The Crumbling

Mar 26 2025 13 ep. 49 mins 9
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Comedians Sophia Florence and Andrew Hilary, and an anonymous third co-host, discuss the people, events, and movements that caused our collective reality to crumble. The podcast addresses disinformation and misinformation, as well as giving accurate histories, with context important to modern politics. Topics include GamerGate, conspiracy theories, modern libertarianism, and new religious movements. New episodes every 2 weeks.

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The Crumbling E12 - Climate Change P5 - A Climate of Fear

Mar 26 2025 41 mins  
The co-hosts are rounding out the journey through showing how climate change disinformation has led us to where we are now. They discuss the second Trump administration, and how it has, through DOGE and its own actions, buried information on climate change in order to benefit the American kleptocracy. They discuss the details of grants and other funding from the federal government

The Crumbling E11- Climate Change P4 - Cato is My AsBESTos Friend Ever

Mar 12 2025 46 mins  
Sophia , Andrew & Devon are joined by comedian and science educator Annam Choudhry https://www.instagram.com/annamlaughs. They all continue on the climate change journey, this time discussing the careers of two men who both worked for the Cato Institute (a right wing think tank co-founded by Murray Rothbard, one of the Koch brothers, and another person), and we're Fox News con

First 1000! thank you!

Mar 12 2025 1 mins  
Thank you Guys for pushing us to reach our first 1000 downloads , we hope you keep listening!

The Crumbling E10 Climate Change P3 - A Tale of Bunnies and Bastards

Feb 25 2025 38 mins  
The co-hosts continue their series on climate change, this time discussing both the mechanics of damaged caused by climate change and the escalation of disinformation in the 1970's and 1980's. Perry Como comes up, but nothing about climate change is a magic moment. Sophia loses her mind thinking about the reproductive habits of the eastern cottontail. The group has launched a site

The Crumbling E9-Climate Change Arc P2 - At Least 1965 Was Worse

Feb 12 2025 51 mins  
The co-hosts talk about how the 1960's had such bad air quality that parts of 1965 were compared to the days after 9/11 in New York. They also learned that that year was just awful in general, and may rival 2020 and 2025 for sheer audacity in being a bad and uncertain time to live. The recurring villain makes a return trip because how could the American Petroleum Institute leave a

The Crumbling E8- Climate Change P1 - The Committee on Blowing Smoke Up Someone's Butt

Jan 29 2025 39 mins  
The hosts open the discussion on climate change. They talk about how the potentials for climate change were discovered in the 1800's, and how it was identified to be happening in the early 1900's. They go on to discuss how disinformation started very quickly, funded by the petroleum industry. The AI co-host finally reveals his secret identity: Davin DuBois. That shouldn't mean any

The Crumbling E7 Kash Rules Everything Around Me p2 - Yer a Wizard Kash, ft Laura Jedeed

Jan 15 2025 52 mins  
The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Kash Patel, how he got where he is, and more importantly, what he intends to do with power if confirmed. They read one of his childrens' books, which is perhaps one of the worst things ever committed to paper. The glowing poo is revealed. https://www.patreon.com/TheCrumblingpodcast https://www.bannedinyourstate.com

The Crumbling E6 Kash Rules Everything Around Me P1 - I Have a Raging Cohner, featuring Laura Jedeed

Jan 01 2025 46 mins  
The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Roy Cohn, in order to show the parallels between his life and Kash Patel's. The discussion centers around his role in McCarthyism, as a lawyer for Trump, and why his life was so consequential, despite him being a corrupt and inept jerk. They also get into how some shoes have a sport mode, and why this is perhaps sil

The Crumbling EP5 Interview with Taylor Lorenz

Dec 18 2024 64 mins  
The co-hosts chat it up with Taylor Lorenz, in an interview that spends a lot of time talking about another interview: the one that she did with Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the account Libs of Tiktok, who used her platform to build massive harassment campaigns against queer people and their medical providers. They talk about how GamerGate laid the foundations for the current "

GamerGate Part 4: Taking My Dawgs to the Groomer

Dec 04 2024 57 mins  
Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate set the stage for a lot of modern events, including the Groomer Panic, where people blamed the existence of queer youth on queer adults. The group talks about how this was spread largely by people like Chaya Raichik, who used her Twitter page, Libs of Tiktok, to spread mass panic across the conservative media ecosystem, and thereby peopl