Writer and Nymphet Alumni co-host Biz Sherbert joins NM following the launch of her newsletter, American Style. Its premise is simple — travel around the country and talk to people about what they are wearing and why. On the show we talk to Biz about the transmission of style today, particularly in the USA and whether personal aesthetic transformations may be a stand-in for pursuing the erstwhile American Dream.

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American Style newsletter

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See also:

“What Does Beauty Look Like in the Age of Trump?” AnOther (Feb 2025)

“On the Fashion Philosophy of the Crypto Bro,” Zora (June 2023)

Biz Sherbert x Emma Chamberlain, The Face (Sept 2024)

Nicole Kidman by Petra Collins for Time Woman of the Year, 2025

My guest is Adam Friedland. We discuss the ethics of platforming and the art of the talk show interview. For a few reasons, we chose to put this part of the conversation on the private feed only.

My guest is Adam Friedland, a stand up comedian and podcaster. He is the host of The Adam Friedland Show. We discuss the influence of alt-media, a farewell to Cumtown (RIP), the ideas & inspiration behind The Adam Friedland Show and his many social media controversies. How did comedians become recast as public intellectuals for the digital age?

Lil Internet purges his Musk Derangement Syndrome one last time in a monologue that could have been titled “Ket, Lies, and Video Games”—until a decades-long shift in base reality is revealed by dice in a Hong Kong bar.

This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Briahna Joy gray. We discuss irony politics, the alt-media to organization pipeline, and our shared admiration for Star Trek utopia.

In this episode, Josh talks to three individuals who have done the Gateway tapes Chelsea, DJ, and Charlie. This mini series is a collaboration with Otherworld.

In the next and final episode, Josh speaks to a researcher who uses the pseudonym "JC Dentun" to explore Monroe's vast cosmology of the astral realm.

My guest is Briahna Joy Gray, a lawyer, journalist and political commentator. She is the host of the Bad Faith podcast. We discuss the crisis of the Democratic party, online fact checkers vs. freedom of speech on social media, the mixed politics of populism and third parties in the USA.

First published in Heavy Traffic V (Fall 2024), Mark Leckey's kaleidoscopic, transhistorical sojourn into the Eikonomachia (the 'image struggle') is presented here in radio play form w/ sound design and production also by Leckey.

This reading is part of Heavy Traffic’s New Models residency, which features pieces from the magazine read aloud by their authors. Heavy Traffic V of is out now.

See also: 

📹 "Enter Through Medieval Wounds" video version

🔉NM Greenroom | Mark Leckey (2025)

🔉NM75 | w/ Heavy Traffic editor/publisher Patrick McGraw (2024)

🖼️ 3 Songs from the Liver,” Gladstone Gallery, NYC (2024-25)

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I’ll be honest — I wasn’t going to publish this part but I’m just a huge JC Dentun fan and this has got to be the some of the greatest 13 minutes of podcasting that absolutely blows my mind. Check out JC’s podcast: Pneumatic Materials.

Deep Research is a mini-series collaboration with Otherworld.

In the final episode, Josh speaks to the researcher "JC Dentun" about the vast cosmology and beliefs of Robert Monroe and the circle of people around him that we learned about in Part 1.

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