Send us a text In this last installment of The Fairy Ring Podcast, shift to a silver shore with a crystal lighthouse where bodies of shadow and light drink clouds and sea foam. At the top of the lighthouse, an angel waits to offer you a choice. 🌊🪽 7:44 — meditation narrative begins *The Fairy Ring Podcast will be going on a hiatus. Thank you for li…

Send us a text In this sixth chapter of the fairy ring, your body is transformed by the Goddess Isis into a creature who can swim and breathe deep within the ocean and explore an ancient underwater city. In a second-person narrative, you travel to the bottom of the sea to a coral temple filled with violet light. In this sacred space, you meet a fam…

Send us a text In this fifth installment of the fairy ring, the cosmic greenhouse flies you to a lost underwater world. In a second-person narrative, you watched three ancient whale gods named Wynk, Blynk, and Nod (inspired by the poem, "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" by Eugene Field) rebuild their ocean realm with their magical whale song. This episode…

Send us a text In this fourth installment of The Fairy Ring, the Goddess Isis travels with you in her cosmic greenhouse through the galaxy. In a second-person narrative, you help grow stars and planets with the Goddess and her mystical praying mantis, Comet. As the greenhouse approaches a mysterious blue planet, you learn about the beautiful balanc…

Send us a text In this third chapter of The Fairy Ring, you travel through a desert dreamscape and watch as the constellation Scorpius walks from the sky, over the moon, to meet you on the desert floor. In a second-person narrative, you are guided by Scorpius to a hidden oasis in the desert where a deity reveals itself. Listen to more episode of Th…

Send us a text In this second installment of The Fairy Ring Podcast, you journey through a cosmic portal to an Orange Blossom Labyrinth. In a second-person narrative, you wander this strange place where reality twists and trees grow into confusing patterns at a time-lapse speed. Red sands glow, the moon hangs low, and a trickster raven guides your …

Send us a text Ready to fall into the fairy ring again? 🍄 In a second-person narrative, you find yourself at a bar on a stormy night with a restlessness you cannot shake. You find yourself lured into the night to see the urban neighborhood you knew has shifted into a red neon cityscape. As you wander the defamiliarized pathways of the city, you dis…

Send us a text All of the fairy ring meditations of season one pressed into a vinyl-style audio trip. 🧚 Excerpts from this episode: Episode One: "Portals" Episode Two : "Collecting Moonbeams" Episode Three: "Wheel of Fortune" Episode Four: "Into the Light" Episode Five: "Pastel Rabbit" Please note, portions of this meditation trip contain binaural …

Scam Economy host Matt Binder breaks down the latest OpenAI scandal: an AI Voice Assistant that its CEO Sam Altman not so subtly tweeted "Her" about, resulting in a cease and desist from actress Scarlett Johansson. Is this just a voice impersonator or did OpenAI really use an AI voice trained on Johansson's? Visit: ScamEconomy.com Support the show:…

Ed Zitron of the new podcast Better Offline joins Scam Economy with Matt Binder to discuss Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies getting some a new life and pumping in recent weeks, what's going on with crypto lately? We also discuss the AI hype bubble and Apple Vision Pro. Check out Ed's new podcast Better Offline at https://www.betteroffline.com/Vis…

Send us a text Story begins at 12:12 “The Yellow Wallpaper” was published in 1892 by The New England Magazine. It is a gothic horror short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In this episode, we read Charlotte’s spectacular and spooky tale. We also discuss what inspired her to write “The Yellow Wall-paper: A story” (original title). This wor…

MrBeast made a quarter of a million dollars by uploading a video to Elon Musk's X and in doing so revealed just how rigged the monetization system is. Scam Economy host Matt Binder walks through all the details of X Monetization, the little known X Amplify program, how Elon Musk and company pushed the famous YouTuber's content into social media fee…

Send us a text Poet Seth Copeland enters the fairy ring to discuss petrichor, an archive of text/image. We also talk about Seth's new collection, Plug in the Mountain. The inspiration was birthed in the Wichita Mountains and became a thing made. Visit petrichor: https://petrichormag.com/ petrichor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petrichor_jour…

Send us a text In this episode, I eat cookies and talk magic with Sam with La Chuza Blanca Vintage. Sam is a star-seller on Etsy and is known for her full moon vintage tie dyes. We discuss her origins, how the Universe speaks to us through nature, how David Bowie inspired La Chuza Blanca, and her passed down love of vintage clothes. We delve even d…

Molly White of Web3 is Going Great joins Scam Economy with Matt Binder to discuss the Sam Bankman-Fried trial. Molly brings us her first hand account from the days she spent at the court about the FTX founder's testimony and cross examination, what former FTX employees like SBF's ex Caroline Ellison had to say, and how SBF was found guilty on all 7…

Send us a text Welcome to the Fairy Ring Podcast. This is a digital fairy portal that explores the Universe through myth, meditation, and magic. Tattoo artist, Jackie Jones, enters the fairy ring to discuss her transition from oil painter to tattoo artist, cycles in art, and how tattoos can be maps and stories. She also shares tips on tattoo care t…

We're at the end of another disappointing baseball season, and what might also be curtains for OABT. It's been a fun 7 years, but this might very well be the final episode. We've had a lot of laughs along the way and we thank you for joining us each week. With that, we chat about our favorite moments running this show, and look to a few important t…

The Mets announced that they're creating a tenured system for their season ticket holders, and a lot of fans are pretty upset about it. Even after this disappointing season, some prices are going up, while some special perks (like Opening Day tickets and postseason strips), are going away for select plans. Mets season ticket holder since 1998, Nick…

We're back from Minnesota after unfortunately hanging another L on The 7 Line Army's calendar. As one unnamed Mets staffer said to Darren in Starbucks after the game "hope you had a good time before we shit the bed". We're borrowing the segment Yay/Nay/Meh from SNY's Mets Off Day Live show and Joe DeMayo joins us for some laughs. Plus, who snubbed …

Pete Alonso, who isn't toxic, hit his 40th and 41st home run of the season on Sunday. Lindor, who doesn't get nearly enough credit. hit his 25th home run and stole his 25th base. Ronnie Mauricio, who is finally in the big leagues, went 5-11 in his first series. We're hitting Minnesota this Saturday with 700 die hard Mets fans in The 7 Line Army. Hi…

The Mets need to lock Pete Alonso up this offseason. These rumors are not healthy for the clubhouse or the fans. The Mets need to make the Polar Bear a Met for life. October 1st sounds like it's turning in to KEEP PETE Day at Citi Field. Edwin Diaz says he wants to pitch again this season. A must follow Mets fan recommendation. Dwight Gooden and Da…

What's the weird obsession with all of MLB hating on Pete Alonso? Mike Francesa says that Pete and Jacob deGrom got in to a fight last year. The 2024 T7LA schedule is out. David Wright hosted the Battle of The Badges last week at Citi Field and rumor is he's now best friends with Julia. The Mets are somehow still in the Wild Card race. Do you you h…

There are 50 Mets games left in 2023, how many are you going to hit? It seems like LFGM is retired from Pete Alonso's vocabulary. Grab tickets to this Thursday's Battle of The Badges FDNY vs NYPD charity game at Citi Field. The Mets got swept in Baltimore (no big shock), but why are the first place Orioles 22nd of 30th in attendance? Take a bite ou…

It's the 2023 trade deadline day and we welcome MLB.com's Anthony DiComo on to talk about it. Tony(as his friends like to call him) fills us in on what we need to know for not only today and tomorrow, but next season. Max Scherzer, David Robertson, and Mark Canha are already gone. Who else might be on the way out the door? Pham? Verlander? Alonso? …

Paris Marx of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast joins Scam Economy with Matt Binder to discuss one of the current big tech industry hype bubbles: VR or Virtual Reality. We break down Apple's entry into the field with the Vision Pro, Meta's play with their VR headset and its subsequent failings with the Metaverse, the crypto adjacent Web3 metaverse att…

Another disappointing weekend in Boston, paying it forward, an awkward pre-game handshake, a surprise DM from Jerry Seinfeld, The 7 Line Army's 150th outing is this weekend, what are some of your favorite home/away memories? Darren Meenan and Julia Quadrino live from T7LHQ. When there seems to be nothing to talk about, we have the most to talk abou…

The trade deadline is fast approaching and the Mets are showing little to no signs out of life after the All Star break. The 2024 schedule is out. Where is The 7 Line Army heading? Our Garage Sale was a massive success. Boston is this weekend, make sure you do not miss the pre-game party. Senga and Betts seem to be close buddies. What's the bet for…

Send us a text The Fairy Ring Podcast has added an abridged version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to its bookshelf for your enjoyment. Published in 1865, Lewis Carroll published his beloved classic. Since its date of publication it has never gone out of print and remains a touchstone of the literary nonsense genre. Story begins at 7:20 Narrat…

Julia is back from her trip to Belize and odds are she watched not even a second of baseball in the last 2 weeks. As usual things are completely off the rails this show. The 7 Line Garage Sale is on Saturday at our warehouse. You should come! The 7 Line Party Cruise was last Friday night. You should've been on the boat. Our Boston outing is just a …

The battle between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg officially began on Wednesday, July 5th as Meta launched Threads by Instagram, it's Twitter competitor app. On this DOOMED and Scam Economy livestream crossover episode, Matt Binder breaks down the Threads app, the enshittification of Twitter by Elon Musk, how this past week's actions by Musk at Twit…

This Mets season has been a disaster so far. We aren't waving the white flag just yet, but we're choosing to look towards 2024. The biggest story of next season is the Mets London Series. Who better to talk to than UK Mets fans themselves? We welcome UK Mets Online's Les McCaughan (@Lez_Go_Mets), Tom Rayfield (@tomNYMuk), and Mets In The UK's Toria…

When they pitch, they can't hit. When they hit, they can't pitch. What's the secret to the Mets 2023 success? We have the answer. Chris Carlin doesn't know it yet, but he's about to come out of Mets trivia retirement to host a show with Julia. The 7 Line Army is heading to Philly this weekend. Make sure you hit the pre-game with us on Saturday. See…

We do our best to not add a single ounce of extra negativity in to the Mets universe this week. What's a great distraction? An adorable puppy named Seaver. We welcome Jane Son from the Mets, and Tom Rubing on behalf of America's Vet Dogs to the show. Shea began formal training to become a service dog for a veteran or first responder with disabiliti…

Molly White, the creator of Web3 is Going Great, joins Scam Economy with Matt Binder to discuss the SEC's lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance for selling unregistered securities. Molly and Matt break down the lawsuit against Coinbase, how the suit against Binance is different (fraud allegations!), what this means for the state of cryptocurrency i…

The Mets seem allergic to momentum. Just when fans think they're about to go on a nice little run, we get a kick to the gut. Time to wake up string some series wins together. Our friends at Tick Pick are giving away 2 free tickets to the Subway Series! Tailgate with us on Tuesday! Corona launched The Francisco Collection, and we're happy to bring t…

The Mets look to get back on track after a disappointing road trip. Howie Rose, Gary Cohen, Al Leiter, and Howard Johnson will be inducted in to the Mets Hall Of Fame this Saturday at Citi Field. Johan's HI57ORY anniversary is upon us. Crazy it's been 11 years already. Giving away TWO PAIRS of Pete Alonso inspired sunglasses from the Mets (this wee…

Pete Alonso leads the league in homers, and can't stop humping things along the way. If and when the Mets win it all, he's going to need a chastity belt. Buck Showalter, Jerry Seinfeld, and Pete's mom, aren't happy that the Polar Bear dropped his F bomb last week at Citi Field. The Mets are heating up, and showing the skeptics that at least for now…

Leo Schwartz, reporter at Fortune, joins Scam Economy with Matt Binder to discuss Worldcoin, the project that wants to scan the eyeballs of everyone in the world and give them cryptocurrency in return. Why do they want your biometric data? To create an identity network to prove you're a real human, of course! Who is behind Worldcoin? OpenAI CEO Sam…

SHEESH. Nothing more to say about this year so far. Justin Verlander is making his Mets debut tonight at Citi Field, and there's almost no buzz around it. That's really bad, and the team should be very concerned. It's been an extremely disappointing start to the 2023 Mets season. We're definitely not trying to hide the truth, but we'll instead be t…

Send us a text Enjoy a unique experience in The Fairy Ring where you will choose a fairy object which will reveal a special channeled message just for you. 🧚‍♀️ Timestamps: (*timestamps may not be clickable on every platform) Hagstone 12:30 Reflecting Glass 30:00 Wishbone 45:45 For more tarot resources and guided meditations visit The Fairy Ring's …

It's a DOOMED / Scam Economy crossover episode! Host Matt Binder breaks down what he's been so busy with over the past few weeks: a series of reports on Twitter that drove Elon Musk to gift/punish him with the Twitter Blue checkmark of shame. Matt breaks down what Twitter Blue is, why it's so controversial, how Elon Musk marketed the roll out and c…

It's been raining for what feels like a month in Queens, washing away games, and bringing up the topic of Steve Cohen adding a dome over Citi Field. Bartolo Colon's 7 year home run anniversary is coming up this Sunday and we're releasing a commemorative t-shirt. Vogelbach sported braids yesterday and had a strong day at the plate. Who had the best/…

The Mets are back home after a very successful West Coast trip. The boys went 7-3 in series against the Athletics, Dodgers, and Padres. David Wright surprised a bartender wearing his jersey in SF. Have you ever ran in to a player where you didn't expect to see them? T7LA is back in action this Friday at Citi Field. Come tailgate with us! Kick off a…

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The boys are rolling so far on the West Coast in Oakland and LA. Brett Baty is back, and hopefully here to stay. Our friend Jacob Resnick (who you might remember as a Kid Caster on SNY back in the day) now works for the Mets Minor League Operations department. Lindor says he’d let Vogelbach babysit his daughter… which begs the question which Met wo…

Julia is just getting back in the swing of things after vacation so her seat is filled today by none other than The General, Andrew Indart. Parking at Citi Field is now $40, and although we've known this now for a few weeks, Andrew still isn't pleased about it. What's next? A fast pass to cut the bathroom lines? What would you pay for that? Speakin…

In honor of the indictment and arrest of Trump Card NFT founder Donald J. Trump, Scam Economy takes a look at four of the (other) biggest crypto founders who recently got in trouble with the law. Host of CBC's The Naked Emperor, writer Jacob Silverman joins Matt Binder to break down the crimes and recent charges filed against Terra / Luna founder D…

Our newest member of The 7 Line Army, Mets owner Steve Cohen, had fans acting like crazed teenagers seeing The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium. What did one young Mets fan ask Steve that might be of interest to you? Opening Day at Citi Field is this Thursday (or Friday)! Tailgate with us! The 7 Line Army's Party Cruise has unfortunately been postpo…

The Mets just announced the opening of The K Korner in the old McFadden's space. The 7 Line Army is rolling 2,000 deep in Miami this Thursday and you should be tailgating with us. What's your favorite Opening Day Memory? Early weather reports say it should be gorgeous in Queens next week. Cross your fingers! New merch dropping next Monday online an…

What happens when one of the biggest cryptocurrency mining companies in the world sets up shop in your small rural American town? Jacky Sawicky, founder of the Concerned Citizens for Navarro County and a member of the NCAC: National Coalition Against CryptoMining, joins Scam Economy with Matt Binder to tell us exactly what happened when Riot Platfo…