Heat Death of the Universe

We react to the death of Michael K. Williams, wax doomily upon the state of things like labor unions, the mask and Ivermectin culture wars, vaccine distribution, the 7 Stages of Covid , climate disaster, unemployment offices billing people to pay all their money back, Tara Reade, and more. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: The Sandman (Audiobook) JNM's Recommendation:  Paul F....

We discuss the cruel timing of the Biden administration and the Democratic controlled Congress ripping away vital unemployment assistance and pandemic related programs from 7.5 million people on Labor Day, a day that was once a celebration of labor unionization and now has become another meaningless day to shop till ya drop or get blind drunk like usual. We give a very compact overview of all thin...

Fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and of course the pandemic holding it all together. There's a "Mu" variant in town, coming soon to a human population near you! The draconian Texas abortion legislation was, of course, all the fault of Ralph Nader, Susan Sarandon, and Bernie (and his awful awful "bros"). Pulling out combat troops, leaving the drones and the psychotic co...

In our fourth Book Club installment we discuss the final half of David Graeber's excellent anthropological analysis of the modern workplace and economic landscape, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory . (Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it.) General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: D.P.   JNM's Recommendation: Double Feature: Taxi Driver / Bringing Out the De...

We veer away from our usual fair, slightly, and discuss the heinous cruelty of gay conversion therapy and several interrelated issues concerning American Christianity, homophobia, class-based analysis, cultural warfare, and more. We used the new Streaming Service documentary Pray Away as a rough guide for the discussion. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Slay the Spire JNM's R...

In our fourth Book Club installment we discuss the first half of David Graeber's excellent anthropological analysis of the modern workplace and economic landscape, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory . (Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it.) General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: http://nestflix.fun JNM's Recommendation: The Untold History of the United Sta...

Since we did our first endurance film franchise marathon and watched all eight Fast & Furious movies last year, we felt it was our obligation to do a commentary for the new, ninth (!), entry in the franchise, F9 . Big magnets and an honest to goodness car-in-outer-space scene were the highlights. For context, we recorded this on August 2, 2021 after recording episodes 088 and 089 all on the sa...

We discuss the ongoing situation in Afghanistan and the history leading up to it roughly from 1978 to present. Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Designated Survivor: 60 Days (Korean version) JNM's Recommendation: Saint Maud Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over...

In a Heat Death first we have guests comment on a movie with us. Communing from the other side of the globe, Danny, Joe and Matt from Boomer Death Squad join us in viewing the worst movie in our podcast canon, An American Carol , a uniquely inept and horrendous film in every way, and that's not even factoring in its abhorrent political ideology. Still, wading through cinematic trash is still...

We discuss our viewing of the abysmal, terminally unfunny, conservative skewering of 2000s era liberalism An American Carol . We take a crack at what exactly it is that keeps certain political comedy from being funny and ideologically coherent at the same time, and what renders certain comedy toothless and painfully unfunny. Nevertheless, we keep things pretty loose and digressive in the spirit of...

Per the 76th anniversary of Hiroshima, we discuss the surrounding historical details of dropping The Bomb. Biden wore a tan suit. Biden and Psaki lied about vital details concerning vaccinations and masks and no one gives a shit because half the country will take a bullet for their favorite political TV friends and the other half doesn't want to admit coronavirus is real or that masks have an...

We talk evictions, protests, deltas, shithead consumers, and America's Top Sex Criminals. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) The Knife Thrower & 2) Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser JD's Recommendations: 1) Hospital Playlist & 2) Ted Lasso Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpod Please send all Letters of Derisi...

We read an absurdly stupid "rebuttal" to Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed written by a doofus named Adam Shepard entitled Scratch Beginnings . General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Don't read Scratch Beginnings JNM's Recommendation: Cinematic Double Feature: Casino & The Departed Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Every show-related link is corral...

We cover the patently unjust sentencing of the extraordinary whistleblower/self-proclaimed proud "traitor", Daniel Hale. Also some thoughts on the addled US gerontocracy and the extreme corporate abuse of a man electrocuted at a Frito-Lays factory. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Drink 8 Glasses of Water Per Day JNM's Recommendations: 1) Call Me a Traitor: Daniel H...

We're half-vaxxed now. A small win for labor at the snack factory. San Francisco makes digging food out of the trash much harder. Rich assholes might have gone to space again and climate catastrophe is so boring. We disagree about internet censorship stuff. Come back into agreement about domestic terrorism laws. Cuba. Haiti. Somalia's back on the drone dance card. General Recommendations...

We discuss Nickel and Dimed , Barbara Ehrenreich's excellent undercover journalistic examination of the all too real, and oft-invisible, hand-to-mouth struggle of living in the lower strata of American life circa 1998-2000. Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it. Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Every show-related link is corralled and available here . Hea...

Billionaire space race is pure chintzy trash so of course Trump thinks he invented it. A belated "Rot in Hell" to Rumsfeld. Biden and Rumsfeld had differing but equally shitty ideas about Afghanistan c. 2001. Cuba is portrayed in a multitude of false and distorted lights by the Empire that brutally sanctions and otherwise sabotages it at every turn over the last 70 years. Of course the a...

—Presidential assassination in Haiti seems suspicious at the very least and reminds us of the brutal colonialism & subjugation of that land from past till present. —People get unabashedly horny for Biden's imaginary war with Russia. —The climate emergency is only going to get worse from here on out. —Elon Musk is one step closer to implementing his childlike imagination's car tunnel...

We observed the sacred Fourth of July, about 11,000 miles away from the Statue of Liberty, with libations and our fourth movie franchise marathon. We watched the entire original Planet of the Apes franchise (1968-1973) on a rainy afternoon that turned into the crack of dawn. It got increasingly uninhibited and loose and very much in the spirit of 1776, Year of Our Simian Lord-Doctor Zaius. Note: O...

We observed the sacred Fourth of July, about 11,000 miles away from the Statue of Liberty, with libations and our fourth movie franchise marathon. We watched the entire original Planet of the Apes franchise (1968-1973) on a rainy afternoon that turned into the crack of dawn. It got increasingly uninhibited and loose and very much in the spirit of 1776, Year of Our Simian Lord-Doctor Zaius. Note: O...

We observed the sacred Fourth of July, about 11,000 miles away from the Statue of Liberty, with libations and our fourth movie franchise marathon. We watched the entire original Planet of the Apes franchise (1968-1973) on a rainy afternoon that turned into the crack of dawn. It got increasingly uninhibited and loose and very much in the spirit of 1776, Year of Our Simian Lord-Doctor Zaius. Note: O...

We observed the sacred Fourth of July, about 11,000 miles away from the Statue of Liberty, with libations and our fourth movie franchise marathon. We watched the entire original Planet of the Apes franchise (1968-1973) on a rainy afternoon that turned into the crack of dawn. It got increasingly uninhibited and loose and very much in the spirit of 1776, Year of Our Simian Lord-Doctor Zaius. Note: O...

Our fourth ill-advised movie franchise marathon. While perturbing our nervous systems in order to open our third eyes to the fully unveiled truth, we viewed all five of the original Planet of the Apes films, leaving behind commentary tracks for each of them* in our wake. Here we discuss the viewing experience and the franchise on the whole. *Only four of the five commentaries survived due to an un...

We shake the sleep out of our heads on this air polluted July morning with a discussion of the royals in part by way of Christopher Hitchens' 1990 polemical pamphlet The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish . Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Luca JNM's Recommendation: The Filth and th...

We update some issues related to our last two Book Club episodes: one of the big players in the manufactured opioid epidemic is being awful (gasp) & JFK being hero worshipped out of devotion to pure liberal fantasia about who he really was. Then we move on to some current happenings like Nestle's god given right to employ slaveholders. We accidentally get into #FreeBritney for a minute by...