Episode Details

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, George McIntyre, and Lex Steppling. Topics discussed: Democratic voter panic, Trump’s long con against his supporters, the contradiction of Elon Musk—with his green energy vehicles—now being aligned with Trump’s rejection of the green new deal, “pogroms” in Amsterdam against Israeli soccer hooligans, fentanyl as the latest instrument for fearmongering, the re-criminalization of shoplifting in California, the aesthetics of the “Day of the Jackal” remake, QR codes inducing the sound of silence in public spaces. Music track “Statesboro Blues” by Blind Willie McTell (public domain).