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Broken but ReadableA question for the American South (and all my beloved Catholics, too): what would Jesus redact?As I listened to Pam Bondi’s testimony, I felt a physical dread I have rarely known. A cold thing low in the gut like a stone falling through water. I searched my memory for its equal and found it: it was the moment the second plane hit the tower. What they did to those girls. What was done to their bodies. There is a word for it but the word is too small. You would have to go to the desert. To the men with black flags. That is where you would find its equivalent.On Fe...
2026-02-1409 min
Broken but ReadableThe political economy of not answering the questionI love Reddit. The discussion website Reddit.I love it the way I love watching people at the airport after a flight gets canceled.There’s this moment when the announcement comes through and everyone’s still holding it together, still performing their best selves, and then something cracks and you see what’s underneath. Reddit is that moment stretched out forever. It’s not quite Lord of the Flies because nobody’s eating each other yet, but it’s close. It’s what happens when you take people who’ve spent their whole lives learning how to...
2026-02-0916 min
Broken but ReadableThere are no dreams herePeople sometimes ask why I return to these accounts.I don’t return to them. They return to us.Men and women encounter things that do not ask to be believed. They arrive in the night, or in still rooms, or in the quiet hours when the mind has lowered its guard. Whether the cause is body, mind, or something not yet named is a secondary concern.What matters is that they happen.They leave people altered. They rearrange what can be said aloud and what must be carried alone. No argument has ev...
2026-02-0725 min
Broken but ReadableEyes in the DarkIn the past 30 days since I started doing these podcasts, over a thousand people a day are have been downloading them, but of course not subscribing. I’m not too worried about that. But I’m going to keep going.What follows is testimony. A man named Mario Pavlovich gave it to me in the way men give testimony when the world has cracked open and shown them what lies beneath. He is a social worker. Croatian by birth, Canadian by circumstance. My age. I trust him because I have sat with liars and I have sat with...
2026-02-0423 min
Broken but ReadableWhy, unfortunately, I can no longer read the New York TimesA note from management, to beloved listeners: at several points throughout this audio essay written for A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, I mistakenly say “A.J.” instead of “A.G.”. I’m really sorry about that. It was done in one take because that’s all I had time for today, and I will not be making edits to minor errors until I can afford an assistant. A human one, because the discernment unique in human beings is the last prayer we have left. And here is the transcript: What I’m about to say i...
2026-02-0207 min
Broken but ReadableThe great moral sleepwalk: how Sam Harris, Ross Douthat, and Caitlin Flanagan lost the plotTwo brief notes from the author, offered in good faith and with affection, which I invite listeners to read before sharpening their knives:1. At approximately 1 minute and 35 seconds into the recording, I critique Sam Harris’s “worship of non-physicalist thought.” This is incorrect. I misspoke. What I meant to say was “physicalist thought.” I chose not to edit the audio. This was not a principled stand against accuracy so much as a mundane concession to reality. I have a wife, children, and a job in the finance sector, all of which make firm, recurring claims on my attention...
2026-02-0113 min
Broken but ReadableWhat does non-speaking autism feel like?We talk about autism as if it were a single thing, when it’s really an argument between biology, identity, suffering, and love, carried out inside real lives. People are always trying to define it, but it resists definition in the way lived things often do, by changing shape depending on where you stand.It’s far more common than it used to be. In 1980, it was estimated to affect roughly one in 10,000 children. Today, the most reliable data puts that number closer to one in 36. Something has clearly changed.The reasons for that increase are...
2026-01-3009 min
Broken but ReadableIn North Dakota's man camps, Indigenous women disappearBefore I started doing these as audio essays, back when this was all just words on a screen that you scrolled through while pretending to answer emails, I wrote a piece that I assumed would sink quietly into the archive. It wasn’t flashy. It wasn’t about the day’s outrage. It didn’t arrive attached to a viral argument or a trending villain. I posted it, closed the tab, and moved on.It turned out to be, by a wide margin, the most-read thing I’ve ever published here.Not close. Not even a contest...
2026-01-2911 min
Broken but ReadableWho is Iran?We have to start far back. Because Iran does not yield itself to haste. It is not a young country that wandered into trouble, but an old one that learned how to survive it.Long before the present arguments, long before borders hardened and flags were stitched, people stood on that high plateau and learned how to live together in numbers too large for memory. They laid roads across dust and stone. They counted grain, and they wrote laws. And they discovered that power did not have to mean annihilation.They were ruled by Cyrus...
2026-01-2921 min
Broken but ReadableThe lecture hall of dead-eyed undergraduatesThe CampusI walked across Fordham’s Bronx campus in the early fall, when the air still held a trace of summer but the light had already begun to thin. Leaves scraped along the walkways like small animals fleeing something unseen. Somewhere a bell rang without urgency, just to mark the hour.Students crossed the quad with the unhurried purpose of a migration, some speaking, some not, and their voices grew thin as they neared the buildings. Their steps slowed. The laughter died. They went on in silence toward what waited th...
2026-01-2315 min
Broken but ReadableNATO is not a charityIn 2014, Vladimir Putin was helping himself to Crimea, as one does when one has tanks and a complicated relationship with borders. In the summer of that year, the U.S. Army sent my unit to Germany to train with about fifteen other NATO armies.The idea was simple: shoot, move, and communicate together, as if we were one fighting force. Different languages, different uniforms, same plan. In theory.The five officers in my artillery battery were issued a single car to share. A tiny, egg-shaped European hatchback, the kind that looks like it comes free...
2026-01-2118 min
Broken but ReadableWhat men can't say about loveSometime last year, an essay titled “he’s not a good husband” circulated widely on social media. It was written by feminist writer Emily May, and it struck a nerve because it named something many women recognize immediately: the exhaustion of being married to a man who is not cruel, not abusive, not unfaithful—but who also does not reliably carry his share of the daily, invisible work of family life.The piece argues, forcefully, that women have been trained to soften their language around this problem. To call these men “amazing” or “good guys” because they clear the lowest...
2026-01-1915 min
Broken but ReadableVenezuela part 2: The monsters we made“America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.She knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors an...
2026-01-1910 min
Broken but ReadableVenezuela Part 1: How we lost each otherI look around me most days - at my relatives, at my phone, at the television murmuring to itself in the background - and what I notice is not malice so much as confusion. A kind of ambient bewilderment. Capitalism, in its infinite cleverness, has built us these beautifully personalized reality tunnels that feel flattering and familiar, like a room where the lighting is always just right for your face. Inside them, we are shown the world not as it is, but as we are most likely to nod along to it. And over time, this has left people...
2026-01-1810 min
Broken but ReadableThe exile of a female astronomer (in the name of protecting women)Here is the link to Dr. Beatriz Villarroel’s piece in the Liberation Times, mentioned in the beginning of the episode.Podcast transcript:So I’ll just say straight off that the reason any of this matters is that, years before we put anything into orbit, something reflective and physical was already up there – appearing briefly, then vanishing.But there’s a lot to this story so let’s back up.Yesterday, an article was published in an outlet you’ve probably never read or heard of, written by an astronomer you’ve proba...
2026-01-1716 min
Broken but ReadableWhat's going on with this whole Greenland thing?In this episode, I try to do the calm, slightly sheepish thing that feels increasingly rare, which is to pause for a moment and ask what’s actually happening before deciding what to feel about it. Using a small, unpretentious framework meant mainly to preserve my blood pressure, I walk through the recent Greenland episode, looking past the surface noise to the strategic realities underneath, and then to the deeper shift in how power is being described, claimed, and justified. Along the way, we talk about alliances, trust, and the quiet damage done when long-term relationships are treated like sh...
2026-01-1609 min
Broken but ReadableWhy college football is ruining higher educationPicture this: It’s Christmas Eve in our new house, candles flickering like they mean business, everybody smiling the way people smile when they’re trying not to notice the slight smell of something burning in the kitchen, and suddenly I’m standing there, mid-shrimp-cocktail, explaining to a room full of nice, normal people why the American university has become this sad fluorescent terrarium where the lecturers, good, earnest lecturers, the ones who still believe in ideas, pace back and forth like zoo animals who’ve forgotten how to roar. Get full access to Broken but Readable...
2026-01-1513 min
Broken but ReadableHelicopters, flashbangs, zip-tied kids: the true cost of "law and order"This episode is me, 13 days off cigarettes, trying to make sense of the raids that have turned neighborhoods into places where dawn knocks feel like threats. It starts with the facts: Renee Good shot dead by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, families zip-tied after helicopters dropped agents on a Chicago apartment building, a farmworker falling to his death fleeing a raid in California -- and the numbers showing most people detained have no criminal record. From there it moves through the economic hit, the constitutional cracks, the quiet damage done to communities, and the moral...
2026-01-1325 min
Broken but ReadableA journal entry from a Mars roverThis is something I wrote years ago but never shared with anyone. It's a journal entry from the Mars rover called Curiosity. Not really, but use your imagination. Get full access to Broken but Readable at gregscaduto.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-1311 min
Broken but ReadableThe worst imaginable performance in a little league game.This is a story about driving through North Jersey to the place where I would tell the story of my worst little league game ever. Get full access to Broken but Readable at gregscaduto.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-1211 min
Broken but ReadableIf I were a woman, I would be a very shrill feminist.I begin with a soothing story to relax everyone. Then I explain why Texas is the most overrated state in the country, and it’s not even close. Finally, I recount an incident on X in which a grown man tried to tell me that my wife should not be on birth control. “Off the table if you are in a stable household”. This resulted in a spiritual epiphany that morphed me into a very shrill and unkind feminist. I know this was a lot for one pod. Please ask any clarif...
2026-01-0913 min
Broken but ReadableHow Does One Find a Voice?I felt I should address the very valid criticism I have received for having an unprofessional podcast. Thank you for your time. Get full access to Broken but Readable at gregscaduto.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0606 min
Broken but ReadableItalian-Americans, US Army, and the FBIThese are some thoughts I’d like to share with you on Jersey Italians, the Army, and the FBI. Get full access to Broken but Readable at gregscaduto.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0510 min
Broken but ReadableThe Broken Voice: Episode 1I’m trying a new format because it’s a new year. I have also committed to never smoking another cigarette again, perhaps for the rest of my life. Americans think this is funny. They tell me “Hey, Greg. 1986 called and they want their new year’s resolution back.” But perhaps if you’re an Indian man, or even a Briton, you could offer some words of encouragement for me. It’s January 4th and I’m really struggling. But I have 2 young sons, and I’m 35. I think it’s time to take my health more seriously. But more important...
2026-01-0410 min
Neon Galactic with James FaulkWriting your resurrection: Greg Scaduto on UAPs, technology, & the power of integrity -- Neon GalacticOn this episode of Neon Galactic, I’m joined by writer, financier, veteran, and UAP disclosure advocate Gregory Scaduto to talk about aliens, politics, fatherhood, artificial intelligence, education, and America’s integrity problem.Scaduto is the author of the “Broken But Readable” Substack, where he profiles UAP experiencers, writes about raising his non-verbally autistic son, and displays a kind of vulnerability that is rare for men in the modern world.Overall, this is a wide-ranging discussion about UAPs, human integrity, and societal challenges; Scaduto shares his background as a financie...
2025-12-061h 09
Inchstones with Sarah | Autism Parenting & Neurodiversity InsightsAutism Journeys: Insightful Fatherhood Tales With Greg ScadutoHost Sarah Kernion sits down with writer and dad Greg Scaduto — a man who’s raising an incredible son named Teddy and writing his way through the beautiful chaos. From diaper duty to deep thoughts, Greg opens up about the emotional rollercoaster of fatherhood, the healing magic of a good community, and why love always beats a milestone chart. Expect laughs, insight, and a reminder that parenting a child with autism isn’t about giant leaps — it’s about celebrating the inchstones that truly matter.
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2025-06-1926 min
UAP Files PodcastWhat If It’s All True? Greg Scaduto on UAPs and the Collapse of Consensus Reality | UAP Files Podcast S3E31Today, I have the absolute pleasure of introducing someone whose writing has truly stopped me in my tracks—Greg Scaduto. Greg is, without question, one of the most compelling and thoughtful writers I've come across. His voice—equal parts lyrical, grounded, and incisive—brings rare clarity to complex and often overlooked subjects.Through his Substack and recent open letter that struck a deep chord with many in the UAP community, Greg has emerged as a deeply engaged and eloquent voice in the UFO/UAP conversation. His ability to cut through noise with sincerity and insight is exactly why I wanted...
2025-06-1949 min