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    Explore " grifter" with insightful episodes like "#35) The Most Wonderful Episode of the Year (with Sam Negus)", "Guru or Grifter?", "UFOs On Capitol Hill, GOP Grifters Meet Consequences 07.27.23", "#116: Morrison Classified - Grant Morrison's JLA pt. 4" and "#34) Andrew Tate: From Pimp To... Prison?" from podcasts like ""UnAmerican", "Sister Magick", "The Daily Zeitgeist", "General Nerdery" and "UnAmerican"" and more!

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    Guru or Grifter?

    Guru or Grifter?

    In our community it can be hard to determine if you have found a teacher, or let in a predator.  We found some very helpful guidelines for keeping the grifters at bay. 

    Resources:
    Master Checklist for High Control Groups
    Mystic Sisters podcast
    The Dream podcast
    The New Gurus podcast
    Dark World of New Age Gurus documentary
    FOMO and Spiritual MLMs article

    Tell us your witchy stories!
    sistermagickpod@gmail.com

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    @sistermagickpod

    UFOs On Capitol Hill, GOP Grifters Meet Consequences 07.27.23

    UFOs On Capitol Hill, GOP Grifters Meet Consequences 07.27.23

    In episode 1522, Jack and Miles are joined by director, actor, and co-host of Fraudsters, Seena Ghaznavi, to discuss... Border Wall Fundraising Grifter Gets Five-Year Sentence, Firing Time At The Florida Fash Factory, Trump is Now Begging Congress to PLEASE HALP ME!!!, UFO Hearings Kicks Off and more!

    1. Border Wall Fundraising Grifter Gets Five-Year Sentence
    2. Firing Time At The Florida Fash Factory
    3. UFO Hearings Kicks Off
    4. UAP Whistleblower House Oversight Committee Speech

    WATCH: Congressional Hits and Misses: Best of James Traficant

    LISTEN: Movie Finale by Madlib

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    #116: Morrison Classified - Grant Morrison's JLA pt. 4

    #116: Morrison Classified - Grant Morrison's JLA pt. 4

    Your Generals couldn't stay away from one of the finest Justice League runs ever any longer. In the final part of this series, Tyler and Zac look in at JLA: Classified, as well as JLA/WildC.A.T.S.

    Sincere apologies for any misgendering of Grant Morrison in this episode

    Support Zac’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ThumbsJ

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    Email us at generalnerderypod@gmail.com

    #34) Andrew Tate: From Pimp To... Prison?

    #34) Andrew Tate: From Pimp To... Prison?

    On this episode of UnAmerican: Brandon, Franklin and Jim are back in the studio to chat about Tik Tok's favorite troll, Andrew Tate. We discuss why he's relevant today and we take a listen to an interview he did on The Fellas podcast in June of 2022. Pour some vodka and grab a cigar for this one, we're about to get douche-y...


    Bonus Content: patreon.com/unamerican

    Twitter: @RealUnAmerican

    #33) Milo Yiannopoulos: How To Be A Troll

    #33) Milo Yiannopoulos: How To Be A Troll

    On this episode of UnAmerican: Brandon, Franklin and Jim discuss nobody's favorite troll, Milo Yiannopoulos. We'll check out some of his interviews with hosts like Joe Rogan and Tim Poole and we'll talk about some of his bigger controversies, including Gamergate, his comments on pedophilia and of course, more recently, his brief time working with shitheads like Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. This can only get stupid. Enjoy.


    Bonus Content: patreon.com/unamerican

    Twitter: @RealUnAmerican


    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Heat (Episode 50)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Heat (Episode 50)

    In the Season Finale of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, producer Bryson Pintard (Manifest West), writer Reagan Osborne, and actor/musician Nick Earl, to discuss the operatic dichotomy of obsessed cops and isolated criminals playing out a serious, professional, and dangerous game against each other in Michael Mann's heist epic Heat (1995).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Dog Day Afternoon (Episode 49)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Dog Day Afternoon (Episode 49)

    In the forty-ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, editor Kristi Shimek, novelist Samuel Cullado, and screenwriter Gio Maldonado, to discuss the deeply humanist portrait of working class concerns, police indifference, and marginalized communities that is Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - F for Fake (Episode 48)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - F for Fake (Episode 48)

    In the forty-eighth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner Substack) to discuss Orson Welles' final magnum opus about the deceptive truth of film, the lasting materialist immortality of art, and the deconstruction of himself as a performer and artist in F for Fake (1973).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Reservoir Dogs (Episode 47)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Reservoir Dogs (Episode 47)

    In the forty-seventh episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and musician Ben Childs to discuss the independent cinema sensation that changed the rules with post-modern pastiche and a fragmented Rashomon-style of perspective in Quentin Tarantino's slick yet brutal examination on the bonds of isolated criminals that is Reservoir Dogs (1992).

    Episode 20 - What's Going On Today

    Episode 20 - What's Going On Today

    We discuss the dangers of the Red Flag Laws. Then, we go on to acknowledge the BLM grift. . .as usual. Next we talk about the incompentence (and subconcious racism) of Joe Biden, his adminstration, and the Democrat party overall. While we were at it, we discovered the next gen of politician. . .the social media politician. Finally we open up about our personal journeys that lead us to where we are socially & politically; and how our spiritual growth lets us see the nation today

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - The Usual Suspects (Episode 46)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - The Usual Suspects (Episode 46)

    In the forty-sixth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) and fellow podcaster Daniel Lopez (of the GHOSTS podcast) to discuss the acrobatic art of manipulation and the elusive truth at the heart of storytelling in the endearing yet also now problematic The Usual Suspects (1995).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - American Animals (Episode 45)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - American Animals (Episode 45)

    In the forty-fifth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, script supervisor Katy Baldwin, actor Dan Bauer, and fellow critic Tyler Harlow, to discuss Bart Layton's docu-realist retelling of a tale stranger than fiction and how fragmented perception makes for an elusive idea of truth in American Animals (2018).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Inception (Episode 44)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Inception (Episode 44)

    In the forty-fourth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, screenwriter August Gummere, podcaster Michael Willer, and musician Ben Childs, to discuss the refrigerator logic of the structuralist and rationalist Christopher Nolan and his embodiment of the heist genre in the sci-fi blended love letter to filmmaking in Inception (2010).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Sexy Beast (Episode 43)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Sexy Beast (Episode 43)

    In the forty-third episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by screenwriter Gio Maldonado and actor Galen Howard to discuss the surrealist purgatory of a gangster caught between his tranquil escapist present and the disruption of his demonic past embodied in an unstoppable force in Jonathan Glazer's directorial debut Sexy Beast (2000).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Jackie Brown (Episode 41)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Jackie Brown (Episode 41)

    In the forty-first episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by filmmaker Jeffrey Keller and writer/performer Reagan Osborne to discuss the ode to blaxploitation and the legend of Pam Grier that makes for the mature reflection on aging, dwindling opportunity, and the melancholy of loneliness in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Mission:Impossible (Episode 40)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Mission:Impossible (Episode 40)

    In the fortieth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by writer/performer Reagan Osborne and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the spy genre as a distillation of government sanctioned con-artistry, the cultural paranoia around the elusiveness of truth, and how the performative facade of a mission is the equivalent to cinema in Brian De Palma's Mission:Impossible (1996).

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Episode 39)

    Season 6: Heists, Cons, & Grifters - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Episode 39)

    In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 6 (Heists, Cons, & Grifters) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Michael Willer (of the Big Fat Gay Podcast) and fellow film critic Tyler Harlow (of the After the Credits blog) to discuss the hyper-stylized immersion into the London underworld and the naive poor saps who get taken for a parable ride in Guy Ritchie's debut Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

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