Everything Connected: The Architecture of the American Con

The Bigfoot Manifesto · Apr 23, 2026 · 1m

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 June 2023? The episode returns to the film's central warning that inequality, labor precarity, housing instability, political capture, and the collapse of the middle class were never separate problems, but parts of one larger con. Dave, Jeff, and Sean look back at what the film was really trying to say, why its message hits even harder now, and how billionaire power, AI job…