Hot Water History
Gary Richied and Charlie Westerman preview their book -- A Twisted History of the United States -- and comment on other historical/current events through the lens of freedom.
Episodes
July 21, 2025 • 81 mins
INVERSION: FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE
Is it not oddly fitting that the darkest of forces--demonic, nephilim, human--work to obscure the good, the true, and the beautiful to such an extent that our consciousness of the transcendent is dulled, often beaten to the point of near submission? Ours might be a time, like never before, that requires reliance on divinely enlightened powers; namely, instinct and intuition. Infused and informed by G...
Is it not oddly fitting that the darkest of forces--demonic, nephilim, human--work to obscure the good, the true, and the beautiful to such an extent that our consciousness of the transcendent is dulled, often beaten to the point of near submission? Ours might be a time, like never before, that requires reliance on divinely enlightened powers; namely, instinct and intuition. Infused and informed by G...
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July 10, 2025 • 84 mins
The "bloviator-in-chief" of architecture. Is it not long overdue--in the spirit of Miri AF's "If You Know Their Name, They're in the Game" mantra--to question the supposedly unassailable genius and impact of Frank Lloyd Wright? All the more, modern Oak Parkers have placed him in their invidious, humanistic pantheon, so that status eggs Gary and Charlie on all the more.
A great architect in his own right, return guest Sam Roche grace...
A great architect in his own right, return guest Sam Roche grace...
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July 4, 2025 • 68 mins
Hard to believe but it has been three years since the release of A TWISTED HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1450-1945 and not only does it still ring true, the resonance is deafening.
Synchronicity. Just as Trump's GOP Big Beautiful Omnibus Bill passes through the ever-impish Congress, 2025 marks the first year in American history that purely interest payments and non-discretionary spending will exceed anticipated government revenues. ...
Synchronicity. Just as Trump's GOP Big Beautiful Omnibus Bill passes through the ever-impish Congress, 2025 marks the first year in American history that purely interest payments and non-discretionary spending will exceed anticipated government revenues. ...
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June 27, 2025 • 84 mins
Better bring choice stuff if one wants to challenge the greatest economists and thinkers of the 20th century, and despite his extended attempt to do so, Christopher Ferrera failed in knocking the Austrian School and its giants--Mises and Rothbard--from their rightly gained perch. Turns out, the economic system most defensive of natural law, property rights, proper consent, social cooperation and free markets weathers every quasi-so...
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June 20, 2025 • 80 mins
A one-sided, avalanche of lies, false narratives and idiotic logical fallacies: Hope Tucker Carlson was prepared for exactly what he got when he interviewed Ted Cruz on the Senator's full-throated and fully convicted Zionism. The nature of Carlson's smirky responses and queries indicate that he was. Sure, he could have pushed even harder, and Tucker--being far from an isolationist and even further from an an-cap--should have not ce...
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June 8, 2025 • 60 mins
He's just not the bishop we need right now, mainly because Bishop Barron lives in a comfortable church wherein he has made quite the career in vacillating between the heterodox and the orthodox, all the while refusing to recognize the obvious sicknesses that abound. He's an intelligent man, apt at quoting sources both secular and religious--well, so long as said sources do not speak of a demonic infiltration into Holy Mother Church...
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May 30, 2025 • 76 mins
Owen Benjamin airs his masterpiece musical diatribe against the sport of golf; Gary and Charlie then run with the analogy given that successive Chicago City Halls as well as their lap dogs in the City Council have dug quite the financial hole for the Phoenix City. Turns out, eating the proverbial seed corn and hoping in the most irrational of ways that crops will grow nonetheless, is about as good an indicator of a sick culture as ...
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May 25, 2025 • 65 mins
For whom do the alarm bells toll? They sound for us.
Pope Leo XIV appears to be confirming very rational fears that he is going the way of Francis church with his approval of a new heretic-bishop for--of all places--St. Gallen in Switzerland and his appointment of a lesbian-nun to a dicastery for religious institutes. All non-canonical. All 'innovations' when we need apostolic tradition.
Thomas Massie further embraces an Athanasian s...
Pope Leo XIV appears to be confirming very rational fears that he is going the way of Francis church with his approval of a new heretic-bishop for--of all places--St. Gallen in Switzerland and his appointment of a lesbian-nun to a dicastery for religious institutes. All non-canonical. All 'innovations' when we need apostolic tradition.
Thomas Massie further embraces an Athanasian s...
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May 9, 2025 • 93 mins
Habemus Papam, but the real question is: Just what kind of a pope will he be? Early indications and Leo XIV's own words do not point in the right direction. Red flags abound from his previous statements, actions and inaction as bishop, and the men who elevated him to the papacy; namely Deep Church maidens Blaze Cupich, Robert McIlroy and Oscar Maradiaga. The Lord is telling us to rest not and to gird the loins.
Oak Park village mana...
Oak Park village mana...
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May 2, 2025 • 63 mins
What do communism and an Army helicopter pilot on the incompetent-to-deranged-to-kamikaze spectrum have to do with one another? A lot, as it turns out. Diversity, equity and inclusion has, after all, never been fully tried or implemented either, but its effects are sure being felt.
Back when we had an actual pope, Pius XII recognized well that unlike St. Joseph, communists and socialists want everything from you except your job. The...
Back when we had an actual pope, Pius XII recognized well that unlike St. Joseph, communists and socialists want everything from you except your job. The...
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April 23, 2025 • 76 mins
What a relief. The Francis pontificate has come to an end, and despite Jorge Bergoglio, S.J.'s best efforts, the Church persists. There's a lot to be thankful for as Charlie and Gary reflect on the true Francis effect. God granted immense and powerful graces during this scourge, especially since Bergoglio served as a great demarcator; if you allied with him and saw him as a 'trailblazer' or 'apostle to the poor', we know now of you...
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April 17, 2025 • 48 mins
In anticipation of some hot summer days, The Catholic Boys of Sound Economics (featuring a Jew nonetheless) replace the ol'Chicago Boys to refresh our holy understanding of the not-so-dismal science. Gary opines that Murray Rothbard's MAN, ECONOMY, AND STATE reinforces fundamental Catholic doctrines pertaining to divine law, natural law, and human cooperation. All truth--especially of the most profound kind--magnifies the Glory of ...
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April 11, 2025 • 74 mins
Heretics and apostates gravitate to the State because it fits them and serves their true master's needs. It strikes at individual rights, human freedom and even at the division of labor. Alternatively, true anarchism which is capitalism, and true capitalism which is anarchism shine as imaginative yet attainable alternatives, especially for those nauseated by the propagandized status quo.
Gary's prospective and newest literary offeri...
Gary's prospective and newest literary offeri...
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April 3, 2025 • 49 mins
City finances and economic doldrums have real effects: restaurants shuttered, businesses seeking greener pastures, and commercial districts empty. Chicago appears to be on the accelerated path of Old Detroit from the 1970s and 1980s. Thus is always the unavoidable path when government insinuates itself into every nook and cranny of what would otherwise be a functioning free market. There is a magic wand that could be employed to so...
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March 27, 2025 • 71 mins
Grok A.I. says that Gary sounds and writes like the great H.L. Mencken, and Gary is just plumb honored. Blush inducing. After introducing Mencken, both he and Charlie analyze some prominent and eloquent quotes from the eminent son of Baltimore. Mencken humbled more fools and crumbled more bad arguments than fellow Baltimorean Edgar Allen Poe offed characters in his stories. Quoth the Mencken, evermore.
Oak Parkers ready themselves t...
Oak Parkers ready themselves t...
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March 20, 2025 • 66 mins
Conor McGregor visited the White House on St. Patrick's Day to report that the apparatchik-snakes have returned to the island in the form of parliamentarians and ministers. The doors were swung open by a purposeful abandonment of Christ the King in Ireland (and indeed greater Western Europe) in favor of a 'messianic megalomania' authored by the likes of Bill, Keir, Ursula, and Christine. By God, those beasts are not even Irish!
The ...
The ...
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March 13, 2025 • 77 mins
The installation of apostate bishop Robert McElroy as cardinal archbishop of Washington occasions a reflection on the demon's playground that is D.C. In all of that darkness centered there, the good and the righteous--those filled with beatitude--shine all the brighter in Rachel Mastrogiacomo, Archibishop Vigano, and Thomas Massie. True martyrs all who remind us that the dawn from on high shall break upon us. Hope.
The Donald (or Ma...
The Donald (or Ma...
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March 9, 2025 • 90 mins
In our second, long-awaited DARK NOTES episode, we put historian Stephen Fox's WOLF OF THE DEEP through the HotH2OHistory wringer. Part biography of the intrepid Raphael Semmes, part account of his exploits as the captain of the feared C.S.S. Alabama, Fox recounts the adventures of the raider, his crew, and the ship that made Union vessels shudder during the Civil War. Where it gets spicy is when Fox, as a Yankee historian, cannot ...
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February 24, 2025 • 62 mins
A whole lot stinks in the State of Ukraine, from off-the-grid biolabs to rank corruption, and to sustain the crimes, innumerable lives have been sacrificed on the altar of neo-con, geo-realpolitik. But, sadly, the Nulands, Pompeos, Bidens, and Zelenskys of the world are nowhere near as shrewd nor practical as ol'Otto von Bismarck. His volleys were calculated and murderous; theirs whimsical and genocidal. There is no way to chart th...
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February 17, 2025 • 66 mins
Elon Musk sure does get around. From trimming the fat from morbidly obese D.C. to smashing ass with another rando, this guy really sticks to his word. He wants smaller government and higher birth rates.
Midwit randos on Twitter fail to understand or enjoy lighthearted and yet captivating memes featuring Austrian economists.
The rats are jumping the rat ship in the Washington D.C. metro area. Interesting timing to say the least. Amazi...
Midwit randos on Twitter fail to understand or enjoy lighthearted and yet captivating memes featuring Austrian economists.
The rats are jumping the rat ship in the Washington D.C. metro area. Interesting timing to say the least. Amazi...
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