Critical Wade Theory
I'll talk about everything from politics to entertainment and philosophy. I'm also a part-time entertainment writer and working-class from the UP of Michigan, so that might come up occasionally. Oh, and I make weird experimental music and sometimes host a college radio show.
Episodes
In this episode, I continue responding to YouTube comments. In the original video this person responded to, I break down the myth of the “anti-tax” Republican and the claim that government waste is some neutral, non-partisan truth.
I look at what actually happens when income taxes are cut: the burden doesn’t disappear, it gets shifted onto workers through sales taxes, payroll taxes, fees, and fines. I explain why calls to abolish th...
@MustardSkaven says in a YouTube comment:
"'fascist' gets thrown around way too much. When a fascist is elected, that's the moment they're supposed to abolish voting, take out all competition to rule and consolidate all power. Obama, Trump, Biden, non of them have done that."
This episode is my response.
Today, in this episode, I'm talking about Goodfellas.
I reply to the following YouTube comment on one of my episodes: "Did you get hammered in your own comments section ?
States with no income tax and no sales tax have functioning and running governments"
Today, I'm exploring "Love," The Beatles' groundbreaking remix album released on November 20, 2006. This album was (and still is) a bold, reimagined take on the legendary band's music.
Time to do another Yooper-themed episode about the area where I live.
Today, I'm taking about Marquette, Michigan.
...once violence is reframed as a technical problem, ethics disappear.
Civilian deaths become “collateral damage.”
Illegal invasions become “strategic interventions.”
Torture becomes “enhanced interrogation.”
Today I want to talk about an actor many to know, but who I personally know in an incomplete way. That actor is F. Murray Abraham.
A billionaire cosmetics heir is behind Trump's Greenland greed. I also explain the weird, myth-based origins of the cosmetics company he inherited. Then I explore the most publicized scandal of the powerful right-wing media figure who tried (and failed) to get this billionaire cosmetics heir hired in political office.
In this episode, I will look at Trump's authoritarian goofiness that's making him gooey over Greenland. I will then continue examining how our system (or maybe I should say "their system") helped produce Trump in the first place, by looking at the bizarre and devilish legacy of Lee Atwater, the repentant fascist political strategist bluesman. And lastly I will look at one of the specific scandals of Strom Thurmond...
There’s a word that comes up again and again when we talk about stories, especially old ones.
Real.
We ask whether a tale is real folklore. A real myth. A real fairy tale.
If you were coming of age in the early 2000s and even slightly tuned into indie music, there’s a good chance The Shins found you before you ever went looking for them.
They’re an American indie rock band known for melodic, introspective songs and sharp, literate lyrics. Music that doesn’t shout for attention, but somehow stays with you. The kind of songs that feel personal, even when you can’t quite explain why.
We like to believe our systems work — that justice is blind, democracy is fair, and truth has a fighting chance...
Main photo credit: Origin unknown (if you know the original source, go ahead and let me know).
My podcast is not very successful by any means. I can say it is gaining momentum, on YouTube, but it's still not a huge show. Nevertheless, I keep receiving e-mails from right-wingers who want to be my guest. I have decided I don't want to platform them, and I don't have guests on as often as I used to anyway.
Still, this shows you that right-wingers are confident, and that they want to get their message out as much, as ...
The episode explores a recent ICE shooting of a woman in Minnesota, then shifts to Mark Burnett’s role in shaping Donald Trump’s rise as a media figure. From there, I analyze the influence of Burnett’s wife, Roma Downey, focusing on her role in producing Christian media. The argument is that Downey’s soft, “New Age–inflected” Christian messaging may function as a gateway that draws in audiences who wouldn’t normally engage with ove...
Today I'm talking about After We Fell, the 2021 romantic drama and the third installment in the After franchise. If you’ve made it this far into the series, you already know what kind of ride you’re signing up for. Big emotions, messy relationships, and a lot of arguing in nice-looking rooms.
[NOTE: I will upload a fuller video of this, if there is a demand for it, with "demand" meaning if even 1 person asks for it.]
In his latest documentary work, Homegrown, filmmaker Michael Premo turns his camera away from institutions and figureheads and instead focuses on the everyday people who became wrapped up in the events surrounding January 6. In this conversation with me (for VENTS Magazine online, and for this podc...
If you think of the Divinyls purely through the lens of “I Touch Myself,” you'll have an idea of what this album might provide — even if the lyrics don't unsettle prudes as much as their hit about handling the bearded clam.
Released in 1965 as the title track of Dylan’s album Highway 61 Revisited, the song stands as one of the clearest statements of his break from acoustic folk into electric blues-rock. This wasn’t a gentle evolution. It was a confrontation — with tradition, with authority, and with the idea that music should behave itself.
Remembering a rock festival...that I never went to.
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