Heat Death of the Universe

It's a late night double feature. First up, why and how the Senate should be abolished, razed down passed the roots. Next, third parties and why they're generally banished to the netherworld. General Recommendations JD's Recommendations: 1) what if the Banana was the same distance as the ISS 2) Titus JNM's Recommendations: 1) Don Hertzfeld's entire filmography 2) Happiness...

We watched and discussed the largely unseen, deal-with-the-devil thriller about the aftermath of the 2008 housing crisis, 99 Homes, directed by Ramin Bahrani, starring Michael Shannon, Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern and Clancy Brown. A desperate construction worker (Andrew Garfield) reluctantly accepts a job with the ruthless real-estate broker (Michael Shannon) who evicted him and his family from th...

Come for the gripes about imperialism, the judicial system, the plentitude of hopeless stupidity in the declining USA, and stay for the aside about carceral v. non-cerceral justice in a deterministic universe, the tale of a man turned himself into 100,000 shares at $1 apiece and the trends that followed in his wake, and then Andrew "Caused 15,000 Deaths" Cuomo almost makes me (Josh) punc...

We embarked on our third intentional overdose of an American Movie Franchise. Unlike The Fast & the Furious and the Transformers franchise, one of these movies is genuinely great. We consumed 10+ hours of the Jurassic Park franchise in a non-stop fashion and it was a much less mind-shattering experience than the previous two marathons. As usual, commentary tracks will be subsequently released...

We embarked on our third intentional overdose of an American Movie Franchise. Unlike The Fast & the Furious and the Transformers franchise, one of these movies is genuinely great. We consumed 10+ hours of the Jurassic Park franchise in a non-stop fashion and it was a much less mind-shattering experience than the previous two marathons. As usual, commentary tracks will be subsequently released...

We embarked on our third intentional overdose of an American Movie Franchise. Unlike The Fast & the Furious and the Transformers franchise, one of these movies is genuinely great. We consumed 10+ hours of the Jurassic Park franchise in a non-stop fashion and it was a much less mind-shattering experience than the previous two marathons. As usual, commentary tracks will be subsequently released...

We embarked on our third intentional overdose of an American Movie Franchise. Unlike The Fast & the Furious and the Transformers franchise, one of these movies is genuinely great. We consumed 10+ hours of the Jurassic Park franchise in a non-stop fashion and it was a much less mind-shattering experience than the previous two marathons. As usual, commentary tracks will be subsequently released...

We embarked on our third intentional overdose of an American Movie Franchise. Unlike The Fast & the Furious and the Transformers franchise, one of these movies is genuinely great. We consumed 10+ hours of the Jurassic Park franchise in a non-stop fashion and it was a much less mind-shattering experience than the previous two marathons. As usual, commentary tracks will be subsequently released...

We embarked on our third intentional overdose of an American Movie Franchise. Unlike The Fast & the Furious and the Transformers franchise, one of these movies is genuinely great. We consumed 10+ hours of the Jurassic Park franchise in a non-stop fashion and it was a much less mind-shattering experience than the previous two marathons. As usual, commentary tracks will be subsequently released...

Amazon changes traffic light patterns as union busting. Biden bombs better. Kamala cages comfortably. The Parliamentarian has entered all our lives, now and forever. Kids wear tents. Kids sell lemonade to fight terminal brain cancer. Everything's fucked, so maybe just watch a good movie or two and soon enough you can sell your skin to robots. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation:...

Biden admin gets predictably worse and worse. Texas freezes. Textbook disaster capitalism. Cruz, Tanden, Manchin distractions. Prisons find new ways to exploit. Big tech gets bigger, tech-ier. General Recommendations JD's Recommendations: WandaVision JNM's Recommendation: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003 Novel and 2011 Film) Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Every show-related lin...

We continue to talk about the new Adam Curtis documentary, Can't Get You Out of My Head, and discussed the final three installments. Further Reading, Viewing, Listening WATCH: Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World WATCH: HyperNormalisation WATCH: The Century of the Self The Reverse Marxism of Adam Curtis’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ Can’t Get You Out...

We decided to watch the masterful and brand new Adam Curtis documentary, Can't Get You Out of My Head, and discussed the first three installments in this episode today. Tune in next Monday for our thoughts on the final three. Further Reading, Viewing, Listening WATCH: Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World WATCH: Hypernormalisation WATCH: The Century of th...

Sleep deprivation. News detritus scattered in the wind. Super Bowl Spreader Event. Poisoned cultural discourse about a guitar. People continue to shepherd themselves into the the great grinding mechanism. Political landscape continues to rot. And more! It's pretty freeform today, folks. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Space Sweepers JNM's Recommendation: Black Moth Supe...

Updates on the whistleblower, Rebekah Jones, who outed Florida's state government for manipulating COVID data, the largest labor strike in human history in India, cops pepper spraying a nine year old girl because they can, leftist in-fighting, GameStopGate, the State of the COVID, the Sunrise Movement being fantastically naive, and the never-ending list of reasons for Biden, Yellen, Psaki, Fa...

Biden "follows the science," surrounds the Syrian oil fields, offers up the insulting $1400+$600 for further negotiation. Tony Blinken is a slightly more polite Pompeo. These COVID mutations are turning out to be quite serious. Reddit guys ban together to fuck an evil hedge fund out of billions and to illustrate the absurd meaninglessness of the stock market. So it's not all bad new...

Danny, Joe and Matt from the Boomer Death Squad ( @boomerdeathpod ) podcast join us to discuss the largely unknown history behind the Monopoly board game. At the turn of the century, a leftist political activist, resolute feminist, and fascinating renaissance women named Lizzy Magie, created a game to educate others about the evils of accumulated wealth. Follow the winding causal chain of events t...

A free form conversation between Heat Death and Boomer Death, of the Universe and Squad variants, respectively. All leading up to episode 046 proper. "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." Albert Camus "It just never happened that we needed a nursing home to take a COVID positive person." Andrew Cuomo More things: heatdeathpod.com @heatdeathpod & soundclou...

Biden is not the King of Empathy. Kamala would kill her first born for a horizontal promotion. Los Angeles has to lower air quality standards because they're cremating too many bodies from increasing COVID deaths. New admin will fix this by sending everyone back to work and school. We hate it all, don't we, folks? Many other things get brought up but your Dear Typist is too tired to summ...

In the first 10 days, Biden will heal the soul of the nation via The Ludovico Technique as imagined by radical centrists. The cabinet is full of predictably compromised  and nihilistic people.  Dark money flows. The vaccine rollout is fucked. P.S. Happy MLK Day. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber JNM's Recommendation: The Century of the Self Furth...

A call to nationalize Big Tech. Trump flees to the Alamo. Biden teaches the country arithmetic like the biggest asshole on earth. AOC continues to dash any hopes that might be remaining. Remember Hunter Biden's incriminating pics and vids? Neither do we. Poof! It never happened. Rick Snyder might just have to pay up to a $1000 fine for poisoning an entire town. What a deal! General Recommenda...

More details emerge about the tacit or direct involvement of the state in the riot on Capitol Hill. Trump's permanent banning from Twitter et al creates a predictable shouting match within the left about tactics, censorship, and free speech. How seriously do people take their scolding and scaremongering? Axe Body Spray 4 democracy. Olive Garden's craven act of pasta-based punishment has...

Wade through that MAGA flood up on Capitol Hill. Democrats have no more excuses (but will create them anyway). Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos remain the worst the species has to offer. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Hiram Walker Peppermint Schnapps 90 Proof JNM's Recommendations: Morning Joe - January 7, 2021: Cold Open Montage (feat. Johnny Cash 'Hurt') Further Reading...

Trump does pathetic mafioso cosplay and we wish him well on his yet to be named plan to build a bigger, gold-er, version of the White House next to the original. Julian Assange faces the first decent news in a decade. Congress continues to absorb and transform people like The Thing.  The briefest of histories of Presidential pardons. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: Knowledge Fi...

We strike a pose like Janus , the dual-faced god looking both to the past and future simultaneously, and mostly dig into other years throughout history that are held in infamy from our perch here at the end of 2020 and the dawn of 2021. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: One Piece JNM's Recommendations: 1) Midsommar (Director's Cut) 2) Ari Aster on Midsommar, Cathartic End...