a></p></html>
Episode 325: Sam Jailman Trial
<html><p>We’re joined by crypto-court reporter Jacob Silverman to talk about the first week of the trial of SBF, witness testimony, betrayal, parents, what makes a polycule, and more.</p><p>More from Jacob:</p><p><a href="https://airmail.news/issues/2023-10-7/the-journalist-and-the-fraudster" target="_blank">https://airmail.news/issues/2023-10-7/the-journalist-and-the-fraudster</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor</a></p><p><a href="https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/the-coming-trials-of-sam-bankman" target="_blank">https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/the-coming-trials-of-sam-bankman</a></p></html>
Episode 324: Burn After Reading
<html><p>We welcome Vincent Bevins back to the show to chat about his new book <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/if-we-burn/9781541788978/?lens=publicaffairs" target="_blank">If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution</a>. Starting with the June 2013 protests in Brazil, we walk through the last ten years of uprisings in various cities around the world, what was learned, what wasn’t, and what is to be done. </p></html>
Episode 321: Dude Where’s My Dad: POW/MIAs (Part One)
<html><p>We begin our multi-part series on the legends and myths swirling around the POW/MIAs allegedly left behind in Indochina with an explanation of how we got there in the first place: The Vietnam war, the Golden Triangle, secret bombings, aerial campaigns, army wives, and Ross Perot.</p></html>
Episode 320: High Times and Misdemeanors
<html><p>We’re joined by author Sean Howe to talk about his new book, <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-howe/agents-of-chaos/9780306923913/?lens=hachette-books" target="_blank">Agents of Chaos</a>, about Tom Forcade, the Yippies, the Zippies, the feds, and the fakes.</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 319: How Larry Met Barry
<html><p>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.</p></html>
Episode 318: B for Ebola
<html><p>We talk about the Ebola outbreak at Burning Man, and the trickster, the tricks, and the tricked.</p></html>
Episode 316: Carceral Warfare
<html><p>We welcome Dr. Orisamni Burton to the show to talk through the history of American prisons as technologies of counterinsurgency, George Jackson, MKUltra, and his forthcoming book <em><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396326/tip-of-the-spear" target="_blank">Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt</a></em><em>.</em></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/orisanmi/status/1661703964000133121" target="_blank">Targeting Revolutionaries:</a><em><a href="https://twitter.com/orisanmi/status/1661703964000133121" target="_blank"> </a></em><a href="https://twitter.com/orisanmi/status/1661703964000133121" target="_blank">The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970 – 1978</a> </p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-docs-link-cia-to-medical-torture-of-indigenous-children-and-black-prisoners/" target="_blank">New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners</a> </p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 315: Libertarian Noir
<html><p>We’re joined by Professor Raymond Craib, author of <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Capitalism-History-Libertarian-Decolonization/dp/1629639176" target="_blank">Adventure Capitalism</a></em>, to talk about libertarian exit, high adventure in the West Pacific, soldier of fortune Mitch WerBell III, and anarcho-capitalist Caribbean coups. </p></html>
Episode 314: Life, Liberty, and Squat Chilean Businessmen
<html><p>In this spiritual followup to our previous episode on Charter Cities, we get a glimpse at Galt’s Gulch Chile. We investigate how a farming community built on Ayn Rand’s principles fell into a freaky web of lawsuits, arrests, freaks, pencil mustaches, and a shooting at a Chilean protest by an American YouTube economist in a yellow vest.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/good-brain-tickets-674395975517" target="_blank">Show Brace is in on 8/29 in NYC</a> </p></html>
Episode 312: The Romance of International Skyjacking
<html><p>We put on the balaclavas, chamber a round, and head to the cockpit to talk about the beautiful period in world history where hijacking airplanes was hot. A spiritual successor to our previous airplane episode.</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 311: Actuarial Nightmares
<html><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03063127231186437" target="_blank">Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology</a> by Jathan Sadowski</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 310: The Plane Truth
<html><p>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.</p></html>
Episode 309: I Need Speed and Weed
<html><p>Benjamin Fong joins us to talk about his new book <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/2981-quick-fixes" target="_blank">Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st century Binge</a>. 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. </p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 308: Jeffrey's Palace
<html><p>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.</p></html>
Episode 307: Lite Power
<html><p>We’re joined by booze journalist <a href="http://twitter.com/dinfontay" target="_blank">Dave Infante</a> to talk about the hidden history of the Coors family and their funding of the New Right — plus, developments at Anchor Brewing.</p><p>Dave is the editor of <a href="http://www.fingers.email" target="_blank">Fingers</a>, an independent newsletter about drinking in America, and a contributing editor and columnist for VinePair.</p></html>
🤖📠 TRUEANON SPECIAL TRANSMISSION 📠🤖
<html><p>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 !!!! </p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 305: Bloodless Hype Machines
<html><p>We welcome back our friend, author <a href="https://www.teamhuman.fm/" target="_blank">Douglas Rushkoff</a>, 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.</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 304: Scando-nistas
<html><p>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.</p><p>Sarah merch, live shows, and more: linktr.ee/sarahsquirm </p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 303: UFOS — Real or Nah?
<html><p>We come in peace and go to pieces by going back on everything we’ve ever said and doing a UFO episode. We examine the recent claims that the US government has an alien spaceship. Featuring the Smoking Men <a href="http://twitter.com/bpleasies" target="_blank">@bpleasies</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/RobertSkvarla" target="_blank">@RobertSkvarla</a>.</p></html>
Episode 302: Beautiful Human Submarines
<html><p>We are forced by Fate and obsession to follow the tale of the Titan in its journey into the deep — and into the very gates of what scientists are calling "Wet Hell." </p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 301: Quiboloy
<html><p>We’re joined by Abbey, Secretary General of Gabriela USA, to discuss the Epstein-like Pastor Apollo Quiboloy. Cult leader Quiboloy is currently being shielded by the Philippines government while on the run from the FBI on sex trafficking charges.</p><p><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/justice-for-the-victims-of-apollo-quiboloy" target="_blank">Action network petition</a> </p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M3haAFxpyMGkshYadGUeoOoePx9fdERVfQKxUMvr9TI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">More info on the campaign</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gabriela.usa/" target="_blank">Gabriela on instagram</a></p></html>
Episode 300: Episode 300
<html><p>We take a look back at 300 episodes of TrueAnon... forgive us this indulgence... and talk about Anchor, San Francisco, how and why things change, and much much more. </p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 299: But His Emails
<html><p>We get our grubby little paws on some of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, talk through the blockbuster $290M settlement in the JPMorgan Chase sex trafficking suit, and take a closer look at some unfortunate-looking old ladies who had no problem setting Jeffrey up with some of society’s biggest freaks. </p></html>
Episode 298: James DiEugenio
<html><p>We sit down with author Jim DiEugenio to chat about his work on the Oliver Stone films <em>JFK Revisited </em>and <em>JFK: Destiny Betrayed</em>, chasing down assassination leads for thirty years, what Hollywood and the media get wrong, and much more. </p><p>Check out Jim’s work at <a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/" target="_blank">Kennedys and King</a>.</p><p>Listen to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod?filters[search_query]=jfk" target="_blank">our previous JFK coverage</a>.</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 295: The Fogle Files (Part 1)
<html><p>Part one of our series on former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle examines his early life in Indiana, and his relationship to his family and food. Plus: addiction, a brief history of eating disorders, and the early school experience of fast food's most notorious pedophile.</p></html>
Episode 294: Bodies And Spaces
<html><p>We examine a pair of Twitter spaces, one successful (TrueAnon &amp; frazzledrip), one a disaster (Ron DeSantis &amp; Elon Musk). Plus Bill Gates blackmailed by Epstein and explosive allegations in the USVI lawsuit.</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 293: A Tale of Two Techies
<html><p>We examine the recent murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, the reactions from industry leaders and local políticos, and how it all eerily maps onto the rise and fall of San Francisco’s swinging tech scene.</p></html>
Episode 292: Liar, Liar
<html><p>We breakdown the charges against soon-to-be-former congressman George “Anthony Devolder” Santos, work though why it is that so many politicians just make up insane shit, and get the accused congressman himself on the phone for some answers.</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 291: America's Sweetheart
<html><p>We crawl across the DMZ and down the hole in the ground where North Korean defector Yeonmi Park’s massive cheeks bash us around like a pong ball. Plus we talk about the market incentives around defectors that brought someone like her to prominence.</p><p><a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/22363997" target="_blank">Panel discussion from Nodutol</a> — real stories from participants in KEEP (Korean Education and Exposure Program)</p></html>
Episode 290: The Beast
<html><p>We interview <a href="https://twitter.com/Oswaldo__Zavala" target="_blank">Oswaldo Zavala</a>, the author of <em><a href="https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504661/drug-cartels-do-not-exist/" target="_blank">Drug Cartels Do Not Exist</a></em>, about images, stories, and realities of drug cartels in Mexico and beyond. Plus parasites, stories, violence, the State &amp; much more.</p><p>Also by Oswaldo Zavala:<em> </em><em><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717742/la-guerra-en-las-palabras-una-historia-intelectual-del-narco-en-mexico-1975---2020--war-put-into-words-by-oswaldo-zavala/" target="_blank">La Guerra en las Palabras</a></em><em> </em></p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 289: The Game Is Afoot
<html><p>We catch up with new stories straight out of Jeffrey Epstein’s date book, the continuing bizarre extradition attempts of Nicholas Alahverdian aka Nicholas Rossi aka Arthur Knight, and finally check in on our favorite Washington Gambler.</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 288: Falun Gong Part 3.5
<html><p>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.</p><p>Follow Steve's new Mark Fisher podcast on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=92745822" target="_blank">Patreon</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LostFuturesPodcast" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, or <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lost-futures" target="_blank">Anchor</a>.</p></html>
Episode 287: Creative Ass
<html><p>Our old friend David A. Banks is back to talk about the release of his new book, The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. We also discuss the complicated legacy of Richard Florida and the false prophets of the creative class. </p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-city-authentic-how-the-attention-economy-builds-urban-america/18908149" target="_blank">Buy the book here</a> </p><p><a href="https://otherday.substack.com/" target="_blank">Check out David’s substack here</a> </p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 286: Falun Gong Part 3: Crazy Rich Asians
<html><p>We round out our series on the Falun Gong by talking through the surreal rise of The Epoch Times, the money behind all their weird YouTube videos, and their fruitful partnership with Steve Bannon. Also: what is actually up with that whole organ harvesting thing?</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 285: War, Etc.
<html><p>We have a Texas rendezvous with Seth Harp for a conversation about the Pentagon leaks, the state of the war in Ukraine, and some updates on Fort Bragg</p></html>
Episode 284: Falun Gong Part 2: Qigong Fever
<html><p>We take a trip to China to uncover the origins of the Falun Gong, the contradictions between superstition and science, rural ear reading, levitation, and Qigong fever.</p></html>
Episode 283: Falun Gong Part 1: Shen Yun
<html><p>We take a trip to Lincoln Center to finally answer the question: “Wait, what actually is Shen Yun?” Featuring: drunk monks, uncanny valley Colin Jost, fog machines, the Covid-19 virus, and the torrential storm of the apocalypse. Welcome to part one of our series on the mysterious and freaky Falun Gong.</p></html>
Episode 282: Fighting Times
<html><p>We’re joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanMelrod" target="_blank">Jonathan Melrod</a>, author of the new autobiography “<a href="https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&amp;p=1289" target="_blank">Fighting Times.</a>” We talk about the factory turn of the 1960s, SDS/RYM II, encounters with the Red Squad, and his 13 years fighting in American auto plants and as an activist in the UAW. </p><p><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/605d7866711508185e437efe/t/629e3e73925c4d39eb5082fe/1654537863547/Jon+Melrod+FBI+file_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank">Jonathan's FBI file</a> </p></html>
Episode 281: Next Year in Jerusalem
<html><p>We take a trip to Israel with Noah Kulwin and talk about Israeli political culture, Netanyahu, liberalism, money, and the Judicial Overhaul. Truly, Israel is a land of contrasts!</p><p><a href="https://www.prekindle.com/event/53167-trueanon-austin" target="_blank">Tickets for the final Year of the Smile show in Austin, TX</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-01-11/ty-article/the-full-transcript-of-yair-netanyahus-wild-tel-aviv-night/0000017f-e544-d62c-a1ff-fd7ff4de0000" target="_blank">Transcript of Yair Netanyahu telling his friends they can have sex with his girlfriend</a> </p></html>
ANNOUNCEMENT: Investigator Tier
<html><p>Hey Gumshoes! So excited to announce a new Patreon reward: podcast commentary tracks. Soon we’ll be offering a behind-the-scenes look at how all your favorites got made, from the people who made them.</p><p>To start us off, Brace, Liz, and Yung Chomsky go back to 2019 to walk through the recording of our every first episode, The Ep-Files. Enjoy, and as always, like and subscribe! </p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 280: Totally Nuts
<html><p>Arts week on TrueAnon rolls on: This is a conversation with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/brad___phillips/" target="_blank">Brad Phillips</a> about all kinds of pain, regret, art, being addicted to whatever, and a bunch of other stuff</p><p><a href="https://store.nytyrant.com/products/essays-and-fictions-by-brad-phillips" target="_blank">Essays and Fictions</a> by Brad Phillips</p></html>
Episode 279: Welcome to the Machine (Taylor's Version)
<html><p>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.</p><p>Thanks to Sean Agnew from <a href="https://utphilly.com/" target="_blank">Union Transfer</a>, Noah Kohll from <a href="https://colorgreen.bandcamp.com/album/color-green" target="_blank">Color Green</a>, <a href="https://www.theeohsees.com/" target="_blank">John Dwyer</a> from Oh Sees, <a href="https://www.rosebooks.co/store/p/someone-who-isnt-me-by-geoff-rickly-paperback-preorder" target="_blank">Geoff Rickley</a> from Thursday, <a href="http://www.jesswilliamson.com/" target="_blank">Jess Williamson</a>, Timmy Hefner, and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/zolajesus" target="_blank">Zola Jesus</a>.</p><p>(MOBY is not mentioned in this episode we just had to put a guy as the picture and he is funny looking)</p></html>
Keep the Dream Alive: One Year Later w/ John Vanderslice
<html><p>We check back in with John Vanderslice, the subject of our limited series <a href="https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/sets/keep-the-dream-alive" target="_blank">Keep the Dream Alive</a>, a year after its release. We chat about scraping by in the music industry, the Bay Area scene, and John's new record.</p><p>Check out <a href="http://instagram.com/johnvanderslice" target="_blank">John's upcoming tour dates</a> on his instagram. </p><p>The final performance of TrueAnon's Year of the Smile will be on <a href="https://www.prekindle.com/event/53167-trueanon-austin" target="_blank">April 15 in Austin, TX</a>.</p></html>
Episode 277: Unbank Yourself
<html><p>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.</p></html>
[PREVIEW] Episode 276: Holy Prepuce
<html><p>Podcast Legends Matt Christman and Chris Wade join our funky asses for a frank discussion on their new series, <a href="https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/" target="_blank">HELL ON EARTH</a>, about the Thirty Years' War. We talk printing, Purgatory, blood, looting, Christ’s Foreskin and AMORC…</p></html>
Episode 275: Planet Money
<html><p>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.</p></html>
Episode 273: The Dragon Rises: Tiger's Paw
<html><p>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.</p></html>
Episode 271: Disney Men
<html><p>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. </p></html>