Conspirituality

d@derekberes.com

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Booking Overview

Conspirituality examines how New Age wellness and “conspiracy-mad” spirituality overlap with cultic dynamics and right-wing misinformation. It’s valuable for PR because it targets recognizable public figures and ideological trends with research-driven, skeptical analysis—ideal for experts who can speak to cults, misinformation, and public-health communication.

Metrics

Episodes: 809

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.1/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Instagram: 60.0k followers

Contact Information

d@derekberes.com

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
A journalist, cult researcher, and philosophical skeptic profile is indicated in the description; externally, guests are likely public experts with demonstrated research, reporting, or scholarly work on cult dynamics, radicalization, or misinformation (and/or prominent public figures discussed in the show’s analysis).
Required Achievements:  
published research or investigative reporting, expert commentary in mainstream or major outlets, documented expertise on cults, misinformation, or wellness-to-radicalization pathways, media appearances as a subject-matter expert

Recent Guest Discussions

JP Sears - JP Sears’ Shift From Mocking Wellness/yogi Culture To Vaccine- And Politics-related Claims, Including Christian Nationalism And Antisemitic Rhetoric

Candace Owens - Candace Owens’ Russia Trip And Her Framing Of Putin’s Invasion, Plus The Broader Right-wing Alignment With “strongman” Politics And Diagonalist Media Alliances

Recent Topics

Cult, Misinformation, Wellness, Conspiracy, Right Wing

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Conspirituality
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Bonus Sample: RFK Jr Reboots Reaganomics

June 22, 2026

Listen to the full episode RFK Jr has been one of the loudest champions of the Trump's work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP recipients. While he frames it in the language of health, he's really just reviving a generations-old argument first made by Ronald Reagan. Derek digs into the archival tapes to deliver the goods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brief: Conspirituality Viewed Through Neofeudalism and Vectoralism

June 20, 2026

Matthew applies three interlocking frameworks to the conspirituality phenomenon—and to the podcast itself. Drawing on Jodi Dean's theory of neofeudalism, Yanis Varoufakis's technofeudalism, and McKenzie Wark's vectoralism, he argues that conspirituality is an epistemic crisis—a problem of bad information spreading through inadequately critical communities—but also a structural product of platform capitalism's feudal logic. Dean's four elements (parcellated sovereignty, new lords and serfs, h...

313: The Resurrection of JP Sears

June 18, 2026

A decade ago, JP Sears built a large following poking fun at yogis and wellness types with his “ultra spiritual life” videos. Then Covid came and Sears took a hard right turn. In fact, he credits the pandemic with “opening his eyes” to many of the world’s problems—in his eyes, that means Anthony Fauci, vaccines, and transgender “ideology.” Sears is one of the very first people we covered on this podcast six years ago, and was one of the influencers we featured in our 2023 book about the well...

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