The Conundrum Cluster Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Happy New Years to you and your family! Related episodes: Ep67: [28 Years Later review] URGENT🚨WW3 Emergency Geopolitics Episode🚨 Analyzing Mid-East Strategic Rocket Forces 🚀🚀🚀 and Trump’s Betrayal🔪 (Paid) Ep35: The differences between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 are a little too relevant to today’s problem...

Making this free in light of the large protests in Minneapolis. Stay safe everyone there! Send strength to our friends in law enforcement! Thoughts on The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor by Paul Dickson, Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy, and the modern crisis on infinite groupchats. If you’re reading this and you a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Happy New Years to you and your family! Related episodes: Ep12: I watched a bunch of the new DailyWire+ original movies last week... ( Paid) Ep72: I forgot to cancel my HBO free trial subscription and ended up watching anti-white vampire action epic Sinners (2025) as a cynical cash grab (Paid) Most recent pod...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Merry Christmas to you and your family! Holiday episodes: Ep13: If you don’t force your family to watch this movie for Christmas, they will despise you ( Paid) Ep14: Emergency surprise free Christmas review of the Prometheus Engineer chronicles (2012) ( Free) Ep48: I am humbly requesting that you watch Andrei...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (2007), Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010), and the stylish crime thriller genre. Related episode: Ep50: I have very bad news about Joker 2 (Paid) Other good game episodes: Ep69: Zen police ultraviolence simulator Ready or Not (2023) is the only game for our time (Paid) Ep61: C...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor by Paul Dickson, Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy, and the modern crisis on infinite groupchats. Related episode: Ep34: [Forging the Thunderbolt book review] I found the single m...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on World War 2 movies and games. Stanley Kubrick unproduced screenplay “The German Lieutenant” Real Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RealRTCW) overhaul mod Steam page Related episodes: Ep69: Zen police ultraviolence simulator Ready or Not (2023) is the only game for our time (Paid) Ep34: [Forging the Th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on F1 the Movie (2025), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Boomerism as an ideology, and post-Woke cinema. Related episode: Ep47: Everyone who didn’t enjoy Top Gun: Maverick should be beaten to death with hammers (Paid) Most recent podcast episodes: Ep72: I forgot to cancel my HBO free trial subscription and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Sinners (2025), historical atrocities, Reconstruction, post-Trump victory culture, and the nightmarish alternate timeline we might have faced. Most recent podcast episodes: Ep71: New movie in theaters Weapons (2025) is an inspired horror-comedy-mystery that's really about... uh... umm... (Paid) Ep...

Making this available to everyone in light of the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk. Please watch this great speech from Erika Kirk, his beloved wife. The next podcast episode on Sinners (2025) is complete but has been delayed until tomorrow. Most recent podcast episodes: Ep71: New movie in theaters Weapons (2025) is an inspired horror-comedy-mystery that's really about... uh... umm... (Paid) E...

Treasured friends, The podcast has really taken off lately: Lots of new paid subscribers who are responding really well to the most recent episodes covering the movie Weapons (2025) , the videogame Ready or Not (2023) , and True Detective Season 2 (2014) . Everyone is talking about it. If you haven’t listened, you should feel left out and irrelevant because you are. I haven’t looked at the statist...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Weapons (2025) and what’s next for American culture. Related episodes: Ep58: Horror snoozefest Nosferatu (2024) is basically Hamilton for redpilled people (Paid) Ep36: Why exactly has Fallout: New Vegas stuck around for so long? (Paid) Remember to read my most recent article reviewing Trump’s firs...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on True Detective Season 2, Tibetan Buddhism, and the grim boring apocalypse of pre-Trump America. Remember to read my most recent article reviewing Trump’s first 6 months. Most recent episodes: Ep69: Zen police ultraviolence simulator Ready or Not (2023) is the only game for our time (Paid) Ep68: "D...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on the tactical shooter Ready or Not (2023), law enforcement, American decline, and civilizational revival. The custom map I mention in the episode was called “Shattered Nerve,” a reimagining of the “Highway Sniper” map from SWAT 3. Unfortunately, the map’s creator has taken its ModDB page down for s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough, the Weather Underground, and the state of radical movements today. Most recent episodes: Ep67: URGENT🚨WW3 Emergency Geopolitics Episode🚨 Analyzing Mid-East Strategic Rocket Fo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on 28 Days Later (2002), 28 Weeks Later (2007), 28 Years Later (2025), the zombie genre, coming-of-age stories, The Accountant 2 (2025), and the Boomer race. Most recent episodes: Ep66: Mission Impossible has fallen (Paid) Ep65: The definitive introduction to LOST: Season 1, objectively the best tele...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025), the art of the blockbuster, and our impending AI apocalypse. Most recent episodes: Ep65: The definitive introduction to LOST: Season 1, objectively the best television ever produced (Paid) Ep64: Warfare (2025) is a shockingly perfect new movie that y...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on LOST (2004-2010) and the triumph of television. Most recent episodes: Ep58: Horror snoozefest Nosferatu (2024) is basically Hamilton for redpilled people (Paid) Ep59: This new Academy Award-winning romantic comedy about a prostitute is what rightwing pseudo-intellectuals pretended Nosferatu (2024)...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Warfare (2025), The Outpost (2019), Lone Survivor (2013), and war movies in general. Episode on The Outpost (2025): Ep16: Someone finally made a good Afghanistan War movie and nobody noticed (Paid) Episode on Alex Garland’s dogshit previous film Ep31: Alex Garland's Civil War (2024) is a shocking...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Minecraft (2025), World War I, The Naked Gun (1988), and CHiPs! (1977). Most recent episodes: Ep58: Horror snoozefest Nosferatu (2024) is basically Hamilton for redpilled people (Paid) Ep59: This new Academy Award-winning romantic comedy about a prostitute is what rightwing pseudo-intellectuals pr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag (2025), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011), the espionage genre, and the psychic trauma left by the High Woke period. Most recent episodes: Ep58: Horror snoozefest Nosferatu (2024) is basically Hamilton for redpilled people (Paid) Ep59: This new Academy Award-winning...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Review/analysis of “Forging the Thunderbolt” by Mildred Hanson Gillie. Full book available for free here . I know people didn’t listen to this episode when it first dropped but it really is relevant to what’s going on today. The Substack is also about twice as big as it was when the episode first came out and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Review of Command and Conquer: Tiberium Dawn (1995), with thoughts on Desert Storm, campiness, Nuremberg, Dune 2, and the post-Cold War false consensus. Most recent episodes: Ep58: Horror snoozefest Nosferatu (2024) is basically Hamilton for redpilled people (Paid) Ep59: This new Academy Award-winning romanti...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Review of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl , with extended thoughts on conspiracy culture, faith, and the modern world. Previous episode: Ep59: This new Academy Award-winning romantic comedy about a prostitute is what rightwing pseudo-intellectuals pretended Nosferatu (2024) was (Paid) Previous S.T.A.L.K....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Anora (2024). Happy Valentine’s Day! Previous episode: Ep58: Horror snoozefest Nosferatu (2024) is basically Hamilton for redpilled people (Paid) Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep...