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The World Cup 2026: The Good, The Bad & The Deeply Uncomfortable Truth
Jun 24, 2026
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Never Gonna Give You Up Pt. 2 — re:publica Debrief: Hope, Haters & the Coalition Problem
May 30, 2026
22m 23s
Never Gonna Give You Up
May 13, 2026
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How Censorship Works in 2026 (It Looks Like Accounting)
May 6, 2026
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The Therapy Aesthetic: Decoding Bieber's 2026 Coachella Set
Apr 14, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 | ![]() The World Cup 2026: The Good, The Bad & The Deeply Uncomfortable Truth | The World Cup is back. 48 teams, three host countries, billions of eyeballs, and — somehow — Saudi Aramco as an official sponsor. Sure.This week we go good, bad, and ugly on the 2026 FIFA World Cup through a media and communications lens. The good: why the World Cup's claim to global shared attention is actually different from every other event that gets called "the last global media event" (yes, we know we say that every time). The bad: what it means for the world's most international tournament to be hosted by a country that has spent four years making it structurally difficult for international people to enter. And the ugly: sportswashing as a communications strategy, FIFA's governance that got quieter rather than cleaner, and what Guy Debord would make of a match ball that is also a brand.The football is still in there. Finding it just requires looking past quite a lot of other things first. | — | ||||||
| 5/30/26 | ![]() Never Gonna Give You Up Pt. 2 — re:publica Debrief: Hope, Haters & the Coalition Problem✨ | digital culturedigital dissent+3 | — | — | BerlinSoutheast Asia | re:publicadigital culture+3 | — | 22m 23s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Never Gonna Give You Up✨ | media theorydigital culture+3 | — | re:publicaEurope's largest digital culture conference+3 | — | media ownershipTed Turner+3 | — | 22m 47s | |
| 5/6/26 | ![]() How Censorship Works in 2026 (It Looks Like Accounting)✨ | censorshippress freedom+4 | — | CBSReporters Without Borders+2 | — | censorshippress freedom+5 | — | 14m 53s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() The Therapy Aesthetic: Decoding Bieber's 2026 Coachella Set✨ | performance analysisaudience experience+4 | — | TikTok | — | Justin BieberCoachella+4 | — | 17m 03s | |
| 4/5/26 | ![]() Is Political Communication Dead? Inside the New Era of State Normalization✨ | political communicationstate normalization+4 | — | DHSVoice of America+1 | — | political communicationstate propaganda+5 | — | 25m 47s | |
| 3/29/26 | ![]() The Pentagon Learned from TikTok✨ | military mediapropaganda+4 | — | US militaryPentagon | Iran | PentagonTikTok+5 | — | 18m 46s | |
| 3/1/26 | ![]() Why We Can't Legislate the Algorithm (A Media Theory Analysis)✨ | Social Media BanDigital ID+5 | — | TikTokCDU+1 | Germany | Michel FoucaultDisciplinary Power+7 | — | 11m 26s | |
| 2/25/26 | ![]() The Bangkok Simulation: Why Global Cities Are Becoming "Non-Places"✨ | Splintering UrbanismNon-Place+4 | — | Splintering Urbanism | Bangkok | Splintering UrbanismMarc Augé+8 | — | 15m 18s | |
| 2/20/26 | ![]() The Gamification of Reality: Betting on the Apocalypse✨ | GamificationPrediction Markets+3 | — | PolymarketSociety of the Spectacle | — | GamificationFinancial Nihilism+3 | — | 16m 27s | |
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| 2/17/26 | ![]() Surveillance Sport: The Death of the "Human" Element✨ | Surveillance CapitalismMedia Theory+4 | — | Surveillance SocietyPanopticon+3 | — | Surveillance SocietyHyper-Reality+5 | — | 15m 26s | |
| 2/11/26 | ![]() Spectacle Season: Super Bowl, Olympics & AI Watching Itself✨ | media analysisspectacle+3 | — | Moltbook | — | Super BowlOlympics+5 | — | 18m 25s | |
| 2/2/26 | ![]() The Epstein Files and the Art of Distraction✨ | legal transparencyinformation overload+4 | — | U.S. Department of Justice | — | Epstein filesU.S. Department of Justice+6 | — | 18m 07s | |
| 1/23/26 | ![]() Davos 2026: Where Power Talks and Nothing Decides | Every January, global power gathers in a Swiss village to talk about fixing the world. Panels, speeches, statements. And yet, the crises remain. In this episode of FUNK !T, we break down what the World Economic Forum really is: not a place where decisions are made, but where power performs legitimacy.From Trump dominating the narrative (again), to Europe sounding morally right but strategically weak, to Ukraine using visibility as pressure — this is Davos as theater. Media theory, psychopolitics, and why permission matters more than truth in 2026. | — | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | ![]() Psychopolitics & the Art of the Feint | This week feels overwhelming on purpose.Venezuela. Iran. Greenland. ICE. Everything at once, no time to think.That’s not chaos. That’s a media feint.In this episode of FUNK !T, I break down how power today works through attention overload, spectacle, and exhaustion. From Trump’s Venezuela theatrics to Iran’s internet blackouts and the sudden obsession with Greenland, we’re looking at geopolitics as psychopolitics: not controlling what you think, but how tired you are while thinking.Media theory, martial arts logic, and just enough sarcasm to keep your guard up. | — | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | ![]() The Death of Reality - How the US Weaponized "Cringe" and what that tells us about political communication | It is January 6, 2026. Three days ago, the US captured a head of state.This should be the most serious news story of the decade. But if you look at your phone, you aren't seeing history. You're seeing a roast.You're seeing deepfakes of Nicolás Maduro crying in a puddle of baby oil. You're seeing his propaganda cartoon, "Super Bigote," getting beat up by a Fortnite character. You are seeing a geopolitical earthquake filtered through a Snapchat lens.Welcome to The Meme Coup.In this episode, we break down the media theory behind the chaos. The US didn't just execute a regime change; they executed a Vibe Shift. We explore how they are using "Memetic Warfare" to strip a dictator of his dignity, turn a war into content, and distract the world with absurd spectacles like buying Greenland.The Syllabus:The Death of the Real (Baudrillard): Why the AI deepfakes feel "truer" than the official news photos.Context Collapse (Danah Boyd): How linking Maduro to the Diddy memes turned a political prisoner into a tabloid joke.The Society of the Spectacle (Debord): Why the "Greenland Purchase" is the ultimate distraction.The revolution will not be televised. It will be shitposted. | — | ||||||
| 1/3/26 | ![]() 2026: The Year We Stopped Trusting the Glitch | If you use AI to write an email, and I use AI to summarize it... did communication actually happen?Or did two piles of code just perform a handshake while we both stared at a screen, hallucinating productivity?In this episode, we argue that the Dead Internet Theory isn't just about bots on Twitter anymore. It has come for your inbox. We are witnessing the industrialization of communication, where human interaction is replaced by a "Zero-Human Feedback Loop."We break down the sociology of 2026 using three critical frameworks:Goodhart’s Law & The Zombie Loop: How optimizing for "responsiveness" turned us into biological API keys for our own tools.The Hyperreal (Jean Baudrillard): Why AI-generated empathy feels so repulsive. We explore the "Uncanny Valley of Vulnerability" and why we are starting to crave friction over flow.Costly Signaling Theory: Why the elite are going back to analog. In a world of infinite digital content, "face-to-face" is the new luxury good.The glitch isn't the problem. Believing the glitch is meaning is. | — | ||||||
| 12/31/25 | ![]() The Blockade: Why Venezuela is a Crime Scene | While the internet was busy arguing about domestic politics, the US Navy just went back to the 17th Century. On December 16, 2025, the White House designated the Venezuelan government a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" (FTO).That designation wasn’t a diplomatic move. It was a heist.In this episode, we break down the seizure of the Bella 1 oil tanker and the new "No Entry" zone in the Caribbean. We explain the "magic trick" of international law: once a government is labeled a cartel, their national resources aren't "sovereign property"—they are "terrorist financing." And that means we can legally steal them.This isn't just about oil; it’s a masterclass in modern imperialism. We analyze the strategy through three critical frameworks:1. Necropolitics (Achille Mbembe): The blockade isn't a military tactic; it’s a biological one. We look at how the US is weaponizing the survival of the Venezuelan population to force a surrender, effectively creating a "death world" where the population’s status is reduced to the living dead.2. The Großraum (Carl Schmitt): The era of the Global Free Market is over. We are returning to "Great Spaces." We explain Schmitt’s theory of the Großraum—a closed sphere of influence where the dominant power (the US) has the right to evict "spatial strangers" (China) and rewrite the laws of the sea.3. Accumulation by Dispossession (David Harvey): Why is the US acting like a pirate? Because capitalism has run out of new markets. Harvey’s theory explains that when growth stalls, the system shifts to cannibalism. We aren't trading anymore; we are looting.If you have oil and you aren't our friend, you aren't a country anymore. You're a crime scene. | — | ||||||
| 12/30/25 | ![]() Panem is Here: Inside Trump’s "Hunger Games" (Freedom 250) | The internet laughed when Donald Trump announced the "Patriot Games" for the Freedom 250 Semiquincentennial. "It's the Hunger Games!" everyone tweeted.They were right, but for the wrong reasons.In this episode, we look past the memes at the dark reality of summoning "one young man and one young woman" from every state to compete for the Sovereign in Washington D.C. This isn't a track meet; it's a ritual.We break down the biopolitics of the event, using Giorgio Agamben to explain how the State is asserting ownership over the biological bodies of American youth. We look at how this spectacle replaces civics with athletics, and use René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire to explain why a divided nation needs a ritualized competition to avoid actual civil war.The Games aren't a celebration of freedom. They are the gamification of submission. | — | ||||||
| 12/27/25 | ![]() Mourning as Content: The Semiotics of Slay | Did she say "Grift" or "Grit"?In this episode, we break down the viral moment that has the entire Right Wing internet spiraling. But we aren't just looking at a slip of the tongue—we are looking at a slip of the mask.We analyze Erika Kirk’s lightning-fast transformation from "Trad-Wife" to "CEO" following Charlie’s death, comparing her rise to the "Evita Perón" archetype. Is her performance of grief a masterclass in brand succession?We cover:The "Grift" Glitch: Freud, Parapraxis, and why the subconscious always tells the truth.The Evita Strategy: How to weaponize the "Widow" archetype for political immunity.Weaponized Forgiveness: Why she "forgave" the killer before the investigation even started.The Civil War: Is Candace Owens actually.....right??? | — | ||||||
| 12/23/25 | ![]() The Santa Simulation: Why The Holidays Feel Fake. | Does Christmas feel less like a holiday and more like a deadline?In this holiday anti-special, we peel back the wrapping paper on the "most wonderful time of the year" to reveal the capitalist engine underneath. We aren't just being Grinches—we are analyzing how a religious and social tradition was systematically replaced by a financial imperative.If you feel stressed, broke, or empty this December, it’s not you. It’s the simulation.We cover:The Invention of Tradition: How Coca-Cola designed Santa and department stores invented Rudolph.The Elf Myth: Applying Karl Marx’s "Commodity Fetishism" to Santa’s Workshop.The Gift Trap: Why Marcel Mauss’s theory of the "Gift Economy" explains your holiday anxiety.Simulation Theory: Why we care more about the aesthetic of Christmas than the reality.Key Takeaways:Why "nostalgia" is just affection for old marketing campaigns.How to opt out of the "Potlatch" of competitive gifting.Escaping the "Capitalist Realism" of Q4. | — | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | ![]() Why You’re Hate-Watching Jake Paul (The Psychology) | Boxing used to be about the fight. Now, it’s about the feed.In this video, we break down the Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua narrative not as a sporting event, but as the ultimate example of Guy Debord’s "Society of the Spectacle." We aren't asking if the fight is rigged—we're asking if the sport itself has been replaced by content.We discuss:Why Netflix’s entry into live sports changes the fundamental definition of "competition."How athletes like Joshua are being converted into "actors" in a scripted reality.Why true sporting merit no longer matters in the attention economy. | — | ||||||
| 12/17/25 | ![]() Director's Cut: How 50 Cent Monetized Diddy’s Downfall | "He asked to take me shopping. I thought that was the weirdest sh*t in the world." — 50 CentFor 20 years, it was hip-hop’s biggest "open secret." It played out in diss tracks, vodka commercials, and Instagram memes. But now, the federal government has stepped in, and the man who played the Joker to Diddy’s Batman is suddenly holding the camera.In this episode, we deconstruct Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning and analyze how 50 Cent turned a two-decade grudge into the #1 streaming event of the year.We cover:The Origin Story: From ghostwriting hits to the infamous "Mase" contract dispute.The Vodka Wars: How Cîroc vs. Effen was actually a prototype for modern brand warfare.The Sociology of the "Open Secret": Why 50 Cent was the only one allowed to say the quiet part out loud.The Spectacle: Is this true justice for victims, or just the ultimate commodification of a collapse?50 Cent isn't just a rapper anymore; he's the narrator of the culture's darkest moment. And he’s selling tickets to the show.🎧 Tune in for: Media analysis, hip-hop history, and the dark reality of the "White Party." | — | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | ![]() Your Time Is Up: John Cena and the End of the Eternal Hero | John Cena’s retirement isn’t just the end of a wrestling career — it’s the collapse of a myth built on permanence. In a culture addicted to reboots and eternal heroes, Cena’s exit forces us to confront time, aging, and closure. This episode breaks down Cena as a media construct, a moral brand, and a symbol of an era that believed consistency could defeat change. | — | ||||||
| 12/13/25 | ![]() The FIFA Peace Prize Fiasco | FIFA has made headlines again, and not for football. I dive into the controversial decision to award Donald Trump a Peace Prize. Is this just politics, or is there more to Infantino's strategy? I analyze the stupidity of the decision and the backlash that is sure to follow from a media & comms point of view. | — | ||||||
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