You're going to. Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guours the podcast with two academics listen to content or read content from the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try to understand what on earth they're talking about.

I'm Professor Matt Brown, I'm a psychologist from Australia and with me is Dr.

Chris Kavanaugh.

He's a cognitive anthropologist from some obscure place in the British Isles and as we're both fully credentialed gatekeepers

of the institutional narrative, we are ready to get to the bottom of whatever shit is going down

in our interconnected online world culture.

Does that sound about right, Chris?

That sounds very good.

So the world of conspiracy theorists and pseudoscientists and secular gurus is expanding in the Internet

era and we have found a kind of corner that's interesting and potentially on top to look at from a critical perspective.

So hopefully we have some interesting things that say and can connect it to the

pre-existing well-trotting paths of conspiracy forests and various types of gurus.

Yeah, yeah, I think there's a lot of interesting

connections there, a lot of good stuff to unpack.

So we'll see how we go, hopefully interesting.

I'm sure it'll be hit and miss sometimes, especially at the beginning,

but we'll have some fun. So I guess the first thing we should do is introduce ourselves. So, do you want to go first, Chris?

Sure. So, like you said, I'm in academia.

I'm a cognitive anthropologist.

But I actually teach in a psychology department, so I kind of moonlight as a psychologist on the border of anthropology all very academic and on interesting but the

Relevance for this podcast is that

Basically I've had a long-standing interest not just academically but

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