Uncle TED Talks

Vote Harder, Charlie Brown Erection Night Spectesticles: Urgency, Agency, and the Illusion of Hard Choices Voting is like Chicago pizza: you do it early and often, and it’s not really pizza. The Uncles spend election night arguing it doesn’t matter whether the shit sandwich comes on three-month-old Wonder Bread or artisanal sourdough. The “most important election of our lifetime” gets two buzzword...

Ben almost did this Halloween episode as a ghost. One aspirin for a flu and ear infection tore open his duodenum, triggered a massive internal bleed, and—by his count—killed him four times. He lives 2½ hours from the nearest hospital, waited an hour for the region’s only ambulance, and arrived with under five units of blood. Surgery and transfusions got him out at 8.75 units (the insurance minimum...

Uncle Ted Talks Episode 40: The Wiggarthian Gospel Hour  Recorded Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Runtime: about 3 hours 11 minutes.  Uncle Ted Talks is a Tuesday night show where a room full of uncles talks about whatever comes up. This episode starts with talking fire hydrants and sports team moves, then covers Las Vegas flooding, true crime, war-zone streamers, and a lot more.  Hosts...

Pressure to Podcast: Who Actually Owns Your Feed? ️ What does it take to claim a podcast? We skip the polished success stories. We ignore the guru step-by-step guides. We dive straight into the messy, behind-the-scenes reality. Two guys figure it out through lived experience, production disasters, technical headaches, and relentless conversation. Chris Minor and Allen Marcus talk shop. They build...

SiriusXM Hot Peppers, Fake Guinness, Death of Raw Dog Comedy From Frozen Pizza to Platform Censorship Comedy, Conspiracies, and a Box in the Ceiling Ghost Peppers, SiriusXM, and High Strangeness Why Independent Voices Keep Getting Hit (00:00:01) Uncle Tuesday Begins With Spice and Rice Talk (00:03:48) Hot Pepper Horror Stories and Painful Lessons (00:14:38) Frozen Pizza, Wisconsin Cheese, and Beer...

Netflix's UNABOMBER Gets the Uncle Tuesday Treatment I am the ghost of Theodore. I died in 2023. In 2026 Netflix made a movie about me. This week the uncles went live from the road to break down Netflix's UNABOMBER—and spent most of the episode on the good part: young Ted at Harvard, the creepy "debate club" that was definitely just MKULTRA with a forged permission slip, Russell Crowe as gravelly...

Braunschweiger, the mysterious Pump and Munch, and a septic-truck design featuring the immortal phrase "Turd Snacks." Another Ted Tuesday descends into the dumbest timeline yet: AI-generated memes, the collapse of irony, true crime, Russian mobsters, federal land, old-school TV, gas-station cuisine, and a surprisingly serious debate over the only correct Eagles song. The cabin fills up for another...

Welcome to the Equinox: Thin Mint Whippets, $9 Diesel, and the Lutefisk Capital of America Grab your Thin Mints and crack open a whippet, because the Equinox is upon us and we are equinox maxxxing. If you missed this week's episode of Uncle Ted Talks, you missed a glucking masterpiece. The crew gathered in the cabin to celebrate the changing of the seasons, and naturally, the conversation spiraled...

Digital Prison Grid, Data Thirst, and AI Delusions: A Tuesday in Uncle Ted’s Shed From Palantir to Peacocks: Fear, Control, and the Systems That Track Us Outlaw Country, Cashless Counters, and the Gummy Worm Gospel Water, Wires, and Watchlists: Life Inside the Technocratic Buildout Silver vs. Chocolate, Shrimp vs. Gummies: Incentives in a Tracked World In this Tuesday’s Uncle Ted Talks, we open wi...

35 From Unabomber to AI Girlfriends: A Tour Through the Weirdest Corners of the Internet Flock Cameras, FBI Standards, and the Mystery of the AI Girlfriend Netflix’s Unabomber, Surveillance Creep, and Other American Nightmares The Surveillance State Meets Internet Freak Show Ted Kaczynski, Mystery, and a Very Strange News Week This episode took a wild, very online ride through conspiracy culture,...

Impromptu Weave Runes, Wicca, and the Fake Internet Mystics are Real From Odinism to OnlyFans: Symbols in a Broken Culture Peter Pan Society, Life Energy, and Modern Magic Wilhelm Reich, White Ladies, and the Death of Adulthood Delphi, Dogma, and the Consumerization of the Sacred In this episode, I let the conversation wander exactly where it wanted to go: from terrible movies and pop-culture deto...

34 Golf Ads, Mutant Ohio, and Tuesday Night Chaos From Wildfires to Wild Hogs: An Uncle Ted Talks Tuesday Potato Olés, Padres, and the Death of Cool Jed York, Good Good Golf, and Other American Mysteries Mead, Motorcycles, and Media Meltdowns On this Tuesday night hang, we bounced from brutal heat, wildfire smoke, and the Reno/Tahoe fire situation into a long, chaotic run through sports absurdity....

welcome special guest author Secret Himmler to discuss his novel Secret Hitler a gripping story about dissident factions infiltration psychological operations and the uneasy alliances formed when different ideological groups must work together to stop a sinister psyop and a broader examination of how influence operations work how groups get manipulated and why modern politics increasingly feels li...

Horsing around with the Kristi Noem bronze statue unveiling in South Dakota, her legacy as governor, overruling popular ballot measures, and the unforgettable “Meth, we’re on it” campaign. Slightly larger-than-life bronze statues, state politics, Midwestern regional oddities, 7UP changing its formula to Lime first and lemon second, and a running debate over whether South Dakota history is being me...

Uncle Ted Talks Afterparty — May 12, 2026 Members-Only Mayhem, Captain Planet Lore, and the Gospel of Small Engine Repair A members-only afterparty pulling back the curtain on our production refresh: new branding, neon overlays, and a “You’ve got mail” gag now baked into the art. We riff on the Ted Turner/Captain Planet mashup, NWA/WCW wrestling nostalgia, and farm-life chaos (kittens chasing nipp...

Ted Kaczynski opens the episode, then it goes everywhere: YouTube's new Jewels economy (chat still doesn't know what a joule is worth), a bison attack breakdown, a Crunch Fitness towel-whipping story that spirals into mistaken identity, and a city council meeting where a man gets dragged out by security for clapping three times. Then the show turns toward AI. Apple's Neuromancer adaptation — forty...

Mule Mouth Blues  Pocket Fish Bag Disappearing Drones and Fire Season FIFA Heat, Fluck Cameras, and Wildfire Smoke Shows Just another Off-Grid Summer in the Surveillance Age Watch live on Tuesday Nights Subscribe on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/@weavingspiderswebs2642/streams https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminBalderson/streams Subscribe on Rumble:   https://rumble.com/c/AMWakeu...

A members only stream now unlocked for you to listen to. Recorded after Uncle TED Talks #19 ended ...  From Rokfin Woes to Fermented Pickles: A Night in the Uncle Cabin Animatronics, Algorithms, and Uncle Stories After Dark Deplatformed, Decanted, and Decompressed: Members-Only Aftershow A Night in the Uncle Cabin Peacocks, Pickles, and Platform Wars BMX Memories, Bear Hugs, and the “Selfish...

28 America at 250: Fireworks, Fog, Gas Prices, and Political Theater From Fourth of July to They Live: A Very American Spiral Debates, Dollars, and Decline: Late-Night Notes on America Fogged-Out Fireworks and the End of the Middle Class Goldberg, Haaland, and the American Psyop This week I bounced all over the map with the guys, starting with Fourth of July fallout, fogged-out fireworks in San Fr...

Very Hot Week at the Court Geofence Warrants, Ducks, and Carolina Reapers Cannabis, Carry Rights, and Farm-Talk Chaos SCOTUS, Surveillance, and the Peacock Wars This week on Uncle Ted Talks, we kicked things off with Snap’s new AR glasses and the broader question of whether more tech in our faces actually makes us more connected. From there, we dug into a stack of recent Supreme Court rulings, inc...

Who is the Anne Man of Green Gables?  (00:00:11) Cold open: Uncle Ted montage and show kickoff (00:01:26) "Tuesday Night with the Teds" banter and birthdays (00:02:55) Taco Tuesday, potato Olés, and cilantro tastes like soap (00:05:23) Strange senses: smelling ants and stinky species (00:06:24) Beans, orcas, VHS nostalgia, Space Ghost & Brak (00:08:49) Music tangents: Moby, industry, and COVI...

World Cup, weird sports traditions, and a detour into how futball timekeeping actually works. Old cars, lawn-mower engineering, Frankenstein vehicle builds, baseball legends, steroid-era memories, retro video games. Minnesota culture, from Kirby Puckett bucket to local severe weather, and old regional playground sayings. https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/uncle-ted-talks/26 While the TEDs dissec...

Ted Jemsworthy, Ted Bennington, Ted Allen, & Ted Steeves take an insightful & hilarious look at industrial society & its future in Flight of the Falkories and the girth of michael obama* Become a member on Ted Bennington's channel & access tons of bonus material! https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminBalderson From the “changing face of American masculinity” after UFC Freedom 250 in D.C...

From Ted Kaczynski’s anti-tech critique to today’s AI circus, viral “say JESUS IS LORD 50 times” chatbot stunts, and the mushroom-chocolate boom! Your 2027 Ford won't shift into drive if its interior cameras decide you look too emotional, while junkyards holding parts for older vehicles burn in suspiciously neat clusters. Major automakers are quietly patenting biometric tracking, lip-reading softw...

Tonight in the cabin we bounce from heat waves and cold towels to hot takes about AI, pop culture, and civic life. We trade stories about data centers sucking up water, why “smart” doesn’t always mean better, and whether commencement mics should cut off students who mention world issues. We skewer the endless reboot cycle (Spaceballs rumors, History of the World Part II, Coming 2 America), and tip...