Complete Episode Guide

Our podcast miniseries is hosted by comedian Rosie Tran and Amanda King, written by BJ Mendelson, and produced by Andrew VanVoorhis. It's sponsored by DuckDuckGo.

Episode 1

Transcript & Show Notes: Get Yourself A Privacy Notebook

Special Guest: Rosie Tran (Interview coming soon.)

Episode 2

Transcript & Show Notes: Your Privacy Notebook Isn't Just For Sharing Your Deepest, Darkest Secrets.

Special Guest: Tracy Chou, CEO of Block Party (Part 1) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 3

Transcript & Show Notes: Your Smart TV Is Spying On You—And It's Not Even Sorry.

Special Guest: Tracy Chou, CEO of Block Party (Part 2) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 4

Transcript & Show Notes: You Don't Need a Windowless Van to Have a Creepy Vehicle Anymore

Special Guest: N/A

Episode 5

Transcript & Show Notes: Creeps, Weirdos, and How To Protect Yourself From Both After a Breakup

Special Guest: Kara Williams and Mayu Tobin-Miyaji, law fellows at EPIC (Part 1) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 6

Transcripts & Show Notes: It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take These Apps With You

Special Guest: Kara Williams and Mayu Tobin-Miyaji, law fellows at EPIC (Part 2) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 7

Transcripts & Show Notes: Violence Doesn't Defeat Fascists, But Doing This Sure Does

Special Guest: Advertising Legend, Bob Hoffman (Part 1) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 8

Transcripts & Show Notes: Son, That Internet Won't Pay For Itself

Special Guest: Advertising Legend, Bob Hoffman (Part 2) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 9

Transcripts & Show Notes: Going to a protest? Be funny, not just paranoid

Special Guest: Thorin Klosowski, Privacy Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation - Recorded in 2026

Episode 10

Transcripts & Show Notes: I'll Get You My Pretty, and Your Little VPN Too!

Special Guest: Lia Holland, Fight for the Future - Recorded in 2026

Episode 11

Transcripts & Show Notes: You Can Find Love (And Privacy) In a Subaru

Special Guest: Lauren Hendry Parons, Director of Communications at the Mozilla Foundation. - Recorded in 2026

Episode 12

Transcripts & Show Notes: Going Through Customs? This Is a Must Listen

Special Guest: Henry David Thoreau (Sort of)

Episode 13

Transcripts & Show Notes: Crypto Is a Scam. Use Cash. Film ICE.

Special Guest: Rebecca Williams, Senior Strategist for the Privacy & Data Governance unit at the American Civil Liberties Union - Recorded in 2026

Episode 14

Transcripts & Show Notes: Are Baby Boomers Really to Blame For The Disinformation Plague?

Special Guests: Dr. Bart Knijnenburg Bart Knijberg, Professor at Clemson University, Sushmita Khan PHD candidate at Clemson University, Dr. Reza Anarakay, assistant professor at Louisiana State University - Recorded in 2026

Episode 15

Transcripts & Show Notes: Are You Caught in Facebook's Web of Scam Advertisements?

Special Guests: N/A

Episode 16

Transcripts & Show Notes: Artificial General Intelligence Doesn't Exist, But Here's How to Hide From AI

Special Guest: "How to Disappear" author, and Black Mail Expert, Frank M. Ahearn - Recorded in 2026

Episode 17

Transcripts & Show Notes: Your Phone Is A Drug. What Are You Doing About It?

Special Guest: Kelly Carlin, author of "A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up With George" (Previously recorded in 2023)

Episode 18

Transcripts & Show Notes: All We Want For Christmas Is The Second Bill of Rights

Special Guest: Victoria Hetherington, author of "The Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship" (Part 1) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 19

Transcripts & Show Notes: Here's Where to Go to Get Trustworthy, Noncorporate News

Special Guest: Victoria Hetherington, author of "The Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship" (Part 2) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 20

Transcripts & Show Notes: It's The End of the FTC As We Know It, and Nobody Feels Fine

Special Guest: Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection - Recorded in 2026

Episode 21

Transcripts & Show Notes: How Generative AI Rots Your Brain and Enables Fascism

Special Guests: Members of the StopGenAI.com collaborative (Ryan Wilson, William Lavelle, and Kim Crawley) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 22

Transcripts & Show Notes: The Men Are Vulnerable & The Women Are Afraid: How to Protect Yourself on Dating Apps

Special Guest: Dr. Treena Orchard, author of "Sticky, Sexy, Sad" (Part 1) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 23

Transcripts & Show Notes: If It Looks Weird, Don't Click On It

Special Guest: Dr. Treena Orchard, author of "Sticky, Sexy, Sad" (Part 2) - Recorded in 2026

Episode 24

Transcripts & Show Notes: Why Didn't the Founding Fathers Address These Problems Right at the Start?

Special Guest: Patrick McGee, author of "Apple In China" - Recorded in 2026

Episode 25

Transcripts & Show Notes: Facts Don't Change People's Minds, but this Sure Does

Special Guest: Caitlin Dow, Center for Science in the Public Interest - Recorded in 2026

Episode 26

Transcripts & Show Notes: Special Presentation - Burner Phone 101 & Protest 101

Episode 27

Transcripts & Show Notes: How Generative AI Wastes Water and Kills Your Imagination

Special Guest: Dr. Uri Gal, Professor of Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney Business School (Previously recorded in 2023.)

Episode 28

Transcripts & Show Notes: A Simple Test to See How Ready You Are to Fight Fascism

Special Guest: Hagen Blix, author of Why We Fear AI: On The Interpretation of Nightmares - Recorded in 2026

Episode 29

Transcripts & Show Notes: Is This The Largest Data Breach in American History?

Special Guest: Dr. Karen Levy, author of Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance (Previously recorded in 2023.)

Episode 30

Transcripts & Show Notes: Drinking Raw Milk Will Kill You & Other Things You Should Probably Know

Special Guest: Dr. Arthur Caplan, professor, bioethicist, and the only person we trust to tell us what milk to drink. - Recorded in 2026

Episode 31

Transcripts & Show Notes: What Do You Do When A MAGA Influencer Wants You Dead?

Special Guest: Dr. Nicole Prause, Ph.D., is a data scientist/statistician and mental health care provider and founder of the sexual biotechnology company Liberos LLC. (Previously recorded in 2023.)

Episode 32

Transcripts & Show Notes: If You're Feeling Overwhelmed, Here's Something to Remember

Special Guest: Brittan Heller, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an affiliate at the Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center (Previously recorded in 2023.)

Episode 33

Transcripts & Show Notes: Coming soon.

Special Guest: Nina Jancowitz, former executive director of the Disinformation Governance Board at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Previously recorded in 2023.)

Episode 34

Transcripts & Show Notes : Coming soon.

Special Guest: Cindy Cohn, former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of "Privacy's Defender"

Episode 35

Transcripts & Show Notes : Coming soon.

Special Guest: Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the A.J. Muste Foundation for Peace and Justice, co-host of the popular radio show Law and Disorder, and author of the new book, Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy.

Episode 36

Transcripts & Show Notes : Coming soon.

Special Guest: David Gerard is a journalist who writes about AI and previously about cryptocurrency. He used to be a Unix system administrator and is delighted to be out of it. We are big fans of David's daily YouTube series, Pivot to AI