TrueAnon’s Brace Belden returns to the show as the crew continues discussing the war in Palestine. We look at Israel’s military shortcomings, the IDF’s penile obsession, the domestic propaganda war, and some measures Biden could take we might actually support. We also touch on Gavin Newsom...
2023-11-28 07:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In this 14th installment of Matt’s (increasingly un-) Inebriated Past series, we begin what should be a 4 part look at the Spanish Civil War. In this installment, Matt guides from through the decaying Spanish Empire of the 19th century, through the social classes of village and city, the attemp...
2023-11-23 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Johnson - Grant - Hayes - Garfield - Arthur
Uh, can anyone find another General from Ohio?
2023-11-22 12:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Pierce - Buchanan - Lincoln - Johnson
What's so civil about war, anyway?
2023-11-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
To celebrate Joe Biden’s 81st birthday, we’re joined by Delaware state representative Madinah Wilson-Anton to dish about all things Delaware. Rep. Wilson-Anton leads us through Delaware’s legal peculiarities that make it ripe for international corporate malfeasance, her personal experiences...
2023-11-21 04:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Radio War Nerd’s Mark Ames joins us to discuss his takes on propaganda efforts around the war in Gaza and generational changes in opinions on Israel and Zionism. Then, Mark relays his personal experiences with, and work reporting on, an astounding story of domestic spying and espionage by the A...
2023-11-17 03:40:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Harrison - Tyler - Polk - Taylor - Fillmore
Failed attempts to fix America's plumbing.
2023-11-15 12:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jackson - Van Buren
A Dutch guy invents the Democrats.
2023-11-15 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Will, Felix and Amber pick up a few stories we missed last week, including Tim Scott girlfriend reveal (and campaign end), and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s father/son porn monitoring. We then look at a litany of increasingly absurd bungles and PR disasters from the Israeli government, al...
2023-11-14 06:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Tom Sexton of the Trillbillies podcast joins us to talk some Kentucky, looking at another round of losses for Republicans, and victory for the bluegrass state’s democratic governor Andy Beshear. We go in on the GOP continuing to kill itself by being as cruel and annoying as possible on social i...
2023-11-10 06:17:37 +0000 UTC View Post
What’s up everybody,
Exciting news: Hell of Presidents, our fan-favorite and critically beloved (well, one blurb in Entertainment Weekly) podcast history of the American presidency is finally com...
2023-11-08 22:18:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Adams - Jefferson - Madison - Monroe - Quincy Adams
The first party system comes crashing down on JQA's nerdy shoulders.
2023-11-08 22:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Constitution - Washington
Get in the Presidency, George.
Chris and Matt's Hell of Presidents series comes to the Patreon. Over the next weeks, we'll be posting the entire series here to be permanently available for all subscribers.
2023-11-08 22:18:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Chief Foreign Policy correspondent Derek Davison returns to the show for updates on Palestine, including discussion of recent videos of Palestinian arms and tactics, the Biden administration’s response to the war, the potential for further regional conflict, and where the new American focus on ...
2023-11-07 04:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post
In this final episode of this year’s Ghoulvie Screamset, Will & Hesse take a look at Michael Wadleigh’s “Wolfen” (1981) and Bernard Rose’s “Candyman” (1992). Two films taking advantage of real urban environments the horrors of city life, from the intrusion of primordial natural ...
2023-11-03 03:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re keeping the Halloween spirit going a few more days as Jack Wagner joins us to discuss his new podcast Otherworld. Through the stories covered in Otherworld, we look at peoples’ experiences with Ghosts, Djinns, Gnomes, Aliens, Sasquatches and more. We also discuss how fraying trust in in...
2023-11-03 03:31:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Vincent Bevins returns to the show to discuss his new book “If We Burn” covering the “mass protest decade.” We discuss global protest movements from Brazil to Tunisia to Egypt to Chile, how they’ve affected or failed to affect global politics, and how the last deca...
2023-10-31 03:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Roth week continues as we go round the horn discussing who we got in this year’s World Bible Championship. More seriously, we discuss updates on the Israel-Gaza war, including Biden’s comments doubting the accuracy of Palestinian casualties. And then later, more news on Congressman George San...
2023-10-27 02:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Brendan James returns to take on two triumphant works from writers-turned-directors: Clive Barker’s “Hellraiser” (1987) and William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist III” (1990). Both films feature visions of Hell’s intrusion onto earth; two competing and complementary visions of evil, o...
2023-10-25 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
David J. Roth joins us this week as we continue discussing the relatively limp and unconvincing propaganda emerging around the Israel-Gaza war. Then, David gives us his review of “Moneyball” Michael Lewis’ new book on Sam Bankman-Fried, and we take a look at a new Washington Post piece chro...
2023-10-24 03:46:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Recommended by one of Felix’s most trusted sources for inane, barely-existing movies, we sit down to watch 2023’s “57 Seconds.” A man finds a ring that allows him to travel 57 seconds into the past, which he thrillingly uses to cheat at roulette then take down Big Pharma. Morgan Freeman i...
2023-10-20 05:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse look at two starring God Tom Atkins: John Carpenter’s “The Fog” (1980) & Tommy Lee Wallace’s “Halloween III: Season of the Witch”. Also a Carpenter double feature of sorts, one from the director himself, and one continuing from his iconic Halloween (1978) film as ...
2023-10-18 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Felix continue last week’s discussion on Gaza & Palestine with further thoughts on the brutality of the unfolding conflict, reactions and narratives pushed through the American media, shifts in public opinion, and the unstable positions of Israel & America.
Here are a f...
2023-10-17 03:45:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Podfather Bryan Quinby returns to the show for some spoofs and goofs. We catch up with various radio personalities and explore some D.C. gossip, then Bryan takes us on a tour of some of his favorite types of guy he’s encountered so far while making his new show GUYS.
Find Guys wherever yo...
2023-10-13 03:37:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse are joined by Nymphowars’ Theda Hammel to discuss two horror films from 1964 starring the legend Vincent Price: Sidney Salkow’s “The Last Man on Earth” & Roger Corman’s “The Masque of the Red Death”. Both deal with the end of the world in their own way and highl...
2023-10-11 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalist Mohammad Alsaafin returns to the show to cover the unprecedented new developments in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
The piece from Séamus Malekafzali mentioned in the episode: https://www.seamus-m...
2023-10-11 02:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Kath’s back as we continue reviewing the outpouring of affection for Matt and catching up on last week’s news, specifically Commander Biden’s ongoing one-dog war against White House secret service. Then, we look at Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as Speaker of the House, and discuss just how far ...
2023-10-06 04:21:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse bring you Horrotober Ghoulvie Screamset, a selection of Horror film bangers for this October. We start with two all-time classics of the genre: George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974). Both films redefined ...
2023-10-04 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse are proud to present another round of Movie Mindset episodes, themed for the season around a batch of Horror classics. Here is the full schedule so you can watch along with them. Episode...
2023-10-03 15:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We are back. What a week to take a break, huh? We catch up on Nazi officers in Canadian parliament, Sen. Bob “Goldbar” Menendez, Sen. Dianne “RIP” Feinstein, an assortment of madcap Trump statements, China repossesses its Pandas, and more.
Thank you for bearing with us through all o...
2023-10-03 03:23:40 +0000 UTC View Post