Steven Donziger is out of jail and back on house arrest. Assange is further being made an example of and the US is setting more dangerous precedents. Redditors are spamming Kellogg’s job portal to support striking workers. Chaos reigns along the Gulf Coast.. Grate-less storm drains in New Jersey keep swallowing people during floods. Could thorium-powered reactors save humanity? US consumer prices hit a 40 year high and wages have not increased. Bird aren't real, for serious. Mormons control the ...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr
The Biden admin "diplomatically" boycotts the Beijing Olympics and opens itself up to scrutiny into its own human rights atrocities. Biden admin brazenly pretends its hands are tied when it comes to waiving patents on vaccines. Camel beauty contests in Saudi Arabia crack down on botox injections. Look at your life as a 4000+ week calendar/poster to boost "productivity." An Italian dentist (i.e. failed med student) uses a prosthetic silicone arm to try and get around being vaxxed. The US can't se...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 25 min
The US twists the knife further into the Assange travesty. In Turkey, a drunk and "missing" man joins his own search party—you'll never believe what happens next! The concept of time is just, like, your opinion, man. [sings] All the single peasants (all the single peasants). The CIA's rife with pedophiles who totally evade all punishment by virtue of "protecting national security" (Also, this just in: the sky is blue). There are living bridges in northeastern India. The US can't stop voting in f...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 31 min
We watched the recently released, darkly comedic satire and directorial debut, The Pizzagate Massacre . Then discussed the ins and outs of conspiracy theories, their subscribers and detractors, morally ambiguous characters, and how sometimes people just literally want a slice of pizza . Maybe two. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Jujutsu Kaisen JNM's Recommendation: JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Grimmfes...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Update on whistleblower Daniel Hale and info on how to contact him in prison. Vietnamese factory workers lived in the factories for the greater good of the bottom line. Omicron, etc. FDR's forgotten crusade against "sexual perversion" in the Navy. Michael Flynn says the quiet part loud about the Evangelical theocratic endgame. Bill Gates bought all the news that's fit to print. Luxury survivalist training: new hedonistic kink for the uber-wealthy? Cash goes flying around the interstate—you'll ne...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 20 min
The farmer's protests in India are going well and Modi's seemingly on the ropes. Biden sells off the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas interests less than a week after talking about leading the world in climate emergency mitigation at the COP26 summit. Some scientists and marketing demons are researching ways to implant specific images and then full-blown advertisements into you dreams. Texas once again wants to secede from the country. NASA will fly a satellite into a pair of asteroids as preparati...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 12 min
We finish our final third of Vincent Bevins ' The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World about some of the most pivotal yet hugely unsung hinge points in the Cold War, centered around the mass slaughter of communists (and those alleged to be) in Indonesia circa 1965-66. We discuss the spread of anticommunist massacres in Chile, the Philippines, Argentina, Guatemala and beyond and try to take stock of what the whole Cold War period of ...
Nov 19, 2021•2 hr 26 min
Get exploited in your dreams for free. More and more people just might be noticing some fundamental problems but are still a million light years from a general strike or even a Howard Beale "Mad as hell" moment. Climate summits are mainly just monstrous wastes of time and energy, all the way down to the subatomic level. Climate science has spoken on the voodoo of "net zero." Kyle Tollhouse Porterhouse did etc, and his judge/manservant loves him enough to ban zooming in on crucial video footage f...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 19 min
We continue our Book Club series on Vincent Bevins ' The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World about some of the most pivotal yet hugely unsung hinge points in the Cold War, centered around the mass slaughter of communists (and those alleged to be) in Indonesia circa 1965-66. We draw more parallels between the Brazilian coup of 1964 and the Indonesian coup of the following year and dive into more gruesome realities and chains of evid...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 42 min
Biden is the new FDR, 'cept he's still got his functioning gams, jack! Some piece of shit judge wants to smooch with and make tender love to Kyle Rittenhouse. New psychological study says we're thought more highly of than we'll ever know. Some proto-Banksy enacted the inverse of Project Mayhem by covertly changing traffic signs on an LA freeway. The great Dave Anthony gives us a valuable scientific/political lesson and gets to slag Matty "One Billion American (Slaves) Needed" Yglesias along the ...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 42 min
We begin our Book Club series on Vincent Bevins ' The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World about one of the most pivotal yet hugely unsung hinge points in the Cold War, centered around the mass slaughter of communists (and those alleged to be) in Indonesia circa 1965-66. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: The Great JNM's Recommendations: 1) The Velvet Underground (2021 documentary) 2) The ...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 48 min
This is another one the of seven commentaries recorded on Halloween 2021 for the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise commentary marathon we did. We're now designating movie commentaries as exclusively for patrons of our aptly named 'patreon'. But since we just started we thought we'd make at least one or two of them 'public' to see if anyone's interested. On Halloween Day 2021 we did a seamless marathon viewing of all six (canon) entries in the A Nightmare on Elm Street movie franchise, from the...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 50 min
This is one of the of seven commentaries recorded on Halloween 2021 for the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise commentary marathon we did. We're now designating movie commentaries as exclusively for patrons of our aptly named 'patreon'. But since we just started we thought we'd make at least one or two of them 'public' to see if anyone's interested. On Halloween Day 2021 we did a seamless marathon viewing of all six (canon) entries in the A Nightmare on Elm Street movie franchise, from the game...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Updates on both Donziger and Assange. The strike wave continues. Or does it? Avoid billions in income taxes with these 3 E-Z Steps! Fauci is irredeemably awful for many reasons here are three standouts. A man lived off of Six Flags concessions every day for seven years: listen to find out why! Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Hellbound (TRAILER) JNM's Recommendation: Call the Department of Justice and leave a message in support of Steven Donziger. Ca...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 24 min
New Zealand fired a wizard. Self-driving cars begin to eerily congregate in San Francisco. Big Tech & bellicose billionaires more generally decide to also help create the impending water wars in addition to all the rest the contribute to the world. Jair Bolsonaro is being indicted on 24 criminal counts, including crimes against humanity linked to his mass murderous handling of coronavirus. Somehow removing unemployment benefits didn't kickstart the economy and the employment rate has decreas...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 11 min
In another edition of our ongoing Book Club series, we discuss the bafflingly prescient and hugely unknown E.M. Forster proto-science fiction and dystopian story The Machine Stops . This was written in 1909 yet managed to very accurately predict technologies like the internet, including its ability to be used as a device that can allow people to never leave the house: video conferencing, delivering food, clothes, music, literature and even artificial oxygen all to individuals living in isolation...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 37 min
We discuss the largely forgotten story of one of the largest riots in New York City history. In September 1992, some 10,000 off duty NYPs descended upon City Hall in a racially charged and drunken protest/riot, with their fury directed at Mayor David Dinkens, NYC's first and so far only Black mayor. We take a look at the details of the bizarre spectacle of off duty and on duty cops meeting at a bit of an "awkward" crossroads during the riot, the historical context of the event, and the instrumen...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 40 min
We discuss the investigative journalism of the recently published article "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge" about a sinister judge (Judge Donna Scott Davenport) ruling in in Rutherford County, Tennessee with totally unchecked impunity and an wholly deranged and bombastic sense of moral superiority. For more than 20 years now she's been sending numerous children, some as young as young as 7 years old, to a corrupt and abus...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 34 min
The distractions of the interlocking bullshit from both QAnon and BlueAnon as recently exemplified by Tucker Carlson and Third Reich wunderkind Steven Miller's latest flame-fanning nonsense about the White House's fake Oval Office. The bizarre subterranean markets and mind-boggling waste from our big-box online overlords. Why is it China's responsibility to process all the world's garbage-rubbish-trash? Would a prison really spend 10 years and $20,000 just to refuse to give a blanket to an inmat...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 32 min
We address several excellent questions and comments from a listener (u/joshuaism) about Korean culture, partially through the lens of the currently extremely popular Korean streaming series Squid Game . The nature of Korean entertainment on the global stage. The country's complex relationship with gambling. Debt. Wealth inequality. Economic and social mobility. Loan sharks. Organized crime and its portrayal in popular fiction. Christianity and religion or lack thereof more broadly. North Koreans...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 42 min
Update of the Steven Donziger situation. CIA assassination plans. Russiagate further devours itself. Democrats negotiate themselves into oblivion. Covid Relief funds used to build prisons. Pandora Papers just dropped. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD'S Recommendation: Exit JNM's Recommendation: As the Gods Will Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Lawyer Steven Donziger found guilty of withholding evidence in Chevron case Imperialist gangsterism and the CIA plot to kil...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Steven Donziger finally catches a break. Conceptual art scams again. An unorthodox beverage choice causes a forest fire. 2021 Doomsday Clock Statement. Ban backpacks, not guns. 500k Americans lack indoor plumbing. Ban border patrol horses and everything will fall perfectly into place. Guantanamo Bay will be expanded, further privatized, and no goddamn horses or their pills and pastes will be allowed. Plus, we play around with this website . Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendatio...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Gig workers get a little dignity. Bill Gates is a weird pervert, allegedly. China is doing exciting research into new energy sources. The parliamentarian wields more "power" over the entire legislative and executive branches. Haitian refugees welcomed by Mexico as the US chases them with horses and illegally sends them back into immense danger. Congress absurdly and unanimously passes a bill to compensate "victims" of the extremely real and totally not fake "Havana syndrome." Defense budget pred...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 37 min
"Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?" We celebrate Jason's birthday by discussing the extent to which nostalgia can negatively impact people and societies (happy birthday!) and then move on to read from the classic essay written by the trio of Daniel Bessner, Matt Christman and Amber A’lee Frost entitled “Slimer on Coke, Muncher on Zoloft" which examines the Ghostbusters franchise and how the original films, especiall...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Today we read from the essay "Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny" by Raquel S. Benedict, which examines the evolution of fitness culture in the realm of Hollywood films, contrasting the current moment primarily with the cinematic expressions of the 1980s and 90s. Interesting parallels are drawn between social atomization, residential architecture, a society gripped by fear and the need to be "battle-ready," and this sexless pursuit of physical perfection, the body rendered solely or predo...
Sep 16, 2021•2 hr 3 min
We take notice of hitting the 100th episode mark and bring things full circle back to episode 001 by having a spirited round of Clickbait Roulette (patent pending). We loosen our mouths and brains with some beverages and cover some of the more irregular news of the day: Political violence related to a side-by-side Biden flag and Trump effigy. An idiotic and "jasmine-scented" mural in London. The ignoble science behind fucking as a natural decongestant. A TikTok-based "Time Traveler" is shockingl...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 21 min
We react to the death of Michael K. Williams, wax doomily upon the state of things like labor unions, the mask and Ivermectin culture wars, vaccine distribution, the 7 Stages of Covid , climate disaster, unemployment offices billing people to pay all their money back, Tara Reade, and more. General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: The Sandman (Audiobook) JNM's Recommendation: Paul F. Tompkins , in particular: "Werner Herzog's" Yelp Review for Trader Joe's on Hyperion (LIVE ) "Werner Herzog" R...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min
We discuss the cruel timing of the Biden administration and the Democratic controlled Congress ripping away vital unemployment assistance and pandemic related programs from 7.5 million people on Labor Day, a day that was once a celebration of labor unionization and now has become another meaningless day to shop till ya drop or get blind drunk like usual. We give a very compact overview of all things labor union related throughout US history, from positive steps forwards to literal massacres on b...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 34 min
Fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and of course the pandemic holding it all together. There's a "Mu" variant in town, coming soon to a human population near you! The draconian Texas abortion legislation was, of course, all the fault of Ralph Nader, Susan Sarandon, and Bernie (and his awful awful "bros"). Pulling out combat troops, leaving the drones and the psychotic contractors behind in Afghanistan, all while bipartisanship gives the green light to adding another $25,000,000,000 to the (alw...
Sep 04, 2021•1 hr 29 min
In our fourth Book Club installment we discuss the final 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: D.P. JNM's Recommendation: Double Feature: Taxi Driver / Bringing Out the Dead Further Reading, Viewing, Listening David Graeber on the Extreme 'Centre' [VIDEO] On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jo...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 38 min
