Heat Death of the Universe

Well we had a major recording problem in which Josh's track stopped recording about 20 minutes in and wasn't realized until about 90 minutes into the podcast. So we released those first 20 minutes, tacked on an explanation and some recommendations. Sorry 'bout that. We were actually keeping the mood relatively light for once, too, which paradoxically makes me think there's some...

Elon Musk hilariously, idiotically, feigns worries about the CIA finding him with two self-inflicted gunshots to the back of the head (emeralds pour out according to crypto-bro lore). Updates and reminders on Steven Donziger, Julian Assange and Daniel Hale. A brief rage spiral directed at the White House Correspondents Dinner and Trevor Noah's bafflingly tone deaf and hypocritical self-suckjo...

Back after a weird, unexpected, two week hiatus and talking about the incoherent mess of artificial "cool" and "intellect" that bored billionaire Peter Thiel is amassing around him like a human moat AKA The New Right. Josh wishes actual non-parodic, non-satirical bodily harm upon the insufferable PhD in Edge Lord Studies incarnate, Curtis Yarvin. Et cetera. Support: patreon.com...

Millionaire lifelong politician tells the unhoused to "go home." Nazis getting pwnd in WWII. Bloods and Crips develop class-based praxis. The immense tragedy of the Saudi siege upon Yemen. A bird shits on Biden and reminds us of "Birdie Sanders," etc. MEP Clare Daly goes off on actual Nazi-saluting MEP Angel Dzhambazki during a parliamentary proceeding. WWIII flare up. Covid, e...

Biden tops himself topping himself. Robber Barrons be robbin' (teachers, specifically).  Starbucks cracks down on labor unions. Amazon does the same in an even more dystoptian manner (see: list of banned words). Global supply chains be breakin' down. Student loans be unforgiven. People be lonely and weird and sex is off the menu for unintuitive reasons. Peter Thiel & Co. want to take...

Amazon labor union's huge tiny gains made in Staten Island. Houdini-talk interspersed throughout. As the World Burns. Make the personal sleep-deprivation political sleep-deprivation. That's me in the corner, losing my ambition, that's me in the spot light, eh fuck it. China Covid, Covid China, again. And heaps of digressions available upon stream and/or download. Support: patreon.co...

Teachers must side-hustle to survive. More budgetary sadism from the Grand American Experiment. SARS-CoV-2 manages to create millions of orphans despite no longer and/or never existing. Joseph Robinette Biden may set off nuclear annihilation through typical senile outbursts stutters gaffes etc. South Korean labor unions invoke Squid Game while organizing a general strike. The Wizard of Oz is an al...

RIP Secretary of State Bog Monster. Fascinating Facts. That's life in the biiiiiig city. More Fascinating Facts. Sea mammals learn to salute the flag and spill blood for the war effort. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Pachinko JNM's Recommendation: Homecoming Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Madeleine Albright dead at 84: American im...

Things get loose and levity reigns (mostly) while discussing things that don't cast a shadow. Standard Stateside corruption. Jason tests Josh's miserable understanding of the FBI's Guide to Internet Slang. World War III still can't be ignored no matter how much we may like to (sudden remembrance /slash/ recommendation: "Human Moments in World War III" a short story by...

Well fuck it. We just talked about the near universal denial of the germ theory of disease, the 70 degree temperature increase in eastern Antarctica, and mostly just a documentary about the Reign of Bezos. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Valley of the Boom   JNM's Recommendation: The History of Oil Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Eve...

Biden could single-handedly expand Medicare to everyone (and of course he won't). Dilyana Gaytandzhieva's rigorous and detailed reporting on US bioweapons labs staged around the globe finally gets some vindication. Ukrainian Nazism is not to be dismissed as insignificant. Larry Summers and Stephen Colbert act like assholes on TV. The current state of sanctions, global economy, etc. One o...

One of us saw The Batman . The other doesn't care at all about spoilers. We talk all, or many, things Caped Crusader and discuss multiple socio-political interpretations of the various incarnations of the property, as well as some of the more surface level elements of these chiropteran narratives. But mostly we just shoot the shit, to be honest, I think. Beware all ye who dare tread: COPIOUS...

We're back and once again recording in the evening. Got a little loose and digressive. Nancy Pelosi’s remote controlled corpse malfunctioning on live TV right behind Joe Biden while he slurred every fourth word due to a childhood stutter that comes and goes when a convenient explanation is needed. We talk about not talking about Russia-Ukraine (then later can't help but talk about it a b...

Russo-NATO relations. Multipolar v. Unipolar global power arrangements. Elon Musk tries (and fails) to buy some kid's Twitter account for $5000. Tesla factories now racially segregated. Neuralynk's torture chambers. AI insurance claims adjusters, nuclear weapons operators, and sex dolls—lotsa sex dolls. People stop getting and dying from SARS-CoV-2 if nobody's counting anymore—the U...

Update on Steven Donziger's incarceration. A rightwing ideologue who helped prosecute Donziger on behalf of Chevron is now being appointed by Biden to be a judge on a federal circuit court. A simple country billionaire doesn't know what all the fuss is about with wealth and resources being concentrated in the hands of a few people. The Grayzone has lost an amazing reporter in Benjamin No...

Biden keeps on being Biden (now with 58% less brain activity!) and has given free rein to The Market in all areas of our lives. Ruthless privatization in general continues to be ruinous to hearts (literally) and minds. A back 'n' forth about private media monopolies, free speech, censorship and Neil Young's view that HIV can be transmitted via fast food French fries, all via the lat...

Havana Syndrome wasn't real all along?? An evil judge ( see previous episode ) will finally vacate the bench. The pandemic will not become endemic, fuck whatcha heard. Anti-Chinese propaganda hits new lows. What if the towers never fell (at the end of Fight Club )? Modern Kamikaze, CIA Asset, Yakuza Boss. US Democracy is a sham, it's a "hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream,...

Back from an 11 day hiatus, our longest since beginning the podcast, and sassier and brassier than ever. Grab your kente cloth and take a knee as we discuss how MLK's been whitewashed and used to advance vile agendas by those who still pay nominal "respect" one day a year. Drape the Rawlsian "Veil" over your face and discover how deliberate ignorance can be bad...but also...

All aboard the news maelstrom: Ghislaine Maxwell faces an effective lifelong prison sentence, but what about all the other Epstein-connected pedophiles? A small town experiments with UBI. In 897 CE the Catholic church put the corpse of the previous Pope on trial. Trump capitulates to the decorum police and cancels his 1/6 press conference. Silicon Valley cannot be tamed. In 1904 some guy got away...

We look back upon the year via some MegaCorporation's search engine trends, a stupid op-ed written by an oblivious pseudo-journalist, and a braindead analysis of the worst political predictions of 2021. Also, if you're lonely or just plain weird and need a simulated group countdown to ringing in the New Year, we've got you covered in the final minutes of the episode. Support: patreo...

Absurd histories. Who said it: Trump, Biden, Harris or Pence? Public dissections. Santa mock executed by a Nazi in Chile to teach children a lesson in terroristic coercion. Germany's Green Party's rightwing turn and belligerent nuke-mongering rhetoric. Trump plans to commemorate 1/6, the day the music died. The CIA tried to turn cats into spies. A wealthy heiress is incentivized to let h...

"The consortium was determined to satisfy the buyer’s secret desire: to appropriate the world, to possess it entirely."  Josh reads the timely short story "The Dream of the Consortium" by Steven Millhauser from his collection The Knife Thrower.  We'll be back with more regularly scheduled style programming next week.  Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod Locationless Location...

Time’s person of the year Elon Musk: Worshipping the pandemic profiteer The Democrats Are Trying To Lose Manchin says 'no' to Biden Florida man filed 745 tax returns in 4 years, collecting $235K in bogus refunds — ‘I found a flaw in your system, and I took advantage of it’ Factory bosses to workers before tornado: 'If you leave, you're more than likely to be fired' Amazon...

Back in September 2021, Danny of Boomer Death Squad along with Josh and Jason of Heat Death of the Universe discussed the first episode of the then just premiering third season of American Crime Story: Impeachment , which focuses on the Clinton sex scandal (well the "big one" at least) that spawned an endless barrage of shitty late night show host and morning drive by radio DJ jokes and...

Steven Donziger is out of jail and back on house arrest. Assange is further being made an example of and the US is setting more dangerous precedents. Redditors are spamming Kellogg’s job portal to support striking workers. Chaos reigns along the Gulf Coast.. Grate-less storm drains in New Jersey keep swallowing people during floods. Could thorium-powered reactors save humanity? US consumer prices...