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Decoding the Gurus

Supplementary Material 50: The String Theory Mafia, Shameless Propagandists, and The Topography of Semantic Space

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, Leisure

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We become highly effective at exploiting the gap between salience and relevance as we universalise semiotic capability and listen to more brave renegades talking about how amazing they are. Join us, won't you?

Supplementary Material 50 (Full Episode: 2hrs 23 mins)

00:24 Introduction

02:07 British People Struggling with Compliments

04:53 Matt loves SOME episode titles

08:42 Nachos Pronunciation

10:13 Brett Weinstein vs Michael Tracey

29:08 Brett pivots to his Anti-Vaxx Hits

42:32 The Hug Box World of Podcasting

45:55 When Eric met Joe (again)

47:29 Eric and Rogan re-litigate Sean Carroll's criticisms

55:55 Eric's insatiable desire to be linked with Epstein

01:14:36 Eric Weinstein is a Construct

01:16:36 When Ana met Candace

01:18:18 Useful Idiots and Shameless Propagandists

01:19:59 Ryan Grim's reaction to being in Iranian Propaganda Videos

01:26:22 Zeteo gets to the bottom of the Iranian Casualty Figures

01:30:24 Ana and Candace's Hug Session

01:36:31 A horse named shoe?

01:47:26 The Holocaust Media Industry

01:53:48 Jimmy Dore makes the Religious Pivot

02:01:39 The Brave Renegade Narrative that Never Gets Old

02:12:57 Horseshoe Populism

02:16:23 Jordan Hall x AI Instructions

02:21:46 Agent Hall infecting your Mattrix

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0:00.0

I'm Hello and welcome to the coding the guru's supplementary material edition with the professor of psychology Matthew Brown and the associate professor of psychology, Matthew Brown,

0:44.3

and the associate professor of psychology, Christopher Kavana.

0:46.0

Me, that's a terrible.

0:46.8

That's terrible.

0:48.5

That's a terrible low energy introduction.

0:53.8

You should describe ourselves as guardians of the institutions, servants to the discourse, handbadenes to the

0:57.3

blue church, here we stand, we can't do no other.

1:01.7

Well, see, that's why you do the introductions for the main episodes, because I don't have

1:07.6

that level of inventiveness in my soul.

1:11.0

So yes, I agree, that would have been better, but I didn't have that level of inventiveness in my in my soul. So yes, I agree that would have been better, but that I didn't do that.

1:15.9

You are, to your credit, you are good at impressions, though.

1:19.0

You are good at impressions.

1:20.5

You do impromptu impressions to me all the time just on the phone when you're describing somebody.

1:26.3

You did a Zizek impression to me and I was blown away.

1:29.9

It was like I was being regaled by the man himself.

1:31.9

You were in the room of him.

1:33.7

It was a look I could feel the spittles spreading over my face.

1:38.7

It was amazing.

1:39.9

To be fair, it is a lot of snuffling and sniffling.

1:45.7

It's the fair amount of the impression of Zhezek.

1:50.3

But, who's you, Zit?

1:51.3

Yeah, it's a joke.

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