Decoding the Gurus

By: Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
  • Summary

  • 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!
    Copyright 2024 Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
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Episodes
  • Supplementary Material 19: Critic-O-Rama with extra trans-dimensional alien demons
    Nov 29 2024

    In this truly epic-length supplementary material, we spin 70 critical paradigms simultaneously while trying to avoid the wily tricks of some hostile transdimensional forces. Do we succeed? Join us to find out!

    Supplementary Material 19

    00:24 Introduction: More American Insights(!)

    13:12 Peterson Orbiters: The Pageau Brothers

    17:41 Pageau & Rod Dreher: Aliens are transdimensional spirits

    25:56 Pageau: Alex Jones was Right!

    27:01 Peterson & Pageau's Lazy Christian Apologetics

    44:17 Joe Rogan: Fuck Ukraine!

    56:28 Peter Thiel has questions about Vaccines and Autism

    01:03:20 Big Rogan's CENSORSHIP CAMPAIGN against Flint Dibble

    01:09:07 Nassim Taleb vs. Colin Wright: Seed Oils

    01:23:10 Taleb and Squid Ink Flounces

    01:32:40 Conspirituality & the issues with extended analogies

    01:50:27 Leftist Millenarianism?

    01:56:06 Cultish Spectrums

    02:02:34 Critical Feedback: Decoding the Decoders

    02:08:30 You were not allowed to talk about this!

    02:21:56 Signing Off

    The full episode is available for Patreon subscribers (2hrs 24 mins).

    Join us at: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus

    Sources

    • Free Press- Peter Thiel and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites
    • Jonathan Pageau - Living in Wonder - with Rod Dreher
    • Jordan Peterson - Beyond Dawkins | Jonathan Pageau | EP 496
    • Taleb's Twitter Rampage with Colin Wright on Seed Oils
    • Consumer Reports: Do Seed Oils Make You Sick?
    • Conspirituality: Brief: Post-Election Online Survivor Group Dynamics
    • Be Scofield: A Critical Review of Amanda Montell's "Cultish"
    • A Public Letter to Joe Rogan from Flint Dibble
    • Joe Rogan Experience #2231 - Jimmy Corsetti & Dan Richards
    • Kyiv Independent: Ukrainians react to Joe Rogan’s rant on Ukraine

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    48 mins
  • Dawkins vs. Peterson: There Be Dragons
    Nov 24 2024

    In this special episode, we return to the forboding Dragon's Den of the Peterson-verse and enjoy a rather punchy conversation between Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins, facilitated by Alex O'Connor.

    As always, the discussion is dense with abstract symbolic interpretations, evasive answers to direct questions about biblical events, and highly speculative claims. So Matt and Chris don their best decoding armour, steel their resolve, and prepare to face down endless waves of indulgent analogies and the constant conflation of mythological and scientific truths.

    Important insights from Matt on American public toilets, shower technology, and stories of Chris' previous life as a coal-shovelling street urchin are also included.

    Links

    • Dawkins vs Peterson: Memes & Archetypes | Alex O’Connor Moderates | EP 491
    • The Times: We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan Peterson review — rambling, hectoring and mad
    • The Guardian: We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a culture warrior out of his depth

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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Supplementary Material 18: The Clown Car Cometh
    Nov 16 2024

    Still in the land of the free and restocked with important new insights from his US travels, Matt is confronted with the Gurusphere's predictably depressing reaction to the election. And what's that we hear in the distance... is it a honking car?

    Supplementary Material 18

    00:00 Matt's American Ethnography

    10:59 Eric Weinstein is waiting for the call

    14:32 Huberman, Krauss, and MAGA Sycophancy

    18:39 Boghossian and other would-be Intellectual Clerics of the MAGA regime

    22:52 Sam Harris criticises Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and MAGA

    32:05 The Fifth Column, The Free Press and World Weary Both Sides-ing

    53:19 Election Reflections: Macro and Micro Causes

    01:04:40 Longer Term Trends

    01:10:08 Sarah Haider and the Hip Vibe of the New Right

    01:24:00 Richard Dawkins Dual Nature

    01:31:08 A Plea to Sean Carroll and our Listeners

    01:33:06 An important note on Bouldering

    The full episode is available for Patreon subscribers (1hr 36 mins).

    Join us at: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus

    Links

    • Eric's phone is not ringing
    • Huberman making his pitch
    • Krauss being a sycophant to Elon
    • Boghossian's lack of interest in protests in Hungary
    • Sam Harris Making Sense 391: The Reckoning
    • A Special Place in Hell: Adios Amigos: The Special Place Finale
    • That graph mentioned about the loss of support for incumbent regimes
    • Dawkins being a fool on Twitter
    • The Fifth Column: #234 - Come On and Zoom! (Wagnerian Opera Edition)

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    38 mins

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Ive tried really hard to like this show as i was interested in a critique of the “new media” that has become mainstream. Mainly because its not as rigorous as the “legacy media”. Unfortunately it is extremely biased and emotional whilst also claiming its a rational critique. The presenters voices are hard to tolerate and come across quite arrogant. The bias is towards liberalism and certainly not woke. The majority of the show is criticising conservatives for hating on the “woke”, because thats all they do. This irony is lost on them. They are devoid of humour.

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