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The Nostalgia Trap podcast features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how...
Recent debates about whether or not leftist streamers like Hasan Piker should be embraced by the Democratic Party lead Justin and me to expl...
This week we check out the explosive Ronan Farrow piece on Sam Altman and consider the intersection of AI, climate crises, and sociopathic p...
Did Bernie's loss break the left's brain? Listen to the full episode here
By joining Israel in a reckless attack on Iran, Trump has put the entire global system in the kill box, which begs the question, what's more...
This week Justin and I game out scenarios unfolding from the U.S./Israel attack on Iran. Is it all about Epstein? (LOL) Or might China and R...
My late night adventures into the local jazz underworld have introduced me to some fascinating new friends, and I wanted to bring two of the...
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When I was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, Rolling Stone magazine was an indispensable resource for discovering the hip edge of American...
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This week we're talking with Aaron G. Fountain, Jr. about his new book High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI...
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What makes John Candy such a unique figure in American pop culture? And why are we still talking about him in 2025? In this episode, Justin...
This is a preview clip from a subscribers-only episode. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN. It's time once again to sip some eggnog and surv...
This is a clip from a subscribers-only episode. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN. As we continue our exploration of various forms of intox...
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This is a preview of a subscribers-only episode. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN. Lots of fun stuff today: slavery in the tuna industry,...
Have you ever seen A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies ? It's an epic documentary whose title says it all: a leg...
The latest Jeffrey Epstein email dump brings up some intriguing ideas about the shadowy financier's actual role among all his elite friends,...
This is a preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit the Nostalgia Trap Patreon . This week Justin and I talk about the Mamdani victory...
The US government shits the bed, Trump dumps AI feces on protesters, the East Wing of the White House gets flushed down the toilet, Mamdani...
Spoiler alert! I recorded this livestream about an hour after finishing this movie, so this is me attempting to untangle my thoughts about i...
This week Justin joins me to consider the dialectical nature of our 2025 reality, as we examine the utopian and dystopian properties of Bad...
The Supreme Court is scared of crossing Trump; Stephen Miller wants to declare the Democratic Party a terrorist organization; an ICE raid in...
This week on the Nostalgia Trap Livestream: Conspiracy theory mind-melt reaches the upper echelons of power, AI-generated savagery plunges f...
On this week's News Trap update, Justin joins me to discuss the question on everyone's mind: when is the fever gonna break? As the cartoonis...
On this week's livestream I talk about the deceptive power of the Kirk memorial, the postmodernity of conspiracy culture, the ironic twist o...
The fallout from Charlie Kirk's assassination continues to mutate into an escalation of the right's multi-front authoritarian campaign. On t...
America is taking a turn into a dark cul-de-sac, and many liberals are hoping that Stephen Colbert and John Oliver's sunnier version of the...
Here's our attempt to put Charlie Kirk's assassination in the context of the algorithmic dream world we inhabit, the queer libidinal dimensi...
Like many hip youngsters of my generation, at some point in my twenties I got Jazz-pilled by Beat literature, with writers like Jack Kerouac...
It's hard to believe, but today it's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, a mega-event that, in hindsight, seems like a...
NOTE: This is a cross-post of my new podcast, 120 MONTHS, all about '90s music. I think Nostalgia Trap listeners will dig it. Follow the lin...
February 1990 was a wild month in music, with new album releases from Oingo Boingo, Everything But the Girl, The Cramps, Primus, The Highway...
Global capital is currently putting more resources into building AI infrastructure than any other mass project in human history, with little...
I'm very excited to present the very first episode of my new podcast/YouTube channel/online content thing, 120 MONTHS. This is a project tha...
Was 1999 the inflection point in American culture and politics? Writer Ross Benes joins me this week to talk about his book 1999: The Year L...
The Jeffrey Epstein saga continues to have legs, and this week Justin and I talk about what makes the story so appealing and operative for s...
Philip Seymour Hoffman is a towering figure in American cinema whose death in 2014 left a big gaping hole in the culture. I really think the...
Van Jackson, foreign policy writer and host of the excellent podcast Un-Diplomatic , joins me to freak out about ICE arresting local college...
Remember the heady days of Abercrombie and Fitch's utter domination of the young, white middle class fashion market? What was that about? Th...
Anyone with a brain and heart probably feels deeply conflicted about the Fourth of July, a celebration of American freedom that frequently f...
Zohran Mamdani's win in NYC accelerates a civil war for the soul of the Democratic Party; ICE storm troopers refuse to take off their masks;...
Xaq Frohlich is Associate Professor of History of Technology at Auburn University. His work focuses on issues relating to food and risk at t...
Is the fight against Trump's rising authoritarianism in the streets? Or in the courts? Why not both? At the five month mark, Justin joins me...
What happened to the idea that "conservatives can't do comedy"? Much to the horror of liberals, the past decade has witnessed the rise of a...
Dazed and Confused (dir. Richard Linklater. 1993) remains a timeless classic of American adolescence…or does it? This week Justin joins me f...
What is "settler colonialism" and how is it different from other forms of imperialism? In this episode I share excerpts from S.C. Gwynne's b...
Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas remains a classic of American drug literature, a haunting reflection on the c...
An explosive piece called "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College" raises a few questions for me: What is the left's attitude toward...
FAA failures creating realistic fears of looming airline disasters, Trump's cryptocurrency scam, quantum computing and financial apocalypse,...