The Disinfo Detox

By Nolan Higdon

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Disinfo Detox is the podcast that cuts through the lies and scrubs propaganda from public discourse. Each episode, we break down major news stories, exposing the spin, omissions, and distortions that mainstream media won’t tell you about. With expert guests from journalism, academia, and media criticism, we dig deep into the legal battles, political maneuvering, and corporate influence shaping the news. Whether it’s government cover-ups, media bias, or the latest disinformation campaigns, we bring you the critical context you need to see through the noise.

Episode Date
The AI Job Threat, Campaign Cash Scandals, and the Corporate Capture of Education
May 21, 2026
The Brink of Bedlam: Missile Blocks, Nuclear Tests, and the 3.8% Squeeze
May 14, 2026
Trump’s Hormuz Withdrawal, Fetterman’s GOP Flirtation, & Kevin O’Leary’s Data Center War
May 07, 2026
How US Media Sanitizes Israeli War Crimes with Scholar Robin Andersen
May 06, 2026
The Surveillance State & The Satire Purge: Dissecting the New Dark Age
Apr 30, 2026
Scandal-Ridden Departures & The Mamdani Act: Why the Elite are Panicking
Apr 21, 2026
Congressional Corruption, Melania’s Epstein Statement, & The Push for Worker Power | Live with Nolan Higdon & Ron Placone
Apr 16, 2026
The Patriarchal Muzzle: How Pop Culture Centers and Silences Women
Apr 13, 2026
Economic Democracy: Breaking the Wealth Concentration Crisis
Apr 08, 2026
Breaking the Duopoly: Tom Joseph on the Rise of America’s Main Street Party
Mar 30, 2026
The Yellow Vest Revolution: Ida Susser on the Future of Global Democracy
Mar 25, 2026
Charismatic Prayer, Psychedelics, & The New Activism: Josh Brahinsky on Tongues of Fire
Mar 18, 2026
Killing the Punchline: How Big Tech and the Manosphere Rewired Comedy
Mar 04, 2026
MAGAcademy Episode 6: The COVID Catalyst: Remote Learning, Rogan, and the Erosion of Faculty Power
Mar 02, 2026
Can Butch Ware Upend CA? Housing, Poverty & The Democrats
Mar 02, 2026
The Stenographer’s Union: SOTU Spectacle and the Epstein Ledger
Feb 25, 2026
The Populism Cure: How to Fight Oligarchy & Reclaim America with Charles Derber
Feb 25, 2026
MAGAcademy Episode 5: The DEI Posture: Liberalism, Identity, and the First Trump Term
Feb 23, 2026
The Age of Hypocrisy: Big Tech’s Pentagon Pivot, CBS Censorship, and the Epstein Ledger
Feb 20, 2026
The Persuasion Economy: AI, Cognitive Hacks, and the Future of Truth
Feb 17, 2026
Episode 4: Students as Customers and Products — The Marketization of Learning
Feb 16, 2026
From Rodney King to ICE: The 5 Stages of a Government Cover-Up
Feb 13, 2026
The Epstein Eight & The Gabbard Doctrine: Media Literacy for the Next Crisis
Feb 11, 2026
MAGAcademy Episode 3: The Death of the Professor: How Adjunctification and Neoliberalism Destroyed Faculty Solidarity
Feb 09, 2026
The Epstein Dossier & The Architecture of Friendly Fascism: Unmasking Corporate Surveillance
Feb 04, 2026
MAGAcademy Episode 2: The Neoliberal Roots of Systemic Decay in Higher Education
Feb 04, 2026
RFK Jr., The CDC, and the "Drug Bust Paradox" with Dr. Charles LeBaron
Feb 02, 2026
The Anatomy of a Narrative in Minneapolis, Hate Mail, & The Dem-Led Clinton Subpoenas
Jan 28, 2026
MAGAcademy Episode 1: An Introduction to MAGAcademy
Jan 28, 2026
Debating the Moral and Cultural Erosion of America w/ Peter Calfee and J. Kevin Dolan
Jan 26, 2026
Is Trump a Fascist? The Minnesota Crisis and the New Gestapo
Jan 19, 2026
From Manufacturing Consent to the Epstein Calendars: The Rise and Fall of Noam Chomsky
Jan 12, 2026
From Page Boys to Pageants: The Scandals Before the Epstein Scandal
Jan 05, 2026
Digital Repression & Palestine: The Hidden Architecture of Big Tech’s Censorship
Dec 29, 2025
Media Mergers Are Killing Democracy | Netflix, Paramount & WBD Explained
Dec 17, 2025
Why Tradwives Are Trending — And Why the Manosphere Is Exploding
Dec 15, 2025
Manufacturing the 9/11 Generation: Patriotism, Propaganda, and the Lies We Were Told
Dec 08, 2025
Buried Truths: Why Corporate Media Is Terrified of the JFK and Epstein Documents
Dec 01, 2025
Inside the AI War Machine: Peter Byrne Reveals the Truth About Ro Khanna & Silicon Valley Militarism
Nov 24, 2025
The Epstein Papers & the MAGA Freakout: Brian Karem Pulls No Punches
Nov 17, 2025
Last Night’s Election Shockers: Who Really Won?
Nov 05, 2025
Are Democrats a Progressive Cult? Lisa Ekman & Nolan Debate
Nov 03, 2025
Inside the Democratic Party’s Dirty Secrets: Former State Rep Tells All
Oct 27, 2025
AI Hype Is Out of Control — Here’s What Librarians Know That You Don’t (W/ Alison Macrina)
Oct 20, 2025
The Secret Industry of Paid Protests — Exposed by the Man Who Built It w/ Adam Swart
Oct 14, 2025
RFK Jr.’s Health Revolution: Fact, Fiction, or Fear? W/ Wynn Tranfield
Oct 06, 2025
What Popular Culture Can Teach Us About Power and Resistance W/ Dr. Nicholas Baham III
Sep 30, 2025
Is Social Media Collapsing? Marketing Expert Explains What’s Next
Sep 29, 2025
Autism, Big Pharma, and the Politics of Pregnancy: What Expecting Mothers Need to Know
Sep 23, 2025
After Kirk: Can Empathy Save America From Itself? | Scott Jamieson on Global Citizenship
Sep 23, 2025
The Forgotten Side of Immigration—Professor John Corbally Tells All
Sep 22, 2025
The Kirk Fallout: Late-Night TV Purges, Campus Crackdowns & MAGA Civil War
Sep 18, 2025
Inside the CIA: Secrets, Scandals, and the Price of Whistleblowing W/ John Kiriakou
Sep 16, 2025
Forget the Headlines—These 3 Books Tell the REAL Story: Andrew Tonkovich Reveals the Reading List to Outsmart Propaganda
Sep 15, 2025
Did Gavin Newsom & SEIU Just Sell Out Rideshare Drivers?
Sep 10, 2025
Is Democracy Collapsing? Education, Foreign Policy & Protests in Crisis
Sep 09, 2025
Taylor Lorenz, Bari Weiss & CBS—Who Really Controls the News? | w/ Mickey Huff
Sep 08, 2025
AI Can’t Write This: Why Human Writing Still Rules 🎙️
Sep 04, 2025
Can You Really Trust Yourself Online? The Hidden Science of Misinformation
Aug 28, 2025
From AI to Crypto: Why Your Wallet Is Losing the Battle Against Politics—Mark Blyth Explains
Aug 25, 2025
Why Schools Aren’t Failing—It’s the System That’s Broken
Aug 21, 2025
Faculty Beware: The Summer That Shook Higher Ed W/ Trevor Griffey & Christina Ceisel
Aug 20, 2025
Gen Z Quits Sex and Booze… But Now They’re Performing Progressivism Instead?
Aug 20, 2025
Are Screens Really Ruining Us? Pete Etchells Reveals the Science You Haven’t Heard
Aug 19, 2025
🔥 Kevin Gosztola on Julian Assange, Press Freedom Under Attack & the Assassination of Anas al-Sharif
Aug 18, 2025
💣 “Your Doctor’s TikTok Feed Is Lying to You: Emily Pfender on Social Media, Science Skepticism, and Women’s Health”
Aug 14, 2025
🔥 Media Literacy Wrecking Crew: Joe Rogan’s Manosphere Meltdown, Assisted Suicide as Spectacle, and the Truth-or-Troll Showdown!
Aug 13, 2025
Trump’s War on UCLA: Historian Caroline Luce Breaks Down the Campus Culture Clash
Aug 11, 2025
📉 The Media Is Surrendering: Tim Karr Breaks Down the Media Capitulation Index (Full Interview)
Aug 11, 2025
Sneak Peek: The Media Is Surrendering: Tim Karr Breaks Down the Media Capitulation Index
Aug 06, 2025
Sydney Sweeney, Epstein, and Murdoch Walk into a News Cycle
Aug 06, 2025
Media Fails, Trump Cartoons, and Civics Collapse—Just Another Day at the Detox
Jul 31, 2025
Big Tech Is Dismantling Democracy — Here's How to Fight Back
Jul 28, 2025
AI Confesses to Manipulating a Human — You Won’t Believe What It Said! Plus deepfakes & more
Jul 22, 2025
Epstein, Israel, Colbert Canceled & Public Media Defunded: Welcome to the Disinformation Age
Jul 21, 2025
🎙️ How the Ad Industry Shapes Your Mind — and What You Can Do About It | ft. Alessandra Di Lorenzo
Jul 16, 2025
They’re Rewriting Reality: Epstein Truths, AI Propaganda, and Grok’s Dark Turn
Jul 16, 2025
The Wrecking Crew Breaks Down Project 2025—and Your Media Habits
Jul 11, 2025
TikTok’s ‘Man of the Year’ Trend: Feminism, Masculinity, and the Media Machine (W/ Allison Butler)
Jul 11, 2025
Massie’s District Up for Grabs? James Higdon weighs in on Trump, Elon, and the Fight for Power
Jul 03, 2025
Elizabeth Blakey Exposes the Legal Lies in the Trump vs. Media Debate
Jul 03, 2025
Pulitzer Prize Journalist David Cay Johnston on Trump, Media Corruption, and the CBS Scandal
Jul 02, 2025
Media Literacy Wrecking Crew: DHS Doublespeak & the Disinfo Game
Jul 02, 2025
“Déjà Vu: Iran, Israel, and the Iraq War Playbook
Jun 24, 2025
The Media Literacy Wrecking Crew Takes On War, AI, and “No Kings” Protests
Jun 18, 2025
Why This History Professor Says Media Can’t Be Trusted on Iran-Israel (W/ Mickey Huff)
Jun 18, 2025
How Higher Ed Lost America: Trump’s Dismantling Was Years in the Making (W/ Trevor Griffey)
Jun 17, 2025
The Crackdown in LA: What the Media Didn’t Tell You
Jun 12, 2025
The AI Revolution Is a Lie? Apple Drops Bombshell Study
Jun 12, 2025
Trump vs. Elon, Riots in CA, Dems Beg Men, COVID Flip-Flop — What You’re Not Being Told
Jun 09, 2025
Media Literacy Wrecking Crew Destroys AI-Generated Gov’t Report + Charlie Kirk’s Lies Exposed!
Jun 05, 2025
🔥 Fake News Fallout, Mental Health Smears, Harvard at War, & AI Panic | w/ Dickey & Sydney Sullivan
May 28, 2025
Dual Income, No Kids (DINKs): Kathryn Bromwich on the DINK Backlash
May 28, 2025
CBS in Crisis, Biden’s Decline Ignored, and Grok Goes Rogue — Bill Yousman Unpacks It All
May 21, 2025
Detoxing the Headlines: Dissecting Media Failures from CNN to South Africa
May 20, 2025
Sharyl Attkisson: How Legacy Media Lost the Plot on Biden, Trump, and the Truth
May 19, 2025
AI and War: The Dark Future Revealed w/ Chris Hables Gray
May 12, 2025
The Dark Art of Character Assassination: How Disinfo Silences Critics (w/ Sergey A Samoilenko )
Apr 30, 2025
AI in Schools: The Scary Truth You Haven’t Heard (w/ Allison Butler & Sydney Sullivan)
Apr 30, 2025
🏛️ “No History, No Freedom: The High Price of Civic Ignorance” (w/ Mickey Huff)
Apr 19, 2025
Why Don’t We Teach Kids to Think Critically About the Media They Consume? (w/ Frank Baker) | The Disinfo Detox
Apr 18, 2025
Robert McChesney Remembered as Steve Macek Dismantles Trump's Media Tactics
Apr 18, 2025
How Budget Cuts Are Destroying College from the Inside Out (w/ Katie Rodger) | The Disinfo Detox
Apr 09, 2025
Trump vs. The First Amendment: A Deep Dive into the Hypocrisy
Apr 04, 2025
AI’s Flaws Are Bigger Than You Think—Here’s Why (w/ Tina Austin) | The Disinfo Detox
Apr 02, 2025
Your Child’s Data Is for Sale: The Dark Side of EdTech (with Claudiu Popa)
Mar 18, 2025
Exposing the AI Hype: The Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Promises with Gary Smith
Mar 12, 2025
The Science Cover-Up: Why the News is Failing You
Mar 09, 2025
The Disinfo Detox: Oligarchy, Media Influence & Trump’s Second Term (w/Peter Phillips)
Mar 05, 2025
Media Meltdown Over JFK Files—What Are They Hiding?
Mar 02, 2025
Remote Learning Exposed – Insights from Adam Bessie
Feb 28, 2025
Are News Deserts Silencing Your Community? The Truth They’re Not Telling You! (w/Craig Lazzeretti)
Feb 28, 2025
Trump’s Second Term and the Future of Labor: Breaking Down the NLRB with Caroline Luce
Feb 17, 2025
Would the fate of the Palestinians be different under a President Harris? w/Robin Andersen
Feb 17, 2025
From Fake News to Gag Orders: Trump’s Legal Battles with the Press w/Mickey Huff
Feb 13, 2025