TrueAnon
460 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 13 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsTrueAnon 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
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Episode 327: It's Not Too Late (preview)
October 23, 2023 13:24 - 21 minutes - 17.6 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- We sit down with Dr. Norman Finkelstein to hear his thoughts on Hamas’s attack on Israel and the devastation of Gaza. We listen as he takes a look back at his life’s work, tries to make sense of the world’s cowardice in the face of unspeakable violence, and offers some thoughts on what might come next. Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein
Episode 326: Palestine
October 16, 2023 13:52 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBWe’re joined by Akram Salhab, a Palestinian activist based in Jerusalem, to talk about Gaza, the West Bank, refugees & more.
UNLOCKED: Episode 75: The Lobby
October 12, 2023 19:32 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBIn light of the current situation in Palestine, we are unlocking this episode, recorded in 2020 with Noah Kulwin, with a brief new introduction. You can check out the other episodes mentioned here: Episode 131: Norman Finkelstein Part 1 patreon.com/posts/episode-131-pt-1-46466625 Episode 132: Norman Finkelstein Part 2 patreon.com/posts/46617424 Episode 281: Next Year in Jerusalem patreon.com/posts/episode-281-next-81129240 __________ We welcome back Noah Kulwin to discuss the explosiv...
Episode 325: Sam Jailman Trial
October 10, 2023 13:41 - 1 hour - 94.7 MBWe’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. https://airmail.news/issues/2023-10-7/the-journalist-and-the-fraudster https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/the-coming-trials-of-sam-bankman
Episode 324: Burn After Reading
October 05, 2023 14:56 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBWe welcome Vincent Bevins back to the show to chat about his new book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/if-we-burn/9781541788978/?lens=publicaffairs). 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.
Episode 323: Dude Where’s My Dad: POW/MIAs (Part Three) [trailer]
October 02, 2023 14:35 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- We close out our series on POW-MIAs by talking Rambo II, the National League, big-eared Ross Perot, more scams and kooks, normalization and Elizabeth Warren.
Episode 322: Dude Where’s My Dad: POW/MIAs (Part Two) [trailer]
September 27, 2023 14:11 - 3 minutes - 2.96 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- Part two of our POW/MIA series examines the freaks, scammers, bone sellers, and widow seducers who made the alleged POWs in Laos a big business.
Episode 321: Dude Where’s My Dad: POW/MIAs (Part One)
September 22, 2023 15:02 - 1 hour - 71 MBWe 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.
Episode 320: High Times and Misdemeanors
September 18, 2023 13:41 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBWe’re joined by author Sean Howe to talk about his new book, Agents of Chaos (hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-howe/agents-of-chaos/9780306923913/?lens=hachette-books), about Tom Forcade, the Yippies, the Zippies, the feds, and the fakes.
Episode 319: How Larry Met Barry (trailer)
September 14, 2023 14:49 - 3 minutes - 3.05 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- 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.
Episode 318: B For Ebola
September 07, 2023 17:46 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBWe talk about the Ebola outbreak at Burning Man, and the trickster, the tricks, and the tricked.
Episode 317: Haters And Losers: It's All Love (trailer)
September 04, 2023 17:28 - 3 minutes - 3.24 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- We get online to talk a little shit and go over some of 2023’s biggest losers, from two of the biggest haters.
Episode 316: Carceral Warfare
August 31, 2023 13:22 - 1 hour - 66 MBWe 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 Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396326/tip-of-the-spear). Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970 – 1978: twitter.com/orisanmi/status/1661703964000133121 New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigeno...
Episode 315: Libertarian Noir (trailer)
August 28, 2023 14:21 - 7 minutes - 6.43 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- We’re joined by Professor Raymond Craib, author of Adventure Capitalism (amazon.com/Adventure-Capitalism-History-Libertarian-Decolonization/dp/1629639176), to talk about libertarian exit, high adventure in the West Pacific, soldier of fortune Mitch WerBell III, and anarcho-capitalist Caribbean coups.
Episode 314: Life, Liberty, and Squat Chilean Businessmen
August 24, 2023 13:49 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBIn 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. Show Brace is in on 8/29 in NYC: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/good-brain-tickets-674395975517
Episode 313: Help Me Find My Frens (trailer)
August 17, 2023 13:46 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- SBF’s arrest, mixed with his brother’s desire to buy an island in order to do unregulated medical experimentation, leads us towards the weird world of ultra-libertarian Charter Cities.
Episode 312: The Romance of International Skyjacking
August 14, 2023 13:54 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBWe 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.
Episode 311: Actuarial Nightmares (trailer)
August 10, 2023 14:08 - 5 minutes - 5.57 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- 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. Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insu...
Episode 310: The Plane Truth (trailer)
August 07, 2023 14:28 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- 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.
Episode 309: I Need Weed And Speed
August 03, 2023 13:31 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBBenjamin Fong joins us to talk about his new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st century Binge (versobooks.com/products/2981-quick-fixes). 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.
Episode 308: Jeffrey's Palace (trailer)
July 31, 2023 13:41 - 5 minutes - 4.8 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- 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.
Episode 307: Lite Power
July 27, 2023 12:58 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBWe’re joined by booze journalist Dave Infante (twitter.com/dinfontay) to talk about the hidden history of the Coors family and their funding of the New Right — plus, developments at Anchor Brewing. Dave is the editor of Fingers (www.fingers.email), an independent newsletter about drinking in America, and a contributing editor and columnist for VinePair.
Episode 306: White Hammer (trailer)
July 21, 2023 13:00 - 3 minutes - 3.6 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- We discuss the Q Diffusion movie Sound of Freedom and the pushback it got from the right — including from Owen Benjamin, who we use as a case study in the non-existent line between “online” and real life.
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July 18, 2023 21:22 - 24 minutes - 21.8 MBWhile 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 !!!!
Episode 305: Bloodless Hype Machines (trailer)
July 13, 2023 20:25 - 8 minutes - 7.37 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- We welcome back our friend, author Douglas Rushkoff, 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.
UNLOCKED: Episode 288: Falun Gong Part 3.5
July 10, 2023 18:50 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBWe 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. Follow Steve's new Mark Fisher podcast on Patreon, YouTube, or Anchor: patreon.com/user?u=92745822 youtube.com/@LostFuturesPodcast podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lost-futures
Episode 304: Scando-nistas (trailer)
July 06, 2023 18:53 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- 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. Sarah merch, live shows, and more: linktr.ee/sarahsquirm
UNLOCKED: Episode 286: Falun Gong Part 3: Crazy Rich Asians
July 03, 2023 16:32 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBUnlocked! 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?
Episode 303: UFOs — Real or Nah? (trailer)
June 29, 2023 13:56 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- 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 @bpleasies (twitter.com/bpleasies) and @RobertSkvarla (twitter.com/RobertSkvarla).
Episode 302: Beautiful Human Submarines
June 26, 2023 13:34 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBWe 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."
Episode 301: Quiboloy (trailer)
June 22, 2023 13:15 - 6 minutes - 5.64 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- 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. Action network petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/justice-for-the-victims-of-apollo-quiboloy More info on the campaign: bit.ly/3JphKkM Gabriela on instagram: instagram.com...
Episode 300: Episode 300
June 19, 2023 13:36 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBWe 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.
299 - But His Emails Trailer
June 15, 2023 14:41 - 3 minutes - 3.36 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- 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.
Episode 298: James DiEugenio
June 12, 2023 13:55 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBWe sit down with author Jim DiEugenio to chat about his work on the Oliver Stone films JFK Revisited and JFK: Destiny Betrayed, chasing down assassination leads for thirty years, what Hollywood and the media get wrong, and much more. Check out Jim’s work at: www.kennedysandking.com Listen to our previous JFK coverage: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod?filters[search_query]=jfk
Episode 297: The Fogle Files Part 3 (trailer)
June 08, 2023 13:38 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- Jared Fogle rose to the top by eating Subway sandwiches. His downfall came from a dog-fucker. In this episode we discuss the numerous crimes and sick lives of convicted pedophile Jared Fogle and his foundation full of perverts.
Episode 296: The Fogle Files Part 2 (preview)
June 05, 2023 13:30 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- Jared Fogle goes to college — and against all decency and good taste, becomes the Führer of Fast Food Nation. Plus: porno rentals, stalking rumors, a brief history of Subway, Black Jareds, health halos, and more.
Episode 295: The Fogle Files Part 1 (preview)
June 01, 2023 13:53 - 10 minutes - 9.74 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- 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.
Episode 294: Bodies And Spaces
May 29, 2023 12:34 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBWe examine a pair of Twitter spaces, one successful (TrueAnon & frazzledrip), one a disaster (Ron DeSantis & Elon Musk). Plus Bill Gates blackmailed by Epstein and explosive allegations in the USVI lawsuit. patreon.com/TrueAnonPod
Episode 293: A Tale of Two Techies (trailer)
May 25, 2023 13:43 - 1 minute - 1.81 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- 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.
Episode 292: Liar, Liar
May 18, 2023 14:23 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBWe 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.
Episode 291: America's Sweetheart (trailer)
May 15, 2023 13:24 - 4 minutes - 4.12 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- 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. Panel discussion from Nodutol — real stories from participants in KEEP (Korean Education and Exposure Program): https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/22363997
Episode 290: The Beast
May 11, 2023 13:52 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBWe interview Oswaldo Zavala (twitter.com/Oswaldo__Zavala), the author of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist (vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504661/drug-cartels-do-not-exist/), about images, stories, and realities of drug cartels in Mexico and beyond. Plus parasites, stories, violence, the State & much more. Also by Oswaldo Zavala: La Guerra en las Palabras (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717742/la-guerra-en-las-palabras-una-historia-intelectual-del-narco-en-mexico-1975---2020--war-put-into-words-...
Episode 289: The Game Is Afoot (trailer)
May 08, 2023 14:30 - 4 minutes - 4.21 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod. ---------- 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.
UNLOCKED! Episode 233: Utah Detective
May 03, 2023 14:14 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBOriginally posted on June 17, 2022. To make sure you never miss an episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- The Utah County Ritual Abuse accusation take an even weirder turn as we look into a firsthand account of the Therapist’s attempts at mind control, manipulation, and terror.
Episode 288: Falun Gong Part 3.5 (trailer)
May 01, 2023 13:01 - 4 minutes - 4.27 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- 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. Follow Steve's new Mark Fisher podcast on Patreon, YouTube, or Anchor: patreon.com/user?u=92745822 youtube.com/@LostFuturesPodcast podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lost-futures
Episode 287: Creative Ass
April 27, 2023 13:51 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBOur 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. Buy the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-city-authentic-how-the-attention-economy-builds-urban-america/18908149 Check out David’s substack here: https://otherday.substack.com/
Episode 286: Falun Gong Part 3: Crazy Rich Asians (trailer)
April 24, 2023 12:47 - 4 minutes - 4.78 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- 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?
Episode 285: War, Etc. [trailer]
April 21, 2023 13:14 - 4 minutes - 4.19 MBTo hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- 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
Episode 284: Falun Gong Part 2: Qigong Fever
April 18, 2023 13:49 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBWe 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.
Episode 283: Falun Gong Part 1: Shen Yun
April 13, 2023 12:49 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBWe 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.