Hot Water History

In our second, long-awaited DARK NOTES episode, we put historian Stephen Fox's WOLF OF THE DEEP through the HotH2OHistory wringer. Part biography of the intrepid Raphael Semmes, part account of his exploits as the captain of the feared C.S.S. Alabama, Fox recounts the adventures of the raider, his crew, and the ship that made Union vessels shudder during the Civil War. Where it gets spicy is when...

A whole lot stinks in the State of Ukraine, from off-the-grid biolabs to rank corruption, and to sustain the crimes, innumerable lives have been sacrificed on the altar of neo-con, geo-realpolitik. But, sadly, the Nulands, Pompeos, Bidens, and Zelenskys of the world are nowhere near as shrewd nor practical as ol'Otto von Bismarck. His volleys were calculated and murderous; theirs whimsical and gen...

Elon Musk sure does get around. From trimming the fat from morbidly obese D.C. to smashing ass with another rando, this guy really sticks to his word. He wants smaller government and higher birth rates. Midwit randos on Twitter fail to understand or enjoy lighthearted and yet captivating memes featuring Austrian economists. The rats are jumping the rat ship in the Washington D.C. metro area. Inter...

With the Donald channeling William McKinley--another president who never saw a tariff he didn't like--the time has come to revisit sound economics and the free market take on import taxes. Spoiler alert: just like all other forms of state plunder, tariffs wind up benefitting the few at the expense of the many. Unless one wishes to find himself in a whole array of reductio ad absurdum positions, ta...

With Senate Confirmation hearings proceeding and the ultimately tragic effects of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts hitting us in the face, the contrast between identitarian cronyism and meritorious expertise has, perhaps, never been more stark. Civilizations fall due to the preference for the former as opposed to the latter. The folly of democracy appears all the more insane and futile: "D...

Gary and Charlie welcome back the great Kennedy Hall to the show. Kennedy has been very busy since his last appearance, having completed a long overdue takedown of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in his new book CHARISMANIA. On top of that, his opus on the synergy of all heresies--modernism--entitled WHAT HAPPENED TO CATHOLICISM? is due in April and is available for pre-order (links below). Turns...

The City of Angels burns as violins are played far and wide. Despite the purposeful, defiant incompetence in simple matters, miraculous activity abounds. A home owner declares that his abode was saved by the grace of God, the blessing of his house with Epiphany Holy Water, and the intercession of the Three Wise Men. Private firefighters work to both save immensely valuable real estate and show the...

With H1-B visas in the news in the United States, newly elected U.S. Representative Jayant Bhandari chimed in regarding Indian culture and society several months ago. His take-away from having been born and raised there: India has rejected Christian and Western mores and reverted to an amoral, apathetic culture. The individual cannot advance nor flourish in post-colonial India because values and v...

In a most predictable fashion, Jack Posobiec et al. launched into their traditional screed about how domestic "terrorist" attacks are all the fault of libertarians, what with the immense power grip they have on government and their ceaseless bleating about "civil liberties and rights". Never fear, your humble correspondents have some vanquishing retorts, as do Dave Smith, Clint Russell and now-Chr...

Perhaps the greatest challenge for the modern Catholic is to find the happy state wherein one trusts in God, not to the point of surrendering to inertia but more so that state of cooperating to the fullest extent with actual and sacramental graces in order to attain excellence in the here and now. Temporal and natural achievement ought to be pursued, attained and celebrated without a shrug of the...

The Al-Assad regime capitulates in Syria as the latest country in the actual domino effect, one authored and orchestrated by the CIA at the behest of Tel Aviv. Pick your favorite corny love song. Replace "baby" or "honey" or "my love" with the United States and Israel, and you'll have a very quick but accurate summation of a diabolical and deadly love affair. Even to the seasoned and well-read his...

For the first time in 123 years, Argentina balances its budget and even goes so far as to expect a future surplus. Milei is the reason, despite his odd and schizophrenic foreign policy--he knows his Mises and he knows his Rothbard. Argentines are the beneficiaries of all of it. Gary argues that next to the Pater Noster, Mary's Magnificat is the greatest prayer in the history of Christianity. It ti...

An Oak Park detective was gunned down last week, and the same people who created such a dangerous environment in which cops must work were, altogether predictably, the first ones to express their phony "condolences". The supposedly aggrieved over the murder of Detective Reddins are the same ones creating the current state of anarcho-tyranny, i.e. a government imposed disorder and injustice. This i...

Welcome TK Coleman to the Podcast that renders all others to various degrees inferior... After some reminiscing about their glory days in Catholic grade school, Gary and Charlie get right into the nitty-gritty with Mr. Coleman. The problems with politics and the misguided religiosity assigned to it, the prudence or lack thereof of disassociation, and what the hell is going on the institutional, es...

The U.S. Department of War can really destroy two things with ease: world peace and audits. In fact, you can call the Pentagon the GOAT at each. You see, don't you though, American taxpayer--it's really all your fault?! Ludwig von Mises spoke in his characteristically eloquent and powerful manner of the nature of the lizards of the ruling class. Their fondness of communism should not surprise us o...

Stark contrasts exist between Trump, who is about to take the American Imperial Throne for the second time and his only, real predecessor--the Chief Executive of what once was the American Republic, Grover Cleveland. Ironically, Trump wants to raise tariffs; Cleveland wanted to all but abolish them. Trump is a real estate man and, as such, wants interest rates pushed down--Fed or high water. Cleve...

Emperor of the United States and King of Meme! Truth is that--shocker--we tend to go against the grain. Regarding Trump, the normie take is that his policies are good, they just don't like the man. Well, we're on board for all of the entertainment, the memes, the brashness and especially the repudiation of all of the worst baddies his re-ascent to the throne represents. Quite the good squad he's a...

A very odd statue of basketball star Dwayne Wade was unveiled in Miami just as the Vatican promoted a Japanese, anime inspired mascot, Luce. Both representations have received the proper, popular derision they deserve because neither symbol resembles the actual beings for which they stand. Ben Bollinger joins the show to elucidate the areas in which the Church faces imaging and outreach problems,...

Long overdue is the moral imperative to stop ignoring the burning bush and imagining that abortion and the Israeli genocide campaigns continue as anything but mass human extermination campaigns. Randall Terry and Cenk Uygur unmask the sinister, galling depravity of both, respectively and even succeed in forcing the sorcerers on THE VIEW and Piers Morgan's show to look at the horrors. Whores lookin...

The great Ryan McMaken at the Mises Institute advances some key insights pertaining to the war the state has always led--by its nature--against private, organic, cooperative and voluntary institutions and associations. His article provides some ways to fight back, but that's only after we recognize just how inimical freedom is to government and vice versa. It ought to come as no surprise that the...

The just day has finally arrived; time to enjoy the fruits of prodigious, patient labor. The guys welcome on show favorite Trevor Alcorn to officially and formally announce the commercial release of Tridentine Brewing's Christero Mexican Lager to be followed soon by a host of other amazing offerings. It was a long road to hoe, and it was only by God's grace with a ton of intercessory prayers to an...

Harris runs a campaign on imagining the unalienable right for you to alienate your child from life itself. Trump falls for faux FBI plot to make a Pakistani operative a patsy for Iran. We've officially gone far beyond the American electoral system and presidential campaigns simply promoting mendacity. They are actively and dangerously stupid. Is it enough anymore to simply laugh and them and not p...

The Chicago White Sox chase down history as they are sure to lose more games this season than any other team in the modern era. Undaunted by the sheer ignominy of the feat, Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf is going hat-in-pauper-hand to the City of Chicago and State of Illinois, pleading with government to let him bilk them yet again... Chicago public school teachers fail at a rate (a Guaranteed Rate?!) e...

Anarcho-capitalism is a beautiful ideology and theory, but it is also hard to swallow for the uninitiated. Breaking out of the matrix and Overton window is intimidating. Hans-Hermann Hoppe offered both theory and practical advice as to how to proceed--27 years ago. His address turned transcription has aged so well that its wisdom shines all the more brilliantly. The antidote to the State is desper...

No time like the present--along with every succeeding 9/11 anniversary--to remind people of what transpired prior to the greatest government terrorist attack carried out on the American people; namely, Donald Rumsfeld addressed the assorted fellow fiends at the Department of War (we refuse to call it 'Defense') about how $2.3 trillion in allocations had gone, well, missing. Exoneration by bombing-...