NOTE: big time doomer episode here. If you want to skip the doom (which we recommend) then pause it at 21:30, fast forward to 1:11:26, then press play and resume.
We cover the fake Mamdani c...
2025-07-07 20:32:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we start off with a deeper dive into the Douthat-Thiel interview about AI and the Antichrist. Then we talk about all the latest news: the Big Beautiful Bill, more reactions to Zohran, Tru...
2025-06-30 20:20:50 +0000 UTC View Post
For the first hour we discuss Trump's strike on Iran over the weekend, and all the subsequent fallout, discourse, etc. Then we switch over to an article in the New York Times about a Women's Leader...
2025-06-23 21:20:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Covering an absolutely insane weekend in late American history: war between Israel and Iran, Trump's military parade, the No Kings rallies, a political assassination in Minnesota, and more tales fr...
2025-06-16 20:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we start off with a brief recap of the Trump/Musk feud, then pivot to an assassination attempt in Columbia, as well as the deportations and protests in L.A. over the weekend. We end on an...
2025-06-09 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we start off with a discussion about the issue of cloning, then move to a few news items regarding Elon Musk and DOGE, before finally pivoting to an update on our long running interest in...
2025-06-02 19:37:41 +0000 UTC View Post
When did the magic die?
2025-05-25 21:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we start off with a story about the Afrikaners who the Trump administration recently imported for racist reasons; move to the news about Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis; then round up some r...
2025-05-19 20:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's premium episode we discuss the recent John Fetterman profile in New York Magazine, the newly announced Trump tariffs on the movie industry, and how ChatGPT is making some people go l...
2025-05-05 20:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we start off a little slow discussing various news items in tech world, Trump world, space travel, the economy, and the Biden administration's posture towards Israel, before pivoting to a...
2025-04-28 19:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our old pal Kate Wagner joins us for a wide reaching discussion about the Pope, the modern conservative movement's relationship to Catholicism, whether or not the bourgeoisie might be giving up on ...
2025-04-22 02:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post
We begin this week's episode with a review Alex Garland's new war propaganda film, "Warfare," before pivoting to talking about tariffs, David Brooks, left wing populism, and godless AI
2025-04-14 18:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Covering Liberation Day 2025
2025-04-07 19:18:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we talk about a new show on Amazon Prime that launders both Christian AND Israeli Zionist propaganda, before pivoting to a discussion about Peter Thiel's attempts to build a techno-libert...
2025-03-31 19:22:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we start off talking about the vanishing white male author, and use that as a jumping off point to discuss a number of issues pertinent to our era, before finishing with an article about ...
2025-03-24 18:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post
There are three things that boil white peoples' brains. Tune in to find out.
2025-03-17 20:51:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we open with an article about de-extinction tech, discuss the shameful kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil, and finally end with an article about Democratic politicians getting into sports broad...
2025-03-10 21:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we take an extended look at the current state of the economy, then pivot to the now-infamous White House meeting with Volodymyr Zelenksy, and finally close out on an article about Elon Mu...
2025-03-03 20:51:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we take a look at a developing ideology in Silicon Valley known as "Effective Accelerationism," as well a tech conference hosted by Peter Thiel in November 2024 known as "Hereticon." We a...
2025-02-24 22:31:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Catching up on all the latest news of this week: Trump and the gang go to Europe, the Dems (still) struggle to find their footing, AIPAC comes for Jon Ossoff, and Kentucky gets hit with a new flood...
2025-02-17 22:45:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we're doing a short recap of the Super Bowl as well as other things happening in pop culture at the moment, before pivoting to our first Ethicist of the 2nd Trump era
2025-02-10 21:31:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Covering this weekend's news (Musk + tariffs), plus an interview with Amy Klobuchar in the New York Times that reveals primo Vichy Democrat Mindset
2025-02-03 19:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Our buddy Alex Press stopped by the podcast to talk about a number of things: nominative determinism, Trump 2.0. and Mac Miller
2025-01-28 02:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Covering the Inauguration and everything that's happened so far since
2025-01-21 22:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post
*AUDIO FIXED AND UPDATED* Tarence is out sick. Tom and Bryan do their semi-annual survey of culture as Tom comes in from therapy and before Bryan leaves for it.
2025-01-14 04:45:59 +0000 UTC View Post
On this anniversary of Jan 6 we're joined by returning guest Alexander Aviña to discuss the legacy of Anthony Blinken's tenure at Secretary of State, before turning to David Frum's latest article ...
2025-01-06 20:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Last episode of the year details the famous Hobbs Street Brawl of '07, another Atlantic article about why the Dems lost the election, Tom's take on Nosferatu, and Bob's new MKUltra activation messa...
2024-12-30 22:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we're covering Santa, octogenarians in Congress, another Democratic Party post-mortem about the election, and finally a Politico piece on how the future is Saudi Arabia
Article in T...
2024-12-23 19:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
You guys asked for a tab roulette episode, so you're sort of going to get one. Happy Holidays
2024-12-16 00:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post