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Today we’re talking about Josh Hawley’s latest book Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs. The fist pumping MAGA Senator from Missouri has joined the manosphere book club. He is now in the crisis-of-manhood genre among Jordan Peterson’s Twelve Rules for Life, Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men, and Robert Bly’s Iron John. Hawley occupies a niche in the manosphere that we haven’t talked as much a...

Mike Flynn, the retired Lieutenant General, former National Security Advisor, and the original digital soldier, has made it back into the news. We’re hearing from him again for a few different reasons. First, he’s suing the government and seeking $50 million—for wrongful prosecution. Flynn hit the news again just a week later. During a live event for the ReAwaken America tour, Flynn had a call on...

Tucker Carlson is looking for work, and he might soon be busking on a corner of Twitter. Once he commanded the most watched show on cable-TV. He used his enormous platform to broadcast little known neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideas—repackaged in an advertiser-friendly format. As much as Tucker’s on-air cheerleading for Trump helped him rise to the top of the airwaves, the Trump ride had a gnarl...

The law of attraction permeates the world of self-help and spirituality. In this magical world, everything you think you know about the causal nature of reality is wrong. All that you experience, all that you have and are, is a consequence of the vibrations that you attract. You don’t have to explain the mechanism or prove the results, because it’s all self-evident. If you don’t get what you want,...

For this episode, we’re commemorating the peaceful transfer of completely ceremonial and ineffectual power. That’s right, in the grandest tradition of Britannia, going all the way back to Arthur himself, the UK has found itself a new king. A new royal figurehead has pulled the sword from the stone, donned the power bracelets, and will now sit on the velvet throne. Articles we cover: https://www.sp...

Today we’re looking at the life and prophecies of theosophist, cult leader, and deadbeat dad Edward Arthur Wilson, better known as Brother XII. Brother XII was an English occult leader who founded the Aquarian Society and its commune in Vancouver Island, British Columbia in the late 1920s. He was hounded with allegations of abuse, fraud, and even murder. He fled prosecution by burning down his com...

Our special May Day episode of Wetwired. We talk about Paris unifying to protest pension reforms, other protests around the world, and how the town of Mosinee, Wisconsin rang in the holiday in 1950. ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ For $5 a month, get an extra couple subscriber only episodes every month or so. We also have a limited number of True Believer memberships available. https://patreon.c...

Today we’re talking with Captain Dadpool about biblical theology and Christian nationalism. He became known on social media from a TikTok post, in which he left the faith after he received his degree in biblical theology. He’s the host of Nerds + Heresy on Youtube. Find Captain Dadpool https://beacons.ai/captaindadpool ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ For $5 a month, get an extra couple subscribe...

For this episode, we have a conversation about Dr. Christiane Northrup and how she’s wiggled her way into the right wing extremist movement in Maine. In her past life as a New Age, self-help guru, Dr. Northrup was a darling of daytime talk shows. She made appearances on crowd-pleasers such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Super Soul Sunday (that’s another Oprah program), The View, Good Morning America,...

19 Kids and Counting Ran for seven years on the TLC network. The show centered on the daily routines and challenges of the religiose Duggars, Jim Bob and Michelle—and their 19 children. In 2015, when he was 27 years old, Josh Duggar publicly apologized for molesting five girls, four of whom were his sisters when he was a teenager. The fifth girl was possibly a babysitter for the younger Duggar chi...

We’re back this week with the second part of our Florida coverage. We’re continuing the story of Ron DeSantis' war on woke. Last time, Ron, with only his motley crew of legislators and angry moms, took on books, teacher's unions, and Mickey Mouse. In this thrilling conclusion, we'll find out how Florida became the battle-ground for the Republican Party's culture wars and Ron DeSantis' swamp boat p...

The land of palm trees, powerlifters, and oranges has taken a hard right turn in recent years. It’s been known for decades for its sunny beaches, Caribbean culture, snowbirds, and retirees. Florida has been a mixed bag for decades as a melting pot of the South and the Global South. And until recently, it was also a massive swing state. But, since 2020, Ron DeSantis began to tell a story of a diffe...

We're re-releasing this premium episode. Listen to that vintage Wetwired sound. It's a good reminder that we've gotten a little better. Enjoy! ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ Serial entrepreneur, health food maniac, and (probably) certified ozone therapist, David Avocado Wolfe has risen from relative obscurity into elite status as a Covid denying, Atlantis believing, Luciferian energy wielding s...

We’re talking today with Karl Mamer, author and host of the Conspiracy Skeptic Podcast. Karl was our very first guest on the show back with Premium Episode 3 when we talked about Ernst Zundel and his secret Nazi base inspired air tourism agency. He back to talk about some failed utopian societies he researched for his upcoming book. You can find Karl's first book, The Skeptic's Book of Lists, on A...

In honor of the upcoming episode that we're recording with Karl Mamer, here's the unlocked premium episode when he made his first appearance on our show. ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ Sean and Jules talk with long time conspiracy researcher, skeptic, host of the Conspiracy Skeptic Podcast, and author of "The Skeptic's Book of Lists" Karl Mamer. Karl tells us about the life and times of neo-Naz...

This is the story of a fragile democracy, a foreign sponsored coup, and a pirate radio station. On May 1, coinciding with the worker’s holiday May Day, in 1954, Guatemalans found a new station on a previously unused band of their shortwave radios. Radio Liberación, the Voice of the Liberation, announced itself as a clandestine transmitter, broadcasting from a “secret place” within the Republic of...

Is it possible that aliens have been steering humanity for years, hiding clues of their existence in such inconspicuous places as the Pyramids of Giza? Is the dawn of civilization a gift from cosmonauts from another world? Could the human race itself be the spawn of bestiality committed by Mork from Ork on our primate ancestors? Scientists have never found evidence that we’re not actually Cylons....

We’re taking a much-needed hiatus from our summer coverage of the fascists and Christian nationalists to talk about Maitreya Rael, the Last Prophet of the Elohim. Rael, a former pop singer and street musician who had a little success with the song Miel et la Canelle, later founded an auto racing magazine called Autopop. Born Claude Vorilhon, he now leads the International Raelian Movement and clai...

The law of attraction permeates the world of self-help and spirituality. In this magical world, everything you think you know about the causal nature of reality is wrong. All that you experience, all that you have and are, is a consequence of the vibrations that you attract. You don’t have to explain the mechanism or prove the results, because it’s all self-evident. If you don’t get what you want,...

In the past weeks and months, we’ve talked a few times about efforts to undermine public education. There are astroturf organizations that encourage protests at school boards and give support and talking points. Big money donors and foundations push for school privatization by support for voucher programs and so-called school choice initiatives. They’re typically promoted as plans that give more “...

Originally premium episode 12, in honor of our upcoming field trip, we're releasing our full conversation with Steph Halmhofer. ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ Deep in humanity’s forgotten past, before the end of the last Ice Age, Stone Age humans shared the planet with a much more advanced star-worshipping civilization. Through their knowledge of the constellations, this unnamed and for...

We're joined today by The Queen of Heathens, Jesseca to talk about evangelical deconstruction and life after church. We've covered a lot of Christian nationalism, from Greg Locke to the Wall Builders' David Barton, and plenty of Satanic Panic, too. We haven't talked much about what it looks like from the inside of an evangelical church or what the exit sign looks like. Jesseca is known on TikTok,...

We're back, baby!! And for our first episode of the new year, we're bringing news of the rich and famous. If you haven’t been watching the news or trolling Twitter, you might not have noticed that it’s been a very bad few months for billionaires. One after another, they’ve been breaking down the myth that they’re in any way special or worthy of our admiration. We have a little rundown on what Kany...

We're counting down the days to 2023. As a special treat, we decided to look back at the last year on Wetwired and check in on some of the people and things that we've covered on this last trip around the sun. Happy Holidays everyone! We'll see you next year! ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ For $3 a month, get an extra couple subscriber only episodes every month. We have a limited number of...

God-fearing Christian moms battled to make sure pedophiles weren’t corrupting kids with their gay books and communist ideas. The Karen battalion took on critical race theory, book bans, and transgender kids; all in the schoolhouse trenches. It looked like a spontaneous, summer uprising of outraged parents, and it was everywhere–until it suddenly vanished. If the buzzwords evaporated, the vitriol a...