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As yet unnamed
by Sebastian Hassinger
Darius and Sebastian riff, tell dad jokes and might get heavy every now and then?
Episodes
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GOP Teach Us The True Meaning of that German Word
Recorded live in fan's secret hideaway in remotest Maine (well, Darius' part anyway), our heroes try to recap four lost months since we last recorded while trying not to collapse into giggles over Kevin McCarthy's repeated public humiliations. Good thing not much happened since August of 2022.
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50 - Right in the Middle of that Middle-aged Awesomeness
We're back! Should we stop announcing that every time we go more than a couple weeks between episodes? What, and deprive our fan of the joyful news of our return? As usual, in our absence a ton of crazy stuff happened, so we catch up on the Kansas election, the Alex Jones trialtime oopsy-daisy…
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49 - Parental Advisory: The swearing will continue until society regains its sanity.
We try to catch up with the events of the past two weeks, in vain. We don't even mention the Jan 6 committee until :50 minutes in or so! But we try - talking SCROTUS v SCOTUS, imposter syndrome, and our increasingly tendency to use foul language.
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48 - Those Darn Minorities! (Opinions, That Is)
WE ARE BACK! With a valiant, if doomed effort to catch up on the last five months with lame dad jokes and general corniness. Maybe a little insight, but mostly dad jokes.
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47 - So You're Saying There's a Chance
A mid workday convo about whether we are feeling optimistic about 2022 or we are drowning in hopeless despair...
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46 - Hopes and wishes
We got the band back together for the first time in 2022, discuss the etiquette of wishing someone Happy New Year, and sort through the various hopes and wishes that we cling to in this perilous pre-midterm era...
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45 - Dan Quayle Saving the Republic is Unsatirizable
Part 2 of the marathon recording sesh - we were happy to be recording again! Oh, and we were so excited we didn't address the swirling rumors that the hiatus was actually caused by a falling out between Darius & Seb. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. (edit: I forgot to add the...
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44 - Inequitize This!
...and we are BACK! Apologies for the longer-than-expected hiatus, life is complicated and all that. But the important thing is Darius & Seb have returned with their inimitable stylings on politics and current events and just general awesomeness. You are welcome.
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42 - There's a Title in There Somewhere
Refreshed from a late afternoon nap, our intrepid middle-aged duo take on current events with a renewed vigor and purpose! We talk select committee, Olympics, various unfairnesses and whether we remain optimistic or think democracy is in its end game. (Spoiler, we're hopeless optimists)...
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41 - Pivotoriousnessiliciousocity
We're back after an unintended hiatus to reveal the new name of the patriarchy, BDE! In its bad space billionaire form and some of its good forms such as the Speaker of the House's jiujitsu moves unleashed on the GOP. We also talk about the arrest of Barrack (not the one the MAGA world wanted)…
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36-a Forward With Floyd
TBH I can't remember everything we talked about here - we recorded it at the end of May but there was a problem with the recording that I was able to sort of recover from... enjoy? We did I know that.
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40 - Slow Cooker of Revenge
Loads of title ideas including many other Nikole Hannah-Jones related ones besides this one. I think Darius also may have suggested a name for the podcast, Spicy Jambalaya of Knowledge or something very Darius-like. We discuss what has transpired since last episode and make each other laugh so…
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39 - There Will Be Rejection
How, fan may ask themselves, was this the title when Darius served up "In the Mosaic of the Universe the Threads all Tie Together" in the last seconds of the show, seeming to deliver, as is his wont, precisely the kind phrase that serves beautifully as an episode title. The answer, fan, is just a...
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38 - The Humblest MFers You Know
Debate club: resolved, the world is going to hell in a handbasket and America's democracy is doomed. Representing the affirmative, reluctantly, is Sebastian who's just had a long month is all. Opposing: the always sunny Mr. Brown who, spoiler alert, brings Sebastian around. All ends well.
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37 - Tuna Safe Tuna
Alternate title "so you're saying there's a chance," but take a listen, see what you think. We bid the lost episodes adieu and fall back on zoom recordings until a better technology can be procured.
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36 - If Charlie Brown kicked Lucy instead of the football would anyone be surprised?
We reconvene, for our 3rd attempt to record a 36th episode after run-ins with cursed audio tools, to discuss the maelstrom of US politics and whether it's all a very very bad sign or an optimistic sign for social change...
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35 - Hey Bizarro Democrats, Why Don't You Unhinge Your Jaws and Pick a Winner, You Whizzers?!
Is that what you meant by a remix, Darius? We catch up after another 2 week lull, we're going to try to be more timely in the future, we promise. In this catchup we try and fail to understand the mental models of White supremacists and whatevers. We try, but we fail.
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34 - Justice Delayed, Justice Diluted, Justice Deferred
Even talking about heavy subjects like the trial of the murderer of George Floyd we manage to make each other laugh, it is amazing, and probably explains a lot about why we have stuck with one another nigh on these 15 plus years. Friends are cool. But yeah we talk trial verdict, racism, GOP...
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33 - All Praise Stacey
We whine about how tough it is to be deep voiced men with busy jobs totally unaffected by the pandemic - no, we're too sensitive for that, silly! Mostly we catch up on the ugly, bizarre, and terrifying landscape that is contemporary US politics.
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32 - Mr. Talman Straight-White, the Most Privileged Person in the World
We give you words! At long last! An unexpected hiatus! But today, Deb Haaland, insane jury of your peers, do Republicans have human emotions, and the Dakota Territory vs. DC. You are welcome.
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31 - 100 days of hope
Top three things to kick off, we discuss HR1, "cancel culture" and the privilege bell.
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30 - $1000 worth of Darius + Seb merch each
We finally started thinking of ourselves as our own version of Desus + Mero. Older, less cool versions.
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29 - Are ... are you playing with Lego™ bricks?
I mean listen in, doesn't it sound like that? Darius coins neologisms, we contemplate weaponizing passive aggressivity against the GOP.
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28 - I was allowed to believe this podcast was true
Just catching up after a super uneventful week when nothing really happe... what's that?
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27 - Don't make me turn this podcast around
We are back, after a three week hiatus, and nothing whatsoever has changed in the nation. We speculate about whether we are in a happy ending movie or .. the other kind.
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26 - GOP Tone Defecation
Ok we were wrong about the coup attempt last week... but right about it failing! So far. Also Darius, talking about the MAGA selfie confessions coined the phrase "I don't have a seditious phone on my body" and I can't stop thinking about it.
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25 - Georgia Runoff Election night and we definitely do not believe there will be a coup the next day.
Hey we aren't perfect. We DID mention Animaniacs at about 1:05:00 so that's pretty prescient, right?
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24 - 2020 - the year of our national PTSD
Our last episode of the very very very bad not good year.
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23 - I felt so smart saying that
we say smart things, or at least things we both think they're smart things
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22 - In a Boggle
Darius said it, I'm not 100% certain I know what it means but I feel it, you know? I mean, try to make sense of what is going on -- any kind of sense! It's a boggle. Darius gets me to make predictions in this ep, let's see how wrong I end up being!
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21 - Gobsmacked. Tomfoolery. In that order.
Darius and Seb carry on, carrying on. We squeeze air through our meat flaps to make noises that make sense according to our own interpretation of human psychology. But have fun doing it.... and hopefully, learn something!
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20 - Jimminy Crickets. No, really.
The distinguished gentlemen continue last week's post-mortem of the not-quite-dead-yet 2020 election. The Four Seasons Total Landscaping of America is discussed. Aspects of Maslow's hierarchy of needs are explored.
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19 - Mega post-election attempt to make sense of ... oh. Oh, dear.
After an inconveniently timed hiatus (Seb brilliantly planned a move before, during and after the election) the distinguished gentlemen reconvene to make sense of the election and this hairball we call the US of A. They ramble. It's a long one.
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18 - The prophet's task, it is hard.
Another week, another metric tonne of malarky. And yeah, we're humble, now get out of here before we thrash you soundly with our down-to-earthness...
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Put on a face whose happiness is inversely correlated to the president's current mood.
We talk VP debate, domestic terror in Michigan, the human condition (again!) and even that fly, if we must.
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One Man's Queen is Another Man's Hydroxychloroquine
I know, it just ... came out of his mouth. I was there, it was magic.
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15 - First Presidential Debatacle
It's like "debate" that's also a "debacle," get it?? No? No, you get it, you just don't like it? I get it, I get it.
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14 - Big Metronome Energy
We talk about that 10th dentist, and horror movies, and horrible humans.
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12 - The War on The War on the...
We nerd out over Dune, Foundation, Blade Runner - so typical! Darius has a different headset, and I couldn't eliminate the silibence, sorry! We try to figure out why the police are so militarized.
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Number 11 - Exasperated and Energized
Darius and Seb bathe in the paradoxical emotional response to the RNC and the events of the day.
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Episode 12 - Get a colonoscopy, everyone.
Current events, and why??? And how??? And also, Mr. Chadwick Boseman.
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Episode 10 - Let's Table That
We discuss the inherent unfairness with which the right engages in politics, the universal behavior of bullying in racism, misogyny and misogynoir, the DNC, and toxic masculinity in another episode of our mutual admiration society.
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Episode 9 - With great podcast comes great responsibility
We catch up on a TON of tea - the veep nom, vacation updates, the GOP's incredible efforts to self-destruct, the NY AG's charges against the NRA, etc. Also we have one confirmed listener to whom we are not related. We see you, dog-walker.
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Episode 8 - Joe owes Professor Anita Hill an apology.
We still agree on literally everything. It's literally a problem.
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Episode 7, in which we realize Darius is a poet. Also Seb can't count, this is episode 6.
But we did get new microphones, does it sound better?
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Episode the fifth wherein we celebrate small victories and find ourselves stil hopeful
Darius + Seb are old pals who gab once a week and are optimistic and/or deluded enough to believe others might want to hear what they have to say.
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Episode 4 where we talk about the utter lack of any principled beliefs on the part of a certain political party in the US of A.
Darius and I continue to converse about the problems that plague our nation and wonder why we aren't just put in charge.
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The third episode where we decide "until next week" is a message of hope in these days under the 'Rona
We're pals who like to share our opinions. We'll find something to disagree about sooner or later.
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The second episode - #NotAllRepublicans
Wherein we find we agree with each other on just about every topic, again! We talk systems of political power, we talk about extremists on both sides who are susceptible to manipulation. We talk social justice and equality. Spoiler: we are not conservatives.
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First episode wherein we experience some technical difficulties and ask each other if we are optimistic and why.
Darius and Sebastian are old friends who like talking with one another, and are experimenting with podcasting as a way of collaboratively journalling. We can't promise it'll be any more interesting than that at this stage!
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