Kill The Computer

We discuss the ongoing Groyper/Tech Bro Civil War with our friend Diana then debate on whether Adrian Dittmann is actually Elon, or simply an admiring pervert. Follow Diana @ https://twitter.com/rlycalm Listen to our full premium episodes on www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki 

Find the rest of this premium episode at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki This was originally recorded on December 29th, 2024 Follow Ed Zitron at https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Listen to Better Offline Podcast with Ed Zitron at https://www.betteroffline.com/ Find where else we post Western Kabuki episodes at and more: https://linktr.ee/westernkabuki

Arif Hasan is an NFL reporter and author writing a book on the relationship between Western Imperialism and Sports.  Follow Arif at www. WideLeft. Football or https://x.com/ArifHasanNFL Listen to Arif's show 60 Minute Drill with Caleb and Ed Zitron at www.linktr.ee/60minutedrill Support this podcast at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki    

Listen to the full episode at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki We're going back to 2015 to talk about the political landscape, on and offline, that led to the election of Donald Trump to see what's changed and what we can learn. Follow David: https://www.youtube.com/@therationalnational https://bsky.app/profile/daviddoel.bsky.social

We talked to Matt Binder about Hawk Coin, the financial key to success provided to people by Hailey Welch, as well as Luigi Mangione the alleged UHC CEO shooter. Follow Matt: Newsletter: http://disruptionist.com YouTube: http://youtube.com/MattBinder   Podcasts: http://ScamEconomy.com  // http://DOOMEDcast.com  // @majorityfm PURCHASE TICKETS TO OUR FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW AT WWW.PATREON.COM/WESTERNK...

June accidentally stumbled head first into the beautiful world of "ice wall" theory, so we brought Marcos onto the show to help completely and totally ice pill her. Follow Marcos's show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-aint-shit-show/id1525171566

We enter the Costco Cinematic Universe with friend of the show Hoots to talk about the dark world of child influencers. Follow Hoots: https://www.youtube.com/@hootsyoutube This episode was originally slated to be a Patreon exclusive, but we unlocked it for everybody. If you'd like to support us, please consider doing so at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Cartoonists & co-authors of the Justice Warriors series Matt Bors & Ben Clarkson are back to talk Bubble City & read some news with us. Strap in for a very silly episode. Buy Justice Warriors 2: Vote Harder at: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors-Vol-2/Matt-Bors/JUSTICE-WARRIORS/9781952090325   Support us at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

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June and Alex have opted to leave the left and take positions within the incoming Trump Administration. Caleb refused, and is now in a secure prison facility. The crew discuss various social media figures and politicians who are "leaving the left" with friend of the show and co-host of Kill James Bond, Devon. Follow Kill James Bond at www. KillJamesBond.com  or Devon at www.twitter.com/Devon_OnEar...

June gives her thoughts on the results of the election. Note: this is a re-upload. A previous version of this episode was corrupted during the upload and cut off prematurely. 

By listener request, and just in time for the election, we're doing the RFK Jr. episode. Ryan Broderick joins us to talk about the troubling man Trump wants to put in charge of the FDA and the current conservative landscape at large.   Follow Ryan at twitter.com/broderick Support us at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

We brought on Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords and Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America to talk about the current moral panic we find ourselves in. Follow Talia: https://www.twitter.com/mobydickenergy Buy Wild Faith: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-faith-how-the-christian-right-is-taking-over-america-talia-lavin/21057649?ean=9780306829192 Follow Western Kabuki on Pat...

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Thank you for your submissions! This quarter had most tweets we've ever gotten (and genuinely some of the worst). We sorted through several hundred of them in order to bring you this episode, and to celebrate we brought Eliot and Ricky from Internet Today. Follow twitter.com/EliotETC   twitter.com/RickyFTW  and twitter.com/InternetTodayTV  or subscribe to Internet Today at Youtube.com/InternetToda...

We're joined our friends Josh and Brian from TWOAPW pod to return to the South Korean gender wars, some forum history, and more. Thank you to all the help we got on this episode from our listeners and friends in South Korea as well as domestically. Heads up: this episode contains descriptions of various crimes of sexual nature as well as other various inappropriate behaviors to that end. Part two...

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We bring back John Cullen from Blocked Party + The POD Kast to discuss some of the worse products being advertised to you on the internet. Follow John at @CullenTheComic on Twitter Support us at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Caleb's new show with Arif Hasan and Ed Zitron is out now! If you like the NFL and want a show that does a cultural and political critical analysis, this one's for you. If not, we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming soon! Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/60MinutePod  and find links to download on spotify, apple etc at www.linktr.ee/60MinuteDrill    

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We brought our friend Janie on to discuss some horrible trends happening in the world of AI Facebook Slop, get into why these images exist, and into the financial incentives surrounding them. You can see the images we referenced in our notes, they're on our Patreon at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki or for free on our Discord at linktr.ee/WesternKabuki Follow Janie Danger https://twitter.com/Wifesu...

We briefly discuss the how the DNC sucked, then get into the history of Adin Ross with our friend Miles Klee of the Rolling Stone. View Miles's work, including his article on Adin Ross here:  https://rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/ Listen to the full episode at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Ed joins us to talk about Google's anti-trust legal woes and the red flags to look for if you're trying to predict the AI bubble burst. We also run the numbers on how many images you would need to generate per day on Grok to bankrupt X, and whether Elon Musk will go out like David Carradine or Budd Dwyer. Find Ed at wheresyoured.at Support our show on Patreon at www. Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

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Jocat is a content creator who has gone viral multiple times, albeit not for good reasons. If you haven't seen his controversially uncontroversial content, don't worry. We spend the first half of this episode discussing it, then we bring Jocat on himself for the second to half chat about his experience being shoved into the spotlight and the consequences of being a "main character".