We continue our re-release of the fan favorite Library Socialism trilogy with the final of the OG trilogy. This time, exploring the philosophical alternative to hierarchy, the notion of cooperative difference, and...
Jan 16, 2024•2 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In another fan favorite re-release. Human need: what exactly is it, how do we meet it, and what level should nobody fall below? These are the questions which plague the Wrong Boys...
Jan 08, 2024•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast For your use and enjoyment: a re-run of a fan-favorite episode of Srsly Wrong, using the lenses of history, complexity, retention, and culmination to talk about libraries, sharing, and the socialist future...
Jan 02, 2024•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this very special holiday bonus episode, Aaron and Shawn talk about the ad-hoc Christmas Truce between 100,000 German and British soldiers during WW1, spitball some utopian policy, and talk about a...
Dec 20, 2023•8 min•Ep 301•Transcript available on Metacast The Wrong Boys, who do not believe in ghosts, buy a spooky house on the cheap to open up a sanctuary for fragile puppies. Support the show: http://patreon.com/srslywrong
Dec 04, 2023•2 hr 44 min•Ep 299•Transcript available on Metacast Can we have our cake and eat it too? Can humanity live comfortable, luxurious lives, all while reducing our energy consumption and living within the bounds of ecology? Listen to find out!...
Nov 30, 2023•3 hr 57 min•Ep 300•Transcript available on Metacast BONUS EPISODE – Aaron and Shawn answer a series of our most-asked questions about Library Socialism, focusing on first steps of a hypothetical Library Socialist movement, transitionary trajectories towards an ecological and...
Oct 27, 2023•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss three of his recent books “Chokepoint Capitalism”, “The Internet Con”, and “The Lost Cause”. We discuss Enshittification, Monopolies, Interoperability, Green New Deals, and Library...
Oct 07, 2023•2 hr 35 min•Ep 297•Transcript available on Metacast Plunging into the strange (and often horrifying) world of academic evolutionary psychologists describing their own beliefs in public podcast appearances, we hear from and respond to David Buss, Randy Thornhill, Geoffrey Miller,...
Sep 27, 2023•3 hr 35 min•Ep 296•Transcript available on Metacast The culmination and crescendo of the Atlas Shrugged film series trilogy is a broken mess of a film that lays the contradictions at the heart of Rands philosophy bare for all to...
Sep 13, 2023•9 min•Ep 295•Transcript available on Metacast Part two of our Atlas Shrugged The Film The Podcast series. With a lower budget and an all-new cast, can this film do what the first couldn’t and convert the Wrong Boys...
Sep 06, 2023•9 min•Ep 294•Transcript available on Metacast This is the first episode in a new Patreon series on the Atlas Shrugged film trilogy. Join us as we recount and critique the cinematic adaptation of the first third of Ayn...
Aug 29, 2023•11 min•Ep 293•Transcript available on Metacast What do you get what you take plain old patriarchy and apply a fresh new pseudo-scientific veneer of hierarchical naturalism? Get your mating preferences in order, start evaluating one another’s genes, and...
Aug 15, 2023•3 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this BONUS EPISODE, The Wrong Boys try their hand at a “classic srsly wrong” style episode, like the “good old days” and riff about a variety of subjects that happen to...
Jul 28, 2023•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast We talk to utopian authors Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass about Half Earth Socialism, their vision for an egalitarian and ecological future. A future that rejects solar geoengineering and nuclear power in...
Jul 18, 2023•2 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Wrong Boys take a deep look at the history of copyright, rebut common arguments against online piracy, and stand in awe at the utopian possibilities of file sharing. Originally Released March...
Jul 10, 2023•3 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a teaser for all an all-new BONUS episode on Patreon. There will be no digital kissing practice on portable nintendo this week, as we complete our analysis of Jordan Peterson’s...
Jun 28, 2023•7 min•Ep 289•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Shawn and Aaron continue their maddening descent into AI sludge hell. Support our show on Patreon Show Notes:SRSLY WRONG 287/288 – AI Show Notes – Google Docs Episode Artwork by...
Jun 22, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Wrong Boys are talking AI, ALI, AGI, and ASI- ChatGPT, Midjourn, For-Profit Hype Cycles, Self Driving Cars, Roko’s Basilisk, Whether AI can save us, and Whether AI might doom us. Whether...
Jun 14, 2023•2 hr 59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shawn is joined by Graham Culbertson of the Everyday Anarchism podcast to talk about Library Socialism, Everyday Anarchism, Basic Income vs Jobs Guarantee, David Graeber, and other topics! Doctorow on Everyday Anarchism:Graeber’s...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a teaser for all an all-new BONUS episode on Patreon. Shawn and Aaron continue their read of Jordan Peterson’s fascinatingly strange right wing Christian diarrhea self-help book, getting through rules...
May 26, 2023•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Crossover episode! We went on librarypunk about the rights of minors to read, to know, and to be treated as people. We talk about our memories as children and accessing information at...
May 16, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast We have a balanced discussion about the first 6 rules for life from Jordan Peterson’s life’s work. This bonus episode is an antidoot to chaos. full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/283-jordan-12-1-82213892
May 01, 2023•12 min•Ep 283•Transcript available on Metacast This whale octopus mushroom, Shawn and Aaron Whale Octopus and Mushroom. For you and your WOM. Support our show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/srslywrong Theme Song by Far Flowers:https://farflowers.bandcamp.com/Read WOM Books:The Cultural Lives of Whales...
Apr 17, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shawn and Aaron are joined by Video Essayist Andrewism to discuss David Graeber’s second posthumous book- “Pirate Enlightenment” Support our show on Patreon:SRSLY WRONG | Creating a utopian comedy podcast | Patreon...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep 281•Transcript available on Metacast In this very special new BONUS episode, Aaron + Shawn discuss eating bugs, the world economic forum, globalism vs globalization, the politics of disgust, and even try out eating a few bugs...
Mar 22, 2023•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Wrong boys speak with David Graeber about his new book ‘Bullshit Jobs’, exploring the ever multiplicating ways our society makes up stuff for people to do. They also discuss the puritan...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a teaser for our full length bonus episode available here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/279-golden-age-79421989 The Wrong Boys take a deep look at the history of copyright, rebut common arguments against online piracy, and stand...
Mar 01, 2023•7 min•Ep 279•Transcript available on Metacast Detailing the true egalitarian, working-class history of the golden age of piracy with historian Marcus Rediker. support the show on patreon!https://www.patreon.com/srslywrong Check out ‘Under the Banner of King Death’ here!http://www.beacon.org/Under-the-Banner-of-King-Death-P1928.aspx Marcus’ Website:https://www.marcusrediker.com/...
Feb 09, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Ep 278•Transcript available on Metacast We are joined by Madeline Lane-McKinley to talk about the intersections between comedy and utopianism, the world of stand-up comedy and the tendency towards domination-centered comedy, using comedy to escape work, and...
Jan 27, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Ep 277•Transcript available on Metacast