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Hosted by Dave Pederson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 32 episodes
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The Bigfoot Manifesto is a sharp, satirical podcast where progressive politics collides with cryptid culture and biting humor. Host Dave Pederson (Oscar-nominated producer of Super Size Me and Americonned) dives into the strange overlap of myths, media, and manipulation—from billionaire fairy tales and QAnon fever dreams to the legends we tell ourselves to survive late capitalism.Equal parts investigative journalism and campfire storytelling, each episode blends fact, folklore, and firebrand commentary to expose the absurdities of our modern world. Why do people believe in Bigfoot, trickle-down economics, or a "self-made" billionaire? Maybe it's all the same myth.So grab your flashlight, your sense of humor, and maybe a union card. Because believing in Bigfoot is still more logical than believing billionaires will save us.
Dave Pederson hosts The Bigfoot Manifesto, a news show with 32 episodes published.
When workers start organizing, corporations rarely improvise. They call in the professionals. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto , Dave Pederson talks with Professor John Logan , Professor and Program Director of L
Parents pay more than they can afford. Child-care educators earn less than they can live on. Providers still struggle to remain open. How can all three be true? Dave Pederson talks with nationally recognized family-polic
Universal basic income is usually presented as an anti-poverty program. Scott Santens argues that it is also a foundation for freedom—the ability to refuse an abusive job, leave a dangerous situation, care for family, or
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 fi
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 powering
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 Ep
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 differ
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
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 of The Big
Is war a glitch in the American system — or is it how the system works? In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with historian, foreign policy analyst, and American Prestige co-host Daniel Bessner a
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 Years to AI Singularity
In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson is joined by fellow producer Jeff Mann and director Sean Claffey to revisit Americonned and ask a hard question: what has changed since the film first came out in J
In Episode 20 of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson sits down with former police chief, law enforcement consultant, educator, and DOJ reform expert Dr. Edward Dwain Denmark for a deep conversation about policing in Ame
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 neve
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 d
The Department of Justice released three million pages of Epstein-related documents. Twelve ZIP files. Non-searchable PDFs. No index. No database. No public search tool. Technically public. Practically unusable. In this
"Due Process Under Siege" examines the growing threat to immigration rights and civil liberties in the United States. This episode looks at how deportation policy, ICE enforcement, and executive power, especially under D
"Small government" sounds comforting — a tidy garden where everyone minds their own business and freedom magically flourishes. But while we're admiring the gnomes, something much bigger is climbing over the fence. This w
🎙 The Bigfoot Manifesto Gentrification isn't "organic change." It isn't inevitable. And it definitely isn't caused by coffee shops. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, we're joined by housing policy expert and aut
Christianity isn't just a belief system — it's a training program. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, host Dave Pederson talks with author and former Christian James Aames about religious indoctrination, fear-base
Danny Caine
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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Howard Polskin
TheRighting
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Victoria Casavecchia
Empowered Victories Wellness
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Stacy Mitchell
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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David Dayen
The American Prospect
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Jamie Margolin
Zero Hour
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University of Hawai'i
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The Bigfoot Manifesto is hosted by Dave Pederson. The show is categorised under news (politics) and has published 32 episodes.
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