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It's January and we have a lot of upcoming material planned, so we thought we might share it here to keep us on track and let you know about our short erm plans. Some things are subject to change but these will definitely be things that are coming soon.

Decoding Episodes1. Peter Thiel: This one is long overdue.

2. Michael Hobbes: Also late and one we want to get off the list. Plus we have been in right-wing guru land for quite a while, so nice to get a change. Probably, will do an episode of Maintenance Phase.

3. Naomi Klein: Again, a long-term list resident. It might even turn out to be a nice escape!

4. Matthew McConaughey: I was reminded of this missed episode recently and his multi-level marketing spiel would be fun to cover.

5. Chris Langan: Physics crank with self-proclaimed 200 IQ. Think Eric Weinstein but turned up to 11. Matt wants to do this and god he deserves it!

Supplementary Episodes / Topics

1. Peterson X Huberman Crossover: God waffle meets optimising broicity.

2. When Lex met Zelensky: Love, War, and Wounded Birds

3. Zuckerberg's Libertarian MAGA pivot

4. Shermer and his conspiracy hypotheses

5. Matt's final thoughts on the US

Interviews & Crossovers

1. That long overdue episode with the Very Bad Wizards on Dream Scenario

2. We would like to interview Julia Rohrer on how to do research well and appropriately infer causality (but have not arranged yet)

Decoding Academia and some updates to the Gurometer (updated scores and adding scores for moral grandstanding for all those missed) are also on the horizon.

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Par 🇨🇦

For the Chris Langan content, I have to suggest his discussion on consciousness with Bernardo Kastrup (who is already got his own heterodox theory — analytic idealism). Langan insists on rapid fire use of his own anachronistic, made up terminology across multiple domains and seemingly refuses to actually engage with the literature on the subject which makes the conversation tedious. It’s clear Langan has little understanding of basic philosophical concepts and Bernardo treats him with kids gloves. However apparently after this debate things got heated and Langan threatened physical violence against Bernardo via email lol. Maybe, just maybe, the fact he was a bouncer his whole life getting into physical altercations with people is indicative of deeper personality problems that prevented him from succeeding in school. This discussion and the subsequent drama is just wild. I believe Langan is also a truther who believes in 911 conspiracies and was advocating the March on January 6. He has (of course) concluded from his theory of everything that Jesus is the son of God and our Lord and Savior. It’s quite depressing to see he is absolutely blown up on YouTube and is getting millions and millions of views these days. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HsXxgQy4xLQ

Kyle Ferriter

I need to know Tamler's opinion on whether the US is being invaded by aliens or not. Surely the witnesses can't all be wrong.

Ian Abildskou

Super excited to hear you're covering Langan! 🎉

Heath Lancaster

So… we should expect these episodes over the next year??? Jk jk look forward to the episodes!!

Yellow Crocs

Any chance for an Asmongold episode? or is the streamer arc over? Happy new year!

Gerard Marchesseau

Yeah, just saw Zuckerberg on NHK news. What’s with that?

Charlie

Dr k pt 5

Unfitforpurpose

Hobbes did a fun pod about Sam Harris' book End Of Faith a while back. A decoding confrontation seemed inevitable at that point. Though he seems an odd fit.

Jess B.

I've been relatively unscathed so far by DtG, but Maintenance Phase is a favorite podcast of mine 😅🫣 I'm excited and nervous. I'll start prepping my humble pie.

Níall

I'm kindly requesting Alan Watts be added to the decoding backlog

Milquetoast Ramen

I’ve been on a VBW kick and have come across both some of Tamler’s supernatural centrism and times he and David went to war on air over issues like criminal justice. I feel once the Dream Scenario bit is done, you could easily have some fun burning that bridge if you’d like 😅 (but please don’t)

Daniel

Mel Robbins? I had never heard of her until there was a write up in the NY Times. I think she’s not political. there hasn’t been very many women represented on the pod. Even up the score a bit with her. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I tried to listen to her podcast but lasted less than 30 minutes. It was very boring. It seems she has managed to repackage Buddhism but doesn’t seem to give the big guy any credit. Maybe Chris can make it through an episode? Because I can’t. Listening to this nonsense is like modern day self flagellation but without the heavenly reward. Thank you Chris. We owe you. I’ll light a candle. 🕯️

Empty_Cognizance

Wouldn't mind a Donald Lopez interview someday, like you briefly hinted at during the last livestream 🙏

Nancy Hale

Adorable illustration! Didn’t know Chris wore specs 😉

Adalheidur

Veeery curious to listen to the Micheal Hobbes one. I’ve been a listener to all of his podcasts and find him mostly to be smart and thoughtful although he is a bit more left on the spectrum than I am.

NonCogtio

What's the chances of a Mike Israetel DTG episode in the future?

Caramello

Some very interesting choices. I hope that you do get around to doing. Michael Hobbes. Despite sharing some of his political outlook, I do find him. unbearably smug and lacking in significant capacity for reflection. I'm also looking forward to Naomi Klein. I really like her work, and I see her almost as an antithesis to some of the gurus that you cover. Along with Zizek, she is probably the closest to my own views. Your analyses are generally really considered and fair so I think it's great that you are considering her covering her.

Neely McCormick

It’s about time someone talked about McConaughey’s madness! And Thiel. Can’t wait. Sorry I didn’t get the note on the NYC meet-up in time. Hope you come back sometime.

Ion

I don't know many of them. DTG is bad for my mental health because it constantly introduces me to new people to hate 🙄 I know that's not the point of the podcast but that is the effect.

Jack Anderson

The Michae Hobbes episode would be interesting. I agree with him on much and aI m not sure whether he fits into the typical guru model, but I do find some of the arguments and reasoning he uses problematic.

Linda Sears

Except for Thiel, the upcoming candidates seem like they will be less painful than Yarvin was.

DJM

Any chance of a Dana White decoding? That could frankly be a whole podcast…

Jeff Brettery

Listened to Jocko for the first time in a long time; he is screaming for a decoding.

RabdoRabbit

For everyone saying they really like Hobbes and the Maintenance Phase podcast, I highly recommend the “Maintenance Phase Reality Check” Substack. It shows just how bad the science is in the podcast.

Barn

Ymirsdreams

I do feel that there's something in the idea that the conflagration of youtube and podcasting has incentivised entrepreneurial internet-facilitated guru-dom, and something in the way content is funnelled and user accounts 'sold' to creators/advertisers that encourages cult-ish devotion.

Ymirsdreams

Sam Bankman-Freid! I would enjoy an Effective Altruism skeptical eye :)

Roland Weber

Thanks, looking forward to those! 😃 So Iain McGilchrist didn't make the cut. Never mind, he'll still be around when you need a break from really bad gurus.

Michal Lichota

Is Naomi Klein the one who wrote ‘no logo’ or is it the other one? (Naomi Wolf?)

Horace Fairview

Please also have a look at the Destiny + Dr K interview on Bridges.