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The first and only podcast bringing you weekly case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. Every Wednesday, co-hosts Josh, Brian, and A.J. dissect an artifact of popular culture, breaking down how its narrative choices reflect or subvert the reactionary political project. From video games to movies to theater to an apparently infinite supply of evangelical Christian radio drama, we expose the machinations of the worst of all possible worlds in order to figure out how to build a better one. Also, we have bits.
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
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The lads make their long-awaited pilgrimage to the rotten heart of the evangelical project, Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO, to cover the 1000th episode celebration of Adventures in Odyssey. Topics include the horrific vibes, Adventures in Odyssey trading cards, and what it means to watch a corpse of an organization come together to celebrate their own slow, inevitable demise.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Adventures in Odyssey
Commercial: “A Conspiracy Theorist Sits Alone in the Denver International Airport”
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
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Juniper (Western Kabuki) visits the lads in Odyssey for further adventures in escape rooms, game nights, and bidding farewell to a beloved Odyssian through the power of deepfakes. Topics include Jigsaw middle schoolers, the rage of the Whit 3, and the complicated legacy of both Eugene Meltsner and the man who leant him his voice: Will Ryan.
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Juniper: Twitch // Patreon // Twitter
Western Kabuki: Juniper and Caleb with their trusty producer Alex delve into internet topics du jour.
Cratediving: a show where june & snailey plunder the depths of the internet to listen and react to the most esoteric music they can find
- Spotify // Apple Podcasts // Twitter
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Adventures in Odyssey
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- #877: A Sacrificial Escape
- #952: Game Night
- #966-969: The Best is Yet To Come, Parts 1-4
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Commercial: “Estragonov’s Escape Room Express”
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
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Audrey and Korla (Data Transfer) take the lads on a trip to the post-cyberpocalypse as they cover Tales of Game’s infamous free-to-play sequel to a certain Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes mashup: Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Topics include the game’s overt racism, forum culture in the mid-2000s, and the lessons to be learned from a game where Charles Barkley destroys half of New York with a Chaos Dunk.
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Data Transfer: A watch-along series for the Digimon franchise, where two transfemme dorks make their way through every season of Digimon anime that exists. Hosts Audrey and Korla discuss each episode with an intensely queer lens and share their experiences with Digimon throughout their lives along the way.
- Website // Spotify // Apple Podcasts
Post Ponies: Episode recaps of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, hoping to glean something about the rise of fascism in America and around the world. Somehow. Hosted by four trans girls who can not be trusted with the aux. It will not be safe for work.
- Website // Spotify // Apple Podcasts
Radio Free Tote Bag: A weekly relationship advice podcast hosted by Audrey and Donovan.
- Patreon // Spotify // Apple Podcasts // Twitter // Instagram
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Tales of Game’s. 2008.
- GZ Post on SA forums about the State of Barkley 2
- Shaq mocks Charles Barkley for his role in Space Jam - Inside the NBA
- Barkley 2 - an RPG Sequel to Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
- The future of Barkley 2
- Update 35: Information about Barkley 2 Updates - why you haven't heard from us and why the game isn't dead yet. · Barkley 2 - an RPG Sequel to Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “A Reading of The Navy Seal Copypasta”
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Tom and Joe (Anime Sickos) throw the lads in the Epoch and hop through time as they cover Square’s landmark 1995 RPG: Chrono Trigger. Topics include the thrill of flame tornados, the anxieties of action time battle, and the importance of camaraderie in the face of an apocalyptic DJ from space.
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Anime Sickos: A podcast for geniuses about the four pillars of modern misery: anime, gaming, posting, & jobs. Starring Tom & Joe. New episodes every Wednesday.
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Chrono Trigger. Square, 1995.
- Chrono Trigger – 1995 Developer Interviews - shmuplations.com
Commercial: “A Message from the Nu”
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
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The lads made this episode with their own hands! 😊 Why do episodes like this never get likes? 😢💔 AmenAmenAmen. 🙏🇺🇸 It is our birthday and nobody wished us one. So excited to begin our cake journey. 🎂 Did you notice when it left you? Why don’t you see these anymore? Gone too soon! ✝️ The joy, the bursts of pleasure, the camaraderie? She did good work, we’re so proud of her! 🤩 This is a place of ghosts. King Charles visited Sudan to feed the hungry children! 🫅🇸🇩 And soon you will join us in the mist. Wow, made it to 100, who else can relate? 💯 Amen.
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Facebook blog posts
- September 5, 2006 - Facebook deprecates the original Wall in favor of the News Feed. A post made to someone else’s profile can now show up on the home page of anyone who is friends with that person
- September 5, 2006 - Mark Zuckerberg makes a highly defensive and condescending post responding to negative feedback about the shift to the news feed
- September 8, 2006 - Zucc makes a considerably more measured follow-up post introducing new privacy settings but doubling down on his commitment to “free flow of information on the internet”
- November 6, 2007 - Facebook introduces its new social ad platform in tandem with Pages, implementing the final piece of its core user monetization strategy
- February 12, 2009 - Facebook introduces the Like button
- February 24, 2016 - Facebook rolls out Reactions (love, haha, wow, sad, angery) globally
- News articles:
- “Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users” by Harry Davies. The Guardian. December 11th, 2015.
- “A timeline of Facebook's privacy issues — and its responses” by Alyssa Newcomb. NBC News. March 24, 2018
- “Five Points for Anger, One for a ‘Like’: How Facebook’s Formula Fostered Rage and Misinformation” by Jeremy B. Merrill and Will Oremus. Washington Post. October 26th, 2021
- How Spammers, Scammers and Creators Leverage AI-Generated Images on Facebook for Audience Growth by Renee DiResta and Josh A. Goldstein. Pre-print paper, Stanford University.
- Facebook’s Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms by Jason Koebler. 404 Media, March 19, 2024
- Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet by Jason Koebler. 404 Media, May 2, 2024
Commercial: “Scrolling Through Your Old Facebook Feed at 4AM”
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Alex Ptak (Quorators) and the lads check their power levels and slap each other silly as they cover the finale of the Frieza arc of Akira Toriyama’s seminal 90’s anime: Dragon Ball Z. Topics include the complex logistics of wishes, the gorgeous design of the characters, and the eternal popularity of a ripped protagonist who can eat and eat and eat and never, EVER get full.
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Alex Ptak - Twitter // Instagram
Quorators - Every Monday, comedians Jeremy Kaplowitz and Alex Ptak head to Quora dot com to find the stupidest questions they can and make fun of them.
Youtube // Patreon // Apple Podcasts // Spotify
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Dragon Ball Z. Toei Animation. Created by Akira Toriyama.
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- S3, Ep 80: “Transformed at Last”
- S3, Ep 81: “Explosion of Anger”
- S3, Ep 82: “Namek’s Destruction?”
- S3, Ep 83: “A Final Attack”
- S3, Ep 84: “Approaching Destruction”
- S3, Ep 85: “Gohan’s Return”
- S3, Ep 86: “The Last Wish”
- S3, Ep 87: “Duel on a Vanishing Planet”
- S3, Ep 88: “Pathos of Frieza”
- S3, Ep 89: “Frieza Defeated!!”
- S3, Ep 90: “Mighty Blast of Rage”
- “Finding Ourselves in Dragon Ball” by Bradford William Davis. Slate. March 13th, 2024.
- “In Celebration of Goku, A Latino Icon” by JP Brammer. Los Angeles Times. August 10th, 2023.
Commercial: All-You-Can-Inflate
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Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
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In preparation for their pilgrimage to Colorado Springs, Colorado, the lads take a gander at what the heck’s been going on in Odyssey in recent years and finally meet everybody’s favorite mail-delivering Odyssian: Wooton Bassett. Topics include the zombification of Odyssey, Focus on the Family’s financial troubles, and sheer terror of watching your childhood hero become a sentient garden gnome.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Adventures in Odyssey
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- #472 - “Welcoming Wooton”
- #734 - “Life Expectancy, Part 1”
- #735 - “Life Expectancy, Part 2"
- #736 - “Life Expectancy, Part 3”
- #750 - “All By Myself”
- #807 - “Connie the Counselor”
- The Fanart Where Wooton Bassett Looks Exactly Like 16 Year Old A.J.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “Smileytown Employee Training Video”
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Tall Bart (@verytallbart) joins the lads for another dip into the Prager Pool as they interrogate the painful sketch comedy and baby-brained moralizing of Dennis Prager’s educational video series: For Goodness Sake. Topics include Prager’s unique rhetorical style, the bafflingly high-profile cast, and how David Zucker, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone had their hand in helping Dennis Prager tell the world about just how much he hates babies.
Tall Bart: Twitter // Youtube // Twitch
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- The For Goodness Sake Playlist:
- “Mixed Messages : Simpson Is Hastily Edited Out of Film on Values, but Some Prefer the Original” by Gordon Dillow. Los Angeles Times. June 22nd, 1994.
- “O.J. Simpson Has Cameo In Training Movie About Ethics, Morality With AM-Simpson-Abuse Laws” by Lynn Elber. Associated Press. June 22nd, 1994.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “For Goodn3ss Sak3 3”
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
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Devon and Trinket (Traditional Scrench) join the lads for some adventures in Christian puppetry as they dive into the rich tapestry of Bible stories and malevolent paint brush gods that is: Gerbert. Topics include UK children’s programming, the militarism of evangelical ideology, and the dangers of giving tuppence to birds.
Traditional Scrench: Your favourite podcast idiots are streaming twice a week, every week, at 21:00 UK time Monday and Thursday. We’re a heavily improvised variety stream with a youtube playlist.
24 Bauer Party People: Sam and Trinket marathon watch 24, taking breaks every 4 episodes to record a podcast. Trinket knows nothing about 24, but she’s wearing a shoulder holster full of monster energy cans to try and get into the spirit of things and she’s ready to enter the mind of the neo-con.
Kill James Bond! is a comedy film review/pop culture commentary podcast about the eponymous English spy, James Bond. November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon watch a different Bond movie every fortnight in an attempt to give 007 the socialist, feminist comeuppance he so richly deserves. Free episodes are released every fortnight on all major podcast platforms and bonus episodes are released for supporters on Patreon on the interstitial weeks.
- Website / Twitter / Patreon
- Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts
Well There’s Your Problem is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes.
- Youtube / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon
- Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts
Ten Thousand Posts: A show about how everything is a form of posting, and how our lives are guided by the only dialectic that matters: good posts and bad posts.
Media Referenced in this Episode:
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “Binney Brush: The Lost Episode” feat. Matt Cox as “Binney Brush”
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Stephen Stout (Puffs) and the lads hop into their red, white, and blue helicopters and completely obliterate France as they cover Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 fraught satire of the War on Terror: Team America: World Police. Topics include Parker and Stone’s origins, the film’s overwhelming racism, and what a movie so steeped in the post-9/11 hysteria of the early 2000s means twenty years after its release.
Stephen Stout: Twitter // Instagram // Spock Hats Twitter
Puffs: Website // Amazon // Broadway HD
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Team America: World Police. Dir. Trey Parker and Matt Stone. 2004.
- “Launching a small-scale offensive” by John Horn. The Los Angeles Times. Sept. 12th, 2004.
- “Team America-World Police: Down-Home Theories of Power and Peace” by James Gow. Millenium: Journal of International Studies. Volume 34, Issue 2. February 2006.
- “Playboy Interview: Parker & Stone” by Playboy Staff. June 2000.
- “Puppet Masters - Interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker” by Heather Havrilesky. Salon. October 12th, 2004.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “TWOAPW, Fuck Yeah (Abridged)”