The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

These are dark times but I will continue to tell the stories you need to hear in a clear (and usually profane) voice. If I entertain/anger/inform you, preferably all three, please consider becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year. Are we on the brink of a massive economic upheaval? Thanks to Trump’s imbecile tariff chaos, I wouldn’t bet against it. If you have...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! I’m flying solo this week since Shannon has a lot of personal stuff to deal with all at the same time. Wish her luck because she’s going to need it. Bu...

Fascism thrives on fear. It wilts under scrutiny. Never look away. Never stop fighting. Hold them accountable and make them pay for every cruel thing they do. It’s the only way we get through this. Support this newsletter for just $5 a month or $50 a year and we’ll get through together. Shannon spent this week trying not to scream into the microphone over Trump’s continued descent into Nazi-like d...

Woohoo! The construction crews that have been tearing up the street in front of our building for the last 6 months snapped the internet cable (again) so we’ve been offline all day. We just got it back and…the entire 4 hours of streaming is here! WHEW! I don’t expect anyone to watch the whole thing but it’s nice to know I didn’t spend 4 hours recording this for nothing. :) Thank you Jon Saxton , Th...

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These are dark times but I will continue to tell the stories you need to hear in a clear (and usually profane) voice. If I entertain/anger/inform you, preferably all three, please consider becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year. Musk and his puppet president are still flooding the zone but it’s not that hard to focus on the truly dangerous stuff and if you’re...

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The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! It’s been another week of non-stop treason and crime by Musk and his puppet president so how do they keep the legacy press from doing its job and infor...

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The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! Even as Donald Trump spends his days watching TV and playing golf, his puppet masters from Project 2025 continue their work trying to turn America into...

These are dark times but we will continue to tell the stories you need to hear in a clear (and usually profane) voice. If we entertain/anger/inform you, preferably all three, please consider becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year. The Red Hats are coming! The Red Hats are coming! The apocryphal warning of an invasion by democracy-hating Monarchists seems pret...

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The legacy media has abandoned us in favor of sucking up to oligarchs and fascism. Find voices you trust (other than me) and subscribe where you can. Independent voices like the Opinionated Ogre will be needed in the coming days and we will require your support. This podcast is free but for $5 a month or just $50 a year, you can keep the lights on. Musk walked his pet president little Doggie Donni...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year ! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! The 9000 OMG sale is running until Saturday, 2/9! Become a supporting subscriber for just $25! Today’s main topic is, of course, Elon Musk’s ongoing c...

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The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! We have a special treat for you this week! Shannon and I have our very first special guest! Lila the Opinionated Teen! If we have to talk about terribl...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! Well, here we are on the other side. Bleh. Trump 2.0 is a shitshow of idiocy, lawlessness, and corruption and it’s been three whole days. Gonna be a lo...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! This week’s episode is live, people! Gotta say, I wasn’t expecting much from Republicans and they really lived down my expectations. What a goddamn emb...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! Welcome to the first regular episode of the Og Pod of the New Year! Shannon and I are thrilled to be back to work giving you the news and helping you u...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! During the winter break, I sat down with Lila, my beloved semi-adopted surrogate daughter, and had an in-depth conversation about her school’s new cell...

As I’m editing a special surprise episode of Lila Explains To The Olds, I thought I’d drop this little bonus clip of a very amusing story Lila shares of the time she discovered that busses do not, in fact, run non-stop. The full episode will be out later today. Enjoy Lila’s suffering. The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by be...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year ! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! Just a few days left until the Holiday Sale ends. Don’t get left with an empty stocking! This is it, people! The last Og Pod of the year! The next tim...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year ! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway! The penultimate episode of 2024 is here! Shannon and I tackle our absolute favorite topic: Foreign Policy! Bleh. The CEO killer has been caught and…do...