Heat Death of the Universe

Amuse-Bouche: US Scientific Progress in 2026: Clumps of disembodied brain matter "learn" to "play" first-person shooter games. We remember that the state of healthcare in the US is still not exactly ideal. Mangione's lawyers are sticking it to that wildly dangerous quasi-sentient mash-up of the distilled essence of Mar-a-Lago and the closeted physiognomy of Lindsey Graham (i.e. Pammys Bondis).  

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Tim goes on strike. Josh quits his job.  Perhaps chatbot-led surgery just might not be quite calibrated to utopian levels yet. The Philes, continued: Bill Gates retrospection; Petey "Low-Carb Vulva" Attia and his uncanny valley teeth; the beautifully intricate and philosophically astute mind, prose and experimental punctuation of jeevacation; and so on. ElooMa has reached his rock bottom but vows to Bore™ his way through ...

The CEO of Antifa Industries caught dead to rights in Portland OR. Tim Pool really wants us to know that the boots he licks are his own. Supremely embarassing three-word combo comes to life: National. Prayer. Breakfast. The Daily Wire's shape-shifting christofascist Michael Knowles "debates" ChatGPT regarding the existence of his god and it is somehow 10x worse than expected. Olive Garden claims another life via unth...

Board/bored of Peace/piece. World's most sickening PowerPoint presentation given by Jared Kushner. Ellison dynasty does predictable censorship with newly purchased TikTok. Greenland acquisition chatter starts up again. Davos. Argentine anarchocapitalism rewarded with Trump Bucks and a genocide participation trophy. ICE in Minnesota. Rittenhausian Whataboutism?

Recorded on Saturday, January 31st, 2026 around 12.00 PM Korea Stand...

We revisit the world of Megalopolis via the documentary, very creatively titled, Mega-Doc, with our guest Cole, a comrade in arms with Tim over at the violentpeople.co homestead. Before that we kick around a few current happenings in the wide world of news.

Recorded on Saturday, January 17th, 2026 around 11.30 AM Korea Standard Time. 

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An informal and deprioritized attempt to really process the year that felt like three. Grimes thinks AI-induced psychosis is totally 6-7! Bumbling cops using bumbling AI (portends well!) to commit heinous acts of cruelty and violence, bumblingly. Eve sinks even Fartlow-er. Jared Kushner continues giving his 32-slide PowerPoint pitch to investors to build Six Flags Eternal Holocaust directly atop the steaming ashes of Gaza, the expa...

The forces by and for ICE amp up the desperation and the greed, even on the holiest slices of the calendar year. Well-wishes and declarations of war both personally given by the Chief Executive of the USA to celebrate the birth of one Lord & Savior. Havana Syndrome's triumphant return to terrorize the homeless. Bari Owari continues to fuck up her chances to be in charge of a major propaganda organ for the current admin. Wh...

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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Recorded on Saturday, May 10th, 2025 around 10.30 AM Korea Standard Time

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