Before addressing the news of the day, Will & Kath catch up with Felix on their re-watch of beloved series BANSHEE, which segues nicely into discussion of the baffling firebombing of the Pennsylvania governor's mansion. We then move on to the increasingly horrific and blatantly illegal renditions of American residents int...
2025-04-15 05:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Quick heads-up: we’ve made a small update to how our podcast episodes are delivered on Patreon. If you’re already using a private RSS link to listen in your preferred app, it shou...
2025-04-11 20:25:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Will, Matt & Felix look at the yo-yo will-he-or-won’t-he tariffs, Doug Burzum’s imperious cookie mandates, tech willing the flesh to die to birth the new AI, anti-Semitic Ms. Rachel, and the Navy is Out of Bombs, with some other stories of the day. Plus, a new Matt Poem.
2025-04-11 05:59:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back Movie Heads! Movie Mindset returns on April 23rd for another 10 episodes of Will & Hesse guiding you on a cosmic journey, uncovering the secrets of the celluloid across space and time. As usual, we've included a viewing guide below. Most of these are available through one official service or another, and we'...
2025-04-08 21:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Semafor reporter Dave Weigel returns to the show to look at the political angles to Trump’s tariff regime and the global economic shocks. We discuss the various attempts to backfill justifications, responses from GOP and Democrats, and how this is all somehow about wokeness and masculinity or something. We also discuss last...
2025-04-08 06:05:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend of the show Robert Franco for another entry in our conservative literature reviews, this time looking at Patrick Bet-David’s young adult novel “The Academy”. Imagine, if you will, a kind of persian Harry Potter where the most pissed-off teenager in Glendale gets recruited to travel to Dallas-Wakanda to be trained...
2025-04-04 16:31:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix sits down with writer & journalist Peter Korotaev for a wide ranging conversation on the state of the Russo-Ukranian War in the wake of the Trump administration’s spat with Zelensky & attempts at a peace deal, and loads of context on the politics of Ukraine, Russia, various oligarchs, the Atlantic Council, and...
2025-04-03 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Tim “T-Bone” Faust makes a long overdue return to the program to brief us on the series of guerilla town halls on Medicaid he’s been doing in Wisconsin. But first, we start with a brief roundup on one of the most important health issues facing the nation today: Soda, and the role it plays in keeping Americans healthy. T...
2025-04-01 05:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Chris here. I’m excited to announce that we are going to be working on a new book! This one is going to be a compilation of essays based on Matt Christman’s CushVlogs. We’re currently in the process of putting together a sample chapter and pitching the project to various agents and publishers, but ...
2025-03-28 05:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté of the Bad Hasbara podcast join us to catch up on the week’s news, starting with the flawless groupchat opsec displayed by senior white house officials as they plan their various war crimes. We then turn our attention to the continued renditions and deportations of legal foreign residents in this ...
2025-03-28 05:47:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Delaware state rep Madinah Wilson-Anton returns to the show to brief us on Elon Musk’s attempts to rewrite the state laws of Delaware to help him secure a $50 billion+ compensation package. We discuss the “race to the bottom” in state business laws, and the new wave of assaults on basic legal legitimacy in pursuit of co...
2025-03-25 05:32:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Grant Miner, a student organizer and president of Student Workers of Columbia UAW 2710, who was recently expelled from Columbia for activist activities on campus. We discuss pro-Palestine student activism on campus, federal crackdown on the school & Columbia’s craven response, Mahmoud Khalil, a...
2025-03-21 06:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post
D.J. Byrnes of Ohio’s independent news outlet The Rooster returns to the show. We look at constituent outrage at elected officials, D.J.’s sojourn to DC, Cleveland’s $2.5 Billion stadium debacle, and D.J. relates an incredible story of bamboozling Vivek Ramaswamy.
Then, Eephus director Carson Lund...
2025-03-18 05:11:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Séamus joins us to look at the ongoing situation around the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, and the various political and media reactions and justifications. We also discuss the outburst of sectarian violence in Syria in the context of the new regime. Finally, the Donald Trump does what he does best and make American metaphors rea...
2025-03-14 05:58:13 +0000 UTC View Post
We start the show discussing the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil in a glaring escalation of attacks on American civil liberties in behalf of Israel & its supporters. We’re then joined by journalist and co-host of the Odd Lots podcast Joe Weisenthal to take a shockingly timely (for us) look at markets, tariffs, cr...
2025-03-11 05:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We review the new Netflix political thriller Zero Day: an insane blender of every recent cable news paranoia - Havana syndrome, sundowning Presidents, Russia-gate, online extremism, J6, cyber warfare, executive overreach, “fake” news, “enhanced interrogation,” Epstein suicide, and scheming tech oligarchs all ...
2025-03-07 07:17:44 +0000 UTC View Post
QAA’s Julian Feeld joins us today to give us his report from last week’s CPAC convention. We look at the usual carnival of cruelty on display at the Gaylord Convention Center, with an added layer of vindictiveness in the second Trump era. We also discuss at how QAnon has been fully metabolized into political discourse, an...
2025-03-04 07:25:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse are back to look at the Oscars’ Best Pictures of 2024. They give their takes on the high- and low-lights, offer their predictions of who will take home Oscar gold, and give a special preview of what’s coming up in Movie Mindset Season 3.
For more Oscars fun: Come see Will & Hesse host an Oscars ...
2025-02-28 18:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Eyup Lovely & Jacob ‘Venom’ Snake from the new Scroungers Pod Cast join us to go over the “special relationship” news of the day. First the Trump admin releases a less-than-nothing dossier of Epstein info to a gaggle of freaks at the White House, upsetting everyone. Then, Keir Starmer’s in the U.S. so we look at...
2025-02-28 06:35:50 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Mark Ames & John Dolan of Radio War Nerd to discuss what may be the wind-down of the war in Ukraine. We look at the political ramifications both domestically and internationally, how the west & Russia have fared militarily, and the lives of the Ukrainians affected by the conflict. Plus, would you bel...
2025-02-25 05:30:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Will and Felix briefly touch on Trump’s new Ft. Knox gold obsession, Hakeem Jeffries’ “captain chaos,” and look at an Ezra Klein interview with an up and coming dem with some “interesting ideas.” Then, we’re joined by Marlon Ettinger & Olly Haynes of the French Legislative Assembly Podcast (Flep24(/7)) to lo...
2025-02-21 07:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake and Thomas return to look at the latest news of Elon’s bizarrely begotten offspring. Plus the jewish guy who shot two Israeli guys because he thought they were Palestinians, Millei’s rug pull, and Bari Weiss’ Free Press asks what exactly makes an American hero (and why does it take place in dive bar bathrooms).
... 2025-02-18 07:51:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Planes keep falling out of the sky, Schlapp keeps schlappin’. We look at the brewing civil war between the Democratic party and its own voters as the party struggles for purpose, goals, or reason for existing in the 2nd Trump era. Then, we contrast the secret medical center on capitol hill dedicated to servicing our aging r...
2025-02-14 07:17:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Kath joins us for our annual review of the Big Game spectacle. We give our appraisal of what this year’s ad slate says about the state of American culture, plus reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show, and how conservatives continue to be oppressed by the TV. Then the Washington Post’s Jeff Stein joins us to discuss...
2025-02-11 06:51:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Felix discuss the ongoing spectacle of the Trump administration’s frantic march towards doing what we did to Iraq in the 2000’s or Russia in 90’s to ourselves, plus Democratic responses to defunding USAID, and the new round of gleeful scolding of their recalcitrant base. Then, we’re joined by author Will Ta...
2025-02-07 08:03:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Will sits down with Zohran Mamdani, New York State Representative and candidate for New York City Mayor. After bonding over being just two boys from New York, their grade school rivalry, and touching on Zohran’s family & background, Will & Zohran discuss his plans to improve housing, transit, policing and homelessne...
2025-02-06 22:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Beautiful Brace Belden joins us to look at Trump’s tariff’s, possible annexation of Canada, halt on federal funding, and other breaking admin news. We also discuss New York Mag’s party report from the NYC MAGA scene, and Brace briefs us on what we should know about the murderous “Zizian” rationalists, and how they f...
2025-02-04 06:14:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We continue reviewing the stream of chaos coming from the White House - federal spending freeze/unfreeze, deportation of protestors, responses to the “DEI” aviation disaster - and try to discern if this now-familiar Trump pattern of overreach & retreat will be any different this time around. Then we look at two new fi...
2025-01-31 06:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Alex is back on the pod to review the first full week of 2rump news, but first, we wish friend of the show Catturd a speedy recovery from his impacted bowel. Then, we look at Trumps barrage of executive orders, cabinet staffing, and denial of security clearances to a number of former NatSec ghouls. We also discuss the Democra...
2025-01-28 07:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Better Offline podcast’s Ed Zitron to look at tech at the dawn of Trump 2. From Elon Musk’s “awkward gesture,” to Trump going all in on the increasingly vaporous projects of generative AI, and the slopification & inability to produce useful projects across all of the tech industry. Plus, Musk’s...
2025-01-24 02:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
