Suspicious Minds Podcast Selected for 2026 Tribeca Creators Market as Season 2 Premieres
NEW YORK — Suspicious Minds, the critically acclaimed Top 100 charting podcast series, has officially been selected for the 2026 Tribeca Creators Market, taking place June 8–10 in New York City. (EG-PR, 2026)
Produced by Agoric Media in partnership with Wondermind (the mental health media company co-founded by Mandy Teefey and Selena Gomez), the exciting announcement perfectly coincides with the launch of Season Two: AI and the Apocalypse, which premiered on May 21 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and all major platforms.
Exploring AI, Anxiety, and the End of the World
Fresh off two Webby Award nominations (Best New Podcast in News, Business & Society and Podcast: Documentary), Suspicious Minds has established itself as one of the most original projects exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming human life.
While Season One examined the emergent phenomenon often referred to as “AI Psychosis,” Season Two takes a larger, more existential view: What does the age of AI mean for our collective psychology and sense of the future?
AI and the Apocalypse is a deep investigation into humanity’s oldest and most persistent fear: the end of all things. The series asks not just whether AI could end the world, but why humans have always needed to imagine that it might, and what that obsession reveals about meaning, mortality, and the strange moment we are all living through.
Across eight episodes, the season dives into:
- The deep history of apocalyptic thinking
- The psychology of dread and doomsday prepping
- Transhumanism and anti-natalism
- Pro-extinctionism and the art we create to face what we most fear
The Minds Behind the Show
Host and Creator Sean King O’Grady spent two years speaking with the world’s leading philosophers, scientists, psychologists, historians, and theologians.
As with Season One, the new episodes are anchored by the thinking and contributions of Dr. Joel Gold and Ian Gold, PhD—the brilliant brothers who coined “The Truman Show Delusion” and authored the book Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness. Together, they examine whether AI represents a genuine existential threat, and what it reveals about the human psyche that so many of us are now living inside that question.
Executive Production Team
- Executive Producers: Mandy Teefey, Selena Gomez, Jonathon Glucksman, David Tuohy, Feras M. Shammami, Jesse Ford, and Molly Borman.
- Producer: Jesse Ford.
Heavy-Hitting Guest Lineup
This season features an incredible roster of expert interview subjects, including:
- Timothy Morton – Author of Hyperobjects and Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology
- David Benatar – Antinatalist philosopher and author of Better to Have Never Been
- Professor Judith Wolfe – St. Andrews School of Divinity
- Sheldon Solomon – Psychologist and founder of Terror Management Theory
- Dr. Michael Ferguson – Harvard Neurospirituality Lab
- Dr. Samuel Justin Sinclair – Psychologist and Writer for The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Nolen Gertz – Author of Nihilism and Technology
- Johann Hari – Author of Stolen Focus
- Malo Bourgon – CEO of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Emily Ray and Robert Kirsch – Authors of Be Prepared
- Kelly Bulkely – Psychologist and renowned Dream Expert
- James Cussen – Creator of The Living Philosophy on YouTube and Substack
- Dorian Lynskey – Author of Everything Must Go
From the Creators
“Humans have been thinking about a catastrophic end to our species since we first started throwing paint on the walls of caves. Each generation believes it might be the last. But I keep wondering — in an era of compounding existential threats… if this time we might be right. What does it mean to be living through such a moment? And how do we face our own deaths while holding the prospect of the end of all human life?”
— Sean King O’Grady, Host & Creator
“Right now, millions of people are walking around with an anxiety about the future that they can’t quite name. I’ve always believed that naming what you’re feeling is the first step to doing something about it. That’s why we made Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse — to take something so new and so frightening and make it human.”
— Mandy Teefey, Executive Producer & Co-Founder of Wondermind
Award-Winning Storytelling
The series’ Tribeca Creators Market selection brings Suspicious Minds to one of the most prestigious independent media markets in the world, backed by heavy critical acclaim.
| Award Competition | Category | Result |
| 2026 Telly Awards | Series – Non-Scripted | Winner (Bronze) |
| 2026 Telly Awards | Series – Documentary | Winner (Bronze) |
| 2026 Telly Awards | Campaign – Health & Safety | Winner (Bronze) |
| 2026 Webby Awards | Best New Podcast (News, Business & Society) | Nominated |
| 2026 Webby Awards | Podcast: Documentary | Nominated |
About Wondermind
Wondermind is the world’s first comprehensive and multifaceted mental fitness ecosystem. The company is on a mission to destigmatize and democratize mental health while normalizing and advancing the topic of mental fitness through candid conversations and expert-backed insights. Comprising three verticals — content, editorial, and product — Wondermind provides the tools and language necessary to make navigating your mental health a little easier.
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