Spiritual teacher and best-selling author Biet Simkin comes by the pod to discuss rock and roll, inhabiting the dual mind and all the places we can find God (including shopping at Prada).

Follow Biet on Instagram @guidedbybiet.

https://www.bietsimkin.com/ 

Friend of the pod Victoria Shepard shares her experience working with refugees in the humanitarian sector. We discuss what ending USAID means, if all international giving is really BS, and how the CIA tracked down Osama bin Laden through a vaccination campaign (yikes!). 

Discussed:

How The CIA's Hunt For Bin Laden Impacted Public Health Campaigns In Pakistan

Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in Africa

Gen Z filmmaker, Luddite, and brother-of-the-pod Nick Konig comes on to discuss flip phones, Krishnamurti, The Medium is the Massage & golfing in New York City.   

Find Nick ⁠on YouTube⁠ and follow him on Instagram ⁠@⁠cellinoandbarnesnumberonefan

Discussed:

Nature by Bianca Stone

The Medium is the Massage

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Sarah & Francesca discuss Louise Perry's book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, eccentric women, bad sex, and whether Charlotte would have had to marry Mr. Collins if she had an OnlyFans. Plus: the NYC mayoral race, Iran, and Francesca's theory that George W. Bush wanted to go to war because of the 2001 hit TV show, 24.

Discussed:

How to find love in 2025

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Sarah & Francesca discuss ICE protests, the NYPD Strategic Response Group, Gavin Newsom loving love, and liberal Denmark's tough-on-immigration approach. Also, the pod endorses a candidate in the upcoming New York mayoral primary. 

Discussed: 

Eric Adams’s morning routine

In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning?

Gavin Newsom on the L.A. Protests

We do a deep dive into the story of Candace: her ascension from liberal nobody to conservative darling to conspiracy theorist and celebrity gossipmonger. Plus: The Musk-Trump breakup, the problem with Elon's manhood (according to Azaelia Banks), and we reveal our voting records—which one of us was a Young Republican?

Correction: Ye and Candace Owens wore "White Lives Matter" shirts to a Paris fashion show in 2022, not "All Lives Matter."

Discussed: 

The Gospel of Candace Owens

The Strange Tale of Social Autopsy

An Open Letter from Candace Owens

Sara Apple Maliki—writer, filmmaker and fiancée—discusses heterosexual dating and gives precise instructions on how to find a (rich) husband in NYC. Also discussed: how to work black cat energy, whether or not you should take the train to Williamsburg for a dude, and how Catholic all-girls school made us pick-mes.

Ben Zitsman—literary darling, reformed scoundrel and former managing editor of the Antioch Review—comes by the podcast to discuss his spiritual search on a Jesuit mission at the Pine Ridge Reservation. Plus: Catholic converts, American sex-ed and that time Francesca was possessed by a demon (and her subsequent exorcism). 

Is Chat GPT a literal prophet? We discuss the college students who use AI to pass their classes and the liberals who use social media to break their own brains. Plus: Chat GPT gives Sarah schizophrenic spiritual counsel. 

Discussed:

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

My Brain Finally Broke by Jia Tolentino

Is New York over? Discussed: The battle for the soul of the West Village, Francesca's audition to play Jessa in Girls, white girls promoting North Korea on TikTok, and much more.

It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl

Why I Broke Up With New York by Lena Dunham