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Escape Your Algorithm
by Maven
Escape your Algorithm is about finding the unexpected. We are dedicated to finding things we didn’t know we were looking for, broadening our knowledge and adding texture to our understanding. Together we discover what is outside our algorithm, opening opportunities to learn from each other. Proud member of KGCN Radio Network. Always made by humans.
Episodes
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#162 The Emperor Watches No Flock
Flock Safety Links https://eyesonflock.com/ https://haveibeenflocked.com/ https://deflock.org/ Recorded 03/31/2026 By humans, for humans Proud member of KCGN Radio Network. Listen live on Podbean app, every Tuesday and Thursday at 9am pacific time. ONLY available live on Podbean UNTIL May 18…
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#161 Nothing in Common But Us
Maven, Cali Pitts, K-Dubb Tha Ambassador escape to these stories: UN Commission on the status on women Live Nation ready to settle, States are not The philosophy of indoctrination and how to fix it Not Yet ‘Game Over’ In Iran Eavesdropping on a briefing from Pentagon Recorded 03/10/2026 By…
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#160 What Our Brains Are Doing in Time
Maven, Cali Pitts, Lisa, Anne, BluntNinja, Joshua discuss metacognition and the nature of time, plus Super-Spectacular Day We wander through ideas of who or what is doing the talking inside our heads, thinking about past, the future and the now of time, Buddhism, Reincarnation, “Consensus"…
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#159 Women in Math and Nations at War
Cali Pitts, Miaaa, Smokie Rae-Dior and K-Dubb Tha Ambassador and Maven discuss: Carl Sagan's Baloney detection kit Genius Mathematician Emmy Nother related discussion of men's and women's roles in western culture It's A Super-Spectacular Day Clips of an interview with Scott Ritter from Mintpress...
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#158 A Jam-Packed Spectacular Episode
Cali Pitts joins Maven, AKA Sareh Nayde and wander all over the place, including Carl Sagan's Baloney detection kit POTUS SciStarter project for April Freedmans Bureau Records Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings Reveal interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones of 1619 project Le Show with...
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#157 When Democracy Works (and Why It Doesn't)
Maven welcomes Cali Pitts for stories about POTUS of the day Sagan's balony detection kit Black History is American History - Fern Gayden California’s Best City Council Should Never Grow Up America Is Not a Democracy The Constitution and the American Left Recorded 2/19/2026 By humans, for humans...
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#156 Immortal HeLa Cells? Five Senses Find No Baloney
Maven welcomes Josh, Cali , K-Dubb, and Alyze for stories about POTUS of the day Death of Jesse Jackson Sagan's balony detection kit Are there more than 5 senses? Black History is American History - Henrietta Lacks Recorded 2/17/2026 By humans, for humans Proud member of KCGN Radio Network.…
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#155 Protecting Ourselves and Projecting Our Stories
Cali Pitts, Miaaa, Alyze Chicago, Ayanna, Blunt Ninja, Mr BGreat join Maven On this episode YouDontKnowAfrica.com Carl Sagan's Balony detection kit part 2 Black History IS American history - Marcella Walker McGee and Lewis Allen McGee community activists and part of the history of Unitarian...
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#154 Black Homeownership and Meeting Neighbors
Maven and Ayanna Escape The Obscure Law Destroying Black Homeownership in America etymologies nincompoop, tchotchke from million experiments.com "50 Ways to Meet Your Neighbor" https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-obscure-law-destroying-black-homeownership-in-america Escape Your Algorithm...
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#153 End of New START and American History
Cali, Josh, MrBGreat join Maven for great conversation. The opinions of individual guests are their own and may not represent the views of the podcast or other guests. Segments: Expiration of New START corporate layoffs POTUS #5 Black History IS American History: Betty Reid Suskind (From The...
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#152 Our Brains on Words, Pictures and Body Cam Video
Maven is joined by Cali Pitts, Compton DJ, K-Dubb Tha Ambassador, Alyze Chicago and Smokey Rae-Dior On this episode Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection kit (part 1) Some People Think in Words, Others Think in Pictures & Feelings Pervasive surveillance: Body cams for ICE, local police and prison guards...
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#151 Dr. Justina Ford and the Nuances of Living = NOT a Band, Yet
Cali Pitts, Alyze Chicago and BluntNinja join Maven to escape together Etymologies People who are performatively nice in public, but hostile behind closed doors. Question from Cali: Why do people involve themselves with people they don't care about? Memory Crafters Preserve Black Women’s History...
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#150 Your Dunbar Number isn't Elective
Maven is joined by Cali Pitts and Kdubb tha Ambassador POTUS Doomsday clock of the union of concerned scientists Podcast clips from Infinite Monkey Cage Dec 16 2025 Dunbar number (cognition and limits of friend quantity) Disagree Better Sept 9, 2025 Mental Models Lateral thinking Elections...
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#149 Chester Arthur meets the qwerty keyboard
Cali Pitts and K-Dubb Tha Ambassador join Maven for a quick and silly little episode. (May contain some curse words.) from the Book of Totally Useless Information -Why keyboards are arranged that way; POTUS Chester Arthur; The Little Zen Companion Bonus fellowship convo about Little Shop of...
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#148 The Shambles of Getting Older
Cali Pitts, Kdubb The Ambassador and Alyze Chicago join Maven and discuss the book Think Again, about avoiding the pitfalls of overconfidence; word history of "shambles"; basics about the 20th president leads to a discussion about the presidency and then to aliens? Also this episode: a few notes…
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#147 Not working and not getting old(er)
Maven is joined by Alyze, kdubb, and bluntninja Escaping to 1 of the 7 laws of pessimism, a clip of trevor noah's podcast on work, notes on getting older, Dale Carnegie vs. Lin Yutang: How To Stop Worrying and Start Loafing made by real humans on 1/13/26 links at...
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#146 Maven's Wild Rocket Ride of Freedom
Maven is joined by Cali Pitts, Blunt Ninja, Keron, Mama bear Tracy, Smokie Rae-dior and KDubb for a full show. (The too-much-fun hour-long cool-down after-party will be available exclusively for the podbean fan club members and discord subscribers. Download the podbean app and join the fanclub)...
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#145 From Women's Prisons to Obscure Instruments
Inside the campaign to close California’s remaining women’s prisons https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/inside-the-campaign-to-close-californias-remaining-womens-prisons/ 4th 0f seven laws of pessimism https://quillette.com/2024/01/26/the-seven-laws-of-pessimism/?ref=thebrowser.com The...
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#144 Late 2025 visits 1943
Small grab bag of fun to explore. 25th POTUS 3rd of the 7 laws of Social Pessimism Parts of 1943 bestselling true story One World by Wendell Wilkie Recorded 12/25/25 Made by real humans for real humans. https://quillette.com/2024/01/26/the-seven-laws-of-pessimism/?ref=thebrowser.com more Links at...
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#143 Special Bonus Episode: Not your mama's algorithm
Bonus holiday episode with Maven featuring Blunt Ninja, Cha Cha, Mama Bear, KDubb, Cali Pitts and Mocha the Cat Some adult language. seven laws of pessimism #2 Long live the aeonophiles! https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life President Benjamin Harrison...
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#142 Paying attention and Being Present
A grab bag of items that asks for attention and presence. The Daily Zeitgeist clip Surveillance is sapping our humanity The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year awards 2025 One of 1000 places to see before you die: The Grenadines Excerpt : We can feel it coming How much is a trillion? 7 laws of...
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#141 Nuclear Incarceration vs Kurt Vonnegut
Featured Video: Every Nuclear Bomb Detonation in the 20th Century Animal of the Day Think Again, Adam Grant Reading: Foma, Wampeters and Granfalloons, Kurt Vonnegut Electronic Frontier Foundation's White Paper on Flock ALPR Maven and Cali Pitts on prisons, jails, mass incarceration and the…
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#140 Mind-altering weapons vs what socialism got right
Digital Protection: How to opt out of training google AI with your Gmail How to check whether your passwords and logins have been compromised Tapas Topics: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Etymology (Antarctica, Pundit) Articles: Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction…
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#139 the Hobo Code & James Burke to real Big Brother?
Giant Armadillo Narcissism James Burke on Hardcore History 2008 Hobo code 1000 places to see: cattedrale di santa maria la nuova Flock Explained from Law and Disorder with Kat Brooks Matt Stoller Big and conversation with Maven, Ayanna, Bluntninja and Cali Pitts Made for real humans by real…
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#138 Wikipedia, Chernobyl, Trump Thanks Us
Animal of the day, a US President Fact Card, Literary Term, About Time Card, articles about Chernobyl's damaged nuclear power plant, Langley contributes stories to Wikipedia and why Donald Trump is "Thanking you For your attention in this matter" Then Cali Pitts and Maven discuss their ideas…
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#137 Time Traveling with NASCAR UFOs
To brother Cali and brother Deeko,thanks for joining for the live show. Highlights include Literary Term, Etymology of the day, and Time Knowledge, (in order Farce, Fact, and International dateline) The shape of earth, according to Columbus NASCAR's court case Recommended Listen Ren "Losing It"...
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#136 Vape Batteries in The Foster Portfolio
Cali Pitts of KGCN Radio and Maven are escaping algorithms YouTuber turns disposable vapes into battery wall that runs his whole workshop https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/youtuber-builds-power-system-using-vape-cells Kurt Vonnegut The Foster Portfolio read by LaVar Burton...
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#135 Yo! Be a better learner of humanity's endgame
Ayianna and Cali join Maven for conversation outside the algorithm Sources in this episode (also at Protopage.com/Escape Your Algorithm) Clothes from beer and pharmaceutical waste History of "Yo" Want to be a better learner? Start by noticing how you think. Humanity's Endgame Made for real humans...
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#134 Hitchhikers Guide to MMT and System Collapse
Segments include: "Best of The Left" on Nuclear Arms, "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" primer on Modern Monetary Theory, parts of "Humanity's Endgame", four "random" chapters from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and etymology of the day. Show links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm Made for real...
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EYA Episode 133
Bring your curiosity and escape with Maven on Podbean. Always made by real humans, for real humans. Recorded on November 11, 2025 Armistice Day and author Kurt Vonnegut's birthday Our live studio audience included Podbean hosting legends Mama Bear Tracy and Ralph William of W-ESN, Cali Pitts and...
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EYA Episode 132
Recorded on November 4, 2025 Maven with guest Cali Pitts Excerpt of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Election Day News (brief) Opt Out of Facial Recognition bookshop.org Show Links @ protopage.com/escape your algorithm
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EYA Episode 131
Recorded November 4, 2025 animal of the day etymology think again tips hitchhiker's guide t the galaxy News: Cop convicted of killing Sonia Massey in her home What Insect can suck it? Co-Evolution bookshop.org Show Links @ protopage.com/escape your algorithm
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EYA Episode 130
Recorded on October 30, 2025 Maven with Guest Host Cali Pitts Corn and Soybeans from Matt Stoller's BIG Epigram Hitchhiking cat returns home Show links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm
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EYA Episode 129
Recorded October 30, 2025 Animal of the Day, The Moon is Moving Away from Us, Think Again, a Zooniverse.org project and more. Joined this episode by Blunt Ninja, Mama Bear Tracy and Cali Pitts. Links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm
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EYA Episode 128
Recorded on October 28, 2025 Join host Maven for Animal of the day, Zooniverse.org crowd science project recommendation, SNAP benefits 101 (including discussion with Cali Pitts) excerpts from "Ascendance Of Algorithmic Tyranny" Links https://protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm
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Escape Your Algorithm 127
Recorded on October 21, 2025 RGB Color spaces Hedgehog facts Clips from Upstream podcast interview with Cory Doctorow May 2024 For links, protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm
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Escape Your Algorithm 126
Recorded on October 7, 2025 In disasters, IPAWs emergency alert system goes unused Word of the day: pandemonium Upstream interviews Cory Doctorow Podbean Studio guests KGCN Radio's Cali Pitts, W-ESN's Ralph William and Mama Bear Tracy, BluntNinja, BenJahova, and Fair Use Show links at...
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Escape Your Algorithm 125
Recorded 10/09/2025 Pigment and word origin of the day World's Smallest flying machine Economic Bill of Rights Animal of the day Fetishizing Jobs The Political Orphanage Links available at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm
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Escape Your Algorithm 124
Recorded October 9, 2025 Topics include: Banned books week Timbuktu Clips from The Political Orphanage podcast, including on origin of the GDP, the financial sector, and commoning. Links (where they exist) at protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm
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Escape Your Algorithm 123
Recorded October 14 , 2025 This episode: Warthog, Epic, Album, Guy Standing interview on The Political Orphanage, Improved pay and conditions for incarcerated firefighters in California. Hosted by Maven, Guests SueUK Mama Bear Tracy Check out related links at protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm
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Escape Your Algorithm 122
Recorded 9/04/2025 Roadside Attractions and Bullsh*t Jobs. Panel: Host Maven and Cali Pitts
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Escape Your Algorithm 121
recorded September 23, 2025 Clip from UNFTR interview with economist and best-selling author Yanis Varoufakis. His latest book: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. For links and bonus material: protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm
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Escape Your Algorithm 120
Recorded September 23, 2025 For more about the content, check out https://www.protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm
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EYA Episode 119
Recorded live September 18, 5pm PDT on Podbean. See links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm
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Escape Your Algorithm 118
Included in this episode: history of the commons and more. Links to read more about some of the stuff we've talked about here, plus some bonus videos and suggested reading visit protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm
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Escape Your Algorithm 117
Dedicated to finding things we didn’t know we were looking for, plus updates on Cop City activists in Atlanta, colour of the day and more. Recorded live 5pm 9/16/25
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Escape Your Algorithm 116
Finding things we didn’t know we were looking for. Today: Airlines selling data to government, breaking together, museum of colour, 1000 places to see before you die. Plus mashups.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Escape your Algorithm is about finding the unexpected. We are dedicated to finding things we didn’t know we were looking for, broadening our knowledge and adding texture to our understanding. Together we discover what is outside our algorithm, opening opportunities to learn from each other. Proud member of KGCN Radio Network. Always made by humans.
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