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179: Stuart Halls Encoding/Decoding and Breaking Bad as Full House meets Spaghetti Western (Madeline Grace)
Mar 25, 2026
44m 45s
178: Kids on Cocaine, Bisexual Young Women and Other Cultural Taboos—A Review of the Film Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (Madeline Grace)
Feb 21, 2026
59m 42s
177: Meth, Pervitin, Benzedrine, and Secret Nazi Speedball Drugs
Feb 15, 2026
21m 12s
176: Bad Coke, Objectification, and Stigma in Porntopia (Madeline Grace)
Feb 6, 2026
1h 03m 39s
175: Sex Work, Cocaine, Porn and Ozempic in a Neoliberal Culture (Madeline Grace)
Jan 26, 2026
47m 34s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 3/25/26 | ![]() 179: Stuart Halls Encoding/Decoding and Breaking Bad as Full House meets Spaghetti Western (Madeline Grace)✨ | media theoryaddiction+4 | Madeline Grace | Stuart HallBreaking Bad+2 | — | Stuart Hallencoding/decoding+5 | — | 44m 45s | |
| 2/21/26 | ![]() 178: Kids on Cocaine, Bisexual Young Women and Other Cultural Taboos—A Review of the Film Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (Madeline Grace)✨ | film reviewcultural taboos+3 | Madeline Grace | Bodies, Bodies, Bodies | Gen Z | Bodies, Bodies, BodiesGen Z+3 | — | 59m 42s | |
| 2/15/26 | ![]() 177: Meth, Pervitin, Benzedrine, and Secret Nazi Speedball Drugs✨ | Nazi GermanyWWII drugs+5 | — | methamphetamineamphetamine+1 | — | Nazi drugsmethamphetamine+5 | — | 21m 12s | |
| 2/6/26 | ![]() 176: Bad Coke, Objectification, and Stigma in Porntopia (Madeline Grace)✨ | educationneoliberalism+4 | Madeline Grace | neoliberalismcapitalism | — | educationneoliberalism+5 | — | 1h 03m 39s | |
| 1/26/26 | ![]() 175: Sex Work, Cocaine, Porn and Ozempic in a Neoliberal Culture (Madeline Grace)✨ | Gen Zcocaine+5 | Madeline Grace | Ozempiccocaine+2 | Gen ZGen X | Gen Zcocaine+5 | — | 47m 34s | |
| 1/13/26 | ![]() 174: Dialectics of Alcohol Prohibition✨ | alcohol prohibition18th Amendment+4 | — | mainstream media18th Amendment | — | alcohol prohibition18th Amendment+5 | — | 22m 29s | |
| 12/23/25 | ![]() 173: Life after Life without Parole (David Carrillo)✨ | prison politicsredemption+4 | David Carrillo | Colorado collegesKiko: From Life without Parole to Life with Purpose | — | David Carrillolife without parole+6 | — | 1h 03m 58s | |
| 12/12/25 | ![]() 172: Drug Boats, Hellfire Missiles and Foucault's Knowledge/Power✨ | US military missionsdrug boats+4 | — | Foucault's theory of knowledge/power | Venezuela | US militarydrug boats+5 | — | 23m 16s | |
| 8/12/25 | ![]() 171: Media, Monopolies, and the Fairness Doctrine✨ | media ownershipFairness Doctrine+3 | — | Buster Brown shoesReagan+1 | — | mediamonopolies+4 | — | 23m 37s | |
| 8/5/25 | ![]() 170: Polybius and the End of Democracy✨ | democracyphilosophy+4 | — | Polybius | — | Polybiusdemocracy+6 | — | 18m 00s | |
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| 5/2/25 | ![]() 169: Freud on Drugs, Religion, Guilt, Shame and Civilization (Civilization and its Discontents) | This week I dive into some of the work Freud wrote later in his life, particularly a book called Civilization and its Discontents published in 1930. Freud believed that the evolutionary process we can use to trace the changes humans have gone through over the centuries can also explain why culture itself has evolved as it has. He basically thinks we are all self-deceiving, chronically unfulfilled and unsatisfied bots programmed to lie to ourselves above all else, and to avoid feeling guilt or... | 27m 55s | ||||||
| 4/25/25 | ![]() 168: Cocaine with Freud | This week I talk about Freud's love of cocaine, the historical legacy of Freud's cocaine use, and the cultural changes that have occurred since then in relation to cocaine. The stories we tell about drugs impact the experience we have when we consume them, but Freud wasn't dealing with a century of propaganda. He was, in many ways, creating some of the original stories about cocaine that others would tell later on. But his positive stories were largely erased when cocaine was outlawed in the ... | 15m 28s | ||||||
| 4/3/25 | ![]() 167: Duct Taping Drugs to Bad Behavior | This week I dive into some of Trump's recent comments about "Venezuelan gang members" and the USA's legacy of dehumanizing people based on their drug use. I discuss Rodney King, Joaquín Guzman aka "El Chapo," George Floyd, dehumanization, Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil, the art of shilling for Trump (aka "minionism"), and lots more. You can find clips and images of the "Venezuelan Gang deportations" here. Support the show | 23m 40s | ||||||
| 3/27/25 | ![]() 166: A Conversation with One of My Students about Drugs, Addiction and Neoliberalism (Madeline Grace) | This week I share a conversation with one of my students, Madeline Grace/Levin, who is creating a podcast of her own called Dependence. I will update this episode description with a link to her podcast when it's live, but in the mean time I thought I'd share a cool conversation we had last week. We talk about religion, drugs, addiction, Michel de Certeau, neoliberalism, atheism, 12-step programs, chihuahuas, spirituality, Trump Derangement Syndrome, religion as a drug, and lots more. Yo... | 44m 53s | ||||||
| 3/11/25 | ![]() 165: Beers with my Dad (Steve Boyce) | This week I sat down to record a conversation with my dad, Steve Boyce. We talk about my childhood, his first marriage to my bio-mom, addiction and drug use in his life, what I was like as a kid, cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, and religion (plus more). Support the show | 1h 04m 55s | ||||||
| 3/4/25 | ![]() 164: The Kratom Wars | This week I talk about the kratom wars: the argument over whether kratom is a deadly drug or a miracle cure (or somewhere in between). While some states are currently trying to ban kratom, others are working to make it easier and safer to get. Meanwhile, the federal government has been a bit all over the place on it, and with Trump 2.0 gathering early steam by pandering to Project 2025 nationalists, it's hard to say what attempted legislation might materialize in coming years. So let's talk a... | 25m 18s | ||||||
| 2/21/25 | ![]() 163: Kendrick, Drake, Christian Nationalism, and Accountability without Free Will | This week I tackle some of the questions and comments I've been getting over the last couple months. I talk about Trump's neoliberal agenda, his capture of the Evangelical Right, Consistency and Accountability in both criminal justice and religion, and I clean up some of what I may have missed during the last few episodes I've done on these issues. This episode was mostly unscripted and it's all over the place, but hey, some people enjoy rants, so if that's you, have at it. Support the ... | 37m 19s | ||||||
| 2/14/25 | ![]() 162: New Projects, Old Problems, and I Can't Leave Religion Alone (Dr. Christy Perez) | This week Dr. Christy Perez (C Dreams) is back to talk about her new projects, and to be dragged back into old theological debates. We talk about trans rights, Christianity, the capture of Evangelical Christianity by MAGA, expectations for the next 4 years, the anti-fact stance of the recent anti-trans executive order, and we spend way too long spinning our tires trying to figure out which parts of the Bible we should read as legitimate, which parts we should disregard, and how on Earth anyon... | 1h 22m 19s | ||||||
| 1/19/25 | ![]() 161: Drugs and Free Will | This week I get back to the heart of the show: drug policy, drug addiction, and drugs. I talk about free will as it relates to the war on drugs, addiction and intoxication, and I dig into genetics, criminal justice, punishment and prevention. The nonsensical notion of free will, which I've yet to hear defined with any sort of coherence, plays no part in addiction, and our insistence that it does has allowed us to construct a culture that maximized both the occurrence and the severity o... | 32m 28s | ||||||
| 1/13/25 | ![]() 160: Dialectics of Coffee | This week I talk about coffee: the history, the pharmacology, the politics and the legal battles. I take a dialectical perspective, which just means I focus on both sides of the coffee discussion: it has been blamed for sexual promiscuity and inability to perform; it has been the instigator of both dictatorships and revolutions; it has been labeled both a drug and an anti-drug in different times and places. I also talk about caffeine as a drug and the reason we don't live in a world wh... | 28m 38s | ||||||
| 1/7/25 | ![]() 159: Religious Trauma, Morality & Truth | This week I finally finish the topic a started a few weeks ago: religious trauma and why religion often makes people into worse versions of themselves without them noticing. I discuss two of the most important questions in life: how does one find truth, and how does one decide on morality. And I point out the many ways that religions, particularly Christianity, disrupts the process by which we do both while preventing us from noticing our lack of recipe for finding either one (truth or morali... | 32m 15s | ||||||
| 1/1/25 | ![]() 158: Alcohol, Culture & Capitalism | This week I get back to the roots of the show and talk about drugs, specifically alcohol. How does it work? What does it do in the body? Why is it so popular in so many cultures? How has capitalism both attacked and encouraged alcohol use at various times? Why did prohibition happen in the first place? How did our relationship with alcohol change as neoliberal capitalism expanded? Support the show | 25m 42s | ||||||
| 12/28/24 | ![]() 157: Religious Addiction and Why I am not a Christian | The title of this week's episode is a shout out to philosopher Bertrand Russell, who wrote a book by the same name: Why I am not a Christian. This week I talk about religion as an addiction, responsible use of religion, how religion often programs people to avoid accountability and double down on things they know are not true, the problem with the Bible and other religious books, and lots more. *Of all the many things people complained about in this episode, there is one error that is ... | 30m 11s | ||||||
| 12/21/24 | ![]() 156: Abuse, Trauma & Addiction (Jeremy Pavlik) | Today's episode includes an interview with formerly incarcerated activist Jeremy Pavlik. Jeremy was incarcerated in Colorado for more than 15 years before his release in 2014. Since then, he has worked with multiple agencies who assist other recently released people trying to get back on their feet. He is currently working to start up his own organization, which you'll hear us talk about today, devoted to fulfilling all needs of recently released people under one roof, from transportation to ... | 51m 50s | ||||||
| 12/13/24 | ![]() 155: The Heroin Diaries (Ben Boyce & Meghan Cosgrove) | This week friend of the show Meghan Cosgrove stopped by to interview me in our ongoing series about previously incarcerated people who have used education to find a pathway to success. Long time listeners have heard pieces of my story, but I've seldom stopped to dig deep into what happened to me and why my life went the way it went. We talk about prison education, addiction, religious trauma, heroin injection versus snorting, bank robbery, free will, teaching in prison, and lots more. F... | 1h 04m 25s | ||||||
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