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This Week In Atrocity

50 States of Blue's "Spectacle of Trump" Editor Jeb Lund and a rotating cast of fellow journalists and assorted comic-writer/attorneys discuss recent political and sports events and the prism of really broken and sad internet culture; talk to some famous people; also, run a Patreon-exclusive Hallmark Christmas Movie review podcast. It's very, very successful. Everyone loves it. Patreon.com/ThisWeekInAtrocity/
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Oct 16, 2017

DAVID ROTH returns for: Donald Trump's trip to Home Depot ... Shondaland with #queen ... Beefy Boy Matt Albers ... Cubs-Nats Game 5's gorgeous meltdown ... The liberatory nature of mass borking ... Postseason jankiness ... All libido to the Astros ... Fun Yankees still aren't underdogs ... I AM DA PLAYOFFS ... Who's your team and do you know them? ... Joe Buck forcing "moments" ... Terence Malick presents Puig's Parrot ... The bat-flip melting pot ... Light all the mups ... Picks!

Oct 10, 2017

CHARLES STAR returns for: A brief PSA ... Trump: the ultimate test of Occam's Razor ... More hurricane aftermath ... Municipal disability ... Irma should've killed Limbaugh ... First class on FU Airways ... Pruitt's false flag ... 'I don't care about the mysteries of the cosmos, I came here to stare at gold' ... Mnuchin's grotesque face/life ... Precious billionaire entitlement ... Back to the Arpaio pardon ... Humiliating Jeff Sessions ... NFL Protests ... F*ck the troops ... Courts coddle cops ... More bad online lawyering ... Pray for cheeseburgers...

Sep 22, 2017

JESSE FARRAR returns to P. Piggly Hogswine's Super-Smog for: Listener letters ... Reversing the rules of analogy ... "My butt is already in the throes of death" ... When Tim Allen's TV dinner is unsettlingly good ... Meal rating! ... Fuck Berkshire Hathaway ... The greatest danger at the China Super Buffet ... How much to f*ck the macaroni? ... S02E02: "Simpson and Delilah" ... The history of Rogaine ads ... Hair happiness is only follicle-deep ... Studio Notes with JF ... JF Is For Family ... Episode rating! ... Credits...

Sep 14, 2017

JESSE FARRAR joins the show for TV dinners and S2E01 of The Simpsons ... Why are you a Simpsons fan—or not? ... What is The Whammy's motivation and gender? ... LET'S MEET THE MEALS ... Season One is off-limits ... A steak that eats like a mirror ... The TV dinner "foodness" spectrum ... Why buy Kobe's drink? ... "Bart Gets an F" ... Jesse's hatin' ass takes ... Die Hard ... Jeb's highlights ... What is a passing grade? ... Is Jeb smarter than a 4th grader? ... Episode rating! ... Frozen quail...

Aug 21, 2017

CHARLES STAR returns to meet Buff Davis and talk: Quoting Robert E. Lee ... Pricing Confederate statue demolition ... Former MAGA CHUDs cashing in on rejecting Nazism ... EXTRA: Jeff Sessions Does Job! ... How liberals weaponized "Alt Left" ... The Bannon Farewell Roast ... "Being There" with Seb Gorka's mind geode ... Judge Tandy 5000 hands over your #resistance IP address ... Seriously, screw Confederate statues ... The EPA: More coal for burning internal documents...

Aug 9, 2017

Mr. PAUL F. TOMPKINS gets political about: Exquisite moustaches ... The fandom/apology cycle ... When RTs are endorsements ... "These Things I Believe" ... MAGA hatred OKs teeing off ... White-poverty safari thinkpieces ... How we learn about politics ... Let the left swing for the fences ... Steal from work ... Screw the Q-Rating ... Epic eviscerations and comedy Daily Showification ... Digital doctor! ... Remember: We're talking to strangers ... Arguing with yourself online ... 

 

And here's a link to Paul's "I believe" Twitter thread: https://storify.com/nzacharczuk/paul-f-tompkins-is-my-hero

Jul 30, 2017

DAVID ROTH and CHARLES STAR welcome you to unemployment and The Horse Whisperer ... 2:50:00 ... Mount Potato ... Discourse of Whisperer ... Horse synopsis, montage, torture, research ... Landline ... Tina Brown's Horse corpse road trip! ... ScarJo Sullenness ... Weep Day ... Land's End ... Hallmark Hall of Fame ... No subtext, just text ... The actors got screwed ... The Hallmark EU ... Cucked in Montana ... Did he have to do it, Mikey?

Jul 18, 2017

DAVID ROTH returns for: People like a carving station ... White Alan! ... Hit the serotonin button for one (1) comedy unit ... Mike and the Mad Dog set the template for bickering assholes ... Nimby and the Blaze! ... Devour time for me ... Knights On White Sofas ... The Horse Whisperer ... Chris Christie hosting on WFAN ... What do YOU despair-eat? ... The hardest sports week to be angry ... When Beckett is Beckett ... Trump's Wilford Brimley-ass lawyer Ty Cobb ... Nick Paumgarten's Mike and the Mad Dog profile: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/30/the-boys-4

Jul 7, 2017

Operation Acoustic Toddler ... GLOW is great, the GLOW doc, 80s nostalgia ... Prestige drama discomfort ... Jeb's wrestling-fan nitpicking ... Trump's wrestling tweet ... Selling the Stunner ... Women's wrestling's slow progress ... GLOP heel turn ... Writing for Joe Scarborough's newspaper ... Joe, Mika and Trump: Happy ... Trump baffled by AHCA ... Joe, Mika and Trump: Blackmail and dead interns ... WTF, Patricia "Chalupa" Arquette?

Jun 29, 2017

Over 60 minutes of close inaction with CHARLES STAR on: Making A Murderer's Brendan Dassey's appeal ... How AEDPA keeps people like him in prison ... The Wisconsin gerrymandering case ... When a Supreme Court justice worries about legacy ... Deporting people for lies on forms ... Iron Stache is INVENTING campaign disclosures ... This is The Guy. THIS IS THE GUY. This is the guy? ... Clean beautiful crystal water nice beautiful clean water...

Jun 23, 2017

Robert Schober is back from China for: The Georgia 6th results from the Democrats' fifth moral victory! ... Build your own soccer mom! ... Making music videos for the Chinese Menudo ... The all-digital transaction economy ... You meet a stranger swinging a club ... WHO'S ON WORST: The 'Aladdin' screwjob, Otto Wambier, Antarctic rain, no AHCA on the front page, Trump doesn't want the job and Senate secrecy ... Errata, miscellany and Sheriff David Clarke's flair ...

Jun 6, 2017

David J. Roth (again) joins us for: The dispiriting inevitability of the Warriors ... LeBron, age and empathy ... Does a Warriors playoff sweep kill all but the bitterest memes? ... Clay Travis is the Vinnie Johnson of racism and other adventures in trutherism ... ESPN's internal numbers on political bias ... "Roundball Rock" and JOHN TESH IS A PRINCE ... Media lust for terrorism panic ... When other people take ownership of your tragedy ... SPECIAL GUEST: BARRON TRUMP.

May 30, 2017

Attorney, comic and writer Charles Star joins for: Law expertise from one graf ... Russia fanfic as Russian lit. ... Putin/Trump is Ali/Frazier ... All The President's Men by Dr. Steve Brule ... The FISA Court does NOT do that ... The Cooper v. Harris ruling ... Who is Trump's Fredo? ... The North Carolina Voter ID law ... Why the Roberts Court threw out VRA pre-clearance ... The Moothie and the future of Trump handshakes ... Linda McMahon cannot take a Stunner

May 18, 2017

Dazza J. Roth joins Jezza for: Infantile internet nicknames ... The DailyKos Scumbag and 'Democrats Are Bae' Twitter ... The horror of predicting Trump ... Your favorite Russia armchair sleuths ... #Resisting while doing nothing ... How does James Comey ball? ... Short ballers got more reason (to root for them) ... Celts/Cavs & Spurs/Dubs ... How do you police injury? ... The Warriors are The Juiceroo.

May 4, 2017

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'

Apr 20, 2017

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...

Apr 15, 2017

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...

Apr 7, 2017

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...

Mar 31, 2017

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? ... 

Mar 30, 2017

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.

 

Mar 25, 2017

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.

Mar 9, 2017

Making Music Videos for Mastodon ... Orphaned by Trump ... Cambridge Analytica and Selling Political Nerve Tonic ... Sex Stuff ... Monster trucks... The boys have creative differences...

Mar 6, 2017

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...

Mar 5, 2017

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...

Feb 20, 2017

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.

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