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Plausible Deniability AMX
by Plausible Deniability AMX
Not your mother's book group
Episodes
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PDAMX#41.1 - Demonic calcifications
Today we discussed calcium, mental illness, and demons.
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PDAMX40.1 - Quantum Machiavelli
We discuss Machiavelli to quantum mechanics to of course consciousness.
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PDAMX#39.1 - Antiquities of the Egyptians
Today we discuss a lot of the things we were reading over past 6 months, like Josephus' antiquities of the Jews, Heroditus, Julius Caesar's writings, and more...
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PDAMX#38.1 - The best podcast episode ever recorded by man
What more is there even to say. Recorded on 2/2/2026
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PDAMX37.1 - Do good be good
Today we primarily discuss Book II of Aristotle's Nicomachian ethics and how JC embodied its central message 300 years later.
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PDAMX#36.1 - Heretical Hermits
Today Antooshka and Mr. X recap some things they've read over the past few months. These include: -Monas Hieroglyphica by John Dee -The occult anatomy of man by Manly P. Hall -Bacon: Biography of Francis Bacon by Richard William Church -Roger Bacon and his search for a universal science by…
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PDAMX35.3 - Trickle down doctornomics (w/ Brother X)
Today we continue Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", with chapters 3 and 4. These cover the changes that occurred in medical education during the later half of the 19th century, as well as the importance that hospitals and scientific achievements had on…
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PDAMX#35.2 - Institutionalizing medicine for dummies
Today we continue Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", with chapters 2 and 3. This explains how the market for American medicine expanded in the 19th century empowering physicians, and how through organizations like the AMA Allopathic physicians consolidated their...
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PDAMX#35.1 - Scientific Priests (w/ Brother X)
Today we discuss Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", published in 1982. Specifically we focus on the introduction and chapter I, which begins to detail how American medicine went from a largely unorganized, unlicensed, lower class trade in the late 18th/early 19th...
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PDAMX#34.1 - The root of it all
Today we discuss book I of Rousseau's "Social Contract", which is his famous writing that discusses civil law vs. natural law, right of first occupant vs. right of the strong, and how he believes society's goal is to create equity between humans. We have an email and would love to hear from you…
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PDAMX#33.1 - Here's Waldo
Today we discuss Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-reliance", which he is a big fan of. We have an email and would love to hear from you, if you're so compelled: [email protected] Disclaimer: All opinions are our own, respectively, and don't represent any institution we may or may...
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PDAMX#19.4 - Messianic Marx
Today we continue our discussion of Karl Marx's Das Capital with chapter 2 and 3. This covers the circulation of money and how inflation is more due to commodity supply than money supply. We have an email and would love to hear from you, if you're so compelled: [email protected]...
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PDAMX#32.1 - Dionysus was a drunk! (w/ The Reckless Muse)
Today we have a special episode with The Reckless Muse (aka Ben D'Alessio and Joe Garza), because we read Ben D'Alessio's book Neon God. His novel essentially answers the question of what would happen if the Greek god Dionysus decided to go on a bender in New Orlean. As you can imagine…
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PDAMX#19.3 - The mystical fetish and its secret
Today we begin our discussion of Das Capital by, you already know, ol' Karl Marx himself. Boy what a slog! We start with chapter 1, which focuses on the commodity, its value, the formation of money, and how it is fetishized! We have an email and would love to hear from you, if you're so…
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PDAMX#31.4 - The info apocalypse
Today we finish Julian Assange's book "Freedom and the Future of the Internet". In this Assange et al. discuss the ingredients of a state, the information stranglehold government maintains over its constituents, and how increased cryptographic education and grassroots efforts are ways to maintain...
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PDAMX#31.3 - The cryptographic arms race
Today we discuss Julian Assange's book "Freedom and the Future of the Internet", which details Assange's case for how nature favors encryption, we are living under Marshall law wrt our communication, and how the outlook is grim but not hopeless. We have an email and would love to hear from you…
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PDAMX#31.2 - The cypherpunks live on
Today we discuss the Cypherpunks, The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, B-money, and the Monero whitepaper (or rather the CryptoNote white paper). All of this is in the spirit of privacy and decentralized methods of exchange for not just money, but everything. The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by Tim May:...
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PDAMX#31.1 - The $63,000 beer
Today we discuss the Bitcoin white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto, which explains the reasoning for Bitcoin's creation and how it works. We have an email and would love to hear from you, if you're so compelled: [email protected] Disclaimer: All opinions are our own, respectively, and...
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PDAMX#30.2 – Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?
Today we continue our discussion of C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” with book II where he addresses some of the counter arguments atheists have against Christianity. Ultimately, he ends with his discussion of the invasion of God, aka the rapture. Also, we have an email and would love to hear from...
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PDAMX#30.1 - The Lion, the Witch and the Christian
Today we begin our discussion of C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" with Book 1. In it he makes the case for a universal morality that guides all of us. Also, we have an email and would love to hear from you, if you're so compelled: [email protected] Disclaimer: All opinions are our...
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PDAMX#29.1 - Mr. Brown goes to Washington (w/ Ted Brown)
Today we talk with Ted Brown who is running for the U.S. Senate seat for Texas this November. We discuss how he became a Libertarian, his philosophy, key policy points, and the oligarchy! Ted Brown's Links: https://tedbrown.org/ https://x.com/tedbrownliberty Also, we have an email and would love…
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PDAMX#28.1 - Schopen-how life is suffering (w/ Brother X)
Today we are joined again by Brother X to read 2 of Schopenhauer's uplifting essays "On the Suffering of the World" and "The Indestructibility of Being" where he discusses the positivity of suffering and how will is the only immortal thing about us. Also, we have an email and would love to hear...
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PDAMX#6.8 - Moral World Order
Today we finish our discussion of Friederich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist". In this he describes basically everything that's wrong with Christianity and the resentment morality that has taken over the west. Also, we have an email and would love to hear from you, if you're so compelled:...
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PDAMX#6.7 - the Democrat among Gods
Today we begin our discussion of the Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, with sections 1-22. Basically he's not a fan of Christianity, but hey that's like his opinion man. We also discuss his opinion of Buddhism (positive) and priests (negative). Also, we have an email and would love to hear from...
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PDAMX#27.1 - Realest Art (w/ The Reckless Muse)
Today we discuss Albert Camus' "Create Dangerously" speech/essay with special guest, The Reckless Muse. In this essay Camus discusses what art is, the problem with artists in his day (early/mid 20th century), the goal of art, and many other things. You can find The Reckless Muse podcast and…
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PDAMX#26.3 - Consensual Categorization (w/ Mr. Tee)
Today we finish our discussion of Judith Butler's book "Gender Trouble" with chapter 3, and with special guest Mr. Tee. In this Butler caps off her book by re emphasizing the cultural basis for sex, gender, and identity, how they're ultimately performative, and how it's impossible to know what a...
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PDAMX#26.2 - Taboo Talk
Today we continue our discussion of Judith Butler's book "Gender Trouble" with chapter 2. In this Butler offers a critique of the psychoanalytical and structural conceptions of how gender and sex develop. Also, we have an email and would love to hear from you, if you're so compelled:...
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PDAMX#26.1 - Problematic Phallogocentrism
Today we begin our discussion of Judith Butler's book "Gender Trouble" with chapter 1. This details Butler's thesis of gender (socially constructed, not binary, etc.) and how it differs from other feminist and sociological writers of the time (1990). Also, we have an email and would love to hear...
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PDAMX#25.1 - Consciously discussing consciousness
Today we discuss David Chalmers' article "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" with special guest Brother X. This article breaks down his famous "Hard problem of consciousness", which is essentially how to explain the phenomenon of experience. We also of course go on many tangents about why...
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PDAMX#24.1 - Are we computation, or are we dancer
Today we discuss sections of Roger Penrose's book "Shadows of the Mind" with special guest Brother X. We focus on chapters 2.1-6 and 3.23, which detail Godel's Incompleteness Theorem and why Penrose thinks this points to a non-computational theory of consciousness. Disclaimer: All opinions are…
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PDAMX#23.3 - Rhetorical Extremism
Today we finish our discussion of Ben Burgis' book "Give Them An Argument, Logic For The Left" with chapters 5 and 6. Here he offers some criticism of the left and what he thinks they should be more focused on, laying into pollsters like Nate Silver who may be committing hasty generalizations....
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PDAMX#23.2 - Trotsky's Sophist
Today we continue our discussion of Ben Burgis' book "Give Them An Argument, Logic For The Left" with chapters 3 and 4. Here he lays into the Libertarians and his critique of the non aggression principle, among many other things. Disclaimer: All opinions are our own, respectively, and don't...
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PDAMX#23.1 - Libertarian Boyz
Today we begin our discussion of Ben Burgis' book "Give Them An Argument, Logic For The Left" with chapters 1 and 2. These detail some common logical fallacies people on the left, and right, run into when debating political science online, as well as his critiques of Ben Shapiro's argumentative...
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PDAMX#22.3 - The great apes don't have nuclear families
Today we finish our discussion of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's book "Democracy, the God that failed" with chapter 10. This discusses what Libertarianism and Conservatism mean to Hoppe, and why they are consistent philosophies that prioritize private property ownership. Disclaimer: All opinions are our…
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PDAMX#22.2 - Civilizational Su*cide
Today we continue our discussion of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's book "Democracy, the God that failed" with chapters 7 and 8. The focus of these chapters is on trade and immigration, and ultimately what Hoppe argues for is free trade and restricted immigration. Disclaimer: All opinions are our own,...
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PDAMX#22.1.2 - Papa Hoppe
Bonus episode b/c we got a bit bogged down about rationalism vs empiricism in the last episode, we decided to do a part 2 to get into more detail on chapter 1 of Hoppe's book "Democracy, the God that failed". Disclaimer: All opinions are our own, respectively, and don't represent any institution…
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PDAMX#22.1.1 - Monarchy bad, democracy worse?
Today we begin our discussion of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's provocative book "Democracy, the God that failed" with his introduction and chapter 1. We discuss, among many other things, how ultimately he doesn't like monarchy or democracy and is in favor of something more like "ordered anarchy" or…
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PDAMX#21.3 - Tolerance is a partisan goal
Today we discuss Herbert Marcuse's article called "Repressive Tolerance", which basically calls for discriminating tolerance, or rather intolerance against the rules of behavior, man. Disclaimer: All opinions are our own, respectively, and don't represent any institution we may or may not be a…
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PDAMX#21.2 - Consciousness trying to understand consciousness
Today we finish our discussion of Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man", with focus on the last section of the book where he summarizes his argument for technical rationality and pacification of existence, among other things. We also talk a lot about consciousness believe it or not. Disclaimer:...
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PDAMX#21.1 - Communists are Individualists?
Hello, today we begin discussing Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man", which you could say offers a critical critique of society in the mid 20th century. He's an avowed neo-marxist and historical materialist, and Antooshka can't quite figure out how to feel about him. Disclaimer: All opinions...
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PDAMX#20.1 - Fascists also love their neighbor
Today we discuss Benito Mussolini's "The Doctrine of Fascism". Lol, yes, yes we know. We analyze it and discuss how certain fascist elements are seen in some governments that people may not typically think of as "fascist". The title comes from a quote in the book. Disclaimer: All opinions are our...
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PDAMX#19.2 - Workers of the World, etc.
Today we finish "The Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engels, focusing on sections 3 and 4. Specifically we discuss Marx's breakdown/critique of socialism and his plan for a communist, well you know. Disclaimer: All opinions are our own, respectively, and don't represent any institution we may or...
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PDAMX#19.1 - We other Bourgeoisie
Today we begin our discussion of "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, focusing on parts 1 and 2. These describe the class struggle thesis and the 10 measures to bring about a communist revolution, among other things. Disclaimer: All opinions are our own, respectively, and...
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PDAMX#5.6 - Puritanical Amorality
Today we finish our discussion of Foucault's "The History of Sexuality" with volume III today, which focuses on the classical/Roman period and how the care of oneself was beginning to take a more mature form. Referenced articles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117556/...
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PDAMX#5.5 - Aphrodesia, enkrateia, and sophrosyne, oh my.
Today we continue our discussion of Foucault's "The History of Sexuality" with volume II today, which discusses the Ancient Greek's perspectives on things having to do with sex. For them it was framed in terms of pleasure (aphrodesia) to be moderated (sophrosyne) through self control (enkrateia),...
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PDAMX#18.2 - Pharma Karma
Today we discuss Richard Posner's article "The Law & Economics of Intellectual Property" published in Daedalus in 2002. This discusses some of the rational for why we have IP laws and the incentives one needs to be mindful of when constructing them. Full issue:...
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PDAMX18.1 - He's an importer/exporter
Today we discuss Carla Hess's article "Intellectual property, 700 B.C. - 2000 A.D." published in Daedalus in 2002. This details the history of intellectual property up to the modern era. Article: https://www.amacad.org/publication/intellectual-property-700-bc-ad-2000 Full issue:...
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PDAMX#5.4 - The West Loves Discourse
Today we pick up on our discussion of Foucault from ~6months ago by diving into another one of his books, "The History of Sexuality"...how provocative. We start with Volume I today, which discusses the repressive hypothesis, the West's development of Sciencia Sexualis, and how this all relates to...
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PDAMX#17.3 - Over academicalization
Today we continue our discussion of Murray Rothbard's "The Case Against the Fed" by talking about the final 3rd of the book (~pages 100-150). This section focuses on the formation of the federal reserve, its real world consequences, and what Rothbard thinks should be done about it. Disclaimer…
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PDAMX#17.2 - The Central Bank Strikes Back
Today we continue our discussion of Murray Rothbard's "The Case Against the Fed" by talking about the second 3rd of the book (~ pages 50-100). This covers the history of central banking in the US and how it ultimately won the day. Listener discretion is advised for this one, because at the end we...
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