The Amelia Project is a secret agency that fakes its clients' deaths, then lets them reappear with a brand new identity! A black comedy full of secrets, twists... and cocoa. The series starts as a succession of interviews with clients who want to fake their deaths, then slowly a larger narrative begins to emerge... Each episode tells its own story, but we recommend starting with Season 1.
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Imploding Fictions Podcasts
A leftist's guide to the conservative movement, one podcast episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.
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Join Gator, Spooky, Cody, and friends as they blast around the cosmos, reminiscing on the good ole days of anime.
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Reagan, the Movie (w/ Jesse Brenneman) [UNLOCKED]
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As the world falls apart — and we prep for our Buckley mega-episode with Sam Tanenhaus — we're unlocking this fun episode from late last year. Subscribe at Patreon.com/knowyourenemy to never miss an episode like this one. And please listen to Jesse's insane, hilarious, freakishly prescient (and fake) podcast Tech Talk. A palette cleanser for subscr…
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. If you pay any attention at all to political news, it's been hard to avoid Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's recent bombshell of a book, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, which offers behind-the-scenes r…
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Christopher Caldwell's Case Against Civil Rights
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Attentive listeners will notice that this episode is about a book but isn't an author interview. That's because it's the first in a new occasional series of episodes that will be dedicated to books by conservative writers that we think are important — whether because a book articulates the right's approach to an issue or problem in an especially re…
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Trump as Messianic Prophet (w/ Manvir Singh) [TEASER]
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. In a recent New Yorker essay, our guest, UC Davis anthropologist Manvir Singh, argues, "The Trumpian mystique echoes a dynamic that has occurred for centuries and across cultures. Its core ingredients—an alleged league of pedophiles, a godlike miracle worker, pr…
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We'll be back from our mini hiatus in June, in the meantime we'd like to introduce you to Hannahpocalypse, a fourth wall breaking comedy/horror audio drama that follows the last zombie, Hannah; who’s ‘living’ her best life over 150 years after the zombie apocalypse has come and gone. All the while Cali, a scout for a thriving settlement, looks to m…
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Did Podcasters Make Trump President? (w/ Andrew Marantz)
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Among the many factors credited for Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race was one that, naturally, the hosts of Know Your Enemy took an interest in: podcasts. More specifically, "bro" podcasts—think Joe Rogan or Theo Von—seemed to be one reason why Trump continued, as he did in 2016 and 2020, to perform so well wit…
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Conclave (2024) (w/ Brandon Taylor) [TEASER]
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. With the papal conclave convening in Rome to pick Pope Francis's successor, Matt and Sam are joined by novelist Brandon Taylor to discuss the 2024 film Conclave, directed by Edward Berger and starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Ross…
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The Life & Crimes of Roy Cohn (w/ In Bed with the Right)
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Recently Matt joined Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub of the excellent In Bed with the Right podcast to record what turned out to be two episodes about Roy Cohn—the "lawyer, closet case and ratfucker extraordinaire," as they describe him. These days Cohn is perhaps most infamous for being Donald Trump's lawyer and mentor, but this first episode focuse…
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"Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible." Featuring Alan Burgon as the Interviewer, Hemi Yeroham as Kozlowski, and Dave Moskin as Z. Written and edited by Philip Thorne, with direction by Oystein Brager and Philip Thorne, sound design by Paul Kraner, music by Fredrik Baden, graphic design by Anders Pedersen and production …
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The passing of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025 marked not just the end of a papacy but the end of an era in global politics. The moment in which Francis spoke before Congress a decade ago and identified Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and Martin Luther King as models of Christian moral witness feels like another universe — far from the cruel, cramped, s…
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The Madness of Trump’s Tariffs (w/ John Ganz) [TEASER]
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy Speaking in the Rose Garden on April 2, or as he called it, "Liberation Day," President Trump unveiled his plans to impose a new minimum tariff on nearly every country in the world, along with country-specific "reciprocal" tariffs for those nations Trump deemed t…
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Today we're introducing you to a show by some fellow creators from the Fable & Folly network: Red Valley, a mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present & future, & trying to remember the level select cheat from Sonic 2. We're playing the first episode for you here, and if you're hooked, you can find th…
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UNLOCKED: How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells)
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In response to several requests from our (wonderful) Patreon subscribers, we're unlocking this episode from behind the paywall. Consider subscribing at Patreon.com/KnowYourEnemy to never miss an episode. March 2025 marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the United States, when the federal government declared the arrival and spr…
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How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells) [TEASER]
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy This month marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the United States in March 2020, when the federal government declared the arrival and spread of the novel coronavirus to be a national emergency. The official Covid death toll in the United St…
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Episode 88 - Didius Julianus (193 AD)
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Behind the Scenes video for this episode here! The Amelia Project is a production of Imploding Fictions. This episode featured Peter Wicks as Didius Julianus, Alan Burgon as The Interviewer, Hemi Yeroham as Kozlowski, Darren Lerigo as Fornio, Julia C. Thorne as Alvina, Jordan Cobb as Jackie Williams, Erin King as Mia Fox, and Benjamin Noble and Tor…
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If there's ever been a Know Your Enemy subject worthy of two episodes, it is Elon Musk—currently the world's richest man, CEO and leader of several pathbreaking companies, ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency, and (for now) Donald Trump's co-president. In other words, to understand what's happening in the United States during the s…
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If there's ever been a Know Your Enemy subject worthy of two episodes, it is Elon Musk—currently the world's richest man, CEO and leader of several pathbreaking companies, ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency, and (for now) Donald Trump's co-president. In other words, to understand what's happening in the United States during the s…
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A little sneak peek at our upcoming live show! Tickets here: https://ameliapodcast.com/live-at-theatreship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Imploding Fictions
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Here's something a little creepy. In a bonus episode from August 2022, Matt and Sam were discussing Sam's profile of Arizona Senate hopeful and Peter Thiel-protégé Blake Masters when we found ourselves imagining how a future union of MAGA nationalism and Silicon Valley libertarianism might try to run the government. A listener flagged it for us, no…
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"He came concealed, but he hath now revealed his true identity! Kneel for the mighty King Arthur!" Behind the Scenes video for this episode here! The Amelia Project is a production of Imploding Fictions. This episode featured Alan Burgon as The Interviewer, Hemi Yeroham as Kozlowski, Owen Lindsay as Big Jim, Patrick Lamb as Gavin, Anne Weiner as th…
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy Just over a month into Trump's second term, Matt and Sam offer their thoughts on where we're at—and, to be blunt, the assessment is fairly depressing. They take stock of the troubling truth that Pete Hegseth's confirmation reveals about Trump's hold over the Repu…
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We're all anxious, and none of us can pay attention. We don't read long books anymore; our kids don't read at all. When we watch TV, we scroll at the same time. And we absolutely cannot be alone with ourselves. These are the symptoms of a modern malaise that is everywhere diagnosed but rarely treated with the dire seriousness it deserves: an epocha…
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy The first three weeks of Donald Trump's second administration have seen a flurry of vicious executive orders aimed at the federal workforce, trans people, government agencies, and others—all while Elon Musk and his deranged band of young sociopaths, otherwise kno…
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Ayn Rand Against the World (w/ Jennifer Burns)
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An atheist, a radical for capitalism, a caricature of a greedy libertarian, a best-selling novelist, a difficult partner and passionate lover, and the self-proclaimed greatest philosopher since Aristotle: Ayn Rand was many things, and we talk about almost all of them in this epic episode. To do so, we called upon historian Jennifer Burns, whose int…
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"One of my favorite clients. And one that I had a rather... extended relationship with." 833. Anno Domini. Western Europe. On the shores of the Mediterranean... Featuring Méabh de Brún as Queen Basilia, Alan Burgon as The Interviewer, Julia C. Thorne as Alvina and Torgny G Anderaa as Nestor. The Amelia Project is a production of Imploding Fictions.…
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy A stock rhetorical trope on the right is to invoke ancient Rome when talking about American decline—often making direct comparisons between the Goth invaders and contemporary immigrants, obsessing over homosexuality and Rome's fall, and more. If their understandi…
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The Entrepreneurial Ethic & How We Work Today (w/ Erik Baker)
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This is a fascinating episode that takes up thinkers that the podcast has covered before—the Koch brothers, Austrian economists like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and others—but from a different angle: that of the entrepreneurial work ethic. Historian Erik Baker's superb book on the topic, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Eth…
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UNLOCKED: Are Progressives to Blame for Urban Disorder? (w/ Hayes Davenport)
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A bunch of you requested that we un-paywall this recent bonus episode, which features some highly practical insights for organizers, volunteers, and public servants. So we have! (All the other bonus episodes are good too; please subscribe.) — Right wing movements thrive by cultivating fears of disorder. Conservatives depict blue cities as sites of …
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Are Progressives to Blame for Urban Disorder? (w/ Hayes Davenport) [Teaser]
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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy Right wing movements thrive by cultivating fears of disorder. Conservatives depict blue cities as sites of rampant crime, chaos, and iniquity. And often enough, it is progressives — with their overdeveloped empathy and concern for the poor and criminalized — who …
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