We veer away from our usual fair, slightly, and discuss the heinous cruelty of gay conversion therapy and several interrelated issues concerning American Christianity, homophobia, class-based analysis, cultural warfare, and more. We used the new Streaming Service documentary Pray Away as a rough guide for the discussion. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Slay the Spire JNM's Recommendation: Clifford (not the red dog one) Tom Scharpling discussing Clifford on the Blank Check podcast Fu...
Aug 28, 2021•1 hr 16 min
In our fourth Book Club installment we discuss the first half of David Graeber's excellent anthropological analysis of the modern workplace and economic landscape, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory . (Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it.) General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: http://nestflix.fun JNM's Recommendation: The Untold History of the United States Further Reading, Viewing, Listening David Graeber on the Extreme 'Centre' [VIDEO] On the Phenomenon of Bullshit...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 46 min
Since we did our first endurance film franchise marathon and watched all eight Fast & Furious movies last year, we felt it was our obligation to do a commentary for the new, ninth (!), entry in the franchise, F9 . Big magnets and an honest to goodness car-in-outer-space scene were the highlights. For context, we recorded this on August 2, 2021 after recording episodes 088 and 089 all on the same day, so things get a little loopy. Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Every show-related lin...
Aug 20, 2021•2 hr 21 min
We discuss the ongoing situation in Afghanistan and the history leading up to it roughly from 1978 to present. Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Designated Survivor: 60 Days (Korean version) JNM's Recommendation: Saint Maud Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over Afghanistan: It’s About Oil U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan Biden's speech on Afghanistan ...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 21 min
We discuss our viewing of the abysmal, terminally unfunny, conservative skewering of 2000s era liberalism An American Carol . We take a crack at what exactly it is that keeps certain political comedy from being funny and ideologically coherent at the same time, and what renders certain comedy toothless and painfully unfunny. Nevertheless, we keep things pretty loose and digressive in the spirit of mutually celebrating a year in podcasting with our pals Danny, Joe and Matt from Boomer Death Squad...
Aug 15, 2021•1 hr 25 min
In a Heat Death first we have guests comment on a movie with us. Communing from the other side of the globe, Danny, Joe and Matt from Boomer Death Squad join us in viewing the worst movie in our podcast canon, An American Carol , a uniquely inept and horrendous film in every way, and that's not even factoring in its abhorrent political ideology. Still, wading through cinematic trash is still fun with your pals, so watch along with us, if ye dare tread. ***The actual movie/commentary begins at th...
Aug 15, 2021•2 hr 8 min
Per the 76th anniversary of Hiroshima, we discuss the surrounding historical details of dropping The Bomb. Biden wore a tan suit. Biden and Psaki lied about vital details concerning vaccinations and masks and no one gives a shit because half the country will take a bullet for their favorite political TV friends and the other half doesn't want to admit coronavirus is real or that masks have any efficacy. Anyway, check out this tune: Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War (Version 2) General Recommendations JD...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 34 min
We talk evictions, protests, deltas, shithead consumers, and America's Top Sex Criminals. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendations: 1) The Knife Thrower & 2) Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser JD's Recommendations: 1) Hospital Playlist & 2) Ted Lasso Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpod Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuniversepodcast@gmail.com Send us a text Suppo...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 21 min
We read an absurdly stupid "rebuttal" to Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed written by a doofus named Adam Shepard entitled Scratch Beginnings . General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Don't read Scratch Beginnings JNM's Recommendation: Cinematic Double Feature: Casino & The Departed Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Every show-related link is corralled and available here . Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpod Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mi...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 5 min
We cover the patently unjust sentencing of the extraordinary whistleblower/self-proclaimed proud "traitor", Daniel Hale. Also some thoughts on the addled US gerontocracy and the extreme corporate abuse of a man electrocuted at a Frito-Lays factory. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Drink 8 Glasses of Water Per Day JNM's Recommendations: 1) Call Me a Traitor: Daniel Hale exposed the machinery of America’s clandestine warfare. Why did no one seem to care? 2) Letter from drone war whistl...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 23 min
We're half-vaxxed now. A small win for labor at the snack factory. San Francisco makes digging food out of the trash much harder. Rich assholes might have gone to space again and climate catastrophe is so boring. We disagree about internet censorship stuff. Come back into agreement about domestic terrorism laws. Cuba. Haiti. Somalia's back on the drone dance card. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: The Kingdom JNM's Recommendation: The Tuttle Twins (Promo) + tuttletwins.com Locationles...
Jul 25, 2021•1 hr 39 min
We discuss Nickel and Dimed , Barbara Ehrenreich's excellent undercover journalistic examination of the all too real, and oft-invisible, hand-to-mouth struggle of living in the lower strata of American life circa 1998-2000. Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it. Locationless Locations heatdeathpod.com Every show-related link is corralled and available here . Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpod Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild ...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 57 min
Billionaire space race is pure chintzy trash so of course Trump thinks he invented it. A belated "Rot in Hell" to Rumsfeld. Biden and Rumsfeld had differing but equally shitty ideas about Afghanistan c. 2001. Cuba is portrayed in a multitude of false and distorted lights by the Empire that brutally sanctions and otherwise sabotages it at every turn over the last 70 years. Of course the assassins of the Haitian president were Americans or informants to American law enforcement agencies. Julian As...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 27 min
—Presidential assassination in Haiti seems suspicious at the very least and reminds us of the brutal colonialism & subjugation of that land from past till present. —People get unabashedly horny for Biden's imaginary war with Russia. —The climate emergency is only going to get worse from here on out. —Elon Musk is one step closer to implementing his childlike imagination's car tunnel idea. —The price of sliced cheese is 1% cheaper since last year: Biden has saved the USA, FDR-style! —Maskless...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 36 min
We observed the sacred Fourth of July, about 11,000 miles away from the Statue of Liberty, with libations and our fourth movie franchise marathon. We watched the entire original Planet of the Apes franchise (1968-1973) on a rainy afternoon that turned into the crack of dawn. It got increasingly uninhibited and loose and very much in the spirit of 1776, Year of Our Simian Lord-Doctor Zaius. Note: Only the four of the five commentaries survived due to an unfortunate SD card deletion of the fourth ...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 30 min
We observed the sacred Fourth of July, about 11,000 miles away from the Statue of Liberty, with libations and our fourth movie franchise marathon. We watched the entire original Planet of the Apes franchise (1968-1973) on a rainy afternoon that turned into the crack of dawn. It got increasingly uninhibited and loose and very much in the spirit of 1776, Year of Our Simian Lord-Doctor Zaius. Note: Only the four of the five commentaries survived due to an unfortunate SD card deletion of the fourth ...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 40 min
We observed the sacred Fourth of July, about 11,000 miles away from the Statue of Liberty, with libations and our fourth movie franchise marathon. We watched the entire original Planet of the Apes franchise (1968-1973) on a rainy afternoon that turned into the crack of dawn. It got increasingly uninhibited and loose and very much in the spirit of 1776, Year of Our Simian Lord-Doctor Zaius. Note: Only the four of the five commentaries survived due to an unfortunate SD card deletion of the fourth ...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 36 min
We observed the sacred Fourth of July, about 11,000 miles away from the Statue of Liberty, with libations and our fourth movie franchise marathon. We watched the entire original Planet of the Apes franchise (1968-1973) on a rainy afternoon that turned into the crack of dawn. It got increasingly uninhibited and loose and very much in the spirit of 1776, Year of Our Simian Lord-Doctor Zaius. Note: Only the four of the five commentaries survived due to an unfortunate SD card deletion of the fourth ...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 55 min
Our fourth ill-advised movie franchise marathon. While perturbing our nervous systems in order to open our third eyes to the fully unveiled truth, we viewed all five of the original Planet of the Apes films, leaving behind commentary tracks for each of them* in our wake. Here we discuss the viewing experience and the franchise on the whole. *Only four of the five commentaries survived due to an unfortunate SD card deletion of the commentary on the fourth film in the franchise, the pretty excelle...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 25 min
We shake the sleep out of our heads on this air polluted July morning with a discussion of the royals in part by way of Christopher Hitchens' 1990 polemical pamphlet The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish . Also, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Luca JNM's Recommendation: The Filth and the Fury Further Reading, Viewing, Listening There’s Never Been a Better Time to Abolish the Monarchy Locationless Locatio...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 12 min
We update some issues related to our last two Book Club episodes: one of the big players in the manufactured opioid epidemic is being awful (gasp) & JFK being hero worshipped out of devotion to pure liberal fantasia about who he really was. Then we move on to some current happenings like Nestle's god given right to employ slaveholders. We accidentally get into #FreeBritney for a minute by way of discussing economic war with China. The sentencing of Derek Chauvin and the State of the ACAB Nat...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 42 min
We continue the second iteration of the Heat Death of the Universe Book Club with the second of two discussions of Don DeLillo's 1988 landmark novel, Libra . Just exactly how unwitting was Oswald? Did you think that a hashish-fueled threesome would be part of the novel? Bullets are magic now? So Jackie O was doing what when she crawled onto the flat rear trunk of the limousine? Did Jack Ruby create a Twilight Zone- style end to Oswald's life? "Even though I'm better than you, I'm not." —JFK Also...
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 50 min
After a series of technical troubles issued by the chaotic void, we talked about Kamala v. Kamala; Biden v. Putin; grief-eating Champ Biden like an ortolan ; the Clintons slave labor at the governors mansion; Juneteenth is now a national holiday and all racism has been vanquished; a 1990s Dry Drunk Uncle Joe yells on the Senate floor about how confessions elicited via torture should be legalized (and about how Rodney King was beaten and might've confessed to murder for all we know); we take noti...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 18 min
We begin the second iteration of the Heat Death of the Universe Book Club with the first of two discussions of Don DeLillo's 1988 landmark novel, Libra. Was Lee Harvey Oswald merely a dyslexic contrarian failson who wanted to dad-marry John Wayne, or did he hold deeper philosophical convictions and was his interior life more complex and compelling than it may've seemed in many lights? Just how deranged does one need to be to be a truly gung-ho CIA agent? Can enough research drive a person to a p...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 26 min
It's been a hell of a week for Ol' Gaffes McGee. We power through an assortment of news articles showing how Uncle Grampy Biden was indeed the #1 Harm Reductionist of 2021, which he handily won in a landslide at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (watch out in the green room, kids!), and things got a little dicey when a glassy eyed Hunter grabbed the mic during the acceptance speech. But no worries, no major outlets really reported on that part anyway. General Recommendations JNM's Recommendati...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 42 min
In our third and final installment of this iteration of the Heat Death of the Universe Book Club we discuss the final third of the book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family by Patrick Radden Keefe. The book examines the nature of this pharmaceutical dynasty and its massive, instrumental role in the US opioid epidemic. Part Three focuses on the "Legacy" of the family, detailing more lawsuits, more absurd corporate pivoting, protests against Purdue/the Sackler family, and the t...
Jun 12, 2021•1 hr 58 min
A pretty loose conversation today about everything and much less. Charlie Rose's black eye. Trump's FUPA accentuating fashion choice / belief that he'll be the president before summer's gone. Biden gonna Biden. Obama bends history to his will. Knives are guns now. NFL helmets will soon be made with woodpecker tongues. The puberty to pyromania pipeline. Other stray thoughts. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Sweet Tooth JNM's Recommendation: The Silence by Don DeLillo Further Reading, ...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 47 min
In our second installment of the Heat Death of the Universe Book Club we discuss the middle section and second third of the book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family by Patrick Radden Keefe. The book examines the nature of this pharmaceutical dynasty and its massive, instrumental role in the US opioid epidemic. Part Two focuses on the "Dynasty" of the family, largely represented by the strange specimen of Richard Sackler, the major pivot point of peddling Oxycontin with total...
Jun 04, 2021•2 hr 14 min
Biden (whom the "hard left" loves btw) and The Virus continue to creep. 40,000 ventilators were tossed in a Floridian landfill because of the poisoned logic of capitalism. Bezos gets a no strings $10,000,000,000 from the government to play spacemans with Elon Musk. Amazon installs mental breakdown booths for its warehouse workers. Biden remains disgusting and should be forever "satirized." General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Another Round JNM's Recommendation: Hands on a Hard Body Locat...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 43 min
In our first ever installment of the Heat Death of the Universe Book Club we discuss the first third of the book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family by Patrick Radden Keefe. The book examines the nature of this pharmaceutical dynasty and its massive, instrumental role in the US opioid epidemic. Part One focuses on the "Patriarch" of the family, Arthur Sackler, and the origins of the family's secretive business dealings and purely transactional philanthropy. General Recommend...
May 28, 2021•1 hr 20 min
