Hog Planet
113 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe outbreak of Hog culture beginning in 1776 in the United States has spread worldwide, threatening humanity’s very existence. The self-satiated and self-aggrandizing consumption endemic to American culture, writ large upon the planet, is about to reach critical overload. As it collapses, whatever comes next will be documented, catalogued and broadcasted by our team of diligent Hog Planeteers.
Hosted and Produced by Dan Spaventa (@spaventacular) and Sam Louis (@Wagstank)
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Episodes
Episode 13- #NeverOprah (featuring Rachey)
January 15, 2018 13:26 - 1 hour - 122 MBYes friends we have entered the elite ranks of the iTunes Store! Also jobless racist Joe Arpaio, having narrowly escaped criminal charges in a deus ex Trump, is now running for Arizona senate to replace retiring senator Jeff Flake. We will fill you in on his prior exploits as the totalitarian sheriff of Maricopa county, and we discuss the merits of faking one’s own assassination. But as one racist ascends, so another has fallen: Steve Bannon is out at Breitbart, and we couldn’t be happier.. S...
Episode 12- The Fire And The Furious: Tokyo Drift
January 10, 2018 05:26 - 1 hour - 81.2 MBThere’s hot gossip flying off the shelves this week!! We’re talking, of course, about Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s account of the Trump White House’s chaotic interior. We’ll read and react to some of the weirdest, cattiest, and downright craziest things in the book, including mind-bending quotations from Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, and all those with the name Trump. We’ll also talk about who Michael Wolff is, whether we can trust him, or whether that even matters! Meanwhile, ex-president a...
Episode 11- Auld Lame Syne
January 02, 2018 01:31 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBWe will start with some weird stories from the last week of 2017. We’ll give you the lowdown on Melania’s brave battle against Andrew Jackson’s magnolia tree, the greater of two evil PAULs running for senator in Wisconsin, and another classic Cernovich self-own, this time on Reddit!. In the pop culture corner, we’re finally done with Star Wars, so we are ready to move on to its polar opposite. We’re talking about Bright, Netflix’s brand-new inexplicable Will Smith buddy cop movie. Its $90 mi...
Episode 10- Cork Barrel Legislation
December 24, 2017 18:26 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBDonald Trump Jr. ruined all of our appetites by posting a picture of himself with an eerie melted candle named Ted Cruz and a distorted Obama cookie. His failson counterpart Wyatt Koch also took to Instagram to discuss what it means to be bold, and to inflict his tacky clothing line on all of us. Sorry folks, but we’re talking politics today. Doug Jones and Ralph Northam revealed themselves to be sniveling swine, selling out their voter bases seemingly overnight. We’ll talk about the failur...
Episode 9- Moore Wars: The Last Jew Attorney
December 18, 2017 00:11 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBSeasons greetings, and welcome back to the Plunge. We are celebrating Chanukah in style, and we’ve got a menorah-full of monstrosities from this week to discuss. We all shed tears with Keaton, the bullied child from Knoxville, TN, until we realized that his mom and dad are pretty racist. Show favorite Sebastian Gorka has been tweeting for the culture, and that might be why the FCC and its chairman, Harlem Shake appropriator Ajit Pai, voted to end net neutrality rules. Alabama voted to scorn ...
Episode 8- All The President's Chins: The Feast of the Seven Filet-O-Fishes
December 11, 2017 03:54 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB3:18 Trump the TV Critic 6:54 Alec Baldwin Needs You To Text 13:52 Bill Clinton's Terrible Op Ed 18:49 Trump Slurred Speech/Presidents' Health 31:16 Gov't Shutdown 35:30 Political Cartoons 41:58 White House Hanukkah 47:20 Pop Culture Corner: Worst Xmas Movies 1:08:40 Medieval Times Story Time We’ll kick off the show with an urgent plea: Alec Baldwin needs YOU to save America by texting. He’s released a video with lots of unusual head movements and dramatic theme music to defend special couns...
Episode 7- How The Flynn-ch Stole Christmas
December 04, 2017 01:45 - 1 hour - 66.9 MB2:45 Michael Flynn 11:46 White House Vermin Infestation 15:05 Trump's TV Contest/Islamaphobic Retweets 25:02 Melania's Goth Xmas at White House 29:06 No One Attended White House Xmas Tree Lighting 31:02 GOP Tax Bill 37:29 War on Christmas 48:18 Michael Moore vs Weinstein Brothers 55:43 Farewell Keith Olbermann 1:00:44 StoryTime Xmas Tales Welcome back to THE PLUNGE. Michael Flynn is squealing like a pig as part of his plea deal to get people to forget about when the Turkish state paid him a...
Episode 6- LaVar Ball's No-Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 27, 2017 03:18 - 52 minutesWelcome back, dear listeners, to the Plunge, the weekly podcast where we identify the clogs in politics and pop culture. Hopefully you’ve had a good Thanksgiving, you’re slowly coming out of your tryptophan trance, and you’re ready for our re-cap of another wack week. In this episode, we’ll tell you all about the newest hero of the ongoing sports culture wars: we’re talking, of course, about LaVar Ball, the only entrepreneur and basketball dad brave enough to refuse to thank Donald Trump. N...
Episode 5- Trump Dynasty- The New Habsburgs And An American Tragedy
November 20, 2017 02:26 - 1 hour - 155 MBOn a special episode, we go after the inbred freakshow family controlling our country. It’s the Trump episode, folks. We’ll take ‘em on one at time, exposing Ivanka’s lemonade extortion schemes, the implosion of Jared Kushner’s family, and Melania’s heroic engagements in adultery. We’ll shock you with descriptions of Eric Trump’s face, titillate you with Donald Trump Jr.’s sexual preferences, and disturb you with tales of Fred Trump’s klan days. Then we’ll move on to a loving tribute to ol’ r...
Episode 4- Hollywood Was A Mistake
November 13, 2017 00:26 - 1 hour - 106 MBDan and Sam are back again to wallow in this week’s mire and muck. In this episode, we’re going to mansplain toxic masculinity. We’ll take apart white boy icon Louis CK’s “apologies” for inflicting the image of his middle-aged manhood on at least 5 women since 2002, and we’ll connect it to his greater comedic efforts to inflict the image of his manhood on all of us. Next, we’ll check in with Senate hopeful Roy Moore and the biblical implications of his unrepentant pederasty. After that, we’...
Episode 3- Pizzagate 2.0- Papa John's Race War
November 06, 2017 02:09 - 1 hour - 144 MBHey all you plungeheads, On this week’s edition of terrible takes, we’ll give you the lowdown on a sectarian conflict brewing within our very nation. We’re talking about the clash between Papa John Schnatter and the scourge of his bottom line, the NFL protesters. You’ll find out which side Pizza Hut is on, and we’ll learn a little about the shady causes Little Caesars’ founder’s money goes to. You’ll hear about why everyone’s so mad at the NFL, and we’ll close out the segment with a musical n...
Episode 2- The DNC Is Full Of Ghouls & Goblins
October 30, 2017 02:13 - 1 hour - 133 MBOn this week's The Plunge, Dan Spaventa (@spaventacular) and Sam Wagstaff (@wagstank) present a very frightening episode in honor of Halloween. We plunge the hellish 2017 political and cultural toilet and identify the clogs. Today we discuss: 1) Russia Hysteria 2) The Democratic National Committee Is A Mess and Tom Perez Call For Unity Is An Embarassment 3) Pop Culture Corner: John Carpenter's They Live (1998) 4) Story Time: Dan (Jew) Wore Jesus Costume To School in High School- Was He Perse...
Episode 1- Steve Bannon Is Not Sauron
October 22, 2017 23:40 - 1 hour - 115 MBEpisode 1 of The Plunge podcast hosted by Dan Spaventa (@spaventacular) and Sam Wagstaff (@wagstank). We plunge the ghastly 2017 political and cultural toilet and identify the clogs. Today we discuss: 1) Rehabilitating Ex Presidents 2) Steve Bannon's Mediocrity 3) Pop Culture Corner: David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) 4) Story Time: Sam Worked As A Temp At The National Rifle Association citations: Ex Presidents Attend Hurricane Benefit: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/22/55932...