Heat Death of the Universe

Back after our longest and unintended hiatus. Talking balloons, toxic clouds, uncanny valley AI eternal recurrence stuff, the world's first digital nation, royal paedo defense, Ghislaine Maxwell hosting etiquette classes for inmates, organ harvesting prisoners for pay, Amazon leaves more corpses on the warehouse floor, WW2 Part 2: The Ride, more sociocultural inner rot, Biden (or the series o...

We talk AI, ramshackle border wall construction, the world's largest doomsday bunker community, the "country"/cult within Germany that doesn't recognize the modern State, Floridian PPP grifter Daddy 'n' Sons op, self-defeating marriage equality legislation, precocious youth run amok, downtrodden youth in handcuffs, British colonialism's staggering destruction, an...

Competitive grave digging in "vampiric" Eastern Europe. The world's tallest jail—who dare says the US can't still aspire to greatness? In China, fifty year old "Uncle Chen" can beat the average marathon time—while chain-smoking the whole way. The constellation of handlers, pharmacists, and groper-conversion-therapists that comprise "Joe Biden" asked the &quo...

Timothy Robert Buechner returns as dual guest & substitute cohost for Jason. We talk about the fledging effort to make neoliberalism cool (again?); the nature of all 'centrisms'; Volcels are Basically Cows; how the most labor friendly president in US history has recently shown his friendliness to railway union members; how the NYTimes has suddenly, cynically, meaninglessly, developed...

Fuck the midterms. Slavery now illegal in 3 of 4 states. Man steals own car. Shooting the homeless now a misdemeanor. Hero unleashes bees at eviction cops. Hero throws can of 'White Claw' at Ted Cruz during baseball parade. KFC urges German customers to celebrate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken. Advertising in space, the future is now! More nonsense from the new CEO of Twitter. Crypto...

We cover a lot of subjects and articles today and have run out of character allotment for these notes, so take a look below at the links for a preview of what to expect. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Kim Jung Gi JNM's Recommendations: 1) r/TrueAnon & 2) Bodies Bodies Bodies  Further Reading, Viewing, Listening 156 die in Halloween crowd crush in Korea's Itaewon Lu...

Slavery becomes freedom. Diplomacy becomes treason. Food stuffs become climate activism, again. And more! Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org General Recommendations JD's Recommendations: 1) Decision to Leave 2) Spy × Family JNM's Recommendations: 1) Broker 2) r/antiwork 3) r/ABoringDystopia Further Reading...

We spouse-swap the standard all-encompassing geopolitical &/or generalized existential doom for the humdrum miracle of other sorts of headlines, those on the margins of the edges of the normie strata of the lunatic fringe. (Problem with the links—too many, and too tired to fix in a timely manner.) Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod Never Forget: sta...

William Shatner shares his despairing thoughts while staring out at the earth from space with Jeff Bezos aboard the Blue Origins craft. Elon Musk uber-fans have uprooted their lives and built a small village outside of "Starbase" so that they can witness each rocket launch. Warren Buffett is not your grandpa. Moron parks a car on train tracks, nearly killing someone else. Thousands of Co...

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” ―Gustave Flaubert “The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.” ―Kurt Gödel Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org G...

A little loose-y goose-y today. The Queen, etc. New PM, etc. Political fat shaming?, etc. Brazilian coup, etc. Hilldog will never again admonish us to Pokemon Go to the polls while simply chillin' in Cedar Rapids, etc. Undrinkable water, etc. WWIII update to be continued, etc. Shed 96 tears, one for each year of Elizabeth II's magical life. Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY S...

Is our modern immiseration just some jazzy jazz? Tune in to find out this and more. (Too tired to summarize further, Ed.) Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: The Parking Lot is Full Tim's Recommendation: Sam Hyde (in general) and his bizarre crashing of a TED Tal...

Is a broken Rand Paul right twice a day? People focusing on all of the wrong things with regard to Trump's legacy (e.g. forget debunked Russiagate myths and January 6th, and look toward WWIII inciting foreign policy first). Does North Korea have anything the US wants and can scoop up into a net? Will Jurassic Park -like tech magically save the planet? Speaking of climate disaster mitigation:...

In what is now a annual tradition come August, we celebrate surviving another year in podcasting with the gentle souls of Boomer Death Squad (Danny, Matt and sadly Joe couldn't make it) by covering a remarkably bad, politically-bent, movie. Last year, we commented on what was the GW Bush era time-capsule / series of wrong turns and bad calls (by a legacy act spoofmaster of Zucker Brothers of...

If you want to watch along, I'm sharing my copy of the movie along with a separate subtitles file (which is essential due to the terrible sound mixing on this cinematic masterpiece). In what is now a annual tradition come August, we celebrate surviving another year in podcasting with the gentle souls of Boomer Death Squad (Danny, Matt and sadly Joe couldn't make it) by covering a remarka...

Chuck Schumer's gang blows all of our minds (and our genitalia). Pizza, pizza. A North Carolina school district will install safes full of AR-15s to help the underfunded police. Malcolm Gladwell secures his position as an absolute piece of shit. Monetarily-mediated AI friendships are on the rise. Megan McArdle tries to cover her neocon core with philosopher name-dropping. Gig economy will des...

We discuss three desperate, pleading, bottom of the barrel ideas to halt climate disaster: nuclear war, dim the sun with chemicals in the air, and blow up the moon (for real). Celebs be private jetting too much (and Jason learns about just how far LA really is from NYC). Biden gets covid again. The CDC hates your fucking guts. Amazon expands its Cthulhu-like tentacles into the medical industry.  B...

Jason's on vacation, so I had the pleasure of sitting down with Timothy Robert Buechner of the We Don't Know Wrestling Podcast Network and ending up with a sprawling-in-the-best-way, fuller-length episode. Biden v. Trump w/r/t Covid-19, mental deterioration, and more. Mayor Pete has a weird exchange while testifying before Congress in which he cartoonishly pledges fealty to whoever he ha...

NYC's duck 'n' cover PSA. A couple of congress members make far too little, far too late (and probably cynical and calculated) gestures in defense of whistleblowers. Abe's whitewashed legacy and why some in Korea and China are celebrating his assassination. The necessity of prison labor (i.e. slavery) said aloud in Arizona. Millennials & renewables are the real problems her...

Trump on Musk literal violence. Now you can eat the rich at $10 a pop. Do you make more per month than Xi Jinping? Sri Lankan uprising. Biden reads teleprompter instructions. The wall building never ends, even though the chanting has. Mayor Pete makes pathetic plans. Limewire's back, this time in NFT form. Akshualee, it's good that things are bad. Bolton/Pompeo scream the quiet parts. Mo...

A severe case of journalistic integrity busted all over the face of the news crawl (see the sources below for more specifics). Jason starts a new religion inspired by the wit and wisdom of Kamala Harris.* *and/or nascent schizophrenia and/or a series of miniature aneurysms Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendati...

Colombian elections update. Alexa will soon be your teacher, mother, secret lover . Assange update. NFT/Crypto-verse bitter irony. Slavery's still A-Okay in the USA. Uvalde update. SCOTUS update. Havana syndrome update. WWIII update. Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Slow Horses  JNM's Recomme...

We stitch together the false start recording from last week with the continuation a week later. Gay bullets, gay burgers. Google's AI labs have leaked something interesting. Nothing Will Fundamentally Change still has not fundamentally changed. War and strife, up is down, erotic nukes and frothy jingoism. Socialist in-fighting. Mexico's President AMLO goes HAM after boycotting Biden&apos...

One of our longest cold opens yet. Colombian electoral politics take a tentatively promising leftward turn. Mass shootings, American exceptionalism par excellence. A dipshit congress-thing weighs in on the discourse and let's us know that wokeness and CRT are the main culprits for causing mass shootings. Weird, obsessive clickbait harassing Greta Thunberg is clicked upon, discussed. Marjorie...

Biden's in our neck of the woods. Some weird facts interspersed for palate cleansing. Let's hope Lula can displace Bolsonaro (whom Musk is courting in dangerous ways). Sonic inflation, don't even look it up. The NYT claims that the good times are upon us! Mayor Pete accidentally critiques capitalism on TV. A German will make a movie about the subtle and all-equalizing majesty of Jap...