Benton Rooks and the Mind Movers Podcast Discuss Entheodelic Storytelling

Benton Rooks discusses the internet as a proto-akashic record, the differences and similarities between Western and Eastern philosophy, ayahuasca, mythology, creativity and more…

Dan Harmon Returns to The Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Listen in to their late night chat.

Who’s the Crazy One?

Oh, sure, I thought. I'll take an hour out of my day and pay you a fee, open myself up and pour my heart out, and then stop midstream to either listen to you talk to your residents or else take a call myself from my friend Marty in California . . . No, I don't think so.

Behind the Fake Report of Jeff Goldblum’s Death

A
friend of mine received an e-mail from Global Associated News reporting the death of Jeff Goldblum.  She forwarded it on to others, including a
reporter, without realizing the story originated at FakeAWish.com. 

Notes on the Economic Unconscious

In 2004 Billionaires for Bush took to the streets with slogans like "Blood for Oil," "Free the Enron 7," and "Corporations are People, Too." Intentionally or not, we tapped into what you might call the economic unconscious, or the mythic dimension of money.

You’re Doing It Wrong

My friend, you cannot escape doing it wrong. And of course, being, like you, a part of American culture, neither can I. There is an Ogallala aquifer of guilt sitting a few inches below the surface of the American psyche.

Welcome to Camp Mogul

I really wanted to spy on a summer camp for billionaires, so I served as the official wheelchair pusher of my friend at the 26th annual gathering of the nation's most powerful executives and their trophy wives in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Divine Pratfalls

The moment of spiritual epiphany reveals that one's true identity is an infinite blank slate of primordial awareness. And if that's not hilarious, what is?

Idiocracy: A Depraved and Hilarious Tale of Corporate Conspiracy

Mike Judge's film Idiocracy is a hilarious peek at what humans might be like 500 years from now. It's a description that's hauntingly fitting today.

Getting Real with Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner, creator of the classic satircal zine The Realist and co-founder of the Yippies!, was one of the funniest and most poignant satirical writers of the 1960s counterculture. In this interview he reflects on his 50 years of activism, and offers thoughts on today's world. "My advice for the future is to always remember that the political system is merely a buffer between the status quo and the force of evolution."