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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

X-Risk Premium: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Liz to discuss their new book End Times Fascism And the Fight for the Living World. We get into billionaire escape plans, the promise of AI rapture, and why so many visions of paradise start with destroying the world. 

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Episode 578: X-Risk Premium

Pablo Torre joins to talk about the DOJ investigation into Kawhi Leonard’s Aspiration deal, Steve Ballmer, and the business of sports journalism. We talk ESPN, billionaire reputation management, and investigative work in the content economy. 

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Episode 577: Full Court Press

From Bravo’s gated communities to the contemporary influencer economy, we trace how being a housewife became a big business — with New York Magazine’s Bridget Read on Mormon MomTok, recessionistas, the Housewife entrepreneur, and Salt Lake tradwives making money selling the promise of staying home. 

Under the Mormon Influence: How the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into American hearts and wallets

Little Bosses Everywhere

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[PREVIEW] Episode 576: The Wife Economy

Anton Jäger joins Liz to discuss his new book, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences. We chat about the low-cost, high-speed political culture that took shape as mass organizations declined while mass participation accelerated through the crises of 2008 and Covid. We get into the economics of platform media, political infotainment, Elon Musk and other Slop-preneurs, and how a politics that feels like civil war can end up stabilizing the same old order. 

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[PREVIEW] Episode 575: A Grin Without A Cat

Max Read joins us to talk through OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, the para-influencer network shaping AI policy, swagless CEOs and the return of Effective Altruism 

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Episode 574: Cyberswarm

Liz is joined by our old pal Alexandra Scaggs to talk through Scott Bessent’s odd maneuver in the bond market, financial repression, institutional legitimacy and more funny money business. 

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[PREVIEW] Episode 573: T-Pain

Liz is joined by TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott to talk through the funny business surrounding the sale of the Lakers, the investigation into Mark Walter, and the increasingly strange world of sports ownership—who actually owns the teams, where the money comes from, and what happens when private capital takes over professional sports.

Ballistic: The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance by Henry Abbott

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[PREVIEW] Episode 572: Truest Hoops

A very special announcement from TRUEANON PODCAST 

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Adult Baby, Daddy, Liz

We are joined by Jack Poulson to talk about a little-known State Department agency that is sending machine guns to Ukraine, hiring mercenaries in Mexico, and selling AI to Colombia.

Read Covert Action Diplomacy by Jack Poulson

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Episode 571: Drugs and Thugs

We examine two parallel cases of public mythmaking: Victor Marx and Jason Arday. We trace their wild stories, fabulism allegations, and the institutions that helped turn their personal mythology into public authority. 

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[PREVIEW] Episode 570: Fantasias

Three adults (mid 30s) attempt to figure out the uncanny appeal of Mr. Beast.

Max Read on substack

How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube

Drowning in Slop

Episode 411: I Paid a Real Assassin to Try and Kill Me

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