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Animus Air

by Mark Derian

Mark analyzes ideological trends and answers listener questions through the use of lengthy metaphors, just like Jesus.

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Episodes

  1. Political Abuse

    00:00 – teaching kids politics is chopped 3:30 – cultural implications 7:45 – how to talk with kids about politics correctly 9:30 – conclusion Free consultation: joinanimus.com/schedule

  2. Why You Keep Having the Same Fight

    00:00 – why recurring fights happen 1:00 – how you put pressure on the problem 2:10 – the neediness sweet spot 2:55 – the healthy need that goes unmet 3:40 – the way out 9:50 – different complaint, same psychology 10:45 – remove your self-worth from the problem Free consultation:...

  3. What the Lindsay Clancy Debate is Really About

    Free consultation: joinanimus.com/schedule

  4. Four Ways to Separate From Your Mom

    00:00 – Enmeshment is the veil 1:30 – an old pattern 2:30 – go to church 4:20 – apologize 6:30 – face time with women 8:50 – go through red pill 11:40 – the narcissistic mother

  5. The Missing Link Between Freud and Jung

    00:00 – Freud and Jung, more similar than different 1:15 – how Freud and Jung differ 5:25 – mind and body 8:00 – false dichotomies 9:15 – mechanism vs teleology 10:50 – conceptual fragmentation 12:00 – the missing link 14:45 – what it looks like

  6. Why Forcing Yourself to Change Never Works

    00:00 – real change 1:10 – you’re built to move 3:35 – freezing up around women 4:40 – advice is demeaning 6:40 – two kinds of bad advice 9:20 – no pain, no gain

  7. Why Somatic Therapy Cannot Heal Trauma

    00:00 – trauma is a physical phenomenon 1:45 – research criticism 3:00 – a confounding variable 4:45 – modern therapy vs insight 6:15 – insight affects physiology 7:30 – Van der Kolk's response 8:00 – context matters 8:45 – who keeps the score?

  8. Why Therapy Still Can’t Explain Mental Illness

    00:00 – there’s no mental illness definition 2:45 – critique current definition 6:15 – medicine is a legitimate field 8:00 – law is a legitimate field 9:15 – why therapy exists 11:40 – emotions 12:40 – decisions 14:30 – the two emotions 16:30 – mental illness pattern 19:15 – mental illness...

  9. The One Truth the Red Pill Ignores

    00:00 – The truth is not enough 1:15 – How truth becomes resentment 2:00 – it's a mother issue 3:00 – "feminism has ruined women" 5:00 – disclaimer 5:30 – "women are hypergamous" 7:00 – "women test men" 8:40 – "masculinity is criticized" 10:15 – "sexual market value" 12:15 – takeaway 14:15 –…

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  10. How Therapy Makes You Dishonest

    00:00 – what is therapy speak. 2:45 – therapy-speak guy’s main problem 3:00 – modern therapy causes therapy speak 5:15 – no clarity = no growth 6:15 – attributes of therapy-speak guy 9:30 – Gabor Mate 10:15 – Internal Family Systems 11:00 – Alok Kanojia 11:45 – Jordan Peterson 12:15 – Jonathan...

  11. The Two Ways You’ll Lose Her

    00:00 – Two wrong ways to communicate 2:00 – The right way to communicate 3:00 – Question from a viewer who's feeling jealous 3:45 – Growth begins with communication 6:30 – Whiteboard 11:30 – The communication of jealousy 12:45 – Own the jealousy 15:00 – Communication is practical 17:00 – Normal…

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  12. AI Psychosis and the Death of Reality

    00:00 – what is AI psychosis 1:15 – AI psychosis is a new outlet for an old phenomenon 2:00 – Be robust rather than vulnerable 3:15 – AI brain rot 4:45 – AI therapy "crisis" 6:15 – Two parts of mental robustness 7:45 – The antidote to the singularity

  13. The Nick Fuentes trap nobody can see

    00:00 – The Fuentes trap 1:45 – Porn is self-harm 5:00 – Fuentes is porn 6:45 – Deportation policy 9:00 – Experience isn’t epistemology 10:00 – Demographic enforcement12:30 – “world Jewry” 14:30 – Fuentes is the media 16:00 – Regulation trumps justification 17:00 – American needs a legitimate…

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  14. What Nick Fuentes reveals about you

    00:00 – Culture is psychology 00:45 – Fuentes is a psychological phenomenon 01:45 – post-war consensus 02:30 – repression 03:50 – Politicizing race 05:40 – Why we really hate Fuentes 07:50 – Prediction 09:15 – Groyper prediction

  15. Why gifted kids are actually special needs

    00:00 – Therapy is lost 01:15 – Healthy Gamer's views 02:15 – HG misses the point 03:15 – Sociology vs psychology 04:45 – Why gifted kids are special needs fr 06:40 – Comparison 07:50 – Shame 10:15 – Where your focus needs to be 11:40 – How HG addresses responsibility

  16. Why you can’t stop thinking about her past

    00:00 – What retroactive jealousy feels like 01:30 – Why we obsess over our partner’s past 03:20 – Retroactive jealousy serves you 06:15 – Jealousy is not the real issue (noise vs signal) 09:00 – When jealousy is legitimate 11:30 – The Madonna–Whore complex explained 14:50 – The whiteboard:...

  17. The Case Against Spiral Dynamics

    0:00 What Spiral Dynamics lacks 1:45 What it is 3:30 Stage overview 11:30 Problem one: no philosophy 16:15 Problem two: inept psychology 19:00 Problem three: not an integration 23:45 Problem four: it's irrelevant 26:15 Coral stage proposal 29:30 Takeaway

  18. Anxious and avoidant attachment are the same disorder

    Intro: buzzwords are useful. Anxious/avoidant are the same (6:00). How to work through attachment disorder (19:30). The one Neurosis (29:30).

About this show

Mark analyzes ideological trends and answers listener questions through the use of lengthy metaphors, just like Jesus.

Hosted by

Mark Derian

Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Animus Air have?

Animus Air has 74 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on October 27, 2026.

What is Animus Air about?

Mark analyzes ideological trends and answers listener questions through the use of lengthy metaphors, just like Jesus.

How often does Animus Air release new episodes?

Animus Air publishes every two weeks, based on its 74 episodes since July 2023.

Who hosts Animus Air?

Animus Air is created and hosted by Mark Derian.
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