At long last, we're releasing our series on how Jon Ronson both sidesed the truth into oblivion in the 2nd season of Things Fell Apart. The show, just like its host, is engaging and entertaining. The reporting, however, is not good. It is incredibly favorable to the anti-woke brigade, and as a result, is . And it's also just lazy and false in many ways. First up: Dr. Judy Mikovits. Ronson paints her as a one-time serious scientist who got a raw deal and therefore turned conspiratorial and eventu...
Aug 30, 2024•53 min•Ep. 56
With Matt Cameron! Trump was found guilty by a jury in the Southern District of New York for all 34 charges of falsifying business records in furtherance of a crime. The Right immediately lost their mind. We visit some of our usual suspects around the WTW-verse in this historic moment. And we'll be playing just a selection of this in the episode, but if you're crazy like us, you can watch Trump's full speech from this morning here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszZq7x3La8&t=78s Side note ...
Jun 08, 2024•48 min•Ep. 55
We've finally attained our complete PiaT/CogDis crossover goal with our guest today, Noah Lugeons ! We all suffered through more than 2 hours of Tucker Carlson interviewing Aaron Rodgers so you don't have to. Yes it's insane, but it's also scary how not insane it feels, too. Debunking Right Wing Rhetoric is even more important when it's coming out of the mouths of seemingly "normal" people with platforms; it's a slippery slope and Rodgers is apparently deep in it. If you enjoy our work, please c...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 54
New College, Part 4: A Business Plan and a Comedy Show In our final episode of the series, Lydia walks us through New College's search for a permanent President, and stumbles on a lot of questionable fiscal shenanigans that are happening with seemingly zero accountability or oversight. To close it out, Lydia subjects Thomas to torture via the comedy stylings of New College's Dean of Students. https://savenewcollege.org/ New-College-Business-Plan Aug 2023.pdf NCF-Business-Plan-Nov 2023.pdf If you...
May 02, 2024•48 min•Ep. 53
New College, Part 3: The Florida GOP's Attack on Public Schools is Really, Really Bad We continue investigating the New College takeover by looking into the man who was appointed Interim President by the DeSantis Board of Trustees. Who is Richard Corcoran and how did he get this job? How many public school skeletons could this guy have in his closet? For more on the Florida Department of Education-Jefferson County scandal: https://billytownsend.substack.com/p/the-floridadesantisdoe-jefferson htt...
May 01, 2024•44 min•Ep. 52
New College, Part 2: The Transition, or How New College of Florida Got a Baseball Team DeSantis didn't just take over a college, he fundamentally disrupted the lives of New College students, faculty, and staff. In this episode we talk about those impacted, and the DeSantis Cronies' push to prioritize student athletes. As promised in the episode, attached is the student thesis from one of the more notable alumni. If you enjoy our work, please consider leaving a 5-star review! You can always email...
Apr 30, 2024•55 min•Ep. 51
New College, Part 1: The Takeover Last year, Governor Meatball DeSantis successfully launched a takeover at the New College of Florida by appointing like-minded folks to the Board of Trustees, who swiftly enacted several significant "culture war" changes. This is Part 1 of a series where we walk you through what happened at New College, who was involved, and the impact to the students, faculty, and staff who experienced their entire world changing in a matter of weeks. If you enjoy our work, ple...
Apr 28, 2024•43 min•Ep. 50
Folks, there are anti-woke crybabies, and there are anti-woke crybabies, and then there is Scott Gerber. Scott Gerber may be the new leader in the WTW clubhouse for pathetic, egomaniacal anti-woke manbabies. You might not recognize the name, but you likely will recognize this joke of an article he wrote defending Clarence Thomas, " Supreme Court justices are allowed to have friends." Believe us when we say, Scott Gerber's victim complex when it comes to his own life makes the Clarence Thomas art...
Apr 25, 2024•53 min•Ep. 49
This wild ride into JBP's dealings wouldn't be the same without a deeper dive into the MBA Fellowship he "founded" and a look into how he conducts the rest of his businesses. Spoiler: like the man himself, it's all just really strange. And we talk about Mikhaila Peterson, the OG meat-eater, for the first time in this series! Wired Investigation into Registered Agents, Inc. Lawsuit RA Inc Named Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider ...
Apr 22, 2024•51 min•Ep. 48
Part 6 of Junk Science and So Much Grift: The Jordan Peterson Story It's finally here!!! Our coverage of the long-awaited missing study and fraud-adjacent activity committed by Jordan Peterson. Were Brophy and Peterson just making shit up? Or was there a top secret study no one published? Also where did Peterson's research money go? This all sure seems sketchy AF. Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.c...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 47
Part 5 of Junk Science and So Much Grift: The Jordan Peterson Story Just wait until you hear some of these questions in the "PC Battery." They are not measuring anything remotely useful. It's actually hilarious. Lydia and I play a game of making the rubric and grading each other's political correctness points, based on our best attempt to estimate what Brophy would have done. It's nonsense! What are the factors in reality? They aren't what JBP and Brophy think. Feel free to email us at lydia@ser...
Apr 08, 2024•57 min•Ep. 46
Part 4 of Junk Science and So Much Grift: The Jordan Peterson Story This study was so fucking bad that we needed to call an actual expert just to make sure we weren't missing something. Turns out, we WERE missing something. Actually, a lot. But the things we were missing were ways that the study sucks even more than we knew! Dr. Janessa Seymour has the breakdown! Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.co...
Apr 01, 2024•55 min•Ep. 45
Part... 3? It's kinda part 2... but also part 1 in a way... Well however you look at it, this episode begins a series looking at the awful science Jordan Peterson uses to make wild claims about the PC/Woke left. It's so much more terrible than you can imagine, AND, it all comes down to... a non-peer-reviewed Master's Thesis. Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/wherethereswoke !...
Apr 01, 2024•47 min•Ep. 44
Part 2 of our JBP odyssey Having gotten all of 2 minutes into the JBP Rap Analysis video, we were stopped in our tracks by an absolutely insane set of claims based on some mystery "research" Peterson did in 2016. He claims that Left-Wing Authoritarianism is most highly predicted by 1. being dumb 2. being female 3. having a female disposition?!?! and 4. having taken a single woke course or seminar. That is, prima facie, absolutely not correct. But where on Earth did he get that? We tracked it dow...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 43
Part 1! After *Rap Icon* Ben Shapiro made his simultaneous debut and retirement in Tom MacDonald's "Facts" last month, Jordan Peterson realized what the public needed was an incredibly overwrought and bull shitty analysis of these very simple lyrics. Before we get to that, though, we take a look at the characters. Who is Tom MacDonald and how much does he suck? Could he have ever just been a normal musician? We all know Ben Shapiro, but do you know about his claimed musicianship? That's the subj...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 42
Using Elon Musk's money, Gina Carano (AKA Cara Dune in seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian series) is suing Disney & Lucasfilm over her "firing" in February 2021. We had Matt Cameron, current co-host of Opening Arguments, join to help us break this thing down. How does Carano allege she was harmed, and what exactly are her claims for relief here? Is this suit just a nothingburger or is there actually some meat on this thing? Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.c...
Feb 28, 2024•55 min•Ep. 41
It's Part 2 of our research into the Woke Kindergarten controversy! Lydia gives us more detail as to the repercussions of the firestorm that we broke down in Part 1. We visit the scene of the crime, Hayward Unified, and spend some time with their school board and perhaps one of the worst Board Members WTW has covered so far. And - are some entities weaponizing this news to further their own agenda? Goldwater Institute's Academic Transparency Act (PDF) Hayward Unified's Equity & Antiracism Bo...
Feb 27, 2024•41 min•Ep. 40
Lydia breaks down a very recent controversy that had every right wing source losing their absolute minds: a school in the Bay Area paid hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for Woke Kindergarten, and test scores plummeted even further! Or that's at least what they want you to think. We dive into the who, what, where, when, and how of this one and it is a wild ride. California School Dashboard WestEd Black Minds Matter Learning Policy Institute Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com o...
Feb 27, 2024•54 min•Ep. 39
Hey all, please enjoy this episode-length preview of our January Bonus! We watched Ricky Gervais's new "comedy" special and didn't laugh once. So we invited the funniest guy ever, Eli Bosnick, to join us on this one and bring back the joy to our lives that Ricky destroyed. If you'd like the full episode, make sure to pledge on patreon.com/wherethereswoke at the 2nd tier or above!
Feb 02, 2024•47 min•Ep. 38
And several other mini stories! There are always so many little stories we don't get to, so this month we decided to try a roundup of sorts. Lydia put together some of the top anti-woke stories from January to share, and it was lots of fun! If you're enjoying our work, please consider sharing with your friends, leaving a 5-star review, or pledging over on Patreon! Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.c...
Feb 01, 2024•58 min•Ep. 37
Dr. Isaac Kamola joins us to discuss the work he's done to expose the partisan mechanics that fuel websites like CampusReform and The College Fix. How exactly does this machine operate? Who is behind it all? Why is Christopher Rufo the absolute worst? And, to help professors who experience this targeted harassment, Dr. Kamola founded Faculty First Responders to provide resources and support. Dr. Kamola's book: Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War The Study: https://digi...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 36
A sequel! Dr. Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, was publicly blasted by a student - first in an article on The College Fix, and then to millions of viewers tuning into Fox News with Tucker Carlson - because of a paragraph he wrote in the 2019 Spring semester syllabus for a Political Science course. That's right... there was a segment on Fox News about... a syllabus. NAY. A single paragraph in a syllabus. Unbelievable. Later we talk about how, while both Dr. Ponce from W...
Jan 30, 2024•56 min•Ep. 35
In 2017, political science professor Dr. Albert Ponce was targeted by right-wing media because of a lecture he gave at Diablo Valley College regarding white supremacy in America. Lydia walks us through what actually happened before, during, and after the motivating incident. The people responsible for this panic were totally cool and not at all white supremacist monsters. You can watch Dr. Ponce's lecture in full here ! Be sure to tune in for our next installment of this mini-series. Feel free t...
Jan 28, 2024•47 min•Ep. 34
It's Bread Week here at WTW! King Arthur Baking Company is in the hot seat with the Right over an accelerator opportunity that is *racist against white people*. We're here to tell you what's really going on here and why we're keeping a close on New Hampshire from here on out. Be sure to check out Project Potluck ! They are doing some fantastic work to build a community and resource network in the consumer packaged goods space for people of color. Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or ...
Jan 27, 2024•41 min•Ep. 33
Yayyyy final episode of 2023! We noticed there were a few anti-woke outlets doing "worst of the woke" awards. So, we decided to do the WTW Best of the Worst of the Woke Awards! Find out if your favorite nominees won! Or something. Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/wherethereswoke !...
Jan 01, 2024•59 min•Ep. 32
Ayaan Part 2: Maybe the real Christianity was the Western values we made along the way. We, and Heath Enwright, are back for more analysis/roasting of the bizarre and embarrassing conversion to Christianity by former Atheist leader Ayaan Hirsi Ali. And we get to see Jordan Peterson in a Harvey Dent/Two-Face costume! Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/wherethereswoke !...
Jan 01, 2024•43 min•Ep. 31
If you were a part of the New Atheism movement at all, you likely remember the person many called the 5th horse-person of atheism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Welp. She recently wrote an essay revealing that she has converted to Christianity. Why, you might wonder? To fight the woke. For real. Well, and to hate Islam better. So we brought in Heath Enwright, of the Scathing Atheist, among other great shows, to help us break down this bizarre conversion! Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thoma...
Jan 01, 2024•44 min•Ep. 30
3 War 3 Christmas The woke are coming for your stories of bullied reindeer who are only treated well once they can be of some use to Santa's bottom line. Also, the woke are coming for your big honkin' nutcracker dicks. Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/wherethereswoke !...
Dec 31, 2023•44 min•Ep. 29
SANTA IS A WHITE MAN. Oh, does that trigger you, lib? Read a book. The war on Christmas continues. The woke have taken Santa, and now they have lain siege to that very Christmassy Christmas song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside." What are the Santa-fearing red blooded Americans to do? Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/wherethereswoke !...
Dec 31, 2023•48 min•Ep. 28
Hey folks, please enjoy this free preview of the December bonus! The OG Defender of Christmas himself gives us some deep psychological insight into why we all hate Christmas so much and are actively trying to destroy it. Featuring Tom Curry from Cognitive Dissonance, Citation Needed, and Dear Old Dads! Get the full episode as a 2nd tier patron or above at patreon.com/wherethereswoke !
Dec 29, 2023•24 min
