Best Logics Academy Podcasts (2025)

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Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: Wasim Said’s Testament from Gaza 49:04

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In this episode, we present the work of Wasim Said, a comrade from Gaza who has documented the atrocities they and their people have experienced during the ongoing intensification of Israel's genocidal war on Palestine in his first book "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide". The logistics and safety of an interview being made near impossible amidst…

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Kevin Smith (Mallrats / Chasing Amy / Clerks) • Friday Rewind 49:58

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Kevin Smith, originally episode 302 from 2019-12-04. Original writeup below: SNOOCHIE BOOCHIES! What a joy this is… While it is a slightly shorter episode, Pip could hardly turn Kevin down now could he…? …

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Miranda Sawyer: contextualising the music scene of an entire decade (Uncommon People / Talk 90's To Me) #640 1:09:14

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by legendary writer, journalist, critic and cultural treasure MIRANDA SAWYER! A natural fit in the Distraction Pieces jigsaw, Miranda is someone who was pretty much destined to eventually join Pip for an episode. As a necessary firm fixture in mu…

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Slopaganda 35:55

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Are you troubled by the way that social media has enabled the spread of propaganda? Well, get ready for slopaganda, which is propaganda that's AI-powered and unprecedented in terms of speed, scale, audience reach and persuasiveness. "AI slop" is the term used to identify unwanted AI content - the algorithm-driven equivalent of spam email. Slopagand…

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Deleuze vs Hegel: Beyond Kant and Representation with Henry Somers-Hall 53:59

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What happens when Deleuze and Hegel are set in violent philosophical encounter over the ruins of Kantian representation? In this episode, we explore how both thinkers attempt to move beyond the categories of judgment and identity to recover the genesis of sense itself. Henry Somers-Hall joins us to trace Deleuze’s path through Kant, Sartre, and Ber…

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Action Bronson (rap music / acting / hosting / more...) • Friday Rewind 48:36

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Action Bronson, originally episode 347 from 2020-09-30. Original writeup below: There’s no doubt about it, Action has done a ton in the past decade and by the looks of it all, had a goddamn blast while do…

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Indigenous literature and the academy in Australia 28:28

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As an academic discipline, Australian literature has been a largely white affair, with the canon of "great Australian authors" dominated by Anglo-European men. Indigenous writers are working to change this, and Australian indigenous literature is flourishing. But how comfortably does it sit within the traditional university structure?…

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Adam Buxton: put on your conversation coat and find your talking hat (Adam Buxton Podcast / Buckle Up / I Love You, Byeee) #639 1:23:09

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Spike Lee (Highest 2 Lowest / Do The Right Thing / Malcolm X) • Friday Rewind 37:26

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Spike Lee, originally episode 225 from 2018-08-24. Original writeup below: While Spike is getting his promotion grind on for his new film BlacKkKlansman (which you should make efforts to see as it’s just …

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Albert Camus, fascism and America 46:40

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Living and writing through the years before, during and after the Second World War, French author and philosopher Albert Camus witnessed the rise of fascism and its terrible endgame in German National Socialism. Today, amid fears of a neo-fascist resurgence in the USA, his work well is worth revisiting.…

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Justin Tipping: you will see Him (Him / Kicks / Flatbush Misdemeanors) #638 46:47

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the bold and awesome director JUSTIN TIPPING! Maybe here and there you've heard rumblings not unlike the ones Pip cites up top on the intro, but in a time when creativity can even be treated and regarded as a rebellious and awesomely unique ac…

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The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life 1:07:26

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What does it mean to live in a world where relationships can vanish overnight, without explanation or closure? In this episode, Acid Horizon speaks with cultural theorist Dominic Pettman about his new book Ghosting: On Disappearance (Polity Press). Together we explore how ghosting unsettles intimacy, accountability, and narrative finality, reaching…

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Stephen Graham (Adolescence / Boiling Point / The Virtues) • Friday Rewind 1:35:59

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Stephen Graham, originally episode 87 from 2016-03-09. Original writeup below: Not one, not two, but THREE welcomes upon you as standard to episode 87 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, with Kirby's own c…

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What beauty apps are doing to us 33:22

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Beauty apps are becoming more and more miraculously high-tech, but also more and more invasive. You might feel OK about an app that gives your face a "beauty rating", but what if the app started to recommend cosmetic surgery procedures? Or how about a selfie enhancement app that doesn't just get rid of minor skin blemishes, but actually alters the …

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Christopher Chung: all across the map to Slough House (Slow Horses / Blitz) #637 57:37

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the wonderful multi talent CHRISTOPHER CHUNG! An ultra inspiring chat featuring the insanely talented Christopher, in a catchup with Pip which goes all across the timeline from the wayback early days to what's coming ahead. He's had a full on …

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475 Trading with Moving Averages: How to Identify Market Regimes 19:28

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Click here to register for my FREE Masterclass: https://autc.pro/TSSeng-pod?utm_source=spreaker&utm_medium=poden&utm_content=475&sl=spreaker-poden-475By Unger Academy

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Western Marxism vs. Stalinism: Domenico Losurdo’s Controversial Legacy with Ross Wolfe 57:51

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What if the very idea of Western Marxism has less to do with geography than with defeat? In this episode of Acid Horizon, we dive into Domenico Losurdo’s controversial use of the term and ask what’s at stake in his defense of actually existing socialism against its critics. With our guest Ross Wolfe, we explore the tangled afterlives of Western Mar…

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Mae Martin (Wayward / Feel Good / Handsome Podcast) • Friday Rewind 1:02:00

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Mae Martin, originally episode 314 from 2020-02-26. Original writeup below: A tremendous meetup of Pip and Mae, and dare I say a long overdue one at that… You’ll get to hear all about Mae in the greater s…

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Are babies conscious? 41:31

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Babies cry, smile, laugh and react to their environment - so it seems odd to look at a baby and wonder whether or not it's conscious. But consciousness is a tricky thing to pin down, and according to some theories of consciousness, babies don't attain it until two or even three years of age, while others suggest that babies could be conscious even …

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Chris & Pip's Staylist for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably • link in shownotes) #636 1:12:40

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the Hardcore Listing homie and everyday life homie CHRIS GLASSEN! You might have heard the pre-show shouts from Pip over the past few weeks, regarding a tie-in with CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). CALM are trying to raise funds to ma…

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Special Episode: The Tragic Loss of Charlie Kirk: "Light More Lamps" 16:06

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The tragic death of Charlie Kirk has shaken the country to its core. In many ways, it can cause one to think about how a person, particularly a believer, shares and expresses their faith, beliefs, and ideas. In this special episode, Jeff shares his thoughts on the loss of a remarkable young man who impacted Generation X, and how, as believers, we c…

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Karl Pilkington (Ricky Gervais XFM Show / An Idiot Abroad / Derek) • Friday Rewind 1:09:30

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Karl Pilkington, originally episode 306 from 2020-01-08. Original writeup below: While some see Karl as the grumpy one of the original podcast trio consisting of him, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, a…

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How AI could transform reading 28:52

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If there's one thing AI has in common with all new technology, it's that a lot of people are scared of it. When it comes to AI and education, horror stories abound of students using ChatGPT to write their essays, and a possible future where teachers are replaced by bots. But according to this week's guest, there's much to be excited about.…

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Mark Steel: making gold with tragedy and comedy (The Leopard In My House / The Mark Steel Lectures / Vive La Revolution) #635 1:32:05

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the legendary comic MARK STEEL! It's entirely likely you'll have been listening to and watching the work of Mark for decades now - he's been hard at work for a minute, and the fanbase is strong indeed. As you'll hear, Pip's been on board for y…

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Wilhelm Reich, Fascism & Work Democracy: Philip Bennett & David Silver at Orgonon 53:54

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Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sbwVioWlhS0 What happens when we revisit Wilhelm Reich’s journey from Freud’s student to radical theorist of desire, politics, and repression? In this episode, we sit down with Professor Philip Bennett and David Silver, executive director of the Wilhelm Reich Museum, to explore Reich’s groundbreaking ideas on ther…

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Lolly Adefope (The Franchise / Ghosts / Shrill) • Friday Rewind 1:09:55

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Lolly Adefope, originally episode 254 from 2019-02-20. Original writeup below: ...what better way to begin than by Pip dreaming of Lolly the previous night? All shall be revealed and certainly not spoiled…

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Is it time to get rid of legal gender status? 35:51

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Most of us have Male or Female registered on our birth certificates - but what does this certification mean, in terms of its effect on our lives? There are many other things about us that have at least as much significance as our gender - our sexuality, our ethnicity - but only gender has legal status. This week we're talking about the pros and con…

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Golden Boy #9: The Ninth Academy Awards from 1937! (Pity the Poor Rich People!) 2:57:26

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Send us a text Welcome to Golden Boy: An Academy Awards Podcast! Join Moronic Logic monthly as Kenny enlists a rotating co-host from an assemblage of interesting and unique voices to watch every movie nominated for Best Picture in a given year and decide who SHOULD have won the Golden Boy. We do EVERYTHING in chronological order at Moronic Logic, s…

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Grandmaster Flash: further adventures on the wheels of steel #634 32:58

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by Hip Hop legend GRANDMASTER FLASH! Y'say... Y'say... Y'say / y'say / y'say (etc) and if you're not carrying that scratch sentence on in your head you have some SERIOUS homework to do. We flashback to the 20-teens to the era of the Beatdown radi…

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From Blake to Bataille: Romanticism, Communism, and the Commons with Joseph Albernaz 1:01:07

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What does Romanticism have to do with communism, enclosure, and the commons today? In this episode we speak with Joseph Albernaz, author of Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community, about the radical lineage running from Blake and Hölderlin to Marx and Bataille. We explore how Romantic literature conceived “groundless commun…

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Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit / Black Light Burns / Big Dumb Face) • Friday Rewind 1:28:44

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Wes Borland, originally episode 25 from 2015-03-18. A very cool early episode featuring the guitarist of Limp Bizkit and many other groups besides. This was about 6 months into the evolution of Distractio…

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Who's responsible for extreme beliefs? 31:42

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It's easy to say that people who hold extreme antisocial beliefs should be held responsible for those beliefs. But in fact, many extremists operate within what philosophers call impoverished epistemic environments - epistemic "bubbles" and echo chambers whose inhabitants might be ignorant of the truth, or subject to manipulation. But does that mean…

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Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip: don't call it a comeback! (Live In Places / Repent Replenish Repeat / The Logic Of Chance) #633 1:25:10

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by long term groupmate and music making legend DAN LE SAC! Together of course, they form Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip though - a duo name of which you will be abundantly familiar. To celebrate the release of their 'Live In Places' live recordings …

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474 Inflation Explained: A Guide for Investors and Traders 6:11

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Click here to register for my FREE Masterclass: https://autc.pro/TSSeng-pod?utm_source=spreaker&utm_medium=poden&utm_content=473&sl=spreaker-poden-473By Unger Academy