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Decoding the Gurus

Stefan Molyneux, Part 2: Back in the Moly Hole

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Leisure, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Cult Season continues, and much like Stefan himself, you may have hoped this would go away after Part 1. Unfortunately, like all persistent internet hauntings, Molyneux has returned. And this time, Chris and Matt venture even deeper into the Moly-Hole, a place where truth is redefined, callers are slowly gaslit into existential confusion, and every philosophical insight is served with the overwhelming scent of narcissism and emotional manipulation.

We return to the joyful world of Stefan’s caller-domination rituals, courtesy of Twitter Spaces, where he continues his life’s work of berating strangers and stroking his own ego while insisting he alone possesses the True Meaning of Truth.

Listeners can thrill to the culmination of the Truth Call™ from Part 1, where the philosophically inclined young father is sucked further into Stefan’s epistemological meat grinder as Stefan tries to uncover the imaginary psychoanalytic roots of the caller’s ongoing defiance. From there, we are introduced to Caller No. 3 for just a sprinkling of the patented victim-blaming and misogyny of the Molyneux Method.

Finally, Chris and Matt offer their overall thoughts on Molyneux’s long and illustrious career as an internet arsehole. They conclude that while Stefan has managed to cycle through platforms, ideologies, and degrees of baldness, he has maintained absolute fidelity to the same psychological tactics—gaslighting, projection, undermining, hypocrisy, and the uncanny ability to make even a throwaway joke feel incredibly creepy.

So that’s it for now… collectively we can escape the Moly-Hole, carefully sealing the tunnel entrance as we leave. And let’s pray this is the last time anyone has to think about good ol’ Stefan.

Aside from that… Cult Season continues. Abandon hope, etc.

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0:00.0

I'm Hello and welcome to the Cody the Gurus, the podcast, we're an anthropologist and the psychologist, listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer.

0:31.6

We try to understand what they're talking about. I'm Matt Brown, the psychologist from Australia, and with me is Chris Kavanaugh, the Anakin Skywalker to my Obi-Wan Kenobi.

0:42.7

Partner in Crime, junior co-host, anthropologist slash psychologist, and academic in Japan.

0:51.9

Hi, Chris.

0:52.4

Wow.

0:53.4

Wow.

0:53.9

That was very professional. I like that. I've got no notes. No

0:56.9

notes. Perfect. You're fine with it. But Chris, not the young, not the younglings, Chris.

1:04.2

Oh, wow. You've watched those movies. That's it. I'm actually pretty shocked.

1:11.5

I didn't.

1:12.0

I did not enjoy them.

1:15.2

Have you seen the sequels?

1:17.7

You know, the ones that came after, the more recent, the Disney ones?

1:23.5

Yeah, like I, what's the more recent one?

1:26.2

The one, like, there's the series. like, they're better. They're much better. No, no, they're not. They're not. I'm not talking about the Montalorian or those kind of things. I mean. No, I'm talking about the one that's kind of, you know, what was the series that was, it sort of dwelt upon. Oh, Andor. You're

1:44.8

talking about Andor. Yeah, and or. Yeah. Andor. Yeah. No, I mean the, um, the three movies that they

1:52.0

made after, right, with Kylo Ren and all that. Yeah. No, I have not seen those. I will not

1:58.3

don't. Don't. I think they're not.

2:04.1

You're kettle of fish, shall we say.

2:05.8

Hey, are you still watching Foundation?

2:09.3

Not recently.

2:15.4

I mean, I think I saw the most recent series or some of it. I think I'm catching up. Yeah, I think I'm catching up.

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