Janie comes on to discuss what it's like to make art during the Trump administration, then the gang says farewell. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for coming along on this journey. We love and appreciate each of you. Follow Janie at janiedanger.com Follow Alex at https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/ If you want to stay and help June and Caleb kill the computer, you are in the right place. Stay tuned, more info will be coming extremely soon....
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 175
Laura Jedeed is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Her bylines include The New Republic , New York Magazine , Politico , and Rolling Stone . She focuses on American conservative and far right movements. Today she joins us to talk about The Daily Wire's content slump. Follow her on Substack: https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/ Listen to the entire episode at https://www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki...
Jul 13, 2025•22 min•Ep. 174
Eliot from Internet Today joins us for a round of Cosmic Horrors: The Worst Tweets Q2 2025 all in a single episode no paywall extravaganza. Disgusting! Follow Eliot/IT: https://www.youtube.com/@InternetTodayTV and https://x.com/eliotetc Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TasSUbaC4YKAFuU2mcuibYsdYul0wqupKr-JX_a0-OY/edit?usp=sharing...
Jul 07, 2025•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 173
This is a preview of Beast Week Part 2, subscribe to our patreon to get the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/c/westernkabuki/ We are joined by our friends Josh and Brian from The Worst Of All Possible Worlds to observe Mr Beast, learn from Mr Beast, and love Mr Beast. We watch some of Mr Beasts videos and diagnose the Beast and what he means for the world. Follow TWOAPW here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-worst-of-all-possible-worlds/id1570782388...
Jun 30, 2025•30 min•Ep. 172
We are joined by our friends Josh and Brian from The Worst Of All Possible Worlds to observe Mr Beast, learn from Mr Beast, and love Mr Beast. We watch some of Mr Beasts videos and diagnose the Beast and what he means for the world. Follow TWOAPW here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-worst-of-all-possible-worlds/id1570782388 Part 2 of BEAST WEEK will be on the Western Kabuki Patreon this weekend, subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/c/westernkabuki/...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 171
Dan Boeckner (podcaster and front-man of Wolf Parade et al) joins us to talk about news, this time with heavy emphasis on Canadian and Israeli politics, plus the unfortunate shooting that happened at the SLC 50501/No Kings protest. GoFundMe for Afa Ah Loo: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-support-needed-support-the-family-of-afa-ah-loo Follow Dan: https://www.patreon.com/BOECKNER https://linktr.ee/Boeck9...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 170
This is the first episode of Ill Conceived , a new podcast from Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds and June Sternbach from Western Kabuki. Get new episodes every Friday in your favorite podcast client: RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Spotify Pocket Casts YouTube Josh and June take a look at Promise Keepers, the organization that massed 700,000 men on the National Mall in Washington, DC for a 1997 rally that promised to bring spiritual renewal to its attendees and a new order to the socia...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 169
Listen to full episode at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Follow Marcos @HomieVulgaris
Jun 16, 2025•21 min•Ep. 168
Brace stops by to talk with us about the rise of the "Soy Right", posting tactics, and much much more. Follow him at https://trueanon.com/ Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 167
Luke and Eleanor of the We're Not So Different + Going Medieval shows join us for a look at how the far right appropriates various nostalgic aesthetics from Rome, to the crusades, and beyond. Support them here: https://www.patreon.com/wnsdpod/ Follow: @lukeisamazing and @goingmedieval Follow us at https://www.patreon.com/westernkabuki
Jun 09, 2025•28 min•Ep. 166
We had Miles Klee come on to tell us about his experience visiting a crypto convention in Las Vegas, but first we had to discuss the question on everybody's mind: who's winning, Trump or Elon? Follow Miles: https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/ Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 165
Liv Agar of the QAA podcast joins us to talk about the modern day hippies and what political forces drew them into fake new age medicine and conspiracy theories. Follow Liv Agar / listen to QAA here: https://x.com/Liv_Agar / https://open.spotify.com/show/6qAmVJsQW0k51ZJ9bDZyZd?si=d013e0cb760b442b Support us at Patreon.com/WesternKabuki
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 164
We are joined by David Roth of Defector & The Distraction Podcast to talk about the wonderful world of masculinity retreats-- a sometimes hilarious, sometimes horrific, industry that supposedly helps disaffected men who spend tens of thousands of dollars get in touch with their masculine roots (and occasionally results in death). Follow David: https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social Read Defector, the last good website: www.defector.com...
May 30, 2025•32 min•Ep. 163
We are joined by iDubbbz for a frank and honest conversation about what it means to take accountability, growing and changing as a creator, losing friendships over "content" and more. Follow Ian at https://www.youtube.com/iDubbbzTV Follow us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Special thanks to YumOJ on bluesky for appearing in this week's closing track...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 162
Jordan aka Dead Domain joins us to discuss their recent documentary on friend of the show Brianna Wu. Watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1O6S7MWXb8 Support Jordan here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanleendertsen Listen to the full episode at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki
May 16, 2025•23 min•Ep. 161
Alex Novell joins us to talk about the story of Jason Itzler aka Mr. Based: pimp, pornographer, lolcow enthusiast, a man who stares directly into the sun daily, and a possible murderer. Watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/@Alex-Novell Support us at Patreon.com/WesternKabuki
May 10, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 160
Listen to the full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/c/westernkabuki We kick off the month with a couple news stories and some casual conversation amongst friends :)
May 07, 2025•20 min•Ep. 159
Caleb joined our friends at The Worst of All Possible Worlds for an episode on Richard "Beebo" Russell. This is the first part, the second is available on their Patreon at http://patreon.com/worstofall or at: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HRfT7aOnT4J0Yg2vfVvkm?si=dmThHESrTFKWoDwl9JWH_w https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-worst-of-all-possible-worlds/id1570782388 https://www.worstpossible.world/ Content warning: this episode heavily discusses suicidal ideation and is at times emotional...
Apr 30, 2025•58 min•Ep. 158
Webby award winning smiling man Ed Zitron gives us an update on the world of AI funding, the impending collapse, and more. Follow Ed at wheresyoured.at More at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 157
Listen to the full episode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/return-to-world-127550114 We talk to friend of the show MLYP about the recent hacking of and takedown of 4chan and the impact that 4chan has had on the world. Follow MLYP: https://bsky.app/profile/mlyp.bsky.social Listen to All This For 10 Dollars: https://10bux.neocities.org/...
Apr 27, 2025•15 min•Ep. 156
We talk to Palestine activist and student at Columbia University about how the Trump administration is using the full weight of the state with compliance from Columbia to clamp down and oppress student protesters and what that means for all of the US Follow Layla: https://x.com/itslaylas Support this campaign: https://chuffed.org/project/113327-refaat-alareer-camp-the-sameer-project Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 155
Marcos aka The Homie aka Aintershow comes on to discuss the phenomenon known as treatlerism. Follow Marcos: https://x.com/AinterShow https://bsky.app/profile/aintershow.bsky.social Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 154
Listen to the full episode at https://www.patreon.com/c/westernkabuki/ The gang is joined by host of the podcast Worst Of All Possible Worlds to talk to us about the Donald Trump tariff agenda and how that has impacted the deal he was trying to make with ByteDance. Listen to Worst Of All Possible Worlds: https://www.worstpossible.world/ Follow Josh: https://bsky.app/profile/bosh.worstpossible.world...
Apr 09, 2025•19 min•Ep. 153
Grummz, through his advanced network of spies, got the scoop and called the FBI on us. We are currently in prison, woke has been defeated, and video games are now entering a golden age of eternal basedness. Pack it up folks, it has never been this over. Link to the video we discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY0Xva_QPpU
Apr 05, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 152
For the full episode, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/westernkabuki Find our research here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lW-47QyII7q86AI2LGmpkCrXoam5988DppC1lzEDOts/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ct86khdx2874 Follow Kate: https://bsky.app/profile/katewillett.bsky.social Dystopia Now: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6P6ekhshLnQAaA7JffTN4-Xkl5NPJAwa...
Apr 03, 2025•15 min•Ep. 151
The gang brings on Kate Willett to talk about the billionaire plot do run a parallel system of government to work along side of, and eventually replace democracy + other insidious happenings. Kate Willett is a comedian, actress and writer who has appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Netflix's Comedy Lineup. She has a podcast called Dystopia Now where she covers this and more at greater length. Follow Kate: https://bsky.app/profile/katewillett.bsky.social Dystopia Now: https://www.y...
Apr 03, 2025•50 min•Ep. 150
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Mar 27, 2025•6 min•Ep. 149
We talk to Kat Abughazaleh about her IL-09 campaign announcement, what inspired her to run, what she thinks needs to change in democratic party politics and how to take on the growing threat from republicans. Find Kat Abughazaleh at Katforillinois.com Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Find where else we post our episodes at and more: https://linktr.ee/westernkabuki
Mar 24, 2025•54 min•Ep. 148
Tom and Joe from the Anime Sickos are here and we talk about the history of 4chan, the websites and culture that preceded it, and more. Note that this episode covers the timeline from the mid 1990s right up to the website's founding. Another episode further discussing the inner-workings of 4chan, notorious moments, and what's going on today will follow in the future. In the meantime, follow Anime Sickos at https://animesickos.com/ Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki This was originally r...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 147
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas walks us through the wild world of DOGE and what to expect next. Follow her at: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social https://www.thehandbasket.co/
Mar 07, 2025•58 min•Ep. 145
