Episode Topic: Tech & Surveillance

EPISODE 26

Bigfoot vs. the Right-Wing Media Machine: What MAGA Reads When We’re Not Looking

WITH GUEST Howard Polskin

Howard Polskin of TheRighting joins Dave Pederson to track the headlines, podcasts, traffic charts, and outrage narratives shaping MAGA media. What happens when millions of Americans are living inside a completely different media weather system? In…

EPISODE 24

Bigfoot vs. the Monopoly Machine: Amazon, Dollar Stores, and the Fight for Local Power

WITH GUEST Stacy Mitchell

What if the real monster eating Main Street isn’t hiding in the woods — it’s hiding in the checkout button, the delivery truck, the dollar store, the grocery aisle, and the corporate boardroom? In this episode…

EPISODE 22

AI Singularity & Human Extinction: Dr. Peter Solomon on the Machine God

WITH GUEST Dr. Peter Solomon

Is AI still just a tool — or have we started worshipping the machine? In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with Dr. Peter Solomon, author of 100 Years to Extinction and 12…

EPISODE 19

The Sasquatch Paradox: Why AI Replaces Workers, Not Power | Paris Marx

WITH GUEST tech critic

Episode 19: The Sasquatch Paradox 2.0 — Why AI Replaces Workers, Not CEOs If AI is supposedly smart enough to replace drivers, writers, coders, designers, warehouse workers, and maybe even teachers, then why does it never…

EPISODE 18

Why Do People Need Bigfoot to Be Real? Bigfoot as Emotional Infrastructure

WITH GUEST lifelong Sasquatch researcher and children's author Kev LeStarge to explore somet

Guest: Kev LeStarge Is Bigfoot real? That’s not the question. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson sits down with lifelong Sasquatch researcher and children’s author Kev LeStarge to explore something deeper: why people…

EPISODE 11

Ghosts in the Machine: AI, Art & the Music Industry

WITH GUEST satire

This week on The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson is joined by Andy Shernoff — founding member of The Dictators, songwriter, producer, and historian of the New York punk scene — for a wide-ranging conversation about music,…

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