Magenta Pills

In this episode, I dissect Chuang Tzu's ancient Taoist story about the "Useless Tree" and how you can apply its lessons to your day-to-day life. Most prominently by evaluating your interpersonal relationships and understanding whether there is a mutual exchange of value.

And as I mentioned at the top of the episode, here is a link to the "What's This Tao All About?" podcast and here is the spot where you can donate to Dr. Totton's ...

Today I have an amazing guest to discuss an increasingly polarizing and prescient issue ravaging cities, health care systems, and families. 

I am speaking about the unprecedented and lethal expansion of the fentanyl/opioid epidemic across North American communities. A pharmacological plague that is killing at least 85k North Americans a year. 

In aiming to explore the complexities of our modern landscape, I want to delve into the f...

Over the last few days, we’ve seen some seemingly amazing developments emerge from the muck of electoral politics. 

In Argentina, their latest Presidential runoff led to the sharp and pointed rise of Libertarian leader Javier Melei. A self-described anarcho-capitalist whose charismatic loathing of leftists, libtards, and shitlibs, has lionized him in the eyes of the liberty sphere. A presumptive W for the good guys and a baby step ...

Would you defend clown world with your life?

A short podcast/article on what we should start to consider when thinking about the potential for massive geopolitical conflict on the horizon.

If it came down to it, would you enthusiastically sign up to fight for a Trudeau, Biden, and Sunak-led war?

If we did sacrifice our bodies, would we continue to be collectively spat upon by the elites and their minions after returning from battle...

Today my honoured guest and I are discussing a radical post-humanist/feminist manifesto known as Xenofeminism

Joining me to break it down and analyze the finer points is the amazing anti-feminist + men's rights activist Elizabeth Hobson

Topics include:

- Transhumanism

- Biological reality

- Feminist philosophy

-  Futurism

- Acceleration politics

- Human nature

Hope you all enjoy and let me know if you have any questions or comments...

Hey everyone, here is a Halloween episode for you to enjoy. A short story from the best damn sci-fi and horror writer of all time, HP Lovecraft 

The good news is that I recorded this last week. The bad news is that I contracted a head cold in the interim.

This ultimately meant that I was unable to record a post-recital analysis of the story and do a little rant on Lovecraft, loneliness, and introversion.

Regardless, I wish you a ha...

I regret to inform you that we are all officially the frog that has been plunked into the pot of exponentially warming waters of an economic panopticon.

One that poses incalculable risks to privacy, free speech, and private property.

Depressingly, this is already a forgone conclusion…you don’t have a choice in the matter. We will be forced to adopt CBDCs, or central bank digital currencies, within a generation if not sooner.

How ...

Hey everyone, this is a largely off-the-cuff media analysis episode that focuses on this article:

 "Conservative voters less likely to be proud to be Canadian"

And here is the poll this article is referring to: "Canada Day: Celebration Plans and Canadian Pride"

Topics include:

- Media bias

- Liberal fundamentalism

- Right vs. Left divide

- Conservative perspectives

- Microdosed propaganda

- National Divorce

Cheers and thanks for li...

The pressing matter of this podcast premier is what “magenta pills” actually means. So this episode will focus on the foundational axioms behind this terminology as well as the day-to-day applied philosophy of a magenta-pilled outlook.

In this episode, we look at:

- The basics of a magenta pill philosophy

- Internet symbology of the various pills

- Should we just kill ourselves?

- Our basic options re: worldviews

- Camus / the impo...

This is the abrupt finale of Smoke Filled Rooms...

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In this exceptional birthday gift episode (dedicated to my incredible Mother), I delve into a story of intense vigilante justice amidst Canada's settlers.

This is the account of the brutal massacre endured by the Black Donnellys of Biddulph, Ontario during the 19th century.

The Black Donnellys, an immigrant family hailing from Ireland, gained notoriety due to allegations of their involvement in crimes and acts of violence. Eventual...

Due to popular demand (i.e. the Unabomber's Manifesto being my most popular episode), I present to you a full rendition of Kaczynski's first political writing: "Progress Vs. Liberty" from 1971.

In this essay, we can see the seeds of anti-conformity and radical technological rebellion were already planted well within Ted's mind. Ones he would only 6 years later let bloom into black pills that, he would allege, justify his murderous ...

In part 1 of this Socratic miniseries, we will look at one of the greatest minds ever to grace the pages of philosophical history. 

We begin this epic journey through the ancient world by looking at the philosophy of the man himself, the socio-cultural reality of Athens in the 4th century BC, the overarching importance of pagan worship, and a foundational philosophical text that prefaces the trial. 

It's a true crime saga almost as...

Dissent, as we’ll come to learn in this episode, is the specific act of expressing disagreement or opposition to established policies, political authorities, or social zeitgeists.

And this is supposed to be a primary right in any democratic society that encourages the free flow of ideas and opinions.

Yet still, instances continually crop up where the State seems to willfully disregard the spirit and idealism of the First Amendment...

In this episode, I was visited by one of the greatest historical podcasters of our time. 

I’m of course talking about CJ Killmer of the Dangerous History podcast.

We compared and contrasted the historical, political and economic legacies of two of our most hated US presidents (who can rightly be described as criminals of the highest order)

My personal arch-nemesis is George W. Bush and CJ’s is Woodrow Wilson

Mr. Killmer is a self-...

“If one man dies of hunger, that is a grave tragedy. If millions die, that’s just a statistic.”

We are used to hearing about homicide, infanticide, ethnocide, possibly politicide, and genocide.

As grotesque and vile as all these various “cides” are, they can all essentially be umbrella’d under a bigger, and to me, more descriptive term. One that accurately accounts for all the aforementioned examples of atrocities and wanton acts o...

This podcast/audiobook is one that lay at the nexus of first-degree murder, militant ideology, and a multi-decade manhunt. That is to say, we will be looking at the primary source writings of one of the most notorious American terrorists of all time: Dr. Theodore John Kaczynski aka Ted Kaczynski aka Uncle Ted aka...The Unabomber

Kaczynski wanted a militant anarcho-primitivist bottom-up revolution reminiscent of the Luddite uprising...

Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were the iron-fisted Communist tyrants who ruled Romania for 24 brutal years. 

During their reign, the Romanian people endured decades of oppression, murder, starvation, human rights abuses, political imprisonments, spying, involuntary commitments to mental institutions, threats, and thievery.

It was a disgusting state of affairs.

But when a minor protest blossomed into a full-fledged revolution, Ceauses...

In this trick-or-treat bonus episode of Smoke Filled Rooms, we look at Guy Fawkes and the ‘Gunpowder Plot’.

The aspiring terrorist’s pale-faced, but giant goatee’d grin, is celebrated worldwide for its anti-government symbolism. 

But should political dissenters be using this particular man to further their critique of the State? What did Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators hope to achieve? And what ultimately became of their plan?