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We're joined by first time guest Bobby Campbell, creator of the beautiful comic book adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy, Tales of the Illuminatus! as well as many, many other wonderful things. We also have back with us long time friend of the show Gabriel Kennedy, author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson. Together we dig into some ideas ab...

We kick this one off some host lore about a guy who ended a friendship over the What the Bleep Do We Know? movie. It only goes downhill from there. For some reason, I kept calling Representative Anna Paulina Luna "Rep. Lujan". There's no excuse for my behavior and I'll be docking my own pay for this episode. Then while we were talking about the Sazan Island project (Epstein Island II) that Jared K...

That’s right everybody, Disclosure Day came and went and not much really happened. The reactions to the grifter ufologist hype cycle have been entirely predictable and hilarious. We’re talking too much about the substance of the UAP/UFO files released by the government. Mostly because how much can you say about a bunch of infrared videos of a bright dot moving around or FBI files that have been pu...

We're talking about the Right's still rising reactionary star, Nicholas Joseph Fuentes. Fuentes’ videos posted on Rumble are regularly watched by 100s of thousands of people, but aside from a brief brush with Donald Trump as a dinner guest of Kanye West, he's been almost completely dismissed by mainstream conservatives. That is, until the last year or so. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sig...

Welcome to Pristine Park, Ohio where the beer is light, the fireworks are silent, and everyone parties like it's the 4th of July, Polish style. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired I ambush Jules with a surprise recording session where I treat him to the story of the 4th of July LARPers. Based in Poland, for the last few years they've...

Damn, this was a fun chat! Today we have Aaron Thorpe from The Trillbillies with us! Aaron’s hanging out with us today to talk about two of my favorite things: Star Trek and socialism. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired We also have as an unofficial second guest, the spirit of Kurt Schiller from P...

In week 4 or so of Trump’s bumblings around in the Middle East, and after declaring victory a couple of times already, Trump has said that he’s willing to end the war as long as Iran agrees to just put things back the way they were before the US started bombing them and assassinated their leader. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire...

Last time we trashed the standard narrative that modern conservative movements are organic, bottom-up uprisings.  Instead, what has appeared to be grassroots radicalization and mobilization is more often a soup of grievance politics stirred by elite capture and institutional control. Conservative power is less spontaneous rebellion, and mostly a coordinated, long-term business class welfare projec...

We get into the first five episodes of the HBO series Neighbors. What begins as a collection of petty disputes over lawns, fences, animals, and property lines quickly reveals something much deeper: a culture defined by paranoia, hyper-individualism, and the slow collapse of shared reality. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back ca...

It might seem counterintuitive but conservative movements in the US are repeatedly shaped by donors, think tanks, and institutions not organic grassroots uprisings. Name the popular movement and 9 times out of 10 there's money interests behind it. And when the movement is genuinely organic, it's almost immediately co-opted by elites. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium on...

We talk about important culture war fights that conservatives will always think are destroying the fabric of America before moving on to something that conservatives couldn’t care less about—a global cabal of ultra wealthy pedophiles, and it’s dead ringleader, Jeffrey Epstein. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired Last month’s release...

Last episode, we talked about the brewing conflict between what currently passes for mainstream conservatism and the schizophrenic reactionary Groyper politics of Nick Fuentes. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired We wrapped things up with the idea that conservatism has never really bothered to cons...

The ground is definitely shifting in the conservative base. From the Republican staffers who had their private texts between each other leaked revealing A LOT of racist messages to Nick Fuentes showing up on one mainstream conservative show after another, it's obvious that many Republicans are becoming more openly sympathetic to the racist Groyper ideas. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign...

We're with Devin Thomas O'Shea, author of The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis. Most of Devin's book surrounds a Gilded Age secret society founded in St. Louis in the late 19th century. The story would probably begin and end in St. Louis if that little group for racist businessmen and politicians who liked to throw parties had fizzled out like most...

Welcome, everyone, to the inaugural episode of It’s in a Book! “Take a look, it’s in a book…” This is our new on again, off again podcast within a podcast.  Instead of goofing off with the news and making fun of the public figures who’re trying to make life unlivable for the rest of us, we’re going to be taking a more serious (well, at least, a somewhat more serious). I don’t want to make any prom...

We get into the media coverage of Venezuela, hot takes on Maduro’s kidnapping, Denmark's getting nervous as Trump eyes Greenland, 19th century style US imperialism, and the breakdown of all the international norms we all love. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired No holds barred is the defining feature of politics of the 21st century....

We're with Anthony Banua-Simon, director of the documentary Cane Fire, to talk about the colonization and exploitation of the Hawai'ian people first by corporations, then by the US military, followed by Hollywood, and finally by tourism. Few places hold as large a place in the American imagination as Hawaiʻi. For many people, Hawai'i represents paradise. It is the exotic. But maybe above all the o...

We hope everyone is having a good holiday season and you’re all getting ready for the solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, the date of the Buddha’s enlightenment (some time last week), or whatever dates you mark. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired We’ve been slowing down for the holiday season ourselves but we’ve also been working on a mi...

We're teaming up with Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla to talk about the show that 30 years ago introduced the normies to alien abductions, secret government programs, and global conspiracies. Somehow, the X-Files was exactly the right show for its time. It harnessed the untapped cynicism and suspicion of the 1990s and assured us that there really might be answers out there if you know where to...

We’re joined by Daniella Mestyanek Young, the author of Uncultured. She was born a third generation member of an influential family, within The Family International, better known as the Children of God cult. She escaped at fifteen, put herself through school, and graduated from college as valedictorian. Daniella joined the Army, became Captain, and she received the Presidential Volunteer Service A...

First up, we have some Jordan Peterson news. His daughter says he’s under spiritual attack after being exposed to a moldy attic. We also cover some of the comments Kamala Harris have been making during the book tour for her 2024 election memoir 107 Days. Reassuringly, pro-Palestine protesters have been showing up at just about every one of her tour stops. We're also excited to announce that our lo...

We’re here on the eve of the end of America as we’ve come to know it, and the two of us thought, “what could be a more fitting way to honor everything we love about this country than to do one of the most American things possible?” That would be watching a movie and then arguing about it.  This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired The movi...

Independent filmmaker Jacob Gregor joins us to talk about his bleak and unsettling new film End of History. We talk with Jacob about his discomforting vision of a nameless young man who drives cross country to Alaska listening to nothing but podcasts and AM radio. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwire...

This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired Cops, laws, prisons, and the military are political violence. Crackdowns on strikers and protesters are political violence. Poverty, hunger, and crime are all political violence. The state's will is not enforced with good vibes and polite suggestions. Its defining feature is its monopoly of violenc...

This is our first conversation with independent filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell. We with him again about the feature length release, Failed State, which he co-directed. Miss Me Yet is a chronicle of the George W. Bush presidency, which means that it also documents the early days of the War on Terror, beginning with 9/11. Chris draws us back into the early 2000s by painstakingly splicing together...