Heat Death of the Universe

AmericaFest2025: Great name or the greatest name? Red Scare Scrounge Up. Arc de Trump takes precedence over people being able to eat and live. There's a new phone for sale that doesn't exist. American Camelot now sullied. How do RFK Jr.s get made? A brief adding of to the Susie Wiles oversaturation. The Trump-Adelson chimera celebrates Hanukkah by gloating about every crime against humanity they've carried out via th...

Begin with a call to prayer, naturally. What's in a meme? McDonald's tries to appeal to the perverse Dutch/Danish psyche with a virulent advert for the holidays and we are compelled to rhetorically ask: can aesthetic outrage actually move markets or will the artificial slop flood continue regardless? Internet censorship: bad idea for numerous reasons or VPN who care? What will you tell your non-existent offspring about yo...

Finally, someone has a real plan to end the vaguely defined problems in the middle east, and that hero's initials are PBD. Various developments in the wholesale murder spree the US government is carrying out in the Carribean. Trump receives FIFA's highest award. Tucker Carlson has an unusual fixation this week, also may be consuming mind-shattering amounts of nicotine. Nap, racist tirade, nap: They're calling it the ...

We talk about some stuff and apologize for it all along the way. Remembering v. 'membering. Dictionaries force their words to compete for dominance. Suicide and litigation collide in dispiriting fashion. Device hoarding and planned obsolescence add new rungs to old ladders that turn out to've been cages all along. Korean ferry crashes, loneliness. A well-known LLM settles the mystery of Elliott Smith's death once and...

We've returned from the temporary grave to the temporary non-grave. Some explanation about the absence is given. Then we catch up on the last five months of The News. C'mon, you know the thing.

Recorded on Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 around 11.00 AM Korea Standard Time

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