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- 🇬🇧GB · Philosophy#7330K to 100K
- 🇺🇸US · Philosophy#1075K to 30K
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62K to 209K🎙 Daily cadence·250 episodes·Last published 2w ago - Monthly Reach
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POPE vs. AI // 255
Jun 9, 2026
1h 21m 36s
Michel Foucault: Technologies of the Self // 254
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Christopher Lasch: The Culture of Narcissism // 253(preview)
Jun 3, 2026
22m 51s
Internet Connection UTTERLY DESTROYS Lost Exotic Rainforest Tribe!!! // 251
May 12, 2026
1h 12m 01s
The Philosophy of Looksmaxxing // 249
Apr 29, 2026
1h 18m 52s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/9/26 |  POPE vs. AI // 255✨ | Christian HumanismAI ethics+3 | — | automated murder dronesPope+2 | — | PopeAI+6 | — | 1h 21m 36s | |
| 6/4/26 |  Michel Foucault: Technologies of the Self // 254✨ | selfFoucault+5 | — | — | — | Foucaultself+5 | — | 1h 13m 42s | |
| 6/3/26 | Christopher Lasch: The Culture of Narcissism // 253(preview)✨ | narcissismculture+3 | — | Culture of Narcissism | — | Christopher LaschCulture of Narcissism+3 | — | 22m 51s | |
| 5/12/26 |  Internet Connection UTTERLY DESTROYS Lost Exotic Rainforest Tribe!!! // 251✨ | fake newsinternet impact+4 | — | patreon | AmazonMarubos | fake newsinternet+5 | — | 1h 12m 01s | |
| 4/29/26 |  The Philosophy of Looksmaxxing // 249✨ | anthropotechnicsmoral panic+3 | — | American Psycho | — | looksmaxxinganthropotechnics+3 | — | 1h 18m 52s | |
| 4/28/26 | Anthropotechnics // 248 (preview)✨ | anthropotechnicsphilosophy+3 | — | — | — | anthropotechnicsphilosophy+3 | — | 18m 15s | |
| 4/16/26 | Sloterdijk on Trial for Eugenics // 247✨ | eugenicsphilosophy+3 | — | PlasticpillsRules for the Human Zoo | — | Peter Sloterdijkeugenics+3 | — | 1h 19m 46s | |
| 4/10/26 | Marcel Mauss - The Gift // 180 (unlock)✨ | gift economysocial theory+3 | — | The Gift | — | Marcel MaussThe Gift+3 | — | 58m 46s | |
| 4/6/26 | Durkheim on MANA - The Original "Floating Signifier" // 179✨ | Durkheimfloating signifier+4 | — | Elementary forms of Religious Life | — | DurkheimMANA+5 | — | 53m 59s | |
| 4/2/26 | Why Critical Theory is Never Enjoying Anything // 246 (preview)✨ | Critical TheoryPhilosophy+3 | — | The Critique of Cynical Reason | — | Critical TheoryPhilosophy+3 | — | 15m 56s | |
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| 4/1/26 | Why Philosophers Fear their own Farts // 245 (preview)✨ | philosophycynicism+3 | — | — | — | philosophyPeter Sloterdijk+3 | — | 11m 05s | |
| 3/31/26 | The Critique of Cynical Reason - Sloterdijk // 244✨ | cynical reasonphilosophy+3 | — | The Critique of Cynical Reason | — | cynical reasonSloterdijk+3 | — | 1h 03m 49s | |
| 3/30/26 | Cynicism // 243 (preview)✨ | CynicismDiogenes+3 | — | — | — | CynicismDiogenes+3 | — | 22m 37s | |
| 3/30/26 | Cynicism (the philosophy) // 243 (preview) | This is a preview but you can find all our episodes and other work ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills. In this episode we cover the Cynical school of Diogenes and contemporary philosophers in his lineage. | 22m 37s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | It's Hyperreal Fascism then? // 242✨ | hyperreal fascismTrump Administration+4 | — | Trump Administrationhyperreal fascism+1 | — | hyperreal fascismTrump Administration+3 | — | 1h 15m 29s | |
| 2/17/26 |  The Philosophy of Jeffrey Epstein // 240✨ | philosophypsychology+4 | — | — | — | Jeffrey Epsteinphilosophy+4 | — | 1h 11m 11s | |
| 2/2/26 | Simulation World Order // 239✨ | New World OrderCanada+3 | — | Davos | Canada | New World OrderCanada+3 | — | 54m 24s | |
| 1/26/26 | Epicureanism MOGS Stoicism // 238 | Stoicism is on its comeback among dumb 20 year olds, which is too bad because Epicureanism is the superior Athenian philosophy. We discuss hedonism, happiness, and the Swerve™. Only half of our episodes are posted here! Find the other half ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills | 1h 17m 43s | ||||||
| 1/10/26 | Stoicism at the End of the World // 236 | The history of Stoicism is long and complicated, and we didn't want to end with AI alpha male YouTube channels, so here is a rundown focused on Greek Stoicism, some comparisons to Buddhism, and whether or not this philosophy could help in 2026. Get all episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills | 1h 32m 16s | ||||||
| 12/6/25 |  Samantha: From Zero to American Hero // 233 | From Zero to hero: Samantha Fulnecky has been honoured by the Oklahoma government and named "an American hero" for her paper submission to her Psych course in which she claimed it is demonic to believe in more than one gender. Still, the Pill Pod heats up over whether she deserved the grade she received…More Pill Pod: https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsRead Samantha's essay and the instructors' comments here:https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/education/2025/11/25/ou-oklahoma-samantha-fulnecky-read-essay-gender-bible/87463858007/ | 1h 35m 53s | ||||||
| 11/29/25 | Continental Philosophy vs Analytic Philosophy 2025 // 231 | It's the bi-yearly event in the ongoing race war between analytic and continental philosophy. Philosophers of all stripes invited themselves to partake in the latest and stupidest skirmish, and so we have undertaken a reading of the match that lit the powder keg: How Continental Philosophers "Argue": On the Unseriousness of the Discipline (https://benthams.substack.com/p/how-continental-philosophers-argue) | 1h 36m 06s | ||||||
| 11/14/25 |  The Nick Fuentes Signifying Chain // 230 | Access exclusive episodes https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsA Signifying Chain (or symbolic chain, or signifying web) is a structuralist concept developed by Jacques Lacan and others ("The Agency of the Letter"; https://amzn.to/4p6wx6l).Signifying chains structure discourses and we believe, explain the growing rift in conservative politics. | 1h 03m 38s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 |  Theory of the Gooner: Baudrillard vs Lacan // 229 | Have a look at our exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsThe Pill Pod reads Daniel Kolitz' anthropology of the gooners in Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ and we find it's all connected manOther sources cited included Lacan Seminar X, Freud Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Baudrillard Transparency of Evil | 1h 13m 15s | ||||||
| 10/30/25 |  Jacques Lacan - Fantasy $♢a // 228 | Full Ad-free Lacan series: https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsWe conclude our Lacan series with what Fink says is the desired end of Lacanian psychoanalysis. And, the ends of psychoanalysis coincide with some valuable insights for Lacan's theorizing beyond psychoanalysis. Works cited are Fink's Lacanian Subject (ch. 5; https://amzn.to/4qz1Fgx) and A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis (ch. 10; https://amzn.to/4hAIKh5). | 1h 35m 57s | ||||||
| 10/9/25 | Sigmund Freud in Film: An Interview with Richard Ledes | Richard Ledes, director of the films Adieu Lacan and V13, explains his process, namely, adapting French plays about psychoanalysis into English-language films. He connects the seduction of nascent fascism in 1913 Vienna to the present moment a century later.Find V13 on AppleTV, Prime VideoFind Ledes' catalogue at https://www.richardledes.com/Always more content at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills | 47m 41s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
26 placements across 26 markets.
Chart Positions
26 placements across 26 markets.