063 - The Truth Shall Not Sink: The Sewol Ferry Tragedy

The Sewol ferry disaster happened exactly 7 years ago to the day, on the morning of April 16th, 2014. Of the 476 passengers and crew, 304 died in this immensely tragic event, 250 of them were the students from Danwon High School. This tragedy wasn’t...

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Apr 16, 2021
062 - The Dead-Eyed Cult of the Ivy League

We discuss the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal as portrayed by the documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal as well as a broader view of education in the utterly commodified environment of the United States, ever-sa...

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Apr 11, 2021
060 - Body Brokers and the Business of Recovery

We discuss the morally dubious existence of the booming Rehab Industry and the pyramid schemes, dangerous misinformation, primordial greed, and reckless incompetence that lies at its heart.General RecommendationsJNM's Recommendation: Celebrity RehabJ...

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Apr 07, 2021
059 - The NRA and America's Deranged Hivemind

A historical view of the National Rifle Association. A grappling with the unique and slippery beast of USA Gun Culture. A peek at the socialist prescription for how to deal with the American Exceptionalism of gun ownership, mass shootings and a cease...

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Apr 02, 2021
058 - Fully Automated Luxury Doomsday Survivalism

Reading about various luxury underground bunkers from the inverted condo to the even more decadent fortresses in the Hobbit lands of New Zealand built by Silicon Valley caricatures like the founder of Reddit, eventually led to begin watching the 2012...

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Mar 31, 2021
057 - Abolish the Senate / Drag the Duopoly

It's a late night double feature. First up, why and how the Senate should be abolished, razed down passed the roots. Next, third parties and why they're generally banished to the netherworld.General RecommendationsJD's Recommendations: 1) what if the...

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Mar 26, 2021
056 - 99 Homes and the Aftermath of 2008

We watched and discussed the largely unseen, deal-with-the-devil thriller about the aftermath of the 2008 housing crisis, 99 Homes, directed by Ramin Bahrani, starring Michael Shannon, Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern and Clancy Brown.A desperate construc...

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Mar 19, 2021