Guest host Jessie Opoien of Wisconsin's CapTimes joins for: Talk therapy glossolalia ... Jeb Gorka's dried-dick bull session ... The DNC has no litmus test for anything ... Big Marv Zuckerberg strokes cows and sucks brats ... Terrorizing women online! ... Clinton and Feingold in Wisconsin ... Sheriff Fervid Clarke ... Life within the Scott Walker machine ... Future divisions of the Midwest ... 'Milk Is Milk'
PREMIUM BEEF ... The Chicken McNugget Hour of Power ... The tastiest Long John Silver's fryer effluent ... Overwhelmed by NBA and NHL postseason options ... Playoff triage... The nicest guy in sportswriting (it's Jon Bois) ... The ever-upward evolution of the NBA ... Hero Ball and Phrenology ... Meal Drift, late-night stew, casual wok sexism ... Never go Full Derelict ... Bill O'Reilly and all the ways we failed ... Dr. Noonian Soong and the positronic dryer ... Weird Al'ing anything you own or do...
BREAKING NEWS from the HOLOCAUST CENTER ... Chocolate cake with the plummy Money Honey ... The only Scorcese movie John Ritter is in ... Cucked by a warlock over General Foods International Coffees ... The perfect opportunism of the Syria strike ... THE MORRISSEY-JADEN SMITH AXIS ... That fucking Pepsi ad and documenting the lower reaches of corporate-think equality...
For April Fool's Day it's our Pizzagate episode! ... The most savage April Fool's podcast derailment ... School mark ... Alex Jones and the archetypal cocksucker ... How do you not mainstream a conspiracy theory? ... I Was Born In A Kompromat ... New York Times/New Yorker profilee Mike Cernovich's bewitching ejaculate ... Actual Pizzagate! ... Walnuts! ... Pedohobo Runes and Symbols ... The accidental official artist of a pizza conspiracy ... Trump and Pizza and Russia ... The mind will always find a pattern...
The world’s greatest unapplied Bikram Yoga burn ... A screaming toilet poltergeist ... Johnny Rotten: Vacuous Punk Fascist Past as Prologue ... The 5 most insane theories of a British climate-change denialist ... User Questions! [Segment Title TDB] ... Stately Wayne Tracker ... What will the Trump Presidential Library look like? ...
David J. Roth joins us again for: Grocery stores and erotic Alan Alda ... Testicle brassieres ... Clothes dryer privilege ... Scott Adams' isolated cat-shit chamber ... The humiliation of Sean Spicer at home ... March Madness ... The Charles Barkley knucklehead cult ... Petty rooting interests ... The champions game of no-names...
Don't forget to check out Dave's "One Blurred Shining Moment" at Vice Sports.
Twitter's Canadian Girlfriend Karen Geier gets the rare double introduction ... Reliving the Rob Ford experience in the age of Trump ... Piss Tape callback ... The immersive emotional blackmail of Disney World ... The Extraordinarily Monochromatic Stratified World of Tomorrow ... How Alex Jones is going to die ...
NOTES: Audio woes claimed huge parts of the interview, including audience Q&A and our read-off. We'll add the former on the Patreon, however garbled it might be. On the latter: Thank you to Ted Leo for our theme music, "Can't Go Back" and our incidental music this episode. Thanks to Oliver Leach for our art.
Making Music Videos for Mastodon ... Orphaned by Trump ... Cambridge Analytica and Selling Political Nerve Tonic ... Sex Stuff ... Monster trucks... The boys have creative differences...
Intro Gulp ... Talking to an artist who's hustled on the internet forever ... Places where you can buy recycled pornography ... "Too Drunk To Fuck at the Centers for Disease Control" ... You are your search results ... Content creator: Public Libraries ... Your Tumblr friends are ghosts ... Making the nicest case for Patreon...
At the Melbourne airplane hanger with the Trump die hards ... The legacy of George Soros ... The Perfidious Sneak-Thief Jesse Farrar's Ignominious Farewell ... A loud and masculine rundown ... Wherefore art thou, Russia? ... Learning to hate end-of-episode announcements...
TED LEO joins us after a brief news rundown. He's been touring America for over 25 years, playing punk and hardcore everywhere from the streets, to pubs with enough room in the corner, to 10,000 seat venues. You may know him from Chisel or Ted Leo and the Pharmacists or his project with Aimee Mann, The Both. He's also one of music's most outspoken political voices, this podcast's first and best friend, and he joined us to talk about music and protest under the age of Trump.
NOTE: Our intro of Ted got eaten in the editing process, and Jeb's trip to the Trump rally and Robert's latest video left too little time to strip out the edit and start again.
Sportswriter David J. Roth joins Jeb to talk about the Super Bowl and the spiritual exhaustion of watching the Patriots ... The haunting Cheatriots Theme ... Jesse Farrar and the burden of the flawless podcast ... The NFL is slowly devouring itself...
Letters to the robot from "Small Wonder" ... Fear of news ... Super Bowl Illuminati ... Gaga game theory and the NFL ... Interview with Ryan Staake, director of Young Thug's "Wyclef Jean" video and why music videos are dead (again).
Trumpler: The First Ten Days ... Half-empty streets at the Inauguration ... Jubilation and the first steps at the Women's March ... Is Jesse Farrar employed? ... The Trump 2020 campaign's apocalyptic voicemails ... Interview with literal rocket scientist Mark Paul Hughes about that other, bigger, more foreboding changing climate...
THANKS: to @SuzanEraslan's Google doc for helping us compile this week's rundown.
NOTE: Jeb lost his voice thanks to a fever and had to turn his mic way up, apologies for periodic distortion.
In a week already full of election foreboding, the eternal spirit of Alex Jones gallops to Washington for the inauguration. Jeb, Robert and political writer and dedicated Alex Jonesologist Dan O'Sullivan each share their lifelong soul-bonds with the dangerously "10% correct" xenophobic opportunist. Meanwhile, everything is still terrible.
Jeb and Robert read some bad news and explain why you're stuck here too. Donald Trump peed on some things...or did he? Employed or Unemployed? And filmmaker Matt Ornstein joins the podcast to talk about his new documentary Accidental Courtesy.