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Episode 60: Utopian Worlds of Kim Stanley Robinson feat Hilary Strang and Matt Hauske
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We’re talking Kim Stanley Robinson today! And that means we’re talking about a lot of the things Kim Stanley Robinson talks about.Joining us are some KSR experts, Matt Hauske and Hilary Strang, the hosts of Marooned! On Mars.We get into some fan love of his writing, ingredients to make a utopia, and forcefully separating billionaires from their mon…
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Premium Episode 43: Gold Bugs and Survivalists feat Karl Mamer (Unlocked)
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It’s the usual Sean and Jules here, and we’re also joined by long-time guest Karl Mamer.Karl is back with us to talk about the 1970s, Gold Bugs, and forces that birthed the survivalist movement.This is an unlocked premium episode. Get extra episodes every month, and get access to all of our past subscriber only episodes for $5 a month.patreon.com/w…
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Episode 59: Extinguished Countries feat Giovanni Vale
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As a long time lover of maps, this conversation was a huge treat! Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month.patreon.com/wetwired**Giovanni's audio got a little wonky a couple of times but it's all totally listenable.**It’s easy to look at the national borders that we draw on those maps and forget how they got there—or…
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Jules and Sean take a step back to process some things. Walz, Vance, and the fact that Harris would be a terrible president.Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month.patreon.com/wetwiredPor Julian Paul Butt & Sean Ondes
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Episode 58: Crypto Proof of Waste feat Jackie Sawicky
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It’s been 15 years since Bitcoin was created. After around a decade and a half, there’s still not anything really useful to do with it outside of paying for illegal arms and mail order drugs. Even though it’s basically useless, Bitcoin and crypto in general has a made a few people extremely rich. Worldwide, the crypto sector is valued at around $2.…
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The Democrats have discovered the "one weird trick" guaranteed to leave heir enemies speechless—name calling.Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month.patreon.com/wetwiredNever mind their complete failure to even try to devise policies that might improve the average voter's life, such as redu…
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Episode 57: Of Contexts and Coconuts
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Biden’s out and Kamala’s in charge (maybe). Still a couple of weeks until the Dem convention but she’s the odds on favorite to get the nomination. We take a look at how some blue-blooded Dems are reacting and give you the Wetwired VP picks for the Harris ticket.Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month.patreon.com/wet…
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We said in our last ep that nothing was happening right now with Biden and Trump but anything could happen. Well, it happened and the reactions from the media and pundits to the attempted assassination of Trump have been nothing short of electric!Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month.patr…
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Episode 56: Euro Trash Politics
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As American democracy recedes as the beacon of democracy for the rest of the world (lol), we’re looking this week at a couple of other elections from across the pond. France and England both tossed out their parliaments and held snap elections. Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month.patreon.com/wetwiredSome reading…
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Dems in disarray! Advisors and Biden supporters are freaking out after his terrible performance in last week's debate with Trump.Calls for Biden to step down from Democrat insiders who three weeks ago were saying all the clips of him confused and flubbing were all cheap MAGA fakes.Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premiu…
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Episode 55: Israel's Hawk Tuah Program
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Hawk Tuah girl brings back blow jobs, Chiquita Banana hired a death squad in Colombia and Israel is targeting state governments with their anti-Semitism PR.We talked a few weeks ago about Israel’s incredibly sophisticated lobbying machine in Washington.Just a couple of days ago, an LA synagogue hosted a sale for stolen Palestinian land. The protest…
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The two least popular candidates in history are days away from their first on stage showdown, and one of them is terrified of sharks.And in France, shit is wild in the lead up to replacing their entire national assembly.Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month.patreon.com/wetwiredMusic:Airgl…
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Episode 54: Sunsetting Section 230
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Section 230 is not a special privilege for big tech, it enables third party participation in communication that even big tech, with its deep pockets, wouldn't risk liability to host, let alone smaller platforms, which couldn't afford one lawsuit.Section 230 also doesn't encourage platforms to have no community guidelines, with a wild west of social…
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The question I had going into this episode was about the asymmetrical reactions between the pro-Palestinian protesters and the pro-Israel and Zionist protesters. (Those seem to be subtly distinct groups so I’m trying to think of them as separate but related.)Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premium only episodes for $5 …
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Episode 53: The Breeders
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We’re talking about the kids. A lot of people have ideas about the kids.And some people think that we should be having a whole lot of them.Support Wetwired by subscribing on Patreon for $5 a month, get extra episodes every month, and access to all of our past subscriber only episodes. patreon.com/wetwiredSome reading:https://aeon.co/essays/why-long…
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Premium Episode 36: Trust No One feat Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla (Unlocked)
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We're teaming up with Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla to talk about the show that 30 years ago introduced the normies to alien abductions, secret government programs, and global conspiracies. Somehow, the X-Files was exactly the right show for its time. It harnessed the untapped cynicism and suspicion of the 1990s and assured us that there real…
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Episode 52: Radical Outside Agitators
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Someone is radicalizing our kids. Who is behind this? What are their motives? There appears to be an unidentified individual or an entire group of them who are actively working to radicalize our precious, vulnerable students. This is a serious issue that requires immediate investigation and action to protect our youth and ensure their safety.Or it …
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Episode 51: Far Right Extremism feat Teddy Wilson
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We're talking far-right extremism with Teddy Wilson. Teddy is an investigative journalist based in Texas. He covers extremism in the US and abroad.Teddy gives us an overview of extremism in the US, how J6 rioters are being portrayed as political prisoners, and a preview of his upcoming projects.Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/wetwiredFind Teddy …
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We’re talking about Max Azzarello, who on April 19th set himself on fire outside the Manhattan Criminal Court where jury selection was concluding for Trump’s Stormy Daniels/hush money trial.In the final post on his Substack titled "I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial," Max Azzarello explained that “[t]his extreme act of protest is to …
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Episode 50: Civil War, What is it Good For? feat Thomas Lecaque
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Sean here with historian Thomas Lecaque to talk about everything wrong with Alex Garland's incoherent movie Civil War. Jesse Plemons is NOT one of those things.Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/wetwiredThomas on Twitter:https://twitter.com/tlecaqueSean's review of Civil War on Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/sondes/film/civil-war-2024/Mu…
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Premium Episode 34: Israel's Influence Machine (Unlocked)
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Maybe a crack in the up until now unquestioned US support of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. All it took was the deaths of 7 people connected to a celebrity chef. Israel murdering 30,000 civilians didn't do it.Israel has somehow managed to be the top recipient of US foreign aid for the last few decades. It was only bumped from the number one s…
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Maybe a crack in the up until now unquestioned US support of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. All it took was the deaths of 7 people connected to a celebrity chef. Israel murdering 30,000 civilians didn't do it.Israel has somehow managed to be the top recipient of US foreign aid for the last few decades. It was only bumped from the number one s…
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Episode 49: Bad Boy for Life
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The drugs, parties, hip-hop, sex workers, P Diddy episode.Following the raid on his homes by Homeland Security as part of a sex trafficking investigation, we're talking about P Diddy and the recent lawsuit alleging that he and Cuba Gooding Jr. sexually abused at least one producer who worked for him. And that he shot somebody.Support us on Patreon:…
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Premium Episode 33: Death to All Digital Humans (Unlocked)
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Up until now, for different reasons, we've avoided talking about both Israel and AI. We haven't talked about the ongoing Palestinian genocide because there are much better voices to listen to than us to help you understand the extent of the horror in Gaza. We haven't talked about the AI bubble because arguing with marketers and hypemen is boring.Th…
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Episode 48: Bitboy and the End of Democracy
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Bitboy, once a top crypto influencer, has further defiled himself. We're talking about his recent "karate fight" in Mexico. We get into some of his career highlights and give some background on his challenger, shit coin creator, More Light.We also have a run down of the speakers at CPAC 2024. We learn how Florida Rep Byron Donalds feels about wind …
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For our special Wetwired Valentine's Day episode, we’re talking about that special feeling you get in the deep, dark recesses of your sinful heart. In a holiday orchestrated by Big Chocolate, there are plenty of other opportunists looking to cash in on your loneliness or your crumbling relationship.An old southern pastor has ideas about how you sho…
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Episode 47: Christo-currency
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Christ’s cryptocurrency is on trial in Colorado. Eli and Kaitlyn Regalado have been accused of creating a worthless crypto coin and exchange, with Jesus-themed branding, that took about 3.4 million dollars from “investors” and left them holding the bag.With a hearing scheduled in Colorado for Feb 5, instead of showing up, Regalado decided to hit th…
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DeSantis’ CRT and DEI presidential campaign might be over, but there are still plenty of people willing to throw down dollars to fight against DEI and woke capitalism.We’re talking about the brave elites who’re willing to put their money down for a good cause. And in the truest American way any of us know, that cause is based land speculation.Some …
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Episode 46: Obamapocalypse - Leave the World Behind
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Today we’re asking the question, "what if a zany mismatched group of three liberal Gen-Xers, one Millennial and two Zoomers were thrown into a house reno’d by Chip and Joanna Gaines just as the world was ending?"We’re going to peek into the blue pilled minds who can’t help but wonder if maybe all those MAGA, QAnon conspiracists might be on to somet…
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We hope you all made it through the holidays intact! We're launching into 2024 with the promised part 2 of our conversation with Karl Mamer from the Conspiracy Skeptic podcast.There's plenty about Douglas MacArthur, deadbeat sovereign citizen dads, and the Grifeter Queen herself, Romana Didulo.Find Karl on Mastodonmas.to/@skepticsbookoflists@c.imBu…
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Episode 45: Royal Frauds feat Karl Mamer
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In the hallowed tradition of Anna Sorokin and former US representative George Santos, and all the other people claiming to be something they’re not, there’s a thriving class of people claiming to have royal blood.Like the guy from Colorado who claimed to be the King of England, or the other guy from Maryland who claims to be King of the Isle of Man…
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Premium Episode 29: The World’s Oldest Pyramid? feat Bill Farley and Steph Halmhofer (Unlocked)
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A few weeks ago a paper was published in the journal Archaeological Prospection that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia is not, as is generally believed, around 2 thousand years old. And that it is actually closer to 20,000 years old.For $5 a month, you can help support the show and listen to our full premium episodes. You'll also get access to al…
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Episode 44: Enough is Never Enough feat Darrin Drda
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We’re joined again today by Darren Drda!We talked last time about his most recent book, New Age Wasteland. We spent some time with a few ghosts and ghouls operating in the New Age space and then dug into the Woo to Q pipeline.Today we’ll spend some time on a few of the more recent influencers in the New Age movement. We also want to shed some light…
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Premium Episode 28: Trump vs the Illuminati (Unlocked)
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Happy Halloween everybody! For a special treat, we're watching one of the absolute worst films ever made, the 2020 cinematic abortion, Trump vs the Illuminati.For $5 a month, you can help support the show and listen to our full premium episodes. You'll also get access to all of our past subscriber only episodes, which is pretty cool.https://www.pat…
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Episode 10: Satanic Democrat Pedophile Rings (Re-release)
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We're taking a break this week, so we thought we'd re-release a timeless episode from the archives. This one is about the amorphous dimensions of what we call QAnon, some thoughts about why it's so hard to categorize, and the implications for detecting disinformation.------We’ve been trying to figure out how many people actually buy into QAnon idea…
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Premium Episode 27: Miss Me Yet feat Chirstopher Bell (Unlocked)
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We’re talking with filmmaker Christopher Bell about his docuseries Miss Me Yet. Chris brings the horror and absurdity of the George W. Bush years back to life as he tells the story of a political heir who becomes president, is branded a liar and war criminal by many, and finally drifts into the semi-reclusive painterly life. Miss Me Yet is currentl…
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Episode 43: Speaking Ill of the Dead feat Thomas Lacacque
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We're joined again by the lovely Thomas Lecaque, historian, educator, author, and destroyer of pop culture. Our winding conversation comes together around the core of ahistory that both fuels and is created by political grifters who would willingly do a fascism so long as they can make a few bucks.We talked a bit about the myth of Christopher Colum…
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The Romeikes, a white, evangelical Christian family who fled Germany to the US seeking the religious freedom to homeschool their seven children. Now DHS is deporting them, and conservatives all of a sudden love asylum seekers—at least the right kind.Next we catch up on what's happening with Tim Ballard, ousted CEO of Operation Underground Railroad,…
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Episode 42: Of Course, He Was at Bohemian Grove
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We take a look at the crimes of Senator Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine. Next, we talk about White nationalists crashing city council meetings with racist rants. We wrap things up with a review of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' longstanding membership in the Bohemian Club and the chummy photo he took at Bohemian Grove with billionaire lib…
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This is our final installment for this round of conversations with Bradley Plaisier. Wherein we wrap up our coverage of UFO disclosures. Bradley then does his damnedest to Bigfoot pill us before exposing us to the glorious works of Chuck Tingle.Argue with Bradley about Bigfoot on Twitter:https://twitter.com/bpleasiesFor $5 a month, listen to the re…
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Episode 41: Investigating the UFO Investigators feat Bradley Plaisier, Part 2
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Bradley Plaisier is back to finish our conversation about the history of UFO disclosure. Along the way, we get into the catastrophic fallout from the global war on terror, the Ebola hoax at Burning Man, modern government UFO investigations, and having the right sort of disillusionment.Find Bradley on Twitter:https://twitter.com/bpleasiesMusic:Five …
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We're talking with artist, author, musician, and former cult member Darrin Drda. Darrin came by to tell us about his book New Age Wasteland: A Look Inside at the Dark Side of "Woo".We talk about the commodification of spirituality, the value of direct knowledge, that capitialism is the conspiracy, and how all this fits into what Darrin calls the "T…
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Episode 40: Siezing the Means of Publication feat Kurt Schiller
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Kurt Schiller, the founder and editor-in-chief of Blood Knife magazine, joins us to talk about remaking the internet so it's fit for humans again.Subscribe to Blood Knifehttps://www.patreon.com/bloodknifeFollow Kurt and Blood Knifehttps://twitter.com/mechanicalkurthttps://twitter.com/BloodKnifeMagIf you liked this episode, consider supporting us on…
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DeSantis' Keystone Kampaign hits another snag with the unintentional dump of sensitive campaign memos. Down south, Argentina sees the rise of another goofy populist. Javier Milei, economist, television personality, dog spiritualist, and neo-Tantric sex guru came in first in their August 13 Presidential primary.For $5 a month, listen to the rest of …
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Episode 39: UFO Disclosure feat Bradley Plaisier, Part 1
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We’re continuing our recent coverage of UFO disclosures and the UFO disclosure movement. We’ll be talking some more about a few of the players in the recent US House hearing on UFOs. But, to put all that in context, we’ll look back into the history of UFO disclosures. And that history is wild. What we find is a wilderness of secret government progr…
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This is a sample of a premium episode. To listen to the entire episode and hear our other premium only content, subscribe at patreon.com/wetwired.DeSantis’ campaign is getting to the tire fire stage. After raising around $20 million when he launched his campaign, now his big donors are leaving. Now he's fired a third of his staff in a move that his…
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Episode 38: Pentagon UFO Hunters
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UFOs everybody! People are seeing them, the Deep State is hiding them, and a small bunch of patriots are tying to blow the whistle. A couple of weeks ago on July 26, the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a hearing to get to the bottom of all this. Some reading:https://apnews.com/article/ufos-uaps-congress…
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This is a sample of a premium episode. To listen to the entire episode and hear our other premium only content, subscribe at patreon.com/wetwired.We’re joined by Brent Lee, co-host of the Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast, to talk about how he fell down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and how he got back out. Along the way we talk about Pizzag…
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Episode 37: Sound of Freedom
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Easily the worst movie ever to perform so well in the box office, Sound of Freedom is a fantastical retelling of the extra-governmental exploits of Tim Ballard. Ballard, taking to heart the conviction that every problem can be solved with a gun, travels to Columbia, to set up his own Epstein island as a sting operation to catch pedophiles. Along th…
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Premium Episode 20: Growing Up in the Children of God Cult feat Daniella Mestyanek Young (Sample)
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