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The Crumbling

Sophia Florence

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Four co-hosts combine their powers to discuss the people, events, and movements that caused our collective reality to crumble. Sophia Florence - Writer/comedian (horror movies and stand-up), policy advisor and copywriter, chemical engineer, and mathematician V - Sociologist and world's best hype woman Damian - Activist, scientist, and journalist Davin DuBois - Man of mystery and leisure The podcast addresses disinformation and misinformation, as well as giving accurate histories, with contex ...
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The co-hosts are joined by writer, researcher, and podcaster, Corrigan Vaughan (Jack of All Graves, Wisecrack) to talk about the SPOOKIEST couple of frauds there ever was - Ed and Lorraine Warren. They talk about the Conjuring movies, and how their legendary history is mostly just taking advantage of people with mental illness or aiding other peopl…
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The co-hosts are joined by journalist, researcher, and Congressional candidate for IL-09 (parts of Chicago and surrounding areas), Kat Abughazaleh. They talk about her history working for Media Matters and other outlets, why she's running, the term "influencer," ICE, and so much more. Check out Kat's links www.katforillinois.com Kat Abughazaleh ★ S…
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The co-hosts are joined by journalist and podcaster Heath Druzin (Howl, Extremely American, Boise State Public Radio) American discuss the direct line from Ron Paul's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns to the rising popularity of the militia movements. V finally lets one of her special interests out of the bag (this exact topic), and Heath illumi…
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The co-hosts continue to discuss the history of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics. From Uncle Milty (Milton Friedman) to Murray Rothbard, all your least favorite economists of this era make appearances in episodes 24 and 25 part of the Libertarianism series. This episode shows how Rothbard especially built a coalition that spawned one o…
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The co-hosts start to discuss the history of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics. From Uncle Milty (Milton Friedman) to Murray Rothbard, all your least favorite economists of this era make appearances in This and the Next few episodes Support the show ww.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcast show notes www.thecrumbling.beehiiv.com www.thecrumbl…
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Sophia and V are joined by the talented journalist, Laura Jedeed, to talk about her upbringing in the Objectivist philosophy. This is part 2 of a 2 episode block with Laura, with episode 22 being on Ayn Rand's thought in general, and her cultural impact more broadly. Support the show ww.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcast show notes www.thecrumbling.be…
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Sophia and V are joined by the talented journalist, Laura Jedeed, to discuss one of the right libertarian movements biggest contributors and haters: Ayn Rand. They discuss a bit of her history, but focus on her work and the impact it had. This is part 1 of a 2 episode block with Laura, with episode 23 being an interview with her on her family's adh…
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Sophia and V move into talking about two proto-chuds whose admissions of elitism would make Anton LaVey blush: HL Mencken and Albert Jay Nock. Both were brutally critical of democracy, and Nock was one of the first figures on the right to refer to himself as "libertarian." This episode explores three of the main characteristics of all libertarian i…
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Sophia, V, and Davin start a journey through the history of right libertarianism (libertarian capitalism), starting with its ideological forebears, and laying out some definitions. They discuss some of the greatest sh*t-talkers in philosophical and political history - French people in the 18th and 19th centuries. They discuss a bit of the history o…
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Sophia and V continue the two part interview with Aly Wane, an immigrants' rights activist, about his history with the work, his thoughts about our current moment, how we got there, and where we can go next. The connections between this and the prior interview with David Livingstone Smith are discussed, as well as ideas on dehumanization. The paral…
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Sophia, Davin, and V embark on the first episode of a two part interview with Aly Wane, an immigrants' rights activist, about his history with the work, his thoughts about our current moment, how we got there, and where we can go next. The "post-truth" moment is discussed, and how that informs the specific atrocities that we're all seeing laid out …
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Sophia, V, and Davin interview David Livingstone Smith, a professor of philosophy at the University of New England. The crew take a deep dive with Professor Smith into his area of expertise - dehumanization. They talk about how he got started studying dehumanization, how it arises, how it leads to genocides and other atrocities, and how it relates …
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Sophia and V are once again schooled by Davin on the court...the actual court, though, and not physically on it, and really it's other people that got schooled...but you get it! They talk about how a certain UConn athlete (!!!) accidentally revealed the truth of how student athletes were compensated (or not), and how things have changed since then.…
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Finally, Davin gets to tell a story! He fills the other co-hosts in on the story of the exploitation of NCAA athletes, prior to the push for some of them unionizing. He describes the conditions that led up to that movement, showing how the league continuously profited off of them, while denying them any chance at making money from their work. Also,…
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Returning for Part 2 of their deep dive into labor history. with a (mostly) serious panel discussion, Sophia and Andrew explore where we stand today, the historical impact of labor movements, and how they can help us build a future rooted in trust, authenticity, and solidarity. Join the conversation on the past, present, and power of collective act…
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T he co-hosts have a chance to chat with the journalist Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell and the upcoming book Fight To Win, about how labor movements provide a way to build a society based on trust, where disinformation doesn't have a chance to flourish. They also ask her what killer metal records have been coming out lately. Thanks t…
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The co-hosts are rounding out the journey through showing how climate change disinformation has led us to where we are now. They discuss the second Trump administration, and how it has, through DOGE and its own actions, buried information on climate change in order to benefit the American kleptocracy. They discuss the details of grants and other fu…
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Sophia , Andrew & Devon are joined by comedian and science educator Annam Choudhry https://www.instagram.com/annamlaughs . They all continue on the climate change journey, this time discussing the careers of two men who both worked for the Cato Institute (a right wing think tank co-founded by Murray Rothbard, one of the Koch brothers, and another p…
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The co-hosts continue their series on climate change, this time discussing both the mechanics of damaged caused by climate change and the escalation of disinformation in the 1970's and 1980's. Perry Como comes up, but nothing about climate change is a magic moment. Sophia loses her mind thinking about the reproductive habits of the eastern cottonta…
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The co-hosts talk about how the 1960's had such bad air quality that parts of 1965 were compared to the days after 9/11 in New York. They also learned that that year was just awful in general, and may rival 2020 and 2025 for sheer audacity in being a bad and uncertain time to live. The recurring villain makes a return trip because how could the Ame…
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The hosts open the discussion on climate change. They talk about how the potentials for climate change were discovered in the 1800's, and how it was identified to be happening in the early 1900's. They go on to discuss how disinformation started very quickly, funded by the petroleum industry. The AI co-host finally reveals his secret identity: Davi…
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The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Kash Patel, how he got where he is, and more importantly, what he intends to do with power if confirmed. They read one of his childrens' books, which is perhaps one of the worst things ever committed to paper. The glowing poo is revealed. https://www.patreon.com/TheCrumblingpodcast h…
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The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Roy Cohn, in order to show the parallels between his life and Kash Patel's. The discussion centers around his role in McCarthyism, as a lawyer for Trump, and why his life was so consequential, despite him being a corrupt and inept jerk. They also get into how some shoes have a sport …
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The co-hosts chat it up with Taylor Lorenz, in an interview that spends a lot of time talking about another interview: the one that she did with Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the account Libs of Tiktok, who used her platform to build massive harassment campaigns against queer people and their medical providers. They talk about how GamerGate laid …
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Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate set the stage for a lot of modern events, including the Groomer Panic, where people blamed the existence of queer youth on queer adults. The group talks about how this was spread largely by people like Chaya Raichik, who used her Twitter page, Libs of Tiktok, to spread mass panic across the conservative m…
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Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate gamed our collective understanding of reality, this time through how PizzaGate spawned QAnon. The group gives a light intro to the conspiracy theory, and how it spread through MLM mom's and a weird story about furniture. Andrew gets Q-pilled and becomes a crab rangooner. Javier is replaced with a potentia…
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Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate gamed our collective understanding of reality. Sophia resents that Mike Cernovich is a main character of anything, but the episode has a lot of content about him and his unambiguously pro-violence blog. The cohosts chat about crystals that stop 5G poisoning or something. Anonymous co-host goes by Javier f…
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Sophia and Andrew introduce themselves to the audience, and the anonymous co-host decides not to, and to go by Julian for the episode. Sophia starts to tell the story of GamerGate and why it has everything to do with how we have no collective sense of reality anymore. Andrew explains that he's a cat guy, and insists on a sponsorship deal. Julian ta…
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