Heat Death of the Universe

Amazon's current form as a refutation of the intellectual justifications for capitalism. More stimulus bill fuckery. Trump pardons Black Water murderers amongst other murderers. Identity politics continue to be crassly used to shield bad politics from critique. General Recommendations JD's Recommendations: Flatland: The Movie JNM's Recommendation: The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster F...

We do a light excavation of the newly passed (yet to be signed into law) "HEROES Act" (H.R. 133). Stanford Medical Center gives vaccines to each and every more deserving "elite" in their ranks while 1,342 frontline medical workers are left empty handed.  As the vaccines roll out (and slowly trickle down from Mt. Olympus, where all our godlike ruling class reside) the UK is expl...

Mayor Pete's impeccable qualifications for ruining public transit. AOC plays nice with Pelosi and still gets booted out of a key committee seat. Briahna Joy Gray makes the case for forcing a floor vote on Medicare for All. Delivery drivers in South Korea are being worked to death, literally. Leaked emails reveal the true intentions of the elite to deliberately infect huge numbers of people wi...

State of the Corona Virus. Andrew "Camus" Cuomo gets an Emmy. Fauci and Biden-Harris get fellated by Time Magazine. Hunter Biden is an artiste. Nina Turner (yay!), Mayor Pete (nay). Massive corporations thrive harder than ever during the pandemic and their CEOs brag about it and laugh in our faces. The historically massive strikes and protests in India continue to grow. General Recommend...

We talk about the recent hubbub over Jimmy Dore's proposal that politicians actually use their power for the things they claim to be in favor of and after that we explore the bottomless depths of Joe Biden's depravity. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Dehd -  Flower of Devotion JNM's Recommendation: Threats by Amelia Gray Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Jimmy Do...

In light of water recently being traded on Wall Street as a commodity, we talk about the privatization of Bolivia's water in the late 90s/early 2000s, more specifically the Cochabamba Water War . The Bechtel Corporation literally charged people for the rain water. (Seoul's remarkably high air pollution on 12/11/2020 was making us feel like shit during this one.) General Recommendations J...

We attempt and fail to steer completely clear of the State of the Corona Virus but eventually claw our way back to the ol' chaotic maelstrom of the Roulette Wheel of Clickbait and headlines otherwise. We also pose the eternal philosophical question "What is a vaccine, really?" General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) Cocorosie & 2) Mank JD's Recommendation: Ya...

We discuss the heartening news of what is likely the largest general strike in history: 250 million farmers, laborers, unionists, etc, have united in a courageous march upon New Delhi and it gives a glimmer of hopeful possibilities of mass labor movements and general strikes as an effective tactic in the future (though the lot of us probably have to get a lot more desperate first). General Recomme...

We convened, in clandestine fashion, with The BDS. The Boomer Death Squad ( @BoomerDeathPod ), of course. We had a grand ol' time orbiting around the conceit of assessing the Obama Years.  This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Oh, and: This confession...has meant...nothing. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) Love Liza & 2) Wild Turkey 101 JD's Recommend...

We try out our first Zoom call recording in preparation for our next episode with real live genuine guests. We discuss what it's like to teach during COVID times, how generally fucked things are, and bump up against the topic of leftist in-fighting as a teaser for a future episode. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: Four New Messages by Joshua Cohen JNM's review of the no...

We tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon , we failed to complete the task. P.S. Commentary tracks (made during this torturous endeavor) fo...

We tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon , we failed to complete the task. P.S. Commentary tracks (made during this torturous endeavor) fo...

We tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon , we failed to complete the task. P.S. Commentary tracks (made during this torturous endeavor) fo...

We tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon , we failed to complete the task. P.S. Commentary tracks (made during this torturous endeavor) fo...

We tried once again to push the boundaries of our physical and psychological ability to endure extended, uninterrupted viewings of blockbuster cinematic universes with the 12 hour total runtime of the Transformers franchise. Unlike the 16 hours we endured during our Fast and Furious franchise marathon , we failed to complete the task. We still had a few things to say about the experience, about Mi...

Vaccine or Vacc-unseen? Nancy Pelosi remains to be just the worst. Student debt relief is about as likely as ever seeing another COVID stimulus relief check, unfortunately. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) Ikuru & 2) Dogtooth JD's Recommendations: Kiss Me Deadly Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Growing support among workers for shutdown of nonessential production...

We take a closer look at some of the probable Biden cabinet picks, inevitably address the COVID crisis a bit as it is omnipresent, and issue a few stray thoughts on the Trumpian coup. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendation: Room 237 Official Trailer | HD | IFC Films Full documentary (Vimeo) JD's Recommendations: 1) Tower of God & 2) The God of Highschool Locationless Locations...

We hover over the barely twitching corpse of the United States of America and issue some thoughts about its last remaining, nauseated and disoriented neuronal pathways. We also find ourselves in a spirited discussion about the viability of The Squad et al., and whether the Democratic party can be transformed from within or needs to be challenged from without. Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Me...

Covering the US Presidential Election in real time from Seoul on our Wednesday morning until the afternoon. Locationless Locations Every show-related link is corralled and available here . Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpod JD Newland - @jdnewland Joshua Nomen-Mutatio - @ImbalancingAct Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuni...

The US breaks more records. Holograms praise people. Discount full body contact leopard encounter. Diamonds made from the sky. Black Plague remembrance day. Expensive asteroid. Caspian Sea Monster. Misplaced nuclear bombs. Lisbon's destruction in 1755. Jason makes significant advances in Flat Earth Theory. Tigers and a bear predict the upcoming presidential election outcome via watermelons. ...

We discuss Aaron SOARkin's latest directorial/screenwriting endeavor The Trial of the Chicago 7. Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Chicago 7 prosecutor: ‘They were going to try to destroy our trial. And they did a damn good job.’ The Real Abbie Hoffman by Nathan Robinson The worst song choice for the intro montage of the movie: 'We're Going to Chicago' DANIEL PEMBERTON | The...

One host tests negative for the novel coronavirus. We discuss the news of Amy Coney Barrett being sworn in for obviously nefarious reasons, the climate continues to catastrophize, and COVID continues to expose the worrisome machinations of capitalism and wreak physiological, psychological, and economic havoc more generally. We also discuss the differences between the South Korean healthcare model...

We talk about the woefully underreported story of Daniel Hale, who leaked The Drone Papers to the press, and was arrested under the Espionage Act in May 2019. We go on to discuss whistleblowers, dissent, the persecution of Eugene Debs, US drone programs, and more. CORRECTION: The most successful third party run in US history was the Progressive Party in 1912, not Eugene Debs' Socialist Party...

We get mildly zooted on the nootropic equivalent of adrenochrome and languidly drift and fiercely machete our way through  a very small percentage of the internet. Extraterrestrial life. Vlad the Impaler. Nuclear football. Herd immunity is genocide. COVID Derangement Syndrome. Flights to nowhere. A chicken nugget launched into space. Beheadings. 500 lashings for blasphemy. Beer flood. Kinetoscope...

We experiment with a more freeform style of conversation and then attempt to do a segment we intended to do before Episode 001 where we rifle through births, deaths, events, and holidays that occurred on the day we're recording. We revisit the War on Drugs, Chuck Yeager, Teddy Roosevelt's thwarted assassination attempt, and the underlying connections between National Dessert Day, Nationa...