Heat Death of the Universe
266 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsHeat Death of the Universe is a tragicomic End-Times-inspired podcast about a wide range of subjects falling under the enormous Janus-faced purview of cultural and political commentary.
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047 - I Do Love a Soda Fountain With Teeth
January 28, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBBiden "follows the science," surrounds the Syrian oil fields, offers up the insulting $1400+$600 for further negotiation. Tony Blinken is a slightly more polite Pompeo. These COVID mutations are turning out to be quite serious. Reddit guys ban together to fuck an evil hedge fund out of billions and to illustrate the absurd meaninglessness of the stock market. So it's not all bad news. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: 1) Billions 2) Silicon Valley JD's Recommendation: Mega Man...
000 - BONUS - Prelude to 046: Waiting for the Man (feat. 2/3ʳᵈˢ of Boomer Death Squad)
January 25, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBA free form conversation between Heat Death and Boomer Death, of the Universe and Squad variants, respectively. All leading up to episode 046 proper. "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." Albert Camus "It just never happened that we needed a nursing home to take a COVID positive person." Andrew Cuomo More things: heatdeathpod.com @heatdeathpod & soundcloud.com/boomerdeathsquad @boomerdeathpod
000 - Prelude to 046: Waiting for the Man (feat. 2/3ʳᵈˢ of Boomer Death Squad)
January 25, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBA free form conversation between Heat Death and Boomer Death, of the Universe and Squad variants, respectively. All leading up to episode 046 proper. "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." Albert Camus "It just never happened that we needed a nursing home to take a COVID positive person." Andrew Cuomo More things: heatdeathpod.com @heatdeathpod & soundcloud.com/boomerdeathsquad @boomerdeathpod
046 - Lizzie Magie's Anti-Monopoly (feat. Boomer Death Squad)
January 25, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBDanny, Joe and Matt from the Boomer Death Squad (@boomerdeathpod) podcast join us to discuss the largely unknown history behind the Monopoly board game. At the turn of the century, a leftist political activist, resolute feminist, and fascinating renaissance women named Lizzy Magie, created a game to educate others about the evils of accumulated wealth. Follow the winding causal chain of events that led to the complete theft and inversion of her vision and, in true monopolistic form, basicall...
046 - Lizzie Magie's Anti-Monopoly feat. Boomer Death Squad
January 25, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBDanny, Joe and Matt from the Boomer Death Squad (@boomerdeathpod) podcast join us to discuss the largely unknown history behind the Monopoly board game. At the turn of the century, a leftist political activist, resolute feminist, and fascinating renaissance women named Lizzy Magie, created a game to educate others about the evils of accumulated wealth. Follow the winding causal chain of events that led to the complete theft and inversion of her vision and, in true monopolistic form, basicall...
000 - Prelude to 046: Waiting for the Man feat. 2/3ʳᵈˢ of Boomer Death Squad
January 25, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBA free form conversation between Heat Death and Boomer Death, of the Universe and Squad variants, respectively. All leading up to episode 046 proper. "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." Albert Camus "It just never happened that we needed a nursing home to take a COVID positive person." Andrew Cuomo More things: heatdeathpod.com @heatdeathpod & soundcloud.com/boomerdeathsquad @boomerdeathpod Send us a Text Message. Support the Show.
045 - Gallons of Frothy Bipartisanship Will Save Us!
January 21, 2021 20:00 - 2 hours - 92.4 MBBiden is not the King of Empathy. Kamala would kill her first born for a horizontal promotion. Los Angeles has to lower air quality standards because they're cremating too many bodies from increasing COVID deaths. New admin will fix this by sending everyone back to work and school. We hate it all, don't we, folks? Many other things get brought up but your Dear Typist is too tired to summarize it all. Happy calf-cramping, Mr. Empathy in Chief, you swiss cheese brained mass murderer. General ...
044 - Century of the Self-Internalized Oppression
January 18, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBIn the first 10 days, Biden will heal the soul of the nation via The Ludovico Technique as imagined by radical centrists. The cabinet is full of predictably compromised and nihilistic people. Dark money flows. The vaccine rollout is fucked. P.S. Happy MLK Day. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber JNM's Recommendation: The Century of the Self Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Scientists urge stronger Paris Agreement pledges to curb climate chang...
043 - Incarcerate the Rick Snyder Cut
January 15, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBA call to nationalize Big Tech. Trump flees to the Alamo. Biden teaches the country arithmetic like the biggest asshole on earth. AOC continues to dash any hopes that might be remaining. Remember Hunter Biden's incriminating pics and vids? Neither do we. Poof! It never happened. Rick Snyder might just have to pay up to a $1000 fine for poisoning an entire town. What a deal! General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Vikings JNM's Recommendation: The Staircase Further Reading, Viewing,...
042 - Impotently Purging the Trailer Fash in the 11th Hour
January 11, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 92.9 MBMore details emerge about the tacit or direct involvement of the state in the riot on Capitol Hill. Trump's permanent banning from Twitter et al creates a predictable shouting match within the left about tactics, censorship, and free speech. How seriously do people take their scolding and scaremongering? Axe Body Spray 4 democracy. Olive Garden's craven act of pasta-based punishment has been debunked. Kamala gets undermined by the elite and scheming fashionistas at Vogue Magazine. Biden cont...
041 - Insurrection Happy Hour
January 08, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBWade through that MAGA flood up on Capitol Hill. Democrats have no more excuses (but will create them anyway). Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos remain the worst the species has to offer. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Hiram Walker Peppermint Schnapps 90 Proof JNM's Recommendations: Morning Joe - January 7, 2021: Cold Open Montage (feat. Johnny Cash 'Hurt') Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Madness on Capitol Hill After Their Victories in Georgia, the Democrats Have No More Excu...
040 - Vee Belief in Nussing, Pelosi!
January 05, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBTrump does pathetic mafioso cosplay and we wish him well on his yet to be named plan to build a bigger, gold-er, version of the White House next to the original. Julian Assange faces the first decent news in a decade. Congress continues to absorb and transform people like The Thing. The briefest of histories of Presidential pardons. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: Knowledge Fight JD's Recommendation: Crusader Kings III Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Transcript: Pres...
039 - The 2020 Human Misery Olympics
January 02, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBWe strike a pose like Janus, the dual-faced god looking both to the past and future simultaneously, and mostly dig into other years throughout history that are held in infamy from our perch here at the end of 2020 and the dawn of 2021. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: One Piece JNM's Recommendations: 1) Midsommar (Director's Cut) 2) Ari Aster on Midsommar, Cathartic Endings, the Director's Cut, and His Favorite Films 3) Ari Aster | Hereditary | Film Comment Talk 4) Ari Aster D...
038 - $2000 Per Month is an Attack on Every American
December 29, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBAmazon's current form as a refutation of the intellectual justifications for capitalism. More stimulus bill fuckery. Trump pardons Black Water murderers amongst other murderers. Identity politics continue to be crassly used to shield bad politics from critique. General Recommendations JD's Recommendations: Flatland: The Movie JNM's Recommendation: The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster Further Reading, Viewing, Listening How Amazon Destroys the Intellectual Justifications for Capitalism Whe...
037 - We Can Be H.E.R.O.E.S. Just For One Great Conjunction
December 23, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBWe do a light excavation of the newly passed (yet to be signed into law) "HEROES Act" (H.R. 133). Stanford Medical Center gives vaccines to each and every more deserving "elite" in their ranks while 1,342 frontline medical workers are left empty handed. As the vaccines roll out (and slowly trickle down from Mt. Olympus, where all our godlike ruling class reside) the UK is exploding with a new, highly infectious, strain of COVID-19, which Boris Johnson's insane, homicidal, "herd immunity" po...
036 - Sacrificing Lives for the Holidays
December 21, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBMayor Pete's impeccable qualifications for ruining public transit. AOC plays nice with Pelosi and still gets booted out of a key committee seat. Briahna Joy Gray makes the case for forcing a floor vote on Medicare for All. Delivery drivers in South Korea are being worked to death, literally. Leaked emails reveal the true intentions of the elite to deliberately infect huge numbers of people with COVID-19. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: The Uncanny Counter JNM's Recommendation...
035 - Hunter Biden's Generic Post Zombie Formalism Illustration
December 18, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBState of the Corona Virus. Andrew "Camus" Cuomo gets an Emmy. Fauci and Biden-Harris get fellated by Time Magazine. Hunter Biden is an artiste. Nina Turner (yay!), Mayor Pete (nay). Massive corporations thrive harder than ever during the pandemic and their CEOs brag about it and laugh in our faces. The historically massive strikes and protests in India continue to grow. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: PCU JD's Recommendations: 1) The Turbo Kid 2) qBittorent Jackett plug-in ...
034 - Jimmy Dores / Joey Bides
December 15, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBWe talk about the recent hubbub over Jimmy Dore's proposal that politicians actually use their power for the things they claim to be in favor of and after that we explore the bottomless depths of Joe Biden's depravity. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Dehd - Flower of Devotion JNM's Recommendation: Threats by Amelia Gray Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Jimmy Dore Calls on Democrats to Withhold Support for Nancy Pelosi Unless She Brings Single Payer Medicare for All to a ...
033 - Bolivian Water Wars
December 11, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBIn light of water recently being traded on Wall Street as a commodity, we talk about the privatization of Bolivia's water in the late 90s/early 2000s, more specifically the Cochabamba Water War. The Bechtel Corporation literally charged people for the rain water. (Seoul's remarkably high air pollution on 12/11/2020 was making us feel like shit during this one.) General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Porridge Radio, Every Bad JNM's Recommendations: 1) Burning & 2) Demand your Repres...
032 - Capitalism's Winter of Death + CocoRosie/Camus/Cuomo
December 08, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBWe attempt and fail to steer completely clear of the State of the Corona Virus but eventually claw our way back to the ol' chaotic maelstrom of the Roulette Wheel of Clickbait and headlines otherwise. We also pose the eternal philosophical question "What is a vaccine, really?" General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) Cocorosie & 2) Mank JD's Recommendation: Yaeji Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Capitalism’s winter of death Did coronavirus data whistleblower hack Florida’s ...
031 - Meanwhile in India: 250,000,000 Workers Strong
December 04, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBWe discuss the heartening news of what is likely the largest general strike in history: 250 million farmers, laborers, unionists, etc, have united in a courageous march upon New Delhi and it gives a glimmer of hopeful possibilities of mass labor movements and general strikes as an effective tactic in the future (though the lot of us probably have to get a lot more desperate first). General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi JNM's Recommendation: Supe...
030 - The Heat Deaths Meet The Boomer Death Squads, Crossover Extravaganza
November 29, 2020 18:00 - 2 hours - 115 MBWe convened, in clandestine fashion, with The BDS. The Boomer Death Squad (@BoomerDeathPod), of course. We had a grand ol' time orbiting around the conceit of assessing the Obama Years. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Oh, and: This confession...has meant...nothing. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) Love Liza & 2) Wild Turkey 101 JD's Recommendation: Mythic Quest Danny's Recommendations: 1) Jesus Son & 2) Grow a moustache & 3) King of Comedy & 4) Barton F...
030 - The Heat Deaths Meet The Boomer Death Squads, Crossover Extravaganza
November 29, 2020 18:00 - 2 hours - 115 MBWe convened, in clandestine fashion, with The BDS. The Boomer Death Squad (@BoomerDeathPod), of course. We had a grand ol' time orbiting around the conceit of assessing the Obama Years. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Oh, and: This confession...has meant...nothing. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) Love Liza & 2) Wild Turkey 101 JD's Recommendation: Mythic Quest Danny's Recommendations: 1) Jesus Son & 2) Grow a moustache & 3) King of Comedy & 4) Barton F...
029 - Education in the Time of SARS-CoV-2
November 27, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBWe try out our first Zoom call recording in preparation for our next episode with real live genuine guests. We discuss what it's like to teach during COVID times, how generally fucked things are, and bump up against the topic of leftist in-fighting as a teaser for a future episode. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: Four New Messages by Joshua Cohen JNM's review of the novel JD's Recommendation: Role Playing Games/Creating Stories with Friends Further Reading, Viewing, Listen...
000 - Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) - Supplemental Commentary Track
November 24, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 84 MBWe tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon, we failed to complete the task. P.S. Commentary tracks (made during this torturous endeavor) for the first four movies in the franchise will be released gradually over the next week or so. L...
000 - Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) - Supplemental Commentary Track
November 24, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours - 102 MBWe tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon, we failed to complete the task. P.S. Commentary tracks (made during this torturous endeavor) for the first four movies in the franchise will be released gradually over the next week or so. ...
000 - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) - Supplemental Commentary Track
November 24, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours - 99 MBWe tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon, we failed to complete the task. P.S. Commentary tracks (made during this torturous endeavor) for the first four movies in the franchise will be released gradually over the next week or so. ...
000 - Transformers (2007) - Supplemental Commentary Track
November 24, 2020 12:00 - 2 hours - 97.8 MBWe tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon, we failed to complete the task. P.S. Commentary tracks (made during this torturous endeavor) for the first four movies in the franchise will be released gradually over the next week or so. ...
028 - Michael Bay's Sick Sad World
November 24, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBWe tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon, we failed to complete the task. We still had a few things to say about the experience, about Michael Bay in general, and about the military-entertainment complex. P.S. Commentary tracks (mad...
027 - Yass Vaccine
November 20, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBVaccine or Vacc-unseen? Nancy Pelosi remains to be just the worst. Student debt relief is about as likely as ever seeing another COVID stimulus relief check, unfortunately. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) Ikuru & 2) Dogtooth JD's Recommendations: Kiss Me Deadly Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Growing support among workers for shutdown of nonessential production as US death toll tops 250,000 Pfizer ends vaccine trial with 95% success rate, paving way for a shot thi...
026 - The Kamala Harris Administration Appoints Joe Biden to Secretary of Gaffes
November 16, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBWe take a closer look at some of the probable Biden cabinet picks, inevitably address the COVID crisis a bit as it is omnipresent, and issue a few stray thoughts on the Trumpian coup. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: Room 237 Official Trailer | HD | IFC Films Full documentary (Vimeo) JD's Recommendations: 1) Tower of God & 2) The God of Highschool Locationless Locations Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpod JD Newland - @jdnewland Joshua Nomen-Mutatio - @Imbalancin...
025 - USA DOA: Initial Electoral Autopsy
November 09, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBWe hover over the barely twitching corpse of the United States of America and issue some thoughts about its last remaining, nauseated and disoriented neuronal pathways. We also find ourselves in a spirited discussion about the viability of The Squad et al., and whether the Democratic party can be transformed from within or needs to be challenged from without. Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Meet the contenders for Biden’s Cabinet Ding-dong, the jerk is gone. But read this before you s...
024 - The Anticlimactic Purge (Live Election Commentary)
November 04, 2020 19:00 - 2 hours - 87.4 MBCovering the US Presidential Election in real time from Seoul on our Wednesday morning until the afternoon. Locationless Locations Every show-related link is corralled and available here. Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpod JD Newland - @jdnewland Joshua Nomen-Mutatio - @ImbalancingAct Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected] Send us a Text Message. Support the Show.
023 - Give Us This Day Our Daily Clickbait
November 02, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThe US breaks more records. Holograms praise people. Discount full body contact leopard encounter. Diamonds made from the sky. Black Plague remembrance day. Expensive asteroid. Caspian Sea Monster. Misplaced nuclear bombs. Lisbon's destruction in 1755. Jason makes significant advances in Flat Earth Theory. Tigers and a bear predict the upcoming presidential election outcome via watermelons. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: The films of Neil Breen: In praise of Neil Breen, a...
022 - Levitate This Podcast!: The Trial of the Chicago 7
October 30, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBWe discuss Aaron SOARkin's latest directorial/screenwriting endeavor The Trial of the Chicago 7. Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Chicago 7 prosecutor: ‘They were going to try to destroy our trial. And they did a damn good job.’ The Real Abbie Hoffman by Nathan Robinson The worst song choice for the intro montage of the movie: 'We're Going to Chicago' DANIEL PEMBERTON | The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) Official Song / OST ‘Banality Punctured By Moments Of Sheer Horror:’ A Reporter ...
021 - SCOTUS/Pestilence
October 28, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBOne host tests negative for the novel coronavirus. We discuss the news of Amy Coney Barrett being sworn in for obviously nefarious reasons, the climate continues to catastrophize, and COVID continues to expose the worrisome machinations of capitalism and wreak physiological, psychological, and economic havoc more generally. We also discuss the differences between the South Korean healthcare model vs that of the disastrous US variety. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: Doctors Wi...
020 - Free Daniel Hale: Whistleblowing and the Despicable Espionage Act
October 22, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBWe talk about the woefully underreported story of Daniel Hale, who leaked The Drone Papers to the press, and was arrested under the Espionage Act in May 2019. We go on to discuss whistleblowers, dissent, the persecution of Eugene Debs, US drone programs, and more. CORRECTION: The most successful third party run in US history was the Progressive Party in 1912, not Eugene Debs' Socialist Party run during that same year. Stop the Prosecution of Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Tell Lawmakers ...
019 - Our Experimental Phase
October 18, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBWe get mildly zooted on the nootropic equivalent of adrenochrome and languidly drift and fiercely machete our way through a very small percentage of the internet. Extraterrestrial life. Vlad the Impaler. Nuclear football. Herd immunity is genocide. COVID Derangement Syndrome. Flights to nowhere. A chicken nugget launched into space. Beheadings. 500 lashings for blasphemy. Beer flood. Kinetoscope anniversary. Top Gun sequel. Woodrow Wilson and Trump join their own pandemics. Nancy Pelosi wil...
018 - Honey, I Broke the Sound Barrier's War on Drugs
October 14, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBWe experiment with a more freeform style of conversation and then attempt to do a segment we intended to do before Episode 001 where we rifle through births, deaths, events, and holidays that occurred on the day we're recording. We revisit the War on Drugs, Chuck Yeager, Teddy Roosevelt's thwarted assassination attempt, and the underlying connections between National Dessert Day, National Pet Obesity Day, and National Fossil Day, among other meandering mental associations. General Recommend...
017 - The Eternal Recurrence of the Roaring Twenties
October 08, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBQAnon is still too idiotic to live. Trump still has COVID and is in a perpetually manic state. Biden is still depressingly terrible in every way. David Brooks is still a bloviating, smug moron. The Roaring Twenties still should not be idealized. The future is still a sprawling landmine field of "unknown unknowns." General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Hades JNM's Recommendations: Swallow Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Read The most unhinged Trump conspiracy theory comes fr...
016 - The Bipartisanship of COVID-19
October 05, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours - 94 MBWe mark the horrific milestone of passing one million COVID deaths (roughly 25% in the US which has 4% of the population), briefly rehash the grotesquery of the Presidential Debate, contemplate the possibility of a Trump coup, face the fact that many other experts and politicians were just as deceitful about the reality of COVID as Trump was in the early days of the pandemic, and do a thorough read-through of a classic Current Affairs article by Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) about the "Curse of...
015 - Here are Your Choices, America, You Pathetic Shitheel (Presidential Debate Live Commentary)
October 01, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBHoped for something truly unhinged and hilarious and got more bleak mediocrity instead. Again. The funniest part is that we got up early in the morning to watch this shit. Joke's on us. Again. Locationless Locations Every show-related link is corralled and available here. Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpod JD Newland - @jdnewland Joshua Nomen-Mutatio - @ImbalancingAct Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuniversep...
000 - Game Change (2012) - Supplemental Commentary Track
September 28, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours - 85.5 MBWe talk over and about large chunks of the 2012 HBO Original Film Game Change. Josh uses his midwestern roots to replicate Sarah Palin's Fargo-esque accent. Jason refuses to pronounce her name correctly. We give sweeping takes on the last two decades in the realm of political theater and/or circuses. We agonized over which of the following political films to do a commentary track for: First round picks: Man of the Year (2006) An American Carol (2008) Recount (2008) Swing Vote (2008) W. (...
000 - Bonus Commentary - Game Change (2012)
September 28, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours - 85.5 MBWe talk over and about large chunks of the 2012 HBO Original Film Game Change. Josh uses his midwestern roots to replicate Sarah Palin's Fargo-esque accent. Jason refuses to pronounce her name correctly. We give sweeping takes on the last two decades in the realm of political theater and/or circuses. We agonized over which of the following political films to do a commentary track for: First round picks: Man of the Year (2006) An American Carol (2008) Recount (2008) Swing Vote (2008) W. (...
014 - The Unrelenting Horizonlessness of Clickbait Roulette
September 28, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBThings get pretty loose on today's edition of Clickbait Roulette. We also went on to record a movie commentary for Game Change immediately after this. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: How It's Made JD's Recommendation: A Visit From the Goon Squad Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Read Meet Mongolia's most eligible eagle hunter We're all medieval monks now 'Most clothes can be recycled' and 8 other myths 'Killer whales attacked my yacht for 45 minutes' Scientists win...
014 - The Unrelenting Horizonlessness of Clickbait Roulette
September 28, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBThings get pretty loose on today's edition of Clickbait Roulette. We also went on to record a movie commentary for Game Change immediately after this. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: How It's Made JD's Recommendation: A Visit From the Goon Squad Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Read Meet Mongolia's most eligible eagle hunter We're all medieval monks now 'Most clothes can be recycled' and 8 other myths 'Killer whales attacked my yacht for 45 minutes' Scientists win...
013 - WAR IS A RACKET!
September 23, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBWe glance into the fascinating and interlinked historical events of the Business Plot (to overthrow FDR's White House on behalf of a handful of wealthy industrialists), the Bonus Army's March upon Washington DC, and the figure of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler and his rallying cry against the profit motive as connected to warfare, in his book War is a Racket. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Internet Archive: Classic PC Games JNM's Recommendation: They Shall Not Grow ...
012 - Kill Yr Idols: Political Phantasmagoria Edition
September 22, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBIn this late night edition, we talk about wishful thinking, hero-worship, myth-making, cults of personality, et cetera, within in the political realm, be it through mind-numbingly inane fanfiction, terrible Hollywood screenwriters, or the delusional cries into the chasm of twitter and reddit and the like. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: The Boys (again, oops) & Psycho Mall Walker JNM's Recommendation: One Strange Rock Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Read No Politician ...
011 - Blood Red Skies & Broken Promises
September 17, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBOur mid week early morning episode centers around two of the latest articles from Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) in the ideologically-aligned warm embrace of Jacobin. The first regarding the absolute imperative need for a Green New Deal to even possibly combat the effects of climate change. The second deals with the perpetual disappointment of the Biden campaign, which not only will never be pushed leftward, but won't even deliver on its own lukewarm platform and promises. General Recommendati...
010 - Nikola Tesla's Big Mouth Billy Bass: (3)6 Chambers of Clickbait Roulette
September 13, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBRound three of the adrenaline-surging, highest of high stakes endeavor of Clickbait Roulette. It's a fun one. Or it isn't. You be the judge. Our fate is in your hands while our mouths are in your ears. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: In Fabric JD's Recommendation: Liveship Traders Trilogy Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Read 4 insane things just happened to Tesla FBI investigating report of 'guy in jetpack' World's slowest musical composition changes chord Talkin...