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S1E24 - Accelerando
Cairo and Kenny book club it up on Charles Stross' mindbender singularity novel Accelerando.
20 hrs ago
•
Cairo Smith
and
Kenny White
4
1
1:27:09
American Evil
Hitchhiking, killing, and grasping for a grand theory of America.
Oct 16
•
Willem Doherty
134
3
S1E23 - Slater Henatay
Cairo talks to author Slater Henatay a.k.a. Simpulacra about weird fiction, negative valence in art, and American Indian writers.
Oct 13
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Cairo Smith
and
Slater Henatay
5
2:06:39
S1E22 - Katherine Dee Aftershow
Cairo and Kenny chat about their interview with Katherine Dee.
Oct 6
•
Cairo Smith
and
Kenny White
2
22:15
S1E21 - Katherine Dee
Internet writer Katherine Dee talks with Cairo and Kenny about subcultures, otherkin, and unsupervised childhood web access.
Oct 6
•
Cairo Smith
,
Kenny White
, and
Katherine Dee
14
1
1:38:04
Oneshotted Competition Winners
The reveal of the winning essays from the nonfiction challenge.
Oct 3
•
Cairo Smith
and
Katherine Dee
21
The Algorithm
Fiction: A man is haunted by his ex as he moves into a new townhouse.
Oct 2
•
Arbogast
15
September 2025
S1E20 - Dakota Loesch
Cairo talks to actor and filmmaker Dakota Loesch about troublemaking immersive theater guests and making a five-figure movie.
Sep 29
•
Cairo Smith
and
Dakota Loesch
10
1:04:00
S1E19 - LKY to DJT
Cairo and Kenny roundtable on the second half of Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First and speculate baselessly on Donald Trump's psychological…
Sep 22
•
Cairo Smith
and
Kenny White
9
1:12:49
The Free Speech Inversion
A baffling arc for Pam Bondi and Donald Trump seems to reboot a tired old argument in reverse.
Sep 18
•
Cairo Smith
17
S1E18 - Henry Begler Aftershow
Cairo and Lillian chat about literary relationships and revealing the self in personal essays.
Sep 15
•
Cairo Smith
and
Lillian Wang Selonick
14:17
S1E17 - Henry Begler
Listen now | Cairo and Lillian give critic and essayist Henry Begler a good hard stare.
Sep 15
•
Cairo Smith
,
Lillian Wang Selonick
, and
Henry Begler
15
1:13:44
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