Davin DuBois - Podcast Details

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The Crumbling The Crumbling E28 - I'm Warrening You, There's Ghosts Afoot - P1 - ft. Corrigan VaughanThe co-hosts are joined by writer, researcher, and podcaster, Corrigan Vaughan (Jack of All Graves, Wisecrack) to talk about the SPOOKIEST couple of frauds there ever was - Ed and Lorraine Warren. They talk about the Conjuring movies, and how their legendary history is mostly just taking advantage of people with mental illness or aiding other people in doing big grifts, along with a big side of "trying to bring back conservative Catholicism." ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura...

2025-11-0544 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E26 - Libertarianism - P7- Militias and (Ron) Pauline Christianity - ft. Heath DruzinThe co-hosts are joined by journalist and podcaster Heath Druzin (Howl, Extremely American, Boise State Public Radio) American discuss the direct line from Ron Paul's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns to the rising popularity of the militia movements. V finally lets one of her special interests out of the bag (this exact topic), and Heath illuminates the story with deeper knowledge of these movements. Groups like the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters are discussed. We finally and frustratingly get to January 6th.Check out Heath's links https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510381/extremel...

2025-10-0847 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E25 - Libertarianism - P6 - Milton Ain't Freed AnyoneThe co-hosts continue to discuss the history of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics. From Uncle Milty (Milton Friedman) to Murray Rothbard, all your least favorite economists of this era make appearances in episodes 24 and 25 part of the Libertarianism series. This episode shows how Rothbard especially built a coalition that spawned one of the bridges between normal Republicans who just kind of hated the government and virulent racists!support the showwww.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcast www.thecrumbling.beehiiv.comwww.thecrumbling.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ ...

2025-09-2438 min

The Crumbling The Crumbline E24 - Libertarianism - P5 - The Other Austrian Arch-BastardsThe co-hosts start to discuss the history of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics. From Uncle Milty (Milton Friedman) to Murray Rothbard, all your least favorite economists of this era make appearances in This and the Next few episodes Support the show ww.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcastshow notes www.thecrumbling.beehiiv.com www.thecrumbling.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Reply on Bluesky Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura Jedeed OhMan Randy Zinni Car...

2025-09-1032 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E20 - Libertarianism - P1 - Mercantile? I'm MercanTIRED of ThisSophia, V, and Davin start a journey through the history of rightlibertarianism (libertarian capitalism), starting with its ideological forebears, and laying out some definitions. They discuss some of the greatest sh*t-talkers in philosophical and political history - French people in the 18th and 19th centuries. They discuss a bit of the history of socialism, and how that relates to the inception of the word "libertarian," as well as the birth of the word "capitalism." More importantly, they totally don't do the song "AI SCREAM" by Japanese idol group AiScReam. Totally...

2025-07-1644 min

The Crumbling 2000 Downloads thank you!Thank you Guys for pushing us to reach our 2000'th download , we hope you keep listening! Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura Jedeed OhMan Randy Zinni Carl Angoli Hazelhaunt ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

2025-07-0701 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E18 - Somehow Grim and Still Hopeful - P1 - Interview with Aly WaneSophia, Davin, and V embark on the first episode of a two part interview with Aly Wane, an immigrants' rights activist, about his history with the work, his thoughts about our current moment, how we got there, and where we can go next. The "post-truth" moment is discussed, and how that informs the specific atrocities that we're all seeing laid out before us right now, in May www.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcast www.thecrumbling.beehiiv.com https://immigrantjusticenetwork.org/ Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke ...

2025-06-1849 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E17 - It's Never the Time of Monsters - David Livingstone Smith InterviewSophia, V, and Davin interview David Livingstone Smith, a professor of philosophy at the University of New England. The crew take a deep dive with Professor Smith into his area of expertise - dehumanization. They talk about how he got started studying dehumanization, how it arises, how it leads to genocides and other atrocities, and how it relates to our ongoing epistemic crisis (or, as we like to call it, "our sense of collective reality crumbling"). This is an eye-opening interview about a topic that everyone has heard of, but not enough people...

2025-06-0447 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E16 Labor V2 The NCAA - P2 - Sometimes Nil and Sometimes NILSophia and V are once again schooled by Davin on the court...the actual court, though, and not physically on it, and really it's other people that got schooled...but you get it! They talk about how a certain UConn athlete (!!!) accidentally revealed the truth of how student athletes were compensated (or not), and how things have changed since then. The connection between this kind of exploitation and past exploitations is shown clearly for the audience, and everyone is left wondering how we fix something so monumentally broken.Support the showwww...

2025-05-2129 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E15 - Labor V2 The NCAA - P1 - Ball is Life and God is MoneyFinally, Davin gets to tell a story! He fills the other co-hosts in on the story of the exploitation of NCAA athletes, prior to the push for some of them unionizing. He describes the conditions that led up to that movement, showing how the league continuously profited off of them, while denying them any chance at making money from their work. Also, two announcements: Tragically, Andrew has left the podcast, and so Davin and Sophia must search for a new third. In this episode, they try out a new cohost, V...

2025-05-0734 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E13 - Solidarity Will Save Us All - P1 - Kim Kelly InterviewT he co-hosts have a chance to chat with the journalist Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell and the upcoming book Fight To Win, about how labor movements provide a way to build a society based on trust, where disinformation doesn't have a chance to flourish. They also ask her what killer metal records have been coming out lately. Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura Jedeed OhMan Randy Zinni Carl Angoli Hazelhaunt ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

2025-04-1044 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E12 - Climate Change P5 - A Climate of FearThe co-hosts are rounding out the journey through showing how climate change disinformation has led us to where we are now. They discuss the second Trump administration, and how it has, through DOGE and its own actions, buried information on climate change in order to benefit the American kleptocracy. They discuss the details of grants and other funding from the federal government that would aid research and infrastructure investments to help dull the effects of climate change on vulnerable people. Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke ...

2025-03-2641 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E11- Climate Change P4 - Cato is My AsBESTos Friend EverSophia , Andrew & Devon are joined by comedian and science educator Annam Choudhry https://www.instagram.com/annamlaughs. They all continue on the climate change journey, this time discussing the careers of two men who both worked for the Cato Institute (a right wing think tank co-founded by Murray Rothbard, one of the Koch brothers, and another person), and we're Fox News contributors. Those men have their work put into the context about faith in scientific institutions falling among Republicans.Support the Show www.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcastFallow al...

2025-03-1246 min

The Crumbling First 1000! thank you!Thank you Guys for pushing us to reach our first 1000 downloads , we hope you keep listening! Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura Jedeed OhMan Randy Zinni Carl Angoli Hazelhaunt ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

2025-03-1201 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E10 Climate Change P3 - A Tale of Bunnies and BastardsThe co-hosts continue their series on climate change, this time discussing both the mechanics of damaged caused by climate change and the escalation of disinformation in the 1970's and 1980's. Perry Como comes up, but nothing about climate change is a magic moment. Sophia loses her mind thinking about the reproductive habits of the eastern cottontail. The group has launched a site on beehiiv where you can check out all of our show notes, informational graphics, articles we'll be writing, and more. Click on our links for more! Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev J...

2025-02-2638 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E9-Climate Change Arc P2 - At Least 1965 Was Worse The co-hosts talk about how the 1960's had such bad air quality that parts of 1965 were compared to the days after 9/11 in New York. They also learned that that year was just awful in general, and may rival 2020 and 2025 for sheer audacity in being a bad and uncertain time to live. The recurring villain makes a return trip because how could the American Petroleum Institute leave anything good and decent alone? The co-hosts learn what the PSAC is and that it sounds dirty. Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H...

2025-02-1251 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E8- Climate Change P1 - The Committee on Blowing Smoke Up Someone's Butt The hosts open the discussion on climate change. They talk about how the potentials for climate change were discovered in the 1800's, and how it was identified to be happening in the early 1900's. They go on to discuss how disinformation started very quickly, funded by the petroleum industry. The AI co-host finally reveals his secret identity: Davin DuBois. That shouldn't mean anything to you, as he's just a guy, but he's a cool guy and a smart guy, and we love him, so we hope the audience appreciates the reveal, and getting to know him better. Thanks to...

2025-01-2939 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E7 Kash Rules Everything Around Me p2 - Yer a Wizard Kash, ft Laura Jedeed The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Kash Patel, how he got where he is, and more importantly, what he intends to do with power if confirmed. They read one of his childrens' books, which is perhaps one of the worst things ever committed to paper. The glowing poo is revealed. https://www.patreon.com/TheCrumblingpodcast https://www.bannedinyourstate.com Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura Jedeed OhMan Randy Zinni Carl Angoli Hazelhaunt ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

2025-01-1552 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E6 Kash Rules Everything Around Me P1 - I Have a Raging Cohner, featuring Laura Jedeed The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Roy Cohn, in order to show the parallels between his life and Kash Patel's. The discussion centers around his role in McCarthyism, as a lawyer for Trump, and why his life was so consequential, despite him being a corrupt and inept jerk. They also get into how some shoes have a sport mode, and why this is perhaps silly. The AI requests new training data. https://www.patreon.com/TheCrumblingpodcast https://www.bannedinyourstate.com Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh...

2025-01-0146 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling EP5 Interview with Taylor Lorenz The co-hosts chat it up with Taylor Lorenz, in an interview that spends a lot of time talking about another interview: the one that she did with Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the account Libs of Tiktok, who used her platform to build massive harassment campaigns against queer people and their medical providers. They talk about how GamerGate laid the foundations for the current "Groomer Panic," and Taylor gives some sage and sobering advice for dealing with malicious people. They also talk about which Christmas movie characters could use plastic surgery. Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Gh...

2024-12-181h 04

The Crumbling GamerGate Part 4: Taking My Dawgs to the Groomer Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate set the stage for a lot of modern events, including the Groomer Panic, where people blamed the existence of queer youth on queer adults. The group talks about how this was spread largely by people like Chaya Raichik, who used her Twitter page, Libs of Tiktok, to spread mass panic across the conservative media ecosystem, and thereby people all over the world that share the ideology. Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura Jedeed OhMan Randy Zinni Carl An...

2024-12-0557 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling EP3 GamerGate Part 3: Some Jerk With a One Letter Name Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate gamed our collective understanding of reality, this time through how PizzaGate spawned QAnon. The group gives a light intro to the conspiracy theory, and how it spread through MLM mom's and a weird story about furniture. Andrew gets Q-pilled and becomes a crab rangooner. Javier is replaced with a potentially sentient AI. The group talks about the scariest and funniest consequences of the 2024 nightmare election. Some overarching themes are introduced. Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura Jedeed Oh...

2024-11-041h 08

The Crumbling GamerGate part 2, Cern of a Vich Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate gamed our collective understanding of reality. Sophia resents that Mike Cernovich is a main character of anything, but the episode has a lot of content about him and his unambiguously pro-violence blog. The cohosts chat about crystals that stop 5G poisoning or something. Anonymous co-host goes by Javier for the episode. They still don't have any sponsorships related to sweets. https://youtu.be/ULI6UcHWvSQ Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell Laura Jedeed OhMan Randy Zinni Ca...

2024-10-2356 min

The Crumbling The Crumbling E1 - Intro, and Gamergate-P1 Sophia and Andrew introduce themselves to the audience, and the anonymous co-host decides not to, and to go by Julian for the episode. Sophia starts to tell the story of GamerGate and why it has everything to do with how we have no collective sense of reality anymore. Andrew explains that he's a cat guy, and insists on a sponsorship deal. Julian talks about how he has a sword. The cohosts discuss when and where to use air horns Thanks to our monthly supporters Bill Flarsheim Ghosty jason lev Josh Heltke Liz Jaikes Ana H Angulo Kristen Brazell La...

2024-10-191h 18