Truth Unrestricted
Confirmation bias, commonplace assumptions, and the zeitgeist itself are disassembled, examined, and reassembled in a detailed autopsy on our current ideaspace. Everyday concepts you probably take for granted are examined in a new light.
Episodes
97 episodes
Practical Fascism
Fascism attempts to weaponize human selfishness and hatred. It encourages the worst parts of people on a grand scale. How can we recognize it? How can we counter it? What can we, as individuals, do against something that subverts entire nations...
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Episode 94
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40:27
Violence Of Our Ancestors
Truth and Reconciliation Day is a relatively new Canadian holiday that recognizes the struggle of indigenous peoples in Canada and the world while also working on healing rifts and countering racial hate. Len Morissette is a co-founder of C.I.A...
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Episode 93
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1:06:23
Immigration Lies
It is obvious that Trump plans to use fear about immigrant crime as a wedge issue in the upcoming election. The current focal point for this effort is on Haitian migrants in Springfield, OH. Is anything about this factual?Linkshttps...
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Episode 92
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1:02:58
US Election Update - September
The first (and likely only) debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is over. All of Trump's pending legal issues and have been delayed until after the election. And Taylor Swift has given her endorsement. Are we almost out of election stu...
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Episode 91
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1:27:00
Staged
When a lone gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th, we saw online the birth of a new conspiracy belief. It has heavily influenced a large number of people on the left to participate in consp...
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Episode 90
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1:24:24
Skepticism with Daniel Loxton
NotesDaniel Loxton is an author and science communicator. He has published books about skepticism and was previously the editor of Junior Skeptic magazine. Daniel, David Bloomberg and I discuss skepticism, its importance, and how we can pro...
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Episode 89
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1:24:48
US Election Update - August
Topics covered in brief:DemocratsWalz is VP. How is that going?Harris and Walz have been doing rallies that are *packed* and very high energy.Polls: many polls now show Harris as climbing and leading, though still by a s...
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Episode 88
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1:48:40
Blindness of Zealotry
Zealotry in a single person is characterized as the amplification of the importance of one single subject to the point that all other subjects have little or no relative importance. Anyone can engage in zealotry and it can lead to many negative...
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Episode 86
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57:50
Presidential Debate: A Complicated Truth
No notes for this episode. David and I sat down to record on a completely different topic and then decided very suddenly to do this conversation instead. Was it the right decision? Would this impulsiveness be good in other situations?
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Episode 85
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1:11:54
Jordan Peterson's Misogyny
Jordan Peterson is a right wing polemicist who shouldn't have any measure of celebrity. The fact he does is due to some deeply flawed ideas that were not properly debunked in the moment when he was gaining popularity. I say better late than nev...
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Episode 84
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1:02:18
Imperfect Information Games
Game theory gives us terminology to understand the fundamentals of the games we play. How inforation is hidden and/or discovered is a big part of how we play games and why we think some of them are fun. David Bloomberg and I explore how it is t...
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Episode 83
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44:42
Conspiracy Addiction 2 with Stephanie Kemmerer
Content warning: this episode of the Truth Unrestricted podcast contains graphic descriptions of drug addiction and some of the ways that people suffer from drug addiction. Listener discretion is advised.Conspiracism as compared directl...
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Episode 82
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52:36
US Election: 34 Counts
David and Spencer breakdown the current state of the 2024 Us election. This is recorded one day after the Manhattan verdict of 34 guilty counts involving hush money payments made by Trump to hide affairs.LinksTimelinehttps://www...
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1:32:34
Crowdsourced Storytelling
Crowdsourcing is the process of using a lot of different people all adding a little bit of effort to accomplish a large task. Crowdsourced Storytelling is about the way in which we tell stories online in an attempt to understand the world...
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Episode 80
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11:45
Schrodinger's Meaning
Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment which is meant to illustrate some of the absurdity of what is happening with Quantum Mechanics. In the thought experiment the life of a cat is directly related to the state of a particle. Quantum Mechan...
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Episode 79
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48:28
Reality Inversion
Reality Inversion is a psychological concept seen among conspiracists wherein evidence that should show them the truth instead reinforces their fantasies. Stephanie Kemmerer joins me for a discussion about the topic with many relevant examples....
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Episode 78
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37:29
Audience Captured
Audience Capture has a second meaning! It describes when a person is stuck having to perform for their audience. David Bloomberg and Spencer discuss this aspect in an addendum to the previous episode about Audience Capture.
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Episode 77
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32:44
Conservative Unreality
This episode might upset some people. If what is said here offends you, I want to hear about it. Send all feedback to truthunrestricted@gmail.com. If you agree with what I've said I also want to hear from you, even if it's only a score out of t...
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Episode 76
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23:24
US Election Update - March
These US Election Update episodes are an attempt to chronicle the twisting tale of history as it is happening for an event that we are certain will affect the future. We discuss each of the major candidates and what is currently affecting their...
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Episode 75
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1:27:38