The Roundtable
""The Roundtable — Infrared's debate format — appears in Haz's self-description of why the show exists at all.
From the Heated political debate stream
> "There is no serious, real foundation of authentic discourse outside social media that survived. There's no prestigious academic institutions where real discourse happens. There's no serious roundtables and discussions going on, no more refined podcasts. It is all just this extremely hypermodern attention economy. And I decided at a certain point to own up to it and take a more wise view of the long game — it's a marathon and not a race."
The method
The Roundtable format (multi-hour debates across the spectrum) is the deliberate answer to institutional collapse: since no authentic discourse venue survives outside social media, build one inside it — and play the long game rather than chase virality (Wanted debates, Infrawoke).