Decoding the Gurus

By Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

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Subscribers: 770
Reviews: 10
Episodes: 161

Rich
 Oct 4, 2023
I've never heard them have a balance of guests. 3 virologists, all of the same mind. Get e.g. Judy Mikovitz or Gert Vanden Bossch if you want real dialog on lab leak vs wet market. 5/23 "antivax lunacy" ?? Have you guys paid NO attn for 3 yrs? 10/23 very strange oozing envy of the Triggernometry guys. Oh no! "They check their download metrics."

Andreas
 Jul 24, 2023
Very entertaining and informative in many ways. The two hosts both have their strengths and weaknesses, and are not afraid to correct the other. Only drawback is that its not harsh enough in its criticism of the danes.

Good, but long, long, long
 Jun 10, 2023

Mcgoob
 Dec 10, 2022


 Aug 8, 2022

Description

An exiled Northern Irish anthropologist and a hitchhiking Australian psychologist take a close look at the contemporary crop of 'secular gurus', iconoclasts, and other exiles from the mainstream, offering their own brands of unique takes and special insights. Leveraging two of the most diverse accents in modern podcasting, Chris and Matt dig deep into the claims, peek behind the psychological curtains, and try to figure out once and for all... What's it all About? Join us, as we try to puzzle our way through and talk some smart-sounding smack about the intellectual giants of our age, from Jordan Peterson to Robin DiAngelo. Are they revolutionary thinkers or just grifters with delusions of grandeur? Join us and let's find out!

Episode Date
Curtis Yarvin: The Edgelord's Guide to Monarchy 40K
Dec 25, 2024
DTG Christmas Quiz 2024 with Helen Lewis & Badstats
Dec 13, 2024
Supplementary Material 19: Critic-O-Rama with extra trans-dimensional alien demons
Nov 29, 2024
Dawkins vs. Peterson: There Be Dragons
Nov 24, 2024
Supplementary Material 18: The Clown Car Cometh
Nov 16, 2024
Sabine Hossenfelder: Science is a Liar ... Sometimes
Nov 12, 2024
Guru US Election Special
Nov 04, 2024
Supplementary Material 17: American Dreams, YouTube Algorithms, and Poisonous Plastics
Nov 01, 2024
Book Review: The Selfish Gene
Oct 28, 2024
Interview with Flint Dibble (Round 2): Battling Pseudo Archaeology & Sharing Science
Oct 20, 2024
John Vervaeke and Jordan Peterson: Word Worshipers
Oct 15, 2024
Supplementary Material 16: Riding a Phoenix to Rescue the Gurusphere
Oct 08, 2024
Gurometer: Dr. K (Bonus Preview)
Oct 05, 2024
Decoding Academia 30: Sadistic Trolls love Dark Humour *Preview*
Oct 02, 2024
Darryl Cooper, Nazi Apologetics, & Disturbances in the Discourse
Sep 24, 2024
Supplementary Material 15: Russian Stooges, Lex Love-bombs, and Heterodox Hypocrisy
Sep 16, 2024
Dr. K (Part 3): Therapeutic Non-Therapy
Sep 13, 2024
Supplementary Materials 14: Return to the Gurusphere
Aug 31, 2024
Supplementary Materials 13: Dead Bears, Biblical Stories, and Coffeezilla's Legal Battle
Aug 14, 2024
Bryan Johnson: Definitely not a vampire!
Aug 11, 2024
Supplementary Materials 12: Olympic Ceremonies and Presidential Candidates
Aug 04, 2024
Gabor Maté: Achieving Authenticity, Tackling Trauma, and Minimizing Modern Malaise
Aug 03, 2024
Supplementary Materials 11: Alex Jones is at it again
Jul 27, 2024
Ranking the Gurus
Jul 25, 2024
Supplementary Materials 10: Rigorous Conspiracy Hypothesising about the Trump Shooting
Jul 19, 2024
Dr. K (Part 2): Rhetorical Judo Flips
Jul 08, 2024
Supplementary Materials 9: Galaxy Brains Collide
Jul 06, 2024
Dr. K (Part 1): OPed Ayurvedic Medicine vs. Nerfed 'Western' Allopathy
Jun 23, 2024
Supplementary Materials 8: Lab Leak Discourse, Toxic YouTube Dynamics, and the Metaphysics of Peppa Pig
Jun 07, 2024
Slavoj Žižek: When is a shark not a shark?
Jun 02, 2024
Supplementary Materials 7: Guru Oneupmanship, Hard Ad Pivots, MOOOINK, and Left Wing Populism
May 27, 2024
Destiny: Right to Reply
May 24, 2024
*Preview* Decoding Academia 27: Dark Triad Authenticity
May 16, 2024
Supplementary Materials 6: Christian Sensemaking, Hipster Race Realists, & Marijuana Pseudoscience
May 10, 2024
Interview with Flint Dibble on Pseudo Archaeology and Science Communication
May 02, 2024
Supplementary Material 5: Spiritual UFOs, Alternative Theories of Evolution, and Atlantean Grievances
Apr 26, 2024
Destiny: Debate King and/or Degenerate?
Apr 22, 2024
Supplementary Material 4: Passive Aggressive Therapists, Shit-posting Monks, and Weaponised Naivety
Apr 13, 2024
Yuval Noah Harari: Eat Bugs and Live Forever
Apr 05, 2024
Supplementary Material 3: Sand-worms, Anti-Capitalist Merch, and High Level Idea-Jacking
Mar 31, 2024
Mini-Decoding: The Descent of Jordan B. Peterson
Mar 26, 2024
Supplementary Material 2: Dissident Dialogues, Bloodbaths, & Genocidal Debates
Mar 22, 2024
Gurometer: Hasan Piker *PREVIEW*
Mar 15, 2024
Hasan Piker: A swashbuckling Bromance
Mar 13, 2024
Supplementary Material 1: Cringe Immunity & Supplemental Ethics
Mar 07, 2024
Interview with Kevin Mitchell on Agency and Evolution
Mar 06, 2024
Sean Carroll: The Worst Guru Yet?!?
Mar 02, 2024
Mini-Decoding: Indulgent Monologuing
Feb 28, 2024
Sam Harris: Right to Reply
Feb 17, 2024
The Passion of the Jordan and the Wisdom of the Bret
Feb 09, 2024
Mini Decoding: Yuval and the Philosophers
Jan 30, 2024
DTG's Face to Face Reflections 2024
Jan 19, 2024
Mini-Decoding: Huberman on the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Dec 28, 2023
Sam Harris: Transcending it All?
Dec 24, 2023
DTG Christmas Quiz 2023 with Helen Lewis
Dec 22, 2023
Red Scare: Bohemian Hipsterism x Reactionary Tradcaths
Dec 08, 2023
Interview with Daniël Lakens and Smriti Mehta on the state of Psychology
Nov 18, 2023
Andrew Huberman and Peter Attia: Self-enhancement, supplements & doughnuts?
Nov 09, 2023
Interview with Julia Ebner: Extremist Networks & Radicalisation
Oct 16, 2023
Triggernometry's Big Moment: Entering the Guru Galaxy
Oct 03, 2023
Interview with the Conspirituality Trio: Navigating the Chakras of Conspiracy
Sep 19, 2023
Andrew Huberman: Forest Bathing in Negative Ions
Sep 06, 2023
Noam Chomsky: Lover of linguistics, the USA... not so much
Aug 18, 2023
The Science and the Art of Gurometry
Jul 22, 2023
Mick West & Eric Weinstein: UFO Tango
Jul 14, 2023
Interview with Jonathan Howard on Covid Contrarians
Jun 23, 2023
"Mini" Decoding of Michael Shermer's Advice on Conspiracy Theories
Jun 21, 2023
Interview with Mick West: UFOs, Aliens, and Conspiracy Psychology
Jun 17, 2023
Eliezer Yudkowksy: AI is going to kill us all
Jun 10, 2023
Interview with Renée DiResta: Online Ecosystems, Disinformation, & Censorship Debates
May 20, 2023
Christopher Hitchens: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ramadan
May 15, 2023
Interview with Matt Johnson on Christopher Hitchens
May 09, 2023
Oprah Winfrey: Self Actualising Your Destiny
Apr 16, 2023
"Mini" Decoding of Matthew Goodwin & Interview with Paul Bloom
Apr 08, 2023
Interview with Travis View: QANon & Modern Conspiracies
Mar 25, 2023
Interview with Worobey, Andersen & Holmes: The Lab Leak
Mar 11, 2023
Dave Rubin: A Pointless Partisan Pundit
Mar 08, 2023
Bill Maher: A boozy, stoned, liberal take on classic anti-vax tropes
Feb 25, 2023
Daniel Dennett: It's Evolution Baby
Feb 02, 2023
"Mini" Decoding of Konstantin Kisin's Oxford Union speech
Jan 21, 2023
Interview with Coffeezilla on Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and modern scammers
Jan 14, 2023
Elon Musk: The Techno Shaman
Dec 29, 2022
DTG Christmas Special 2022 with Helen Lewis
Dec 27, 2022
Guru Right to Reply with Jamie Wheal
Dec 10, 2022
Interview with Manvir Singh on Gurus & Shamans
Nov 17, 2022
Robin DiAngelo: Matt and Chris struggle with their fragility
Nov 02, 2022
Interview with Konstantin Kisin from Triggernometry on Heterodoxy, Biases, and the Media
Oct 16, 2022
Peterson, Murray & Pageau: Transcendent Tableware
Oct 01, 2022
Interview with Neil Levy on Intellectual Virtue Signalling
Sep 27, 2022
Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal & Jordan Hall: Making Sense about Making Sense of Sensemaking
Sep 14, 2022
Interview with Helen Lewis on culture wars and religion, that Jordan Peterson interview, and gurus generally
Sep 03, 2022
Interview with Dan Friesen from Knowledge Fight on Alex Jones, the Sandy Hook Trial, and conspiracy ecosystems
Aug 27, 2022
John Vervaeke & Jonathan Pageau: Decoding the Demons
Aug 21, 2022
Interview with Elgen Strait on the Unification Church and the assassination of Shinzo Abe
Aug 20, 2022
Special: Guru Right to Reply with Robert Wright
Jul 31, 2022
Recoding Jordan Peterson: Think again, Sunshine!
Jul 24, 2022
*Patreon Preview* Lex and Haidt: Gurometer Ratings
Jul 10, 2022
Lex Fridman & Jonathan Haidt: The Techno Monk & The Social Scientist
Jul 08, 2022
Interview with Nathan Allebach on Online Brands, Weird Twitter & that Steak Umms Account
Jun 11, 2022
Jaron Lanier: Fear of an Algorithmic Planet
May 30, 2022
*Patreon Preview* Decoding Academia 8: Monkey see, Monkey do?
May 24, 2022
Interview with Michael Inzlicht on the Replication Crisis, Mindfulness, and Responsible Heterodoy
May 20, 2022
Very Bad Gurus with David Pizarro & Tamler Sommers
Apr 29, 2022
Interview with Timbah Toast on his Tim Pool Documentary & Scooby Doo Partisans
Apr 23, 2022
Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Absolute Decoding
Apr 09, 2022
Interview with Elgen Strait on growing up in the Moonies & cultish manipulation
Mar 31, 2022
Interview with Julian Walker on Conspirituality, Conspiracies and (Global) Culture Wars
Mar 26, 2022
Interview with Josh Szeps, The Rumble from Downunder
Mar 17, 2022
James Lindsay & Michael O'Fallon: Eating bugs for Feminist Glaciology
Mar 06, 2022
Interview with Liam Bright on Scientific Orthodoxy, Reform Efforts & DTG's Philosophy
Mar 03, 2022
Interview with Virginia Heffernan on Edge, the dangers of Scientism, & Culture Wars
Feb 26, 2022
Robert Wright: A Cosmic Journey Across the Bob-o-verse
Feb 19, 2022
Interview: Debunking (Antivaxx) Funk with Dr Dan Wilson
Feb 11, 2022
Special: Joe Rogan 'Sorry, not Sorry'
Feb 04, 2022
*Patreon Preview* Malone & McCullough: Gurometer Ratings
Jan 28, 2022
Robert Malone & Peter McCullough: A litany of untruths
Jan 13, 2022
*Patreon Preview* Decoding Academia #2: False Positive Psychology
Dec 30, 2021
Joe Rogan: Just an average Joe?
Dec 18, 2021
Special: Guru Right to Reply with Chris Williamson
Dec 10, 2021
Decoding Academia: Matt on his ENTIRE research career *Patreon Sample*
Dec 03, 2021
Brené Brown: Matt and Chris courageously embrace their vulnerability
Nov 26, 2021
Decoding Academia: Chris on Religion & Ritual *Patreon Sample*
Nov 23, 2021
Interview with Annie Kelly on Vaccines, Conspiracies, & Misinformation
Nov 07, 2021
Special: Interview with Sam Harris on Gurus, Tribalism & the Culture War
Oct 30, 2021
Mikhaila Peterson: The Marvelous World of Meat
Oct 26, 2021
Interview with Stuart Neil on SARS CoV-2
Oct 09, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Stuart Ritchie on Hunter Gatherers in the 21st Century, covid skeptics, and bad science
Sep 24, 2021
Jordan Hall: Sensemaking, or the superficial pitter-patter on the neocortex?
Sep 11, 2021
Special Episode: Welcome to Weinstein World with special guest David Pizarro
Aug 27, 2021
Gad Saad: Oh my Gad, it's the Saadfather!
Aug 20, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Robert Wright on crackpots, gurus, and modern media ecosystems
Aug 13, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Evan Thompson on Buddhist Exceptionalism
Jul 30, 2021
Carl Sagan: My God, it's full of stars
Jul 23, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Daniel Harper on the Far Right & IDW Criticism
Jul 15, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Amanda Montell on Cultish Linguistics
Jul 02, 2021
Anthony DeMello: The Bob Ross of Spiritual Gurus?
Jun 26, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Jesse Singal on Quick Fix Psychology
Jun 18, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Tim Nguyen on Geometric Unity
Jun 12, 2021
Bret Weinstein & Jordan Peterson: Two gargantuan intellects stare into the abyss
Jun 04, 2021
Brett Weinstein & Heather Heying: Why are 'they' suppressing Ivermectin, the miracle cure?
May 22, 2021
Michael O"Fallon: The Jacobins are Back..... To Reset..... Everything.... Dun Dun Daah!
May 06, 2021
Gwyneth Paltrow: Crawling with parasites and in need of a cleanse
Apr 13, 2021
Special Episode: Sam Harris & Meditation is all you need
Apr 02, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Phrost on Bullshido
Mar 19, 2021
Ibram X. Kendi: Gurometer Rating (Patreon Preview)
Mar 12, 2021
Ibram X. Kendi: Inside you are two wolves. One of them is racist.
Mar 06, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Matthew Remski on Conspirituality
Feb 20, 2021
Nassim N. Taleb: Everything these idiots, frauds, and assholes don't understand
Feb 09, 2021
Special Episode: Interview with Thi Nguyen, a Gurometer's Guru
Jan 29, 2021
Douglas Murray: Can indulgent dinner conversation save OUR civilisation?
Jan 22, 2021
Special Episode: Calibrating the Gurometer
Jan 09, 2021
Contrapoints: Making Philosophy Fabulous Again
Dec 28, 2020
Special Episode: Entering the Portal
Dec 18, 2020
Scott Adams: Chris and Matt Go to Hell
Dec 10, 2020
Russell Brand: Spiritual Transcendence and Anarchic Revolution is Praxis
Nov 21, 2020
Rutger Bregman: Piglets vs. Toddlers
Nov 07, 2020
Special Episode: Is Eric Weinstein Feynman-Negative?
Oct 30, 2020
JP Sears: Get Ultra Spiritual, Resist the Government, and Promote Coronavirus Conspiracies
Oct 23, 2020
Jordan Peterson: The Alchemical Lemon explains the Crystalline Structure of Logos
Oct 09, 2020
James Lindsay: The monkey is out of the box and it HATES liberalism
Sep 23, 2020
Eric and Bret Weinstein: A Dark Horse Gallops through the Portal
Sep 09, 2020