Hog Planet

Dan and Sam talk about the grim Bored Ape concerts, January 6th hearings and Mike Pence's brush with the hog mob, the ongoing GOP freakout over their children refusing to become homophobic and transphobic bigots, Hollywood's useless pledge to reexamine firearms use in the wake of Uvalde, and the hogs who can't afford all the junk food they want to eat because of Joe Biden and his inflation. As usual, we ramble, it gets dark at times, and we have almost no idea of what we are talking about, but it's your boys. Check it out. It's a hog planet so please consider donating to: Help Secure Housing for an Immigrant Roma Family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/secure-housing-for-a-immigrant-roma-family?utm_campaign Ward 2 Mutual Aid: https://opencollective.com/ward-2-mutual-aid -- https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/06/what-is-a-woman-is-a-feature-length-exploration-of-conservative-ignorance-and-prejudice/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

To make up for yet another extended hiatus, Dan and Sam slapped together a real barnbuster of an episode for the hogs. Return guest Barto (@ElBartoArmy) joined us for a wide-ranging discussion of ongoing hog happenings. We began on a more somber note, with a brief tribute to the king Gilbert Gottfried and desperate musings about our diseased, violent society in the wake of the unthinkable shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Luckily, we were able to lighten it up with Dan's unwittingly encountering a GOP Congressman's interminable speech, Seth Green's stolen Bored Ape NFT, and the chaotic Havana Syndrome episode of Law & Order. Be sure to stick around to the end for Jack, our Resident Soulsborne expert, who joined us to help Sam rip apart tech dingus Elon Musk's atrocious Elden Ring build. How to support the boys Ward 2 Mutual Aid: https://opencollective.com/ward-2-mutual-aid Barto's music: https://armed-jouissance.bandcamp.com/album/- Jack's music: https://johndonne.bandcamp.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

On this one the hogs caught up with recent Epstein-adjacent developments, the Queen's rather nasty bout of COVID, and Trump's new TRUTH social media platform featuring Kodak Black. We spent the rest of the episode watching the clips, including the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a literal waste of a billion dollars spent on dated video game cut-scene level CGI and characters absolutely nobody cares about. We also bore witness to the advent of the upcoming planned communities for Disney adults in the Coachella Valley, the dreadfully awkward consent manufacturing on the Washington Post's TikTok account, and the endless weed farms of the metaverse. To close out, we checked in on the musical world of the Canadian trucker convoy, including the vocal stylings of Jordan B. Peterson, just in time before our very own homegrown American chuds bring the party to Washington, DC. It's a Hog Planet. Please contribute to Ward 2 Mutual Aid: https://opencollective.com/ward-2-mutual-aid --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Like the bat signal on the blackened skies of Gotham, feral hogs have descended upon the San Francisco Bay Area to herald the return of Hog Planet. On our triumphant return, we poured one out for the fallen hog lawyer Michael Avenatti, whose string of heinous crimes, including extorting Stormy Daniels and the Nike Corporation, among others, could land him in jail for decades. Next, Dan and Sam rampaged through the discursive streets of the Joe Rogan vaccine and n-word controversies. Our hosts' credibility may never recover. Lastly, we handed the mic over to 4 AM fruit stand enjoyer and New York Mayor Eric Adams, who called us a certain wafery slur in return. There you have it, folks, this episode is a bona fide feral swine bomb. Stick around for an eyewitness Mayor Pete report before the hog credits roll. It's a Hog Planet. Please contribute to Ward 2 Mutual Aid: https://opencollective.com/ward-2-mutual-aid --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Your beloved hogs return to cover a story that seems like we made it up: Alec Baldwin's tragic misfire on the set of Rust, the senseless death of rising talent Halyna Hutchins, and the toxic work environment that let it happen. Who is to blame? Baldwin? Assistant Director Dave Halls? Or 24-year-old set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed? We turn to the least reliable sources to see what they think, like costume-designer-turned-scab-apologist Terese Magpale Davis, Gutierrez-Reed's deeply soulless defense attorneys, and, of course, Baldwin himself. To lighten things up, we treat the fans to a tight 4 from a rising star in the vaguely anti-vax comedy world: Jim Breuer, age 54. In an attempt to plug his own podcast and upcoming comedy special, he recently took to Twitter to post 4 minutes of, er, jokes, which mainly consisted of anti-vax bird squawks, piss, shit, fart, and puke sounds, and other weird, bad, and loud noises. Underneath it all, there were apparently some contrarian Gen-Xer points made. Listen kid, the podcasting game ain't for everyone. Blessedly we only have one political hog to inflict on you this time around: Republican Delegate-elect Tim Anderson. But he might be too hot to handle! (crowd groans) It's a Hog Planet. Please contribute to Ward 2 Mutual Aid: https://opencollective.com/ward-2-mutual-aid See Dan's paintings on instagram @ dspaventa For full video of this and all recent Hog Planet episodes go to Hog Planet on YouTube. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). Subscribe to hogplanet.substack.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

And now, we deliver unto you a long overdue look into the infamous January 6 riot at the Capitol, a watershed moment for hog culture. We reflected on that day when the Trump chuds were so sure that the Democrats were seizing control of the US government that they decided to just go ahead and try to do it themselves. We also checked up on some of the people who have been arrested and even sentenced for their roles in this exceedingly dumb release of misplaced aggression. We wrapped it up with Sam's eyewitness accounts of the Justice for January 6 protest on September 18, where maybe 300 people showed up to wave their flags, bicker with counter protesters, and get all weepy about how the criminal justice system is treating their comrades. Yeah, that's right, I went through that so that you don't have to. Just another day at the office for us at Hog Planet. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

The hogs commemorated the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by actually entering the same room and doing the only thing they know how to do: podcasting. We took a trip down memory lane to unload every thought we have on “the day the world stopped turning.” We also watch some choice clips from this year's 9/11, including Trump hosting a pay-per-view boxing match and Rudy Giuliani being drunk. If you listen closely, you can hear Sam's dog barking at George W. Bush. That's what 9/11's all about, Charlie Brown! Follow @spaventacular @wagstank on twitter and @dspaventa on Instagram for Dan's paintings. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). Subscribe to hogplanet.substack.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Josh K joins Dan to talk about his work with the NYC DSA EcoSocialist working group and about their new campaign. The two hogs get into the respective falls of liberal giants Andrew Cuomo and Bill Gates, god trying to punish Stephen Crowder, and deranged conservative advertising. You won't want to miss the San Diego police video about the definitely totally real dangers of fentanyl touching the skin, complete with shocking body cam video. Green New Deal for Public Schools Launch Call with Congressman Jamaal Bowman: https://actionnetwork.org/events/green-new-deal-for-public-schools-public-launch-call Join NYC DSA EcoSocialists: https://ecosocialists.nyc/join-us/ See Dan's paintings on instagram @ dspaventa For full video of this and all recent Hog Planet episodes go to Hog Planet on YouTube. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). Subscribe to hogplanet.substack.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Folks, the hogs are getting theoretical today. We had legit Marxists Kevin Jun Ha and JR Murray on to talk about how individualism as an ideology is fucking everything up these days and making it feel impossible to deal with the ongoing pandemic, climate change, and the growing threat of space billionaires. This sprawling overview touches on everything from Bezos to Frederick Jackson Turner and, mercifully, we only quoted Marx twice. Smash that play button if you're trying to learn how to cast off your fetters and develop the capabilities of your species. Check out https://cosmonautmag.com and support Ward 2 Mutual Aid at https://t.co/9WlwsKlRXk?amp=1 For full video of this and all recent Hog Planet episodes go to Hog Planet on YouTube. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). Subscribe to hogplanet.substack.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

It's a sweaty summer episode with the hogs as we talk boats, fireworks, summer camp, ice cream, and tragic masturbation. Dan and Sam apologize to at least 2 or 3 entire countries in this one. For Full Video search for the Hog Planet channel on YouTube Follow @spaventacular @wagstank on twitter and @dspaventa on Instagram for Dan's paintings. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). Subscribe to hogplanet.substack.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Dan and Sam hopped on the mics in the middle of the night to pod about pressing cultural issues such as the newly proposed Washington Football Team names, failed NYC mayoral candidate Dianne Morales' delirious tweets, Jair Bolsanaro's hiccups hospitalization, and Spike Lee's woke bitcoin ad. We also look back at one year since the George Floyd protests and the ongoing hysteria about critical race theory that has bled over into the high school we went to. We showed off some of Dan's artwork and the item of the season: Hog Planet lighters. For Full Video search for the Hog Planet channel on YouTube Follow @spaventacular @wagstank on twitter and @dspaventa on Instagram for Dan's paintings. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). Subscribe to hogplanet.substack.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

The hogs are back yet again, with guest hog Andrew (@Zhadn_) in tow. Dan has the latest from New York's majorly stupid mayoral race. We are pleased to announce that Andrew Yang lost but saddened to say that Eric Adams is probably going to win. Just as Mr. Adams lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey, not New York, New York, Dan undeservedly received a jury duty notice for his home state of New Jersey, despite living in New York. Truly, the system has failed. Watch out for the transition where we start talking about how the President of Haiti was assassinated today by Spanish speakers impersonating the DEA. Dan really beefs the transition on that one. He's trying, folks... As we continue to hold Dan accountable, we issue a few corrections from prior episodes. For more of Dan being wrong, be sure to follow him on Twitter so he can get to 420 followers. As of recording we (he) only need(s) 5 more... It could be you! We also have a few cool videos of stuff blowing up. The thing is, they are both videos of bad things happening: one being the Los Angeles Police Department detonating "stolen" (we prefer to say "liberated") fireworks and taking out a city block in the process, and the other being the gaping hole of fire that opened up in the Gulf of Mexico. Yeah, yeah, both are pretty bad signs, but still, stuff blowing up is kinda cool. Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Football Team and person who may have hired Sam at one point (he would have regretted it) has been fined for toxic workplace culture. We dig deeper to dish on how Dan Snyder is now cucked as his wife takes over operations of the racial slur football team. Andrew is the internet guy. He loves computers. He shares his thoughts on why OKCupid is a trash website, and why Alibaba is an insane platform hard for those of us in this tiny, dusty country to understand the scale of. We also delve into the recent disappearance of Alibaba founder Jack Ma from the public eye in China, and how he rocked out on guitar once. Speaking of scale and continuing with abrupt transitions, we revisit the largest mass shooting in US history and how we still don't know anything substantive about Stephen Paddock or his motives. Unless one of those guys with ideas about his involvement with the Saudis is on to something... To close out, Dan is forced to evaluate and understand Waluigi, including what his moveset would be in Super Smash Bros., and we share a few anecdotes about the many voices of the Mario Extended Universe. For Full Video search for the Hog Planet channel on YouTube Follow @spaventacular @wagstank on twitter and @dspaventa on Instagram for Dan's paintings. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). Subscribe to hogplanet.substack.com. Links: GoFundMe for Victims of LAPD Fireworks Detonation https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-displaced-family-recover-from-las-explosion?qid=ee4569f4dd0f51777464f3aaadb1b947 The Vanishing Billionaire: How Jack Ma fell afoul of Xi Jinping https://www.ft.com/content/1fe0559f-de6d-490e-b312-abba0181da1f https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2021/06/24/what-really-happened-to-jack-ma/?sh=3c9a686f7c7e Mapping the Las Vegas Massacre | NYT - Visual Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krr4u6uGdzc The Origin of Luigi's Voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXKklRLUq4 Waluigipedia http://udel.edu/~cgates/website103/waluigipedia.html --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Welcome back hog Stans - New York remains mayorless; Vin Diesel's real name stinks; and Sam has basically zero opinion on Regis Philbin. Seinfeld is off streaming, but luckily, it's burned into our minds indelibly (and available on DVD). Dan is yet again begging for 420 Twitter followers. He's also recounting some stories, including: spotting a Beto 2020 holdout, shouting at a moving truck driver, and discussing Israel-Palestine with an elemental denizen of Coney Island. The Army is now admitting that aliens exist, and China is to blame. We're thinking about fish, and of course we found a fish that is also a hog. We're also answering some tough questions: how do we navigate going back to maskless offices, taking it on faith that everyone in there is vaccinated, and attempting to relearn our social skills? And, more importantly, is calling the cocktail of whiskey, Irish cream, and Guinness an Irish Car Bomb the equivalent of naming a drink “The 9/11?” If so, what goes in the latter? All that and more, on V I D E O.   For Full Video search for the Hog Planet channel on YouTube Follow @spaventacular @wagstank on twitter and @dspaventa on Instagram for Dan's paintings. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). Subscribe to hogplanet.substack.com.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Dan and Sam resurrect the pod to spew further hog nonsense about why we stopped liking the show as it was and why it's funnier and on VIDEO now. We yammered about the risible mayoral candidates trying to make New York City even worse, protests for public toilets, Biden's dreadfully unfunny presidency and considerable dog body count, the physical and spiritual incongruity between Scooby Doo and Courage the Cowardly Dog, and much more. Sam busted out at least 5 different virtual backgrounds featuring increasingly chaotic photos of President Xi Jinping. Dan has the ass clown he painted. You simply must tune in. Follow @spaventacular @wagstank on twitter and @dspaventa on Instagram for Dan's paintings. Music by Bags (http://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) Read Sam's article about his relationship with Father's Day at https://hogplanet.substack.com/p/detente-the-perfect-fathers-day-gift // subscribe to the substack for more at hogplanet.substack.com Hog Planet YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5t-rHpXzV0G8UTN9knVm8Q for full episode video --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Dan and Sam reconvene to cover some hog news updates, including the disastrous Trumptilla on Lake Travis, the funniest revelation from Michael Cohen's new tell-all, and the recently unsealed indictment of fan favorite Steve Bannon. We also try to pin down why Facebook seems so dire these days and how it changed from its unserious origins to its current chaotic state. We think you'll like this one. It's the perfect soundtrack to clinging for life as your 8-foot dinghy named Second Mortgage gets swamped by a 70-foot yacht decked out with Trump flags. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Take a break from frantically posting about death by fire, plague, and flood to remember the bygone era of 2007, a pre-irony time when four prehistoric beasts starred in a Disney-sponsored comedy about being middle-aged. We are finally addressing the made-for-Hog Planet movie Wild Hogs (2007), a motorcycle flick about fearful, porcine men struggling to reclaim their masculinity. Joining us is Luke Van Brandenburg of the @boosegumps podcast, which you can find on YouTube and Spotify. We motor through the scarce highs and all-too-common lows of the pre-irony and pre-Obergefell v. Hodges humor in this film. Along the way, you will learn far too much about this film, the last gasp of a kind of hoggish humor that truly died out after the 2008 financial crisis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

This week, we discussed the original Die Hard (1988), a true classic of the action genre, and how it subtly handles topics such as police bureaucracy, corporate greed, and the US-Japan trade relationship. Joining us for this one is a true Die Hard expert, returning champion Matt Greenberg of the Copilots podcast (@WeAreCoPilots). We try to answer the tough questions, like “is this copaganda?” “Is John McClane a cowboy or a samurai?” “Is there a difference?” Matt also helps us understand where the franchise went after knocking it out of the park the first time around. You won't want to miss this on - after all, nothing says “quarantine” like a film whose entire hostage-driven plot could have been avoided with a simple Zoom Christmas party. These hogs write! Check out new writing (and old) on the Hog Planet Digest at hogplanet.substack.com. There you can find articles shed light on what we have discussed on older episodes, and if you subscribe, you can get new articles sent straight to your inbox as soon as they come out. Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to support the show and get bonus content including extra episodes, extended cuts of guest interviews, and original artwork. As always, all music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

One of our real-life heroes, our deeply powerful high school English teacher Mr. Zelcer, joins us to discuss being an educator in the Covid times and the daunting task of preparing today's youth for the future. In the post-game segment over on the Hog Planet Patreon, we discuss the continued devaluation of a liberal arts education and what it may portend for the future of imagination and our very souls. We also briefly sing George Saunders' praises. Be sure to check out all of Mr. Zelcer's excellent creative output, which we mention on the show and link to below. These hogs write! Check out new writing (and old) on the Hog Planet Digest at hogplanet.substack.com. There you can find articles shed light on what we have discussed on older episodes, and if you subscribe, you can get new articles sent straight to your inbox as soon as they come out. Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to support the show and get bonus content including extra episodes, extended cuts of guest interviews, and original artwork. As always, all music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) Notes: Support Mr. Zelcer's many side hustles: Word Game plot-egoríes quad-egories https://play-quadegories.herokuapp.com/ Daily Despot https://www.facebook.com/thedailydespot The Little Book of Yankees Evil https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19013498-the-little-book-of-yankees-evil Sources: George Stephanopoulos' interview with Mary Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp_Ew98D4OM Illinois Wesleyan cutting its liberal arts programs https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-illinois-wesleyan-university-liberal-arts-program-cuts-20200716-yo337lghgrdmnpdl4xhfarzqe4-story.html Marketing executive funds small liberal arts scholarship https://news.psu.edu/story/625730/2020/07/14/impact/young-liberal-arts-alumna-creates-pass-it-scholarship-help-and --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

This week the hogs have Barto (@elbartoarmy) on to discuss Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, Netflix's account of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's international criminal enterprise. The documentary benefits from in-depth interviews with survivors including Sarah Ransome, Virginia Giuffre, and Maria Farmer, as well as an illuminating, albeit brief look at the latter's artistic depiction of her ordeal. But it suffers from some glaring omissions and collaboration with author and Clinton associate James Patterson as well as Sam's nemesis Alan Dershowitz. We unpacked what the series had to offer and mused about the damage conspiratorial thinking can do to mass movements. Speaking of which, please be sure to support Barto's work by checking out Food Not Bombs Wilmington on Facebook (facebook.com/FNBWilmington/), Twitter (@fnbwilmington) and Instagram (instagram.com/fnbwilm/) and throwing some skrilla at them on Cashapp ($fnbwilmington). These hogs write! Check out new writing (and old) on the Hog Planet Digest at hogplanet.substack.com. There you can find articles shed light on what we have discussed on older episodes, and if you subscribe, you can get new articles sent straight to your inbox as soon as they come out. Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to support the show and get bonus content including extra episodes, extended cuts of guest interviews, and original artwork. As always, all music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Since former Daily Show host Jon Stewart was recently on a press tour promoting Irresistible, his mid-2000s time capsule of a feature film, it's the perfect time to evaluate his cultural impact. To help us flesh this out, we chatted with Luke Savage (@lukewsavage), a true gentleman and scholar of mid-2000s liberal media. We discussed Stewart's strengths and weaknesses, why he seems utterly despondent in the Trump years, and how empty his political ideology is, to the extent that it even exists. Subscribe at patreon.com/hogplanet to gain access to the post-game where we discussed the highly anti-climactic 2016 Democratic Primary and why the Bernie Sanders campaign was not a complete failure. You can find Luke's writing on Jacobin.com and his excellent podcast Michael & Us on all podcast platforms. These hogs write! Check out new writing (and old) on the Hog Planet Digest at hogplanet.substack.com. There you can find articles shed light on what we have discussed on older episodes, and if you subscribe, you can get new articles sent straight to your inbox as soon as they come out. Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to support the show and get bonus content including extra episodes, extended cuts of guest interviews, and original artwork. As always, all music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) Show Notes: https://newrepublic.com/article/155928/daily-shows-rally-restore-sanity-predicted-decade-liberal-futility https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/jon-stewart-irresistible-review --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

This week we had Gaby Kubi (@gabynotchatty on Twitter, @sugarkubi on Instagram) on to discuss her organizing with #DoBetterCornell (@dobettercornell and dobettercornell.com). We talked about the movement, its goals and the administration's reaction. We also poked holes in some of the common myths in the discourse and concern trolling about campus activism, its methods and its perceived impermanence. For the Patreon subscribers, the post-game covers Gaby's research on education and critical consciousness, which Sam manages to relate to the Sopranos somehow. Support Gaby and Do Better Cornell by following the links in the show notes! These hogs write! Check out new writing (and old) on the Hog Planet Digest at hogplanet.substack.com. There you can find articles shed light on what we have discussed on older episodes, and if you subscribe, you can get new articles sent straight to your inbox as soon as they come out. Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to support the show and get bonus content including extra episodes, extended cuts of guest interviews, and original artwork. As always, all music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags). SHOW NOTES https://dobettercornell.com/ https://cornellsun.com/2020/06/16/in-2017-pres-pollack-responded-to-racist-incidents-on-cornells-campus-with-a-task-force-did-it-change-campus-climate/ https://cornellsun.com/2020/06/13/student-petitions-demand-anti-racist-action-from-administration https://cornellsun.com/2020/01/19/guest-room-keep-humec-policy-is-just-one-part-of-our-identity/ https://www.educationnext.org/where-left-right-agree-civics-education-where-they-dont/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJdiMIL-JC4&feature=emb_title Recent update from Cornell leadership on racial justice on campus https://statements.cornell.edu --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Dan and Sam get really local on this one and explore a controversy that recently rocked the Board of Education with jurisdiction over where we went to high school. We talked with Sarah Evelyn of Valley for Change, a newly formed anti-racist organization in the Northern Valley region of Bergen County, New Jersey. She gave us a crucial background on the organization's successful push to advocate for the removal of Dan Eller, a former member of the Board of Education, after photos surfaced of him wearing blackface while he was in high school. Yes, the same high school that Dan and Sam went to! Sarah helps recap the blockbuster 7-hour Board of Education meeting where Eller's defenders and racial justice advocates made their cases until about 3:30 AM. We also got the details on what's next for Valley for Change and antiracist efforts in the area. Afterwards Dan and Sam discuss Alan Dershowitz soiling the good name of Lucy Vincent Beach, and the latest prominent Trump supporters getting COVID-19. Also these hogs write! Check out new writing (and old) on the Hog Planet Digest at hogplanet.substack.com. There you can find articles shed light on what we have discussed on older episodes, and if you subscribe, you can get new articles sent straight to your inbox as soon as they come out. Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to support the show and get bonus content including extra episodes, extended cuts of guest interviews, and original artwork. As always, all music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) Show Notes Support Valley for Change https://linktr.ee/nvchange Follow Valley for Change on social media https://twitter.com/ChangeValley https://www.instagram.com/valley.for.change/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Here's a re-release of audience favorite Rachey's first ever appearance (from Episode 13) and the saga many now call a modern classic, the succulent story (from Episode 30). Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to support the show and get bonus content including extra episodes, extended cuts of guest interviews, and original artwork. All music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Dan and Sam sat down with Ray Gedd, our associate out of Delaware, to discuss working at a chicken plant during COVID-19, uprisings in the First State, and the fine work done by organizations like Food Not Bombs' Wilmington chapter. Of course, we also discuss the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell and the Epstein School of Interior Design for a bit too. Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to support the show and get bonus content including extra episodes, extended cuts of guest interviews, and original artwork. As noted previously, your subscription skrilla helps us keep this whole program moving. Proceeds go towards paying for our editing, producing and conferencing software as well as paying our guests for their time. As always, all music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) Notes: Food Not Bombs Wilmington https://linktr.ee/FNBWilmington Justice for Jabri Hunter https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-jabri-hunter?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

This week, the illustrious Samantha Riedel (@samusmcqueen and @transamus on Twitter) joins us to discuss her writing in them.us, Daily xtra, and The Establishment, as  well as why it makes Trans-Exclusionary “Radical” Feminists (TERFs) so mad. She also gave us her first-hand account of ACAB Spring uprisings in western Massachusetts. Subscribe on patreon.com/hogplanet to get access to the post-game where we discuss Samantha's experiences as a creator on the fascinating adult platform OnlyFans. As noted previously, your subscription skrilla helps us keep this whole program fair, as proceeds go towards paying for our editing, producing and conferencing software as well as paying our guests for their time. Who knows, maybe Dan and Sam will be able to pay themselves and be free to give you even more bonus content. As always, all music composed and created by the incomparable Joseph S. Bags (https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags) Show notes https://www.them.us/story/nyla-rose-is-a-villain-worth-cheering-for https://www.them.us/story/how-tangerine-taught-hollywood-to-tell-trans-stories https://www.dailyxtra.com/why-people-are-mad-about-the-term-menstruators-153964 https://www.them.us/story/dont-let-the-gop-pinkwash-a-war-with-iran Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage, highly recommended by Samantha https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250112576 Support the Pioneer Valley Workers Center https://pvworkerscenter.org/ Support No Justice No Pride https://www.nojusticenopride.org/donate --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

The hogs are joined by our man in Kentucky Brenden Stipes to discuss the state's rampant poverty, attitudes towards police, recent protests, reaction to Breonna Taylor's murder, urban and suburban segregation, Confederate pride, and the 2nd Amendment. McDonalds changed its twitter name to “Amplify Black Voices”…ok Follow Brenden @brendenstipes on Instagram and check out the protest art he plugged by The Snoeman @thesnoeman on Instagram. Subscribe to our brand-new patreon on any level by clicking this link: patreon.com/hogplanet for lots of Hog bonus content! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

The hogs were thrilled to interview one of our podcast heroes, Bryan Quinby (@murderbryan) of Street Fight Radio. We talked about shock jocks, independent left media, and hog culture in the suburbs. Bryan also gave us his first hand account of the uprisings in Columbus, Ohio, movements to rename the city and hold its leadership accountable, and what he's working on for Street Fight, the PODkast, and Means TV. This is an abridged version of the full episode - to get the post-game where Dan and Sam go full Street Fight and give Bryan the lowdown on exactly how our jobs are screwing us, subscribe to our brand-new patreon on any level by clicking this link: patreon.com/hogplanet Once you subscribe, you gain immediate access to our very first 6 episodes, which are not available anywhere else, as well as the post-game with Bryan. By throwing us a pittance every month, Patreon subscribers help us pay our guests and pay for our editing and conferencing software so we can stay independent and keep bringing you guests that you won't hear on corporate media. Help keep Hog Planet spinning by signing up at patreon.com/hogplanet. Some of the petitions discussed in the episode: Petition to recall the Mayor of Columbus, Ohio https://recallginther.org/ Petition demanding the resignations of the mayor and police chief of Columbus https://www.change.org/p/shannon-hardin-the-resignation-of-mayor-andrew-ginther-and-police-chief-thomas-quinlan Petitions to rename Columbus https://www.change.org/p/senator-hearcel-f-craig-change-the-name-of-columbus-ohio?original_footer_petition_id=22620028&algorithm=promoted&source_location=petition_footer&grid_position=10&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uAL5tWgEAAAAAXt6wH4GhLT0zMDI3N2U1ZQ%3D%3D https://www.change.org/p/mayor-ginther-columbus-city-council-change-the-name-of-columbus-ohio-to-flavortown Street Fight Radio Website https://www.streetfightradio.com/ Means TV means.tv --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

On this episode we recap the myriad celebrities who have been cancelled since the beginning of the ACAB Spring in June. Joining us is Ian Miller (@pasotizing on Instagram) to weigh in on cancel culture, tell us about Black Lives Matter protesting in the New York suburbs, and swap stories about run-ins with the police. We also covered Trump's COVID-19 sharing party in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hog Planet is in a new phase. In addition to expanding into Instagram (@hogplanetpodcast) where we do weekly livestreams, we are also actively seeking guests from around the country to discuss uprisings in their communities. If you would like to come on to discuss your experience with the uprisings, to plug your work, or to partner with us to sponsor your business, send us a DM! Music by Joseph Bags https://soundcloud.com/josephsbags Follow and support Ian's friend @digitsbydee --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Dan pulled some of our favorite Law and Order segments from the archives. follow our new Instagram page @hogplanetpodcast Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Here's the second of our reissues of our favorite story segments from the archives. 1) Subway Altercation (Episode 12) 2) Medieval Times Punishment (Episode 8) 3) Trippy Sticks (Episode 15) 4) Live From NY (episode 18) follow our new Instagram page @hogplanetpodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

In the newest installment of the Nights at the Quarancinema series, we covered what may be one of the most Hog Planet movies of all time: Bong Joon-Ho's Okja. This is more than just a simple excuse for Sam to spew his usual vegetarian nonsense. Joining us are Kevin (@kevinjunha) and JR (@carl-marks), real-life Marxists who help us unpack the way that the movie strips away the layers obscuring the social relations endemic to the meatpacking industry. We also dove deep into the way that the movie explores concepts such as use-value and exchange value, globalization, and eco-terrorism. Be sure to follow our newly established instagram account @hogplanetpodcast for weekly streams and other visual hog content. Show Notez: https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missing-piglets-animal-rights-glenn-greenwald/ https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/big-agribusiness-finance-farming/ https://theoutline.com/post/8633/smithfield-pork-tar-heel-north-carolina-industrial-farms-lawsuits Check out JR's work at Cosmonaut Magazine (@CosmonautMag), Here's an abridged version of the Cosmonaut mission statement: Direct action after direct action, dedicated leftists put their bodies on the line without anything resembling a convincing vision of a better world. This is no one individual's failure, but an inevitable result of the collapse of working-class power and socialist politics in the late 20th century. Communism—the vision of humanity emancipated from class society—is generally disregarded as a fantasy, or even as undesirable in principle. At best it is the silent God of a negative theology, a desperate mantra of abstract negation with no plausible hope to be found in the existing tendencies of capitalist society. Consigned by post-structuralism and marginalist economics to an obsolete micro-niche in humanities departments, academic marxism—even on the rare occasion it can genuinely help us understand the world—is as detached from the goal of classless society on paper as it is in reality. A leftist politics this disoriented is about as likely to achieve basic democratic reforms as it is to implement a world socialist republic. It is necessary for Marxists of all backgrounds and skills to develop intellectual institutions independent of academia, wherein communists can develop their vision, strategy, and overall critique of capitalist society. Cosmonaut aims to be one of (what should be) many different platforms of debate, where scientific socialists can develop an analysis of history, critique the prevailing ideological “common sense” of our time, and conceive a programmatic communist politics relevant to our circumstance. We seek to develop a Marxism for the 21st century which will be based on a scientific inquiry of history and present conditions through a process of collective discussion and debate, not dogma based on fidelity to what this or that Great Man said so many years ago. Our organizing principles are internationalism over all standing armies and borders; building class-independent, democratic institutions; and a vision of a future where the world is a classless community of humanity, finally free of exploitation and oppression—communism. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Happy Fathers Day Here's the first of our reissues of our favorite story segments from the archives. 1) The Rubber Raft Odyssey (episode 25) 2) Sam eats at Comet Ping Pong (episode 9) 3) Journey To The DEA Mueseum (episode 37) follow our new Instagram page @hogplanetpodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

As promised, here is Sam's solo commentary of Hannah Gadsby's newest Netflix comedy special Douglas. We proudly support the following organizations doing crucial work to advance the cause of equity for the LGBTQ community and other marginalized people, and we want to shout them out and encourage donations here: www.thetrevorproject.org/ www.paypal.me/TransReliefFund www.nctsn.org/ www.rainn.org/ www.nacvcb.org/ www.safehorizon.org/ - for New York City transequality.org/covid19/mutual-a…-emergency-funds --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

In anticipation of Sam's upcoming blockbuster commentary track for Hannah Gadsby's newest special Douglas, we are re-releasing segments we did in Episodes 30 and 39. In these back episodes, we respectively discussed Nanette with Rachey and Gadsby's romantic partner Jill Soloway's book She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy. It is crucial to note that our critiques of Gadsby's special Nanette are not intended to minimize the trauma Gadsby recounts within it, nor are they intended to diminish the brutality of homophobia. These are sensitive and serious topics that we do not want to dismiss flippantly, so we zeroed in on its relation to comedy and the discourse around it. We also do not fault anyone who connected with Gadsby's work on a personal level, and our criticisms of the special should not be interpreted as any kind of attack on anyone on that level. Art, especially when it is released on Netflix, is created for public consumption, and it should inspire constructive intellectual discussion and debate, which is why we chose to cover it. But we do not want any of our critiques to be taken as an attack against or rejection of the ongoing struggle for equity and fairness with regards to women, victims of sexual assault and the LGBTQ community. We proudly support the following organizations doing crucial work to advance the cause of equity for marginalized people, and we want to shout them out and encourage donations here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ https://www.paypal.me/TransReliefFund https://www.nctsn.org/ https://www.rainn.org/ http://www.nacvcb.org/ https://www.safehorizon.org/ - for New York City https://transequality.org/covid19/mutual-aid-and-emergency-funds --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hog-planet/message

Denizens of Hog Planet, we have a brand spanking new entry for our Quarancinema series: Rachey joins Sam to discuss the millennial rom-com Lovebirds, starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani. Despite the fact that this content is directly marketed to us, we did not enjoy it. We recorded this episode prior to the ACAB Spring and ongoing demonstrations, so hopefully this isn’t too disappointing and you can enjoy a nice respite from wall-to-wall uprising coverage.

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Sam's solo episode reporting on protests in Washington DC and how this moment feels different. DONATE https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/ http://brooklynbailfund.org/ https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas2020 https://www.paypal.me/columbusfreedomfund https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2 https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/ https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-justiceforgeorgefloyd-protesters-in-atlanta/?fbclid=IwAR34mCPPgeE1F8U0pcRdr250r27QrEqWk7WJ9c6VaAmL8kdIWl42t6YfPvE

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This week we have egg cinematography expert Andrew Dimola (@zhadn_AD) on to discuss Alfonso Cuaron’s legendary near-future dystopia Children of Men (2006). On the day that Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign, we fittingly discussed the movie’s main themes: a world without hope, the courage faith demands, and immigration. Our rewatch of Children of Men during the nearly-worldwide quarantine 7 years prior to the events of the film left us with plenty to talk about. This episode is double-stuffed, but we recommend listening to the end for Andrew’s notes about what he remembered about the film after not having watched it for ten years.

For a supplement to the episode check this out: https://medium.com/@sam_louis/fc4124f15dac We’re becoming “film Twitter” guys from now through at least the next 3ish episodes. Here to ease us into the world of cinema criticism is the unparalleled Darian Lusk (@eatpraylusk). We take you back to the yesteryear of 2019 and the world of A24 films with two of its top horror flicks, Ari Aster’s Midsommar and Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse. We’re unpacking the gay and queer elements in these films, their auteurist “film Twitter guy” appeal, and making the case for these cinema geek movies as the Covid-19 economy squeezes theaters, allowing garbage like Dolittle (2020) to lead the box office yield for this already apocalyptic year. The first in a number of film-focused episodes, this one is a great way to get through an hour and a half of your quarantine. At the very least, you won’t want to miss Darian’s list of the top 5 gay and queer icons of Midsommar. Show Notes: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2020/

Rachey joins us to dive into the weird world of the Goop Lab, Netflix’s new show about Gwyneth Paltrow’s snake oil female empowerment lifestyle brand. In what amounts to a collection of scenes resembling pandering QVC sales pitches, awkward HR seminars, and devoted anti-vaxxer retreats, the show forces upon us a flagrant dose of native advertising for bizarre scammers such as psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson and orgasm coach Betty Dodson. If you discuss auras or energies in the workplace, think you may have undiagnosed chronic lyme disease, or sincerely believe you have a gluten “sensitivity,” this show is for you. If not, listen to this episode instead - we fill in the blanks in this bizarre world where half-truths, vague correlation, and endless gullibility are currency. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/business/goop-vaginal-egg-settlement.html https://undark.org/2020/01/13/goop-paltrow-netflix-series-science/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2017.1332152?af=R&journalCode=hjsr20

Dan does the unthinkable and records a live to tape commentary track of the entire 4+ hour Hilary Clinton documentary series on Hulu from start to finish. Listen with or without the documentary on in the background, but if you want to follow along here is where each commentary starts: Episode 1 - 4:26 / Episode 2 - 1:10:01 / Episode 3 - 2:15:10 / Episode 4 - 3:18:19

For a supplement to our discussion this episode, check out this piece: https://medium.com/@sam_louis/covid-19-should-be-the-end-of-the-end-of-history-c4fb748ab3d9 Greetings from the lonely world of the socially distance! On this episode, we have a special guest applying her healthcare expertise to help us understand COVID-19, what you should be doing, how the US healthcare system is woefully unprepared for what’s to come, and how you can support healthcare workers at this time. Live from the Hog Planet...Please DON’T ask us to watch Babe: Pig in the City unless it’s COMPLETELY necessary. Notes: Irish people DO make up 10% of the US! https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_13_5YR_DP03&prodType=table https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-doctor-moved-into-garage-protect-newborn-family-president-barack-obama-praises-health-care-workers/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/europe/italy-death-toll-intl/index.html https://www.itnonline.com/content/ct-provides-best-diagnosis-novel-coronavirus-covid-19 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/21/819511621/coronavirus-deaths-spike-abroad-as-new-york-city-becomes-u-s-virus-epicenter https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/Coronavirus-brooklyn-hasidic-jews.html https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/cpac-coronavirus-attendees-124808 https://wtop.com/dc/2020/03/georgetown-rector-infected-with-coronavirus-says-he-feels-wiped-out-but-better/ https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-third-aipac-conference-attendee-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-1.8638068 https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/publications/2020/03/us-employers-should-pay-close-attention-to-new-legislation-requiring-paid-leave-related-to-the-covid-19-pandemic https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/coronavirus-kevin-durant-marcus-smart-rudy-gobert-among-nba-players-who-have-been-infected-with-covid-19/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-the-nba-push-through-58-coronavirus-tests-for-the-utah-jazz-when-almost-no-one-else-can-get-them https://twitter.com/HighForShirai/status/1239771217835560960 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcucjd67HDc https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/488780-sanders-raises-over-2-million-for-coronavirus-relief-effort https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/12/nurses-hospitals-understaffed-risks-burnout https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/blahous-costs-medicare-mercatus-working-paper-v1_1.pdf https://splinternews.com/we-will-win-health-justice-in-america-1837003733 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/06/16/once-again-u-s-has-most-expensive-least-effective-health-care-system-in-survey/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more-for-health-care-with-worse-population-health-outcomes/ https://www.newsweek.com/medicare-all-would-save-450-billion-annually-while-preventing-68000-deaths-new-study-shows-1487862 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/koch-donors-george-mason.html https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/photo-trump-remarks-shows-corona-crossed-out-replaced-chinese-virus-n1164111 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-Asian-American-groups-compile-hate-15144295.php https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/20/us/coronavirus-model-us-outbreak.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/19/change-us-law-will-make-millions-more-masks-available-doctors-nurses-white-house-says/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51976484 https://www.trialsitenews.com/wuhan-institute-of-virology-china-sought-to-patent-gileads-remdesivir/ https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/20200319b.shtml https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-testing https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/02/the-oas-has-to-answer-for-its-role-in-the-bolivian-coup

As we near the end of the Democratic Primary, it has become a two-man race (will all due respect to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard). As these two old heads duke it out, it’s evident that former Vice President Joe Biden is not up to the task and would get completely laid out in a head-to-head with President Donald J. Trump. We go through Biden’s faults in policy, personal conduct, and precipitous mental decline, with as many facts as clips showing that his grasp on the art of communication is slipping at an alarming rate. Just because Corn Pop gave Biden a chance doesn’t mean we have to. If you feel the way we do, check out https://berniesanders.com/volunteer/ to join the opposition to a second Trump term. Sources https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/politics/next-democratic-debate-biden-sanders.html?auth=login-facebook https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/democrats-you-really-do-not-want-to-nominate-joe-biden/ https://theintercept.com/2020/01/13/biden-cuts-social-security/ https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1124438095225655296 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration https://youtu.be/wuenGIA3YwI https://www.c-span.org/video/?8997-1/democratic-response-drug-policy-address https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00001669&cycle=CAREER https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-joe-biden-hasnt-owned-up-to-about-anita-hill https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-says-he-s-open-republican-running-mate-n1108931 https://www.vox.com/2019/6/22/18713603/joe-biden-hyde-amendment https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-in-74-women-dont-have-sole-right-to-say-what-should-happen-to-their-bodies_n_5c78409ae4b0de0c3fbf2b70 https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/opinion/a-quiet-attack-on-women.html https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-biden-opens-speech-joke-hugging-62198386 https://blackagendareport.com/fear-pervades-black-politics-and-makes-us-agents-our-own-oppression https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/biden-south-africa-arrest-118134 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-is-a-healthy-vigorous-77-year-old-male-his-doctor-declared/2019/12/17/c9d3b3e8-20f5-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihV9yrZRHg&t=34s https://twitter.com/goodatsexguy/status/1236373055129014272?s=21 https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1182476097033781248?s=20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlz0UEyncc&feature=youtu.be https://twitter.com/BetaODork/status/1236400299725795331?s=20 https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1234579299652554753?s=20 https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1235043566759501824?s=20 https://twitter.com/betaodork/status/1236306521023221760?s=21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGymiFlyl0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwVrg6UtxXQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwVrg6UtxXQ https://twitter.com/whatapityonyou/status/1236438345409916928?s=21 https://twitter.com/jackallisonlol/status/1236400488934862848?s=21 https://twitter.com/betaodork/status/1236306521023221760?s=21) https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/07/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-arizona-debate-123467 https://theintercept.com/2019/09/16/joe-biden-campaign-narendra-modi/ https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1236092311328690176?s=20 https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1236170800060919808?s=20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=cRac2XSFYnk&feature=emb_logo https://twitter.com/thedailyangle/status/1235760412735541248?s=20 https://twitter.com/hilaryr/status/1235987417586335744?s=20

When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Unless they’re one Senator Elizabeth Warren. Folks, we usually #trustwomen on Hog Planet, but in this 2-part episode, we’re going to catalog the bizarre lies, half-truths, and exaggerations that the Senator from Massachusetts has told in her legal, academic, and political career. It’s a long and suspenseful journey from her upbringing in Norman, Oklahoma to her present day shenanigans and ongoing attempts to kneecap Bernie Sanders, her former ally and fellow primary contender. We’ll find out which TV Western hunk inspired her to leave her humble prairie home and find out just how little your household needs to pull in annually to qualify for her means-tested Medicare for “all” program. Plagiarizing so-called Native American recipes? She’s got a plan for that. Strap in and see just how weird Warren can get. Sources https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/12/23/elizabeth-warren-brothers-are-silent-fixture-her-campaign/eRgfvczXA9FLxnjJsQ5AXM/story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true http://www.pollysgranddaughter.com/2012/08/when-is-elopement-not-elopement.html https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/8/20904777/elizabeth-warren-pregnancy-discrimination-washington-free-beacon http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people7/Warren/warren-con1.html https://www.scribd.com/document/429152169/Riverdale-Board-of-Education-Meeting-Minutes-Involving-Elizabeth-Warren-1970-1971 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146628/Elizabeth-Warrens-Pow-Wow-Chow-Cherokee-recipes-word-word-COPIES-famous-FRENCH-chefs-techniques.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04/29/elizabeth-warren-was-listed-minority-professor-law-directories-and/yBZTdrH3Qt8xRu6KZkLDlO/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/did-claiming-native-american-heritage-actually-help-elizabeth-warren-get-ahead-but-complicated/wUZZcrKKEOUv5Spnb7IO0K/story.html https://www.wbur.org/edify/2019/10/31/harvard-law-elizabeth-warren-professor https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1967901 https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/5/22/warren-tenure/ https://theintercept.com/2018/10/16/elizabeth-warren-dna-video-native-american-harvard/ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/09/583987261/so-what-exactly-is-blood-quantum https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/fordham-piece-called-warren-harvard-laws-first-woman-of-color-123526 https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/05/21/warren-biden-bankruptcy-bill-democrats https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04/29/elizabeth-warren-was-listed-minority-professor-law-directories-and/yBZTdrH3Qt8xRu6KZkLDlO/story.html https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/harvard-welcomes-first-tenured-professor-in-native-american-history/ https://jacobinmag.com/2019/12/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-public-option https://fair.org/home/cnns-sanders-hit-piece-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test/ https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21066436/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-woman-white-house-electability https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479769-warren-lays-out-path-to-victory-in-2020 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/06/elizabeth-warren-campaign-nevada-111595 https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/18/frederick-douglass-photos-smashed-stereotypes-could-elizabeth-warren-selfies-do-same/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-dog-bailey-campaigns-iowa-caucus-impeachment-trial/ https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484731-over-200-native-americans-sign-letter-urging-warren-to-retract-ancestry https://americanindependent.com/elizabeth-warren-native-american-ancestry-retraction-cherokee-nation-tribal-citizenship/ https://twitter.com/rebeccanagle/status/1232710703452237825 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/elizabeth-warren-super-pac-2020-campaign

Part 2 of this episode coming soon... When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Unless they’re one Senator Elizabeth Warren. Folks, we usually #trustwomen on Hog Planet, but in this 2-part episode, we’re going to catalog the bizarre lies, half-truths, and exaggerations that the Senator from Massachusetts has told in her legal, academic, and political career. It’s a long and suspenseful journey from her upbringing in Norman, Oklahoma to her present day shenanigans and ongoing attempts to kneecap Bernie Sanders, her former ally and fellow primary contender. We’ll find out which TV Western hunk inspired her to leave her humble prairie home and find out just how little your household needs to pull in annually to qualify for her means-tested Medicare for “all” program. Plagiarizing so-called Native American recipes? She’s got a plan for that. Strap in and see just how weird Warren can get.

For a supplement to our discussion this episode, check out this piece: https://medium.com/@sam_louis/we-are-the-hogs-watching-cats-47df93bfbf58 Hogheads, for you we have prepared an episode with about as loose a structure as its subject, the Cats movie. We all forced ourselves through two hours of “digital fur technology,” cat bulges, and the stomach-churning James Corden to bring you tales from the sparsely-attended theaters where this film burned itself into our corneas. We discuss how the film made us feel like hogs, why it explains anti-American terrorism, and the unparalleled speed of its jump from theatrical release to ironic cult classic. We answer the hard questions, like what is the best way to dissociate mid-viewing? Which actors deserved to be stuck playing cats (looking at you, Rebel Wilson) in Cats? And is it worse than Loqueesha? (trick question - both should be erased from history) Tune in and keep it Jellicle. Sources https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/people-are-seeing-cats-while-high-out-of-their-minds-these-are-their-stories/2020/01/05/d0ebfb3a-2beb-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/cats-movie-cult-classic-toronto-revue/https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/cats-movie-cult-classic-toronto-revue/ https://drafthouse.com/show/cats-rowdy-screening https://screenrant.com/cats-movie-dog-friendly-screenings/ https://decider.com/2020/01/10/midsommar-amazon-prime-cats-murder-cult/ Apparently the furries did NOT like Cats https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/how-do-furries-feel-about-the-new-cats-movie.html

For a supplement to our discussion this episode, check out this piece: https://medium.com/@samwagstaff/eddie-gallagher-a-hog-in-the-war-machine-400715f0411c As the United States military and our gormless commander-in-chief continue to ratchet up tensions with Iran, the time has come to examine the case of former Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher, an emblematic case of the right wing’s contemporary valorization of bloodlust. In this episode, we follow the case, beginning with Gallagher’s crimes as platoon leader of SEAL Team 7 in Mosul, Iraq, to his arrest, trial and eventual acquittal, all the way through President Trump’s intervention to allow Gallagher to keep his SEAL trident, and his inevitable rebrand as a conservative influencer in retirement. Our aim is to show how Trump’s novel approach is to embrace, rather than denounce Gallagher’s crimes, evidenced by his publicization of his relationship with Gallagher and decision to bring the retired Chief on the campaign trail with him this election season. Sources: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/02/02/war-crimes-prosecution-against-navy-seals-takes-a-double-hit/?fbclid=IwAR2FmprhLqBMKNqRUJmUTT0tQLP_86BjxLF3E33aCAQu1xxkKCnHp0lUj_k https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/the-crimes-of-seal-team-6/ https://theintercept.com/2019/12/05/donald-trump-eddie-gallagher-navy-seals/ https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-hunter-rules-engagement20190219-story.html https://teamneverquit.com/podcast/eddie-gallagher-highly-decorated-seal-chief-of-8-combat-deployments-battling-charges-of-war-crimes-against-isis-freeeddie/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/us/navy-seals-crimes-of-war.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/podcasts/the-daily/navy-seal-edward-gallagher-trial.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/us/Edward-Gallagher-acquitted.html?smid=pc-thedaily https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/us/trump-seals-eddie-gallagher.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/15/donald-trump-pardons-clint-lorance-mathew-golsteyn-war-crime-cases/1229083001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/06/donald-trump-michael-behenna-pardoned-ali-mansur-mohamed-killing/3656410002/ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1197507542726909952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1197507542726909952&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F11%2F21%2Fus%2Ftrump-seals-eddie-gallagher.html https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/783069692/questions-remain-over-what-will-happen-to-3-navy-seals-implicated-in-war-crimes- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/navy-seals-edward-gallagher-video.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/us/navy-seals-edward-gallagher-trump.html https://www.salon.com/2020/01/02/eddie-gallagher-isnt-a-lifestyle-brand-story-its-a-story-about-the-rights-violent-nihilism/ https://www.instagram.com/eddie_and_andrea/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/redcon1/ https://www.instagram.com/blackriflecoffee/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/projectwarpath/ https://www.instagram.com/ninelineapparel/ https://wekbd.com/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/trump-wants-to-take-war-criminal-buddies-on-campaign-trail-eddie-gallagher

With President Trump willfully asking other countries to investigate the Biden family’s unforced misdeeds in Ukraine, it is time for us to again discuss America's former mayor, Mr. Rudy Giuliani. As Trump’s personal attorney/international man of mystery, his trips around Eastern Europe were put front and center in the unnamed whistleblower complaint alleging that the Trump Administration explicitly asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Hunter Biden’s lucrative no-show board member position on one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies. To clear his name, Rudy has gone on an absolutely mind-bending media tour, hollering at any outlet that will listen, as former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign team pleads with the media not to put him on the air. In this episode, Sam, Dan and Rachey sit down to discuss the whistleblower’s complaint, the conspiracy theory Trump and Giuliani are “investigating,” and how we can make sense of it all. Of course, we end off with a discussion of the highlights of Giuliani’s most absurd appearances on Fox News, CNN and more.

Our Epstein obsession continues with another epic two-parter, this time re-evaluating Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 slow burn classic Eyes Wide Shut. For some reason, we continue to refer to Tom Cruise’s character as “Dr. Bill” in this one. In this second half, we pick up where we left off with Dr. Harford’s entrance into the Masked Ball, his expulsion from the ball, and his return to Alice, his wife, who recounts a bizarre dream in which she sexually humiliates him. From there we cover the end of the film and how to interpret the tantalizingly fleeting nature of the images Kubrick ended up allowing us to see in his final edit. Of course, we also tie this into Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide” and how trying to make any sense of it reminds us of Dr. Harford’s “completely useless” attempts to understand the conspiracy he stumbles upon at the Masked Ball. Find the book Dan keeps referencing here: Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film by Robert P Kolker and Nathan Abrams books.google.com/books/about/Eyes…?id=39SxvAEACAAJ

Our Epstein obsession continues with another epic two-parter, this time re-evaluating Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 slow burn classic Eyes Wide Shut. In this first half, we discuss the context this film was released in, some stories from the record-breaking 15-month shooting period, and the events of the first half of the film, right up to the infamous mansion party scene. Of particular interest to us is the role of Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise), our leading man, as avatar for all clueless upper middle-class professionals, and his stilted, myopic view of the social hierarchy we inhabit, which is thrust open when his wife, Alice Harford (Nicole Kidman, of course) is revealed to have sexual fantasies of her own. When this film was first released, its relatively tame and seemingly dated view of sexuality led to mixed critical reviews. Upon a rewatch 20 years later, in our current post-Epstein gilded age, it seems all too prescient in the interactions it reveals between the rich and the super-rich, clueless men married to bored women, and “average” people when they are forced to confront the seedy underbelly of supposedly respectable society. Find the book Dan keeps referencing here: Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film by Robert P Kolker and Nathan Abrams https://books.google.com/books/about/Eyes_Wide_Shut.html?id=39SxvAEACAAJ