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1000 downloads in 2.5 months. Not bad considering the total lack of a built-in audience and/or social media presence.

?Listen: link in bio? 020 - Free Daniel Hale: Whistleblowing and the Despicable Espionage Act - We talk about the woefully underreported story of Daniel Hale, who leaked The Drone Papers to the press, and was arrested under the Espionage Act in May 2019. We go on to discuss whistleblowers, dissent, the persecution of Eugene Debs, US drone programs, and more.

?Listen: link in bio? 019 - Our Experimental Phase - We get mildly zooted on the nootropic equivalent of adrenochrome and languidly drift and fiercely machete our way through  a very small percentage of the internet. Extraterrestrial life. Vlad the Impaler. Nuclear football. Herd immunity is genocide. COVID Derangement Syndrome. Flights to nowhere. A chicken nugget launched into space. Beheadings. 500 lashings for blasphemy. Beer flood. Kinetoscope anniversary. Top Gun sequel. Woodrow Wilson and Trump join their own pandemics. Nancy Pelosi will kill you for her fridges and iced creams. Nazi Olympics. Clickbait Roulette, the World Socialist Website, and On This Day segments get haphazardly spliced together on a near-chromosomal level. And more!

?Listen: link in bio? 018 - Honey, I Broke the Sound Barrier's War on Drugs - We experiment with a more freeform style of conversation and then attempt to do a segment we intended to do before Episode 001 where we rifle through births, deaths, events, and holidays that occurred on the day we're recording. We revisit the War on Drugs, Chuck Yeager, Teddy Roosevelt's thwarted assassination attempt, and the underlying connections between National Dessert Day, National Pet Obesity Day, and National Fossil Day, among other meandering mental associations.

?Listen: link in bio? - 017 - QAnon is still too idiotic to live. Trump still has COVID and is in a perpetually manic state. Biden is still depressingly terrible in every way. David Brooks is still a bloviating, smug moron. The Roaring Twenties still should not be idealized. The future is still a sprawling landmine field of "unknown unknowns."

?Listen: link in bio? 016 - We mark the horrific milestone of passing one million COVID deaths (roughly 25% in the US which has 4% of the population), briefly rehash the grotesquery of the Presidential Debate, contemplate the possibility of a Trump coup, face the fact that many other experts and politicians were just as deceitful about the reality of COVID as Trump was in the early days of the pandemic, and do a thorough read-through of a classic Current Affairs article by Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) about the "Curse of Bipartisanship." P.S. There's an eerie howling wind in the background throughout the episode. Literally. Added to the ambient dread, in retrospect.

?Listen: link in bio? 015 - Here are Your Choices, America, You Pathetic Shitheel (Presidential Debate Live Commentary) - Hoped for something truly unhinged and hilarious and got more bleak mediocrity instead. Again. The funniest part is that we got up early in the morning to watch this shit. Joke's on us. Again.

?Listen: Link in bio? 014 - Things get pretty loose on today's edition of Clickbait Roulette. We also went on to record a movie commentary for Game Change immediately after this.

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