Hot Water History

Many are moved by the fictitious stories of open defiance against injustice and totalitarianism: Neo, Batman, whoever Katniss is... But we're like sheep to the slaughter and even cheer on the very real villains operative among us. Why is that? It cannot just be explained away by the frog-in-the-pot dynamic... Oak Park offends through its obvious cultural appropriation of American Indians. @HotH2OH...

Who has accomplished more, the university chair, the desk chair, or the armchair? With all of these supposedly reputable and esteemed institutions crumbling around us, today is the triumph of the armchair economist, historian, physician, theologian--you name it. What have you done for the good lately? Or ever? Progressivism ruins merit and dispels justice by its nature. You can still trust the wor...

The Democratic National Convention finds a very warm place to call home: Chicago. Here the scoundrels inside the United Center wink and nod about not being totally owned by AIPAC lobbyists and Ukrainian money launderers. Their penchant for genocide knows no bounds as they rejoice at a Catholic bishop(?) giving an invocation while babies are chemically killed in their mothers' wombs in a van in the...

Everybody who's anybody LOVES Harper Lee's classic novel, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Guess who's certainly outside of the category of "the anybody"? Gary's evaluation is that the book is "meh", and Charlie goes so far as to say his psy-op alarm is ringing as they analyze the work. In short, Atticus Finch is kind of a bitch. Oak Park officials determine that they are so utterly essential that they can...

Embrace the holy diversion and focus, in the most mesmerized sort of ways, on the Transfiguration of the Lord! The alternative is to wallow in the misery of politics, the mutation of economics, and the devolution of culture. No thanks... we can get back to that another day, another episode. Listen to Mark, Barnabas and Cajetan in order to tune out the dregs of society elevated to the highest posit...

It's the goodies and the badies at it again. Ludwig von Mises spoke of the beauty and miracle of the free market and social cooperation. Bob Moran hits at our humor, our intellects, and our hearts in his elegant cartoon defenses of the good, true and beautiful. Let us at the very least celebrate and protect the innocent. The malevolent are out there, prowling about the world seeking the ruin of so...

Candace Owens challenges the universal application of Miri AF's "If you know the name, they're in the game" motto as she boldly defends Catholicism, Christians in general, and stands unaffected by the Zionist bromides about how she's an "anti-Semite". She's smart enough and observant enough to see that the United States has become a vassal state. At the same time, she wonders aloud why certain ess...

Over the moon to have the great James Delingpole on to ramble about everything regarding l'Affaire Trump, American culture, and all of the diversion and division were are experiencing. It's a banger of an episode: This counts as our official warning. Be ready... More antisemitism concerns plague Oak Park high school, and the village makes another sustainability hire--whatever that means. @HotH2OHi...

Can an antipope excommunicate a bishop (or anyone else for that matter) in the Church? Francis is giving it a go, as Archbishop Vigano has been officially excommunicated latae sententiae. Mel Gibson writes a letter of unabashed support for the ostracized prelate and goes so far as to hope for the same treatment from the seized-Vatican. Quite the luminary crew of vociferous dissidents Bergoglio et...

Gary and Charlie reminisce about authoring and publishing A TWISTED HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1450-1945. The book turns two years old this 4th of July. It is a weird thing rereading your book years later. Good thing it is so damn good... President Kamala looks more and more like a real possibility. River Forest just must tax your food. Oak Park binds a fond and tearful farewell to its chief wi...

On the Feast Day of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the guys recognize just how much humanity must depend on her intercession, especially in the midst of that horror show that was a supposed presidential debate. Ample time is dedicated here to exegesis of the icon of the Mother of Perpetual Help and to some of the accepted history of the image. Oak Park is worried about smoke other than CO2 and noxiou...

Gary has finally done it--a blog entry on HotH2OHistory.com is being actively censored and deemed as 'dangerous' by Google. Finally! What took them so long to recognize the subversive character of, well, the whole enterprise?! Indicating that democracy is the god that failed, with its false edifice crumbling before our eyes, ended up being the breaking point for dear old Alphabet... Charlie had an...

Sam Roche joins Gary and Charlie for a wide-ranging discussion on Daniel Burnham's Plan for Chicago, 1909. It hardly stops there though. The guys pick Sam's brain about the proper philosophy of art and architecture, some of Sam's favorite Chicago buildings, and even what the future might hold for the Phoenix City, which is Chicago's true nickname. Will it, can it rise from the ashes (this time the...

June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, despite what corporations, government media, and elementary schools in Oak Park would have you believe. Christ thirsted and thirsts for more souls to accept and be saved in the font of his mercy and love--St. Margaret Mary Alacoque shows us the way. Chase Oliver flies a different flag every month of the year and insists--in a very un-Lincolnesque fas...

Determined to prove Trump right, the Libertarian Party espouses perpetual irrelevance and likely assisted suicide through the nomination of a leftist. And, in an effort to totally outdo themselves, the delegates tabbed a corrupt cop as his VP. Despite the heroic efforts of great people like Angela McCardle, Dave Smith, Michael Rectenwald and Michael Heise, the LP is like that freighter that ran in...

"Rules based order" and "rule of law" are phrases and notions that, at this point, deserve all of the risible, dismissive derision we can muster. Defiant PM's the world over are getting shot and threatened in a move from a very old globalist playbook. In the old U.S. of A., lawyers do what they do best--point out the absurdity of their work and the system in which they ply their "trade". Hot dogs...

Getting things right, way, way ahead of time is oh so sweet! In something of a victory lap, Gary and Charlie hit on the subjects that most thought to be conspiratorial takes just several months ago--now, they are proven to be almost irrefutably true. The guys have had help along the way: Gary talks about his recent appearance on THE DELINGPOD; it was an honor since the great James Delingpole is on...

Charlie welcomes Gary back on the show to discuss just how close Richied feels to the great Lysander Spooner and the latter's take on licensure laws. Hint: Eye-to-eye. It's that time of year--the annoyance of graduation season where we are all compelled to celebrate juveniles' release from prison while, wink-wink/nod-nod asserting that they must have learned something of value... How about an ANTI...

Charlie does another(!) solo episode because allegedly, Gary is out on maternity leave… Charlie recounts the previous episode with the great Alex Hernandez and addresses how he has gone out on the most ambitious yet freeing of limbs; namely, being an entrepreneur. The heroism doesn’t stop there: What, indeed, is government doing to the weather? Contrails my ass… Oak Parkers attempt to reach the ou...

Alex Hernandez returns as a now member of the Catholic Church. Charlie is the substitute teacher on this one. Charlie and Alex discuss Alex's journey to the faith and what we can do to grow the church. Oak Park is Oak Park.  @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 hotwaterhistory.com SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: TRIDENTINE BREWING, tridentinebrewing.com BUY GARY A BEER: buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied

Austrian economics--or better, interest in it--is sweeping the world of those not-yet-brain-dead from the Keynesian establishment. From New York comedians who should be running for president, to geeky former college professors who read Human Action for the pure fun of it, to UFC fighter Renato Moicano... may freedom and prosperity and the ideas which support both, rain and reign over all. Oak Park...

Just pause and reflect for a moment: Objectively speaking--are not our supposed foreign adversaries not the most self-restrained peoples on earth?! That is to say that the Palestinians, the Putin regime, and the mullahs in Iran--all of whom we are told by the nefarious "they" out there, in particular the Zionist Marxist core of "them" to hate unconditionally-- all acting contrary to the malevolent...

From dualism to black-washing, Angela Erickson is on board to discuss it all. Gary and Angela evaluate different approaches to advancing the pro-life movement and message. Are we in post-persuasion-ville regarding abortion? What about alternatives to the medical-pharmaceutical-industrial complex? They even have a mini debate over child labor laws and the effects of the industrial revolution. How a...

Faithful Christians--and the most authentic of them, we Catholics--are rightly shaking sensibilities and uprooting cosmologies with a direct declaration of Truth: Christus Rex. Indeed, without him, we are definitely toast as the uniparty's new emissary, the spineless Mike Johnson, runs the country into the ground with yet another catastrophe of a spending resolution. Another resolution for all the...

Just when you thought that Jorge Bergoglio could not discredit himself more, nor that he could further prove his status as a heretical anti-pope, he just went ahead and totally outdid himself! Calling refusal of the Covid jibby-jab a suicidal form of self-denial, Francis has now firmly cemented himself as the worst Bishop of Rome in Church history. Even the NEW YORK TIMES is admitting that the rea...