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A lot of things going down in the past week. We review some MAGA reactions to the Musk/Trump slap fight. While Trump and the US Army had their joint birthday party, cops are still attacking protesters in LA. Israel attacked Iran, reminding the world that Israel attacking its neighbors is absolutely not them starting a new war but is actually them defending themselves from an enemy who might possibly, maybe, but probably not, attack them at some future time. A man, who was clearly politically and religiously motivated, killed a state lawmaker in Minnesota along with her husband and shot another one and his wife, critically injuring them. After being on the run for a few days, he was caught on Sunday, June 15.

We're joined today by Bianca Tylek, the founder and director of Worth Rises, an advocacy non-profit that works to dismantle the prison industry and end the exploitation of its targets. She's also the author of the newly released book, The Prison Industry – How It Works and Who Profits. Buy The Prison Industry: https://worthrises.org/theprisonindustry Follow on Social: https://x.com/WorthRises https://bsky.app/profile/worthrises.bsky.social https://x.com/BiancaTylek Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get extra episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired

This is Part 4 of Cold as ICE. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired In the previous three episodes, we've discussed the Esther Project, the Heritage Foundation's plan that's playing out right now, a brief history of immigration control, which has always been about racism, colonialism, and empire, and the recent history that got us here, from Clinton, to 9/11, to now. ICE is a secret police force used to terrorize communities, starting with immigrants and leftists, like all authoritarian regimes do. They are not becoming secret police, they are already the gestapo. The next steps are the scope and scale of their abductions.  ICE don't wear uniforms, they wear masks, they show up armed as heavily as soldiers in an active war zone. They refuse to reveal their names or badge numbers, even though they're required.

As if he'd seen a vision, Jake Wood, head of the fund-raising side of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) resigned on May 25.  And lucky for him that he did since on May 27, the GHF, under Israeli military supervision, made their first food delivery to thousands of desperate and starving Palestinians, including women and children. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get extra episodes, and listen to our back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired Everything fell apart as people started to rush the facility, leading to stampedes, broken fences, and violent clashes as people fought to get food. Next we download an update from the Dems. After getting washed by DJT and Elon Musk in 2024, where Trump flipped key battleground states and became the first Republican to win the popular vote since Reagan, Democrats are still scrambling to figure out why American men, particularly young ones, abandoned them in droves. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Squire Tuck - Homage to John Carpenter (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get extra episodes, and listen to our back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired

This is part 3 of Cold as ICE. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired In part one, we discussed the Heritage Foundation plan, Project Esther, which is playing out right now, and Clinton's immigration policy just before 9/11.  In part two, we looked at how we got here, the institutions that were forged out of racism, capitalism, and empire from the very beginning; and the transformation of immigration control after 9/11. In this third part of Cold as ICE, we're going to talk about what ICE has been doing under the second Trump administration, and how DHS is being used to target Trump's political enemies, marginalized groups, and anyone who's ever said something mean about him.

The boys stroll through the latest news about Kanye, Starmer, Macron, and Merz's (totally fake) coke fueled train ride, and how ChatGPT might be driving some people insane. Subscribe on Patreon to get extra premium episodes every month. patreon.com/wetwired

The history of immigration law in the US is a two and a half century parade of heinous, racist, and xenophobic laws. I'm starting to suspect that borders were always about white supremacy, empire, colonialism, and capitalist hegemony. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired The only exceptions were a few laws passed that merely repealed horrific ones, or traded some decency and humanity for political convenience; still in service of empire or capitalist hegemony. The Alien and Sedition Acts authorized the detention or deportation of people seen as posing political threats to the United States and those from “hostile” nations. Among the acts was the Alien Enemies Act, which authorized the President to detain, relocate, or deport immigrants from hostile countries in a time of war. This was only 8 years after the first law in the US that defined eligibility for citizenship by naturalization, in 1790. Congress limited this right to “free white persons,” meaning white, property-owning men. The framework of US immigration policy hasn't substantively changed since The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Arbitrary numbers cap the number of people who can move to the US, by the accident of their birth in another country. Capital and wealthy people can move freely, of course.

The rise of authoritarianism from liberal, capitalist states builds on existing institutions. From goose-stepping totalitarianism to iron-fisted presidents of a banana republic; they're just retooling the factory, not building from scratch. Secret police are a key instrument in every 20th Century example. The USSR had Cheka, Nazis had the Gestapo, East Germany had the Stasi, Ba'athist Syria had the General Intelligence Directorate. A feature of secret police is their targeted repression of opponents, rather than the indiscriminate oppression of populations suspected of anti-regime activities. That brings us to ICE and the use of War on Terror language to frame immigrants as threats to the state, thereby assigning them a criminal status that is then later used as justification to expel them from the US.

The Wetwired take on Bezos' glam astronauts, Nancy Pelosi refusing to release her wrinkled grip on the other well-heeled corporate Democrats, and the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang model of California politics. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired

In the time we prepared to record this episode, Trump announced the insane tariff policy, so we had to update everything. Then we recorded and right afterward, he put it all on hold. By the time you listen to this, the stock market will have zeroed out, and we'll be staking out our new freehold on Greenland. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get extra episodes, and listen to our back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired

While the Signalgate drama has been playing out across the news shows and editorial pages, the Trump administration has also mostly quietly continued to disappear as many people as possible. In addition to snatching up student visa holders who have the gall to criticize genocidal Zionists, ICE, with the help of some State officials, is also targeting Chinese nationals studying and working in the US. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired

Last time, we talked with Gabriel Kennedy about his exceptional biography of Robert Anton Wilson. This time, we're talking about an insane chapter in post WWII history—one that also captured Wilson's interest. And that would be Propaganda Due. Subscribe on Patreon to get extra episodes and listen to our back catalog patreon.com/wetwired Propaganda Due (P2) was originally a Masonic lodge established in 1877 under the Grand Orient of Italy, adhering to Continental Freemasonry traditions. In 1976, its Masonic charter was revoked, and under the leadership of Licio Gelli, it evolved into an illegal, clandestine organization.  P2 operated as a radical right-wing, anti-communist, anti-Soviet, and anti-Marxist secret society, violating Article 18 of the Italian Constitution, which prohibited such secret associations. Gelli continued to run the unaffiliated lodge from 1976 to 1984.  P2 was linked to numerous crimes and scandals in Italy, including the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano (associated with the Holy See), the murders of journalist Carmine Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and widespread political corruption during the Tangentopoli bribery scandal. The organization's activities were exposed during investigations into the downfall of Michele Sindona's financial empire. Gabriel Kennedy https://chapelperilous.ushttps://bsky.app/profile/propanon.bsky.social Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson https://a.co/d/dSvGVWh Music: White Visor - Dark Hearted (CC-BY) Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Kevin Hartnell - Tree of Tears (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to get extra episodes and listen to our back catalog patreon.com/wetwired

We could be talking about Trump punishing Ukraine's president Zelenskyy with a humiliation ritual in the White House. Or we could talk about all the NAZI salutes at CPAC this year. Instead, we're escaping from the political brush fire to the world of movies. Just a few days after the Oscars, you might think we'd want to talk about any of the award winning films from the last year. But you would be wrong. No, we're looking at a movie that was released in exactly one theater, Apple TV's streaming hit, The Gorge. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired

The troubling history of the FBI encouraging mass shooters and the outing of a White supremacist US ICE prosecutor. Some reading: https://booty.substack.com/p/prior-contact-between-mass-shooters https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

Child computer engineers, raised on effective altruism and Groyper memes, have invaded nearly every agency and department in the US government. They're accessing personnel information, rewriting code in the Treasury Department's computer system, and executing Trump's 19th century vision of small government. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired

Today we have independent reporter on the extremism beat, Teddy Wilson, returning to join us to talk about how supporters of one of the historically most unpopular presidents (at least according to a Gallup poll) in the history of the US are reacting to his reelection. Unfortunately, the US isn't the only home for far-right extremism. It also isn't the only place where extremists have cheered for Trump's reelection. Teddy Wilson's links: https://www.radicalreports.org/ https://bsky.app/profile/reportbywilson.bsky.social https://x.com/reportbywilson Subscribe on Patreon to get extra episodes and listen to our back catalog patreon.com/wetwired

In the early 2000s, so many Boomers and Gen-Xers had their brains melted by a movie that blended legitimate critique of religion, the economy, and US politics with full on 9/11 truther, Sov Cit, New World Order conspiracy theories. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up for a free or paid membership to listen to the entire episode. Stephanie Kemmerer joins us to talk about Zeitgeist, Trump in 2016 and now, and how she got a hold of an early 20th century Templar sword. Stephanie is a freelance writer and heads up Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together, D.O.U.B.T. She's an outreach volunteer for HONR Network. Once in the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories herself, Stephanie now works to communicate to pilled folks and those who've come back through the looking glass by debunking conspiracy theories and supporting those walking away. Stephanie's links: American Information Integrity Alliance: https://infointegrity.us/ HONR Network: http://www.honrnetwork.org Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/intothestewniverse Adventures in HellwQrld podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZpUDJgTgJIAliDOeuhRKN Twitter: https://x.com/StephInDOUBT BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/doubtisthewayout.bsky.social

**UNLOCKED** Wilson, or RAW, was maybe one of the more prolific authors of the twentieth century, not only in terms of just the sheer number of words he put on pages, but in the intensity and the complexity of the thoughts he was expressing. Despite all that work, he's still somehow largely unknown to the public. This is an unlocked premium episode. Sign up to listen to our back catalog of subscriber only episodes. patreon.com/wetwired Robert Anton Wilson has been introduced as a stand-up philosopher and a sit-down comic. He edited Playboy in the 1960s, co-authored Illuminatus, wrote Cosmic Trigger, the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, Prometheus Rising, and too many others to mention in this short introduction. He did all this while helping to raise a family, dropping acid, speaking to crowds all over the US and Europe, and rubbing elbows with some of the most illuminated people in the Western world. RAW continues to stand out among other philosophers and thinkers because as intelligent and insightful as he was, he never seemed like he was presenting the last word on a subject. With that ground laid, I would like to welcome our show, Gabriel Kennedy, author of the recently published, and the first biography of Wilson, Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson. Buy Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilsonhttps://www.amazon.com/Chapel-Perilous-T…ook/dp/B0DHV9PLTX Find Gabriel Kennedy online: chapelperilous.us/ bsky.app/profile/propanon.bsky.social

The first couple days of the Trump White house, Elon's fascistic cosplay, and advice on how to cope.

Wilson, or RAW, was maybe one of the more prolific authors of the twentieth century, not only in terms of just the sheer number of words he put on pages, but in the intensity and the complexity of the thoughts he was expressing. Despite all that work, he's still somehow largely unknown to the public. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up for a free or paid membership to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired Robert Anton Wilson has been introduced as a stand-up philosopher and a sit-down comic. He edited Playboy in the 1960s, co-authored Illuminatus, wrote Cosmic Trigger, the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, Prometheus Rising, and too many others to mention in this short introduction.  He did all this while helping to raise a family, dropping acid, speaking to crowds all over the US and Europe, and rubbing elbows with some of the most illuminated people in the Western world. RAW continues to stand out among other philosophers and thinkers because as intelligent and insightful as he was, he never seemed like he was presenting the last word on a subject.  With that ground laid, I would like to welcome our show, Gabriel Kennedy, author of the recently published, and the first biography of Wilson, Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson. Buy Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilsonhttps://www.amazon.com/Chapel-Perilous-Thought-Crimes-Robert-ebook/dp/B0DHV9PLTX Find Gabriel Kennedy online: https://chapelperilous.us/ https://bsky.app/profile/propanon.bsky.social

Welcome to 2025! It's the month of Janus. We're looking forward, looking back, we're right on the edge! The New Year's resolutions scrawled on a sepia tone bar napkin are ready to be framed and followed to the letter. Get premium only episodes with a free trial on Patreon. patreon.com/wetwired A few new things in store for us include a new president! Well, it's the old president, but he's back. He took some gap years to study abroad. We've got a looming Tiktok ban on the 18th. That was tried a few times before it stuck, but this time it might happen, maybe, unless it doesn't. Let's see, more Elon Musk, Israel is still committing genocide, Russia is still trying to occupy Ukraine, neo-nazis, Isis–again?, and I guess Tariffs, since the 30s and the 19th century didn't extinguish that. Happy reruns year! All the old cast is back this season. We have the same senators and representatives that we get term after term. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Find us online:Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpodInstagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpodBluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Get extra, premium only episodes on Patreon for $5 a month. It's the only way you can hear everything we put out. patreon.com/wetwired

This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up for a free or paid membership to listen to the entire episode. Happy New Year! patreon.com/wetwired We recorded this episode just over a week after the anniversary of the death of the liberation activist and revolutionary leader Fred Hampton. 55 years ago, at the age of 21 years, Hampton was murdered while he slept by members of the Chicago police department. His killing was the culmination of years of harassment by Chicago police and surveillance by the FBI. Craig Ciccone is an independent researcher who has been studying the events surrounding Fred Hampton's murder. In the process, he's collected an astounding number of FBI documents. We get into Hampton's legacy, his harassment by the Chicago police and the FBI (part of COINTELPRO), and how they eventually planned and carried out his murder.

Cut down in his prime, our nation mourns the lost of one of its beautiful CEOs. Get premium only episodes with a free trial on Patreon. patreon.com/wetwired Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Find us online: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Get extra, premium only episodes on Patreon for $5 a month. It's the only way you can hear everything we put out. patreon.com/wetwired

Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this episode and every premium only episode for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired We thought it would be fun to follow up on our recent episode with Karl Mamer where we talked about a few of the founders of the survivalist movement. Premium Episode 43: Gold Bugs and Survivalists feat Karl Mamerhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/premium-episode-111096234 In that episode, Jules and I put forward the idea that Cold War fears about a nuclear holocaust combined with the post WWII super boom economy created an anxious tension that rippled though US culture—specifically White culture in the US. This is a society that was reading articles in Popular Science with titles like “If Your House Were A-Bombed”. https://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/3882775649/in/album-72157622015478740/  It wasn't just nuclear war that was squeezing people's imaginations. After WWII, pretty much every aspect of life had been altered for huge numbers of people in the US.  The US went into that war flying bi-planes and came out of it with jets, rockets, and nuclear bombs. All that sublimated anxiety can't stay contained. One of the ways it burbled up to the surface was in movies. That brings us to the 1971 post-apocalyptic fantasy, Omega Man starring Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, and Rosalind Cash and directed by Boris Sagal. Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this episode and every premium only episode for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

Circling back to some news from a few weeks ago when The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Secretary Gallant. Get premium only episodes with a free trial on Patreon. patreon.com/wetwired The ICC named them as “co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.” The ICC's Preliminary Chamber “also found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant each bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population.” Now that world leaders have had some time to react and the media has had the chance to settle on the messaging we can see what we're dealing with. It's pretty ugly. How do you wrap your head around the size and reach of this political and media machine designed to convince you that it's not wet out when it's raining? Some reading: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-says-israels-netanyahu-has-immunity-from-icc-arrest-warrant/ar-AA1uRHrn https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cuomo-joins-netanyahu-s-legal-defense-team-against-icc-warrants-as-he-mulls-2025-nyc-mayoral-run/ar-AA1uRGIm https://www.wsj.com/search?query=icc&mod=searchresults_viewallresults https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-22/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-brought-the-icc-ruling-on-himself-and-now-hes-whining-about-antisemitism/00000193-505c-d68e-a1db-f85ce7f60000?v=1733368678410 https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/1012/ekri.html#main-content Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Find us online:Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpodInstagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpodBluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Get extra, premium only episodes on Patreon for $5 a month. It's the only way you can hear everything we put out.patreon.com/wetwired

Dems are still kicking the corpse of the 2024 election, trying to figure out how to cope with a world and a voting public (or in this case, a non-voting public) that they clearly don't understand. After a such a devastating loss, the next thing to do is figure out who to blame. And in the process of trying to figure out where to point the finger, Pundits are taking to the opinion pages to air their grievances. One of the more popular excuses is that everyone in the US is just more racist and sexist than anyone realized. They just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a Black and South Asian Woman. Joy Reid (she's the one who said that Harris ran a “flawless” campaign) said that white women let Harris down. Fetterman said Harris should have been stronger on the border and illegal immigration. Pete Buttigieg said Harris was too online. She relied too much on memes. The funniest one of all is that Harris was just too woke! Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this episode and every premium only episode for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

Last week we introduced some of Trump's cabinet picks. Marco Rubio at State, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Health and Human Services, and when we recorded it Matt Gaetz was still up for Attorney General. That one didn't last, though. Get premium only episodes with a free trial on Patreon. patreon.com/wetwired Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, stands out among them. I don't know if it's the Transphobia, the Zionism, the sexual assault allegation, his complete lack of experience, or that he doesn't believe germs are real and that climate change is a hoax. More than a couple of those things could also be said about many of Trump's other cabinet picks. But Hegseth is the total package. Pete Hegseth, as an author and as a host on Fox and Friends, has regularly expressed his critical views about trans people serving in the military and is firmly against women serving in combat roles. He's concerned that the Muslim birthrate is too high and that refugees have “infiltrated” US cities. He writes in his 2020 book American Crusade that: “Our present moment is much like the 11th Century. We don't want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must. Arm yourself — metaphorically, intellectually, physically. Our fight is not with guns. Yet.” In the tradition of many Christian Nationalists today, Hegseth is also tatted up with his beliefs. We talked a little about his distinctive tattoos last time. While a member of the National Guard, he was removed from his security detail during Biden's 2020 inauguration for some of those tattoos. We drew our descriptions of his tattoos and their meanings from a piece in the Bulwark by our friend Thomas Lecaques. So we asked him to come back on the show so we can get a better idea of their context and try to understand what we're dealing with. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Find us online: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Get extra, premium only episodes on Patreon for $5 a month. It's the only way you can hear everything we put out. patreon.com/wetwired

Trump fills out some of his cabinet, Dems try to make sense out how they got absolutely smeared on election day, and everyone else figuring out how to live with what the next fours years might look like. Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this episode and every premium only episode for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

Instead of just looking at his past record to see what Trump might do, we're looking at some of the people closest to him, the people who he might look to for advice. And then we're just going to make some wild guesses. We start with some of Trump's campaign promises and talk about what chance we have of him trying to accomplish any of them. Get premium only episodes with a free trial on Patreon. patreon.com/wetwired Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Find us online: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Get extra, premium only episodes on Patreon for $5 a month. It's the only way you can hear everything we put out. patreon.com/wetwired

It's our Halloween Special! With less than a week until this election and the reality of either a real ghoul or real goblin moving into the White House to kick out the crypt keeper, we thought we'd talk about absolutely anything else. We decided to dig through the archives and resurrect some of the childhood urban legends that we used to trade with each other.  These were the kind of stories that we'd talk about with our friends on the playground. Or later on out in the back woods while we smoked our dad's cigarettes and drink beer we stole from the back of a grocery store.  In those years before anyone had heard of Facebook or Twitter, the years before the internet even existed, somehow these stories managed to take flight and spread almost all by themselves all across the country.  These are those stories about alligators in the sewer, murderers waiting in the backseat of your car, and Satanists carrying out late night rituals in the woods behind houses all over the country. Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0)creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c On social: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social

It's just about two weeks until the election, so we're discussing how the candidates are stacking up against each other, Kamala Harris' recent appearances, and why she has such a hard time stringing three words together. We also talk about the Democrats taking a few more steps to the Right, how they've abandoned the Left, and why they're never coming back. Get premium only episodes with a free trial on Patreon. patreon.com/wetwired Some things to read: https://jacobin.com/2024/10/harris-trump-election-conservative-voters https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/politics/harris-border-immigration-arizona.html https://socdoneleft.substack.com/p/socialists-will-overwhelmingly-vote Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Get extra, premium only episodes on Patreon for $5 a month. It's the only way you can hear everything we put out. patreon.com/wetwired

This has been a rough few weeks for people dealing with climate and weather emergencies. The good news is that the shock of these two hurricanes and the revelation of the weaknesses of our relief mechanisms has gone a long way toward convincing many conspiracy theorists and a lot of Republicans that climate change is in fact a reality. Unfortunately, they think these weather catastrophes are caused by malicious deep state actors and globalist Democrat cucks who want to stop good, honest Trump voters from making it to the polls in November. Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this episode and every premium only episode for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

We're back with archaeologist Steph Halmhofer to talk about how White supremacists are co-opting archaeology, history, and the achievements of ancient civilizations all to help them feel less insecure about not being special. Get extra premium only episodes with a free trial on Patreon. patreon.com/wetwired Pseudoarchaeology has been an almost bottomless, go to topic on this show because it's so often used to undergird the belief systems and individual philosophies of many of the weirdos we've covered. This shouldn't be news, but most people inclined to make fantastic claims, specifically about religion, are looking for some sort of bedrock to build from. We talk about some prominent online White supremacists, why these guys like Graham Hancock so much, and how bias is addressed in academia. Steph's recent chapter "Manufacturing History": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382332446_Manufacturing_History_Atlantis_Aryans_and_the_use_of_Pseudoarchaeology_by_the_Far-Right The books that Steph mentioned in this episode: The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West https://archive.org/details/the-indo-europeans-archaeology-language-race-and-the-search-for-the-origins-of-t The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust https://archive.org/details/masterplanhimmle00prin Follow Steph: https://x.com/Cult_Archaeo https://bsky.app/profile/cultarchaeo.bsky.social Music: Eaters - Electrify (CC BY 4.0) Kevin Hartnell - Lucid Coma (CC BY 4.0) Kevin Hartnell - Climbing Pulse (CC BY 4.0) Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Get extra, premium only episodes on Patreon for $5 a month. It's the only way you can hear everything we put out. patreon.com/wetwired

Netanyahu tries to get crowdfunding for the Greater Israel plan, Iran retaliates, and Biden vows to keep bailing them out from every scrape they cause. Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this episode and every premium only episode for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

It's just a little over two weeks now after Trump announced during a livestream on X (the everything app) while he was promoting his latest crypto project that “Crypto is one of those things we have to do. Whether we like it or not, I have to do it.” Now, today, we're happy to be joined by the author of the very recently published Crypto Confidential and former crypto founder himself, Jake Donoghue. We talk about his new book Crypto Confidential, that the whole industry is a scam, Trump's new crypto launch and his shady partners, pump.fun, and why the only action left is celebrity memecoins. Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired Buy Crypto Confidential: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1803996188 Follow Jake: https://x.com/JDonoghueAuthor Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

We're here today with the directors of the 2023 movie Failed State, Christopher Bell and Mitch Blummer. Listeners will recognize Chris from the episode when we talked about his George W miniseries, Miss Me Yet? 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/wetwired Failed State will be showing at the Tacoma Film Festival in October. https://grandcinema.com/tacomafilmfestival/ Follow Chris and see his other work: https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell Follow Mitch and see his other work: https://www.mitchblummer.com Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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/wetwired

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 money! Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired Marooned! on Mars: https://x.com/podcastonmars https://pod.link/1372460930 Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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/wetwired A good piece of what we're going to talk about appears in Karl's upcoming book. Buy Karl's Books and check out his podcast: https://www.amazon.com/Skeptics-Book-Lists-Karl-Mamer/dp/177786111X https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Skeptics-Book-Lists-Conspiracies/dp/B0CK3H4ZZR http://yrad.com/cs/ Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Music:Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0)creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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/wetwired

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 when. One of my favorites is a globe that I got from my grandfather. It's not that old, maybe 50 years, but there are still probably a dozen countries on it that don't exist anymore.  But even though those countries names no longer appear on maps, in many cases what they were continues to exist in the descendants of its citizens for decades if not hundreds of years. Today, we're speaking with someone who has created an incredible way to remind us that even though borders may move and names might change, all of that history is very much with us today. Giovanni Vale is the founder of the Extinguished Countries project. The first book they've produced is The Republic of Venice. Find out more about Extinguished Countries: https://extinguishedcountries.com/ https://www.instagram.com/extinguishedcountries/ https://twitter.com/excountries Music: National Anthem of the Venetian Republic Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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/wetwired

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 $2.5 trillion. History shows that as soon as the extremely rich get together, the rest of us suffer. To talk about some of the ways that Bitcoin mining and cryptomining in general are wrecking things for the rest of us, we're joined by Jackie Sawicky from the Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining. Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining: https://www.texascoalitionagainstcryptomining.com/ https://x.com/CCofNavarro Read up: https://www.nationalcoalitionagainstcryptomining.com/in-the-media/ https://earthjustice.org/feature/cryptocurrency-mining-environmental-impacts https://earthjustice.org/article/cleaning-up-crypto https://jacobin.com/2024/07/crypto-industry-2024-election-sec https://companiesmarketcap.com/bitcoin-mining/largest-bitcoin-mining-companies-by-marketcap/ Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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/wetwired Never mind their complete failure to even try to devise policies that might improve the average voter's life, such as reducing the cost of or improving access to health care or lowering college tuition. Dems plan to crush ballot boxes this November by hopefully just making their enemies' supporters too embarrassed to show up on election day. Reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/07/30/republicans-weird/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/us/politics/trump-black-journalists-nabj-interview.html Watching: https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1815951829479330211?t=dAO4pAClUX9puXNPxI8qlA&s=09 Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) Eaters - Dead Skin Planets (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us:Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpodInstagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpodBluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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/wetwired Some readin' https://www.publicnotice.co/p/biden-steps-aside-kamala-harris https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/biden-west-wing-aaron-sorkin.html https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/10/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-swearing-in-ceremony-of-commissioners-for-the-white-house-initiative-on-advancing-educational-equity-excellence-and-economic-opportunity-for-hispanics/ Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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. patreon.com/wetwired Some reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20240714134334/https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunharper/2024/07/13/will-surviving-gunfire-be-donald-trumps-next-appeal-to-black-voters/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/today-were-all-maga-trump-shooting-assassination/ https://jacobin.com/2024/07/trump-assassination-attempt-violence-politics Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us:Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpodInstagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpodBluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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/wetwired Some reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/04/keir-starmer-uk-prime-minister/ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/02/tories-suspend-david-warburton-amid-claims-over-sexual-harassment-and-drug-use https://jacobin.com/2024/07/melenchon-macron-france-left-winner Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) Nova Beat Estate - The Elixir of Life (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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 premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired Some reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/opinion/biden-election-debate-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-campaign-rips-bedwetting-brigade-in-blast-touts-poll-pegging-him-stronger-than-other-dems/ar-BB1p9FU3 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-reassure-democratic-governors-meeting-after-shaky-debate-performance-2024-07-02/ https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/ Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us:Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpodInstagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpodBluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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 protesters outside the event were condemned as antisemitic by all the usual people — including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. New investigative reporting from Lee Fang, collaborating with The Guardian, has turned up documents that detail the Israeli government's public relations campaign aimed at the US designed to facilitate “mass consciousness activities”.Sounds pretty terrible. Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired Read things: Julian Assange https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/06/25/julian-assange-wikileaks-baghdad-helicopter-video/ Chiquita Banana https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2024/06/11/chiquita-colombia/ https://earthrights.org/media_release/colombian-victims-win-historic-verdict-over-chiquita-jury-finds-banana-company-liable-for-financing-death-squads/ Voices for Israel https://www.leefang.com/p/israeli-documents-show-expansive https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5063599,00.html https://forward.com/news/401876/israeli-ministrys-repeated-efforts-to-fund-american-jewish-groups-rejected/ Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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/wetwired Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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 media, but the opposite. It helped correct the liability of a platform, so that it could moderate content, such as hate speech, without being considered a publisher. Therefore, it doesn't require the platform, big or small, to have a totally hands-off approach in order to be defensible against liability. 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/wetwired Some reading: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bipartisan-bill-to-repeal-section-230-defended-in-facts-optional-op-ed/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/wanna-make-big-tech-monopolies-even-worse-kill-section-230 Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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 a month. patreon.com/wetwired I don't have any solid answers but there seems to be something there.  I know the Zionists keep saying that all the Palestine supporters are dumb, brainwashed, communists. And the criticism of the pro-Israel counter-protesters is that they're all bloodthirsty, colonizing, child-murderers. That's what's been on my mind while organizing this episode. Last episode, we talked about some extremely creepy people who think White people should be having as many kids as possible. This time around, we're gonna start off by talking about some people who're coming up with ways to justify killing them. We're not talking about people doing it themselves. These guys don't need to get their hands dirty with actual murder. They want to let the law do it. Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired Some reading: Graeme Wood https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/self-immolation-aaron-bushnell-israel-palestine/677584/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/gaza-death-count/678400/ Jeremy England https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/live-law-die-cross-israel https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-accelerationism-and-the-pursuit-of-cosmic-utopia/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122/ https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2017-05-08/ty-article/a-cornerstone-of-apartheid/0000017f-f797-ddde-abff-fff7d7b60000 Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) HoliznaCC0 - Old Age (CC-PD) HoliznaCC0 - Strangers (CC-PD) HoliznaCC0 - Final Level (CC-PD) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired

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/wetwired Some reading: https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/07/elons-heirs-who-musks-10-children-mothers/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/pronatalists-save-mankind-by-having-babies-silicon-valley/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins?ref=disconnect.blog https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-proposal_b_3713560 Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) Nihilore - Artifice (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired