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We snap our 78s over our knees and examine some of the industry-shattering changes that music has undergone in the recent past: how we make it, listen to it, think about it, own it, and pay for it — and who gets the money. Thanks to Sean Agnew from Union Transfer , Noah Kohll from Color Green , John Dwyer from Oh Sees, Geoff Rickley from Thursday, Jess Williamson , Timmy Hefner, and Zola Jesus . (...

We grease up the night sticks and put on the peaked caps and head over to the grey bar hotel in order to prepare the bed for our newest guest: Donald J. Trump.  We also discuss Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen.

We check back in with John Vanderslice, the subject of our limited series Keep the Dream Alive , a year after its release. We chat about scraping by in the music industry, the Bay Area scene, and John's new record. Check out John's upcoming tour dates on his instagram.  The final performance of TrueAnon's Year of the Smile will be on April 15 in Austin, TX .

We placed all our bets on Juicero and all our money in the bank — this is the story of how TrueAnon lost everything in the SVB collapse. Plus we talk shit about VCs.

Podcast Legends Matt Christman and Chris Wade join our funky asses for a frank discussion on their new series, HELL ON EARTH , about the Thirty Years' War. We talk printing, Purgatory, blood, looting, Christ’s Foreskin and AMORC…

Freelance journalist Jacob Silverman joins us to talk about the collapse of Silvergate Capital, the shakedown of crypto, and his forthcoming series on Sam Bankman-Fried and the implosion of FTX’s billion-dollar fraud.

We talk Power Grid and who keeps turning off the lights and why. Tweakers? Nazi Terrorists? Or perhaps both?

Long March? But it just started! We head down Peking’s way to look at why the US keeps shooting all the Balloons, our situationship with Taiwan, and why every US politician can’t stop talking about China.

We take a look at the launch of Microsoft and Google’s AI-assisted search engines, try to make sense of machine learning hallucinations, and push back on the hysteric reporting announcing the arrival of chatbot sentience.  shell-song.neocities.org/ www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web www.sublationmag.com/post/the-ai-delusion

TrueAnon visits your home (Virgin Islands) to talk about the fallout from the controversial case levied by former AG Denise George against JP Morgan’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein—and the damning Jes Staley emails that have come out. 

We’re joined again by Matt from Ghost Stories for the End of the World for a look at the Sicilian Mafia’s place in Italian society and the history of the organization through to the present day.

Following the arrest of mafia boss and murderous gamer Matteo Denaro, we grab Matt from Ghost Stories for the End of the World and take a trip to Sicily for a two-parter on Cosa Nostra, the mafia’s role as handmaiden and parasite, and the early history of the Sicilian Mob. Ghost Stories Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd

We check into the old Grey Bar Hotel and take a look at some of this year's guests: Ghislaine Maxwell, Andrew Tate, and David Hamblin. 

We take a look at the killing of environmental activist Tortugita and the protests in Atlanta over the controversial development of the sprawling police training facility known as Cop City. Atlanta Community Press Collective  

We take a trip to Buccal di Fatto with SNL's Sarah Squirm as she and Liz teach Brace about the the Real Housewives, Ozempic, and a bizarre procedure involving sewing cheeks

We take a look at Prince Harry’s new tell-all SPARE, talk through Mexit and the couple's turn toward content, the death of The Queen, and the historic role of the British Monarchy

We take a look at the damage to Brasillia and talk about what led up to the moment, plus the coup that brought Bolsonaro to power in the first place. TrueAnon live tickets  

We dig through the threads and threads of Twitter Files to discuss the cozy relationship between the FBI and the social media giant, the populist pressures behind deplatforming @realdonaldtrump, and the impossible project of content moderation at scale.

Journalist and former CEDU student David Safran joins us to talk about his experience assisting a detective at the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department in investigating the disappearance of three children from the behavioral modification program CEDU between 1993-2004, and how the department moved to block the investigation and shut it down. LA Mag: Are Police Stifling the Investigation Into 3 Teens...

The Christmas Elves of Human Kindness crawl from their wretched warrens and join us in a frenzied session of forgiving and forgetting some of 2022s biggest Losers and Haters

We make a deposit in the Learn Bank and learn about Hipster Eugenics, advances in baby-making, Elon Musk’s brood, and Baby Einsteins real and imagined. What we find will make you spit out your pacifier.

TrueAnon FinCo correspondent and Financial Times journalist Alexandra Scaggs joins us to make sense of the multiple charges levied against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried,  what this has to do with our old friends at Tether, and just what JPoww and the Fed really think about the labor market situation. 

TrueAnon St. Louis correspondent Devin Thomas O’Shea joins us to talk about his new piece in Protean combining the history of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project and US government chemical testing on the residents of major American cities.   TrueAnon Live Tickets  

Lambo. Fake IDs. Motorcycle assassin. We go back to the Bay to talk about the story of Marin’s greatest teenaged thief and worst drive-by shooter: Max Wade. Surveillance video  

San Francisco’s police department and mayor dare to ask: Do Robot Cops Shoot at Electric Crooks? And if not, can we make them?  TrueAnon looks at the failed rollout of unmanned vehicle-borne IEDs by SF’s police department .