Wetwired

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 forgotten society’s scientists were able to accurately predict that a planet-wide catastrophic flood was about to unfold that would all but wipe out humanity. By their ascen...

As a Thanksgiving treat and in honor of the hard-working religious maniacs we know as the Pilgrims, we're releasing a re-edit of the very first episode of Wetwired. Notice that classic Wetwired sound? ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ For $3 a month, get an extra couple subscriber only episodes every month. We have a limited number of True Believer memberships available. https://patreon.com/we...

After all the promises, predictions, and fortune-telling from Republicans about the Red Tsunami that would crash into all of us, a sitting Democrat with terrible approval ratings, and over 8% inflation, what was promised to be a Red Wave turned out to be just barely a trickle. Even though Jules detests change and has an almost fascistic affection for order, we’re breaking our usual rotation of pre...

With the midterm elections just a few days away, we thought we would talk about the one candidate who has the biggest potential to act like a wrecking ball if he wins. That would be the Christian nationalist, Dominionist, QAnon colonel, and candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano. Doug Mastriano, retired US Army colonel, January 6th rioter, is the Republican candidate for governor o...

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...

As many of you have probably heard, back in August, Andrew Tate, notorious misogynist, failed reality show personality, and conspiracy theorist, had his profiles removed from every mainstream social media platform. Tate, who initially got famous as a champion kickboxer, has been trying and failing for nearly a decade since retiring from combat sports to translate that success into really anything...

In Premium Episode 9, we introduced you to Claude Vorilhon, better known today as Maitreya Rael. We talked about his close encounter with the Elohim, the aliens from the Planet of the Eternals, the lessons he was taught by them, and the mission they gave him to share that knowledge with the world. In this episode, we’ll be talking more about the specific message Rael received from the Elohim and s...

In this episode, we have guest Martin Rooke. Martin is a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School where he studies media manipulation. He also writes at his substack called Echoes from the Right. https://eftr.substack.com/ We talk about Telegram, what it is, and how it’s used by far-right extremists to spread their messages. But first...

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...

We’re interrupting our Fash Boy summer series again—well, sort of. We’re not explicitly talking about Christian nationalists or White supremacists but there will probably be plenty of crossover. We also want to give a shout out to the host of another show. I met Hanna, co-host of the true crime podcast, the True Crime Tea Hour, while I was out the other day. How do you not talk to someone reading...

In our previous Fash Boy Summer episodes we’ve talked about Christian nationalists, Medieval apocalypticists, and white supremacy. This time around, we look back to the granddaddies of modern fascism in Europe and ask why they hated color so much. And for a special treat on this fourth of July, the day that god created the United States, Jules and I are actually in the same room for the first time...

Trying to tell the story of Tartaria in a way that believers hold it is extremely difficult. The biggest issue is that the story of Tartaria is wildly disorganized. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired There isn’t any single universally agreed upon story to tell. No one seems to have earnestly tried...

This is our latest installment for Fash Boy Summer: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Firearms. We've decided to take advantage of the lull between attention grabbing mass shootings to talk about some problems with how we describe what a mass shooting even is. Along the way, we talk about the reactionary history of efforts to control access to firearms in the US. Spoiler: we usually only enact new gun...

For the last few episodes of Fash Boy Summer, we’ve been traveling through a dark gallery of alleyways trying to learn more about Christian extremists, ethno-nationalists, and white supremacists. We’ve been trying to figure out who they are, what motivates them, and what lengths they might go to in order to achieve their goals. With us today, to join our watch party as our country inches ever clos...

In Premium episode 6, we talked about some of the Christian preachers who overtly tie together Biblical prophecy and the ultimate destiny of the United States. We also brought up the wild variety of other religious influences coming out of Mormonism, Judaism, and New Age thought that are often woven into Christian nationalist narratives. In our second episode of our Fash Boy Summer mini-series, we...

We introduce some of the more prominent Christian preachers and commentators who support, encourage, and advocate for Christianity to take an even stronger role in politics. This is also the first episode kicking off our Fash Boy Summer mini-series. For each episode, Jules and I are going to wade through the hate-filled corners of the internet to find the ideas, events, and people popularizing eth...

This episode we’re talking about the living ghost of the 1980s Satanic Panic, Pastor Bob Larson, AKA The Real Exorcist. Bob Larson has said that he began performing exorcisms even before he was a full time minister, because people would come to him with their problems. And when they described their problems, he says, demons would speak through their bodies. As of 2012, Larson claims to have perfor...

We’re talking about the movie that fanned a little fire in the early 1980s that would soon become the inferno of the Satanic Panic. To understand how this absolutely terrible movie was ever made and why anyone would ever make a film about a bunch of college kids playing a table top game we have to know a little about two things: Dungeons and Dragons and the Satanic Panic. Mazes and Monsters may ha...

Back in September 2021, El Salvador became the first nation in the world to formally adopt Bitcoin as legal currency. They’re not alone anymore. As of April this year, Central African Republic made Bitcoin legal tender and El Salvador’s neighbor Panama passed legislation to authorize Bitcoin as a legal form of payment. Crypto Bros and Bitcoin maximalists are very excited. Bitcoin fanboy mags flood...

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 superstar. A true renaissance man for the 21st century. He represents a growing new breed of politically radicalized health guru. He’s the sort of man who in one breath will reco...

OAN apologizes for Putin, Fox News contributor calls Zelenskyy a Satanist, and US Senators pander to QAnon. We’ve been trying to figure out how many people actually buy into QAnon ideas. If you just lurk on the off brand video sites, you’d think that almost everyone was in on it. Dozens of regional and national polls that have been conducted in the past couple years that try to get an accurate hea...

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-Nazi, would-be Canadian, holocaust denier, master grifter, and boutique travel enthusiast Ernst Zündel. Along the way, we also talk about the history of Hollow Earth theories, anti-vax mandat...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a fast moving situation that’s changing every moment. We know that there’s no way we can keep up with the on-the-ground movements of the Russian troops, the Ukrainian military trying to stop them, or what’s been happening to the citizens of Ukraine caught up in it all. Unless you’re completely cynical and only get your news from Joe Rogan because, you’ll know tha...

It's the Wetwired trucker episode! Jules and Sean cover the backstory behind the trucker protests in Ottawa. Where they came from, what they want and what turns them on. (Hint, it turns out there's a lot of xenophobia, fear politics, and worry about how the UN will take over the world.) Music: Airglow, New Touch (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬...

What could be a better own than accusing everyone who doesn't agree with you of being hypnotized. No more snowflakes, no more libtards. Instead, everyone is just under a hypnotic spell. Mattias Desmet wants to use mass formation psychosis to explain why otherwise good people don't agree with everything he says. Of course they would agree if only they just weren't hypnotized. Jules and Sean try to...