The Bigfoot Manifesto

🎙️ Episode 4: Cancel Culture vs Accountability Can you joke without getting cancelled? Comedian Luis Jiminez ( Upright Citizens Brigade ) joins host Dave Pederson for a brutally funny and surprisingly honest conversation about free speech, comedy, and where accountability meets overreaction. From comedians to culture critics, everyone has an opinion on what "cancel culture" really means. But is it...

They told you to "work hard and you'll succeed." But what if that story was never true? In this episode of 🎙 The Bigfoot Manifesto , host Dave Pederson sits down with journalist and author Sarah Jaffe ( Work Won't Love You Back , From the Ashes ) to expose one of America's biggest fairy tales — the Myth of Meritocracy. From corporate bootstraps rhetoric to the illusion of "equal opportunity," we b...

🎙 Episode 2: Bigfoot vs. The Strongman (with Andrea Chalupa of Gaslit Nation) In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto , Dave Pederson sits down with author, journalist, and Gaslit Nation co-host Andrea Chalupa to unpack how Putin's propaganda, right-wing disinformation, and American media echo chambers have reshaped global politics — and why authoritarian myths spread faster than truth. From Russ...

Bigfoot sightings and QAnon posts share a strange DNA — both thrive where trust in institutions collapses. In this episode, host Dave Pederson (Oscar-nominated producer of Super Size Me and Americonned ) dives into the murky overlap between myth, propaganda, and politics with journalist and author Mike Rothschild ( The Storm Is Upon Us , Jewish Space Lasers ). Together they unpack why people turn...