THE BIGFOOT MANIFESTO

EPISODES FROM THE EDGE OF THE FOREST

Conversations on politics, power, labor, media, capitalism, conspiracy culture, and the monsters hiding in plain sight.

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EPISODE 29

Markets Built for Humans: Nick Hanauer on Why Trickle-Down Broke America

WITH GUEST Nick Hanuaer

Nick Hanauer joins The Bigfoot Manifesto for a conversation about Markets Built for Humans, his new co-authored work with Eric Beinhocker, and why America needs to abandon trickle-down economics once and for all. For fifty years,…
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EPISODE 28

Bigfoot vs. the Server Farm: Who Pays for the AI Boom?

WITH GUEST Danny Caine

Everybody says AI lives in “the cloud.” But the cloud is not weightless. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave talks with Danny Caine of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance about the data center boom…
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EPISODE 27

Bigfoot vs. The Union-Busting Machine

WITH GUEST Derrick Palmer

The real monster isn’t hiding in the warehouse. It’s in the scanner, the algorithm, the productivity metric, the union-busting meeting, the legal delay, and the idea that workers should be grateful just to survive. In Episode…
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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…
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EPISODE 25

Bigfoot vs. the Healthcare Desert: Why America Can’t Heal Its Kids

WITH GUEST Victoria Casavecchia

In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave talks with Victoria Casavecchia, founder of Empowered Victories Wellness, a Registered Nurse and Board-Certified Nurse Coach with nearly 30 years of experience in pediatric nursing. Victoria joins the…
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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…
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