9 episodes
If Books Could Kill Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
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4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
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The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds
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The Lab Leak [TEASER]
In December 2019, the coronavirus pandemic began in Wuhan, China. In May 2021, America experienced one of the most cursed weeks of punditry we've ever seen.
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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
In 1992 a yoga instructor with a distance-learning PhD had the courage to ask: "Are women not getting help around the house because they're using the wrong modal verb?"
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TwitterPeter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources:
The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?A critical response to John Gray's Mars and Venus portrayals of men and women The Gender Similarities HypothesisThe Rebuttal from UranusComing home upset: Gender, marital satisfaction and the daily spillover of workday experience into couple interactionsFDA warning letter Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: An Analysis of a Potential MemeWomen, Men and Language Women, Men, and Gender: Ongoing DebatesWomen and Men Talking: Are They World’s Apart? -
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret" sold millions of copies based on a simple premise: All of science is fake and the only reason anything ever happens is because people manifest it by communicating with the universe.
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Power Lines Oprah's Ugly Secret The Staggering B******t of The SecretDeath by “alternative” medicine: Who’s to blame? For Some Seeking Rebirth, Sweat Lodge Was End A Little Secret About The Secret Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song! -
The Population Bomb
How a Stanford lepidopterist convinced the world to fear the breeding habits of the poor. Again.
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Sonia Shah’s “The Next Great Migration” Barbarian Hordes: The overpopulation scapegoat in international development discourseOptimism and OverpopulationThe Population Bomb RevisitedThe Strange History of Birth ControlBirth Control for OthersHow the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic HistoryWhy the Population Bomb is a Rockefeller Baby -
A Bari Special Bonus Episode [TEASER]
Our first premium episode is a deep dive into the blog of the infamously (and dubiously) "canceled" Bari Weiss.
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The Game
Neil Strauss's "The Game" aimed to teach any man how to hook up with beautiful women. All he needed was a little bit of sociopathy, a lot of misogyny and a fanny pack full of props.
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He's Simply Resistable Pickup Artists Are Still A Thing. And They Want You To Know They’ve Evolved.Misogynist Incels and Male Supremacism Would the Pickup Artist Stand a Chance in the #MeToo Era? Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
Customer Reviews
Such a good pair of hosts!
I’ve followed Michael through all of his podcasts, and he’s always my favorite host. He finally has someone that matches him super well! Peter is fun and smart like Michael. Love this pod
Fine but Overhyped
I’m a big fan of the entire Sarah Marshall Extended Podcast Universe and first discovered Michael Hobbes via You’re Wrong About. Since then, I’ve become a huge fan of Hobbes and Gordon’s Maintenance Phase, and I think, in both cases, Hobbes’s methodologically minded, meticulous work is complemented by women co-hosts who are able to take the issues and culture seriously all while inserting humorous, incisive, and insightful comments throughout. They feed into Mike’s best instincts, and while I find this new co-host pleasant enough, I can’t help but feel like this podcast feels more pedantic in tone and—more importantly—less groundbreaking (their targets are, by and large, older and by now already much-maligned works). If Maintenance Phase and Hobbes-era You’re Wrong About did important work critiquing still-prevalent pseudoscience and popularizing lesser-known histories of moral panics, respectively, then this latest pod feels more like two intelligent men preaching to the choir. I’ve learned loads from what came before, but I’m still waiting for something new or revelatory here.
Love love love
I love it even more looking at the negative reviews which really prove their points. Peter and Michael are the best!
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