Wetwired

I guess we could call these archive releases "ReWired". This episode was extremely educational for us. It was part of a group of episodes where we dove into the background and origin story of a person or people who've had an outsized impact on shaping the way many Americans as well as people worldwide see themselves and their place in the world. Subscribe on Patreon to get extra episodes and liste...

You might think QAnon has faded away, or maybe has been just laying dormant for the last couple of years. You'd be wrong. It’s been there all along, stewing and metastasizing beneath the surface, mostly. You can find people decoding the news all over Telegram still, and it’s absolutely thriving Twitter. Having Trump in the Whitehouse and QAnon influencers like Kash Patel and Dan Bongino in the FBI...

First up, we talk about Sam Altman’s overhyped and supremely disappointing release of ChatGPT 5. Then we get into the AI hype machine that has the potential to take down the US economy when the bubble finally pops. We wrap up with a dip into r/AISoulmates, the community for the Wireborn and the humans they've chosen to love. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to suppor...

This is Part 6 of Cold as ICE. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired We go over the ballooning Homeland Security budget and ICE's unprecedented expansion. None of this looks good for anyone in the US but as always with things like this the most vulnerable people are hit first and the hardest. Unsurprisingly and despite their positive c...

Breaking from our sabbatical to talk about Dems cowardly criticisms of Israel’s manufactured famine in Gaza after spending 18 months supporting the genocide and Bernie Sander’s failed legislation to restrict military aid to Israel. We also get into the resurrected 2 state solution as a platitude that even if they meant it would be impossible to achieve. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) S...

We start off with a truly bizarre story about a yeti blood oath and some of the different types of priests. Then we get into the MAGA mindset and talk about how all the old Epstein stories are new again, why Trump's distractions aren't working like they used to, and why his lunatic base just can't let go of Jeffrey Epstein. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to support...

We kick off this episode talking about the terrible politics surrounding the floods in Texas. As if the mass death tragedy isn’t enough, the crank caucus has decided that antique emergency systems isn’t grabby enough for a headline. Instead, they're pushing a new weather conspiracy and claiming that "someone" in the government caused the heavy rains and flooding on purpose. While Texas was experie...

This is Part 5 of Cold as ICE. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired In today’s episode, we begin with the recent spectacle in MacArthur Park in an LA community with a large immigrant population. We move on to talk about dehumanizing undocumented people, the national citizen registry, and the parallels of a rising authoritarian state a...

We talk about the homicidal attention seeking of the White House that demands Trump did a very, very good job destroying the Iranian nuclear program. We also cover the hysterical reactions from both Republican and Democrats to Mamdani winning the Democrat mayoral primary. Our conclusion is that good things can happen, but mostly haven’t been. We also reveal our plan for an upcoming series, “It’s i...

We chat with Gabriel Kennedy, author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson, about Wilson and Timothy Leary’s 1970s and 80s hope-fueled tech utopianism and what's left of it in the age of Musk and Thiel’s tech-fash dystopia. Find Gabriel online and buy his book:chapelperilous.us Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to support making this s...

A lot of things going down in the past week. We review some MAGA reactions to the Musk/Trump slap fight. While Trump and the US Army had their joint birthday party, cops are still attacking protesters in LA. Israel attacked Iran, reminding the world that Israel attacking its neighbors is absolutely not them starting a new war but is actually them defending themselves from an enemy who might possib...

We're joined today by Bianca Tylek, the founder and director of Worth Rises, an advocacy non-profit that works to dismantle the prison industry and end the exploitation of its targets. She’s also the author of the newly released book, The Prison Industry – How It Works and Who Profits. Buy The Prison Industry: https://worthrises.org/theprisonindustry Follow on Social: https://x.com/WorthRises http...

This is Part 4 of Cold as ICE. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired In the previous three episodes, we’ve discussed the Esther Project, the Heritage Foundation’s plan that’s playing out right now, a brief history of immigration control, which has always been about racism, colonialism, and empire, and the recent history that got us her...

As if he’d seen a vision, Jake Wood, head of the fund-raising side of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) resigned on May 25.  And lucky for him that he did since on May 27, the GHF, under Israeli military supervision, made their first food delivery to thousands of desperate and starving Palestinians, including women and children. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get extra epis...

This is part 3 of Cold as ICE. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired In part one, we discussed the Heritage Foundation plan, Project Esther, which is playing out right now, and Clinton's immigration policy just before 9/11.  In part two, we looked at how we got here, the institutions that were forged out of racism, capitalism, and empi...

The boys stroll through the latest news about Kanye, Starmer, Macron, and Merz's (totally fake) coke fueled train ride, and how ChatGPT might be driving some people insane. Subscribe on Patreon to get extra premium episodes every month. patreon.com/wetwired

The history of immigration law in the US is a two and a half century parade of heinous, racist, and xenophobic laws. I’m starting to suspect that borders were always about white supremacy, empire, colonialism, and capitalist hegemony. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired The only exceptions were a few laws passed that merely repealed...

The rise of authoritarianism from liberal, capitalist states builds on existing institutions. From goose-stepping totalitarianism to iron-fisted presidents of a banana republic; they're just retooling the factory, not building from scratch. Secret police are a key instrument in every 20th Century example. The USSR had Cheka, Nazis had the Gestapo, East Germany had the Stasi, Ba’athist Syria had th...

The Wetwired take on Bezos’ glam astronauts, Nancy Pelosi refusing to release her wrinkled grip on the other well-heeled corporate Democrats, and the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang model of California politics. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired

In the time we prepared to record this episode, Trump announced the insane tariff policy, so we had to update everything. Then we recorded and right afterward, he put it all on hold. By the time you listen to this, the stock market will have zeroed out, and we'll be staking out our new freehold on Greenland. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to support making this sho...

While the Signalgate drama has been playing out across the news shows and editorial pages, the Trump administration has also mostly quietly continued to disappear as many people as possible. In addition to snatching up student visa holders who have the gall to criticize genocidal Zionists, ICE, with the help of some State officials, is also targeting Chinese nationals studying and working in the U...

Last time, we talked with Gabriel Kennedy about his exceptional biography of Robert Anton Wilson. This time, we're talking about an insane chapter in post WWII history—one that also captured Wilson’s interest. And that would be Propaganda Due. Subscribe on Patreon to get extra episodes and listen to our back catalog patreon.com/wetwired Propaganda Due (P2) was originally a Masonic lodge establishe...

We could be talking about Trump punishing Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy with a humiliation ritual in the White House. Or we could talk about all the NAZI salutes at CPAC this year. Instead, we’re escaping from the political brush fire to the world of movies. Just a few days after the Oscars, you might think we’d want to talk about any of the award winning films from the last year. But you would be...

The troubling history of the FBI encouraging mass shooters and the outing of a White supremacist US ICE prosecutor. Some reading: https://booty.substack.com/p/prior-contact-between-mass-shooters https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

Child computer engineers, raised on effective altruism and Groyper memes, have invaded nearly every agency and department in the US government. They're accessing personnel information, rewriting code in the Treasury Department's computer system, and executing Trump's 19th century vision of small government. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com...