Complete Episode Guide
Every episode of our podcast miniseries, Stupid Sexy Privacy, is now available for you to listen to here.
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.
Season 1
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
Episode 37 A - Bonus Episode
Transcripts & Show Notes : Coming soon.
Special Guest: What do we do at Stupid Sexy Privacy once the book and podcast miniseries are over? We put on our investigative journalist hats. Listen to this bonus episode of Stupid Sexy Privacy to learn more about the Guard Act, how it would basically require everyone in the US to show their ID to use the Internet, and how we can stop this bill in its tracks. Co-Producer BJ Mendelson is joined in this episode by Jibran Ludwig, Policy Strategist at Fight For The Future
Episode 37 B -Regular Episode
Transcripts & Show Notes : Coming soon.
Special Guest: Thomas Paine, sort of!
Part 1 of 2: A special delivery of Paine! In honor of America's 250th birthday, we are celebrating with the forgotten founding father, Thomas Paine. Common Sense is the foundational text of the American Revolution. Changing the perception of early Americans about the cause of fighting against the British Empire from a lack of representation to the cause of America as an asylum for mankind. Where all are welcome and accepted. This is the first half of Paine's "Common Sense."
Episode 38
Transcripts & Show Notes : Coming soon.
Special Guest: Thomas Paine, sort of!
Part 2 of 2: A special delivery of Paine! In honor of America's 250th birthday, we are celebrating with the forgotten founding father, Thomas Paine. Common Sense is the foundational text of the American Revolution. Changing the perception of early Americans about the cause of fighting against the British Empire from a lack of representation to the cause of America as an asylum for mankind. Where all are welcome and accepted. This is the first half of Paine's "Common Sense."
Episode 39
Transcripts & Show Notes : Coming soon.
Special Guest: This week we're joined by Harvey J. Kaye, author of Thomas Paine and The Promise of America, who talks about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's recent interest in Thomas Paine, how one pamphlet changed the reason for the American Revolution, and the importance of the Founding Father religious zealots and billionaires want you to forget about.
Season 2
Episode 1
Transcripts & Show Notes : Coming soon.
Special Guest & Episode Info: Bella ciao. Things aren't looking good out there in America right now, are they? Well, that's why this show exists. To help protect you from fascists and weirdos. So today we're joined by Rainey Reitman, author of the book Transaction Denied and president of the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation. It's important to know all the ways the fascists can get at you, and this week's episode involves your money. So listen closely.
Episode 2
Transcripts & Show Notes: Coming soon.
Special Guest & Episode Info: This week on the show, BJ is wrapping up copyedits for the upcoming book, How to Protect Yourself From Fascists and Weirdos, so we're going right to our interview with Amanda Litman. Amanda is the author of When We're in Charge, and the co-founder of Run for Something. Run for Something has helped elect more than 1,650 candidates since 2017, presenting people across America with candidates who aren't fascists, weirdos, or funded by the kind of people who pay the bills for fascists and weirdos. If you want to run for office, this is the interview you want to hear.
Links we mentioned in the intro:
How to Search Now That Google Search is dead: https://stopgenai.com/this-is-how-to-search-now-that-google-search-is-gone-a-guide-for-family-and-friends/
Kim Crawley's Technofascist Survival Guide:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/
Episode 3
Transcripts & Show Notes: Coming soon.
Special Guest & Episode Info: This week, BJ is joined by Dr. Robert Lustig. A Professor emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at UCSF, and the author of numerous books you should read, including The Hacking of the American Mind, which is the subject of this week's interview. Dr. Lustig had a lot to say about the power corporations wield over us, Citizens United, and why you should cut as much sugar from your diet as you can. That's because, like the end result of Citizens United, sugar could kill you. Politically speaking of course.
Episode 4
Transcripts & Show Notes: Coming soon.
Special Guest & Episode Info: Bartz v. Anthropic is a major court case that you might not have heard of. But BJ has, because Anthropic stole his book, "Social Media Is Bullshit," along with thousands of other books from authors, in order to train their Claude model. This week, we're joined by Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger to help break down what's happening.
Episode 5
Transcripts & Show Notes: Coming soon.
Special Guest & Episode Info: This week, Rosie reads you an excerpt from How to Protect Yourself From Fascists & Weirdos about how to become a journalist, and why you can help millions of Americans, right now, by becoming one. BJ is then joined by Dr. Daniel R. Kelly, co-author of Someone Should Do Something, about the need for all of us to step up and be the change we want to see in our world. No one else will do it for you.
Episode 6
Transcripts & Show Notes: Coming soon.
Special Guest & Episode Info: This week, Rosie and Andrew expose the unholy alliance between the wellness industry and fascist influencers, revealing how unregulated product peddlers launder money through fake engagement metrics to amplify dangerous extremists. BJ is then joined by Amy S. Greenberg, author of "A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico" to talk about a little-known moment in American history that informs a lot of today's hype and exaggeration created by fascists involving the border.
Episode 7
Transcripts & Show Notes: Coming soon.
Special Guest & Episode Info: BJ thinks Crypto is a scam. Rosie disagrees. So this week, BJ interviews Dr. Algernon Austin, a sharp voice on race, money, and the hidden machinery of power. He’s here to break down why crypto, stablecoins, and the GENIUS Act have everyone arguing — and why the real winners may be the rich, the loud, and the well-connected. Not you.