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A non-authoritative list of high-quality podcasts that promote a similar point of view to metaculture via interviews with relevant authors and experts on many of the subjects discussed here.

This podcast list is guaranteed to be free of secular gurus, the intellectual dark web, and other alt-right grifters. They explore ideas that have evidence, not just any idea with a pulse.

Also check out these Books, Authors, and Organizations for additional resources.

Neuroscience & Psychology

• Hidden Brain
• Inner Cosmos
• The Gray Area
• The Science of Happiness
• The Happiness Lab
• Ten Percent Happier
• Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Modern Spirituality

• Team Human
• How to Be a Better Human
• Metaphysical Milkshake
• Soul Boom
• Closer to Truth
• The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God
• No Nonsense Spirituality
• Metamodern Meaning
• Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Philosophy

• Philosophy Tube
• ContraPoints
• The Living Philosophy
• Philosophize This!
• Ted Talks Daily

Skeptics and Cultural Criticism

• Conspirituality
• Decoding the Gurus
• Genetically Modified Skeptic
• Within Reason
• The Thinking Atheist
• Rationality Rules
• Angela Collier
• Doomscroll
• Straight, White, American Jesus
• Behind the Bastards

Interviews and Current Events

• Plain English
• FrameLab
• The Nerd Reich
• Ezra Klein Show
• Factually
• Infinite Loops
• The Humanist Report
• Some More News
• Experts on Expert
• A Bit of Optimism
• What Now? With Trevor Noah
• Jordan Harbinger

Criteria for Selection

There are a ton of podcasts out there that promote atheist, religious, and political points of view that often agree with assertions made on this wiki. However, this list is focused on high-quality podcasts that are pro-science but not anti-religion, and offer a point of view of that encourages positive dialog.

These podcasts are ones that don't platform bigots and contrarians just for outrage clicks. It should still go without saying that inclusion in this list is not an endorsement of every opinion they present.

Hidden Brain: Basically Making All the Same Points

The Us 2.0 series on Hidden Brain does an excellent job of making many of the same key points found on in-group, persuasion, progressive, good faith conservatism, balance of power, and other unity-related pages.

• What We Have In Common
• Win Hearts, Then Minds
• Living With Our Differences
• Not at the Dinner Table
• Lincoln's Dilemma

The whole podcast is full of practical advice for happiness, consciousness exploration, persuasion, evidence-based best practices, and the ways we must mentally deal with modern technology and capitalism. If you want to get an overview of 75% of the ideas and perspectives being presented by this wiki, listen to their entire archive. For your convenience, most episodes have been linked to directly from the relevant pages.

Of course, like every scientific content creator, it presents a series of disconnected ideas rather than a holistic vision for how they are all connected. But what if you took every episode of Hidden Brain and turned it into a belief system by relating each one to a universal theme? Now that's something the NPR crowd can get behind! All hail Shankar Vedantam!

Note for Podcasters

The authors of this wiki wish to remain anonymous, so no official representative of the metaculture wiki will appear on any podcast.

However, anyone who is interested in discussing metaculture or any of the topics on the wiki can do so as long as they make no specific claims of authorship.

All wiki content is public domain, so you can read it verbatim as a script if you want.

You may email questions to fractalguy@metaculture.net and they may be answered via wiki edit, which you can quote.

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