Where There's Woke

Lydia breaks down a very recent controversy that had every right wing source losing their absolute minds: a school in the Bay Area paid hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for Woke Kindergarten, and test scores plummeted even further! Or that's at least what they want you to think. We dive into the who, what, where, when, and how of this one and it is a wild ride.   California School Dashboa...

Hey all, please enjoy this episode-length preview of our January Bonus! We watched Ricky Gervais's new "comedy" special and didn't laugh once. So we invited the funniest guy ever, Eli Bosnick, to join us on this one and bring back the joy to our lives that Ricky destroyed. If you'd like the full episode, make sure to pledge on patreon.com/wherethereswoke at the 2nd tier or above!

And several other mini stories! There are always so many little stories we don't get to, so this month we decided to try a roundup of sorts. Lydia put together some of the top anti-woke stories from January to share, and it was lots of fun!   If you're enjoying our work, please consider sharing with your friends, leaving a 5-star review, or pledging over on Patreon!   Feel free to email us at   ly...

Dr. Isaac Kamola joins us to discuss the work he's done to expose the partisan mechanics that fuel websites like CampusReform and The College Fix. How exactly does this machine operate? Who is behind it all? Why is Christopher Rufo the absolute worst?   And, to help professors who experience this targeted harassment, Dr. Kamola founded Faculty First Responders to provide resources and support.   D...

A sequel! Dr. Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, was publicly blasted by a student - first in an article on The College Fix, and then to millions of viewers tuning into Fox News with Tucker Carlson - because of a paragraph he wrote in the 2019 Spring semester syllabus for a Political Science course. That's right... there was a segment on Fox News about... a syllabus. NAY....

In 2017, political science professor Dr. Albert Ponce was targeted by right-wing media because of a lecture he gave at Diablo Valley College regarding white supremacy in America. Lydia walks us through what actually happened before, during, and after the motivating incident. The people responsible for this panic were totally cool and not at all white supremacist monsters.   You can watch Dr. Ponce...

It's Bread Week here at WTW!   King Arthur Baking Company is in the hot seat with the Right over an accelerator opportunity that is *racist against white people*. We're here to tell you what's really going on here and why we're keeping a close on New Hampshire from here on out.   Be sure to check out Project Potluck ! They are doing some fantastic work to build a community and resource network in...

Yayyyy final episode of 2023! We noticed there were a few anti-woke outlets doing "worst of the woke" awards. So, we decided to do the WTW Best of the Worst of the Woke Awards! Find out if your favorite nominees won! Or something.   Feel free to email us at   lydia@seriouspod.com   or   thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at  patreon.com/wherethereswoke !

Ayaan Part 2: Maybe the real Christianity was the Western values we made along the way.   We, and Heath Enwright, are back for more analysis/roasting of the bizarre and embarrassing conversion to Christianity by former Atheist leader Ayaan Hirsi Ali. And we get to see Jordan Peterson in a Harvey Dent/Two-Face costume!   Feel free to email us at   lydia@seriouspod.com   or   thomas@seriouspod.com !...

If you were a part of the New Atheism movement at all, you likely remember the person many called the 5th horse-person of atheism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Welp. She recently wrote an essay revealing that she has converted to Christianity. Why, you might wonder? To fight the woke. For real. Well, and to hate Islam better. So we brought in Heath Enwright, of the Scathing Atheist, among other great shows, t...

3 War 3 Christmas   The woke are coming for your stories of bullied reindeer who are only treated well once they can be of some use to Santa's bottom line. Also, the woke are coming for your big honkin' nutcracker dicks.   Feel free to email us at   lydia@seriouspod.com   or   thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at  patreon.com/wherethereswoke !

SANTA IS A WHITE MAN. Oh, does that trigger you, lib? Read a book.   The war on Christmas continues. The woke have taken Santa, and now they have lain siege to that very Christmassy Christmas song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside." What are the Santa-fearing red blooded Americans to do?   Feel free to email us at   lydia@seriouspod.com   or   thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming...

Hey folks, please enjoy this free preview of the December bonus!  The OG Defender of Christmas himself gives us some deep psychological insight into why we all hate Christmas so much and are actively trying to destroy it. Featuring Tom Curry from Cognitive Dissonance, Citation Needed, and Dear Old Dads!  Get the full episode as a 2nd tier patron or above at patreon.com/wherethereswoke !

Ho Ho Ho? Or Ho Ho... NO!   That's right, it's almost Christmas which means GRAB YOUR GUNS LIBS LET'S HUNT. Lydia takes us through the history of this extremely stupid Fox News Panic.   Feel free to email us at   lydia@seriouspod.com   or   thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at  patreon.com/wherethereswoke !

Part 7 of We Shouldn't Name Anything for John Stennis   Brewer was victorious at the Supreme Court. So... hurray? Kemper County throws a parade for our freed victims and ushers them home? NOPE. The Kemper Trio remain in jail, with no idea what the future holds. Brewer's fight isn't done. Find out how this all concluded, and the Animal House ending for everyone!   Content warning: old timey racist...

Part 6 of We Shouldn't Name Anything for John Stennis   We meet our hero! And he kicks ass. How in the world did he beat all the odds and take this case to the Supreme Court? Find out!   Content warning: old timey racist language   Feel free to email us at   lydia@seriouspod.com   or   thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at  patreon.com/wherethereswoke !

Part 5 of We Shouldn't Name Anything for John Stennis   Our last stop in present-ish time before we go back to 1930s Mississippi. In researching the ways our modern jurisprudence is barely better than the 1930s, I came across a death row story so compelling I had to tell it. A man was convicted of a horrible, horrible crime. The rape and murder of a 4 year old girl, his girlfriend's daughter. He a...

Part 4 of We Shouldn't Name Anything for John Stennis   The trial has ended. We start the aftermath. The Kemper Trio are due to be murdered by racists as fast as possible. We take a look at the legal landscape of the time, and then have to take a quick detour as it turns out things are actually WORSE now in many ways. Don't believe me? What if I told you the Supreme Court ruled that being innocent...

Part 3 of We Shouldn't Name Anything for John Stennis   At long last, we hear the real story from the defendants themselves. And we meet Satan.   Content warning: this episodes contains mention of horrendous racial violence.   Feel free to email us at   lydia@seriouspod.com   or   thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at  patreon.com/wherethereswoke !

Part 2 of We Shouldn't Name Anything for John Stennis.   What really happened in the trial of Ed Brown, Yank Ellington, and Henry Shields? Well, since this is WTW we can't just tell you that small bit of information and have a 3 minute episode. Instead, we've got some historical context, a detailed look at the state's case (argued by Stennis), and then some... more historical stuff. Then finally,...

This line of research has turned up SO much. Have we got a series for you! This goes so many places. First, we look at John Stennis's pre-Senate life. He eventually white privileged himself into being a Mississippi prosecutor. In that role, he went after 3 black men for a murder they almost certainly didn't commit. The case was so bad it became a landmark Supreme Court case. Content warning: this...

It's a SPOOKTACULAR!!! Lydia takes us through an evolution of Fox News vs. Halloween costumes over the last several years. They're for sure having a normal one. Then, Lydia has a top secret even worse thing than Fox News that she won't spoil. Don't miss it! Feel free to email us at   lydia@seriouspod.com   or   thomas@seriouspod.com ! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/...

And you thought we were done campaigning to get stuff at NASA renamed! Well, so did we, to be honest. But then one line in Space Karen's emails we FOIAed changed everything! These next two episodes are a fascinating look at an old Dixiecrat and how effing racist people like that were able to be while still being not just accepted, but HIGHLY regarded and honored within our political institutions....

WTW submitted its first FOIA related to the Jelliscope Welliscope a while back, and we received responses from NASA to share with you all! Thomas cluing in on one email thread in the midst of hundreds of pages from Nature's FOIA kicked off this quest and we learned a whole lot more about this Space Karen as a result. We also get into more of why Sean O'Keefe is a piece of work with a story Lydia s...

You might have seen the recent viral TikTok of an unmarried, child-free woman spontaneously deciding to make shakshuka for breakfast after sleeping in a bit the morning after going to the Beyonce concert - or the backlash from conservatives and the anti-woke that promptly followed. So did we, and we've invited none other than unmarried, child-free man Heath Enwright on the show to break down the F...