{"podcast":{"title":"Decoding the Gurus","slug":"decoding-the-gurus-1328110","podcast_index_feed_id":1328110,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/decoding-the-gurus/","website_url":"https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ca36b15f-e9a3-44d0-b341-cb03f96046e3/aj9LitB3bvW15m3-LL0fusjp.jpg","author":"Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne","episode_count":247,"summary":"An exiled Northern Irish anthropologist and a hitchhiking Australian psychologist take a close look at the contemporary crop of 'secular gurus', iconoclasts, and other exiles from the mainstream, offering their own brands of unique takes and special insights. Leveraging two of the most diverse accents in modern podcasting, Chris and Matt dig deep into the claims, peek behind the psychological curtains, and try to figure out once and for all... What's it all About? Join us, as we try to puzzle our way through and talk some smart-sounding smack about the intellectual giants of our age, from Jordan Peterson to Robin DiAngelo. Are they revolutionary thinkers or just grifters with delusions of grandeur? Join us and let's find out!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-the-gurus-1328110"},"episode":{"title":"Blindboy, Part 2: Where Have All the Good Men Gone?","slug":"blindboy-part-2-where-have-all-the-good-men-gone","published_at":"2026-03-14T02:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-the-gurus-1328110/blindboy-part-2-where-have-all-the-good-men-gone","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-the-gurus-1328110","url":"https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/blindboy-part-2-where-have-all-the-good-men-gone","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d9e1bf3b-6f35-4cc7-86a4-70aa6fc941ad.mp3","summary":"In Part 2, Matt and Chris return to Blindboy, now broadcasting from a solar-powered podcast and therefore morally unimpeachable. The darkness, however, remains. Having established in Part 1 that the global elite are a vampiric class of depraved blackmailers who traffic children and delight in cruelty, in Part 2, Blindboy offers us some welcome relief in the form of answering the question of what it looks like to be one of the good ones. You may be surprised to learn that it involves a missing dressing room, muddy socks, and a loyalty to small-time promoters that some might call heroic. The episode also traces an ambitious historical arc: from street gangs in 1800s Limerick to the New York underworld, Meyer Lansky, Roy Cohn, CIA brothels and LSD interrogation programmes, and eventually to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. The connecting thread is a continuous tradition of sexual blackmail passed from master to apprentice that has, apparently, been quietly guiding Western (criminal) civilisation for the better part of two centuries. Matt and Chris sift through the historical material, examine the leaps required to keep the chain intact, and consider whether a conspiracy hypothesis that explains quite so much, quite so neatly, might deserve a small dose of skepticism. As you might anticipate, the episode features discussions of many of our old friends, including strategic disclaimers, moral grandstanding, and layered preemptive defences. Finally, get ready to learn who the real villain is, when the mask is finally removed.... spoiler: it's neoliberal capitalism. A revelation that some listeners may have suspected from the very beginning. Links Blindboy: A Deep Dive into Jeffrey Epstein The Rest is Classified: Was Epstein a Russian Spy? Epstein Files Declassified: Mossad,…","meta_description":"In Part 2, Matt and Chris return to Blindboy, now broadcasting from a solar-powered podcast and therefore morally unimpeachable. The darkness, however, re…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6545,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/decoding-the-gurus-1328110/episodes/blindboy-part-2-where-have-all-the-good-men-gone/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-the-gurus-1328110/blindboy-part-2-where-have-all-the-good-men-gone.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}