{"podcast":{"title":"Honey Badger Radio","slug":"honey-badger-radio-505921","podcast_index_feed_id":505921,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4148711/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e9ebb7638698a08c6d4ae01dcd8e9c98.jpg","author":"Honey Badger Brigade","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Female and minority men's rights activists are in your politics, touching your stuff. Correcting the record on men — the research, the reality, and the lies you've been told about yourself. We dismantle the academic fraud nobody else does, because nobody else reads the damn things.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T00:17:06.026720+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/honey-badger-radio-505921"},"episode":{"title":"Benedict Beckeld on Why Oikophobia, not Suicidal Empathy is Killing the West | Fireside Chat 277","slug":"benedict-beckeld-on-why-oikophobia-not-suicidal-empathy-is-killing-the-west-fireside-chat-277","published_at":"2026-09-04T18:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/honey-badger-radio-505921/benedict-beckeld-on-why-oikophobia-not-suicidal-empathy-is-killing-the-west-fireside-chat-277","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/honey-badger-radio-505921","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/benedict-beckeld-on-why-oikophobia-not-suicidal-empathy-is-killing-the-west-fireside-chat-277--74770922","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74770922/benedict_beckeld_on_why_oikophobia_not_suicidal_empathy_is_killing_the_west_fireside_chat_277.mp3","summary":"\"There's a kind of ghoulish happiness about people they think are bad and dangerous being killed. They were celebrating, but they were also signalling — look at me, I'm saying the thing everyone's supposed to say.\" Brian sits down with Dr Benedict Beckeld, philosopher and author of Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations, on why cultures come to hold themselves in contempt — and why he thinks it isn't new, or an excess of empathy. Also: macro and micro monomania, his terms for reading all of history through one lens; which class the contempt starts in and how it spreads; the Canadian identity built on not being American; and whether the \"weak men create hard times\" idiom survives contact with the historical record. \"Nothing is more human than taking a good idea too far. Once somebody levels a good point of self-critique against his own community, the next person has to show he's even smarter, and levels a more extreme one.\" Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online","meta_description":"\"There's a kind of ghoulish happiness about people they think are bad and dangerous being killed. They were celebrating, but they were also signalling — l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8229,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/honey-badger-radio-505921/episodes/benedict-beckeld-on-why-oikophobia-not-suicidal-empathy-is-killing-the-west-fireside-chat-277/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/honey-badger-radio-505921/benedict-beckeld-on-why-oikophobia-not-suicidal-empathy-is-killing-the-west-fireside-chat-277.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}