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Decoding the Gurus

Supplementary Material 45: Mick Drops, The Weinstein Conspiracy Hour, and Lessons from History

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Social Sciences, Science, Leisure, Society & Culture

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We return to some old friends, and almost immediately, we regret the decision. Also, get ready for some heady insights from history, a new conspiracy hypothesis, and Game Theory based insights.

The full episode is available to Patreon subscribers (1 hour, 37 minutes).

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Supplementary Material 45

00:00 Introduction

01:15 Mick Drop

04:44 Scott Galloway's Favourite Conservative

06:37 Konstantin Kisin: Neither Right Nor Left

11:51 Insane Ad Reads in Podcastistan

17:08 Aella's insights on history

20:30 Bret's New Conspiracy Episode

22:10 Bret on Epstein, Pizzagate, and Ritual Murder

30:58 Heather, the personification of strategic disclaimers

31:49 Bret's New Conspiracy: Epstein is Alive

36:31 The Real Culprit is Game Theory

44:25 Bret is a Force of Nature who is always vindicated

46:36 The Grand Unification of Conspiracy Theories

48:25 Cenk Uygur promotes 9/11 Conspiracies

51:42 Peter Thiel in Ghoulish Pro-Nazi Form

55:15 The Descent of the Discourse

57:47 Eric visits Triggernometry (Again): Russian Woes

01:05:20 The Eric Squid Ink Manoeuvre

01:14:49 Eric is pro-Nuclear weapons tests

01:19:27 Weinstein drives can take us multiplanetary

01:28:28 The Weinstein Function: Justifying Enlightened Centrists Everywhere

01:30:37 Drew Pavlou's latest stunt backfires

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm

0:02.0

I'm going to be.

0:04.0

The Hello and welcome to decoding the Guru's supplementary material, the runaway success,

0:34.1

sister spin-off podcast through the mainstream phenomenon that is decoding the

0:40.3

gurus the main podcast and that person over there absolutely is Matthew Brown the psychologist

0:46.5

extraordinary from Australia me facing you is the cognitive anthropologist of sorts from

0:52.6

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland and I residing in Japan.

0:58.0

That's where I am. Hello, good day to you, Matthew Bryan. Good day. Good day. Hello. Hello. Hello.

1:05.3

How's your day? How's your day? It's nice here in Queensland. It's cooling off. And yeah, the ocean's nice. Yeah, it's uh it's cooling off and um yeah the ocean's nice yeah it's getting

1:14.5

livable again matt we got to clear something out right out of the gate there's something that a lot

1:19.5

of people were asking about a lot of questions and we just need to confirm here you know president

1:25.9

obama he was insulting Donald Trump at one point at a, like,

1:31.0

some event. And he did a thing where he held up the microphone that he was talking about,

1:37.4

and he like dropped it. Now, what would you call that what he did there? What is that what he just

1:43.4

did? I sense a trap. This feels like a trap. But no, I'm just checking. So, you know, he picked up and he dropped it. What would you call what he did there? What is that moment? It's a, hmm, mm, mm. Oh, well, it's a mic, obviously. I'd always call it a mic. Isn't that what you would call it?

2:02.4

That's right. It's a mic, but what do you call that event where you are dropping that dying?

2:09.9

What do you call it a mic? Mic drop. Mic, mic, mic, mic, mic, mic, mark drop? I don't know. Yeah. Okay, which do you call it? Which one do you call it?

2:18.9

Look, I'm sure I've called it both.

2:20.5

So I haven't called out for mispronunciating again.

2:23.5

How absurd.

2:24.2

Yeah, this one is insane.

2:25.7

Know what?

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