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Explaining the weird new future, one podcast at a time. Subscribe for internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come. maxread.substack.com

  1. Talking Anthropic, Iran, and the Department of Defense with John Ganz

    4D AGO

    Talking Anthropic, Iran, and the Department of Defense with John Ganz

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., or, really, whenever it’s convenient, John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on. While the chat is free when live, and a short preview is available…

    15 min
  2. Is the left "behind" on A.I.?

    FEB 19

    Is the left "behind" on A.I.?

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., and sometimes on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., or, really, whenever it’s convenient, John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on. While the chat is free whe…

    21 min
  3. Talking fascism and the suicide right with John Ganz

    FEB 4

    Talking fascism and the suicide right with John Ganz

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., and sometimes on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., or, really, whenever it’s convenient. John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on. While the chat is free whe…

    30 min

  4. JAN 15

    Talking Minneapolis, Venezuela, Elon Musk, and speaking 'Trumpanese'

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m. John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on. This week, we were lucky enough to be joined by the great Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker staff writer, host of the “Critics…

    25 min
  5. Talking Trump's Reiner comments, Brown shooting misinformation, and white men in media with John Ganz and Jay Kang

    12/18/2025

    Talking Trump's Reiner comments, Brown shooting misinformation, and white men in media with John Ganz and Jay Kang

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com In this conversation--joined by Jay Caspian Kang of The New Yorker and Time To Say Goodbye, and about 7,000 confused viewers expecting discussion of Venezuela--we talked: Trump’s comments on Rob Reiner (covered by Ganz here) The fever-dream of rumor and conspiracy emerging on Twitter/X in the wake of the mass shooting at Brown University (and what’s changed from the panic that set in after the Boston Marathon bombing) Jacob Savage’s Compact magazine piece about white men in Hollywood and the media Charlotte Klein’s New York magazine piece about Bari Weiss. We also fought with a number of commenters on the livestream who arrived via a misleading Substack app push notification. Enjoy!

    20 min
  6. Talking A.I. bubbles and Trump's racist rant with John Ganz

    12/12/2025

    Talking A.I. bubbles and Trump's racist rant with John Ganz

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., John Ganz (author of The Year the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on. While the chat is free when live, and a short preview is available above, only paying subscribers ca…

    15 min
  7. Talking 'American Canto' and Jeffrey Epstein with John Ganz

    11/20/2025

    Talking 'American Canto' and Jeffrey Epstein with John Ganz

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com This week, John and I talked about the journalist Olivia Nuzzi, an excerpt from whose new memoir American Canto ran this week in Vanity Fair; her ex Ryan Lizza’s follow-up; Ganz’s annoyed response; the publication of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails; why Epstein would have loved the A.I. age; and what this all has to do with Machiavelli.While the chat is free when live, and a short preview is available above, only paying subscribers can access the archive of these chats as video and podcast audio!

    5 min
  8. Talking Zohran and Kalshi with John Ganz and Jay Kang

    11/06/2025

    Talking Zohran and Kalshi with John Ganz and Jay Kang

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., John Ganz (author of The Year the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on. Paying subscribers can access the archive of these chats as video and podcast audio. This week, we w…

    2 min
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Explaining the weird new future, one podcast at a time. Subscribe for internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come. maxread.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Max Read
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Max Read
  • Show Website
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